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A Bad Sign
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 42 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at October 1st, 2026 - 2:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
The Pacific Airshow 2026 starts tomorrow (Friday) and runs through Sunday. Flights start about 10:30am PST.
https://www.beachstreetnews.com/pacific-airshow-2026-guide-huntington-beach/
On Flight Tracker, find Beach Blvd. & Pacific Coast Hwy.
https://www.flightradar24.com/N80238/41ed316f
Even Grok agrees.
Supper is onions, cashews slow cooked in a splash of water and some coconut oil for about 30 mins to soften the onions and cashews. Then fake crab seasoned with onion salt and smoked paprika is added and heat turned up to high on the stove.
When sizzling add green peas from a can. Stir then turn off heat. Let it all blend.
When hungry turn up the heat, put two thick slices of fresh bread in the toaster. Toast the bread medium rare. Then spread garlic butter on the bread and air fry it about 4 mins at 400F, no pre heat.
So we now have garlic toast, a fake crab, onions, cashew and pea thing. How to serve it?
Well, what is essential in gourmet cooking is, you splash a seriously generous dollop of alfraido out of a jar onto the fake crab in the skillet and turn off the heat.
The meal is cooked and looks wonderful. But I am no longer hungry but drunk.
Lucy may post the meal tomorrow sometime. She put it all in the fridge and went to sleep on the couch.
@ Possum:
And Grok says. This AI thing is getting real and scary.
A Canadair CT-114 Tutor just roared overhead on its way to the air show. No photo on the flight tracker – it’s military.
@ Possum:
Looks like shit on toast but is easy and to be honest quite nice.
That was last night, the other half is safely in the fridge so supper tonight is still undetermined.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2106177138944598108
@ Possum:
Currently my knees and hips are giving me pain, but not all at once. Left knee leads but sometimes in right knee but left is OK.
Same with hip joints, so WTF. I would think joint damage pain stays constant.
I think my body needs sardines!
Tonight supper will be a fishy one. The preparation is going to be slow cooked yellow onions so they retain some crunch, in coconut oil ( that reminds me, we are almost out ) then added to some Uncle Ben’s garden veggie rice, some peas and a splash of chicken stock, a 94 cent packet of Walmart tuna and some tomato puree. Cook on low for a long time…
That will make a kind of poor man’s Paella. A Spanish dish mainly, not common in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella
To be served topped with sardines in oil that have been dusted with grated parmesan and then flash grilled for a few minutes at 400F in my trusty air fryer.
Or maybe a can of chicken noodle soup.
@ Possum:
Being sensible here with left overs. I think the best plan for supper tonight is the other half of the stuff from last night but this time topped with the parmesan baked sardines thing I created in my mind.
A cat post.
If you believe anything on the Internet the consensus is a cat can understand about 120 human words.
And in my experience they ignore all 120 words, even their name if they don’t feel like it.
Cats are assholes. The love of my life Natasha ignores me if she is busy looking for mice or sleeping. The other asshole cat Glen ignores me when I call his name, but he responds to me saying ” Natasha ” as he thinks I am going to give her treats or something else he should know about.
Anyway, reason for this post. Natasha is tuned into the sound of a fresh pack of smokes been opened. A mini slim Jim being peeled. And a PurrPop opening!
LOL no matter where she is, whatever she is doing if I quietly say ” Purrrpoppp ” she miraculously appears.
I have to do a video. Pur Pops are “lickable treats ” she takes one down in about 9 seconds.
Been up since 2am. When retired day and night are not important. Breakfast is lunch or supper.
Anyway, It is 8:37am and the cats are outside, enjoying the morning sun. Doing cat things. AKA sleeping.
My meal which is neither breakfast or lunch or supper is going to be beef sandwiches, like a Philly cheesesteak thing.
What inspired me to make this post?
A really fast mouse just ran past me. A big and fast mouse!
Why do I employ two cats? Why is a big and fast mouse stupid enough to move in to my apartment?
Both cats came back into the apartment.
Not going to tell them about the mouse. Let them find out themselves.
Natasha is already doing the sniffing thing. Don’t know if it is the mouse causing it or the fact I need to change my socks.
Hot AF here. It was comfy inside (upper 70s) until the missus came back from grocery shopping and decided to open up all the windows. Now it’s 95 in the kitchen.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Canadair jet is doing porno on the flight tracker.
morning possum,bunk
woke up to see a new day
I’ll count that as a win
@ rain of lead:
Yup.
[–insert repost of comment 12 here–]
Well the Fairford plan worked. Them noisy American bombers have fucked back to wherever they came from and now there is peace and tranquility in the English countryside again.
Now, in unrelated news, in villages around RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath there is a very severe shortage of 1 hour quick tanning cream. The hardware stores are all completely out of rain collecting barrels and there is a waiting list for renting white cargo vans.
The locals realised if the plan worked for Fairford it will work again for the other USAF bases.
How do you adjust the clock in a cat?
We are crepuscular here, we understand dusk and dawn. But we are having trouble working out when Walmart delivers our treats!
Plus, the invaders from South of the border work very hard mowing grass and blowing leaves. They start work before dawn when it is cool. I understand that!
But due to the time change they are blowing my leaves at 6am.
Anyway I have to concentrate.
There is some fake crab left, not much after the three day fake crab binge. Half a sad looking cucumber, four tomatoes that the roaches have not found and some frozen bread rolls.
Delivered today was a Frozen Dolly Parton beef pot roast thing. Expensive at $4.14 but easy. Only 290 calories so fuck all nutritionally.
Or more wine and a purr pop!
A dilemma. Non stick pans that last a lifetime. Is it how long I live?
Anyway a regularly cheap frying pan lasts me about six moths before it isn’t non sticky any more but with severe scraping I can remove my meal and it washes up fine.
Kep getting ads for that hexclad stuff but it is expensive. about $120+ for an 8 inch fry pan. Actually that is big enough for a ;only old man that cooks for one. But I digress.
They do a 2 quart saucepan for about ten bucs more. Wondering if I could use it as a frying thing as well.
If so I may get one.
Bed time for me as Lucy is kind of going virus on Diesel and tax.
And how fucking uneducated most people are.
All cats are home.
Supper was sharp cheddar ( Tillamook the islamic stuff ) and pickled beetroot sandwiches.
Fucking awesome, and easy.
Possum wrote:
Thanks everyone for reading my comments!
However it would have been nice if someone had pointed out to me that the clocks did not change last weekend as I thought but they change 1st November.
I realised this at 7am today when the school busses were picking kids up in the dark.
Oh well, the cats also thought the clocks changed as they were demanding breakfast an hour earlier, or an hour later, or whenever I woke up. Whichever was sooner.
These AI calls are getting boring. Had six so far today.
The medicare/medicade ones where they ask if I am enrolled and I say yes. I lied.
Then it asks me my age and I say 73, I lied.
Then it transfers me to an Indian. Not the Indians that wear feather head things but the curry munching type.
Which I cannot understand what they are saying.
Got a couple of car insurance AI calls. Answered all the questions then got put through to a human so I could waste human time. I like those.
Only got one political call asking for a donation. They are the best!
The human does not realise that if I donate it is a felony.
and it is not even 1pm yet.
Radio guy says there’s a mnemonic plague in Russia. Musicians are tuning their guitars to
Every Good Boy Does Debbie.
Possum wrote:
I just figured you were a prepper, gathering info to formulate a plan for when the clock strikes one instead of two.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
My bad. Radio guy said pneumatic plague. Guitar tuning is unaffected, but Russian tires are going flat without warning.
Supper is just cooked. But not hungry yet.
It is an exquisite creation. Tuna with cream cheese and chives wrapped in a delicate puff pastry and baked to perfection.
As usual it looks like a bent donkey’s dick.
If I was the creative type of person I would invent an air fryer that was long and skinny. That way I could cook straight encroute ( French for wrapped in pastry ) awesome meals that were not bent!
@ Possum:
It tasted OK served with a salad…
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/2108016427760271467
When renting an apartment do not just visit during the day. Tell the renters you want to test drive it for 24 hours?
Why you may ask?
Well as you all know in my life there is no day or night. Actually I am usually most active in the night and sleep in the day.
Trash collection in this area. Last night it was 3am, tonight 1:15am. Obviously different apartment complexes so why do I care?
It seems the garbage trucks on their way down the street serving a few apartment complexes like to stop outside my apartment and do the really noisy hydraulic digesting and compacting the freshly acquired trash.
Life in America…..
@ Possum:
I wish I’d thought of that when I moved into the apartment directly below a woman who wore high heels to work. The clomping began about 5:30am.
morning guys
happy friday
so glad we’re gonna get some rain from the storm
it’s so dry here the leaves on the trees aren’t falling their just turning to dust
@ rain of lead:
We’re getting latent effects from hurricane Rachel. Temps dropped and I don’t have to sleep on a sweat towel. We’re expecting rain tomorrow.
Bunkessa and one of her dogs is expected to show up in an hour or so. Can’t wait to see what this one tears up. Cat’s gonna love it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This is gonna be fun. Pitbull mix “Timothy” growled at me when I came in from the garage. Bribed him with some chicken scraps.
I reported a few days ago I saw a mouse. I think a Tom and Jerry situation is developing here.
Natasha is spending a lot of time sleeping under the bed. So is the mouse.
Whatever makes them happy.
@ Possum:
For those too young to know the back story of the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
If there was not a mouse in the house there would not be any more need to have a cat.
Possum wrote:
Some of us are older than Sputnik.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We have a new rule at our house. No more dogsitting.
Bunkessa spent much of the time visiting old friends, leaving us to look after Timothy. Whenever she left the house, the dog became a nervous wreck. At least there was no more growling.
My local leftists are playing word games again. They are pushing a ballot initiative to block “dark money” from elections, and they are getting a lot of attention from the normies that are clueless how things work. This initiative is directly pointed at blocking small business owners from donating to candidates that support what they need. Soros money and the lefts environmental money laundering organizations aren’t affected all.
How are initiatives like this that are specifically targeted at one party while leaving the other party completely unaffected allowed?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
California has 13 propositions on the ballot. Seven of them are pure deception, from the names to the descriptions, and all involve more regulation, taxes and wealth confiscation. With all the poorly hidden election fraud, I wouldn’t be surprised if racist Xavier Becerra is the next Governor.
It just blows my mind how all this deception is allowed. I’ve literally seen propositions named the opposite of what they actually are. And they are all written in legalese so no one can make heads or tails of what it is saying.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
And I’m sure any honest, clear explanations of those initiatives would be illegal.
@ right_wing2:
We have the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. to help cut through the crap.
Howard Jarvis is long gone, but he was the one who got Proposition 13 on the ballot. It limits California’s property tax increases to a maximum of 2% per year. Before that, retirees were losing their homes and land, and if they died, their heirs were often forced to sell. The socialists in Sacramento have been trying to defeat Prop. 13 for years, and this year is no different.
My standing rule is if in doubt, vote NO.