Doggoneit

 

Wow, know what I just did? Let me tell you.

I'm working, it's about 4pm, and my dogs are quite active upstairs. Usually means they're hearing something outside. I go upstairs and figure it looks like it's gonna rain outside, so I should--

Is that someone screaming?

I open my door and see my elderly neighbor across the street screaming. She's got two dogs held down in front of her. One of them is her dog, and the other is this dog that keeps escaping out of its shitty owners' house and it impregnated this lady's dog.

And yes, I see as I get closer that even though the dogs butts are touching, the one dog's penis is stuck in the lady's dog.

She's like "Can you help me?", so I jump the fence. I sort of thought the male dog would lose its erection from me showing up--like, it's a skittish dog as is, so you figure this would cause it to take off in fear.

WELL, it sorta does. It's dragging the lady's dog behind it by its stretched johnson, and it tries to JUMP THE FENCE with the other dog still attached. The lady's screaming "No, you're going to kill her!" as if the dog can speak English.

I go grab the hose and fill up a bucket. I've heard you should throw water on dogs like that to separate them, so that's what I do.

Sure enough, the one dog breaks free and jumps the fence, but doesn't go far. Stop like 10 feet away and licks the crap out of its junk. I'm guessing it's hurting, but the lady's dog is also licking its nethers...

This is the dog that I called AA county about years ago, and they told me that if I caught it they could come out and get it, but they wouldn't come catch it. The owners are the same owners who had another dog that did this sort of thing, that got killed by a car after a while.

Now they're doing the same stupid shit with this dog. My wife had taken it back to their house a couple of times when we first saw it out, as it runs across the street all the time. It doesn't jump into my yard cuz, while we DO have a girl dog(she's fixed), we also have her bigger brother who would fuck this little mutt up if it came in the yard.

But did not have separate two fucking dogs on my bingo card today.

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Watched Accountant 1 on streaming this week so we could see part 2 in the theater last night. Part 1 was okay. Part 2 was better. Neither is great though.

 

Smothered

 

Been a while since I updated this. Thought about it a couple of times, but then just get bogged down with other things.

So a couple of bonus pics--one above should make Stewie happy.

Work continues. It's frustration on a daily basis. Whether it's the ridiculous security protocols that log you out of virtual desktops every 10 minutes or the nonsense required security trainings we have to take--active shooter? I'm a remote worker so the only active shooter near my house is gonna be me...

And then there's the people at work who just aren't very smart or capable. It's hard to understand how some of them got jobs.

Not to say that's everyone--there's some incredibly smart and hard working people there, and those are the people I tend to chat with the most. 

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I continue to work on the prepro work for T3. I've created the scheduling sheet, and am now trying to figure out how to move what where in order to see just how hard this will be. It's incredibly hard to do since we have a lot of locations and many are day and many are night.

I tend to like to shoot as much in order as possible since we don't have a continuity person, or the manpower or time to keep continuity even if we had one.

I sent it to Zig to take a look at before I REALLY start shifting stuff.

Then I'm continuing on the shooting script. It's always a battle between wanting to do certain shots that could take extra time to nail vs. just shooting it the fastest so we know we can get it done.

I'm trying to do 8 shooting days over a 9 day period. Physically it's gonna be very hard for me.

Hey, here's the first actual computer I ever owned!

Saw a lot of movies. Here's how I rate them:

Hell of a Summer - Not good. If they removed one kill, it would be PG-13. 

A Working Man - dumb fun, as usual for Statham.

Warfare - Saw this in Dolby Digital, and it's one of the most intense movies I've ever seen/heard. Would recommend seeing this in a theater.

Drop - Entertaining but you really gotta bring that suspension of disbelief. But everyone we went with enjoyed it.

Sinners - A horror movie that takes itself seriously. Has some very cool artistic touches, as well as some visual trickery that's impressive. If it shaved off 10-15 minutes from its runtime, it would be a great movie. As it is, it's still very very good.

TV wise: Finished Reacher s3. Strongest season, as expected, since it's based on the best book. They still had to work a way to get a woman in there helping him but I guess Amazon just can't help themselves. (and it's not like women DON'T help him in the books...they do sometimes, but not EVERY. GODDAMN. BOOK.)

Watched the first season of Succession. It was okay. Will probably watch the second at some point.

From top left going clockwise: Richard Donner, Robert Zemeckis, Walter Hill, Crypt Keeper and Kevin Yagher

 

 

 

Po Lit I Cal

 

That is a pretty amazing couple of costumes...

Been a pretty busy week. Had to get taxes done. Always a gigantic pain in the ass that takes literally DAYS to do because of all the work involved pulling receipts.

I entered in all of my stuff--was looking good. I had upped the amount of taxes they collect from me at my job in order to compensate for the royalty money I get that isn't taxed from movies and books.

But last year wasn't that great a year for that, so the program said that I was getting back like $3K.

Then I entered my wife's stuff in, and suddenly we owe $1500. Fucking horseshit, but she's still paying too little on her federal taxes. She keeps claiming they take a ton out of her paycheck, and yet she's still only paying about 15% in taxes. I tell her every year that's not enough.

Weirdly though, we got like $800 back from state. I don't know why it works like this.

 

 

Politics. SOOOOOO tired of watching one side stroke themselves as being so superior to the other, while their side continues to fuck just as many people as the other.

 

I see everyone falling over themselves about the long speech given by this douchebag. He's always been a douchebag. I remember back in 2017 how he could have voted for cheaper drugs for Americans, and he voted no. When asked why, he said that it wouldn't have mattered how he voted because it wouldn't pass.

 

And as I said last time, if it wouldn't matter, why not vote the right way? Anyway, saw this meme that says it pretty succinctly:

And in my shitty state, where they continue to put shitty D's into place, regardless of how terrible they are or how many times they were actually convicted of crimes against cities or the state.

This current shithole of a governor is pushing SO much new taxing it's nuts. Go look at his pre-election speeches. He wasn't going to raise any taxes, no way. There was a big budget surplus as a result of the previous Republican governor--who only won the election in our state because of how thoroughly shitty the state had been handled by the previous D governor, so they wouldn't need to raise taxes.

Yet, this new D gets in, runs the state into a fucking hole again, and now he's smashing us with new taxes that have me seriously contemplating moving out of the state for the first time ever. Enough is enough.

So while it will be funny to watch the Ds lose another govenership over this, it won't be worth the hit to my wallet to hang around and keep paying for MDs stupidity.  

(and it appears this bill cleared the house, so it's gonna happen. Get ready for some insane new taxes in MD...)

I'm going to start looking at places to move to in DE or PA. It's out of control here...