The Goat Pen

"I took the fambly out to Maggiano's last night. That seemed to change the attitudes about dad being a non caring piece of shit for the time being."

Yep, as long as they can stuff their face in public and you pay the tab, they're happy. It's a double victory for them, personal and public...

protesters at ICE desecrate the American flag and raise the Mexican flag

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how any American thinks this behavior is OK is beyond me. These people should be rounded up and tied to the front of a train going to Guatemala

The portions used to be crazy huge at Maggiano's. They have dialed that back some.

Did you ever find the rings?

AlabamAlum wrote:The portions used to be crazy huge at Maggiano's. They have dialed that back some.

Did you ever find the rings?

no we will turn the house upside down this afternoon looking for them

It's ok to destroy the flag. So says the 1st amendment

First Amendment doesnt protect you from people from Kentucky on message boards saying they think you're a bunch of assholes.

eCat wrote:

AlabamAlum wrote:The portions used to be crazy huge at Maggiano's. They have dialed that back some.

Did you ever find the rings?

no we will turn the house upside down this afternoon looking for them

well that took about 20 minutes. They were in the safe.

Had to clean it out so I took advantage and oiled up the items that reside in the safe and are prone to rusting if left alone.

You're such a dick for making your wife look bad by finding them where your wife said they weren't.

Jungle Rat wrote:It's ok to destroy the flag. So says the 1st amendment

Ever stop and wonder why some people get all up in arms about burning a symbol but they sit idly by while the actual country the flag represents has a giant flaming turd thrust into its face?

Now you know how your husband feels.

eCat wrote:

eCat wrote:

AlabamAlum wrote:The portions used to be crazy huge at Maggiano's. They have dialed that back some.

Did you ever find the rings?

no we will turn the house upside down this afternoon looking for them

well that took about 20 minutes. They were in the safe.

Had to clean it out so I took advantage and oiled up the items that reside in the safe and are prone to rusting if left alone.

So are you going to demand as a finder's fee a blow job or anal or both?

aTm wrote:You're such a dick for making your wife look bad by finding them where your wife said they weren't.

you better believe I was a dick when she found them

tired of people in this house accusing me of shit

Tree wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:It's ok to destroy the flag. So says the 1st amendment

Ever stop and wonder why some people get all up in arms about burning a symbol but they sit idly by while the actual country the flag represents has a giant flaming turd thrust into its face?

you Will Rogers impersonation needs work

So, I felt like eCat lite yesterday.

The wife has her own business now. She has gone full time with her interior decorating, embroidery/monogramming (commercial quality/level machine in the basement) and painting (does stuff on canvasses of all sizes, pillows, furniture, ornaments, wine glasses and all sorts of crap these housewives eat up). I set her up with a used MBP I found at an absolute steal (she could get by on a basic Macbook like the ones they just discontinued, but she wanted a 15" for screen size. I paid $1150 last year for a 2015 with the 512 ssd storage, less than 100 cycles on the original battery, 16gb of ram and the higher end i7 quadcore for that model...a model Apple still sells for $2k when they're available in the refurb store because people still love them for the reliability and non-shitty keyboard) and iPad she bought like an idiot from Verizon (but it wasn't worth the argument so I let her keep it) along with payment processing to manage her stuff. She has done very well with the business, and I'm extremely proud of her. However, she acts absofuckinglutely helpless when it comes to anything to do with technology or simple maintenance on her embroidery machine (although she knows far more about it than I ever will).

I found out that she had not properly updated her iPad the other day (despite my instructions to do so when iOS 12.3 came out). So, I took her iPad and updated the iOS along with all of the apps she uses on a regular basis. I did the same with her MBP (and thank God I did because she fucked up an update somehow and I had a kernel panic occur as a result...was able to resolve it in safe mode). I know we don't have much to worry about in the big scheme of things, but (1) you can never be too careful and (2) I want to ensure everything is in good working order so that I won't get harassed during the workday or while trying to get some paperwork completed at night.

I gave her the iPad back after updating it because she said she needed it for a meeting with a potential decorating client. Turns out the meeting was rescheduled and she didn't use the iPad for six days because she was working on big decorating projects and didn't need it for whatever reason. She called me screaming in a panic yesterday. She tells me I have fucked up her iPad and would make her look like a fool in front of a potential client. I said "excuse me?" She replied that her iPad wouldn't turn on and that she had tried to charge it. The iPad "didn't charge" and it's obviously "your (my) fault." So, I ask her to come to the office so I could look at it between meetings and hook it up to my MBP if there was some type of iOS error that required a computer. She told me she would need me to come to the car to get it from her and do it there. I laughed, told her she had lost her mind and asked her what she thought I did for a living because it didn't involve being a bellhop. Fast forward five hours: I get home. I grab the iPad. I had a portable charger in my bag, plugged it in to the iPad and the fucker started charging.

The wife had used an old lightening cord that was obviously frayed and worthless. I couldn't talk to her for a few hours after I explained what had happened. I was that damn mad and didn't want to lose my temper.

If we don't get a child from IVF, I'm going to choke the doctor in Raleigh because these meds and resulting hormonal swings are turning my life into a damn lunatic. I'd give her a fighting chance against Wilder these days with the amount of rage these hormones have caused.

Wait til menopause hits, Jr

She's 41. I am sure that having a small child or two -- if we're lucky enough to be parents -- and menopause at the same time will be a joy.

Welcome to my world, for the last 6-7 years.

You’re all white males. And with the possible exception of Tree, you are all straight.

That means any success you have ever achieved in your lives was undeserved and stolen from blacks, females and gays. The only way you can properly repent from your privilege x3 is to give all your worldly possessions to the people you stole them from.

I'm pretty reserved about that stuff, but 2 days ago the entire fambly ganged up on me.

The son accused me of losing his work shirt because I moved some stuff around in the den. He texted me saying he was late for work because he spent 10 minutes trying to find it in the den throwing shade at me because I had to move it

I come home at lunch , walked into the den and it was under his laptop bag - which he put on top of his shirt when he came in the night before

Then I get the "I've lost memaws rings!" panic phone call which turns into "the last thing I did was put them in the safe, you must have thrown them out"

followed by my daughter trying to guilt me into coming home and I need to stop belittling the feelings of people I care about (this has a back story going back to her being too mad at her instructor to ask him some questions on a project she was working on and I gave her shit about she is going to have to deal with assholes in her life and she can't just avoid them in the real world) so she has been waiting 3 months or more to get back at me for that.

There is going to be an attitude adjustment in this house for everyone living under this roof and I'm doing the re-calibrating.

Trump gives zero fucks about all of this now

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