Buddy's Blog

Don’t you hate it when this happens?

You knock your 55 inch Samsung off the table and bust the screen. BTW I bought a new refrigerator today.

When this story was published the Sea Monkeys man sent me a complete Sea Monkeys kit and that shirt I showed you a few weeks back. Heck of a nice guy. 

Frau G calls Friday date night. We sit around and get boozed up.

Tom B sent this one in comments

Hey, don’t you just love those telephone help lines? I’m trying to buy a refrigerator .

Fredrick E sent me this.

BTW, the future of cars isn’t electric. It’s hydrogen.

Hi, everybody!

About your comments on the colors of the two different files: On my computers the colors are markedly different. If I just do a straight jpg, then on the web it looks like day glow colors. My newest IMac is a 2018. I don’t think the problem has to do with the Retina display. The browser I mostly use is Firefox.

I just checked Chrome and the colors are the same as Firefox, i.e. day glow. But Safari corrects the colors automatically. I suspect that you guys who said the colors are fine use Safari. And if you don’t, it has to do with whatever browser you do use.

Besides cayenne peppers (I’ve got about a million in my freezer. put them in Ziplock bags with olive oil. My cayennes and Frau G’s mongoes are doing battle for freezer dominance) and tomatoes (sort of) I can grow onions, too. Actually last winter I had an onion rotting in my pantry. I stuck it in the ground. They were right in the middle of one of my cayenne pepper patches. Have you ever done this?

They are about 3-4 inches long.

For those of you who are dumb, errata isn’t the plural of erotic.

Yesterday, the Sunday I posted had the wrong black file. Just so you know, I work in a CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) color scheme. When you buy ink for your printer, well, you know that’s what you use. For tv, videos, etc. we use RGB (red, green and blue). Well, I work in CMYK, and when I post on the internet it’s automatically converted to RGB. BTW, you may notice that if you post colored graphics on the web, you can’t just use RGB. You have to save your file in the jpg format especially for publication on the internet. That’s because you can’t have billions of different colors. The system couldn’t handle it. So for publishing on the web, a finite number of colors are allowed. Here’s an example. It’s a Sunday file as I colored it without saving it in the web format:

And here it is with the color corrected:

OK, So here is yesterday’s (Sunday’s) post using the correct black file.

BTW I was hacked again today. What a bitch!

Just got off the boat and I’m running late. Big surprise tomorrow.

What I’ve been doing the past couple days – My cousin and I bought a boat. We had to go up to Bushnell, about 90 miles north. The guy lived way out in the woods. I liked his goats. I had a goat when I was a kid.

And there’s the boat. It’s a 26 foot 2004 Twin Vee.

Occasionally he ought to sweep the goat poop off his sidewalk. This was Thursday. And what happened on the way home is we ran into a super bad thunder storm. It was bumper to bumper on I-75 in driving rain for an hour. And the lights on the back of the trailer didn’t work. The good ol’ boy who sold the boat and trailer to us assured us that they worked fine.

We finally made it home an hour late. While we were parking the trailer one of the wheels almost fell off. The hub was broken and the axle bent. Yesterday we decided to try to get the boat in the water to get the weight off the trailer. We made it for about twenty feet and the wheel just about disintegrated. Then we spent about four hours trying to get a towing company or an axle repair company to help us. No luck. A guy from the plumbing company nearby came with his fork lift and we were able to get the wheel off. It’s a dual axle, so all the weight was on the one remaining axle. The brake disk on the bad axle almost scraped the pavement. We had to cut the end of the axle off to remove the disk. Even so we only had about 4 inches clearance. But we were able to tow it the twelve miles at 15 mph to the Kingfish Boat Ramp on Anna Maria Island (My old home town) constantly worried that the darn thing might collapse. I dread to think what would have happened if the wheel had fallen off during the storm, us with no lights on the trailer. My cousin is a retired preacher. Either that helped or we were mighty lucky. Whew!

Five of my dogs are in that list.

I had another tough day today. Tell you tomorrow. Unless I have another tough day tomorrow.