A-Hashing, we did go! More or less. And if it is true that less is more, I did the best trail ever! Yeah, even as a notorious shortcutter, I bit off a little less than I like to chew yesterday, but the alternative was taking a Jeepney out of town to the start, then climbing up to the Kalaklan Ridge. I just wasn’t feeling that. Instead, our group (me, Swan, and Beth) walked from my house to Barretto High School, then picked up the last portion of Leech My Nuggets’ trail. It was just shy of 5K for us, with one moderately easy climb. The On-Home was at Leech’s house, and it being election Monday, there was no after-Hash at It Doesn’t Matter. So, I had an early end to the evening as well. Anyway, I’m glad to be still rolling along in my dotage.
I made a short video clip of a portion of the My Bitch trail. (Okay, now there’s a first. I went to upload the video and discovered YouTube had made it “age-restricted.” All I can figure is calling the video “My Bitch” triggered the algorithm to punish me. So, I’m making a new video with the same content and calling it something else. Let’s see what happens.)
Success. Well, the quality is still crap, but at least you can watch it here.
The other day, I mentioned the student in Bohol I was sponsoring. Here he be:
And today I took the bait:
I usually don’t bother responding to this BS, but I’m curious…are you intentionally lying, or is it ignorance? Chinese tariffs on U.S. imports reduced from 125% to 10%. You have one of the worst cases of TDS I’ve seen.
Not political, but still funny:
And as long as we are thinking about religion and tolerance, this seems like a good idea:
It’s been interesting (to me) delving through the old posts in the LTG archives. I’m up to January 2008 now, and most of my posts are about darting and drinking in Itaewon (compared to now, when they are about hiking and drinking in Barretto). In this post, I note the occasion of the 50,000th visitor to my site in its third year of existence. I thanked the handful of loyal readers who bothered to engage my content, just as I appreciate the few of you who still visit now. Sometimes I wonder why I’m still doing this every day, but I guess it has just become part of who I am. And I am a selfish bastard.
Five years ago, I made this post on Facebook.
On that day, I also posted this two-minute video to make my point:
Never again!
Thirteen years ago, my sense of humor was on full display for the world to see:
An 85-year old man is having his annual checkup. The Doctor asks him how he is feeling.
“I’ve got an eighteen-year old bride who’s pregnant with my child. What do you think about that?”
The Doctor considers this for a moment, and then says, “Well, let me tell you a story. I know of a guy who’s an avid hunter. He never misses a season.
But one day he’s in a bit of a hurry and he accidentally grabs his umbrella instead of his gun.
So he’s walking in the woods near a creek and suddenly spots a beaver in some brush in front of him! He raises up his umbrella, points it at the beaver and squeezed the handle. BAM !
The beaver drops dead in front of him.
“That’s impossible!”, says the old man in disbelief, “Someone else must have shot that beaver.”
The Doctor says, “My point exactly.”
Today’s YouTube video is from Smart Girl Philippines, and she makes some interesting points about how the sex industry has ruined it for the rest of us.
Humor time:
And that’s all I’ve got for today. Back tomorrow, the good Lord willing.
Now what?
Gather enough trees and make a connect-the-trees path. Create your own “tree Hash,” or “Trash.” People can go in groups or singly, and they have to take selfies at every tree along a given path: the filename of their photos ought to provide a date/time stamp. If it’s a group, they can take a group photo of themselves at the start, plus group selfies along the way, with every face clearly visible, to prove no one dropped out by the end. Or, if that’s too strict, just put the path out there for people to figure out for themselves. Assuming they know how and can navigate/orienteer. I’ll leave photo-upload methods and other rules up to you.
You have one of the worst cases of TDS I’ve seen.
I’m sure s/he had a response to that. Some people don’t know when to give up.
re: the “tolerance” meme
Hilarious. I may have to steal that.
“That’s impossible!”, says the old man in disbelief, “Someone else must have shot that beaver.”
Didn’t you just put this joke up—or one that was similar—the other day? Well, I found this from 2019 (scroll down). But I’m sure you recycled this joke more recently.
Old men are repetitive. They also repeat themselves. And I’m positive I’ve left that joke here as a comment, too.
Pick any quantitative economic measure (GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, stock market returns, manufacturing, housing starts, M3, etc etc etc) since the election (early Nov 2024) and they are all worse now than six months ago.
Will things get better. Remains to be seen. IMO, tariffs dont work in today’s world, especially with manufacturing. It is laudable to want to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, but not realistic. Why is it better to pay $25/shirt because it is made in the US t-shirt.as opposed to paying $5/shirt if it is made in China? The world is too interconnected. I fail to see how tariffs will decrease prices. Explain to me like I’m five how this happen. LOL