Play The Jelly Below Me (TJBM) No.67 game?

So this would be number 68?

@Seek Edit problems….and stupidity
TJBM likes making mistakes

The format is weird…is it for anyone else?

Okay..normal now.

No, who likes making mistakes? haha

TJBM is grateful to @Stinley for carrying on this thread.

yes.
TJBM deleted the ‘i’ in the url.

Inauspicious
Oh, wait, isn’t this the “Cool word for the day” thread??

Umm, oh. Well. No. I went to the Social category and opened the question afresh. It appeared to be in a mobile form, and I’m on a sedentary?

TJBM thinks brain farts smell a lot like head cheese.

Well I seem to have caused a few of those with my crazy numbering system and mobile question :-). I’ll blame it on a blocked nose…
TJBM is going swimming this week

Only in my bath tub.

TJBM has a rubber ducky.

Yes, and I told the story about it here.
The Jelly below me is waiting for some nice weather.

…and waiting, and waiting, and waiting…
TJBM has some lotto tickets waiting for a drawing.

False, but I like the crossword scratchers now and then.

TJBM has dirty fingernails.

I did earlier. Dirty work today.

WTF? Did you open this thread using a phone?

TJBM notices this thread is a thin strip on the left side of the page.

It was. I followed it, went back to my Activity for me page, and clicked on from there…. just fine!
TJBM knows the trick.

False, but I’d love a treat.

TJBM can’t wait for TJBM #69 so things can get really risqué.

Oh la la.

TJBM is so hungry they could eat a horse.

Sure!

TJBM knows how to shoot craps.

I might can shoot some crap, but that’s it.
TJBM is eating Marconi and Cheese for dinner.

I wish…
TJBM is so hungry they can eat cheese.

I’m never too full to eat cheese. Cheese is the nectar of the gods. Have you ever had baked brie, with roasted garlic melted in, on fresh baguette?

Heaven on a plate my friend.

TJBM will happily sacrifice good breath for good food.

Absolutely! If my breath is a problem after I eat something, I’ll offer you some of what I had!

TJBM likes to share.

I do, sharing and giving is fun!

TJBM is having chinese food for dinner.

Dinner was some time ago. Not Chinese.
TJBM knows why 68 is better than 69.

Because 67 68 69.
The Jelly below me is going to wait until this thread hits 500 responses before beginning the 69th TJBM thread.

I still haven’t figured out how to tell how many responses a thread has.

TJBM doesn’t have a strong feeling about response numbers either way

No, unless it demands me so.
TJBM wants to keep this game alive.

I do.
@Seek On the webpage,before the answers begin, there’s a sign that says “x Answers.”
The Jelly below me never saw this sign before.

@dxs , nope, not because 68 comes first.
I saw the sign.
TJBM has been very close to a lightning strike.

Perhaps within 1,000 feet, but we were inside a tube tent under a thunderstorm, so neither of us felt like going outside to measure the exact striking distance. ;-)

TJBM knows how to use the sound of thunder to estimate the distance of a lightning strike.

Sound travels at about a thousand feet per second, or a mile every 5 seconds (one km every 3 secs) in dry, cold air (slower in hot, humid air) so if you count the seconds between the flash and when you hear the boom, you can guess-timate the distance between you and the strike.

I don’t think answer count shows up on phones, only computers

TJBM knows other Scout naturecraft stuff like this.

Yes! Recently learned how to use two people to follow a bearing. One person has the compass pointing in the right direction. The second person walks ahead to just within shouting distance. The first person shouts left a bit, right a bit until the second person is exactly on the bearing of the compass. They stay still until the first person joins them. Then repeat. Thus ensuring you are walking in a straight line, in the right direction. Really useful in poor visibility
TJBM likes hiking

No. Nowhere good enough to hike. I’m stuck in a city.
TJBM can’t turn back.

No turning back only forward motion.

TJBM has a stuffy schnozz.

Yes.
TJBM has a problem as plain as the nose on their face.
@Seek speaking of, did you find the count yet? If you look at your very first answer on this thread, it is right above your head. Tee hee.

No, but when I was suffering from acne, I once had a la-a-arge zit right on the end of my nose.

TJBM has memories of acne.

Yes, I did. I’m shocked I’ve been here for seven years and have never noticed it before.

TJAM forgot to address the the jelly below them.

TJAM didn’t address TJAH either, as it was just a sideline conversaton.

I do have memories of acne. It wasn’t pretty.

TJAM is TJBM.

Nope! It’s me.
TJBM knows somebody who has named zits like pets.

Nope. That’s…disturbing.

TJBM would like to be TJNTM
(The Jelly Next To Me)

For the cookies, yeah.

TJBM would do it for the cookies.

For the cookies, to see how his chips are distributed, for the crumbs, yeah.
TJBM gets up with fleas.

Hmm. No, but I do lie down with my dogs sometimes. I even wrestle with them regularly. Through diligent care and swims in the ocean, there are few fleas, thank goodness.

TJBM knows how to safely keep the fleas away.

I use Advantage on my cats but more so for the ticks, not much of a flea issue here in these hills unless something is already infested.

TJBM lives in Lyme disease land.

Beware the dreaded deer tick! They’re around, but our old gal rarely ever ventures out with us any more. It’s an adventure for her to get up a full flight of stairs anymore, but she’s still determined, and usually can do it without help.

TJBM has watched a beloved pet grow old.

Yes. 14 years. My tabby Maya. I miss her very much.

TJBM enjoyed the jokes in the last part of the last TJBM thread.

I did, here’s something to make everyone laugh, it is so bad it is pants peeing hilarious!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGbv8IxCYY

TJBM thinks this has got to be the funniest music video ever.

Are you kidding me? David Hasselhoff, dachshunds and a pair of angles descending from heaven? That’s as far as my “broadband” (read bullshit) would go before freezing. He alternately looks like he’s angry, or in pain. Was this a serious music video, or a spoof? If it was serious, I’m soooooooooo glad I spent the eighties elsewhere. God, the Reagan era really drove you guys over the edge, huh?

TJBM… well, I don’t just don’t know. I can’t think of anything else after that. OK, TJBM thinks the aforementioned video has got to be the funniest ever.

LOL…I do. I think it was serious and, it was my 21 yr, old daughter that found that and showed it to me like 7 years ago. I was floored. haha

TJBM thinks David Hasselhoff was on a serious acid trip in the video.

@Espiritus_Corvus You really should watch the whole thing, it just gets more and more bizarre. haha

What video?
TJBM knows what video is.

scroll up!
TJBM wants to buy a clue.

No. I want to “Buy a Vowel”

TJBM is waiting for Spring ( no frost or freezing temps at night )

We just had a freeze, like last night. Highly unusual. Mow during the day, frost at night.

TJBM needs to do some serious shopping.

Half serious. haha

TJBM knows there are many rich doctors that have defaulted on their student loans.

Yes. I knew one that confessed to owing thousands from as far back as 1953. It used to be that they had no mechanism to collect and they were direct loans from the government. I owed $400 from 1971 and there were no repercussions until I tried to go back to school in 1992. I couldn’t start classes until I paid them almost a grand. Pissed my Swedish wife off to no end—first at me for being such a deadbeat slacker who left a debt to dangle, then at a system that actually charged its own tax paying citizens tuition for college, then offered interest-bearing loans to it’s victims to cover said tuition. She saw it as crippling the country’s best future taxpayers before they even get started—at a time when they could be boosting the economy by buying homes. Unheard of in her country.

TJBM will start the day with a joke.

Everyday is another chance for you to go back to sleep.
TJBM will find another joke.

They’re always telling me to live my dreams. But I don’t want to be naked in an exam I haven’t revised for…
TJBM is crying More!

Don’t! Stop! Don’t…stop…don’t stop!

TJBM has an opinion: Do we need another joke thread, or keep up the jokes on this thread?

I like the serendipity of doing it or not on this one, like all the subjects we cover. Reverting to it now and then when someone has a new one will keep the thread lively, I think, whereas a separate thread will soon die.

TJBM has other ideas about this.

Serendipity is good.

TJBM likes a little serendipity in their life.

Who doesn’t?
TJBM is thinking whether we should have a “joke of the day” thread.

Not for me, but I have no objections.

TJBM knows an unpunished criminal.

Yes. My stepbrother legit killed a dude in cold blood surrounded by witnesses and got away with it. I’m still shocked that happened.

TJBM has a restraining order against someone.

No and hope I never do
TJBM has witnessed a crime

Plenty.

TJBM has never been back to the town they were born in.

I’ve been back there quite often, though less often in recent years.

TJBM has found themselves doing something less often in recent years

I play less video games. Damn college!
TJBM is looking for a good long holiday.

I wish, if holiday means I get to see a new locale.

TJBM loves to play with Google Earth.

Google Earth is fun!

TJBM liked maps before Google Earth, Mapquest, or let’s just say pre-digital.

I love all sorts of maps. But I think digital maps are better for most purposes except when you are actually out in the elements. Maps are interactive and digital enhances that.
TJBM prefers things old school

Meh….I am not a fan of rigid right/wrong dichotomies.

TJBM loves to watch frolicking horses.

The other day I looked into a field and there was one horse (out of several) laying on it’s side, kicking it’s feet and flopping it’s head. Like it was showing off, or trying to entice the other horses by showing how much fun it was having. WTF?

TJBM has helped an animal cross a road.

Yes, we have migrating CA. Pond turtles here that are always trying to cross the raods to get to the better water sources.

@ibstubro Horse was probably enjoying a good roll, they roll to adjust their spines and because it feels good. Horse chiropractor practices. haha

TJBM knows that adult horses only need about 3 hours of sleep per day.

Oh. That’s not good then. Does that mean that by letting her stand in her stall for eight hours per night, she’s being bored to distraction? How long do you stall your horses?

TJBM knows what the calf-dance is.

@Espiritus_Corvus Our horses are stalled all night long and put put to pasture in the mornings. They can lie down if they choose but whether lying or standing they only need about 3 hours sleep total. They do like to lie down now and then for more recumbent sleep if they feel safe but they can easily doze standing. Lying down puts a lot of pressure on their organs and in the wild getting to your feet quickly to avoid predators is tantamount to survival. Your mare is fine, just don’t let her go more than 12 hours without food after her last bite of the day.

I do not know what the calf dance is.

TJBM knows what a calf dance is.

The calf dance, or calve-dance, is what calves do when they are let out of the barn into the spring sunshine after a long, bitter winter inside. They jump around wildly, braying, kicking the air… they are obviously very happy to finally be released into the fields.

TJBM knows what the equivalent phrase is in English.

Ummmm….no. We just call it the “rodeo” when we turn the horses out. Everyone bucking and kicking, for about one minute until they bury their faces in the grass. haha

TJBM loves Artichokes.

I’ve never been given the opportunity to try the little bastages fresh. I suspect I do not have the patience.
I love artichoke hearts, though.

TJBM thinks patience is over-rated.

Sometimes yes, but fighting with inanimate objects never works. I almost threw my vacuum out the window recently when the little bag door fell off and I could not get the damn brackets to line up. A door slamming melt down. lol

TJBM is patient with people but not with difficult objects.

True true true.
TJBM is going away for a while pretty soon.

No, I don’t see any men in little white coats at my door.

TJBM believes they are coming to take them away, ha ha.

At some point, yes, but no time soon.

TJBM is expecting one last spring snowstorm.

No, I’m expecting the first meat-boiling heat.
TJBM is hot.

It’s getting warmer on the Caribbean side of the island, but not here. Here there is a constant Atlantic breeze to blow off the heat and humidity. It’s about 85F/30C all the time, rain or shine. The seasons are determined by the subtle signs of plant life, what sea life is running, the plumage of birds and the types of birds that are passing through. The seasons change, but it is very subtle.

It is mid-spring when the king mackerel make their run through here and certain berries are produced—the palms have interior fronds with tiny yellow blossoms along them and little green fruit about the size of plums which will become coconuts. Midsummer arrives with a kind of a white mist in the mid-distance—which is fine Sahara sand that has blown across the Atlantic during their Harmattan, or dry, windy season. Navigating in it is difficult because it bleaches out the sun, water and horizon like a bright fog. You can get quite lost in it if you’re not a good sailor, or lack electronics. I believe it’s called the Sorocco in Europe.

TJBM knows how to read the seasons.

It’s getting closer to rainy season here. That’s about the closest thing we have to seasons ‘round these parts. For a few months out of the year it rains every day, right about 4:00 pm.

Actually, it’s been getting later in recent years. The daily thunderstorm used to happen at 2:30.

TJBM has noticed a change in weather patterns in recent years.

Yes, I have. Big time. I lived very near where ^^you^^ live for many years and I can tell you the rainy season lasted much longer when I was a kid. It rained EVERY DAY in the summer from 4pm to 7pm, cool everything off, then the sun would come out and there would be a beautiful sunset. It doesn’t rain everyday like clockwork anymore and hasn’t since the eighties—and the rainy season is shorter and the summer hotter. We had a lot more rain. It was the only relief we had against that damn Gulf Coast summer. October and March were the windy months and good for sailing. Now I’m told the winds blow all winter and spring. Sailors are happy about that. The summer on the Gulf Coast was a languid summer of doldrums when I was a kid.

The rain cycle is markedly different down here as well. I hear people talking about the change in fishing—certain fishes don’t come back strong, or not at all, and others are much more plentiful. They also say the weather has become drier in the past generation.

TJBM has noticed a change in weather patterns, too.

Well our biggest (and only second) snowfall was in April, so yeah I’d say so.
The Jelly below me is going to get a mod to change this TJBM thread’s number to 68. I’m so persnickety.
The word “persnickety” makes TJBM laugh.

1. I don’t know if I can “get” a mod to do anything, but I’ll put my two cents in with TJAM.

2. Yes, sometimes I snicker at the sound of “persnickety”.

3. The weather: I have noticed changes in weather. Everything from a deepening drought cycle in Colorado to lack of rain and cloud cover in certain seasons in the north-central Illinois.

TJBM is persnickety.

Not usually, I am very even tempered most of the time.

TJBM dislikes moody people.

Yes, especially volatile people. But none compare to those who are persnickety.
The Jelly below me just muttered a persnickety snicker.

I’m getting indigestion from the amount I’m currently laughing right now.

I am not sure if I even understand what is going on

TJBM is equally as discombobulated by what persnickety actually means

I’m confused too.
TJBM is so confused they need a guide.

No, persnickity means a fussy, huffy, sour puss personality.

TJBM likes sea weed.

Never tried that strand.

The Jelly below me should be heading to work soon.

No, all the work I have to do is here at home. Snowed in, so it’s a perfect day to pre-cook meals for the week.

TJBM sometimes cooks ahead.

Yes, often. I will make the salad or other side dishes early then on;y have the main course to prep later or, do a crock pot meal.

TJBM has prickly purple thistle plants all over.

No, got some purple grape hyacinths though
TJBM has had a fight with their vacuum cleaner recently

Haha….oh yes! I have a lightweight Miele vacuum and was changing the bag about 2 weeks ago when the little bag door fell off. I spent like 40 minutes fighting with the pop out bracket thingy trying to get it back in. You had to align each little peg with the slot and every time I got one side in the other side popped out again. I had a major tantrum, unusual for my normal easy going self and almost bashed the vac against the counter top.

Instead I went out to the porch to calm down and slammed the front door so hard I’m surprised the glass didn’t break. lol

TJBM has been a veritable white tornado so far today.

But what I Ajax® doesn’t clean like a white tornado!?

Oops! Wrong thread!

OK, here we go…

Not so much cleaning, but I’m gonna be bitchin’ in the kitchen as I cook for the week ahead.

TJBM can be bitchin’ in the kitchen.

I can!

TJBM likes to bird watch.

Only if said bird is glazed, roasted and served on a platter.

TJBM agrees that animals are fun to pet, but better to eat.

No, don’t necessarily agree with that. Even the animals we eat should be harvested with dignity and honor.

TJBM has respect for the food on their table.

I do. You should see the monster egg one of the hens laid today, it is the size of a duck egg! A triple yolker maybe, we shall see when I crack it open tomorrow morning.

TJBM has seen a double or triple yolked egg before.

I have seen a double. I have not seen this
TJBM doesn’t have to shop for eggs.

True, we have 8 hens here that lay on average, 6–8 eggs a day. Oh wow, that video, that is a the size of the egg I have. I will have to see if there is an egg in an egg. Crazy!

TJBM has had a tuna sandwich recently.

Yesterday, and I was (literally) sitting here reading this thread contemplating getting up and toasting bread to finish off the tuna! (Insert Twilight Zone theme here)

TJBM has seen an egg with no shell.

Yes, sometimes one of the ducks lays a shell less egg or a funky rubbery one. My giant egg was a huge double yolker. Breakfast tomorrow. haha

TJBM likes lizards.

The ones here eat roaches and other insects. They are very good to have around the house.

TJBM is

True! Hard to contemplate if I ain’t.

TJBM thinks we should have a “blast from the past” vintage comedy video question.

THUMB UP!
TJBM will go make that thread now.

It’s already been done by @ibstubro

TJBM is torn between just going to bed and having a bedtime snack.

@Coloma maybe you need to double-check the poster? :p
Can you help me choose please?
TJBM will help me choose.

I will, if you tell me what we are choosing.
TJBM says goofy things sometimes.

Who me? Nevvvvaaaaa! I do seem to be on a goofy streak at the moment.
TJBM wants to sign a petition about kittens in a horrible pet shop

I won’t sign an on-line petition, but if I was local I would help picket. I think that would be more effective.

TJBM is scared of signing on-line petitions.

No, I do it all the time. @Stinley I’ll sign!
@Mimishu1995 Oops, sorry, it was you that posted that Q.

TJBM is going to see the new “Jungle Book” movie today. I can;t wait, it is going to be amazing!

Don’t have the time and the means, but I’d like to hear a review from an audience who have watched it. Can you review @Coloma?
TJBM considers carefully when they go see a new movie.

I take the reviews into consideration but I also like to see for myself.

@Mimishu1995 It has great reviews. here’s the official trailer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkm22yO-bs

TJBM loves animal action.

So true.

@Coloma If you like, send me a PM so that we can exchange email addys. That way I can forward you any animal-action petitions I get.

TJBM can tell when I posted this answer.

No, how do you find that out?

TJBM is watching their sodium intake and hates it.

Come on @Brian1946

@Coloma If you hover your cursor just to the right of the “Flag as…” button at the bottom, you should see a red ¶.

If you place your cursor over the paragraph character, you’ll see a popup that says something like, “Permalink for this response (10 minutes ago).

Now it says 26 minutes ago.

@Mimishu1995 Please have patience, little lotus blossom; it took me awhile to find the ¶ in my character map. ;-p

Ah that thing… it’s hard for me to find too :p
TJBM is going to say to @Brian1946 “long time no see”

Not true: I see him more than frequently enough. ;-)

TJBM is Here2_4.

I tried to beat you in there.
TJBM has “The power.”

I do, I am Super Woman. lol

TJBM has a sinus headache. Bleh

No.

TJBM needs to mow the lawn. I do this afternoon.

I need to mown the asphalt… wait, can it be mowed?
TJBM needs to cut the grass.

No, my grass is in good shape for the first spring in ages. But, it’s dry here.

TJBM is wondering what holiday is currently filling the “seasonal” aisle in stores.

I have been shopping today so no longer wondering. It’s summer holidays.
TJBM has been shopping recently for something that was wanted but not necessarily needed.

Yes, summer clothes.

TJBM has bought new clothes recently.

A few weeks ago I got some new sneakers.

TJBM likes to buy shoes.

Do I look like the kind that keeps up with fashion?
TJBM has clothes that they used for years.

I do, I’m not a fashion type either, I have my own style that works for me.

TJBM thinks Skinny jeans look stupid.

I think they sometimes look oxymoronic. No offense to non-skinny women!~

TJBM has an oxymoronic statement.

Yes I don’t.

The Jelly below me is going for a run today.

Um, I’m not a good runner anymore. The horse below me will go for a good run, though. She’s getting fat. She runs right to the meadow with the sweetest grass. She finds it awfully delicious.

TJBM will be in the garden today.

Alas, not today, I have to finish taxes, and there is still snow on the ground. I will probably be out there tomorrow, Wednesday for sure, weather permitting.

TJBM has plans changed due to weather.

Textbooks can’t be damaged by the weather so… no, sadly.
TJBM is happy about something that doesn’t seem pleasant at first sight.

Yes, it’s a story about a lynching that occurred in my hometown in 1914. Not a very pleasant subject, but a joy to research and write about.

TJBM likes to research and write, too.

I do, but I haven’t written much in the last couple of years now.

TJBM is a veritable Bloodhound when they want to know something.

I think so. I like the fine details of a thing. They often have a story of their own, or make it a much better story. For example, after the man had been hung on a telegraph pole and filled full of lead for twenty minutes, a limo pulled up and a woman in furs stood up in the backseat, pulled out a small revolver, emptied it into the corpse, then told her driver to move on. She had a dark veil on her hat, but everyone is said to know who she was—a very important family—but nobody ever talked. I want to know who she was.

I found this in an old newspaper article cited by a journalist grad student in one of their papers. This incident is mentioned nowhere else, but it says a lot. It wasn’t just the rednecks of the town who were in on this. 1,700 people out of a town of 8,000 came to watch. I found in a Camden, New Jersey newspaper (by sheer luck) an article where one of the town lawyers said that the town leaders had met to plan the lynching. These are details that didn’t make it into the brief paragraphs of official town histories.

The town I’m concentrating on, St. Petersburg, was settled by Northerners, many of the town fathers had fought for the Union during the Civil War. They saw themselves as very different and better educated than the people who lived in a city just 20 miles across the bay from them. Those people, the people of Tampa, had been blockaded by the Yankees throughout the war—kept in a state of siege and starvation—and then occupied under marshal law for four years afterward by Yankee soldiers. They were vehemently anti-Union and against freedom of the slaves. They had four lynchings in 1914 and the people of my town were appalled. This detail is not included in the histories written about this lynching. There is no inclusion of analysis as to local and national events that affected the society of this town and how they reacted to them.

Finding these details, understanding what you see from a historic perspective, explaining them—is all gold to me.

This is getting way too long, sorry. Chalk it up to my morbid exuberance.

TJBM likes history, the weirder, the better.

Great story, @Espiritus_Corvus. I’ve read a number of accounts from the same period in my local area. Around the Civil War there was a large college in what is now a tiny town. The abolitionists were in charge, and the college was in Missouri, so the whole thing comepletely disappeared from the face of the Earth.

TJBM frequently makes eyes roll recounting recently learned trivia.

No. I don’t have that much time. And that isn’t important either. Just let my mind learn as much as it wants.
TJBM knows some more strange history.

Yes, I love strange history.
Did you know that the term “basket case” came from Civil War soldiers that were given battlefield clean up duties. A basket case” was someone whose remains fit in a basket. Not a corpse, a basket case.

TJBM i wearing something with embroidery..

I don’t think I’ve worn anything embroidered since I was twenty with hair down to my ass, peasant shirts, Levi 501s (with the button fly), a buck-skin jacket with fringe and L.L.Bean workboots. On cold days, I wore a cowskin poncho. My girlfriend enjoyed embroidery and embroidered my shirts and jeans. I was the coolest dude north of San Francisco.

TJBM kept a favorite, out dated piece of clothing for years.

I did. There is a distinct possibility that the first pair of peg-leg Levi’s I ever owned (circa about 1979) are in this house somewhere. I could get them on, die trying to fasten them.

TJBM knows how to say “Thank you” in at least 3 languages.

English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Gaelic… I used to know more but I can’t bring them to mind at the moment.

I did a thing when I was a teenager – I wanted to learn to say Hello, Goodbye, and Thank you in as many languages as possible. I got up to 18 before I lost interest.

TJBM can order a beer in two languages.

Can I have a beer please? And biru ipppai onegaishimasu :) I can say in one more language but the mods might get to me if I did that.
TJBM is a language fanatic.

Oooh, that’s useful information. Thanks, Mimishu!

I love languages, but I’m not terribly good at beginning conversational in them. I’m sure that’s mostly because I don’t talk to people in real life unless it’s completely necessary. I took three years of Spanish in high school, and can read Spanish fairly well, but I can hardly string together a sentence, and I can’t understand a word of it when spoken.

More suited to my skills is onomastics – the study of names and how they develop.

TJBM has a very nerdy hobby.

I used to say, “Yes, comic books,” but now they’re pretty mainstream.

TJBM likes the feel of a good floppy.

@Seek sounds a bit like me. I’m better at writing and speaking than speaking. And my Japanese, right now I can read and write very well, but speak, not so much.

Never really handled it. They existed back when I was five. I just looked at one of them in dad’s office and thought: “Why do people need that funny thing?” (I didn’t have a chance to see it in action back then)
TJBM is retro.

I have developed likes and dislikes that reflect the various eras of the past 67 years of my life, so in that respect, I guess you could call me retro.

TJBM is trend.

Is trend? I don;t know. haha

TJBM has been outdoors doing lots of things already this morning.—I gave the horses a beard shave and trimmed their tails. lol—

I haven’t been out yet this morning, but I could use a shave…but I don’t know about getting my tail trimmed!

TJBM would like their tail trimmed.

Well, ahem, it has been a while since the divorce.
TJBM is blushing now.

No, just laughing, I don’t blush easily.

TJBM has bed head.

I think I brushed my hair yesterday. I’m not totally certain. So, yeah, at least one day worth of bed head.

TJBM has shaved their head, completely.

Not since boot camp.

TJBM will tell us how long it’s been since they were in a barber shop or salon.

I got my hair cut by a professional when I was eight. We had just moved to Florida and it was summer and it was hot. I wanted a shoulder-length bob, I ended up with more of a bowl-cut and I cried and cried. This was a few months after the initial cut, as compared to the year before

That’s the only time I’ve been in a salon for myself, as that was the last haircut I had until I was 23, and then had a friend do it in my living room. Since then, I’ve cut my own hair.

TJBM has had a professional manicure this year.

No, I don’t get manicures I do too many hand things to make it worth it. haha
I do get the occasional Pedicure and massage.

TJBM gets their eyebrows done. I am thinking of doing this now that I have let my bangs grow out and need eyebrow enhancement. haha

Never have had my eyebrows done. I’m not a very hairy guy. Been blessed with a light beard, no sideburns to speak of, and I think I’ve grown two or three chest hairs in my whole life. Everything is sunbleached. Mom said it was my 1/64th Cherokee ancestry.

TJBM knows their ancestry pretty well.

I do, predominantly Scottish with a smattering of Welsh and a dash of German.
@Espiritus_Corvus I like hairless men.
Nothing worse than cave man back. lol
That is my eyebrow issue, they are so white blonde that I can’t see them well enough to shape them or pencil them in a bit darker for contrast.

TJBM has worked up a sweat today. Go heart rate, just don’t go too fast. haha

I’m about to take a shower. They’re physically vigorous, but no sweat.

TJBM can tell me one of the origins of the phrase, “steal your face”.

The only reference I can make is to the old Grateful dead album in the mid-70’s.

TJBM will share other origins.

Can’t find any. It seems to begin and end with the Grateful Dead, who, by the way, didn’t like the album according to Garcia. They weren’t working at the time and just put a bunch of shit together from their first “good-bye tour” to satisfy contractual obligations.

TJBM is a Dead Head.

I’m more into Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin for my 60s and 70s rock needs.

TJBM can hit that ridiculous note from Child in Time. (Gods, I love Ian Gillan).

Not anymore, once upon a time perhaps. I used to sing a little.

TJBM Likes this song by the Talking Heads.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmaVK1E-VKQ

I’m a Dead Lover, saw them many times.

I can hit that note from Child in Time. What I NEVER could do, was cover Sir Blackmore’s warp-speed lead solo, and I played guitar for 24 years. ;-o

@Coloma I saw my “distributor” today, and he told me he was wearing a Steal Your Face T. That reminded me of your SYF thread, and until then, I didn’t know what the reference was.

@Brian1946 What was my “SYF” thread? I don’t remember. haha

of course, good song.
TJBM likes this song

@Coloma Here’s your SYF thread: http://www.fluther.com/189236/steal-your-face/

@Brian1946 Oh jeez, duh….a blonde moment. lol

That video of the OCB was sad. I had almost forgotten about that.

TJBM just had a delicious dinner!

Well, I had dinner at Taco Bell, and it was good. 3 layer nachos and a 7 layer burrito. Like I had a 10 course meal! ~

TJBM thinks the “I’m a little teapot” song is adorable.

Haha, yes, very cute.

TJBM is a fat cat.

Not fat, but close to a cat. I’m lazy :)
TJBM has a fat cat.

I do, but he’s really just big, not fat. 17 pounds, a Ragdoll.

TJBM loves Cinnamon rolls hot out of the oven.

Uh, Uh. Not since I discovered big, fat, crispy, cinnamony apple fritters! You can keep your ol’ California cinnamon rolls.

TJBM has had hot apple fritters with vanilla ice cream and rich, dark cafe con leche.

I have! Yummm! I’ve also had corn fritters.

TJBM has had hot fresh corn fritters, rolling in syrup with fresh cooked breakfast sausage.

You are killing me here, Strauss. Maple syrup is a very expensive import here. Molasses is the thing here. Now you got me going. I’m going to have hunt some down and make some corn fritters.

TJBM loves Southern Cooking—the deadlier, the better.

You mean something like this? They are the South’s specialty.
TJBM isn’t disgusted easily.

I’m afraid I am (although not about things like @Mimishu1995‘s pic). I am much less than I used to be but still more than average. I have a phobia of mould.
TJBM has a phobia to tell us about

These disgust me to no end, but not a phobia.

TJBM wishes there were more satisfying pets for people that live in small quarters.

Yes. I think the world would be a much saner place.

I also think you can tell a lot about a person by how they relate to animals. Ted Cruz, for instance. There ae no photos of him with a dog. Men and dogs go together, but you have to be honest to get a dog’s respect. Here’s the Cruz family dog.. You never see him with that dog. Maybe they just don’t like him.

Here he is looking really uncomfortable with a cat. Cats demand strong character in a person. If you are weak at all, they will make you their bitch in a New York Minute. This picture looks like the cat already took a swipe at Cruz.

TJBM agrees that you can tell a lot about a person by how the animals react around them.

Often times yes.

TJBM knows to never run from a large predator.

You don’t want to be seen as prey.

TJBM is celebrating 4–20.

A road trip to Colorado is a treasured pipe dream for me.

TJBM has some really fine jewelry.

True, and the story behind is a bit unusual. Basically my grandma gave my family some gold bars and asked us to exchange some jewelry with them for me. After a while of bargaining in the jewelry store, we decided that it was better to just bring the gold bars home. Now I still have some beautiful jewelry from that day, to give grandma the impression that we actually used all the gold.
TJBM has some unusual story associated with a normal object.

@ibstubro A pipe dream, well that dream could come true in CO. lol

Hmmm….can’t think of one in the moment, maybe if I ponder for awhile.

TJBM is wearing something colorful.

I’m not actually wearing anything at all. It’s 11.25pm and I’m in bed!

TJBM has recently had to say goodbye to someone very important to them.

I recently said goodby to my feline roomie, but it’s been almost 13 years since I said goodby to one of my soulmates.

TJBM can say what the oldest thing is that they’ve ever seen.

Hint: It probably consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen per second.

In b4 “I saw an older one”.

The sun? On earth I’ve seen Sue, the Tyrannosaurus at the Field Museum in Chicago and the Woolly Mammoth skeleton at the Smithsonian in D.C. But the Giant Redwoods of Yosemite and along the coast north of San Francisco were the most impressive.

TJBM has seen some old stuff, too.

Story of my life, as a film noir nerd.
TJBM has seen something very new.

I saw a colt in the field today so new that it was standing ram-rod straight, afraid to bend it’s knees yet. Mom was there, nosing it.

TJBM knows of an ugly baby animal.

I don’t know if you’d call this baby an animal, but it’s pretty ugly!

TJBM thinks all baby animals are cute, even the ugly ones.

I do! Baby Gophers are especially adorable. haha

TJBM likes little buck toothed rodents.

I’m not a rodent hater. Neither am I a fan. I could live without a close encounter of any sort.

TJBM is planning a little road trip.

Well I have this job interview tomorrow so I have been planning how to get there by 9.30am
TJBM has got some good interview tips

Just be yourself, do your best, don’t shape shift for the sake of some interviewer and if they pass you over, oh well, probably best anyway. You want them to want YOU, not the other way around. haha

TJBM believes in being genuine.

Absolutely!

TJBM is a choco-holic.

But who isn’t??
TJBM isn’t a chocaholic

Not especially though I do like it.

TJBM is an cheese-a-holic.

Mmmm cheeeeeese. Yes I love cheese especially the harder cheeses like cheddar
TJBM has a good recipe for cheese pie

If only I had one. Just the cheese is enough!
TJBM is the only one in their family who is crazy for cheese.

I’m not sure about my family. I’ve never asked them or paid much attention to their eating habits since we were kids. Cheese was usually cheddar and used as a topping—not very important in our diets. I wouldn’t classify myself a huge cheese lover now, either. I play around with making cheese and eat what I make, but I don’t lay awake thinking about it like I did recently with apple fritters. And porterhouse steak… or real maple syrup on hot, buttered pancakes.

TJBM can describe the oldest thing they’ve ever seen on Earth.

The oldest non-living, terrestrial things I’ve seen are some of the hills north of Los Angeles. Some of them have bands of rock that are about 1.7 billion years old.

The only rock band that I know to be older is in the UK, and is appropriately nicknamed “The Stones”. ;-)

TJBM can name the oldest living thing they’ve ever seen.

A Redwood tree about 2000 years old, never got to the Bristlecone Pine in the Sierras They are up to 4000 years old.

TJBM knows the world’s oldest dog Maggie died, she was 30 years old.

RIP Maggie!

TJBM knows how to keep their poop from stinking.

It’s called a courtesy flush.

TJBM knows or knows of someone who thinks their poop doesn’t stink.

nope
TJBM wishes that they have a neighbor like Al Bundy.

Hell no. haha

TJBM has seen and liked the movie ” Ex Machina.”

Pffft. The Lagoon was still blue the last time I was in a theater.

TJBM can name another movie with a color in the title.

Blue Velvet. How about that?
TJBM has seen that movie.

Never saw it.

TJBM has seen Life of Brian.

TJBY is living the life of Brian.

TJBM has seen Don’t Bother to Knock, with Marilyn Monroe as a psycho babysitter. ;-0

No, but thanks for recommending another film-noir :)
TJBM knows some lesser-known film noir.

I do not. But in the interest of reviving the thread, I looked this up, and it looks promising.

TJBM likes beverages served in frozen, frosty mugs!

Only Root Beer or Birch Beer. Not ales or alcohol beers.

TJBM has made their own batch of beer.

Once, years ago now, a red ale, I even grew my own hops! A traitor in wine country here. lol

TJBM has mostly given up beer because they are getting fucking old and can’t have too much fun anymore.

Yes so true. Too much alcohol knocks me for six. Life’s too short to waste a whole day feeling crappy
TJBM has a wine cellar

Wine rack, it holds twelve cases or wine.

TJBM Has a bottle of vintage wine older than 1999.

Never been a wine drinker. It messes with my sinus’, even though I like the taste.
A bottle of Purple Rain?

TJBM has testified in a criminal case.

Aaaaaand we’re back!

Yes. An employment insurance fraud case. They had the guy on video lifting a refrigerator, for chrissake. And playing tag football. When he got home, he’d put on his stabilizing collar while still in the car and slowly hobble to the door. What a dork. He stood to make millions. In the criminal case, he went to jail. The whole thing was shown later on Real TV.

TJBM once drank a wine older than themselves.

Perhaps but I don’t know for certain. lol

TJBM has multiple bird nests with babies around their house.

I have a Dutch elm tree in my backyard that has several nests. For all I know, some of those nests might be homes for the children that have left their ‘rent’s nests.

TJBM can name the last concert they attended.

John Cougar 2004

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsEwK69LXjQ

TJBM is an oldie but goodie.

“Oldie” like what? I’m very young but judging by the way I think I look older than my age. Does that count as“oldie”?
TJBM doesn’t care for age.

I don’t, that’s why I am young in my sixties.

TJBM doesn’t pay any attention to their age.

I wouldn’t but my age is paying attention to me. So many aches and pains and wrinkles!!
TJBM has grown into their looks

I’m working on that.

TJBM has a Christmas ornament that they never put away.

No. I either gave everything back to the family or got rid of all the extraneous stuff a long time ago. I live uncluttered, simply and ready to travel light at a moment’s notice.

TJBM has simplified their life.

Yes, same as you, and while I do enjoy decorating my space I too do not like clutter. I live with a clutter bug type, drives me nuts.

TJBM is a tidy type.

Only by extreme effort.

TJBM would or could live in a tiny house.

I lived in a caravan for a month. It was ok
TJBM has enjoyed a holiday in a caravan or campervan

I have not, but I would love to. A nice adventure – at least until the new wore off. lol

TJBM is very adaptable.

Yes, I am, I try to be a go with the flow type.

TJBM has overdone it lately and has a sore back.

No and I thank my lucky stars. I should have a bad back. I lifted enough patients for five lifetimes. But I just got lucky, I guess. Every nurse I know that put in the years I did has a bad back—both males and females.

TJBM knows that maintaining a well-toned muscle corset will prevent disk and structural damage to the back.

Yes, but mine is all about repetitive stress, me too, never had a back issue until the last few months, watching how I bend and lift and trying to consciously use my knees.

TJBM has to pack to leave somewhere today.

Not when I’m still being haunted by my final.
TJBM is praying.

I do not pray, but I do not begrudge you yours. I hope you do very well.

TJBM believes there is only one finality in life.

Taxes?
TJBM does not begrudge taxes

No, it is what it is, fight reality and you suffer. haha

TJBM hates meddling people.

I’ve solved that problem rather well, I think. There is not a human living within a mile of here. Most of the population is over the hills on the other coast. People don’t meddle much here. They are quiet— kinda like Swedes, actually—and mind their own business, unless family is involved.

TJBM likes the solitary life.

I do, while I have a fun loving social side I can also go days and days, if not weeks, without any major human interaction.

TJBM likes tomato sandwiches on toasted bread.

I don’t care if you toast the bread or not, as long as I get the Tangy Zip of Miracle Whip on it.

TJBM knows how to milk a cow.

Cows, goats, sheep, even milked a horse once—extremely high protein milk.

TJBM saw the mysterious green light cross the Western sky Saturday night.

What? Something new?
TJBM would like to show me what it is.

I would definately show you if I knew what to show you

TJBM Knows about what @Mimishu1995 wanted me to show

I do.

TJBM has hiked above a timberline.

In Colorado, had a snowball fight in August with my brother too.

TJBM lives more than a 1000 miles from where they were born.

About 20 miles less than 1000, 979, according to Google Maps.

TJBM is in a hurry.

I’m in a hurry of stuffing the last of my knowledge into my head for the next final.
TJBM is so pissed off they can kick anything nearby.

No. More sad. I almost wish I could work up a good mad.

TJBM is anticipating watching something on TV today.

No, I have a Tv but rarely watch it, only DVDs, but will probably watch a documentary or something in netfilx or youtube later.

TJBM is tired this morning.

Mornings are my best time
TJBM is a night owl

I can be, although my current commitments don’t allow for it.

TJBM has made commitments that have radically changed their lifestyle.

I have worked 2nd and 3rd shifts in the past. 3–11 pm was murder. 11–7 am, not so bad.

TJBM has heard a owl at night recently.

Yes. We have what we call the St. Lucia Barn Owl and they are very beneficial as to rodents, but they will also carry away my chickens. So, I have the barn cats to keep them away. I know they’ve visited at night, but alas, the cats are very choosy as to whom they allow in their country club, especially if they compete for the tasty local rongeur avec goût.

TJBM likes owls, too.

I do. I like the little Western Screech owls here and we have a great horned couple hoo hooing at night too.

TJBM is engaged in a big project. OMG..I am helping to dust and organize about 4,000 books at my house sitting gig right now. A house full of built in book cases that haven’t been dusted for about 2 years at least. lol

^^You moved to my old place in Sweden! (you have to scroll to the right to see the owl.)

@Espiritus_Corvus I forgot to comment, that barn owl species is stunning! Haha…books, books, everywhere, plus I am anal about organizing them by height and size so this is taking some time.

My big project after this week will be getting back to the garden. With the white April we’re having here, I haven’t been able to put anything into the ground yet; plus we’re getting more snow this weekend!

TJBM likes snow.

I do. I once made a little snowman, about 18 inches tall and put him in my freezer until July, then pulled him out and set him on my patio table to watch him melt. haha

TJBM must get back to work, in just another minute or so. Emphasis on “so” haha

…or so, and back here.

TJBM can think of a funny meaning for the acronym MGTOW.

Men Gynoforming To Oprah Winfrey?

TJBM knows that gynoforming is a totally bogus word but has an idea of what it means.

Pussy-whipped?

TJBM wants a doll, but not the kind you play tea with.

Not for me, but are you talking about Betty Blow-up?

TJBM has heard of Betty Blow-up .

God no! Somebody got blown up?
TJBM knows about blow-up dolls.

Um.. I think my brother told me once that his friend told him that his cousin told him that he read about them somewhere.

TJBM has noticed the birds have come back for the summer.

Noticed!? I think the nesting box on the patio might already have eggs in it, and the little bug-eating-son-of-a-gun with the nest over the porch light has eaten about 5 pounds of bugs already. I saw him attack a wasp the other day!

TJBM has seen a noteworthy bird this week.

Actually yes, we have a partial albino Mourning Dove that is paired up with a regular colored one. It is piebald grey and white, super cool.

TJBM has a friend that throws pottery.

Yes, several and I do too.

TJBM has friends that blow glass.

No, but there was a fairly famous glass blower in my old hometown, a guy named Dale Chihuly. I used to watch him and his crew work at their studio.

TJBM has a friend who sculpts stone.

No, but I did know someone that blew glass.

TJBM blows books. I must have blown dust off 400 books today. lol

@Espiritus_Corvus That glass sculpture in the park is amazing!

@Coloma Dale Chihuly’s work is even more impressive in person.

@Tropical_Willie I just looked at all his works of the site. The Chandeliers are mind blowing, I want one! I’d love to see his work in person now. Woweeeee!

There was a Chiluly exhibit in Denver recently. It was amazing!

TJBM is so drawn into the conversation that they forget what TJAT has asked.

Haha yes, and…instant art karma, my little hippie artist stable cleaner college student “Taylor” is entering some of his pottery in a show tomorrow at UC Davis about 60 miles from us, and I told him to come by and show me some of his pieces and I bought the coolest kinda Roman looking vase with a stunning cobalt glaze. :-D

TJBM has bought something artsy object recently.

I buy interesting things made by the local people once in a while. They have traditional designs that clearly are of a unique African/Caribbean influence with a hint of European/French specific to St. Lucia. I bought a soup bowl with show dish recently and a lady gave me a big bowl at Easter that I use for my monster one-meal salads. Each Island has it’s own unique designs. These small, individual island republics that in our minds are all grouped together as “The Caribbean” proudly retain their individual identities in culture, language and history that are easily recognized by their island neighbors and they compete in sports, art&music, scholastics—complete with old rivalries, prejudices, enmity and magnanimity.

TJBM took one look at the sky this morning and said, ”...

It’s blue!
TJBM likes a mackerel sky

I had to look that up. I’ve never heard the term before.

“Noun. A sky dappled with rows of small white fleecy clouds, typically cirrocumulus, like the pattern on a mackerel’s back.”

Yes I do.
Thanks, Stinley!

TJBM likes a good thunderstorm.

I love T-storms! We’ve had some good ones recently. The other evening the clouds were back lit from the setting sun and cast that amazing orange light while it thundered and poured.

TJBM is off and running at 8 a.m.

I was off and running at 8am. Your 8am is my 11am. Man, you Californians are soooo laidback. Half the day is already over and you all are just getting started!

TJBM has plans for the weekend.

Drown in textbooks and watch people enjoying the Independence Day in envy!
TJBM has to work during holiday.

For most of my working years, I was among the few employees without children at home, so I worked almost every holiday. But it wasn’t bad. I knew that by being on the job, my colleagues were able to be with their families—and I was paid well for the “sacrifice.”

If TJBM could have any pet in the whole world, what would it be?

I have always wanted a Water Buffalo.
I think they are so cool. Must tie in with my fantasy of living in some little village in asia somewhere, scuffling about in thongs, ( the shoes, the shoes ) and growing various strains of bamboo. I have a painting of a little village like this and it is my fantasy place.

TJBM has a rubber ducky.

Plenty of duckies and other bath toys. My youngest has quite the menagerie – pigs, sheep and a scottie dog – as bath toys
TJBM will enjoy some gardening this weekend

No, I am house/horse/pet sitting and tending to 4 dogs, one that just had hip surgery, a pussy cat, 21 chickens and 11 horses and mules. I have a task to complete about every 30 minutes from 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. when the dogs go out for their last potty break before bed. lol

TJBM uses a house/pet sitter.

I will be this weekend.

My mother in law has, as a last ditch effort to get in as much aggravation as possible before we ship her back home, has run around and told the entire goddamn neighborhood that she’s leaving, and that means most likely she’s told them that we’ll be driving her, and thus that we’ll be not at home all weekend.

Since this makes it incredibly likely that someone will break in and steal what little stuff we have for meth money, we’ve asked a friend to babysit the house for us.

TJBM is looking forward to getting rid of about 110 lbs of dead weight.

I’d be happy with 11, but I wish you well in your endeavors!

TJBM has a worrisome mole.

No, more Gophers here than Moles, though I did save one that was flooded out of its hole last fall. They are adorable, save the Moles! lol

TJBM knows that Bullfrogs scream when scared or startled. I just startled a couple down walking by the pond here and they screamed and jumped in the water. Watch this. haha

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A583gcPi8c8

Yep. Read all about it in Cannery Row.

TJBM likes to read Steinbeck.

I haven’t read any Steinbeck since I was in high school I’m afraid but I do like his work.

TJBM likes to read Jack London more than Steinbeck.

Hmm. I read them both for different reasons. I like the way Steinbeck reaches out to the reader, establishes an affinity between the reader and his characters. He does this very quickly in his novels. He understood and emphasized the humanity in us all.

I haven’t read London’s fiction since I was a kid, except the Sea Stories like the Witch and the Dazzler, Mutiny of the Elsinore. I like his short stories a lot. But what I really like is his journalism and progressive views, especially for the time he wrote. I have his writings from London, England where he went in 1901, I think, and hung out like as a beggar for a few weeks to learn about the homeless.

His journals that he kept when he and his wife took off for Australia from Oakland in their sailboat is a must read for all sailors. I really like reading about San Francisco and Oakland during that time. Very interesting. I like both of these writers a lot, but they are incomparable, in my opinion.

TJBM has read The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld, by William Asbury

I have not. I might if I ran across it. I’m now into my 3rd day of The Grapes of Wrath.

TJBM likes to re-read classic fiction once in a while.

Yeah, but I’m only in for those that are easy to understand for the modern mind. Those too sophiciated classic don’t help.
TJBM is digging into their bookshelf.

I was digging into it last night, because I committed a terrible crime.
I’ve misplaced my copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone.

TJBM Has read the Harry Potter series

I have and seen the films too. I am not a fan girl like my daughter is!
TJBM is a fan and will tell us all about it

I must confess that I’ve never read it or seen more than the trailers from the films, but I’ve read everything I could find on J. K. Rowling, especially her early struggles. She seems to be a fascinating person. A good person. I think we would like each other if we ever met. I’d like to take her sailing for a week or two to some unpopulated islands I know about just to see how she does in a slow, quiet, beautiful, natural environment that provides luxurious sustenance. Some people freak at the stillness and lack of stimuli and others embrace it. I’d like to see which type of person she is.

TJBM is a fan of the Harry Potter series and will tell us all about it.

No, I’m not a fan but I have seen a few of the movies as a courtesy to my wife.

TJBM knows that the edit time for answers has been increased to at least 28 minutes.

I know that now haha
TJBM has been feeling nostalgic about something recently

You couldn’t be more right. My little sister flew in yesterday. We haven’t seen each other for almost ten years. Lotta catching up to do… and there is always those conversations about what was going on when we were kids in a family of nine; five of whom are no longer with us.

TJBM has had a nostalgic event recently, too.

I have had several. And not in a good way.

TJBM sometimes thinks life is too long.

Absolutely
TJBM thinks food is one of the best delights life has to offer

Ah, the last vice. So difficult to be sensible about. I think Shakespeare had something to say about the last of a person’s vices. Gone are the recreational drugs, the too-frequent drink—gone are the cigarettes. It, at last, has come down to food. When I’m a good boy, I spend a little money and I reward myself with lots of really good food, regardless of fat, sugar, salt or carbohydrate content. I’ll just have to settle for dying with a smile on face.

What is TJBM’s favorite way to reward one’s self?

In all honesty it would be buying something for myself, clothes or cosmetics or something
TJBM has watched Fight Club and will tell us what they think of it

I did and all I remember is that I didn’t like it or understand it. I can only guess it was an allegory for a certain societal view of which is foreign to me. I take physical altercations very seriously and have been in a few. They are serious business and not to be entered into lightly or for sport, but I don’t discount it as a way to deal with certain types of people. There is an underlying violence in all of us and sometimes this is tested—especially between men and especially in the world I live in. If it is at all sensed that you are not willing to literally go to the mat concerning a direct insult, nothing you say after that carries much weight and you have no credibility. In turn, people here aren’t as sarcastic or insulting as they are in the States. They are actually more civilized in many respects.

TJBM is going somewhere next week.

Unfortunately not
TJBM loves to travel

Yes, although I haven’t been able do so since I’ve been married with the same frequency as I did before.

TJBM will.

Will what? I gotta know what I am willing to do here. lol

TJBM sees my darling daughter in my avatar. Put her up for a bit on the “Steal Your face” thread.

She is very pretty! All I can say is Wow.

TJBM is feeling exceptionally good these days.

@Coloma Your daughter and I have a date NOT to see the remake of Phantasm. ;-)

No, I am not feeling exceptionally good, the last few weeks I am dying with spring allergies and burning the candle at both ends, but…I do have an amazing amount of energy.

@Espiritus_Corvus Yep, she’s my pretty baby.
@Brian1946 Haha, now, now, no robbing the phantasmic cradle. ;-)

TJBM has a funny story to share from recent days.
I woke up at 1:30 a.m. at my house sitting gig last night, to the sound of ovices coming from across the huge house. I crept out, listening, and realized a radio had come on randomly in the kitchen. Whew…kinda scary there for a few minutes. haha

Before I picked my sister up at the airport, I trimmed the goatee nice and short and trimmed my hair. Last night she said she was so happy to see that I hadn’t moved off onto some distant island just to go to seed like so many single rogues in my age group so often do. I laughed to myself. If she would have seen me two months ago with a pony tail, ratty goatee and six-day beard (I was down to shaving once a week), she would have freaked. I looked like a bloody maroon. I’m not telling.

TJBM can link to all the TJBMs going on right now.

Nah. I linked the 2 67’s to the weekend Q earlier, but then dropped off the weekender. Too much of a…thing.

TJBM wishes they knew where the “what if” game was, that plays with song titles.

Actually, not really. haha

@Espiritus_Corvus I bet you clean up real well, lol

TJBM is in the middle of a triangular drama. Gawd…people and communication. Aaaagh!

Do you want to try the What If thread?
:-P @Coloma

Hey @Coloma don’t remind me of that. Well it isn’t really my business but I’m just concerned about my family. But right now I’m going to take the collective’s advice and put it aside.
TJBM will go to @ibstubro‘s thread.

Already done it :)

TJBM will share with us one of their great “wisdom” questions, in which they were simply thinking out loud

What have you ‘Closed Your Mind’ on? Topics that you’re not willing to discuss with an ‘Open Mind’?

TJBM has a wild hair.

The’re all wild this morning, bed head at it’s finest. lol

TJBM doesn;t even know what TJBM Q. they are answering right now.

I must confess I am a bit confused as to why there are two #67 threads xD
TJBM misses somebody

I miss my mum as she was. Starting to get dementia and is becoming less of herself. I’m sad about that.
TJBM likes the fact that there are 2 x Part 67 and thinks it was a great idea of @Stinley‘s

I can relate to that @Stinley its a horrible feeling :/
Not sure :P
TJBM wonders where the idea came from

Nope, I know where it came from! :P :P

TJBM is enjoying the ambient noise around them. (For me it’s overlapping conversations in a public space.)

Ambient noise here right now is my goose mewling outside the window on the lawn, making his happy eating grass sounds, birds chirping in the trees and the hum of the fan on my laptop and the sound of my typing fingers. haha

TJBM can hear animal sounds.

If the people around me count as animals, then yes.

TJBM Can say something funny in french

The French don’t piss you off, they shit you off. Faire chier quelqu’un lol

TJBM feels shit off.

Do you mean it literally? :D
TJBM can say something funny about themselves.

I can wriggle my ears and touch my head with my toes
TJBM is familiar with hypermobility syndrome

I am not, is that like restless leg syndrome of something? lol

TJBM will explain hypermobility syndrome.

If I remember or understand the context accurately, it refers to having extremely flexible joints.

TJBM can think of something they’d like to ask or tell someone who is no longer in their life.

@MilkyWay What is hypermobility syndrome?

Absolutely. I’d like to tell a couple of people they meant a lot to me, and that I loved them for the dear friends they were.
@Brian1946 you are right. Its when people lack collagen in their bones/joints, resulting in double jointed joints and very flexible bones. Apparently its genetic, me and a couple of my siblings have it
TJBM is fascinated by human biology

That is so true, avatar of blue. If I was to have a superpower, it would be the ability to heal a person with just a touch.

TJBM hopes (as do I) that @MilkyWay‘s return is permanent.

Absolutely, always nice to have old members come back to fluther town.

TJBM just bought something new. I bought the coolest queen size blanket, it has rippled grey, sky blue and charcoal colored designs.

I did actually yes, bought some new dresses :D
And thank you both, i will try my best. I do miss the site a lot <3
TJBM has 4 cats but can’t get enough of them xD

I have one and we love cuddling with each other. She’s the most persistent lap bomber I’ve ever known!

TJBM would rather walk with than ride a horse.

No, I love riding horses. :-)

TJBM will tell us the names of their pets.

True. 4 cats whose names are Mushu, Oreo, Simba and Mr Fluffy xD
TJBM loves animals to no end

True, except for the kinds of mosquitoes!
TJBM has exception.

Exception to what :P
If animals then I’m not fond of insects very much
TJBM likes Spiders

Yes I do! As long as they’re not black widows/brown recluses/something with that level of poison. When they’re benign, I don’t even really care if they’re in the house actually it’s fascinating to watch them—and really it just means fewer bugs without my transporting those bugs outside. However, I live with people who don’t like spiders, so I’m the designated take-spider-outside person (we do not kill!)

TJBM knows that ants teach each other and that fruit flies have stages of sleep

No! Is that true? Cause that’s pretty cool.
The Jelly below me wants to know what fruit flies dream of.

**edit—couldn’t find source I thought I remembered—they may technically just have been recorded as having different stages of sleep… but they’re probably thinking more than we tend to think they are

They dream of fruit, of course! lol

TJBM has had a pet bug. years ago I had a pet cockroach that lived under my toaster in San Diego. I let him stay there and eat the crumbs and he would stick his antennas out and wiggle them at me. lol

TJBM has lived in or visited San Diego CA.

Nope but I’d like to!
@Soubresaut Same here, I find them very interesting. Dont mind them around the house unless theyre in my bed lol
TJBM wishes they could travel more often

It all comes down to money, again :(
TJBM will share a travel story.

A short one
Me and my family went to Dubai to visit family, and we’re one of those people who wait and leave the plane last xD
So we had to go down the stairs instead of the tunnel thing. I made the mistake of holding onto the railing, which was metal… steel I presume. With Dubai temperatures this meant it was HOT. I burned my hand, though nothing serious, hurt like hell xD
TJBM suffers from insomnia

No, but this time change has me staying up too late so I am suffering from not enough sleep hours. haha

TJBM is going to bed in a few minutes. zzzz jellies

True actually
TJBM likes to sing

I do! Not so sure how many people like listening to me though, haha—even if I manage to get the lyrics I’m most likely off-key—but I have epic singing sessions when I’m driving alone!

TJBM is an artist of some medium or other (and maybe share something of their work with us!)

Here are two pages from my fanfic. Hope you can understand. And sorry for the quality :p I don’t have the best camera.
TJBM would like to share more work.

Nah. Fluther is the anti-work!

TJBM has invented a new flavor.

Eh, probably not. But I did put hot cocoa mix into my coffee this morning.

TJBM hates when their food touches other food.

Not really but there’s always a certain order to my plate
TJBM needs a coffee

Just finished my third triple espresso. (Late night last night!)

TJBM prefers tea to coffee.

I like both. Each has their optimum time to be served
TJBM drinks coffee late at night

That is my fantasy. Too bad my family doesn’t approve of it.
TJBM has some strange fantasy.

Too many.
TJBM is a bit of a freak

Ummm…no one would pay $1 to see me in a carnival side-show, if you were thinking of building a stable off attractions. Sorry.

TJBM goes off and forgets things sometimes.

Naturally :3
TJBM has an exceptionally good memory

Duh ! What did you say ? ? ?

TJBM is ready for Summer.

Getting ready!
TJBM will tell us what their favourite season is

Summer, of course! Nothing can beat the summer holiday!
TJBM will tell us what season they hate.

Why would I hate a cycle of the Earth?

TJBM has seen the man in the moon.

Nope, I’ll forever keep trying to though
TJBM has very long hair

I’ve had long hair (shoulder blade length) for a very long time.

TJBM has had their hair in the same style for a very long time.

My hair has been the same since I was 10. There has been some changes but basically the style is the same. Others girls look at me funny because of that.
TJBM doesn’t care much for the norm.

True, never have never will
TJBM has always been a misfit
@Yetanotheruser @Mimishu1995 I’ve had mine the same too, ever since a kid.

Story of my life. But it took an absurdly long time for me to finally acknowledge and embrace it. I was the center of ridicude and avoidance because I was so different. At first I thought I would just grow out of it, but I didn’t. Then came a long period of trying to imitate everyone. Not until some years ago did I finally realize that there is nothing wrong with me.
TJBM has a past.

Yes. A long past that covers many a year, with multitudes of stories to hear.

TJBM has a future.

The future is what you make it, so hopefully yes
TJBM feels lazy today

So very lazy.

I managed to throw my lower back out somehow. Spent a long weekend in the car, with one afternoon spent hiking and doing yoga, then came home and sat on the floor to reorganize my jewelry supplies, and couldn’t stand up. I’ve been in agony ever since.

I’m sure I have to move to get the pain to stop but the moving hurts. And also the not moving hurts. And the sitting and the standing and the laying down hurt as well.

So basically yeah, I can’t be arsed to do anything.

TJBM has a pain in the ass, too.

Practically all the time, in some form or another
darling back pains are never a good thing, you should go see a doctor if they persist. It may be just a pulled muscle but better safe than sorry.
TJBM is running late

This jelly is walking late, which is why it’s even later than ever!

TJBM can tell me the location of Sagittarius A.

Is it in the approximate center of:

1. A Milky Way candy bar?
2. @MilkyWay?
3. Somewhere else?

1? I guess that’s what makes it taste so good!

TJBM has a different answer to the same question.

Not a different answer, just an explanation of why 1 is the right choice : ;-)

Sagittarius A is a supermassive black hole at the center of every Milky Way. Its incredibly powerful gravity guarantees that not even one subatomic particle of its yummy goodness escapes! ;-D

TJBM suspects my explanation might not be supported by irrefutable astrophysical proof.

Maybeee :P
@Brian1946 you’re just as sweet as I remember you
TJBM loves to eat chocolate

It could be my downfall!

TJBM has a downfall.

Yup. Food and love xD
TJBM has insomnia

Yes. And I just hate the fact that I can’t sleep near the day of my exam, when I need sleep the most.
TJBM’s ultimate downfall is insomnia.

Most probably. Sleep deprivation causes all sorts of damage to the the brain and body. Chronic insomnia will inevitably result in a number of health issues and symptoms, and a decrease in overall health.
TJBM will tell us what position they typically sleep in

On my side, usually on the edge of the pillow so my face faces open air (not stuffing).... Legs mostly straight, arms usually wrapped up around the pillow or pulled into my chest…. I think. I’ll have to see tonight if what I think is what I do!

I have noticed that when I nap I have to curl up into a ball. I think it’s just so I can hide from the sun.

TJBM has a hard time sleeping when the sun’s still up.

It’s impossible for me to sleep with the sun up unless I’m totally exhausted. ...or I try to read of an afternoon on the bed. ...or if I ride in the sun in the car any time but morning. Okay, okay. It was impossible for me to sleep with the sun up when I was young and spry.

TJBM knows what the “malt” is that makes malted milk balls and malted milk shakes.

Hmm I’ve always thought it to be a natural chemical arisen from a process involving some type of wheat or grain?
TJBM loves malt and will tell us what malt is exactly

It’s the sugar converted from the starch of partially germinated grains. Barley, if I remember correctly from a lecture on medieval brewing techniques.

TJBM prefers mead to malt liquor, all things considered.

This exotic food talk is confusing me.
TJBM likes to try strange food.

Always, I’m a big foodie!
TJBM prefers liquor over beer

Is wine liquor? I prefer wine every time
TJBM thinks that it might well be wine o’clock now

The flag on the front porch says, “Wine a bit, you’ll feel better.”

TJBM has a front porch.

I wish :(
@Tropical_Willie You Americans are so lucky in terms of living space :P
TJBM wants to move abroad

Oh yes. I want to retire to France. Only 20 years to go…
TJBM is looking forward to retirement

I’m already retired. It seems like I’m busier now than I ever was before retiring. But the difference is that I’m now doing less of what I have to do and more of what I want to do.

TJBM will retire soon

Nope still about 45 years to go
TJBM thinks there should be another part to this thread

Well, somebody does! ^^^

TJBM has seen The Heart of the Sea and really liked it.

I haven’t swum that far yet.
TJBM won’t leave this thead until there are 500 responses.