Swedish PM resigns a few hours into her administration after coalition partner quit and budget vote did not pass. I guess we've all been there when we failed at assembling a Swedish cabinet when an important part was left out.
Also, I took the three workdays in this week off as well (vacation hours). Excepting 1990, I can't remember a year in which I haven't done that since I came to work at EBMWU.
No. I'm not expecting to get a lot done, but I am officially Holding Down The Fort while my program manager and the customers are eating turkey sandwiches and whatnot.
I stood in line at New Hwong Kok for 2 hours to get two ducks. Found out when I was about 20 min from the front that I could've skipped the line if I didn't need the duck cut. On Christmas we're getting whole Peking ducks and slicing them to eat with bao or pancakes with hoisin sauce and green onions. Not waiting in the line from now on.
I hear you about the eating too much thing. I felt bloated last night before bedtime. And I didn't eat all that much. More than usual, but not much more than usual.
First whole bird roast went very well. Took about 5hrs and we basted every hour or so with a mixture of bacon fat, olive oil and herbs. Forgot to remove the actual neck (just removed neck skin), so that was an interesting find while carving.
Ate way too much and was uncomfortably full for several hours after the meal.
Meal... was very good, but kinda funny. My son thought somehow he was supposed to bring all the sides - my wife just asked him to bring a salad, which he did, plus biscuits & roasted squash. Had a 1972 Chateauneuf-du-Pape to go with the ham. No this isn't something I've been saving for a special occasion - bought it pre-release, and man was it ever different, filled with tertiary notes - a wholly unique experience.
I, however, just started relatively recently…the former Mrs Jimmy C & I started doing it back when we hooked up during the Monty era & I kept on solo after she went off to ruin some other man’s life in ‘17…afraid if I stop, she may come back so I’ll keep at it!! Hahaha
this has become weirdly controversial in our house. For some time we were sending picture cards, and then my wife started vetoing the pictures the kids and I were picking, and no cards were going out... so it's unclear whether we'll just have to go around her, or switch to picture free cards, or what, as I'd like to send some cards to people.
My holiday cards arrived Wed…will send out next week. My photographer buddy photo shops ME a bit some so I look almost presentable…the dogs are the stars of course
I write postcards when I road trip, usually from the National Parks I visit with the pups. Newellbany is on the postcard list, tho he’s on quite a lot of lists of the “watch” variety if we’re being honest.
Yup....Again...with a good combine after another solid season next year in Starkville, he’s a 2nd rounder, at least...a better than expected 40 time and he’s maybe a late 1st...
[MBB] Iona defeats #10 Alabama. I don't understand how and why an administration, alumni, and student body would accept a corrupt coach because winning matters more than ethics.
Pitino could step off the plane at OAK tomorrow, Uber to Haas and prob turn this Cal team into a .500 ball club from here on out, all centering around Kuany’s athleticism & length on the defensive end. Fox is a boob - playing this guy on the wing...sigh, SMH.
Sorry, SGB, but I’d take him in a heartbeat...the entire sport is dirty & corrupt...it’s not like he killed someone. If the NCAA is going to allow him to coach, why wouldn’t you grab a guy that wins? Wins = $$$ for your school, which helps students.
NCAA Tournament > the high & mighty moral compass... ;-)
There's an SC site on which every single writer / photographer not only picked BYU for tomorrow's game but also described the spread for a BYU win as laughably low. Safe to say things are firmly in the range of "not with a bang, but a whimper." I'm glad we've only got one more beating to watch after BYU.
The part I find interesting is that we're not any better at accepting the successes and constraints of trying to do science in real time with this. Like, it might be time to panic, it might not, the best we can do is wait and see if the work yields data that can be used to bolster vaccines if needed.
Pretty much. My understanding is that the mRNA vaccines should still be pretty good at prepping your immune system even for variants like this. Still possible a new variant evades it, but let's see.
I do wonder how much the US and other first-world nations could be doing to get vaccines out to the rest of the world. Seems like that's the first and best way to stop these variants.
I want to be clear that when I say she's trash, I'm not saying it because she's vaguely working class - she'd be trash if she'd grown up comfortable and was doing stuff like this.
That's the highest grade the Raiders could have possibly earned for that game. Uneven performance, way too many penalties (many of which were mental mistakes), the 4th quarter defense was about as resistant as butter facing a hot knife, and the offensive line looked overmatched at times. This is not Al Davis' Raiders.
Mark Davis needs to fire Mayock, the coaching staff, and start over.
It's nothing remotely as dramatic, but it's so easy to do little acts of kindness. A woman I know was homeless until a couple months ago when she got into a subsidized apartment. She still is on her old corner panhandling once a week or so. I was having Cornish game hen for Thanksgiving and they only sell them in two packs. When I saw her earlier this week I asked if she wanted one. I saw her this morning and she was so gracious and thankful that she had something like that to make for her meal yesterday. Small things can make a difference.
Swedish PM resigns a few hours into her administration after coalition partner quit and budget vote did not pass. I guess we've all been there when we failed at assembling a Swedish cabinet when an important part was left out.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/europe/sweden-first-female-prime-minister-intl/index.html
Holiday
Do you have today off?
yes, every day is off for me (retired at 45 yoa)
GTFO GEAT!!
Yes. It is a holiday along with Thanksgiving.
When I worked for Bank of Apartheid, the day after Thanksgiving was a regular workday. If you wanted it off you had to take vacation hours.
Also, I took the three workdays in this week off as well (vacation hours). Excepting 1990, I can't remember a year in which I haven't done that since I came to work at EBMWU.
Negative, but should be a nice day on the water.
Not really
No. I'm not expecting to get a lot done, but I am officially Holding Down The Fort while my program manager and the customers are eating turkey sandwiches and whatnot.
Sure do.
For the most part.
I stood in line at New Hwong Kok for 2 hours to get two ducks. Found out when I was about 20 min from the front that I could've skipped the line if I didn't need the duck cut. On Christmas we're getting whole Peking ducks and slicing them to eat with bao or pancakes with hoisin sauce and green onions. Not waiting in the line from now on.
Picked up a roasted turkey at Poulet on Shattuck Ave. Was pretty good, $92 but still good. I am fasting today after eating too much.
I hear you about the eating too much thing. I felt bloated last night before bedtime. And I didn't eat all that much. More than usual, but not much more than usual.
Meal was great. The Popeyes turkey was excellent and will purchase again. Probably had way too much food.
Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes
Mac and cheese
Green beans sautéed in minced garlic and fake bacon
Stuffing
Corn
Sweet potatoes
Gravy
Salad
Bread
Cranberry salad
First whole bird roast went very well. Took about 5hrs and we basted every hour or so with a mixture of bacon fat, olive oil and herbs. Forgot to remove the actual neck (just removed neck skin), so that was an interesting find while carving.
Ate way too much and was uncomfortably full for several hours after the meal.
Meal... was very good, but kinda funny. My son thought somehow he was supposed to bring all the sides - my wife just asked him to bring a salad, which he did, plus biscuits & roasted squash. Had a 1972 Chateauneuf-du-Pape to go with the ham. No this isn't something I've been saving for a special occasion - bought it pre-release, and man was it ever different, filled with tertiary notes - a wholly unique experience.
Writing cards
We stopped sending out holiday cards about 15 years ago.
Bah humbug, FiatSlug!!! ;-)
I, however, just started relatively recently…the former Mrs Jimmy C & I started doing it back when we hooked up during the Monty era & I kept on solo after she went off to ruin some other man’s life in ‘17…afraid if I stop, she may come back so I’ll keep at it!! Hahaha
I started reading and thought you were going to say you hooked up after getting divorced...
this has become weirdly controversial in our house. For some time we were sending picture cards, and then my wife started vetoing the pictures the kids and I were picking, and no cards were going out... so it's unclear whether we'll just have to go around her, or switch to picture free cards, or what, as I'd like to send some cards to people.
Divorce her, get custody, and send out whatever damn pictures you want. Problem solved. Tell the judge, "she's just so unagreeable."
My holiday cards arrived Wed…will send out next week. My photographer buddy photo shops ME a bit some so I look almost presentable…the dogs are the stars of course
we could just be honest about how far things have fallen and compile a card of individual selfies with our idiot cat.
I’m grasping at straws, pulling out all the stops in the smoke & mirrors department
pqtm
if you use that photo on a dating app, you will either get slapped or kicked in der gonads when they see u in person and realize what u did.
That’s why I use one from Cal/SC in ‘03….it’s totally me, just younger!! And THAT was a good day.
Truthfully, GEAT, I’ll probably get kicked in the gonads regardless…that’s why I always wear my cup.
pqtm
I write postcards when I road trip, usually from the National Parks I visit with the pups. Newellbany is on the postcard list, tho he’s on quite a lot of lists of the “watch” variety if we’re being honest.
Elsewhere in college
Ole Miss and MS State have a completely uncontroversial Egg Bowl. Fans don't know what to do with themselves.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401282151
Let's see, do I wanna play for an egg or an Axe....easy choice.
Polk had a good game.
Yup....Again...with a good combine after another solid season next year in Starkville, he’s a 2nd rounder, at least...a better than expected 40 time and he’s maybe a late 1st...
I agree.
Receivers with that 6’3” size that are battle tested v. SEC secondaries...smh...
It is unfortunate he didn’t stay at Cal. We could have really used him this season.
No surprise there...
[MBB] Iona defeats #10 Alabama. I don't understand how and why an administration, alumni, and student body would accept a corrupt coach because winning matters more than ethics.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=401365250
Pitino could step off the plane at OAK tomorrow, Uber to Haas and prob turn this Cal team into a .500 ball club from here on out, all centering around Kuany’s athleticism & length on the defensive end. Fox is a boob - playing this guy on the wing...sigh, SMH.
Sorry, SGB, but I’d take him in a heartbeat...the entire sport is dirty & corrupt...it’s not like he killed someone. If the NCAA is going to allow him to coach, why wouldn’t you grab a guy that wins? Wins = $$$ for your school, which helps students.
NCAA Tournament > the high & mighty moral compass... ;-)
I agree. Even if he just coached at Cal for 3 seasons he would be able to turn the program around.
You guys are terrible excuses for hippies.
this is how some SC alumni have talked themselves into Urban Meyer being the only true way to enlightenment.
Except turning around basketball is so much easier than turning around a football team. Getting Meyer doesn't guarantee a win.
I don't need to be convinced of this ;)
Yep, one good recruiting class and really just one really good player can make an immediate impact and turn a program around.
Sonny Dykes to become head coach at TCU. If they wanted a change from their defense oriented previous head coach, that's the hire to make.
Good for Dykes…that quaint little TCU stadium could use some excitement!!
Five win Sark
There's an SC site on which every single writer / photographer not only picked BYU for tomorrow's game but also described the spread for a BYU win as laughably low. Safe to say things are firmly in the range of "not with a bang, but a whimper." I'm glad we've only got one more beating to watch after BYU.
"The beatings will cease when morale improves!"
The SDSU punter is going to be drafted fairly high for a punter. He is really good.
Attendance at Texas is sparse today.
I noticed that.
Utah vs. Colorado today
Today in Covid
Too early to tell what this 50 mutation variant will do, but I'll tell you one thing - it can't be good.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/world/covid-variant-south-africa-immune-evasion-transmissibility/index.html
UK blocks flights from six African countries.
https://twitter.com/snolen/status/1464225397994840067
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/africa/new-covid-variant-discovered-south-africa-b11529-intl/index.html
U.S. has now banned travel from eight countries. Ban doesn't apply to citizens and permanent residents.
I guess they are calling it the Omicron variant.
No shit, what a thing to wake up to.
The part I find interesting is that we're not any better at accepting the successes and constraints of trying to do science in real time with this. Like, it might be time to panic, it might not, the best we can do is wait and see if the work yields data that can be used to bolster vaccines if needed.
Pretty much. My understanding is that the mRNA vaccines should still be pretty good at prepping your immune system even for variants like this. Still possible a new variant evades it, but let's see.
I do wonder how much the US and other first-world nations could be doing to get vaccines out to the rest of the world. Seems like that's the first and best way to stop these variants.
We are! The mRNA vaccines are hard to scale, and can't be distributed everywhere. The failure of covax (IIRC) has been a big problem.
the UK and EU are blocking generics. That's not a production problem.
Hopefully folks decided to not visit homes of the unvaccinated in their families over the Thanksgiving day holiday.
Roger that...
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Racist shit stain in heels
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1463903881553920004
Worse: this story is made up, says Ilhan Omar
Of course, it's made up. How else you gonna keep the masses enraged?
I want to be clear that when I say she's trash, I'm not saying it because she's vaguely working class - she'd be trash if she'd grown up comfortable and was doing stuff like this.
PRO
NFL Thanksgiving grades: Raiders earn 'B+' for shocking Cowboys, Bears don't impress in win, Saints fall flat, Lions lose again.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-thanksgiving-grades-raiders-earn-b-for-shocking-cowboys-bears-dont-impress-in-win-saints-fall-flat/
That's the highest grade the Raiders could have possibly earned for that game. Uneven performance, way too many penalties (many of which were mental mistakes), the 4th quarter defense was about as resistant as butter facing a hot knife, and the offensive line looked overmatched at times. This is not Al Davis' Raiders.
Mark Davis needs to fire Mayock, the coaching staff, and start over.
Cowboys w/o Amari & CeeDee hurt...Dak was not on the same page with receivers so many times.
Anger had a huge punt in OT that netted like 70 yards, but Raiders successfully moved the ball for game winning FG.
Anger also had a 60-yarder in the first quarter that I'm still drooling over.
"Get this man the droll cup, stat"
I'm amazed that DeSean still has elite speed at his age.
That's how much faster he was than other guys in his college days. Over 30 but still elite speed.
CAL
Fox Sports profiles Zach Follett and his post-retirement path
https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1463916796050743331
It's nothing remotely as dramatic, but it's so easy to do little acts of kindness. A woman I know was homeless until a couple months ago when she got into a subsidized apartment. She still is on her old corner panhandling once a week or so. I was having Cornish game hen for Thanksgiving and they only sell them in two packs. When I saw her earlier this week I asked if she wanted one. I saw her this morning and she was so gracious and thankful that she had something like that to make for her meal yesterday. Small things can make a difference.
Gawd Almighty, it's dusty in here.
Been to his coffee shop once. Zack wasn't there to greet me.
Go Bears!!!
Cal still a 6.5 point underdog. O/U 58. ESPN's FPI rankings give Cal 25% chance to win
I guess they are not factoring in Cal's no. 1 rush defense and scoring defense. Immovable object vs. the movable force.
Both Jeff Faraudo and Jake Curtis prognosticate a Cal win...
Sometimes it’s a scheme thing...Kelly has Wilcox’s #...Bears playing well, but this could be a real tough one to win.
Is till remember the surprising 37-7 loss and also last year's loss in the Rose Bowl. Hopefully, Wilcox and Musgrave can break this trend.
Anyone going to the UCLA game?
Me +4
We got free passes to the CAA tailgate, so if anyone will be there let me know!
I was planning to go with my friend but he bailed, and still deciding to go or not. Will there be team WFC? And I would be interested in CAA tailgate
Oui Oui is
Oui... Is that yogurt?
Yes We Cannon
Today in Investing
I don't even wanna look at how much I lost today...
You haven't lost anything if you don't sell.
True
sell calls on SPX
Tell me about it. Bad day for the Nasdaq index as well.
Always invest in toilet paper the day after Thanksgiving.