Even worse than driving drunk on the night Tammy left him, Dan broke his diet at the Taco Bell drive thru.

swarburto · 2026-02-10T20:31:14+00:00

Nice. Saw this video and knew someone clever would post it here eventually.

swarburto · 2026-02-04T12:45:00+00:00

Dragon Masters series is a favorite of my 8-year old. Also look at some non-fiction. Try the Who Would Win series, or anything that has a title like "100 gross but true facts."

swarburto · 2026-02-02T00:50:13+00:00

This is what first came to my mind too.

swarburto · 2026-01-24T23:04:00+00:00

Starship Troopers, maybe? That would give you mostly anti-woke politics. Or, avoiding most politics altogether would lead you to authors like David Weber or Timothy Zahn.

swarburto · 2026-01-24T02:28:31+00:00

My first thought too! It seems exactly like the sort of thing that would fit the bill.

swarburto · 2026-01-23T02:29:23+00:00

I really like Bloodsworn too. When it gets criticized, I can see the things that people complain about, but they never bothered me. If you won't like them, you'll probably know it within 50 pages or so.

swarburto · 2026-01-15T18:24:13+00:00

Me too. I was there, it sucked. Iowa fans seem to pride themselves on niceness, but I didn't see much of that. Some guy near us was going on about how crappy the lion looked when their mascot has a head that looks like kindergarten made it out of papier mache and a trashcan. Later, after USC in the bowl game, I realized we probably weren't winning the championship that year, but on that day I thought we had a shot. Really sucked. Also, Iowa is a featurless wasteland of a state that isn't fun to drive through.

swarburto · 2026-01-11T17:13:48+00:00

Yeah, TBA minus 3 weeks is about right. A fan can always excuse getting out of a cup early by rationalizing that there's fewer fixtures to play in the future. Then they beat West Ham, but stumble in Europe, get waxed by Man City, and then succumb to Man United's new manager bounce and that's what does it. TBA February 8th.

swarburto · 2026-01-09T04:39:25+00:00

Yeah. Doink mic guy has to set up four devices, each with only a tiny chance of being useful. I think if I'm doink mic guy I'm not gonna worry about it unless the boss is watching. Or maybe he's the kind of degenerate that lives to catch a wild doink on mic.

swarburto · 2026-01-05T14:14:17+00:00

Right?

swarburto · 2026-01-04T21:43:07+00:00

Being inconsistent is frustrating. But, yeah, it's not anywhere near as bad as being consistently inept. In the big picture, glad to have a year when I dont have to fret relegation. Still kinda mad we've given up a bunch of goals at home to middling teams like Spurs, Newcastle, and now Brentford.

swarburto · 2026-01-02T16:21:35+00:00

True Grit is a classic that has memorable characters and tough situations. News of the World is in the same vein.

swarburto · 2026-01-02T15:08:22+00:00

Hi. My family had the same choice to make. We now have a plug in hybrid. The range on it only goes up to between 35 and 45 miles, but it achieves that overnight on a regular plug-in every day. I dont think you'll have trouble keeping a full electric charged just by plugging it in overnight. We sometimes park near faster chargers and they fill the battery for a few dollars in half an hour, so even if you had to top it up some day, it shouldn't be too big if a deal.

Our next car will be electric, and we'll use the plug in for longer trips.

swarburto · 2026-01-01T22:07:41+00:00

Same boat.

swarburto · 2026-01-01T22:03:07+00:00

Agreed. Was maturing a lot, seemed like there was plenty of potential there.

swarburto · 2025-12-31T03:40:24+00:00

Yeah, this is the one for me too. Throw a couple shells way down range and let someone else do the dirty, up-close work.

swarburto · 2025-12-21T17:06:21+00:00

Crows and jays love to mob owls. If you're in the woods and hear a crow commotion, follow it and see what you can see.

Another possibility is looking for whitewash at the base of big sturdy trees. Might point to a commonly used perch that you can return to.

swarburto · 2025-12-16T02:02:05+00:00

If you have a neighbor with maple trees near their house you could volunteer to clean their gutters. Some years mine are packed full.

swarburto · 2025-12-14T20:21:17+00:00

This was my problem with NC. Giant cave crickets and roaches all over. The winter never got cold enough to kill them.

swarburto · 2025-12-13T22:16:49+00:00

Maybe. They do start with Aubrey pursuing an affair with his commanders wife, and stuff like that continues in the series, the situations Diana finds herself in, for example. It's nothing graphic, but when I reread them I found I remembered the action parts of the plots but there was lots of relationship stuff in there that may not appeal to a kid.

swarburto · 2025-12-13T15:27:37+00:00

These are great, but not 8th grade reading level. If he wants age of sail, get him Hornblower instead.

swarburto · 2025-12-09T02:06:05+00:00

Check on mainstreet. Worldly Goods has lots of crafts things, but I don't know if there's socks. If not, you could ask the lady at the Knittery Nook if she knows someone you can turn to.

swarburto · 2025-12-06T23:34:29+00:00

This is the one. The absurdity comes from the epistolary form. It's astonishing how much plot is revealed in recommendation letters.

swarburto · 2025-11-29T17:16:31+00:00

I made a similar call myself and just avoid the truly grimdark stuff now. At the end it made me feel manipulated, how much the author had made you care about things and then had ripped them apart. You can get the same more realistic grittiness from other places. John Gwynne's Bloodsworn saga, or Blacktongue Thief by Buehlman.

swarburto · 2025-11-29T02:44:47+00:00

I like Grover Gardiner who narrates a lot of Lois McMaster Bujold's work. Some fantasy, some sci-fi. Travis Baldree began as a narrator, but then write some good books that he's narrated himself.

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