If Heck is full of people who don’t like HOA’s it’s probably not that bad.

I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

There are three groups of Halflings that settled in The Shire at different times. The Fallohides are tall, have good relations with Elves, and are more adventurous than other halflings. By Bilbo and Frodos time Hobbits have homogenized, but the Baggins and other ‘upper class’ Hobbits still share Fallohide characteristics. Fallohides were sort of the ‘noble’ halflings, and Bilbo and Frodo are Fallohides. I don’t remember Gandalf having any canon links to halflings before The Shire (disregarding Rings of Power) but it would have had to have been well before even the founding of The Shire, because the Fallohides already had an established identity. Anyway I like it. Gandalfs great work culminating in his line producing Frodo, the Hobbit hero who destroyed the ring and sailed west with his own greatx57 grandfather.

So the world used to be flat, and you could sail to Valinor in any old boat. But the Valar don’t like uninvited guests, so they changed the world to be round. Now Valinor is still in the same place, but you can’t get there, the ‘path’ you sail curves away from The Undying Lands. Only Elves can sail the ‘straight’ path off into the sky to Valinor, but only if the Valar allow it. So not only is it unlikely that an Elf would ever try to take the embodiment of evil to literal Heaven, but the Valar would simply not allow the boat on the straight path, it would sail around the globe. Also even if an Elf tried to take the ring to Valinor they would surely be corrupted before the attempt and change their mind.

We call helicopters cavalry 🤷‍♂️

Next on Epic Meal Time we eat yo fuckin momma.

Came here to say David the Gnome, just rewatched it recently and loved it. Never met someone else in real life who has ever seen it.

When my beagle was a baby she would stand in front of the couch, under the coffee table, stare at the couch, crouch, line up her shot, jump up and bang her head on the coffee table. She did this often enough to earn her the title Silly Bonks. Her full name is Princess Fancy Pants ‘Silly Bonks’ of House Cuddlepup.

I also recently taught her to stand up on her hind legs and spin around. Sometimes she jumps up and spins so aggressively she falls over.

She will run as hard and fast as she can on wet grass at the park and fall and just roll like three or four times, I’m not sure if shes slipping or doing it on purpose.

She learned if she stands on the couch she can reach out and put her front paws on the doorknob to look out the window in the front door. She had a couple good tumbles before she figured out how to properly dismount that one.

My crockpot pretty much always has some chicken soup. Potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper, zucchini, onion, celery, and chicken breast. I eat this a lot for lunch, especially at work in a to go container.

I also eat a smoothie pretty much every day, which I call my fruit soup. Fresh apples and bananas, some frozen fruit usually berries mangoes or peaches, fresh greens either spinach or kale, honey, mushroom blend powder, beetroot powder, turmeric powder, vanilla or chocolate flavored protein powder, Greek style yogurt, and probiotic kefir. I make a blenderfull and fill three or four shaker bottles, they last as long as I dont skip days.

I dont always eat breakfast but usually oatmeal with maple syrup and brown sugar or cold cereal. Sometimes just a banana or a muffin.

Sandwiches, I always have bread and meat and cheese and mustard and mayo and almond butter and jelly. And lately frozen sausage patties, sometimes for breakfast sandwiches. Sometimes I just eat sandwich meat wrapped in cheese, unwiches.

Sheperds pie casserole. I always have a box or two of instant potato flakes, some canned veggies, and frozen beef. Layer of potatoes, browned meat, canned veggies (I like corn green beans and saurkraut) and sometimes cheese, then another layer of potato, throw it in the oven. I buy plain potato flakes and season them myself. It’s all non perishable and quick, easy and hearty.

This and a variety of burritos from the place near my work (when my boss is buying) is probably 90% of what I eat.

John Brown has been writhing and spinning (and mouldering) in his grave for a very long time. Vengeful Wraith of John Brown for President!

If you haven’t tried Phoenix Point I would recommend it, I think it’s better than Xcom 2.

When I was a kid my moms rule was no video games on sick days. When I’m not feeling well and I take a sick day I don’t play games. I may watch movies or otherwise have screen time but I actually feel like not engaging with gaming makes me more restful and helps me get better faster.

Boxes within boxes with different recipients. You hand the gift to the first recipient, who unwraps a plain cardboard box, opens it, and finds a gift wrapped with a bow and a new recipient. The gift is handed to the next recipient who repeats the process, and the gift moves on. The final tiny box is a dollar store magnet. The first box was the size of a refrigerator. Everyone gets a present.

These are the gloriously bearded dwarf women rings of power needs.

Pretty sure Thunderdome itself hit the nail on the head with Methane cars, easier and more sustainable than either EG or ICE.

Inside the microwave.

It is for Elves, not Hobbits or Men, which is why it was such a big deal he even got invited to chill.

Doesn’t he go to Valinor to die though? He doesn’t live forever just because he was a ringbearer, he went for some healing and respite before moving on to the Doom of Hobbits. I always thought the Quest and the Wound caused him to ‘die’ young, he never healed, he left for Valinor, had a nice peaceful nap in Elvenlands, and died happy.

I mean the Valar tried to rehabilitate Morgoth but banished him beyond the doors of night in the end anyway. I also don’t think that’s what happened to Saruman and Sauron. Their souls were diminished and left formless forever, but not banished like Morgoth. Pretty sure the only being completely removed from Arda until the breaking was Morgoth.

The Devils Rejects.

House of 1000 Corpses and 3 From Hell are alright, but Devils Rejects is my favorite. I can’t hear Midnight Rider or Freebird without thinking about this movie.