Hey y’all, I hope your Galentine or Valentine day was filled with friendship and togetherness! It was projected lovebirds to splurge a record $2.9 billion on V-Day flowers, per the National Retail Federation... what do they know? Ours was nice steak dinner, a bottle of red wine and binging on Dexter: Original Sin, it was love all around. Oh, and Chocolate Rugelach... delicious... Bo's Oyster Roast has been rescheduled to Saturday March 22 at the JI County Park in the field. https://bosroast.com/ for tix and info. We'll play around 2ish that afternoon. I believe we'll have a couple of friends w/us that afternoon, so let's have a good time! Amazon anyone? Just saw this in the Wall Street Journal - Amazon workers are back in the office, but some of their desks still aren’t, according to a report this week. The company is reportedly short at least 800 desks in the San Francisco area, where it has 18 offices. And it’s not just desks: One employee at the Austin, Texas, location posted on X that a security guard said there were 2,000 people vying for 900 parking spots. Sounds like a parking garage is next. Lastly, just something to think about, if you're still going out for brunch or dinner - 159 million chickens slaughtered due to avian flu; Citrus greening, a disease that destroys orange trees, has decimated groves in Florida, the worst harvests in 90 years and this is the worst... poor growing conditions in Brazil and Vietnam, the world’s leading producers of coffee beans, caused beans to hit their highest price in 47 years last November. Okay, eggs, I'm alright with, OJ, I'll switch to tomato juice... but coffee!?! Why you kicking me when I'm down... sounds like an R-n-R song in there somewhere. See you soon, thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and sunny side up, ciao’!
Now for something very different: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/01/27/arm-amputated-cancer-funeral/77948183007/
Eighth Time’s the Charm: Sarah Boone, 46, of Winter Park, Fla., was arrested four years ago for allegedly suffocating her boyfriend in a suitcase. Her second-degree murder trial starts in a few months, and she needs to find an attorney — for the eighth time. After submitting a letter to the court firing her seventh lawyer, Boone has put the word out about her search in a handmade flyer. “INMATE SEEKS ATTORNEY”, the header reads. It continues, in handwritten text, “Looking for a prosperous challenge? Ready for your close-up on nat’l television? Are you zealous with a side of keen? Show the WORLD who you are with your original creativity, extraordinary expertise and confident ingenuity.” At the bottom, Boone concludes with, “EPIC OPPORTUNITY AWAITS, INVEST IN THE OPPRESSED. BELIEVE.” (WJXX Jacksonville) ...Seems like a risky investment.
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"My girlfriend left a note on the fridge, it said "It's not working, I can't take it anymore. I am going to my Mom's place."
I opened the fridge, the light came on, the beer was cold... what the hell is she talking about??"
https://theonion.com/concerned-bartender-takes-away-pete-hegseths-security-clearance/ The Onion
Corporate execs and Mafia bosses can agree on one thing: Gen Z workers put too much emphasis on work-life balance. Giancarlo Romano, the alleged don of Sicily’s notorious Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, was recently caught on wiretap complaining about the quality of new recruits, calling the young up-and-comers “miserable.” He grumbled that the organization currently has a fraction of the influence Vito Corleone had in The Godfather, which was based on Cosa Nostra.
Just wait until he tries to bring them back to the office. Wait.... what?!?
Don’t Cry - Spilled Milk Shuts down Florida Highway after Crash - WFLA Tampa headline
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But the World Moves So Slowly! Officers from the regional Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake in Utah were called to a home in Kearns on a report of a shooting. They interviewed Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, to get his statement on what happened. Mann allegedly said that he and his unnamed friend had gotten together that evening to smoke dope, and were talking about guns. The friend, he said, “said he can dodge a bullet,” so they agreed to try it. But they weren’t stupid! No no no: they made sure the two pistols they were playing with were unloaded, so the friend could “jump out of the way to prove he could move before the trigger was pulled.” After six or so tries, “the final time the gun fired, striking [the victim] in the chest,” the resulting police report notes. So apparently, not as unloaded as they thought. Mann was arrested, charged with second-degree felony manslaughter, and a “felony charge related to firearms.” (KTVX Salt Lake City) ... “Guns are always loaded.” — a rule that’s doubly true when the user is too.
From Jimbo – Shortly after a British Airways flight had reached its cruising altitude, the Captain announced:
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain, welcome to Flight 223, non-stop from London Heathrow to New York. The weather ahead is good, so we should have an uneventful flight. So, sit back, relax... OH... MY GOD!" Silence followed........... complete silence!.......
Some moments later the captain came back on the intercom.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry if I scared you. While I was talking to you, a flight attendant accidentally spilled coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants."
From the back of the plane, an Irish passenger yelled "For the luvva Jaysus, you should see the back of mine!"