Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: Blake & Justin gives me life!
My 2025 is and will be all about Blake and Justin. I am completely invested. I don’t take pleasure in the misfortunes of others but this lawsuit. Wow.
When the story first broke, like everyone else, i had a knee jerk reaction and i thought Justin was all sorts of scum. How things have changed. The shit is slinging faster than you can wipe your ass.
In the end I just want the truth to come out which in today’s climate is a very hard ask.
At the moment i feel like the truth lies more with the Baldoni Camp.
I do believe that Blake is a mean girl. I do believe that Ryan is not really the nice guy he presents to be. Obviously I cannot prove this but I never bought into that Ellen was a nice person and well we know how that ended.
If true, it’s shameful that a B actress uses her power husband and friends to get what she wants.
It’s shameful that Ryan, who I am sure worked hard to get where he is and the power he now has is a bully. Or maybe forced to be. Who knows. However like Ellen I feel he really isn’t a nice person. The worst people are fake nice people.
It’s crazy how many YouTubers are going in hard on Blake. Their animosity towards her is clear. And there are so many. Here are two YouTubers whose videos I do watch regarding this drama. Both love to hate on Blake.. obviously Kjersti Flaa has some history and reason to.
Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: Euro 2024 & Italy’s no show
my emotions are still off the charts and so i have no idea where to start. In all likelihood this post will end up being one totally incoherent rant. Leading up to the tournament there was consistent talk that Italy’s team was not very good. Talk that they would not get out of the group stage. I continued to hold faith that was not the case. Then the tournament started and i ended up realizing that “the truth is out there”.
They crawled out of the group stage. Barely. It did not bother me that much because historically, and many a time, Italy has always struggled and found ways to make their lives difficult during the group stage only to decide to actually play soccer starting in the knockout round. This time around, it was not the case.
This Italian squad showed very little skill. However, what was more bothersome was that they seem to lack passion and desire. They actually looked lost at times on the pitch. They did not have an identity. One of the first things i noticed game one which carried over into all the other games was how little movement they had off the ball. Alot of standing still. A far contrast to the team that one the last Euro. That team was constantly moving and making life difficult for the opposition. This team was so slow to counter & in general that it allowed the opposition to settle in and organize.
The team selection was also criticized. I find it hard to believe there weren’t better players to select from. i mean for the love of jesus… Stephan El Shaarawy, seriously? i thought he retired from the sport years ago?
Spalletti takes responsibility. He has to. He made the selections. I was also very puzzled by his thought process. As mentioned earlier, they barely made it out of the group stage and he decides what better time than to make 6 changes to the starting lineup to start the round of 16. 6 changes!! more than half the lineup. With players that had not seen the pitch in ages. It’s bizarre at best.
of course Italy are reigning champions, but in fairness it is in name only. The team is 85% different from the team that won the last tournament. A shell of what they were in 2020.
There is work to be done and in my humble opinion the first order of business moving forward is to stress and work on the understanding that the ball needs to be passed to a player wearing the same jersey. Baby steps.
Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: foot in mouth?
See what i did there? maybe not yet. will this help? my post will be about Butker, the KC chiefs kicker who is making all kinds of headlines since his speech. It is interesting to see the takes on social media but also the scumbaggery… on both sides.. it fascinates me how quickly it becomes about the left and right.
i am someone who strongly believes that everyone is entitled to their opinions/beliefs. If i having differing opinions to someone else i am perfectly fine with agreeing to disagree. I would never shove my beliefs down someone else’s throat. Having said that, there are some things I will not budge on. ever.
Only those that attended the speech will have the full context. god knows that the internet is a cesspool of misinformation. People twist and turn things to get their narrative out there without regard to truth and accuracy. it’s laughable at the amount of Butker posts on facebook that are garbage either way; for and against. pure garbage. People have no shame.
i may have already written about this in a previous post but who cares; it’s worth repeating. At the risk of sounding like my parents i want to make something clear. Back in the day, growing up there was “truth” and “lies”. None of this nonsense of “your truth”. Speak your truth. What pure nonsense. We live in a time now where evil wins. Truth does not matter. Toxicity thrives. Someone can speak “their truth” consisting of pure lies that are backed up by receipts, and do you know who ends up getting vilified? The person dishing out the receipts. Scary times.
So is Butker speaking the truth or “his truth”? At the end of the day you have to look at who he was addressing his speech to, no? You know that expression “read the room”. In a way, i think he did.
I grew up Catholic. My experience was not great. As is the case with everything you don’t want to lump everyone in the same pile buttttt… I was surrounded by people who professed their devotion to God while being toxic and vitriolic. Shameful how they had the audacity to present themselves in the house of god. Shameful. I don’t know that anything has changed. Most if not all so-called catholics/christians etc are gun totting, vitriolic people who want harm done unto others. That’s ok though, they go to church on Sunday. what a joke.
Whoopi says that Butker should be given the same respect for his beliefs Colin is given. True that. However, should Butker face the same faith? and let’s not make it about talent. For gods sake, i had Butker plenty of times in my Fantasy football league over the years and he did wonders for me. Will i drop him in protest if i land him this season? No. But should he face the same consequences Colin faced for his beliefs? doubt he will.
A small sampling of facebook posts hitting my feed on the daily!!! when will it stop!
Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: what the hell is wrong with #google #keep notes ?
I have come to realize what a half assed application #google #keep is.. my frustration is off the charts. Admittedly i am partly to blame but my god what a mess!!! i have two gmail accounts and i want to mass transfer notes from one account to another. i want to eventually phase out one of these accounts.. Apparently, there is no way to do it. i googled, no less and nada!! how does this feature not exist? the only option is to export using “take out” but then there is no import feature.. Again, HALF ASSED!! what good is this? Anyway, i thought i had this brilliant idea of opening both accounts via the web in two tabs.. multi select all my notes (there are alot) and then “paste” into the second account. I tried numerous times and it was not working or so i thought. It was definitely doing something. it was pasting over and over in my source account!!!! So effectively i quadrupled my notes in the account i want to phase out!!! So what’s the obvious next step? i searched “how to delete duplicate notes from google keep“… drum rolllllllll.. you can’t!!! F*CK YOU GOOGLE!!!
Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: The Kendall Jenner of bodybuilding & OF
With my regular weekend drives down to Ottawa to spend time with my daughter i have found myself getting into podcasts. They make the drive feel like a breeze. In a blink I am in Ottawa. Granted a ~2hr drive is not the end of the world. Anyway, i listened to one podcast during my last drive because Vladislava Galagan was a guest.. I have always had a fascination with bodybuilding, both men and women. It started with Lou Ferrigno… but of course there are others. Many in my circle can’t understand it. Especially when it comes to women bodybuilders.. How can i possibly find that attractive? I do. There is a limit though. There are some that are to the extreme and that does not appeal to me. Again on both men and women. Anyway, Vladislava, let’s face it, adds another dimension to it. They talked about her past, how she got into bodybuilding etc etc. i respect the fact that she does not deny using steroids but at one point, she talked about her OnlyFans and how she used that to make money as she was struggling financially. The host then proceeded to comment “Thank god these platforms exist to allow people to get out of poverty”. i nearly lost control of my car. I mean, her story is her story but i wonder what percentage of content creators on OnlyFans take to it to get out of poverty? Full disclosure because i did zero research but i bet it’s a very low percentage. What a muscle head comment to make.
Sunday morning coffee with a little musing: blogging hasn’t been the same…
Crazy to think how moving on from my beloved #BlackBerry has impacted my desire to blog. In the past I was pretty consistent because firing off a post using my physical keyboard BlackBerry phone was a breeze. The fact i could do it from anywhere was a plus. Back in October of 2023.. as difficult a decision as it was, i realized it was time to move on. In the end, i felt my hand was being forced. My KEY2 was showing it’s age.. the spacebar stopped working on one, and then the keys gave up altogether on my second KEY2. Sure, i could have opted to get the keyboard replaced but i felt i was just fighting a losing battle. And it’s not just that, android 8 was also showing its age. i mean we’re up to android 14 and app developers are starting to abandon and not support lower OSs. it makes sense, right?
i miss the physical keyboard. i miss BlackBerry. I find it sad. I never thought there would be a day without BlackBerry phones. There have been a few attempts by others but let’s face it, imitated but never duplicated. CrackBerryKevin himself put out Clicks recently…a keyboard for the iphone. I commend him but even if they put one out for android phones i will not purchase.. it makes already long phones even longer. it looks odd but you know right now with all the hoopla it seems like there is an interest. At the very least, they’re paying good money to get people to say how much they love the experience! 😜
After some deliberation and not long at that and quite frankly because of timing, i opted to get the #Google #Pixel 8 pro.. i don’t have regrets but i miss the physical keyboard. My early days with it had me feeling like i needed to throw this phone as far as my arm could physically throw it just out of the sheer frustrations of writing on a screen. my god. it was hell. The saving grace was the reminder of how much the phone cost me. Admittedly, i am impressed with voice to text. it’s pretty accurate. The punctuation maybe not so much but that may just be a “me” thing. However, it’s not enough for me to want to try to voice dictate a post. I can only imagine how much post dictation manual corrections would be needed.
Anyway, with the pivot BlackBerry has made i can’t ever see them coming back to phones.. but never say never.. i mean look at TV/Movies, everything is about “remakes”.. so you never know!!
My aversion to #shady behavior
i spent many, many years volunteering at a local soccer club. In the early days it was as a volunteer coach. At one point during this time i was asked if i was interested in taking over the IT/web responsibilities.. i thought, why not?
i continued on in this role even after my now adult children decided to move on from the sport. The web responsibilities also included social media. A few years back it was decided to hand over the social media responsibilities to someone else. i thought i was doing a good job and it did irk me that i was not even given an opportunity to have a say in it. Or an opportunity to show that i can up my game!! I continued on with everything else that was in my “job” description. There are alot of platforms out there that make putting together a website easy peasy… i enjoyed revamping the site over the years, and year by year it became nicer and nicer. Of course, alot has to do with the aforementioned platforms that make life easier for everyone.
Unbeknownst to me, and i don’t know how long ago this was set in motion, in october i got wind that the same character, let’s refer to him as Mr. Ego, that relieved me of my social media responsibility got the ball rolling to move the website responsibility to someone else and also to another platform. The planned unveiling to be November 1st. How did i get wind of this? There has been one person at this club that has always had my back. For that i will always adore her and will always consider her a friend. Anyway if it sounds like i am a little salty about this, i am. The explanation i got, albeit not from the horse’s mouth was weak at best. The fact there was no attempt at any type of heads up, conversation and whatnot says a lot about this person. My feeling is that if i had been given an opportunity to have my say, i would have countered any and all “arguments” he has regarding a need for a change… be it person and also platform. I cannot fault a person that has a vision and planned execution of said vision but there is certainly a way to doing things. This was clearly self-serving.
Interestingly enough when the time came to transfer the domain to the new platform i received a text
Not sure if xyz told you but we are changing to a new website. Need your help to switch the domain over to our new server
Sure, i heard about it on the dark web because you couldn’t be bothered to have some class. Seriously.
Stay Classy
Imagine the audacity??!! Even in today’s world of whipping up websites in a matter of hours, it’s clear from the little tease that was put out on social media that this was in the works for some time. Clearly they scraped all the information needed from the current site and then blindsided me… and now you want help?! Sure, sign me up. NOT.
i provided the information he needed to make the transfer and told him my time is valuable now so … time is money… and i don’t come cheap.
Anyway, i un-followed the club and this guy and his all too familiar looking side hustle website on all the socials. I don’t have time and cannot tolerate shady characters. Nor do i want to be associated with them.
good riddance!
karma is a bitch and eventually it will catch up to you but sadly this world is becoming a shit show and it is the corrupt, shady, cold, egocentric that seem to advance and get what they want.
peace.
Siuuuu….
I went to #italy to lose weight…
How does that even make sense?
I recently started training, once a week, for #hyrox. Given i didn’t want to fall too far behind i figured i needed to maintain some form of regimen while in italy. Running, some gym time, lotsa walking and of course watch what and how much i ate.
Lets see how that went.
Running: 3km..Consistently for 2 weeks every morning. Not bad.
Gym: No go. Week 1 could not find one. Week 2 i actually worked but it was also feragosto week in italy and some enterprises closed for the week. Week 3.. Found a place but it only opened at 4pm and by this week i was too far gone into vacation mode that i did not even bother.
Lotsa walking: Nailed it.
Watch what and how much i ate: resistence was futile.
The verdict: i gained 4lbs
I thought it would have been worse.
I will take the W.
Dr Tony Huge…Dumb Ass
I can’t believe I am allowing myself to get triggered by the internet… but here we are. The fitness industry has become such a shit show. There are so many shitfluencers pushing lies and a lot of impressionable folks falling for these lies. The biggest lie of them all is the narrative that these fit people are natural.
I have always loved fitness.. Specifically body building and it all started with this guy:
Of course, when I first laid eyes on him it was as:
It’s honestly why my favorite hero is
I wish I had this guy’s genetics 😁
I thoroughly enjoyed the recent #Netflix Arnold Schwarzenegger series. So much so it got me all pumped to re-watch Pumping Iron.
Way back then steroids was taboo and not openly discussed as it is today. Love Arnold but at one point while being interviewed in his heyday he said he was 5% steroids and the rest genetics. A lie.
Today everyone under the sun is taking gear.. Far too many youngsters… on top of that they get away with saying they are not on steroids because they’re either on SARMS, TRT, HRT and now even peptides.. Hellllooooo?… all synthetic drugs.
How are so many 20 something’s on doctor prescribed Testosterone Replacement Therapy? How? I, in my 50s, makes sense.. A 20 year old?? Come. On!!! 🤔
The pressures of social media is causing people to take risks all in the name of clicks, likes, pushing lies and making $$$. Here is one of the biggest ‘natural’ con artists…
This brings me to Joesthetics
Jo, at the age of 30 passed away June 30th.. I did not follow him religiously but did watch enough of his videos. His personality was stellar. His enthusiasm was infectious. His motivation got you motivated. If you saw his progression over the years you can certainly see that he is not natural. On top of that, he did not hide the fact he was on gear. At one point even abusing. Quite frankly his physique was such that it looked like he took everything but the kitchen sink.
Enter Dr Tony Huge… on Saturday July 1st while going through YT.. And seeing all these RIP Joesthetics videos.. I, randomly, and now regrettably, chose to listen to this ‘Doctor’.. I don’t know who he is and maybe he is a doctor but he sure comes across as shady.
There is a lot of speculation right now.. From heart attack to blood clot to aneurysm… and of course courtesy of Dr Tony who implies it’s the ‘govt mandated supplement’..aka the jab. I mean Holy fuck… nevermind that Jo did years and years of gear.. And it really doesn’t matter that he toned it down in recent years… none of that matters.. Oh his blood work was clean so of course it has to be the jab!!! That’s dumb assery at its best. Could it not be a combination of all the stuff he was on? And that it finally caught up to him? Don’t f’n make it solely about the jab.
Everyone wants to be the first to report on his passing and some, like this joker, is putting out b.s. just to make some noise. Why don’t we all wait on the report. No?
Rant. Over.
RIP Jo.
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