Happy New Year! Good Ol' Photo Friday

 It's been a minute.  Fucking 2024. Trump's cult is going to bypass democracy and make him king.  So that's great.  We had to put Rosco down. RIP dickbutt.  Then we got a puppy, I had a really fucked up New Year's Eve but my band played which totally made up for it.  Here's some shit. 

There was an eclipse right after we got home from Italy.  

Halloween was fun.  

Great Men In Black costume guys!  I have no recollection of this happening tho. Something about swamp gas.  

Had a very intimate Friendsgiving ... way too much food. 

Set up the Tama at Benji's new pad.  Function Dungeon 3.0.  We've played together twice since Travis moved.  I miss my band.  :( 

Last pic of Rosco before he went over the Rainbow Bridge.  RIP You were a good pooch.  

Franklin still Franklin.  The pup is annoying the shit out of him tho. 

VOTE FOR APRIL!   Friend is running for Humboldt County Judge. I designed her campaign signs and stuff. 
Running against the incumbent who's a turd. 

Crossing the strait into Martinez for Xmas.  

Then last min we drove to SFO to fly to.... 

Phoenix Arizona!   Saw Jim & Michelle then picked up our new puppy!!  

Funny story.  We reserved a Prius to drive the puppy back to Martinez but they weren't available for one-way so they offered a full size sedan or mid-size SUV.  We figured with the dog crate we could use the extra room of an SUV.  The picture showed a Honda Pilot but when we got to the lot it was Meg's car.  Meg drives a white Jeep Grand Cherokee almost exactly like this one.  We had a laugh. 

World, meet Benson!   This is him on his little bed on my lap right after we got him.  Before he met Bruce and all the cats.  He runs the place now.

Rosie made me a stamp!  I'm official.  @kirkiscool 

Travis got zombied at the NYE party we played at.  

Creepy Ring girl took over my drums.  

I dug out this old cymbal. 22" Medium-thin crash.  It's kind of an odd 70's creation from Zildjian.    I bought it for $50 in 1992 used at a music store that no longer exists.  It's a motherfucker of a cymbal but I cracked it a while back.  If you look close you can see my poor attempt at a repair.  

New Year's eve day I was putting away luggage in the garage and fell off the ladder and landed on my side view mirror.  Busted it clean off. I duct taped it back on so I could drive to the NYE party we were playing.  Later that night backing out of a steep dark driveway after loading my drums I drove straight into part of the gate and smashed my back bumper.  All this happening while hella sick.  

But hey, really faint rainbows.  

I ordered a new mirror and installed it myself.  I also kinda fixed my bumper so it doesnt look like total shit. 

Saw this piece of shit at the gas station.  Sorry 'bout your peen, dude. 

Benny! 

He made himself into a sandwich. 

Oh yea, then we got fucking Covid.  

I saw this and then the car pulled into the hospital.   Proctologist? 

Bruce was fully asleep here.  Eyes WIDE open.  Creepy as fuck. 

Sometimes they get along. 

This dude was just cruising down our street.  

In line at the pharmacy.  This guy needs a prescription for a fucking belt. 

Have no idea what this key is for.  We have keys for all our friend's houses just in case and our friends were locked out so I went to the drawer and this is the only one that I didn't know for sure so I figured it must be theirs.... nope.  Mystery key. 

You park like an asshole.  

New Dipper hat!  I saw it at Disneyland CA Adventure and wanted to get it but didn't... then the last time we went they didn't have it anymore.  My Disneyland guru friend, Becky found it and got it for me for Xmas!   Thanks!!! 

Your Mom Clicks Ads...

I hate how unashamed targeted ads are now. It's like they're just coming out and saying "yea we were totally spying on you when you just did multiple search queries for vinyl stickers. Here's some sponsored posts from a ton of scammy sticker companies. You're welcome" God it's fucking annoying.

A: It's crazy how obvious it is now and B: How utterly useless it is to see ads for the exact thing you just googled and either didn't want or already bought. That's not very intelligent "targeted marketing" I don't LOVE sideview mirror for 2011 Scion xB driver side. I just needed a new one to replace a broken one. I don't need my whole feed flooded with screenshots of the google search I just did. I know they're technically trying to make my ad experience seem less random but fuck off, dude.

Every site I go to is just the same "hey you spent 5 mins looking at search results for Lemon chicken recipes, here's some ads for those same search results for Lemon chicken recipes just in case you didn't complete your search and make a final decision about it" Every place on the internet that has ads is the same thing like that... except Twitter.. or X now. Since Elon Musk has fucked the platform so bad that all the legit advertisers have left. When I'm on there now for the brief moments I am these days I just see the same dildo ad over and over. Literally it's some hi-tech sex toy company. That's all he has left. I hate AI as you probably already know from the several posts I've made about it but in this instance I wonder if it could be used to get a more broad spectrum of my tastes and interests that goes deeper into the personal data that was sold to them without my permission to create advertising that isn't just a repeat of my last handful of Google searches. I have to scroll past constant reminders of things I recently purchased yet I somehow missed that my favorite band just released a new video and announced a new album. I'm sure if these advertising fucks spent more than a nanosecond scouring my digital life they'd know more about me. I think I was actually less angry with ads when they were for random shit instead of a pathetic attempt to market to me specifically. Come on algorithms, you can do better.