[Thanks to UC#3 for today’s rabbit hole.] Howdy – I hope everyone had a good Boxing Day. Our son who just returned from New Zealand gifted me with a wonderful sweater made with 40% possum fur – this has to be worthy of incorporating into the WLBOTT tour – how to they shear the possums […]
Category: Adventures of the Elders
Sally the Intern has always enjoyed twine-themed birthday celebrations. Now get back to work. The Office Party Sally’s 20th Century Ancestors Sally’s 19th Century Ancestors Sally’s 17th Century Ancestors Sally’s 14th Century Ancestors Cake Ideas Party Guests An eclectic group of well-wishers attended Sally the Intern‘s party.
First, a little solsticology…. (not to scale) The Stonehenge Solstice Stonehenge is the place to be for a Solstice party! Solstice Experience for the Elders WLBOTT Father Confessors Celebrate the Solstice WLBOTT Priestess Solstice Celebration
J-Nut
Lives of the Elders – UC#3 Esteemed Elders – I know I have been light on WLLBOT contributions lately with all my travel and jet lag. But I offer you this blast from the past – one of my golf buddies was a IBM JCL and Panvalet nerd. He still uses a flip phone. Esteemed […]
[ed. note: UC#3 and UC#3-SU return from Japan.] Up with jet lag. Cleaned out eggs, cheese, rice, jalapeño and dubious ham from fridge and baked it up. Keeping with my mission to keep food waste from landfills and to test the scientific fact that you won’t get sick from spoiled food cooked above 165F (75C) […]
Here’s a “night in the life of an elder” story: It’s 4 AM and I am up for my two-hourly hobble around the house a few times to work the cramps out of the new knee. As I pass by the stairs that lead to the command centre, I can hear a faint, high-pitched tone. […]
UC#3, the celebrated WLBOTT Poet Laureate, offers his reflections on his good will tour of Japan. In Kyoto- nice crisp weather, leaves in color, 17,000 well behaved Japanese students on field trips, our son [redacted] is tolerating us in a pleasant way. I am inspired to produce a haiku- Golden pagodaLeaves turning dark crimsonTime for […]
With a little help from HotPot.ai
In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]
R5-D4 moves!
[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]