JG Pasterjak

JG Pasterjak

@jpasterjak.bsky.social

Grassroots Motorsports magazine Tech Editor (personal account). Writer, racer, comic, bird pop.

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Paying some bills on my mom’s Bank of America account and as soon as I log in I get a giant popup that says SIGN UP FOR BOFA REWARDS and there’s no way I’m falling for that one Bank of America. Nice try.

Okay, soccer is over everyone. Now we can get back to the white-knuckle, edge-of-your seat thrill ride of only 80 more games of baseball followed by a two month playoff season.

II am, at most, a very casual soccer and basketball fan, but both feature one of my favorite moves in all of sports: As you're falling out of bounds with the ball you simply wail it off the head of an opposing player so it ricochets out of bounds and you get the ball back.

The edges of the goals should be on little tracks so after a 0-0 tie at the half they spend the entire second half slowly getting wider until they span the entire width of the field by the end of the game. Alternately, second ball.

Just remembered I have some Ore Ida crinkle cuts in the freezer. I should toss a small handful in the air fryer then eat them with mayo to show respect to our new conquerers.

Fascinating to see people acting shocked to discover Graham Platner is problematic when they really should have figured that out abut three seconds after the first time he took his shirt off.

Football* question: I get that the refs add time after each period to make up for play time lost during prior stoppages of action, but is one or more of the officials actually timing the stoppages? Or is the amount of added time more of just a vibes thing? (*soccer)

Any eggsperts out there? Found two small eggs—roughly 2.4cm—near our pond in some underbrush. Tic tac shaped. No real nest, but well hidden. Pond has lots of turtles (including cooters, box turtles and chicken turtles). Also have black racers active in this part of the yard. Turtle? Snake? Other?

This morning I was --><-- this close to convincing my wife that the members of Blood, Sweat and Tears were named Gary Blood, Jim Sweat and Hezekiah Tears and this is why we've been married for 30 years.

If you ever think your job is miserable, remember that right now, in June, entire film crews are trudging through the swamps of South Carolina in 100º+ heat shooting actors dressed in full winter garb trying to pretend they're in love for this year's crop of Hallmark holiday movies.

How long until RFK jr starts drinking the reflecting pool? Just kneels down beside it shirtless in jeans and starts slurping that green shit up. I say Tuesday at the outside latest.

Could the Ring girl have come out of a flat screen TV? Like, did she need the full depth of a CRT enclosure, or was the screen just a portal from whatever hell dimension she was trapped in?

When we have ducklings, usually we're like "Nature must be allowed to take its course, even if that means we lose some." until this momma lost 60% of her hatchlings to predators on day 1. So we built them a fortified compound, with a pool and probably a home theater soon. #muscovy #duck #duckling

Heard some rustling up high in the shop so I got the ladder and investigated and on top of a beam behind a wall one of our girls is building a nest for this pickleball she found. #muscovy #duck

As a Floridian, I should point out that state law allows that if you find someone passed out drunk anywhere in Florida, you can drop them off at any Waffle House, no questions asked, and the employees will periodically roll them so they don't choke and give them a piece of toast when they wake up.

So far the Artemis II mission has experienced a clogged toilet and issues with Microsoft Outlook. If the astronauts suddenly start arguing over what the fastest way to the moon is this will officially be the most relatable space mission ever.

I have a neighbor who has two dump trucks. Every afternoon he gets home driving one of his dump trucks. We've chatted, but I've never asked what he actually does and in my head I like to think he's a normal dude who really likes dump trucks and commutes to his office job every day in a dump truck.

I don’t need the drive-thru attendant at Taco Bell to tell me to “have a blessed day“. My man, we are at Taco Bell. You and I both know God holds no sway here.