Facebook demonetizes me.

I mention it here.

Patreons decide to quit being Patreons.

... well thanks y'all.

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An explanation of the stupidity that struck today.

Well.

Someone reported me on that other social media platform because of the photo of the 55 Gallon Pancake from the Bucket List Cafe - because "ain't no way that pancake is 55 gallons."

That other social media platform demonetized my account.

Sadly, that was about half my income.

I was never meant to live a small life.

I cannot get my head back into the real world. Just SCA stuff, even though I just went through the most grueling Gulf Wars I've ever encountered.

Just programmed a month's worth of chicken fried steak into the other social.

Because

I mean, IDK, I just really like chicken fried steak.

He's working on a tree in the front yard, unlike his brethren that for years ticked away on the catalpa out back. The maple he chose is tighter, the knock higher pitched, closer to my head when I awake.

His persistence is noteworthy. May mine be so steady.

I have a woodpecker, just doing his thing, happily hammering away at 6:53.

Every.
Single.
Morning.

His clicking away is now my alarm.

My public page on the other social promotes local foodways and restaurants, with tourism both culinary and otherwise thrown in.

Today, I've received numerous insults, a threat by a man who wanted to use his belt on me, and another whose suggestion "my dick would fix you."

Blocked. Tired. Done.

I don't think I'd make a good congressperson. I like hanging out in my own state too much. Enjoy spending time with the people who live here.

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On the other social this morning, people are arguing with me whether visiting local restaurants is politics.

Tell your cat pspsps for me.

You both look SO YOUNG.

Happy birthday, Brad! Thank you both for all you do.

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

LOL. Hunter's finally stuck at 1701 boxes sold in Girl Scout Cookie sales.

Fitting!

Sales end soon - $6 a box delivered anywhere in the U.S.

#girlscoutcookies #startrek

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/hunter...

My give-a-damn must have got up and went.

@seanferrick.bsky.social Happy birthday sweetheart!

I am bothered that a country's elected leaders would choose to take such actions that would drastically affect the weakest, oldest, and youngest of us.

Christ would be flipping tables.

It can get one in serious trouble.

Being flirted with is just such a weird thing. I don't usually catch the clues, but when I do, it's an odd affirmation that hey, this old girl has a little something left in the tank.

... though, frankly, it is weird more flirts come from women as I grow older.

Suggestion is a truly powerful thing.

Troop #6400 will be selling Girl Scout Cookies at the Kroger on McCain 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday and at the Indian Hills Kroger noon-4 p.m. on Sunday. These are the only two cookie booth days for our trio of OG Scouts. Cookies are $6 a box. We're selling ABC Bakery cookies this year.

Fort Smith 1937 phone book ad that reads "La Clare Barbecue. All kinds of sandwiches. K.C. Steaks - Chicken & Frog Leg Dinners. Open 24 Hours. Legal Beverages. Curb Service. 4100 N. 11th. Phone 4737."

It wasn't the only barbecue restaurant listed in the 1937 phone book. Here's one for La Clare Barbecue, which was open 24 hours a day and was located on 11th Street.

Fort Smith phone book listing for Constantino's, reading "Real Italian Spaghetti. Lunches - Sandwiches - Fountain Service. OLD HICKORY BARBECUE. CANDIES. Curb Service - Park and Honk. Established 1897. 407 Garrison... 6785"

I have definitive confirmation that barbecue was served here in 1937 from this phone book listing.

A photo of the menu at Constantino's Italian Restaurant in Fort Smith, circa 1950, showing "bar-be-que" ribs, beef, and pork as the top listing, above Spaghetti. Lower photo shows Constantino's as it looked in 1976, in an image that's part of the University of Arkansas Special Collections.

So this is it. Constantino's Italian Restaurant was in the 400 block of Garrison Avenue in downtown Fort Smith. It opened in 1896 as a general store and eventually transitioned to a restaurant famous for hickory smoked ribs, spaghetti, rye bread, and beans. Menu - 1950s. Photo, 1976, U of A.

I'm having an obsessive compulsive, deep dive morning looking into the history of an Italian restaurant serving barbecue in the 1890s. It's quite the surprise.

I wonder how much people are going to argue with me if I point out the first known barbecue restaurant in Arkansas might have been in Fort Smith... better get four or five sources to make sure I have this right first...

I keep finding references (all post-2000) saying Fayetteville had no barbecue restaurants before B&B BBQ in 1960.

And then digging through Library of Congress listings in old phone books, I find this, Fayetteville 1947. Man, I wonder if there's an extant menu somewhere. M&L Cafe listed until 1953.

I flirt too much for my own good.

Or I'm not really flirting, I'm just really awkward and it comes across in a flirtatious manner. Who's to say?

Yes, you can still order free COVID tests. Good thing to have on-hand.

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USPS has lost eight separate packages I've sent since Christmas. EIGHT.

UPS has lost a case of books. It at least worked with me and got a claim through.

This is so damn frustrating.