Tell us more about your progress. It takes awhile to recover. My son’s been through one with arthroscopy, and I’ve done design work for cervical and thoracic laminectomies in the past (like knee and hip replacements, they’re just a form of carpentry). It’s amazing what can be done, but the nerves in the back are really sensitive.
This was my 3rd back surgery, and they were all for different purposes. This latest was to remove a cyst on my spine that was compromising my nerves down my right side and causing unbelievably horrible pain. I spent a good part of the last few months since May in bed. Now, I’m looking forward to getting back to normal!!
(By the way, I had a left knee replacement in ’08! )
Hey, is that a self-portrait? I had no idea you were so cute. Now I just want to scratch your muzzle for about five minutes.
Seriously, back surgery?! My sister had back surgery (lower back) several years ago, and came through it with flying colors. She is even back (no pun intended) to playing golf. Wishing you all the best as you recuperate and recover. Do everything the PT’s tell you to do. They know stuff.
Hope my recuperation goes the same route as your sister’s! So far, so good! They said week 3 is usually the turning point, and it is! The first 2 weeks were miserable…
That little guy is quite the cutie pie, isn’t he? (I’m nowhere near as cute…)
Well, Steve, I’m not sure I’ll be skipping through the flowery hills anytime soon, but you never know. I DO feel a hundred times better than I did all summer! Thanks for the card!
(Whoever put that together? What a great job!! heehee)
The lighting is very suspicious. All of the shadows are washed out. Matching lighting is the toughest part of merging pictures from different sources (as you know, Susan).
When the site is back up and running, it would be a good idea to change your password for the site, though I’m thinking that they may force a password change on first login. Additionally, if you use a common password for what you would consider ‘noncritical security sites’, then it might be an idea to change the password on the other sites you use it on as well. Just my tuppence worth.
I have read a zillion opinions and conjectures on a bunch of sites…
and I freely admit than I’m an outlier on this issue and may be proved wrong.
But I still think GoComics may have merely shut down for an update, one that’s presumably taking longer than they expected.
…
Everybody is saying “But they would have posted a message”… or would have sent subscribers an email, or would have this that and the other…
I’ve been using the site for 11 years, and have seen numerous changes, updates and overhauls, ALL with shutdowns to the site and/or to individual strips… sometimes for days, and Ballard Street in 2019 for six months!
And NEVER a word from them about what they will do, are doing, or did, except in 2017 when they announced a “new” site, with a few major changes.
…
Nested replies, banning certain prolific posters… anybody remember having to log in with Captcha? Comment length limits? (Both revoked.)
All those and many more changes involved the site going offline with no explanations before or after.
No apologies ever.
The forums afterward were full of gripes and wailing, with zero replies from GoComics minions.
…
Because last week they had circulated a very lame survey, and uncharacteristically announced that they wanted to make the site better,
I’m very suspicious of any claims or excuses they may make now involving outside forces…
be it hacking, security issues, a DoS attack, or anything else.
I suspect there will be some differences on the site, and making the changes will be the real reason it was down…
…
Of course, if the look and function of the site are the same-old same-old, I’m wrong.
It doesn’t really matter.
I’m not looking for a prize, just offering my conjecture… I just hope it comes back!
I think it was an attack. I went to Washington Post comics, all of their Universal comics are missing. The other syndicate comics are all there. I suspect that their database was attacked and they couldn’t even get content to newspapers.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
A personal story about Alice’s Restaurant. When I was a teen, my father and I did not get along very well. We were driving to some event when the song came on. He was enjoying it as much as I, and when we got to our destination we sat in the parked car listening. Then when Arlo started talking about the draft, the temperature got much colder. He shut off the car and we walked off in silence.
My father blamed ME, as the oldest, when my siblings likewise took a step into the counterculture, even though I was a college student, and no longer lived at home or saw them much.
My brother had expressed a desire, as a young teen, to go to the Air Force Academy, something he later told me he said in order to keep Dad happy, and off his case.
…
But then Dad spent a year in Viet Nam, and afterwards, my parents had to move back East, leaving my brother with a friend’s parents to finish his last year of high school, or, they were told, he’d have to repeat the semester.
By the time he got a draft notice, he had shoulder length hair and no intention of going…
According to his telling, at the draft board, he had removed his clothes for the physical and “accidentally” left them in the changing room, pretended to get lost, and walked around the building naked, asking various secretaries where to go.
Somehow he got rejected for the draft… my father, not knowing the details, consoled him…
but later, having moved back to California, was furious with ME, though I had nothing to do with it, except for my presumed “bad influence.”
Without it, of course, my brother would have become an officer. Right.
….
My father and I later made up… but the late 60’s were touch and go for a lot of kids and parents, with the Viet Nam war as a trigger.
Not very many song writers penned hits for Arlo Guthrie, David Allan Coe (You Never Even Called Me By My Name), Jimmy Buffet (Banana Republics) and the Chicago Cubs (Go Cubs Go!). He left us too soon. Too soon.
OH! I haven’t been getting very much into the spirit…
but now I realise it really is time for Thanksgiving, seeing “Alice’s Canine Cuisine Restaurant”… a basset Thanksgiving classic!
…
A funny, well-known and oft-told bit of countercultural doggy history, as howled (with a bit of barking) by Arflo Barkie…
And nowadays, a well-remembered film … starring some of the actual heroes and/or perpetrators, according to your own viewpoint.
,,,
The music is, for me, only prevented from being an earworm by its extreme length….
Luckily, the upside of having heard it so many times is that different parts come to mind when I think of it, rather than a few lines on repeat.
..
Adding to the trivia … Alice Bark, the real owner of the restaurant portrayed, refused to play herself in the film, so she was played by actress Patty Cutey.
She did appear, however, in several bit parts unrelated to the portrayal of “herself”.
She afterward claimed to be misrepresented and insulted by the “Alice Bark” character in the film, and refused to help publicize or promote the movie.
In later years, though, she decided the fame must not be so bad, along with the tourist dollars that accompany it, and renamed her third restaurant “Alice’s.”
…
Arflo, meanwhile, while always working on projects to help the less privileged, has changed his political views a few times…
first a liberal Doggocrat, becoming a Repuplican for a while, swinging back, and now claiming to belong to neither party.
He has supported candidates as disparate as Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders.
….
Real-life Police Chief Billy Oh-Boy, the real-life judge Jimmy Pawson both also disputed certain bits of the tail…
but they were in the film, and helped promote it.
Some parts were stretched to the point of almost total fiction, like most of the draft board scene, and all the scenes with the motorcycle riding druggie, whose fictional affair with Alice in the film was one of her sore points.
…
Whatever… it may not be actual biography…
and Arlo may profess bafflement today at being seen as a guiding spirit of the counterculture…
but the song and the movie will always stand on their own.
Yes indeed – I was just about to post the QotD on “Daddy’s Home” and the link to “Cleo and Company” on “Ballard Street” from ten years ago.
Read them right before 9 AM CEST, wanted to comment – and gocomics was down.
I can’t even imagine how that felt! Although, I did fall out of a tree I was climbing just like that when I was a youngster ~ fell on the grass and no damage done.
Dang. Phooey. You must be getting, or soon to get, physical and maybe occupational therapy . Talk to them about balance. They can give you exercises and drills to do to help with these things.
re: trapeze-in-the-hallway picture: not sure which picture that was. But I can attest to the pain I had all summer. No fun at all. Thanks for your good wishes, ML!!
Now, I will return them to YOU! Please, please….I hope there will be no more falls in your future…..no more pain and anguish!!!! Please stay well and take good care. Gosh, the older we get, the tougher it is….
There have been two more since. One to say the site had crashed because too many of us were trying to log on at once (I can believe that) and now “500 Internal Server Error you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application’s log file an/or the web server’s log file to find out what went wrong.”
500 Internal Server Error
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.
He still lives in Massachusetts
He sure does!
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The Group W Bench – there is one in every courthouse in small town America.
(@StillTheBelle – is there a courthouse in Belchertown?)
https://www.gazettenet.com/getattachment/73b4b4b6-0fd2-4097-9e25-96a167223ace/belprobatecourt-hg-100921-ph01
The Group W bench is in the basement
Indeed, yes. See the link Alexikakos posted.
OMG I didn’t know you were having back surgery! I hope you are on the mend and eventually feel better than pre-surgery.
Nighthawks did a pretty good job. But we are glad to have you back.
Thanks so much, Dennis!! Slowly improving…..
Tell us more about your progress. It takes awhile to recover. My son’s been through one with arthroscopy, and I’ve done design work for cervical and thoracic laminectomies in the past (like knee and hip replacements, they’re just a form of carpentry). It’s amazing what can be done, but the nerves in the back are really sensitive.
Knee and hip replacements are carpentry?
Wow…
Does that mean you nailed it?
Boo! 😀
,,,,
This was my 3rd back surgery, and they were all for different purposes. This latest was to remove a cyst on my spine that was compromising my nerves down my right side and causing unbelievably horrible pain. I spent a good part of the last few months since May in bed. Now, I’m looking forward to getting back to normal!!
(By the way, I had a left knee replacement in ’08! )
You’re back! That’s great!
May your back get better as fast as possible.
In other words: Take it slow…
Thanks, Tigressy!!! And……love that Beatles song!
I hope this post means you’re feeling much better!
Not 100% yet, but headed in that direction, so far!
Hey, is that a self-portrait? I had no idea you were so cute. Now I just want to scratch your muzzle for about five minutes.
Seriously, back surgery?! My sister had back surgery (lower back) several years ago, and came through it with flying colors. She is even back (no pun intended) to playing golf. Wishing you all the best as you recuperate and recover. Do everything the PT’s tell you to do. They know stuff.
Hope my recuperation goes the same route as your sister’s! So far, so good! They said week 3 is usually the turning point, and it is! The first 2 weeks were miserable…
That little guy is quite the cutie pie, isn’t he? (I’m nowhere near as cute…)
Wishing you a speedy recovery. I hope you’re feeling better than new. Glad you’re back ♥
Thanks, P51Strega!!! It’s good to be able to sit at the computer for longer than 5 minutes for one thing! And, it IS good to be back!
Feel better!
Yes, ma’am…trying to!!!
Love that GIF!! Thanks for your good wishes, Saucy 1121!!
Well, Steve, I’m not sure I’ll be skipping through the flowery hills anytime soon, but you never know. I DO feel a hundred times better than I did all summer! Thanks for the card!
(Whoever put that together? What a great job!! heehee)
I was alllllmost gonna buy it… till I got to the baby’s head.
The lighting is very suspicious. All of the shadows are washed out. Matching lighting is the toughest part of merging pictures from different sources (as you know, Susan).
ditto. but cute.
How about the baby’s fingers?
AI-generated?
No clue. I just came across it and loved its cuteness…..
About gocomics:
What Happened to the GoComics Website? It Appears to Be Down (distractify.com)
Press Control + Click and follow instructions that appear.
Thanks.
I got about the same thing from a different news site.
I’m thinking maybe they got hit with ransomware and tried paying it off through FTX. {^¿^}
I had to look up FTX; you may be closer to the truth than you know. 😎 😎
LINK TO THE “GLOBE AND MAIL” ARTICLE ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF FTX
When the site is back up and running, it would be a good idea to change your password for the site, though I’m thinking that they may force a password change on first login. Additionally, if you use a common password for what you would consider ‘noncritical security sites’, then it might be an idea to change the password on the other sites you use it on as well. Just my tuppence worth.
I have read a zillion opinions and conjectures on a bunch of sites…
and I freely admit than I’m an outlier on this issue and may be proved wrong.
But I still think GoComics may have merely shut down for an update, one that’s presumably taking longer than they expected.
…
Everybody is saying “But they would have posted a message”… or would have sent subscribers an email, or would have this that and the other…
I’ve been using the site for 11 years, and have seen numerous changes, updates and overhauls, ALL with shutdowns to the site and/or to individual strips… sometimes for days, and Ballard Street in 2019 for six months!
And NEVER a word from them about what they will do, are doing, or did, except in 2017 when they announced a “new” site, with a few major changes.
…
Nested replies, banning certain prolific posters… anybody remember having to log in with Captcha? Comment length limits? (Both revoked.)
All those and many more changes involved the site going offline with no explanations before or after.
No apologies ever.
The forums afterward were full of gripes and wailing, with zero replies from GoComics minions.
…
Because last week they had circulated a very lame survey, and uncharacteristically announced that they wanted to make the site better,
I’m very suspicious of any claims or excuses they may make now involving outside forces…
be it hacking, security issues, a DoS attack, or anything else.
I suspect there will be some differences on the site, and making the changes will be the real reason it was down…
…
Of course, if the look and function of the site are the same-old same-old, I’m wrong.
It doesn’t really matter.
I’m not looking for a prize, just offering my conjecture… I just hope it comes back!
Wit all the patches and “improvements” over the years the whole thing might have crashed with a new “update”.
I think it was an attack. I went to Washington Post comics, all of their Universal comics are missing. The other syndicate comics are all there. I suspect that their database was attacked and they couldn’t even get content to newspapers.
GoComics is back up. Might not be able to log in just yet, but you can see the strips.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
A personal story about Alice’s Restaurant. When I was a teen, my father and I did not get along very well. We were driving to some event when the song came on. He was enjoying it as much as I, and when we got to our destination we sat in the parked car listening. Then when Arlo started talking about the draft, the temperature got much colder. He shut off the car and we walked off in silence.
My father blamed ME, as the oldest, when my siblings likewise took a step into the counterculture, even though I was a college student, and no longer lived at home or saw them much.
My brother had expressed a desire, as a young teen, to go to the Air Force Academy, something he later told me he said in order to keep Dad happy, and off his case.
…
But then Dad spent a year in Viet Nam, and afterwards, my parents had to move back East, leaving my brother with a friend’s parents to finish his last year of high school, or, they were told, he’d have to repeat the semester.
By the time he got a draft notice, he had shoulder length hair and no intention of going…
According to his telling, at the draft board, he had removed his clothes for the physical and “accidentally” left them in the changing room, pretended to get lost, and walked around the building naked, asking various secretaries where to go.
Somehow he got rejected for the draft… my father, not knowing the details, consoled him…
but later, having moved back to California, was furious with ME, though I had nothing to do with it, except for my presumed “bad influence.”
Without it, of course, my brother would have become an officer. Right.
….
My father and I later made up… but the late 60’s were touch and go for a lot of kids and parents, with the Viet Nam war as a trigger.
Susan, I have seen your spelling of Viet Nam before, but only rarely.
My curiosity got piqued (picture link).
I’m confused. Where’s the different spelling?
I spelled it as 2 words instead of one.
Huh! I’ve always spelled it that way. No wonder I didn’t see the difference!
Thanks.
Stel, thanks for the replay of this Thanksgiving classic.
My pleasure. It sure is a favorite of mine, as well!
So glad that Arlo leads “City of New Orleans” with proper credit Steve Goodman. God I miss him.
Not very many song writers penned hits for Arlo Guthrie, David Allan Coe (You Never Even Called Me By My Name), Jimmy Buffet (Banana Republics) and the Chicago Cubs (Go Cubs Go!). He left us too soon. Too soon.
From yesterday.
Here are the foods that have their month-long “celebrations” in November.
Banana Pudding Lovers Month Fun with Fondue Month Georgia Pecan Month
Greens and Plantains Month Peanut Butter Lover’s Month Pepper Month
Plum Month Pomegranate Month Raisin Bread Month
Rice Awareness Month Roasting Month Spinach Month
Squash Month Stuffing Month Sweet Potato Awareness Month
And let’s not forget the week and individual day designations within November.
From today:
And since its month was mentioned above….
MontanaLady ~ is this what’s for dinner tonight??
Wow! That’s a lot of food we’re called upon to honor! Hope I can keep up!!
Thanks for your good wishes, Alexi! Hope it goes that fast!
OH! I haven’t been getting very much into the spirit…
but now I realise it really is time for Thanksgiving, seeing “Alice’s Canine Cuisine Restaurant”… a basset Thanksgiving classic!
…
A funny, well-known and oft-told bit of countercultural doggy history, as howled (with a bit of barking) by Arflo Barkie…
And nowadays, a well-remembered film … starring some of the actual heroes and/or perpetrators, according to your own viewpoint.
,,,
The music is, for me, only prevented from being an earworm by its extreme length….
Luckily, the upside of having heard it so many times is that different parts come to mind when I think of it, rather than a few lines on repeat.
..
Adding to the trivia … Alice Bark, the real owner of the restaurant portrayed, refused to play herself in the film, so she was played by actress Patty Cutey.
She did appear, however, in several bit parts unrelated to the portrayal of “herself”.
She afterward claimed to be misrepresented and insulted by the “Alice Bark” character in the film, and refused to help publicize or promote the movie.
In later years, though, she decided the fame must not be so bad, along with the tourist dollars that accompany it, and renamed her third restaurant “Alice’s.”
…
Arflo, meanwhile, while always working on projects to help the less privileged, has changed his political views a few times…
first a liberal Doggocrat, becoming a Repuplican for a while, swinging back, and now claiming to belong to neither party.
He has supported candidates as disparate as Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders.
….
Real-life Police Chief Billy Oh-Boy, the real-life judge Jimmy Pawson both also disputed certain bits of the tail…
but they were in the film, and helped promote it.
Some parts were stretched to the point of almost total fiction, like most of the draft board scene, and all the scenes with the motorcycle riding druggie, whose fictional affair with Alice in the film was one of her sore points.
…
Whatever… it may not be actual biography…
and Arlo may profess bafflement today at being seen as a guiding spirit of the counterculture…
but the song and the movie will always stand on their own.
Before I forget…
For StelBel….
I kinda like this one:
Thanks! Always a favorite!
Thank you! (Coulda done without all the pictures of snow, though! LOL)
Great write-up, Susan! You always add more facts than I knew previously which certainly makes it more enjoyable!
As of this posting GoComics has been down for 72 hours and 37 minutes LINK TO Tigressy’s ANSWER TO HAPPY ON THE 19TH. —
Tigressy, you must have been on the site when it went down.
Yes indeed – I was just about to post the QotD on “Daddy’s Home” and the link to “Cleo and Company” on “Ballard Street” from ten years ago.
Read them right before 9 AM CEST, wanted to comment – and gocomics was down.
GoComics is back up. Might not be able to log in just yet, but you can see the strips.
Same here.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
cranberry relish
Another take on cranberry as an enhancement.
Yes!
my wishes go out to you, Stel! now i understand the picture last week of the girl doing the trapeze-in-the-hallway act. that must’ve hurt a BUNCH!
I can’t even imagine how that felt! Although, I did fall out of a tree I was climbing just like that when I was a youngster ~ fell on the grass and no damage done.
i fell again on Friday! pain and anguish!!!
Get well soon!
Oy. Not a promising development. Is it balance issues? Booby-traps laid out for you by gremlins? Blackouts/seizures? Newly waxed floors?
Balance issues. the pain med they gave me was the culprit this time. :((
Dang. Phooey. You must be getting, or soon to get, physical and maybe occupational therapy . Talk to them about balance. They can give you exercises and drills to do to help with these things.
STOP THAT!!! I hope you feel better soon. And be careful!
i now walk around with a gait belt. :((
Fingers crossed you’ll do OK!!
Stop that!
Sigh….
And get better fast!
re: trapeze-in-the-hallway picture: not sure which picture that was. But I can attest to the pain I had all summer. No fun at all. Thanks for your good wishes, ML!!
Now, I will return them to YOU! Please, please….I hope there will be no more falls in your future…..no more pain and anguish!!!! Please stay well and take good care. Gosh, the older we get, the tougher it is….
New message on gocomics.com:
We are updating the site for you and will be back shortly. In the meantime, how about playing a game on our sister site.http://images.gocomics.com/images/gocomics/maintenance/btn-pz-promo.jpg
There have been two more since. One to say the site had crashed because too many of us were trying to log on at once (I can believe that) and now “500 Internal Server Error you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application’s log file an/or the web server’s log file to find out what went wrong.”
I’ve seen them – as did others.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
Yet another new message from GC (at least they’re changing now)
We’re sorry, but something went wrong.
The issue has been logged for investigation. Please try again later.
Got a new one.
Yep. Just got that one, too. Had cataract surgery on my right eye today so nothing to do except keep trying to read my comics.
Clear the browser cache. If that doesn’t work, clear the DNS cache. I did both prior to checking if it was up; so, I don’t know which was effective.
IT’S BACK!!!!!!!
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