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📦 National Package Protection Day 2025 📦
Today is National Package Protection Day. There was a lot of shopping from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and all that stuff is turning up on porches. If you live somewhere nice, as I do, that’s great. If you live somewhere with a plague of porch 📦🏴☠️📦 pirates, that probably spells trouble…
🏰 Castle 🏯
A man’s home is his castle. ~Sir Edward Coke
I don’t know about you, but my assumption is that I pretty much want to be left the heck alone.
I like to know when guests are coming because I invited them.
Having stuff delivered is a blessing of the 21st Century.
Expecting that stuff to stay there until I fetch it off the porch is a blessing of living out in the middle of nowhere.
Am I glad that I can live in a high trust neighborhood where I don’t have to worry about my neighbors snatching my stuff and they don’t have to worry about me?
In a word, yes.
Do I plan to move anytime soon?
No.
I’ve been here 25 years already. Unless something changes, I’m staying right here.
It’s beautiful, safe, quiet and affordable.
I like my cozy little castle in the woods.
God willing,it will continue being nice for the foreseeable future.
📦 Protection 💂🏻
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Obviously, you don’t want to tempt fate. I try to grab stuff as soon as it’s delivered.
Mainly because I ordered the stuff and I’d like to crack those cartons open.
It’s like a mini birthday party or Christmas morning on your porch.
But it’s a party for me, not the dratted porch pirates.
Thankfully, I haven’t had to worry about that.
If I did, I would be inspired to engage in some operant conditioning.
I’d want to add an AirTag that would fall out in the thieves’ car so the police could drive straight to them and find a dye-stained crook to arrest.
2025 Ultimate Porch Pirate Prank Compilation 😂💥
😈 Triumph Of Evil 💥
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke
Evil people suck, so don’t vote for Democrats.
Where it comes to porch pirates, they suck too.
If it’s not yours, don’t take it.
If it’s on somebody’s porch, don’t take it.
What kind of selfish asshole sneaks onto someone else’s porch to steal stuff?
Get a better hobby.
Do something productive and you can buy your own stuff.
Get a fuckin’ clue and keep your hands to yourself.
End of sermon.
If you’re wondering about the progress of this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance, I spent the weekend trying to set up episodes for daily distribution.
ChatGPT keeps trying to put the cast on Matt’s right arm.
It’s super annoying because it won’t let me fix it and I wind up having to flip the whole image just to get it on his left arm.
It shouldn’t take so long to generate an image, and it’s been really arduous.
Even so, 💡🎄🌟 Goodness & Lights 🌟🎄💡 is coming along nicely.
I still have to finish writing it, but I’m not as behind the curve as last year.
I’m actually enjoying the holidays this time around.
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for Mitten Trees…