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  1. #3385

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    on vehicle for delivery today, all good hollywood, done deal. i think i will enjoy a fine glass of rye whiskey on ice this evening. it's a pleasure doing business with a man of his word.
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  3. #3386

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    Well as long as it took, I hope it was worth the wait. Enjoy and cheers!!!
    "the biggest mistake that traders make is to let these short-term trades turn into longer-term investments when they don’t work." RevShark

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  5. #3387

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    so here is a funny story about interior design...

    i get this chair, it is a really nice lazy boy chair recliner, deep blue, in good shape, great bones. it came from a coworker who was getting rid of it because her kids are now off to college or own their own, she got it from another coworker who didn't want it who got it from her mom when she went into "the home", so this chair has history. it is the most comfortable chair i've ever sat in, as soon as i sunk into it and reclined i wanted to take a nap, it is that good.

    we mostly live with portable stuff, partly because i'm too old to be carrying heavy stuff up and down stairs and this is not my permanent home, and partly because this is how my family has always done it, the no permanent home thing. card table and folding metal chairs for dining, larger folding table for desk, $5 Walmart camp chairs for furniture, we also eat off paper plates because i hate doing dishes. "it's just like camping" is the joke in my family. camping is good.

    anyways, we clear out a spot and vacuum the floor area and the chair, and omg is this thing soft. my kid is in summer classes for extra high school credit and he is doing well, which is good because he's gonna need scholarships or student loan debt to follow his dreams of being a scientist, ever since he saw that mar's movie. so monday through thursday he goes to class and on fridays he is off, and yesterday before leaving for work i ask "so what are your plans today, text me if you leave the apartment". he says "this is all messed up dad, it don't fit, i am going to do some interior design". wtf? well i guess that is better than hanging out at the park and feeling some girl's boobs or smoking behind the 7-11. this is even odder because my degree is in architecture, design and planning. so i just say "knock yourself out kid, what you got?" and i leave for work.

    when i get home everything is moved. elliptical machine is against the far wall, dining card table moved a bit, desk slid down further, bike parked in the corner, but get this... the only thing in the living room area is the tv stand, big screen tv, and "the chair". he is laid out full recline mode with a blanket over him, not 6 feet from the screen in the middle of the room, and he is jamming gears of war, full horizontal recline physical stasis but his mind is running hard, like neo from the matrix before he pops. he made himself a gaming palace, tv stand next to the chair with three hot pocket wrappers and empty coke cans stacked on it, he rollin hot.

    i just shake my head and say "nice work, not how i would've done it, but nice work". at least he's learning something, both in school and out.



    have a good weekend, off to the big city for a ballgame and some school clothes shopping.
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  7. #3388

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    hooo wheee! there is no funner clean thing to do than go to a minor league baseball game in a small city unless you're naked, out here when they announce the singer for the national anthem everybody just stops, everybody. no buying hotdogs, no seeds, no launch-a-balls, no ticket taking, no nothing. everybody stands, removes cover, hand over heart, whoever wherever you are full stop. once in a while you will see a mom or dad reach over and yank the free giveaway beanie hat off their kid's head and elbow them, pay attention. then they roar at the end, full applause and appreciation. it is really cool, give you goose bumps.

    so i learned the chicken dance for that shave ice gal in the spandex shorts and sports bra what shakes it on top of the dugout, but what i really want to learn is how to kick dust like ole. for those of you non-nordic, ole (oh lee) olsen is like johnny johnson for the rest of the world. ole wears bib overalls and guards the official game balls from a rocking chair along the first base line. near the end of the game he dances cotton eye joe, it is something to see, a good ole (old) boot stompin time.

    here is a link about this place and ole: https://baseballbuddhablog.wordpress...-do-the-dance/

    here is a link of ole doing cotton eye joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRW...ature=youtu.be

    good good times.
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  9. #3389

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    before anybody goes and gets all racist... yes, i understand it is an old negro folk song. it matters less where it comes from and more that folks appreciate and perpetuate the art. besides, i just like it, for two very obvious reasons.

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  11. #3390

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    Growing up in South Texas they always played Cotton Eyed Joe followed by the Schottische in the dance halls ...good exercise dancing to those two songs.

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    well i see the strangest thing this morning. not really strange, it happens sometimes, but definitely a major coincidence. i pull into the parking lot at the grocery store and three spots down is this mexigal who lives in my apartments. she is freaking out.

    the pickup one of her boyfriends drives has a flat tire and they can't go anywhere. she is really ticked off. throwing stuff from her clutch on the ground, lipstick smash, compact smash, wallet/checkbook kathunk, dollars flying around in the wind, he freaks out, she is not going to stop. like a movie only really bad because the kids are standing there too.

    she is going to win this fight i can tell, i feel bad for that poor forker, but he should know better than to tangle with a firecracker by now. some princesses are never happy no matter what, and there is nothing you can do. but i didn't say anything, that is a lesson best learned the hard way.
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  15. #3392

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    so this flat tire incident earlier still weighs on my mind. chiquita, if you want the tire changed faster how bout get down on your knees and help? how does berating the tire changing man help? why smash your makeup and stomp your feet? it does not change tires?

    anyways the pickup is back parked in its spot with a new bald tire fully inflated. he must've made it to work somehow because she spent most of the afternoon squealing with another, bf #2 or #3 i'm not sure. ahh, another day on felony flats.
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  17. #3393

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    ok so i have stayed out of the markets for over a year, it was an exercise in discipline. but i worked in the commercial fishing industry for five years, living on boats 90% of the time. let me tell you something every deckhand knows at the core...

    watch out for those rare quiet moments. usually there is things going on and wind or waves or time pulling on you which is good because it keeps things performing, the trade is in chaos and luck for opportunity, that is the familiar element. but once in a while there is slack tide. eerie silence when everything stops and sits still. it scares the bejeebus out of you because you know something is going to break, soon, and hard.

    now i don't know which way it will run, but coil your lines and hike your skirts girls, this ****'s about to get heavy. wheee! yes, red pill, bring it!
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  19. #3394

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    hoo wheee! that's a good ole hillbilly time! spent the afternoon in the pits at the local dirt track, grillin an chillin, an old coworker's husband manages the tire/lube shop in another town and he runs the races. some of those trailers are nicer than the rock star party bus i'm gonna buy when i hit the lotto.

    nobody wears real clothes anymore. it's all compression shorts and sports bras or yoga pants. the pregnant ones wear tank tops. modesty you know.

    so when the races start i sit in the "family" section, the race family. it was cool. it is not really a good idea to put 24 super street stocks on a dirt track for 20 laps, things happen. the smart ones with tight suspension run the inside line on a tight rail, the ones with horse take the outside line and punch it out of the hole. good stuff, spittin dirt.

    when it started to rain half the crowd runs under the grandstand all bunched up like cattle for slaughter, each one checking their phone. the other half just flip up their hoodie, if you don't like the weather on the north plains just wait a few minutes, it will change.

    fireworks were awesome, big thumpers at the end, to that country song "boot in your ass" or whatever it's called. also i have heard enough journey and bon jovi to last a lifetime. wheee!

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  21. #3395

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    Burro...I need to stop reading your posts at work. Most of them make me wish I had a glass of bourbon in hand while I relax and have a chuckle. Since the days of the bottle in the bottom right hand desk drawer are a thing of the past, in most government offices anyway, I can't partake till I get home. Ahhh, that's yet another reason that us federal employees are so unhappy....

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  23. #3396

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    https://www.rt.com/viral/395404-topl...ters-bull-run/

    uh, yeah, "visit pamplona spain" just made my bucket list.

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