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Post by oh oooh on Aug 13, 2020 18:20:54 GMT
I am sincerely beginning to wonder if there are any women on Instagram that own any clothing besides bikinis, negligees, and slinky short cocktail dresses. You FILTHY HOUND! I never see any such thing
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 13, 2020 21:10:13 GMT
I am sincerely beginning to wonder if there are any women on Instagram that own any clothing besides bikinis, negligees, and slinky short cocktail dresses. You FILTHY HOUND! I never see any such thing
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 14, 2020 9:55:40 GMT
Good to hear. Is she treating you? Glencoe my arse. Get yerself to Berlin! Nah but we booked it yesterday. The lass mentioned getting away for Xmas because we might not be able to have a proper family Xmas and the first place I mentioned......"Berlin, darling?" I quite fancy a Bavarian Xmas.....pork n castles. We'll see.
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 14, 2020 10:16:52 GMT
All Central European cities look beautiful in winter - Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade.
Mind, I visited Paris just before Xmas for several years and it was wonderful too.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 14, 2020 16:20:48 GMT
Good to hear. Is she treating you? Glencoe my arse. Get yerself to Berlin! Nah but we booked it yesterday. The lass mentioned getting away for Xmas because we might not be able to have a proper family Xmas and the first place I mentioned......"Berlin, darling?" I quite fancy a Bavarian Xmas.....pork n castles. Isn't that a discarded Scorpions' album title.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 15, 2020 16:17:24 GMT
It was 97 where I live yesterday and the heat wave is supposed to continue for at least a week. There's high pressure and the tropical storm came up from Baja and is sitting off the coast, making it very humid. It's also not cooling off at night with the usual sea breezes.
People normally don't have air conditioning in the SF Bay Area outside the valleys. I have air conditioning, but it sucks. It was 80 degrees in my place at 8:30 am this morning.
I hope the power doesn't go out with my little A/C unit and fans I have going.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 15, 2020 16:58:42 GMT
I have air conditioning, but it sucks. There's probably a way to reverse the direction of the fans so it blows.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 16, 2020 17:57:26 GMT
Lately I've tended to stay up 'til at least 3am. I wouldn't ordinarily say that was a good thing, but last night it was.
There was a torrential rain storm - we've had a lot of them lately - and a little before 3 I heard a loud THUMP which I took to be just a tree branch hitting the roof. A while later, just as I had decided it was time to go downstairs and go to bed, I heard the unmistakable sound of rain falling INSIDE the house. I followed the sound to a room I seldom go in, and there was a crack in the ceiling with rain dripping down; it was coming down even harder in a nearby closet doorway where I could see no obvious source. It was also pooling a little in the doorway of the room across the hall, but the walls and molding around it were completely dry. I have no experience with this sort of thing but I assume that the water was pooling in the attic and then seeping down through the walls.
I put plastic trash containers under the drip areas, mopped up as much of the water there as I could, and put a towel down in the across-the-hall doorway (which sufficed surprisingly well!). Then I stayed up all night in case the situation got dramatically worse. It didn't.
By 9 AM or so the rain abated and the sun came out (briefly) and I went outside to see what I could see. There was a giant tree branch sticking OUT of the roof - it had somehow impaled it.
I wasn't able to find a human being at my insurance company to talk to me on a Sunday, so I filed a claim online and then, luckily, found a local roofer willing to come out on a rainy Sunday (it was raining again, though not as hard), extricate the giant tree branch, and put a temporary tarp over the hole. $300 well spent.
Now I've had my lunch and my daily meds and I'm going to bed, dammit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2020 20:33:29 GMT
What a pain in the arse, Charlie - hope things get sealed and sorted without too much delay or difficulty.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2020 21:13:56 GMT
WWE is parodying Antifa, i guess they made it.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 17, 2020 1:33:14 GMT
Lately I've tended to stay up 'til at least 3am. I wouldn't ordinarily say that was a good thing, but last night it was. There was a torrential rain storm - we've had a lot of them lately - and a little before 3 I heard a loud THUMP which I took to be just a tree branch hitting the roof. A while later, just as I had decided it was time to go downstairs and go to bed, I heard the unmistakable sound of rain falling INSIDE the house. I followed the sound to a room I seldom go in, and there was a crack in the roof with rain dripping down; it was coming down even harder in a nearby closet doorway where I could see no obvious source. It was also pooling a little in the doorway of the room across the hall, but the walls and molding around it were completely dry. I have no experience with this sort of thing but I assume that the water was pooling in the attic and then seeping down through the walls. I put plastic trash containers under the drip areas, mopped up as much of the water there as I could, and put a towel down in the across-the-hall doorway (which sufficed surprisingly well!). Then I stayed up all night in case the situation got dramatically worse. It didn't. By 9 AM or so the rain abated and the sun came out (briefly) and I went outside to see what I could see. There was a giant tree branch sticking OUT of the roof - it had somehow impaled it. I wasn't able to find a human being at my insurance company to talk to me on a Sunday, so I filed a claim online and then, luckily, found a local roofer willing to come out on a rainy Sunday (it was raining again, though not as hard), extricate the giant tree branch, and put a temporary tarp over the hole. $300 well spent. Now I've had my lunch and my daily meds and I'm going to bed, dammit. Ugh, what a drag Charlie. I hate roofs.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 17, 2020 14:28:50 GMT
A year ago, my son was interested in the stock market so I put $1,000 in etrade, but he never did anything with it.
Right as the pandemic was hitting, I decided to buy some shares in companies. I bought Adobe Software, which creates graphic and graphic design software, Ford, because I thought mass transit would get hit in pandemic, and a Canadian cannabis company, because I thought people would be smoking and drinking more. I've doubled my investment in six months.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 20:34:29 GMT
The magic beat the bucks in game one. Nobody expected that.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 19, 2020 13:28:20 GMT
I up at 2 or 3 am to go to the bathroom and the smell of smoke was so bad I thought there must be a fire nearby. It's getting light now and I can barely see the East Bay hills one or two miles away. Seems there are wildfires to the north, east, south and west, in the larger Bay Area - 5 or 6, total. Hardly any of them contained. The one in the Santa Cruz mtns seems particularly bad. Very hard to get to and extremely wooded. I feel sorry for the firefighters - it's going to be hot again today, in the 100s in the Napa Valley, where two or three of the fires are. One's already burned 5,000+ acres.
We've had lightning the past three days, which never happens here, or very infrequently. A tropical storm came up from Baja California and caused it. This is now the third Summer in a row with major wildfires. New way of life.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 17:22:20 GMT
Is there more unwritten baseball rules that written rules?
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