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danmdevries Offline
#251 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:09 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Another 50 hour week with limited sleep. This is Danm's world- he can have it.

In uplifting news, Brighton is knocking the stuffing out of the north London chickens.


It's no fun, that's for sure.

I'm 5 days/65hrs in and getting about 4 hours sleep a day. Got three more days scheduled but it'll probably end up being 5 more...
frankj1 Offline
#252 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:33 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
It's no fun, that's for sure.

I'm 5 days/65hrs in and getting about 4 hours sleep a day. Got three more days scheduled but it'll probably end up being 5 more...

this is one of the rare cases in which you hope to end up with shingles.
MACS Offline
#253 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:37 AM EST
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^Said nobody... ever.

Never had it but, from what I understand, it's very painful. I'll hope I don't get it, thankyaverramuch.
frankj1 Offline
#254 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:40 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
^Said nobody... ever.

Never had it but, from what I understand, it's very painful. I'll hope I don't get it, thankyaverramuch.

it was a joke about his new roof!
all the overtime $$$ and ...

never mind.
Ram27 Offline
#255 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:43 AM EST
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Hello hello all.ram27bat

Enjoy the weekend gang. Beer

Had minor bout with shingles years ago........YIKE. You don't want them.



Frying pan d'oh! Frying pan
Ram27 Offline
#256 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:45 AM EST
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Frank the "Joker ". Well played.
MACS Offline
#257 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:53 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
it was a joke about his new roof!
all the overtime $$$ and ...

never mind.


d'oh!

Went right over my head... Laugh
fishinguitarman Offline
#258 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 10:07 AM EST
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500?
victor809 Offline
#259 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 11:07 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Shana is an SSG agent. Mr. Jones needed to be silenced.


That makes more sense than it should....
RMAN4443 Offline
#260 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 11:10 AM EST
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I had a pretty good bout of Shingles.....very painful and uncomfortable....you don't want Shingles...d'oh!
DrafterX Offline
#261 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 11:31 AM EST
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Cool Dudes....
Ram27 Offline
#262 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 11:38 AM EST
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X.....Herfing
deadeyedick Offline
#263 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 11:58 AM EST
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victor809 wrote:
Hang on... Jones actually did get banhammered? Huh.... what did he do this time?


Damn! And just when I had saved up enough popsicle sticks to send away for the secret decoder ring.Think
dkeage Offline
#264 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:09 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Damn! And just when I had saved up enough popsicle sticks to send away for the secret decoder ring.Think


Drink. More. Ovaltine...
RMAN4443 Offline
#265 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:16 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
Drink. More. Ovaltine...

LOL
rfenst Offline
#266 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:18 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
I had a pretty good bout of Shingles.....very painful and uncomfortable....you don't want Shingles...d'oh!

Did weed help in any way?
Sunoverbeach Offline
#267 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:19 PM EST
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Holy Xmas! Wandered through the B&M near the kid's campus and say a Gurkha Beauty in a frosted glass tube for the low low price of $30/ea. Managed to restrain myself
RMAN4443 Offline
#268 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:35 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Did weed help in any way?

not really, it was a pretty constant painful "itch"(itch is not correct, it was more like getting stung by bees)...
Everywhere the rash showed up it felt like bee stings, and the rash was all over my back and chest....and add to the fact that nothing could come into contact or it really set off the pain....and I mean NOTHING, a shirt or sitting so my back touched anything was impossible...took a few weeks before I could lean back in a chair

Smoking did bring the pain level down a notch or two, the pain was sudden and sharp, like a bee sting, so you still got the jolt...the smoking kind of kept it from lingering, but the sudden sharp pain was the worst part....

Also, when talking to the nurse at Dr's. office, she told me to be glad it wasn't on my face....she said that was very very painful.....even the wind on your face can be painful
delta1 Offline
#269 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 12:53 PM EST
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and the sick, lethargic, headachy, feverish disconnected sensations that come with shingles...


but if that's what danm wants on his roof...he's earned the right ...(nice one, Frank)
frankj1 Offline
#270 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 1:30 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
d'oh!

Went right over my head... Laugh

touche!
opelmanta1900 Offline
#271 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 2:36 PM EST
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Gotta go to a wedding today... Wife's cousins son.. Rich kid wedding... More than 1000 guests...

This family has like 9 kids and there will probably be a wedding every year for the next 9 years... So I put my foot down on a couple of things...

One, I'm not wearing a suit... Never talked to this kid, couldn't pick him out of a crowd of 2, no suit... Plus, if I wear a $400 suit, I'm gonna look like crap next to the numerous semi-rich folk that are living well beyond their means... No suit....

Two, this is the only wedding this family is getting out of me... I don't particularly like weddings and I do particularly despise wasteful and extravagant expenditures of wealth aimed at showcasing the spenders ability to extravagantly squander wealth...

Anyway, I'm shopping for a suit... Figure if I'm gonna be doing this every year for the next 9 years I might as well look halfway decent...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#272 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 2:38 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
touche!

Did you just call macs a butt head?
RMAN4443 Offline
#273 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 2:39 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Gotta go to a wedding today... Wife's cousins son.. Rich kid wedding... More than 1000 guests...

This family has like 9 kids and there will probably be a wedding every year for the next 9 years... So I put my foot down on a couple of things...

One, I'm not wearing a suit... Never talked to this kid, couldn't pick him out of a crowd of 2, no suit... Plus, if I wear a $400 suit, I'm gonna look like crap next to the numerous semi-rich folk that are living well beyond their means... No suit....

Two, this is the only wedding this family is getting out of me... I don't particularly like weddings and I do particularly despise wasteful and extravagant expenditures of wealth aimed at showcasing the spenders ability to extravagantly squander wealth...

Anyway, I'm shopping for a suit... Figure if I'm gonna be doing this every year for the next 9 years I might as well look halfway decent...


If you gonna be Im-po-tent, you should look impotent......Anxious
corey sellers Offline
#274 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 2:40 PM EST
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Way to put your foot down opie lmao
MACS Offline
#275 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 2:55 PM EST
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Did you just call macs a butt head?


He used a T not a D... but if the toupe' fits.
rfenst Offline
#276 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 3:00 PM EST
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Michigan wins, but lots of problems.
Let's see if Florida can beat Auburn...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#277 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 3:40 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
He used a T not a D... but if the toupe' fits.

I dunno man... Seems like Frank called your head a tushie...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#278 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 3:41 PM EST
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Dismantled the swingset!

Wife was happy until I announced that it looks like we have room to put in another pond...
frankj1 Offline
#279 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 4:33 PM EST
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were you wearing the suit when you told her?
delta1 Offline
#280 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 4:56 PM EST
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went to a wedding last weekend...grudgingly...said I wasn't gonna wear a suit, IF I went at all....I'd rather wear some nice trousers and a comfortable dressy light colored Hawaiian shirt...

wife said she wanted me to go, and dressed nicely, somewhat formally.... the bride is our god son's sister (do they still appoint god parents?)... mother of bride was wife's BFF when she started teaching career, whom I've only met a few times, and whose daughter/bride to be I've never met....

so I went with my wife to the wedding... wearing a suit, embraced the mother of the bride and the bride as if we were BFFs, spoke at length with the two sons/brothers including our god son, whom I haven't seen in more than twenty years, but they recognized me....my wife and I were among the eldest guests in attendance...had a few ounces of MacAllen 12 yr Scotch...lotsa pretty young things to look at... sat at a table next to a pretty young thing who has a daughter the same age (about 2.5 yr)as my oldest grand-daughter....enjoyed myself sharing child rearing stories...

but I didn't wear a tie...a man has to plant his flag somewhere...
rfenst Offline
#281 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 5:05 PM EST
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You need to ditch your suit some how.
that and only have a blue blazer sport coat. That's all I CAN wear.Herfing
delta1 Offline
#282 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 5:22 PM EST
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I've given that some thought...it is 20 years outdated, with pleated and cuffed trousers, loose fitting...but that's the thing: it's comfy...and it cost about $500-600 plus tailoring ... I'm cheap and it would be hard to give it away...

I do have a blue blazer, which is also relaxed fit, thanks to having lost a few pounds since I bought it...I could use the excuse that the suit needs dry cleaning...

I'm at the age where there aren't that many weddings to attend...a lot more funerals...and it seems acceptable/fashionable to dress more casually at funerals nowadays...
victor809 Offline
#283 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 6:09 PM EST
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I love any opportunity I can get to wear a suit. I have 3 or 4 and so rarely get to wear them... One was even bespoke from a tailor in SF.
rfenst Offline
#284 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 6:11 PM EST
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G_A_T_O_R_S!
MACS Offline
#285 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 6:23 PM EST
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The VT v Miami game was fantastic.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#286 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:08 PM EST
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The cool waters of the kings river drift by lazily as the chatter of the thousand or so guests rises and falls with every start and stop of the 7 piece string ensemble...

Casual anticipation fills the air...

The strings have ceased, there is silence...

Suddenly and without warning the silence is broken - nay, shattered - by the squawk of a bagpiper playing amazing Grace...

He marched to center stage, finishes, exits stage left...

The string ensemble plays great is Thy faithfulness....

The crowd is silent...

More after this from our sponsors....
opelmanta1900 Offline
#287 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:13 PM EST
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The family has begun their walk down the aisle... Unclear if they're going Armenian first Or alternating back and forth...

It is Armenians first, respect has been paid by the whites...

Grandmother, then mother and father cascade down the petal littered slope and take their seats, front row...

Great is thy faithfulness has ceased...

The strings pick up with Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus as white person after white person completes their trek down the aisle....
opelmanta1900 Offline
#288 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:17 PM EST
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The strings are playing some straight up lord of the rings **** and little fairies throwing the remnants dead flowers own the center aisle....

The music has stopped, the crowd falls silent...

9 bridesmaids, 4 flower girls... The groomsmen, merely 5...

The pastor has begun... The father gives the bride away without reservation or protest...
MACS Offline
#289 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:19 PM EST
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^Did he say, "Bye Felicia!"??
opelmanta1900 Offline
#290 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:33 PM EST
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Padres still yapping... My mother in law thinks he's like Rodney Dangerfield without the material...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#291 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:45 PM EST
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Vows exchanged, rings accepted, kiss is coming...

I've come to the realization that this is an arranged marriage between 2 people whose families run a cult...

I hope the food is good....
delta1 Offline
#292 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 7:53 PM EST
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any Armenian wedding traditions being worked into the ceremony...Armenian wedding songs played/sung...Armenian wedding costumes worn by members of the party?


we celebrated our wedding at a Chinese restaurant, with traditional 12 course wedding feast...my wife was required to change into a traditional Chinese wedding dress half way through dinner and make a grand re-entrance...my mother sewed the dress and managed a smile...

the wedding was less than a month after my father passed away, and Chinese traditionalists on her side of the family urged her to postpone the wedding to observe the traditional three month grieving period...wife's side of the family, who had invested a lot of money for the celebration at that point, refused...looking back at the photos, my mother looked sad in nearly all the photos...

cultural conflicts can be difficult to traverse...but we can and do manage...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#293 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 8:37 PM EST
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Just the food is Armenian, and specifically difficult to traverse... Lamb chop medallions were good though...
danmdevries Offline
#294 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:00 PM EST
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I don't own a suit.

Or even dress pants.

I think I own 2 or 3 shirts with buttons that aren't denim or flannel, but they're a good 15 years old or more.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#295 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:04 PM EST
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Made a little miscalculation in thinking the appetizers were dinner... Ate like 9 lamb chops and a pile of cheese cubes...
rfenst Offline
#296 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:13 PM EST
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Time for some smoke.
8trackdisco Offline
#297 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:20 PM EST
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-2 on the bones. Second cigar.

Hopeful of six hours of sleep, then work for a few hours, then back home for Arsenal at 8 am.
izonfire Offline
#298 Posted: Sat, Oct 5 2019, 9:46 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
but I didn't wear a tie...a man has to plant his flag somewhere...


Pretty evident where you wanted to plant your flag. In some “pretty young thing”. Ha-ha!
I can completely relate. A man never loses his appreciation for the female form...
danmdevries Offline
#299 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 3:44 AM EST
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Sunday Sunday Sunday
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#300 Posted: Sun, Oct 6 2019, 7:49 AM EST
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Arsenal on CNBC in 10 minutes.

Coffee, bagel, peanut butter, coffee.
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