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Sandman

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  1. When I'm in the office and I decide to either listen to a podcast or watch a youtube video as I'm working, it never fails. I either get a phone call or have to leave my desk right after I hit the play button. It's like these fuckers can see me.
  2. The vacuum bags "work", in the sense that they do indeed compress your shit. I used them for t-shirts and undershirts and found that the bags got flat as fuck and I was pleased. But they also have a bunch of excess plastic around the edges that has to go somewhere, and it tends to bunch up. So it might not be worth it, depending on your bag. I was using a basic roller suitcase and it worked fine for me, FWIW.
  3. No offense to this guy, but I fucking hated Supertramp. My friend would play that shit when we rode in his car and he'd sing along, just to get my goat. I'm glad he'd dead, Jimmy!!
  4. We're in Oklahoma, not Texas. And I can tell you that my kids don't give a shit about anything having to do with politics, so any of those factors played zero part in this decision.
  5. I got to sit down with my daughter and really talk about this move she's making. There was more to it than I realized (which I kinda knew) and I feel better about it. Her baby is due in January and she's been feeling the pressure of going back to work sooner than she'd like. She wants to be able to be home with him for more than just the 6 weeks of maternity leave. When her husband got laid off, it was like a window of opportunity had opened. They can stay with his folks for a while, maybe a year. By that time, she should be back working and they can get their own place. She's already got leads on some jobs and her husband's family has a large network to work with, or so I'm told. I told her that, while I'm not "happy" about this, I'm also not "angry" about it. I don't want her to move but I get it. If she had left home for college at 18, I wouldn't feel like she was making a huge mistake and fucking up our lives. We're going to miss seeing her and our grandson regularly but flights to Denver are short and not expensive. So we plan to visit regularly. I think this was the best outcome I could've hoped for. all things considered.
  6. My daughter's husband recently lost his job, so they have decided that the best option is for her to quit her job, then they take their son and move to Colorado, to live in his parents' basement. He has supposedly secured a job out there with a family friend. My kid has a really good job with good benefits and is leaving it behind to do.....what? She's pregnant and won't be working "for a while" when they're out there. I wonder if she really wants to be a SAHM, which is fine I guess. I just don't get how this shit seemingly came to life in the span of 10 days. I think his folks were putting some pressure on him to move out there. My wife is crushed that our grandson will be a 10 hour drive away, instead of the current 10 minutes. I think they're making a big mistake but there's nothing I can do about it.
  7. Grew up in Wiesbaden. Dad had a '78 Pinto wagon. It was not as much fun.
  8. My high school buddy was finishing his eagle scout stuff before we graduated. I'm not gonna say he hated it, but he was so over it by the time he was done. His older brother was an eagle scout as well, I think there was some pressure from his mom to get it done. He never spoke about his scout stuff unless it was to bitch about something he had to do for his eagle program. After the ceremony, he never talked about scout shit ever again.
  9. I'd have sent him an invoice and asked him which ones he was paying for.
  10. My dad went to have an echo test and some bloodwork. The results are that his heart isn't any worse but it's not getting better either. The doc suggests that dad gets an internal defibrillator, dad has declined. He told my sister that he doesn't want to spend what time he has left going in and out of the hospital. I don't know when he has to make his decision about the device but as of now, he ain't interested. I don't like it but there's not much I can do. He keeps saying that he wants to be with my mom, who passed in 2007. I'm at the point where I'm not going to argue with him.
  11. If guys playing guitar outside of subways or on street corners really wanted to make some money, they should play classic rock guitar solos. I don't give those guys playing Ed Sheeran or whatever a second glance, but if I came out of the subway/metro/underground and a guy is playing Stranglehold or Layla, I'm gonna toss him a buck or two. If he plays Frankenstein, he gets a $10.
  12. Sandman

    London

    Heading back to London on Tuesday. We usually stay in South Kensington but we're shifting slightly west to Earl's Court this time. It's gonna be so nice to ditch the 95 degree heat for 75 and under for a couple of weeks.
  13. My wife was doing some wordle type puzzle last night and said, "Don't judge me, but do you know what a "Glint" is?". I said yeah and explained it, she said she had never heard of it. I said it's similar to gleam. She looked at me with the same puzzled expression and said "I've never heard that word either.".
  14. There's a regional VP at my wife's company named Leonard. He doesn't come around very often but when he does, my wife's boss gets antsy. I don't give a shit about any of that stuff, so any time she says something like "Leonard is coming next week and my boss is stressing out", I just start singing: "When Leonard finally caaaaaaame to California,". She doesn't know any Merle Haggard and that makes it even funnier when she looks at me like I'm speaking greek. I've been doing this for 5 years and it's still funny to me.
  15. Damn, I thought Loni Anderson died a few years ago.
  16. I called around when my kids were that age. USAA was astronomically high, more than double my current policy. The agent said "Yeah, USAA doesn't like teen drivers.". I wound up going with Safeco. I'm with GEICO now, they had the best rates for me, hands down.
  17. Yeah, this is hard as well. I live 20 miles from my dad. My sister is just down the street, half a mile away. She's older, closer and my dad prefers to deal with her. He's always favored her a bit, that's just a fact. I make sure to come by and see Dad when I can, and I'll buy my sister lunch when we go out, but the brunt of this falls on her. She's also a control freak and I think she secretly likes to be in charge.
  18. This shit is tough and I'm not even that old yet. My dad is 78 and acts like he's 108. My sister and I are early-mid 50s and don't exactly have time to take off work and sit next to him as he watches old westerns and ESPN. He left home at 19 and never moved back. Visited occasionally, but mostly stayed away. When my grandma needed shit, he either left it to his brothers (who lived nearby) or scratched a check (then bitched about it). When grandma was dying, he never visited but we went to the funeral (which he mostly paid for and bitched about having to pay). But now? He expects us children to tend to his needs and I find myself resenting it a bit. Like, you want treatment that you yourself weren't willing to give? He has the funds to pay for at home care or whatever he needs but he's so damn cheap. I have a wife, grown kids, grandkids, a job. I don't need more shit on my plate.
  19. When you're cleaning your glasses and the cloth shifts ever so slightly, causing you to wipe your bare thumb across the lens, making a whole new smear to try and clean.
  20. Sandman

    Getting old sucks

    If I ever have a "blowout" at work that requires me to have to go home and take a shower, I will not be returning that day. Probably not the next day either. Matter of fact, I'm probably taking the rest of the week off.
  21. I saw Gillis last weekend, it was the funniest stand up show I have ever seen. I laughed my ass off. Also, Dave Atell was one of the openers and he was outstanding as well.
  22. My dad has been acting a tad strange the last few days, so my sister took him to the ER. Long story short, he's had some sort of stroke. They don't know exactly when, he'll have an MRI when they can supposedly tell how long ago it may have happened. His kidneys are kinda fucked up and he has a blood clot on his brain, above his right eye. They think it may have come from his Watchmen heart device. What in the actual fuck? The good news is that he's coherant, talks to the nurses, and is not a vegetable.
  23. Merch? He's been gone for 2 years. He'll have the same number when he comes back. It's not like they confiscated all the Lillard merch when he left and fans have to buy new shit.
  24. Shit, there are entire channels that America doesn't care about or even watch.
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