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gyroprotagonist

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  1. After 2 races my donkey Energy Rush is doing pretty well. Got two 6th place finishes ( 3 points each). 6 points is good for 20th so far with about 2/3 of the 100 horse field having at least 1 race. This horse finishes 4th 22% of the time, by far the most finished position, so need some of that consistency to get 6 points in the last race. 6th-20th place get their ETH back basically. only bad part is this donkey races in Class II and free races are hard to come by and there are no $2.50 races either.
  2. don't employers look at people's fb pages? one swim through Justin's would be enough to put him on a watchlist, much less want to provide him employment for your company.
  3. I have a pump that must have slightly expanded or something during icemagedon. It was not leaking or anything when the crew came to replace some cracked plumbing the first time around. Fast forward a month later and a tiny drip is starting. No big deal, we think it's just the collar that needs tightening. It starts leaking at little more so I try to get back on the pool repair schedule. lol. By the time they can come out just to look at it, it's a leak coming from the bottom of the pump. Crap. dude says cracked pump. 4 weeks later and they are finally supposed to come out on Tuesday to fix. - Other shops I called were running 8 weeks. This plus the new AC we just put in yesterday are really making me short the family's medical/food/well being to keep my drug and gambling 'problem' going full tilt. thanks a lot Obama
  4. i mean, surly 1% probably consider this cheap. Who can't find $13K in their couch cushions for a good outdoor TV? https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-terrace/samsung-75-lst9t-the-terrace-full-sun-qled-4k-smart-tv-2021-qn75lst9tafxza/
  5. company listed Jul 6 as date where we no longer had to get permission (HR+legal) to come back in to office. I went back in for the first time in over a year to help train a new hire last week. was planning on going back in for a few days this week, but they are moving all our desks/offices to a new part of the building (for some reason) and probably won't be ready for a while. - They still have the policy that, even if vaccinated, everyone must wear a mask in the office. I was team mask through all this past year when i was out getting stuff, but I don't want to come back to office being fully vaxed and wear a mask all day. Hoping they get that changed. it's a huge multi-national company so policies probably take time to change, but I'll keep WFH until that gets fixed. Even then, I plan to wfh 2-3 times per week (Tue-Thurs) but still waiting to see if the policy gets changed to officially allow that. Currently pre-covid it was 1x per week, which i never really took advantage of since i was new to the company and needed to meet as many people as possible. My commute sucks ass (30-40m each way), but the kids' school is about 3/4 of the way to the office, so have to travel up there anyway.
  6. lol, i am entering in this. I have a horse that loves to finish 4th place.
  7. convo with 10yo daughter "Dad, i feel like i am missing out on experiencing all the different Earths, you know if there are other multiverses. I mean, I'll never get to experience those if i am just in this one" Me: ooookay. well, we can't travel to other multiverses yet, but maybe some day FOMO of multiverses is real, apparently.
  8. soooo wishbone offense?
  9. rare footage of Ford at a scrip club
  10. i thought some antivax went and protested at a concert or something. looked it up, yeah it was the foo fighters last week.
  11. @NowThis haz excite?
  12. ambiguous statement is ambiguous. JFC, are they trying to save the vax for everyone else (outside of US) to get it first or is there some key piece of data that is missing to grant them confidence in the vax being safe and effective in children? I thought the mRNA ones had stellar trials for the younglings. obviously, there is no long term data, but we did not have that for the original ones either.
  13. Me to AA (by September)
  14. was this on AA and on 737s? Saw some tweets about it. people were speculating that they don't have enough pilots rated for the 737s with all the MAX planes that are coming back into the rotation.
  15. yeah, there was notice on their discord channel about the maintenance. It's back up now and races are fully populated. not sure if there were any major changes or not. probably just fixing that issue people were having with horses getting stuck in races that never raced.
  16. It's the mid October games where the temp soars in to the 90s by gametime and the sun is blazing that always got me. you wake up and it's not terrible and you hope it's going to stay at a nice temp...but hope...hope is a dangerous thing.
  17. but what if he called JG Wentworth to get that cash out option on his structured 50/mo settlement?
  18. yeah, i took a look at BAYC when the floor was ~ .4 ETH, but just could not wrap my head around the concept of WTF these things were. Now, they have sold a few of them to NBA players. That mega NFT whale Pranksy (sp?) has or had ~900 of them. worth probably $5-10 mil I did get in to a knock off one called gutter cats, lol. bought around .1 and floor is about .3 or so right now. but all my NFT eggs are pretty much in ZED right now.
  19. i have gone through the 'house' money from any crypto gains and now into 'hotel' money or something at this point, lol. theoretically well above water but that can change in a few hours.
  20. there were a ton of recs in the 'what to buy for next grid failure' thread, which maybe we should just start keeping a separate winter and summer thread for grid failure.
  21. i think all the people that were NFT/crypto trading since 2019 or so just have had soooooooo much increase in their BTC/ETH accounts that it's basically funny money to them. - ETH was $150 per coin start of 2019 - BTC was $3600 per coin start of 2019 if you had just $5k in your ETH wallet back then it would be worth $83K today. A serious trader probably had a min of $50K in coin back then to churn with.
  22. lulz. auction for those Stella Artois skin horses about to close. Z1 up to a cool $52K; Z2 $26K https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/110238896312374156694779971029466237810910659616547507179685594332097742372865 I don't feel bad for ZED at 'giving up' $1M worth of horses for screwing up the drop when they can sell 10 at auction and take in more that $100K. Breeding tentatively set to open July 12th, but seems they have been wishy-washy about how firm that is.
  23. the internet would break or ragnarok would start or maybe that's just what's on tap for 2022. But yes, I had this same thought with these same posters. is that weird?
  24. the one in Dallas on E. Mockingbird looked closed driving by it yesterday. I remarked to wife that Lubys looked shuttered and 10yo daughter asked what a Luby's was. I think all the olds in Lakewood/Mstreets area have passed on to the next plane and no longer eat there. I was more team Furr's anyway.
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