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Superhero

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  1. I hope you know I wasn’t being serious.
  2. My parents bought a matching set of quartz Tudor watches back in the mid 90s. They wore them for a bit, but decided they were too nice for everyday wear, so they got Seikos that look like Datejusts. They never wore their Tudors again. Other than Chrono24, are there other sites where I can list them? I don't expect to get much, but something is better than nothing with them sitting around collecting dust.
  3. Looks like a booking fee. https://www.urvenue.com/ Looking online at the alcohol, they basically basically paid ~3,000% markup above retail. Someone's gotta take a second mortgage on their condo to pay that bill.
  4. Superhero

    Getting old sucks

    Or you can use your phone to zoom in on the bible. On a few occasions when my coworkers go to steakhouses (they all seem to be poorly lit), we all break out our phones for the flashlight and/or video camera to see the menu. You'd think that people who can afford $100+/person meals would be of the older persuasion who would appreciate a little more light and menus with bigger fonts.
  5. Where did the woman come from? And where did the little white car go? Holy shit indeed. We take an annual ski trip and the lift always scares me a bit. Too many times it takes an uncomfortably large bump. And too many times the lift just stops for a few to 15 minutes.
  6. Superhero

    Getting old sucks

    Also. My eyes are getting worse with age. I've been wearing glasses for 40 years for nearsightedness. The optometrist added 2.0 at the bottom of the lens for reading. I find myself raising my eyes to look at the computer screen because the text is too small, and I lose too much real estate if I increase the size of the font. Time to go get my eyes checked again.
  7. 16 years? How many guitars are you gonna buy with that money? Even if you didn’t sell, the stock price is still rising faster than any of the other stocks I bought for my kids. Up 20% in just 2 months.
  8. Felling trees is for the professionals. My aunt had a mismanaged tree on her property. Instead of hiring professionals, she asked her landscaper to take it down. The landscaper brought his brother and 15 YO son to help. No PPE, no training, the wrong tools, lots of machismo. Well, the son stood under the tree and got hit by a falling branch. A week and 3 surgeries later, he died.
  9. Superhero

    Getting old sucks

    Ordered one of these from Amazon. It's supposed to be a nose hair trimmer. It looks like a tiny comb with a razor blade, but can't be sure until I get it.
  10. Especially disgusting If you think they used corncobs to wipe their butt.
  11. I got my neighbor laid last night. My wife and I were at it, and let's just say she's a moaner, and a loud one at that. After we were done and getting ready for bed, I could hear my neighbors going at it as well. The sound of balls slapping on on ass cheeks is unmistakable. The guy owes me a beer.
  12. My old roommate was from Taiwan but grew up in Ecuador. He always freaked the construction crew out when he bust out in perfect Spanish.
  13. My BIL said he wants this song at his funeral. I don't blame him.
  14. For me, this was the theme song of the devastation I felt in the summer of 2006. Girl I was kinda sorta dating couldn't make up her mind between me or her ex. She went on a trip with him and I figured I'd lost her forever. The song was especially poignant since her name was / is Grace. In the end, she made up her mind and now she's my wife. But summer of 2006 fucking sucked.
  15. Went for a bike ride this morning at the nearby regional park. Not a single person with a speaker listening to loud music. Just the sound of footsteps and conversation.
  16. Pretty much all of the above.
  17. The original owner on my Les Paul Classic said he removed and then reinstalled the circuitry (it has the pcb board). He likely broke it because the neck humbucker is louder when it's "tapped". I'm looking to replace it, but going on reverb and looking up "Les Paul CPB", nothing quite looks like mine, and the prices also swing wildly from $60 - $350. Any recommendations on how to find out more about what I have/need, and where to get one at a reasonable price? Don't really want to spend $350 when I only paid $1,750 for the guitar.
  18. Me thinks she may be an attention whore. Not that I'm complaining.
  19. 3rd and goal lol.
  20. Threw behind Wingo on the screen. WTF.
  21. It’s bad when I’d rather have Arch run the ball than throw it.
  22. I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks the past few years, mostly Stephen King and James Lee Burke, and a few others thrown in to mix things up. I prefer the medium over books because I can plug in my earphones and go about chores and feel productive. Another advantage of audiobooks over a movie or show, is that it allows my mind to create the visuals of the landscape, the people, the situation. Books can also take you into the characters' minds to understand their motives and emotions, which is difficult to recreate on screen without some narration or inner dialogue. The latest Stephen King short story I listened to was Summer Thunder. Basically 2 guys and a dog living their last few days after a nuclear holocaust. The older of the 2 chose to shoot himself before dying of radiation poisoning. While his younger neighbor who lived 2 miles away was putting down the dog with a hypodermic syringe filled with an opioid, he heard the gun shot. "The sound was faint at this distance. But with the lake so still, there was no mistaking it for anything else. It rolled across the hot summer air, diminished. Tried to echo. Failed." I replayed the quoted part at least 5 times. So lucid. So beautiful. So sad. Stephen King is a master of words.
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