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  1. hookem2010
    I've got to check that one off then. My wife is from there so we've gone back to visit family probably 10 times, yet I haven't been. Now that we have kids, I guess I can use that as an excuse to go next time.
  2. hookem2010
    I didn't listen, but it seems like anything between a disaster and a home run is basically worst case scenario.
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    I can't even listen to that. It's cringey enough to read.
  4. hookem2010
    Congratulations! Speaking of illnesses, the wife, who works at Dell, said the new Covid strain is no joke. So that's fun. I regularly get updates on horrifying illnesses and injuries I never even thought to worry about. We're just entering the 3rd trimester for our 2nd boy. The 2 year-old's favorite phrase currently is "No Dada, get back." I've got, what, 3 years of white-knuckling it and just trying to survive?
  5. hookem2010
    But you also put your life savings on Nebraska and the over.
  6. hookem2010
    I will admit that my concerns at the time were based more on Biden drowning in the admittedly flawed polls. But I don't think it was unbelievable or unforeseeable that Biden would be declining mentally by the time of this election. He's not just 81, he's been President or VP for 12 of the last 16 years, and the other 4 he was watching Trump attempt to destroy the country and campaigning. Not to mention the death of his son, or his other child's legal/personal issues. The man has experienced multiple lifetimes of stress in the last two decades.
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    It seems like someone should have gotten in Biden's ear a while ago about stepping aside. I know I, and many others, were mocked last year when bringing up running a different candidate due to giving up the incumbent advantage. Does that advantage still exist when the candidate appears unsafe to be left alone at home, much less run a country?
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    Tara Davis making it interesting early, fouling on her first 2 jumps before hitting the 3rd to advance to earn 3 more jumps.
  9. hookem2010
    Impeccable timing. You're going to want to take all of your camping gear. There are surely worse ways to experience the end of the world than as a hermit in the mountains of NZ, occasionally meandering into town to share beers with some kiwis.
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    I want to die
  11. hookem2010
    What exactly was the other side, dumbfuck?
  12. hookem2010
    He just said there were very fine people on both sides. One side happened to be white supremacists and nazis. But you are right, he did not say "white supremacists and nazis are very fine people".
  13. hookem2010
    I commandeered the TV and put on olympic trials. If I have to watch the debate, I'm not going to start with CNN pretending like we're dealing with 2 normal candidates/parties.
  14. hookem2010
    I'm in the exact same boat, but I will be drinking. Going to opt for beer though.
  15. hookem2010
    He's about as close to a celebrity as us birders have. Great to see him continuing to make something so incredible out of a horrible incident.
  16. hookem2010
    This is me, except it's my own parents.
  17. hookem2010
    Nah, that's my old neighbor in Houston. If he wasn't working on a lawnmower at 2 am, he was playing the goddamn drums or getting in yelling matches with his gf about dildos while they threw N-bombs back and forth (they were white).
  18. hookem2010
    I slept it until 745, then just got up from a 2-hour nap. Trying to store up for the lean months ahead when the second one arrives. I think I will have a beer now.
  19. hookem2010
    Please don't say "we" like the rest of of us are part of YOUR cult of racism/misogyny/authoritarianism/mutant christianity/narcissism/hate/greed/unmatched fucking stupidity
  20. hookem2010
    I was working that event and left apparently 20 minutes before the shooting started. As I was driving home with ambulances passing me, I figured there was a shooting or vehicular murder of some sort. So horrible, so pointless.
  21. hookem2010
    I thought I knew all there was to know about strategic warfare after becoming Shogun MULTIPLE times on medium difficulty as a mere teenager, but some of you talk like you mastered the more complex Medieval and Rome Total War editions as well.
  22. hookem2010
    I should finish sanding my drawers today. For anyone considering a DIY cabinet face-lift, it is not particularly challenging or technical. I am not handy. It does, however, take probably as long as you would expect. I'm 3 months in. I've worked steadily, but certainly not constantly, other than the week or so sanding and painting the boxes. Try to be as deliberate as possible, even when you really can't imagine another minute of sanding/painting/cleanup. I also should have probably labeled the doors and hinges, due to small differences in size. Once I get these drawers painted, I just need to install some floating shelves without destroying the backsplash, and my project will be complete!
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    Kind of a mixed feelings story about barred owls. They are so successful and have expanded westward across the continent the last century, with tree planting and fire suppression, that they are now threatening the endangered spotted owl. The barred owl is larger, and will kill, outcompete, and hybridize with spotted owls, which also suffer from loss of old-growth forest. To combat this, nearly half a million barred owls are to be culled where the two species overlap.
  24. hookem2010
    I really just can't with these young voter interviews. Voting third party has never made less sense than it has for the last 8 years. The 3rd party candidate is also an old, white, "elite" who seems absurdly unlikeable and has literal brain worms. Vote in a fucking primary or vote 3rd party in some local races if you want to express dissatisfaction with the two-party system, you fucking morons. I was perhaps more of an idealist a decade ago, but I sure as shit never considered voting for Gary Fucking Johnson. There's a reason third party candidates don't ever get a significant percentage of the vote. They aren't serious people with serious platforms, so stop pretending otherwise. I know this rant has been repeated ad nauseam, but goddamn, young "adults", get your shit together.
  25. hookem2010
    The house we moved into was also built in 94. So many wires of unknown purpose.

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