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Roller coaster right on track.

Will send you an emergency case of Topo.

I just noticed you love that french shit. Starting to think you are a commie.

Dear Vandy, please don't fuck up. Love

Briskets happy. Brandy glasses kind of look like boobies.

Some said that. Others were saying ah shit.... I went with the Ah shit team. All Florida going to get a taste this year.

Team yesterday said this would be nothing. I laughed and said nah, cat 1 or 2 when it hits the coast. They laughed. So get to redo the entire response plan the response team came up with. Dumbasses

Yeah, I have been there. Don't want to make this thread about work. My industry is a lot of bravado. If I have to remind a colonel I have lived in more war zones than him I am going to kick a puppy. Accents- Picture them shaking their heads as they talk. There are sound waves I think that make it easier. Came up with that in the ME working with a lot of Indian clients and staff. My whole pricing team was from Bangalore of Mumbai. Bananas- Draw cute figures with honey. then stick the bananas to them. They stay in place and lets the artistic side of you out. Yeah, yesterday the entire quick launch team I was brought in to unfuck came in hung over. Our planning room is enclosed. Smelled like the Hole in the Wall at closing. I have been onsite there for 5 days and we got a call from FEMA. Um, yeah, how fast can you get all this gear to NC. Team froze. The not hung over one who had a good night sleep read it, assigned it out, notified the other department leads, not knowing who the hell was in charge of each, and started the response document. IT can kiss my ass after yesterday. Fuckers invent tools to invent tools I think. (and I am not allowed to use my personnel laptop, the one they issued sucks and had to be reformatted, and all my planning tools (on excel) are on my personnel one.) Goods were shipped last night and should all consolidate for distribution by tomorrow morning. In the past I would celebrate with a beer or 10 and get little done tomorrow. Today taking the wife to test drive cars. She asked how we are going to cover the added cost. I laughed and showed her how much I now put away not drinking. Shit adds up yo.

For sure. Been lucky that my good friends recognized my decision, that it did not change me, and in fact they now had a designated driver most of the time. I still make the same really bad observations of society and will still chip in on the buckets at our watering hole. I said earlier bartender there watches out for those who decide this path. If there are three of us watching a game the bucket is 4 dos and 2 topos. A few of the rest have caught on. I was talking to TGIF's about this one on one and we were working on a going fishing on the san marcos. That I do not get invited to do anymore with the buddies who drink and mentioned that to him. Schedules never aligned.

Yep, I maintain a steady supply of different waters. I drank soda water growing up so no biggie as a transition. But there remains a perception thing. I have tipped well the smart bartender who can set up a tall rocks glass with club soda, orange slice, a cherry, etc. And it is rpetty damn good. Not a soda fan so only place I have run into an issue are kids sporting events, etc. Whats funny is no one looks at you weird for pounding a gatorade. Guess they think I was hung over.

Sorry Bear. I came close a few weeks ago saying by to my mom in San Juan. Poured a bottle out for her into the Caribbean, had a wee nip. Damn I was tempted to keep going. In office with aw client doing some disaster prep consulting. Team wants to go out every evening after work. I went the first evening, ordered a Topo. Got the odd looks. Next day VP asked me to go for a talk. Another place. He gets a wine, I get a topo. Got the look. I say I do not drink. He did not ask anymore questions. Last night team hangs out for the end of a sprint. I don't get an invite. Guess who was bright eyed and bushy tailed this AM? This guy. Which was good since we received a few oh shit emails from North Carolina. Ranting, again, sorry Bear. And thanks to @BurntEyes for letting me reach out.

Did you carbo load?

Yo, that port in Yuma is booming.

A bit of proof shit is not going to be easy for the IDF. Israel’s military says eight of its soldiers have been killed in combat in southern Lebanon, its first losses since the start of the ground invasion against the armed group Hezbollah. Most were commandos from the elite Egoz and Golani Reconnaissance units. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxgkrv9j7no

So don't park Tesla near ocean that may flood, like during a hurricane. Got it. Thanks. They need a sticker saying not for resale in the Gulf Coast or tidal areas of the Carolinas. I guess encasing them in removable plastic would not work? Like the navy does with their small water drones?

@Brian Fantana So much I would like to get into in your post about democracy but no time this AM. Will try and remember this evening. 1- You keep thinking of the region as Arab. It is very different from area to area. North Africa could pull off Democracy. It was not the US who fucked up the Arab Spring. Look across the little Sea to the north. Lumping them together is like saying all Latinos are the same. Guatemala ain't mexico culturally. Sure as shit Argentina/Brazil/Peru/Chile have much in common with Mexico except for the spanish legacy (catholic church and history of caudillo rule.) it is fine for geographical association but does not work at all when talking politics, history, etc. 2- Afghanistan could have worked. Democracy is something Afghans understand and appreciate. Loya Jirga, their system of government is very democratic. The two major failures were the surge with conventional forces and pushing what WE, the US, thought was important. The brain trust in State and USAID did not try and understand the culture. When I would lecture on the country I would tell people to forget reading shit about the brits and read persian poetry and if in Engish, Michner's book Caravans (especially the chapter about bridges). Afghans were never in the South (Pashtunistan) going to have equal rights as fast as we wanted them to. USAID is still trying to push women's rights there. I mean TODAY. There is a project titled Women in Agriculture. Problem. Women traditionally do not, and never have, worked in Agriculture. Oh and the Taliban are now in power. @956 Worldwide knows what I mean. 3- You know who does not give a fuck about democracy in the region? Arab leaders. I am looking mainly at the GCC States. What is now propping them up? Chinese investments into sand dominos selling 99 year leases to fat brits and high caste Indians. We prop them up for a few reasons. We inherited the leadership and structure and we like oil/natural gas. Plus they look like land aircraft carriers. We like those. This tread can get contentious, but for the next 11 days can we just agree OU SUCKS?

Survive massive flooding? Check Still have power? Check Car catches on fire? Check Home surveillance video shows the moment a Tesla vehicle became engulfed in flames inside a flooded garage in Florida during Hurricane Helene. The family, who made it out of the home safely, told a local news station that it took only a few minutes for the home to be destroyed by the fire. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c2dpnpe1jjeo

I tried. Just cannot do it. Not entering that discussion going on. Damn I thought this one was going no where.

Have you seen the videos from Dash board cams from Russia?

if Regime gives zero fucks since all those virgins are waiting, do they care? Which one? Those are options.

They are not going anywhere Rex. So here are the options. Status quo. Some sort of peace. Ethnic Cleansing.

One of the only places this has happened in the past 40 years, and I know this board will hate this example, is El Salvador. The FMLN and the Military signed accords. Within 2 elections the FMLN had power. They did not keep it, and now the country is kind of back to a dictatorship with a growing economy and tackled rampant crime.

Some very good points. I would like to discuss. But not news so nah. Your house? That work for you?