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Previa_fun posted:Microsoft, for all their faults, seem to be really good about repairing/replacing their consumer electronics. Years ago when my 1st gen poo poo brown Zune crapped itself (a year of bouncing around in a cupholder is not good for a mechanical hard drive) Microsoft sent me a new one no questions asked. Microsoft hardware has been in general really good over the years, nto surprised their hardware support is also good.
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Found out today that my childhood cat has a giant tumor so I'm going with my family to have to have him put to sleep tomorrow. He's 19, so he's had a good run, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. We lost his sister a few months ago and it sucked-I was hoping he'd hang around longer than this. fuck2015.gif
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Elmnt80 posted:I spent $400 on a room in a casino in Bilouxi on my last road trip. Awesome bathroom, huge bed that ways one of the most comfortable I've ever layed in and just tons of space everywhere. I had people who couldn't understand why I would spend that much on a hotel room but it was worth it after a hot nasty day on the road. Given the choice, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I did Burning Man a few years ago, and got a room in Reno on the first night of the drive home. There is nothing that feels better than three showers and an air conditioned king size bed after a week in the desert living in a hammock.
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Fucknag posted:Well, the 3 bps transfer rate on the audio probably doesn't help. There's a higher quality version somewhere around, I was too lazy to go back and find it. Man, gently caress this poo poo. I've been trying to get back out of my parents house again for the last few months, and nothing is loving working out for me. Places being rented out from under me right before my appointments to look at them, places that look great on craigslist that are super lovely in actuality. Parents and sister nagging me to just buy a house or a condo, gently caress what I want to do. Not that I'm just starting my career and am making $12/hour either way. Finally found an awesome place that seemed too good to be true, but my friend and I went and looked at it tonight anyway. It was a kick-rear end two-floor apartment with a nice kitchen and a huge hard-wood floor living room, and two huge bedrooms upstairs, for well within our combined budget. Not to mention it was smack dab in the middle of a really neat little historical downtown area that I've been centering all of my searches around. I ask if we wants to go ahead and sign the least for March 1st and he's super stoked about it and says yes. I tell the lady I'll be at the management office tomorrow with an earnest deposit and applications for background checks, and we go our separate ways. Two hours later he texts me, and he'd rather just keep living at his parents and build his "race car." A poo poo-house 240sx that pisses everything everywhere and is on it's third or fourth engine, tweaked and trashed body and frame. gently caress you, jerk. Should have just stayed up north with my lovely girlfriend. Edit: Oh, nevermind, now he thinks he's going to buy a $320k townhouse. Okay. T-Square fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Liquid Communism posted:I did Burning Man a few years ago, and got a room in Reno on the first night of the drive home. There is nothing that feels better than three showers and an air conditioned king size bed after a week in the desert living in a hammock. To add to this: a firm longshitter to land on.
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cursedshitbox posted:To add to this: a firm longshitter to land on. And how. That said, I think I'm going to do it again this year. I miss the playa dust, and getting out somewhere batshit crazy.
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zundfolge posted:Found out today that my childhood cat has a giant tumor so I'm going with my family to have to have him put to sleep tomorrow. He's 19, so he's had a good run, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. We lost his sister a few months ago and it sucked-I was hoping he'd hang around longer than this. I'm sorry, man. RIP old catte.
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Liquid Communism posted:I did Burning Man a few years ago, and got a room in Reno on the first night of the drive home. There is nothing that feels better than three showers and an air conditioned king size bed after a week in the desert living in a hammock. In my case it was the 2nd to last leg of a 3000 mile roadtrip where I spent 90% of it out fishing every day with my dad and that side of my family and sleeping in whatever chair, day bed with a paper thin mattress or cot I could bum space on. That day I left from far NE arkansas where I had slept on a semi normal bed for the first time in 2 weeks at a days inn, drove through memphis to hit I-55 and took it down to I-10 and finally stopped in bilouxi. Its about 580 miles at the start of august with no A/C. Words can not express how amazing it felt to just fall face first into that bed and lay right in the path of that icy A/C unit. I get a half mast to this day thinking about it.
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Just driving to the grocery store with my roomate who never is interested in current events that are not sports based. He had some video playing on his phone. Curious I looked over and asked what he was watching. It was the video of the pilot from Jordan being burned alive. He didnt even know it was real or happened today. Some army buddy of his who is abroad atm posted it up on facebook. I think im done with shock and awe videos for a very long time. If any of you get the opportunity to watch it say no.
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Holdbrooks posted:I nailed the interview and was told that I got the job and should hear from HR today. And now I'm up in Phoenix to visit another hospital and see how they do it to model my program after theirs. Nice! the spyder posted:Job chat: Had lunch with the team I would be working with yesterday. Sent over all my info today. Now it's a waiting game. /F5/ Good luck! HotCanadianChick posted:'Gratz fellow interview-nailers. I killed in my interview yesterday, just have to wait a few days for the background check to do it's thing and he'll call me back with a start date.  My boss finally announced my promotion to my department today, I'm glad I'm not the only goon getting good news!
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Feb 4, 2015 05:45
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Powershift posted:I'm playing with my phone camera and a bunch of lenses out of my old buggered camera. Nice. Please send me your pants or your grandma's quilt or whatever the gently caress that is so I can reupholster my seats with it.
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Feb 4, 2015 05:53
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While I was knuckle deep in my E30 bleeding all over the place, the old lady across the tracks with a silver '91 318i sedan drove by and we waved to each other.
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Feb 4, 2015 05:53
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Cat Terrist posted:Microsoft hardware has been in general really good over the years, nto surprised their hardware support is also good. I've got a first gen Surface Pro. I actually love it, and have the extended battery/keyboard combo.
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Any ideas on how to perk up a cat? We have two, plus two dogs,but one cat is solidly my wife's. Since she flew out, all he's done is mope and sleep on things that smell like her. I'm gone 11 hours or so during the day, and when I get home he won't even play. Normally the two cats are like toddlers, always loving with each other. Now he's like a goth kid. Think he'll be okay, or should I play catte shrink? Also, is the shield tab worth it? Want a tablet for gaming and watching movies while I'm on duty, and it seems to fit the bill the best.
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e: ^Stay cheerful when he's around you and give him a bit of time/space to adjust he should come around. If he's not catnip averse check out Dee Eight's Catdrugs too.Cat Terrist posted:Microsoft hardware has been in general really good over the years, nto surprised their hardware support is also good. And their keyboards and mice are still the best, ever since IBM stopped giving a poo poo in the early '90s. (gently caress Logitech there I said it) Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 06:21
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88h88 posted:Make me feel really depressed at the cost of houses here by giving me a ballpark figure on how much these sort of houses would cost you. It is on 1.5 acre which is on the small end of what I'm looking for but it is a newer 1750sqft 3 bed 2 bath house with recent upgrades listed at 250k. I'm trying not to get my hopes up since I haven't seen it yet but it looks about perfect for what I want, and is on a paved road.
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Feb 4, 2015 06:30
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What you just described would be 1 mil+ here.
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Feb 4, 2015 06:32
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Tommychu posted:And their keyboards and mice are still the best, ever since IBM stopped giving a poo poo in the early '90s. (gently caress Logitech there I said it) There are a couple really nice gaming keyboards with mechanical keys. The ONE thing Logitech got right was the Unify adapter that works with ALL their wireless devices. Each Logitch Unify adapter supports up to 6 devices.
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Feb 4, 2015 06:36
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Elmnt80 posted:Congrats, you just did in an afternoon with legos something that would take most people months. The realization of this is kinda sad. that was my fifth autobox design. two were CVTs. I'm trying to convince Holdbrooks to buy all the parts to build the twin. 
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CommieGIR posted:There are a couple really nice gaming keyboards with mechanical keys. Yes, and they're incredible but I was talking more about the realm of ordinary consumer-grade stuff. Also most of those are at least partially derived from the old IBM stuff (and that's a good thing) which kinda sorta supports my point.
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I forgot, on my way back from the interview today, one of my neighbors had his stable of cars moved out into his yard because he was moving something from his garage out into his driveway. He normally just has 2-3 MGA/Bs sitting in his driveway so I always figured that was the most of it, but no. This man apparently has a Jag E-Type in powder blue that looks absolutely perfect. I had to swing around so I could slow down and get a good look at it since it was right beside the road. As I came back by, he was lifting up the hood to grab something and I could just get a glance under it to see the top of the V-12 sitting there. Its kinda like getting a little flash of cleavage on some smoking hot chick (or whatever the equivalent is for the other way around).  All in all, today was a drat fine day.
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I had chicken nuggets from Burger King and then mozzarella sticks from a gas station later. My stomach is revolting. I don't know why I thought this was a good idea.
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Holdbrooks posted:It is on 1.5 acre which is on the small end of what I'm looking for but it is a newer 1750sqft 3 bed 2 bath house with recent upgrades listed at 250k. I'm trying not to get my hopes up since I haven't seen it yet but it looks about perfect for what I want, and is on a paved road. People keep asking me why stay in Indiana? What you just described can be had for half the price here, usually on more land.
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Rhyno posted:People keep asking me why stay in Indiana? What you just described can be had for half the price here, usually on more land. Yeah...but you can't work enough to afford it, it's covered in snow half the year, and you're still in Indiana.
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Elmnt80 posted:I forgot, on my way back from the interview today, one of my neighbors had his stable of cars moved out into his yard because he was moving something from his garage out into his driveway. He normally just has 2-3 MGA/Bs sitting in his driveway so I always figured that was the most of it, but no. This man apparently has a Jag E-Type in powder blue that looks absolutely perfect. I had to swing around so I could slow down and get a good look at it since it was right beside the road. As I came back by, he was lifting up the hood to grab something and I could just get a glance under it to see the top of the V-12 sitting there. Its kinda like getting a little flash of cleavage on some smoking hot chick (or whatever the equivalent is for the other way around). You sure it was a V12 and not a straight-six? The only V12 E-types were the series III, which only came as convertibles or 2+2s, and are the heaviest (and in the US, ugliest, due to the added bumper extensions) E-types. The series I and IIs with the straight six are by far the more desirable models of E-type.
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Feb 4, 2015 07:39
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iwentdoodie posted:Yeah...but you can't work enough to afford it, it's covered in snow half the year, and you're still in Indiana. So long as you have a covered, insulated work area snow doesn't matter. As for the work bit, we're both making decent money right now, we could afford it if we wanted to. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I hate mowing lawns and fixing broken poo poo previous residents have left. In theory I want to own a home but then I remember edging and how much I hate weed whackers.
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Rhyno posted:So long as you have a covered, insulated work area snow doesn't matter. As for the work bit, we're both making decent money right now, we could afford it if we wanted to. I wasn't taking a shot at you personally, just the general situation there. I mean, I can't talk as we're looking to end up staying in socal. So I'm gonna basically live in a shack and rent out my balls to crabs for extra money, but at least it's warm most of the year.
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Home ownership is a full time job. If you have an aversion to this you probably shouldn't own a home 
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Got a cryptic voicemail from Blue Cross Blue Shield today, just saying to call them and giving a reference #. Ohhhhkay. Then opened my mail. Found a check from BCBS for $103  with a brief letter stating it was repayment of my deductibles after I'd hit my out of pocket last year. Not depositing it until I find out for sure though, since they did leave a rather.. odd voicemail.Then opened another piece of mail, from a company that handles medical billing. The ER doctor (from when I did the detox bit in October) apparently never got paid. I've been getting letters from the company that handles the hospital billing saying the same thing, and I keep telling them (as does my insurance company) that they need to file it with a 3rd party company that handles mental health/substance abuse claims for BCBS. I don't get why this is so loving hard for them to understand. I've even faxed the info, and mailed the info (certified) to them. I think I'm just going to go to the hospital in person before work and tell them they need to fire their outsourced billing; when I picked up my records in November, they said they'd filed with the 3rd party company and had gotten paid, but everything I get in the mail says they never did.  The weird thing is I don't even see an attempted claim by this billing company on BCBS's website, nor by the doctor, nor anything remotely related to these charges.zundfolge posted:Found out today that my childhood cat has a giant tumor so I'm going with my family to have to have him put to sleep tomorrow. He's 19, so he's had a good run, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. We lost his sister a few months ago and it sucked-I was hoping he'd hang around longer than this. I lost Squeak last summer. It was hard as hell watching him go downhill as fast as he did (went from sometimes friendly sometimes giant rear end in a top hat, and semi-energetic, to not eating or moving much in less than 48 hours), and I only wish I'd pulled the plug sooner instead of watching him suffer.  I still miss the little rear end in a top hat. Holdbrooks posted:It is on 1.5 acre which is on the small end of what I'm looking for but it is a newer 1750sqft 3 bed 2 bath house with recent upgrades listed at 250k. I'm trying not to get my hopes up since I haven't seen it yet but it looks about perfect for what I want, and is on a paved road. The land alone would probably be that asking price if it were in the city I'm in (which is landlocked by other cities). Tommychu posted:And their keyboards and mice are still the best, ever since IBM stopped giving a poo poo in the early '90s. (gently caress Logitech there I said it) OH HELL NO. I can't stand Microsoft keyboards or mice. They feel loving terrible to me, especially the "ergonomic" ones - I taught myself how to type in 3rd grade, and use all fingers on my right hand and 1-2 fingers on my left hand to type (and bang out well over 100 WPM doing so), and have no concept of home row. The ergonomic ones turn me into a 20 wpm hunt and peck typist. I stick with Logitech for mice, and if I could get out of the habit of spilling drinks constantly (and also break my cat of walking across the desk and knocking over any drink he sees), I'd have a nice mechanical keyboard. For now, I wind up buying a new Logitech K120 (basic keyboard) every 3-4 months. iwentdoodie posted:Any ideas on how to perk up a cat? We have two, plus two dogs,but one cat is solidly my wife's. Since she flew out, all he's done is mope and sleep on things that smell like her. You might try Feliway. Or get some catnip and sprinkle it around random places, if he responds to catnip. T-Square posted:Man, gently caress this poo poo. I've been trying to get back out of my parents house again for the last few months, and nothing is loving working out for me. Places being rented out from under me right before my appointments to look at them, places that look great on craigslist that are super lovely in actuality. Parents and sister nagging me to just buy a house or a condo, gently caress what I want to do. Not that I'm just starting my career and am making $12/hour either way. I'm finally at a point where I can afford to move out again, but only if I move out to the sticks. My old dorm roommate has offered to let me move in for dirt cheap, but #1, no heating in the place at all (the city capped off the gas service to the house several years ago), so it's just space heaters keeping the place warm. And #2, he moves a pretty hefty amount of  . I enjoy , I still buy from him even though it's a 45 minute drive, but I sure as hell don't want to be around if poo poo goes down. Also, walking through the place makes me feel drunk, every floor and wall is at a different angle. It's kind of a bad part of town too (it backs up to the county jail), though it's literally walking distance from my mechanic.The upside is his landlord had most of the house rewired when he moved in (previously it was 3 breakers - 1 for the stove, 2 for the rest of the house - now there's an 8 circuit panel next to the meter - I have no idea if the original panel is even hooked up anymore), so it actually has grounded outlets in some rooms. His total rent is $495, and it's a 5 room house (kitchen, living, bedroom, bathroom, tiny laundry). The living room and bedroom are both the same size, and both have their own outside doors. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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iwentdoodie posted:I wasn't taking a shot at you personally, just the general situation there. I know, i was just laying it out. We probably won't stay here as I've said in the past. If this is ends up as her career we could end up in any one of a half dozen places. leica posted:Home ownership is a full time job. If you have an aversion to this you probably shouldn't own a home Which is why I don't own one.
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some texas redneck posted:OH HELL NO. I can't stand Microsoft keyboards or mice. They feel loving terrible to me, especially the "ergonomic" ones - I taught myself how to type in 3rd grade, and use all fingers on my right hand and 1-2 fingers on my left hand to type (and bang out well over 100 WPM doing so), and have no concept of home row. The ergonomic ones turn me into a 20 wpm hunt and peck typist. The ergonomic ones take about a week to get used but they're not bad. I basically use Logitech Mice exclusively too. They just seem to go on sale when I need a mouse. That said, I switched to mechanical only keyboards awhile ago and never looked back. Yeah, I'm the loud rear end in a top hat at work with a mechanical keyboard with cherry blues. Good thing most people around me wear headphones.
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I've had my share of mechanical keyboards, and I love them. They're just too drat expensive when I manage to ruin at least 3-4 keyboards a year. Sometimes I can save them (the Logitech keyboards anyway), if I unplugged them immediately after the drink spill and just rinsed them out with water (and let them dry for a few days). I actually had a dog pee on a mechanical keyboard once.  I soaked that keyboard in hot soapy water and rinsed it several times, fully expecting it to be dead. Worked just fine after letting it dry a couple of days, I got more than 2 years out of it after that. That's not something I want to risk again though.e: stepdad decided to buy a scale that weighs as accurate as 0.1g. Supposedly for making shakes and stuff. I asked him if I could borrow it for a moment (he knew I'd gone by my old roommate's after work tonight), he gave me a look and just said "as long as you're not smoking it in the house". Turns out I got an extra half gram. Not complaining.
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HotCanadianChick posted:You sure it was a V12 and not a straight-six? Yeah, I had just enough of a view under the hood to see that it was in fact the V12. And the bumper extensions may make it the ugliest E-type, but its still an E-type and something I've never actually had the chance to see irl.
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iwentdoodie posted:Any ideas on how to perk up a cat? We have two, plus two dogs,but one cat is solidly my wife's. Since she flew out, all he's done is mope and sleep on things that smell like her. I'm gone 11 hours or so during the day, and when I get home he won't even play. Normally the two cats are like toddlers, always loving with each other. Now he's like a goth kid. Think he'll be okay, or should I play catte shrink? Have you tried  ?
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Rhyno posted:People keep asking me why stay in Indiana? What you just described can be had for half the price here, usually on more land. Same here in Iowa, if you avoid the shitboxes in the cookie-cutter suburban cancer that spread out over the west side in the last decade. Most of those places won't make it to 15 years without major reworks, they were thrown up fast for the insurance company 'professionals' with money to burn who wanted McMansions, and all of the builders involved have long since declared bankruptcy and reformed under new names.
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So yesterday I put a hole in the the sidewall of a two week old tyre, then today I broke the loving metal detector this morning. One of the loving trimpots on it actually fell to pieces. Got that fixed eventually, still had an hour before dinner so I went out to test it and picked up about 30 loving bullets. So here I am turned off the detector, walking back to the car and spot a three gram nugget, just sitting by the base of a tree not ten feet from the first bullet I dug up. Not sure whether to be frustrated at the bullshit or loving elated to find a spot where it's just loving sitting around waiting for me.
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I love how our PM always schedules us to work 2hrs away when we have class that night. Nothing like leaving the house at 5a and not getting home until 9:30p.
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Holdbrooks posted:It is on 1.5 acre which is on the small end of what I'm looking for but it is a newer 1750sqft 3 bed 2 bath house with recent upgrades listed at 250k. I'm trying not to get my hopes up since I haven't seen it yet but it looks about perfect for what I want, and is on a paved road. The first hit I found for 1.5 acres over here was for some land in Hastings. 1.5 acres, 3 million. It DOES come with planning permission to build 115 apartments though... 115. 1.1 acres of basically scrub land was over 400k.
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zundfolge posted:Found out today that my childhood cat has a giant tumor so I'm going with my family to have to have him put to sleep tomorrow. He's 19, so he's had a good run, but that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. We lost his sister a few months ago and it sucked-I was hoping he'd hang around longer than this. My deepest sincere sympathies. It is a right kick in the guts. Someone asked why on earth I was so cut up about Stig dying - weeeeell..... okay I'll say it out loud for the first time. When my now ex-wife left, I was a fat unfit piece of poo poo with no real job who sat on his loving rear end moping and depressed, contemplating self harm. Simply put, I was so drat low I was ready to do something truly stupid when I had Stig jump on my desk, demanding attention. That next five minutes of patting him pretty much showed me I had poo poo to live for and that cat wasnt going to be fed without me. I completely turned my life around, got the gently caress fit, lost 20kgs (that I've managed to in general keep off), got my buiness going properly and just stopped with a god awful load of effort being so loving pathetic. Stig meant not being a waste of oxygen as I was so it was tough to have the really low days of my life bought back to focus. Not saying things in the last ten years have been all smooth sailing or good, but I'm still here and been reminded to enjoy life. I think a few other things I've had highlighted that need to be changed...... I'll get to them. TBH I'd be perfectly happy to simply jump on a bike and just ride. gently caress the rat race.
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leica posted:Home ownership is a full time job. If you have an aversion to this you probably shouldn't own a home This times eleventy-billion. There is always something to be done, and deferring becomes exponential in time and money.
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