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Rushi posted:Edit: this train has wifi. Who has good train songs? The last of the good old fashioned steam powered trains, by the Kinks Nighttime at the switching yard, by Warren Zevon Old Ruben (trad), performed perhaps by Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley |
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I went from Chicago to Arizona on Amtrak. I usually hate travel, but I loved the trip. Good views, decent food, and you can get up and walk around whenever you want. Also, booze.
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I love train Compared to bus the routes i take the trains are like $10 more expensive and nominally 1 hr longer but it's so worth it because the greyhound on my usual routes are always 2+ hours late and they don't goddamn tell you what's going on so you're sitting in the station like am i going to get a bus today or what and it's not even guaranteed you'll get to go on the bus because they overbook and with the delay it would have been faster to take the train after all Also the train goes along beautiful appalachian river valleys with good views and rocks you gently back and forth in your covered seat whereas the greyhound just travels along the interstate and vibrates with the fury of thousands of CCs of diesel combustion |
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Dec 7, 2016 18:19
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now that i have a car batt-ry, i can go to the gym  gonna be swole, gonna lift weights. gonna be swole, and burn off my saddlebags
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It takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry, by Bob Dylan |
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alnilam posted:It takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry, by Bob Dylan Quick! Get that man a Nobel Prize!
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Dec 7, 2016 18:27
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hamjobs posted:ETA: fanky fanky get the timbits holiday assortment, there are weird camo balls I can't, I'm too boring and I only like sour cream glazed. Also I went to Starbucks because it's across the parking lot from my gym. Between that and the fact that I have a personal trainer, I feel like my transformation into the ultimate basic suburban white b*tch is almost complete. I better put Uggs on my Christmas list to make it official.
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sig brought to you by the amazing & beautiful vanisher, feat. Helle Woods, artisinally designed by Death Sext !!!
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My dad loves trains and at some point last year he rounded up as many family members as possible and had us drive out to some mountain town and take an old train to another mountain town through the woods.
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Dec 7, 2016 18:54
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I just ate way to much food from a Japanese restaurant and now I am going to explode and die.
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Dec 7, 2016 18:55
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:now that i have a car batt-ry, i can go to the gym I've been working out again lately, too. Let's get swole! It's weird doing strength training when you're fat, because I am like a huge lard but also I can do that thing where I make my pecs dance. |
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Dec 7, 2016 19:00
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Sushi is tricky for me. At first I am comfortably full and then with one additional piece I become very much not that. Gonna grab a doz donuts for my work homies. Thanks for the inspiration byob chat thread
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Dec 7, 2016 19:01
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Rushi, idk if you live in portland or if you're just visiting, but if you an actually good donut and you have time sometime, you should go to Sesame Donuts on Beaverton-Hillsdale highway because they have a bunch of cheap donuts and donut friends. You can get like 15 donuts holes for like less than 2 bucks I think, and they have different kinds of donut holes. When my gf and I went there for the first time they gave us a free cinnamon roll that they warmed up for us and it was soooooo good. Voodoo is for tourists and is mediocre, and really you should only ever buy the bucket of stale donuts from them. |
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Dec 7, 2016 19:43
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Bo-Pepper posted:inri you look smashing in your Christmas regalia thank you, it was made for me by a poster called blackheart. :-] |
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Dec 7, 2016 19:50
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I.N.R.I posted:thank you, it was made for me by a poster called blackheart. :-] more like giantheart am I right friends
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Dec 7, 2016 19:51
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vanisher posted:more like giantheart am I right friends i agree |
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I.N.R.I posted:i agree dang i didn't see that it lit up before v good |
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in chinese culture the color black doesn't carry a stigma whereas white is associated with death hmm it's a lot to think about |
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Munchables posted:Rushi, idk if you live in portland or if you're just visiting, but if you an actually good donut and you have time sometime, you should go to Sesame Donuts on Beaverton-Hillsdale highway because they have a bunch of cheap donuts and donut friends. You can get like 15 donuts holes for like less than 2 bucks I think, and they have different kinds of donut holes. When my gf and I went there for the first time they gave us a free cinnamon roll that they warmed up for us and it was soooooo good. Voodoo is for tourists and is mediocre, and really you should only ever buy the bucket of stale donuts from them. I'm actually down in Eugene.  Haha it really is touristy as hell but I think they got a great fritter and I just got a personal thing for that chocolate pentagram one (they were always delicious at 3am.) I've had sesame once but not fresh, I'll definitely try next time I'm craving in that area.
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Dec 7, 2016 20:27
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3 days until the drop dead ship deadline for byob secret santa if you signed up and didn't send anything now would be an excellent time to panic
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deadly_pudding posted:I've been working out again lately, too. Let's get swole! is the dance where you kinda squeeze like your arm a little bit and then that side of u r chest moves and it's like whoa wow because h*ck yeah i missed like 3 weeks thanks to no car battery, being stranded at home sucked but i've gotten a lot of writing & housework done and my mother in law's visit seems to have been a success, so... trade-offs?
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Dec 7, 2016 20:43
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voodoo doughnuts is a lot like grocery store doughnuts, like, if you have ever been to the southeast US and went to a bi-lo (or food lion), bi-lo (or food lion) sells doughnuts with an identical crumb, just voodoo puts weirder stuff on theirs. blue star doughnuts up by legit great sandwich place Lardo at 13th SW / Burnside area is really good though (however they've taken a drop in quality since the first 3 months they were opened imo) |
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Dec 7, 2016 20:44
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FluffieDuckie posted:3 days until the drop dead ship deadline for byob secret santa panicking rn
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Dec 7, 2016 20:56
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Bo-Pepper posted:i didn't need the stress so didn't sign up for any of it! i need the stress to get poo poo done otherwise i would lay around and complain about my lumbago all day i don't know what lumbago is but i'm going to assume it's an RV for camping
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:is the dance where you kinda squeeze like your arm a little bit and then that side of u r chest moves and it's like whoa wow Yeah that's the one. It's weird how that just becomes a thing you can suddenly do after you do bench presses for a long enough time. I don't think that's a muscle group I would have had any idea how to isolate before  That sucks about your car battery. Mine died a few weeks ago, but thankfully I was in a position to just get a new one. It wasn't one of the weeks like this one where I paid all my bills and now I have $30 in my checking account lol |
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Dec 7, 2016 20:59
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deadly_pudding posted:Yeah that's the one. It's weird how that just becomes a thing you can suddenly do after you do bench presses for a long enough time. I don't think that's a muscle group I would have had any idea how to isolate before the real problem is way dumber than money; the nearest place to get one is way too far to walk, and my partner went to some cloud cuckoo land and kept forgetting to pick one up until i had to walk to a dr appointment. shame is a powerful motivator, as are blisters!  we're professional adults here in chez pool
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joke_explainer posted:voodoo doughnuts is a lot like grocery store doughnuts, like, if you have ever been to the southeast US and went to a bi-lo (or food lion), bi-lo (or food lion) sells doughnuts with an identical crumb, just voodoo puts weirder stuff on theirs. The blue star at the airport just opened and a coworker and I tried it. It was alright, but pretty underwhelming. Sesame is mucho goodo. |
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Munchables posted:The blue star at the airport just opened and a coworker and I tried it. It was alright, but pretty underwhelming. Sesame is mucho goodo. I'm sorry they disappointed. Somebody who works there said they've cut back on a lot of the quality stuff for cheaper replacements lately, guess they're under some economic pressure. |
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Dec 7, 2016 21:18
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Is UPS or USPS a better bet this time of the year/month.
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UPS is always better imo but more expensive. USPS is cheap, and you can schedule a pickup at your house if you don't want to take a bunch of poo poo to the post office for free. As long as you box it well it'll be fine in general. |
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as I recently learned, you can get some pretty decent UPS discounts by linking your eBay account. USPS can be pretty cheap with priority mail, but UPS comes out cheaper sometimes with the discounts. http://pages.ebay.com/upssavings/index.html other eBay discounts: http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/shipping/carrier-options.html#816210524 it says the UPS discount is for "eBay sellers" but I can confirm it works for packages that have nothing to do with eBay sales and as a bonus you can print your postage labels at home, schedule UPS pickups, etc.
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if you're mailing to Canada, use USPS instead of UPS. UPS up here is very not good. |
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Subjunctive posted:if you're mailing to Canada, use USPS instead of UPS. UPS up here is very not good. ya usps links over to canada post in my experience and canada post has become great cuz they'll hold my stuff at the nearest office if I'm not home |
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I love USPS for international mail, they've never lost anything I've sent over the years. And boy howdy I've mailed a lotta p**p overseas.
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ime usps has a stronger ethic than ups of "deliver this mail no matter what even if the address just says 'alnilam, Pittsburgh' and it's literally an LP with the address taped to it" |
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alnilam posted:ime usps has a stronger ethic than ups of "deliver this mail no matter what even if the address just says 'alnilam, Pittsburgh' and it's literally an LP with the address taped to it" We get amazingly poorly packed stuff sent to work USPS, and they hardly ever arrive destroyed. UPS has a worse track record.
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hi  how's it hangin
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I feel like I'm coming down with a cold  i'm going to try to sleep like 12 hours tonight, wish me health
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