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Tahlvin

I'll be driving through Nebraska on Wednesday on my way to Colorado for Spring Break, then back through on Sunday as we head back home. Sorry there won't be time to stop and visit with any of you Nebraskans as we pass through, but I'll wave to you from the Interstate!

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Sending hugs!

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Enjoy! I miss having a regular gaming session.

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Well, I do already have several Discord channels (or whatever they're called) related to NPR: one for Godball, and two for a game Mike started running where we were playing high school kids in a horror movie, Dangers in the Mist.

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Is anyone out there? Or has this site died off?

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Having flown in and out of Reagan National airport quite a bit for work in 2003/2004, I've followed the path that airplane was taking. If I had a choice nowadays, I would fly into Dulles or Baltimore and drive the extra time into DC rather than flying into National. Although the drive from the airpo...

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Eliahad! Happy New Year!

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I've worked around the health insurance industry since college, when I did a summer internship with an insurance company working with an actuary that negotiated reimbursement rates with physician offices. Then at a benefits consulting firm where the consultant helped clients choose their health insu...

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Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy holidays!

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Did I miss wishing Kyle a happy birthday yesterday?! If so, belated happy birthday!

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Good look on finding a matching kidney! And that's really freaking weird about the envelope!

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DMDarcs wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:54 pm I did have a theory that one of his parents was an old-timey gynecologist, and that he as a young child discovered some anatomical drawings, got really confused, and started Cthulu-ing.

Love it!

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There was a school shooting today in nearby Madison at a private Christian school.

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What he said.

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The aching is over, thankfully. I started running again, as well. Just a short, slow 1 mile 3 times a week and a 3 mile run on the weekend. But it's helping with the cardio.

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Oof. I strained a muscle in my lower back pretty bad at the end of August and had to stop exercising for several months. I started working out for the first time yesterday morning. It's usual to have aches when I first start working out after a break until my body gets used to it again, usually abou...

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I got to see my children on Thanksgiving day..and the THRE DAYS AFTERWARDS. Since my forced departure from my house, this four oay stretch is the longest that I have spent with my kids. And it was pretty good. We didn't do anything crazy. The biggest outing we made was to a vintage video game store...

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Quincy Jones, 91.

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If Ted Cruz can lose, that would be sweet! Don't let the door hit him in the ass as he flees to Cancun.

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Civic duty completed!

Here's hoping that gets me off some of the calling/texting/mailing lists. I hate being in a swing state.

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In person absentee voting begins for us tomorrow. My wife and I will probably vote tomorrow morning, then take the college kid to vote on Friday, when he doesn't have any classes.

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Phoebe wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2024 8:19 pm New Lord of rings show, prequel with story of ring creation. Jury is still out.

I watched the first season and it was so-so. Still need to start watching the second season. It's an interesting take on Tolkien lore, but it's just missing a little something, it feels like.

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I've seen pictures where old houses used to have a slot in the wall where you could dispose of your used, dull razor blades, but there wasn't actually a container for them, they would just fall into the gap between the plaster/sheet rock of the wall. Makes remodeling old houses a bit hazardous.

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How do you safely dispose of your used blades?

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Oof, that sucks. How can they mess up direct deposit? It's like 3 things: routing number, account number, and whether it's a checking or savings account. And if it works once, just repeat. Sorry you guys are going through this situation, and hope she is able to find something else quickly.

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Trump was in our small Wisconsin village today, speaking at a local factory. First Republican presidential candidate to campaign here in decades. And pisses me off that he's here, spewing his hate in my town.

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I'm so frustrated with the administration's response to this whole thing, letting Netanyahoo pretty much drive us into WWIII. And the seeming disregard for Palestinian civilian lives is disgusting.

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Is it just me, or does it seem like the rule of 3 has been thrown out the window and we're dealing with a lot of celebrity deaths all the sudden?

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Pete Rose, 83.

My uncle took me to a number of Reds games when I was little and I loved watching Rose, Bench, et al. Too bad he broke the cardinal rule of baseball and bet on it while still in the game. I personally think the lifetime ban was deserved.

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Forgot to also mention John Ashton, 76, from Beverly Hills Cop.

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I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that Zachary Levi is endorsing Trump. He used to advocate for mental wellness, and now he's endorsing the person who is both mentally unwell, and who is also probably most responsible for mental unwellness in the majority of the population, both anxiety inducing ...

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Kris Kristofferson, 88, has joined the big convoy in the sky.

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Maggie Smith, 89.

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Sending hugs! You have value!

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Hope you continue to get better! "Well enough for government work" doesn't seem like that's as well as you would like.

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Man, yesterday was nuts! The GOP NC governor candidate was exposed as having posted on a porn site that he was a "black Nazi", among many other vile comments. A reporter for New York magazine that was covering RFK Jr's campaign was put on leave after admitting to having an online relations...

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Now there is some sort of attack in Lebanon where handheld pagers are exploding all over the place, killing and injuring quite a few people rather indiscriminately.

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Apparently, he's been involved in multiple armed standoffs with police in the past. An officer involved in one of those a few years ago said in an interview that he figured the guy was either dead or in jail.

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Another apparent assassination attempt. Suspect is a 60 yo white male, former Trump voter with a weird social media history. And oddly timed to distract from the pet-eating nonsense. It will be interesting to see what the history of this time reads like 20, 30, 40 years in the future.

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Chad McQueen, son of Steve McQueen, dead at 63.

I did not realize he played the part of one of the Cobra Kai members in the original Karate Kid movies.

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And she got some shade in at JD Vance by signing it as a childless cat lady and including a picture of her with her cat.

And here is video of Trump and JD Vance's response.

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Swift endorsed Harris/Walz after last night's debate.

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I like the term "sane washing" about the media's coverage of Trump lately. Taking the nonsensical word-vomit that comes out of his mouth and turning it into something that seems coherent, leaving the media consumer with an impression that the man is more sane and intelligible than he reall...

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I have at least one case in my family tree of two brothers from one family marrying two sisters from another family, as well as at least one case of a brother marrying his brother's widow. But you have to go back to the 1800's or earlier to find those cases.

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James Earl Jones, 93.

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hoping the trip back is going well! Trip back was fine. We left very, very early Monday morning, drove straight through without spending the night anywhere (other than a quick nap in a rest area at one point), switched driving duties a few times, and made it back home to Madison Tuesday morning. Th...

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Purely anecdotal but hopefully promising: we drove cross country a few years ago to Seattle, and did it again this weekend, and there were very few Trump signs visible along the route this time compared to a significant number a few years ago.

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My oldest and their partner are moving to Seattle! They got a job at a daycare center just a ways north of the Space Needle and found an apartment a few blocks away from their work. They are flying out on 8/26 while my wife and I will be driving their car out to them over Labor Day weekend. They're...

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Awesome!

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This stuff with Trump at Arlington National Cemetery is another round of nutty stuff. And every news report that mentions that the employee declined to file charges should mention WHY she declined: because she was afraid of being harassed by Trump supporters.

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