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Prepuce of Doom

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  1. This could just as easily (and perhaps more appropriately) go in the Affordable Watches thread, but the continuity and timing seemed more appropriate to put here.

    Another green-faced Seiko with a 6R15 that's a bit more affordable (Alpinist, SARB017) - generally about $500, though it's been discontinued.

    It's pretty small (38mm) don't bother looking for one if you're a gigantic mutant freak.

    I just got around to putting a new Strapcode bracelet on it and it really looks like what the watch should have come with (at least in my opinion) instead of the terrible stock faux alligator strap.

    It's impossible to do justice to the sunburst face with pictures, but I tried... 19a03870596a0fdb60a7b98a79eaf6d4.jpgc57955e82d60c594795bc2cecd039c49.jpga36a5c93fb6b9d32425518b73ca5535e.jpg3a20855f7fd17e972d9d849943cc1faf.jpg

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  2. Kind of surprised that there isn't a thread yet. But not that surprised, I suppose, since it's on Epix, and who the hell knows what that channel is.

    I've watched the first two episodes, and it's a real hoot. Very absurd, Cohen-esque "oddball bumbling con men" kind of story. Great dialogue and intriguing, twisting plot. Stars Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Smith (young MIB from WestWorld, one of the McPoyles) among others. 

    Check it out. 

  3. Anyone know where I can find a printable spotter's guide for RoadAmerica? Or where one might be located by the end of the day tomorrow so I can print it at the office and use up all the company ink? 

    I've looked around and haven't found anything. 

  4. Bought a flexible/refundable ticket for today on Friday morning, canceled and requested the refund Friday afternoon. 

    All day yesterday my phone and email are giving me "it's now time to check in for your flight" bullshit. So I called them, and they called me back between an hour and twelve minutes and an hour and thirty-nine minutes later. 

    Dude who called confirmed that I'm all good for the refund and to just ignore the alerts because that happens all the time.

    Great system there - continue issuing me notifications for a flight I'm no longer taking. Thanks for that. 

  5. No, I never made it to see Jerry but I have been to ~10 Further, Other Ones, Dead and Co., etc., shows over the years.

    I just don't post in here much because I'm not quite obsessive enough over it to go off the deep end in nerdery. I'm prone to it, and I think that to take the plunge would eventually dampen my enjoyment of things, so I've purposefully kept myself above the fray. Back when I drank, I took the same attitude with craft beer and overall beer snobbery. "Just shut up and enjoy it all for what it is - there is no bad beer" etc. 

    I've got about a hundred tapes (and nothing to play them on anymore...) a bunch of Dicks Picks on CD, and all that... 

    My favorite songs are the ones about gamblers, scoundrels, and characters (Stagger Lee, Deal, Loser, Jack-a-Row, Dupree's, Monkey and the Engineer, Shakedown, etc.) - not the slow emo mopey ballads that are mainly Bob's purview. 

    I would have had a good time at the first Wrigley show, but I much, much, much prefer the setlist from last night to Friday's:

     

     

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  6. Just listened to some clueless fuck interrogate the bartender at the DFW Pappadeaux about the alcohol content of all the various IPAs on tap, and after each one in the 6ish range, he'd refuse a sample and scoff "too low" until the list ran out and he ultimately ordered a Stella. 

    If you're going to be a know-it-all, try to know at least something. 

    Really wanted to assault him. 

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  7. Bought a flexible return flight from LAX to ORD for tomorrow morning, shit changed (as suspected) so I'm heading home today instead. 

    No seats on any direct flights from LAX to ORD today according to the customer service representative I spoke with, despite Kayak suggesting otherwise. 

    So I booked a connecting flight out of Burbank to DFW to ORD at her suggestion, and despite asking several times whether the flexible fare would still apply given the different airport, and her subsequent assurance that there was no difference in fare, I was greeted with a strange message when I checked in at the kiosk and ultimately had to pay another $400 at the desk. 

    Now, I may still have booked this flight anyway even if I had known, but it pisses me off to be explicitly told one thing on the phone, act in reliance of that information, and have shit chaned on me once I have no other options. 

    Plus, fuck Burbank's airport. Undeserved hype for how small and easy it is. It's littered with Guy Fieri restaurants, for fuck's sake. 

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