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Sandman

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  1. Nah, we were in slow rush hour traffic, in the middle lane.
  2. The guy in front of me on the interstate decided to use his windshield washer and the mist/water droplets were blown all over my windshield. But just enough to make a smear, not enough to get fully wiped away.
  3. His path was set in stone once his parents glossed him with that name. He was powerless to stop it, really.
  4. This has really been hitting home for me lately. I'm rewatching the Ken Burns County Music doc and they interviewed Charley Pride, Mel Tillis and Merle before they all died. And then they have Loretta Lynn, Willie and others that probably don't have much longer, it really hits home that the entertainers that have been around since before my parents were born won't be here forever. It feels weird and scary.
  5. My kid transferred to a new college (wife's alma mater, so I'm doubly supportive) and I had my eye on this particular t-shirt in the bookstore, but it's always sold out in my size. We were back on campus this weekend and I checked again and I saw it folded in the stack in the little shirt-cube thing. The sticker had the correct size, the tag inside the collar was correct as well. I bought it, but when I got home and unfolded it, I discovered that it was long sleeve. Motherfucker.
  6. I just watched this tonight, it was sad. I wasn't some superfan but I liked his work. I've only seen No Reservations and I've read his first couple of books. It made me glad that, while I've had some serious (IMO) down points in my life, I've never thought I should just end it all. I'm very thankful for that. But it really made me think about some things I've been dwelling on, made me feel like I needed to take of my training wheels, so to speak, and do some of those things I always talk about but never seem to do. To put myself out there and take a risk or two, nothing dangerous but just to allow myself the opportunity to triumph or fail and to be OK with either outcome. You only live once, right?
  7. I downloaded a program (forgot the name) that you start up before you start your game and it keeps you in a solo online lobby. It just kicks people out before they can even get in. So I could run my cocaine or weed sales without being bothered, it was great. *Edit* It's called Guardian, I think. I haven't played in at least a year and a half, so I don't even know it it still works.
  8. I have watched almost every show/film I liked on Prime slide out of prime and into one of those subscription packs they offer. Some went to IMDBtv, others to Britbox, or Docs or something. It's like cable all over again, I'm not doing it. All it's done is made me scour downloading sites to find the shows I want and put them on my plex server. It has been a pain in the ass but fuck Amazon.
  9. I'm partial to Tango & Cash.
  10. It's stories like this that make me glad that both of my parents left home after HS and never went back, other than an occasional visit. I hardly know any of my extended family and none of them even know where we live, so I don't have to worry about freeloaders showing up after Dad's gone.
  11. I don't see a 45 degree angle on those footprints. Did they outsource to China or something?
  12. A tale as old as time. My wife will buy those pre-made salads at our local grocery store and it's inevitable that at least one of them gets tossed by sunday ("I forgot that was in there!"). She actually ate all of the ones she bought the last week and tried to spike that football in my face, like she solved an ancient math equation that's baffled scientists for generations. I just told her I was proud of her and walked away.
  13. Lewis has that look on his face of someone who had his lunch stolen from the work fridge.
  14. Every other radio ad is for boner pills or some other ED treatment. And yes, I'm too cheap to pay for SiriusXM or any other music service.
  15. Watching the dude in Barcelona light the cauldron with a fucking flaming arrow is still ingrained in my memory. Absolutely loved it.
  16. When you accidently pull off two post-it notes instead of just one. You can never get that extra one back on the pad just right.
  17. We had a LT come by after lights out one night. The firewatch was supposed to greet him with "ATTENTION ON DECK, GOOD EVENING, SIR" but he said something to the effect of "um...hello". The SDI was there and he came out, obviously pissed. He was only there for a minute or two and I heard him say to the SDI "Does he know what to do when I leave?", in a tone of just pure sarcasm and contempt for the kid. SDI says "You know what Sir, I just don't know.". Dude got bent the next day and we all got a lecture.
  18. He got 4 schools on probation: A&M, OSU, OU and Illinois. The grand slam of cheating, I guess.
  19. Does he pay them under the table? Or maybe a $50 handshake? Sorry, disgruntled OSU fan here.
  20. My dad was given fentanyl when he was in the hospital for his heart attack/bypass surgery. It made him hallucinate and he said it was horrible. He told them no more after that. That shit scares me.
  21. Everyone already thinks ou is fucking trash, why beat a dead horse?
  22. It's like they snapped a pic of the Hulk as he's turning back into Bruce Banner.
  23. We went to dinner last friday at a local BBQ place. They have 6-7 stores in the OKC metro, been in business over 20 years. We go in and the first thing I notice is another family standing around. Usually you get seated right away, and there were plenty of open tables, so it was odd. We had to order our food at this walk-up counter and I heard the manager (I assume because he was the only one wearing a polo shirt) quietly tell my wife "We have no servers tonight". Our food was delivered quickly and it was fine, no complaints. I did notice the place was nearly empty. I have no idea if they're a shitty employer that is now reaping what they've sown or if it's just the way things are going.
  24. I worked there in the late 90s. It was a shithole even then. It got so bad that the county sheriff's office lost control of the jail and it was turned over to a trust. Nothing has changed. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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