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Sandman

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  1. Shit, I know someone who used it for a couple of low level legal arguments (not in court) and he's 2-0. He loves that thing.
  2. It's just going to let her know which stuff she doesn't have yet. And another trip to Target will commence.
  3. Kirk has made $231MM, I'd take whatever advice he wanted to give me.
  4. LOL the backups are getting takeaways now.
  5. Well, there was one guy that just couldn't cut the mustard. We traded him to....wait a sec....
  6. Flipping around football games yesterday and watched some of the end of the Eagles game. They pan into the crowd and there's a guy wearing a cool hat. Not an eagles hat, I don't like the eagles at all. It looked like the old powder blue Phillies stuff they used to wear in the 70s. But it's not a phillies hat, it had something else written on it in the old phillies font. It took me under 2 minutes to find this hat online. It's from a surf shop in New Jersey, of all places. It just made me think about when I was a kid watching a movie or tv show, and I'd see a guy wearing a cool t-shirt or hat or something and wish I had that. There was no way to figure out where the item was from or how to get it. Now I can find out in minutes.
  7. I'm colorblind and at first glance, I always think its the South Africa flag.
  8. Someone said "They solved this murder before the Dallas Cowboys made another NFC championship game", which is gold.
  9. I don't get these old-ass politicians. Why don't they just go home and spend their remaining years with their grandkids and great-grandkids? Do they hate their families too much or do their families hate them? It can't be the money, none of those pricks are poor. Is the allure of power too much to overcome? If I have to listen to my 76 year old dad tell the same damn story for the 100th time, their families should have to do the same.
  10. I'm in Oklahoma and I'd like to stab you with a rusty spoon. I'm paying over $3200 a year for what I'm sure is much less house. The weather up here fucks us royally.
  11. I mean, I took all of my resume photos next to this tree. It's like family! I called the project manager and explained how the tree has been cut up and how I'm concerned about the stability and would like it to be removed. I think he was caught off guard and was expecting me to bitch about how much I loved the tree. He said he would talk to his superintendent and one of them would be in contact.
  12. I had a letter put on my front door last week, stating that my city (not in Texas FWIW) had contracted them to replace a sanitary sewer pipe in my area. The letter stated that they would excavate a hole in my yard and take down some fence panels but when they were done, they would put everything back as it was. I called the project manager, who listed his contact info on the letter, and asked for further details. He said the same thing, that they would determine where the pipe is and dig a hole and blah blah. I was satisfied with what he said. I came home Monday and found that my yard looked like a WW1 battlefield. I get it, dirt comes out of a hole and it has to go somewhere, no biggie. But the area in which they're working is right along my back fence, where there happens to be a large tree. There was a large backhoe in there and to get the backhoe where it needed to be, they have cut off a decent sized portion of my tree. Now, I don't like this tree and it is starting to lean towards my neighbor's yard and I'd love to have it cut down. The area of the tree they have cut off is near the bottom, so I'm concerned it might be a little top heavy. Combine that with the dirt being dug up and now I wonder if that make is even more unstable. I was thinking about calling the project manager again and telling him my concerns and see if they would just cut the tree down. I'd even be willing to kick in a little cash but I'm not gonna say that unless he brought it up. I don't want to just be some complaining Karen but if they hadn't come in and dug shit up, I'm not having these concerns about the tree right now. Would asking for them to cut the tree down be an asshole move?
  13. My wife and I were chatting when she got home from work yesterday, talking about our days. She mentioned that her assistant was going to be off on Thursday and Friday. I asked why and she said "That's the anniversary of her mom's death and she always takes off that day". I stopped for a second and realized that the anniversary of my mom's death....is today. 16 years ago. It seems like much longer. My sister and I used to call and talk on this date every year, but I don't remember doing that for quite a few years. I was going to call my dad for unrelated reasons but now I think I'll wait till tomorrow. I don't know if he'll bring it up and I just can't handle listening to him talk about it.
  14. 90% of the time after I hang up the phone after a call from a customer (or anyone outside the office), I'm muttering "Stupid motherfucker" under my breath. And I know they'll never stop calling. I have at least 10 more years of this.
  15. I don't think my mother ever filled up her own car. My dad would go out whenever it got low and gas it up. When I was younger, he'd ask me if I wanted to go, and it was some nice father/son bonding.
  16. I used to watch my wife iron. Now I watch her use the steamer. Fuck ironing.
  17. My buddy was a medic in Afghanistan. When his unit would go door to door, he was the breacher that went in with a 12 gauge. He got to go home on leave when his son was born. Fast forward to today, his son is 13 and playing the new Call of Duty game. My buddy is watching him play and his son had built a breacher class, complete with a 12 gauge and whatnot. He tells his son "Hey, that's me. I did that in the war.". He said his son looked at him and scoffed "Pfft, you were just a medic".
  18. My mom's father was like that. Her folks lived in Colorado, we were in California and then Oklahoma. He couldn't be bothered to visit. My grandmother came out once. We went up there 2 or 3 times. I only met him 5 times in my life. He was never rude or shitty towards us, just didn't really care. I had my first grandchild 5 months ago and I worry about how that relationship works. I've never had a grandfather give me a hug and tell me he loves me. My dad's dad died before I was born, this is foreign territory for me. My other kid is having a baby next year, so I need to un-fuck myself and figure it out, I suppose.
  19. Both of my folks were born in the 40s and raised in the midwest (Indiana & Iowa). I spent most of my childhood in the Philippines or western Europe. My first introduction to tacos was from Taco Mayo in the OKC suburbs. But I had already been eating stuff like fried rice and lumpia from our time in the PI, so I was somewhat cultured.
  20. I turn 50 next month but I hadn't seen or eaten a taco until I was 13 or 14 years old.
  21. Septmber 26, 2007. I'm at work and my wife calls to tell my that my sister called her to say my mom had been taken to the hospital. My sister couldn't reach me for whatever reason. I rush to the hospital, which is 30 mins away. I get there and my dad tells me my mother is dead. He is crushed beyond belief. My wife comes out to see me, the kids are in kindergarten so I have to tell them that night that their grandma is in heaven. They are understandably upset, as am I. 3 weeks later, my wife tells me I need to leave the house and she wants a divorce. A couple-three weeks after I had moved in with my grieving dad, I found evidence that she had been having an affair for months. She denied the affair with some bullshit technicality, like it was a TV crime show. My poor dad had already given her some of my mom's jewelry, telling her how much my mom liked her and she would've wanted her to have this. I got it all back. He asked me "How could she take that stuff, knowing what she had done?". My dad never acted angry towards her in person but she was dead to him after that. But time has it's way of working on things. I've been remarried for 14 amazing years. My dad is still alive. My ex-wife lives like a pig and has 2 more failed marriages under her belt. My kids keep their contact with her to a minimum, as they know she's pretty much an unreliable loser.
  22. The motto of every man at some point in his marriage.
  23. I don't care how much any of them make, suits or line workers. Just make a car that isn't a piece of shit for a decent price. I'm not paying $50k for whatever the fuck Ford is putting out there.
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