Everything posted by hookem2010
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Woodworking, DIY, and home repair thread
Needed to touch up paint on a couple doors, then get the drawers sanded and painted. There are some imperfections if you get up close, but pretty happy with the transformation.
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Birding
They grab crawfish out of the little stream in our neighborhood park. You can find them around any pond or creek east of 35 from April-August or so. Cool dudes.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
On NPR right now... Florida man, who is benefiting from Obamacare, is happy for Trump to get elected and lose his insurance to do what is best for the country because he's "not selfish". Will simply remarry if he needs help finding Health insurance. Sounds like quite the catch!
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Who says the GOP doesn't have a platform!
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
At this point I know these people exist. I don't understand it, but I've come to grips with the fact that they are real. But when I actually read the things they say, it hurts my brain. It makes no goddamn sense. How did we evolve to become the dominant lifeform on the planet when a huge chunk of the human population has such dysfunctional thought processes?
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Lets talk Hawai'i (for poors)
The helicopter ride is pretty cool. It does kind of suck that they're such a constant presence though.
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Lets talk Hawai'i (for poors)
I did a week on Kauai for my honeymoon in 2018. I fell more into the poors classification, although we stretched it for our honeymoon. Stayed at the Sheraton Kauai, so don't have much of a recommendation for lodging outside of a resort. It was close to Poipu Beach, which got crowded, but was pretty good for snorkeling. Fish express near the airport is a great place for poke. As others have mentioned, a lot of the Kauai stuff can be cheap, as it's mostly nature stuff you can do on your own without significant cost. Waimea Canyon is beautiful. You can drive up past that to do some hiking along ridgelines overlooking Pihea Valley. If you're real adventurous, you can continue into the Alaka'i Swamp and try to find some native birds that will probably be extinct soon. We didn't get to do the Na Pali Coast hike, because crazy floods hit right as we arrived and fucked anything past Hanalei, but they look amazing. I'm sure Hanalei is more stunning when not shrouded by rain clouds and devastated by flood waters. The Kilauea Point Lighthouse is a cool overlook with a large seabird colony and the famous Hawaiian Geese. The rum distillery near the airport was cool to check out as well. All the more expensive stuff (helicopter ride, fancy dinners, all-inclusive resort, horseback ride, zipline) are things I wouldn't have included if I was planning a trip solely for myself.
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Surly Dad Thread
Little one turns 2 on Monday, with a party at an indoor playplace tomorrow. His first birthday was spent puking and in bed with a fever, so hopefully round 2 goes better. He's very shy and does horribly sitting at a table with people who aren't Mom and Dad, so I'm sure attempting to sing happy birthday and eat cake will be nothing short of a disaster. Little brother is about halfway cooked. It's been a much rougher pregnancy this time around, but it seems like my wife has turned a bit of a corner and is only occasionally feeling miserable, instead of constantly. The first pregnancy she loved me and hated everyone else. I'm more in the everyone else category this time, so that's been fun. I am relieved the 2nd one will be arriving after the worst of the heat, at least.
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Nor do they feel shame. Too bad, it's such an unpleasant feeling and they deserve to marinate in it for the rest of their lives.
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What We Do In The Shadows (Show)
Finally catching up on last season, and I'm about midway through. Colin Robinson with the weather was fucking great. And Nandor DeLaurentiis 😆
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Getting old sucks
Hahaha, i started to read the thread more after I posted and realized I probably am not welcome here. I'll observe from the sidelines for now.
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Getting old sucks
Going to the Dr soon for the first time in 4 years, basically just to get a referral for a vasectomy. Feeling pretty good at 36, but my younger siblings are currently pissing out kidney stones and incapacitated from back pain. Hopefully I inherited all the healthy genes. That shit does not sound fun.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Wow, I didn't know he was THAT Royce White. If you fail at your chosen profession, run for office as a GOP, I guess.
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Blastfurnace 2024
I was at home with a one year-old all last summer. Good times. I don't know if it will be any easier with him being 2, but at least he's in daycare now. I was really starting to lose it by August.
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Off Grid Alaska
Speaking of animals attacking... Grizzly bear sprays itself (not Alaska)
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
I feel like this is how many of us rationalize friends and family who continue to support Trump. "They're not bad people, they've just been duped!" My parents are in this group. While I would love to believe they care about more than money and are not that racist, I can't blame Fox News alone for their beliefs. I can put a good amount of blame on right-wing media, but my parents are smart enough to not be let off the hook so easily I still love them and I'm not ready to cut them out of my life, as some people on here like to suggest. But I'm not about to give them a free pass on their shitty beliefs because of brainwashing, and if they bring them up around my family or me, we're going to have problems.
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Whatcha reading?
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Woodworking, DIY, and home repair thread
Was out of town last week, so I only just resumed my work on the cabinets. Waiting for the last couple shelves to cure, but started to put up my doors. I'm really pleased overall, except the fit is just slightly off on some of the doors. I'm not sure if they were this way before (certainly possible, all I could see was the painful honey oak), or if not keeping track of specific hinges threw it off just a little bit. Any suggestions to perfect the alignment?
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“Classic” books/novels you’ve loved or hated
I don't think I've read any of these since I turned 26 (36 now), so it would definitely be interesting to see what I get out of a lot of these books now that I've been out in the real world for a while.
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“Classic” books/novels you’ve loved or hated
I need to sprinkle some classics into my non-fiction. I don't know that it's fair to mention any that I particularly hated, since they were primarily in high school and I was "forced" to read them. I have tried to start The Sound and the Fury a couple of times without picking up much steam. Top 3 are... 1. 100 years of Solitude- It's been a decade since I read this, and I'm hopefully going to Colombia in a couple months, so due for a re-read. 2. 1984- I'm a glutton for punishment I guess, because well-done books/shows/movies that are terrifying and depressing are often my favorites. 3. East of Eden- My now-wife gave me this to read when we first started dating, so fortunately I loved it just as much as she did. Multi-gemerational stories seem to capture my attention (see #1). Catch-22 and A Brave New World probably round out the top 5. Man, I really need to read more.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Member when you had to drop out of the presidential race because you did a goofy, yelling fist pump? I member...
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Whatcha reading?
I feel like most people are at least passingly familiar with dinosaurs and animals of the ice age. But the time between produced some really weird shit that hardly anyone knows about. Paraceratherium, gigantopithecus, fucking entelodonts? Aka giant rhino-giraffe, sasquatch and hell pig. Terrifying.
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Whatcha reading?
Prehistoric shit is my jam, so I picked this up at the library and I know I'm going to love it just a few pages in. Rach chapter, he describes a specific location of a given epoch/era as if you are there, observing the landscape and its inhabitants.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Why not?
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Birding
May be a pen-raised escapee, but given the craziness of that storm, a bird blowing in from the Katy Prairie seems possible. Definitely looks like a bobwhite, despite the odd coloration.