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  1. Hi All. Today, I got to do a small tour of Prague. Too much to see in just a few short hours of course, and these pics don't do the place justice, but I saw a castle!
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  3. Q got into one of the private schools for next year. That's a relief. It's a really small school (22 kids max per grade/class) so I hope that's the right fit.
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  4. Here are some pics of Dresden and a museum I visited!
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  5. No pictures yet, but I landed in Prague today!
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  6. Mandatory retirement age for all of them, I'd be fine with 70. These people stay for the power and control, and nothing more.
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  8. Actual photo from the press conference
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  9. Agreed with Krawlie and Metropolis. The Roman vs Rock match was the plan. But WWE botched the execution. They thought the fans would be fine with Rock just taking Cody’s WM spot because hey, it’s the Rock! They misjudged how much we’re invested in Cody, which is a damn shame because they should know better. Shows you what they really think of their fans if they feel it’s that easy to take a character like Cody whom they’ve built up for years and just toss him to the side. The optics were made all the worse because around that same time the Rock was all over the news as the new member of the TKO board. Thank our lucky stars Vince is no longer in charge because if so, they would’ve doubled down on Rock vs Roman and done things to make Cody look stupid just to screw with everybody. Credit to WWE creative and the Rock himself for recognizing what was happening and pivoting. The last thing they wanted was for Philadelphia to crap on their main event. Rock knows all about that since the last time WWE tried to push Reigns on the fans, he and the Rock were booed out of the building at the 2015 Royal Rumble in Philly. Roman has been great for WWE as its heel champion and you can’t deny that title has been made super important because of how long he’s held it (same as Gunther with the IC title). The Bloodline storyline was red hot two years ago with Sami Zayn joining the group and then all that went down with that. Had Reigns lost to Cody at last year’s WM, it would’ve been the perfect culmination to the whole Bloodline angle. But it lost its steam after Roman beat Cody and then disappeared for most of the year. IMO it was made worse by, every time he did wrestle, as infrequent as it was, all the matches were the same. I get that he’s a heel, but seriously? Many great heels in the past have had their share of clean wins. Just last month when Roman was in a 4-way match against Orton, Styles and LA Knight, that would’ve been the perfect opportunity to have a clean win. It’s a 4-way!!! Just have Orton hit the RKO on Styles or something like that where Roman could then sneak up behind Randy, toss him out of the ring and then he gets the pin on Styles. But no, even in a match involving so many wrestlers, they still had the same ending where the Bloodline interfered so Roman gets another cheap win.
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  10. Some of my favorites: 1. Braveheart. 2. Pulp Fiction. Quenton knows how to pick good songs. 3. Conan the Barbarian (don't drive to this, especially in rush hour with a battle axe!) 4. I also like the Star Trek soundtracks, especially Star Trek 2 and 3 5. GOTG 6. Master and Commander on the far side of the world.
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  11. Yeah, the bank refunded it all while they do their investigation.
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  12. Thanks! He is asking for more food and drinks today so far this morning. Hopefully this keeps up and he gets back to his normal self soon
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  13. New students signed up for next year...I swear to god...
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  15. Personally, I shy away from referbs. I'm not to keen on HP and for the Optiplex, Dell generally has weak power supplies, making upgrading your video card a challenge. I would say just save your money up and get a rig you really want instead of compromising.
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  16. You need a dangly chandelier. I fully admit my bedroom is minimalist. I need to change up the comforter but I can never find anything I like. It's white and teal chevron currently which I'm pretty sure screams 2015.
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  18. You shouldn't be buying a PC with a 4 core processor in this day and age. No less that 6 cores with Multi-threading. Walmart carries this Ryzen 5 5500 rig for $800. https://www.walmart.com/ip/CyberPowerPC-Gamer-Master-Gaming-Desktop-AMD-Ryzen-5-5500-16GB-AMD-Radeon-RX-6700-10GB-1TB-SSD-Black-GMA6800WST/1593349367?athbdg=L1103&from=/search
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  19. Have y'all seen some of the bat-shit insanity coming from CPAC? I mean, more than the usual bat-shit insanity that is typically CPAC.
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  20. I was looking for old costume photos and found this relic that had to be shared
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  21. Are dudes in Seattle pissed that everyone is stealing their look?
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  22. But random, but this new age of working from home a lot more brings some changes. When ploughing on with some routine spreadsheet work, I find it nice to pop a CD (alright grandad! ), with a classic soundtrack! Have been enjoying loads of popular classics, but standouts are: 1. Star Trek 3 (expanded score 2 disc set) - just love this! Recent purchase and defo my fave of the ST films! 2. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - I know the film divides opinion, but I am a fan and this disk is packed with the instrumental tracks as well as the big T’s two songs. Lovely stuff! 3. All the Bonds! So many versions of this out there, but basically all the main songs to the JB films. Nice to have on in the background! 4. Local Hero - film is fantastic and so unlike anything else. The score is a big part of that being so successful. So I prefer a largely instrumental score, just to avoid distractions when working, but with a few exceptions like above and also things like Pulp Fiction or other belters!
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  23. She’s really spot on, because the dialect and pacing is spot on with male V. The moment I started playing with female V, that really stood out, especially the little rasp in the voice.
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  24. Poor dude! I hope he is better soon.
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  25. Sehr gut! Is that how you say it? Wait, no. It's super bueno. Yeah, that's better. Anyway, I'm with Cerina.....super jealous.
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  26. I had a Girl Scout meeting tonight. You guys are way more interesting. Cerina, ughhh I'm super sorry about the account. We never use our debit cards anymore because I'm so worried about this happening. I wish the bank would issue us an old school ATM only card. Are you going to be able to recover the money?
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  27. I went out to my trashcan in the alley this morning. I look to my right and I see a black (unmarked) van with 6 Swat members carrying AR15s, approaching the house from the back. It turns out it was a drug sting, with 3 different houses in the area.
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  28. So yesterday someone cleaned out one of our bank accounts. They stole my debit card number, so now I have to get a new card...again. This is like the 3rd card in 2 years. But that wasn't the most interesting part of my day. Trevor and I each got a letter in the mail from the Polaski, Indiana Department of Children's Services letting us know that some kid we've never heard of was removed from her home and we had to be notified by law since we're related. Long story short, she turned out to be one of Trevor's ex-wife's kids. Trevor and his ex divorced almost 20 years ago. They were together for less than a year. We have no earthly idea how or why we wound up being flagged as relatives. Even using the legal definition of "relative" in the law the letter referenced we wouldn't qualify except as "any other related adult as named by the child or their parent". Other oddities - my letter came to me with my maiden name on it, a name I haven't used in 12 years at least; both envelopes were handwritten with our current address which we haven't even updated our DLs to, they both still say Houston; the envelope was postmarked 01/29/24 but we got it yesterday.
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  29. Q and I both have night skiing goggles. They're a very light green tint and block almost no light. I also have a pink pair for bluebird days. But since most of our skiing is at night, I don't use them super often. Truly, picking the right tint really helps. The green is better than no tint because it does block the glare from the lights and allows me to see the terrain in flat light. Kids on blues is a game changer. It makes taking them so much more enjoyable.
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  30. Nice! I've always wanted to go to Prague.
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  31. That's so awesome! My family is ethnically Czech, and I need to take my dad to Prague before he gets too old to travel.
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  32. That’s really cool! Sorry you didn’t get to spend more time there, but those are great pictures. I’m glad you’re getting to see awesome places there.
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  33. That architecture is so much cooler than the drab buildings we have in North America, save for some old Cathedrals.
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  34. You could look at getting a Steam Deck. They have an OLED edition which is meant to be amazing. It's basically a handheld like switch but it runs PC games and it's about £300-£400 for regular Steam Deck and about £500-£600 for the OLED. So you won't need to subscribe to anything and can play anywhere you want. Bed gaming sounds nice, but you can connect it to the TV with USB-C to HDMI cable. Just want a long enough cable to sit comfortably. My mate has one and he loves it. https://uk.pcmag.com/migrated-84555-gaming/149731/valve-steam-deck-oled
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  35. I went to a LAN party last night. We had 4 displays, with 2 players on each. We were playing Halo 3 on Xbox 360s. Those graphics haven't aged well, but the gameplay is all there.
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  36. Sweet. Share some pics!
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  37. I liked this recent season a lot, but there's a lot holding me back from saying that I loved it. The biggest problem for me is that it can't decide if it wants to be its own thing or be True Detective. There's a lot of little beats that tries to tell the viewer that it's going to be the polar opposite of Season One, but it still simultaneously makes a ton of fanservice callbacks that ultimately lead to nothing. The plot is pretty cool and is a great mystery, but there's a lot of little complications that make for a lot of little plotholes. For example, the tongue on the floor still makes no sense as there's no real (or at least clearly explained) motivation for anyone to have done that. It's almost as if someone decided that would make for a great hook in the first episode, but they never really got around to fully expanding on that for the story as a whole. This whole thing feels like HBO wanted to fill a date with an IP and they rushed a creator to get them something on that pre-determined date. Another script draft could have really pushed this from good to great.
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  38. I just treated myself to some new RAM and a CPU. Upgrading from a R7 3800x to a 5700X3D and getting 32 GB of 3600MHZ ddr4 ram. Will be my final upgrade before AM6 systems launch in however many years
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  39. I'm re-painting my bedroom now. Well, technically, a friend is doing it for me, but it's happening now. The walls are going to be Benjamin Moore's "romantic pink" (it looks more like muted orchid in this room), furniture is off white and I have two Pier One mirrored end tables and crystal lamps. I have one sheepskin rug. Is there anything that screams "glam" that would be a must-have for you in bedroom decor?
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  40. Took Q to Alpental tonight for the first time and it was glorious. No lift line longer than a 5 minute wait and much better conditions than Central lately. They got 3 feet of snow since last weekend and while it's not pristine corduroy, there were some glorious steep sections without moguls. We only skied 2 different runs because only the bottom half of the mountain was open for night skiing, next time I am going to try to get her to take Cascade Traverse so we can drop in on a few runs that are some really fun black diamond runs that are usually pretty powdery.
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  41. Just drink out of glass bottle using a straw and you should be fine during,
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  42. D. Porthault Paris fleurs d'Avril sheets. $4500.00 for the king sized set.
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  43. Those options all sound nice. I had a layover like that 7 or so years ago but it was all in the middle of the night, so I just splurged and got a really nice hotel room near the airport. I’m glad you should have time to go see something on your layover!
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  44. There is a T-shirt for that.
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  45. They also have the most inconvenient chaotic loading strategy, which is why at any airport on the west coast, the terminal is always chaos outside Southwest's spot.
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  46. There's only a couple cat tracks (service run roads) and they are narrow and steep. It feels like going down a kid's slide standing up. Mildly terrifying. I've told Q how much I hate it. If someone goes down on it, you are going to run them over. It's also not well lit. But it is how we get across at the end of the night to go to the parking lot. I think they might groom the beginners area regularly and that's it. They used to groom some of the blacks and it was glorious. Now they think everyone wants the back country experience on the front side. No thanks. I haven't skied my favorite run in 3 years because it's straight dangerous. It's like a literal cliff face. I have thought about practicing on some of the easier blue runs, but the lift lines make me avoid them. What do you ski on at Purg? Do they groom pretty well?
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  47. You raise great points especially that you haven't seen the film
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