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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Sir HC on January 07, 2004, 12:08:00 pm
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Last year I cut out coffee and succeeded. Was finding I drank 1/2 a pot and couldn't get started without a cup of coffee. This year, not really set on one yet, maybe cutback on TV.
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I have set myself a $25 weekly limit on bar tabs.
This should save me about $100 a month. :)
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Lose the ten pounds I didn't lose last year, plus the couple of pounds I gained.
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Oh my god, that is good. I'd save...damn, a few hundred a month at least. Getting a budget done and watching my cash expenditures is it, though I haven't done that yet.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I have set myself a $25 weekly limit on bar tabs.
This should save me about $100 a month. :)
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My motto for the year is gonna be "Get off your ass and do it". Stop putting it off. Stop whining about it. Stop waiting for someone else to do it. Get off your ass and take care of things.
We'll see how long that lasts :)
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Mine is to not upset sonickteam...but I failed miserably barely a week into the New Year.
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No resolutions for me -- I'm already perfect.
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Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
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Originally posted by twangirl:
Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
At 45 minutes a CD, that is 1350 hours of music or 33.75 working weeks (40 hrs per week) of music. Quite a bit. I would have made the year be the limit (2004 this year, you can add one for next year, etc.). Would be a bit of growing room...
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
No resolutions for me -- I'm already perfect.
You haven't heard of resolutions to improve others?
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
No resolutions for me -- I'm already perfect.
You haven't heard of resolutions to improve others? [/b]
I've been working on Mankie for two years now. Seems futile sometimes.
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Originally posted by twangirl:
Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
How do you store all those CDs? I've been looking around for something to store 1000+ and haven't come up with much. I don't want multiple bookcases, drawers or do-it-yourself shelves. I found this (http://www.cdholdings.com/ezStore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=445) but I'm a little leery of spending that kind of money on something I haven't actually seen yet.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I've been working on Mankie for two years now. Seems futile sometimes. [/b]
Seems you and my wife have something in common.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
No resolutions for me -- I'm already perfect.
how did i know that was coming
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
Originally posted by twangirl:
Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
How do you store all those CDs? I've been looking around for something to store 1000+ and haven't come up with much. I don't want multiple bookcases, drawers or do-it-yourself shelves. I found this (http://www.cdholdings.com/ezStore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=445) but I'm a little leery of spending that kind of money on something I haven't actually seen yet. [/b]
you can build something like that, if one were so inclined to do so. it would cost maybe $50 and some time.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
you can build something like that, if one were so inclined to do so. it would cost maybe $50 and some time. [/b]
Yeah, okay Rhett!
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That thing looks like a pretty nice piece of furniture, and if it's not particle board the price isn't too bad. I have 2 brushed steel CD racks that I got at Tower a couple of years ago for about $120 each. Each holds 600 CDs and I have 2 black wood ones that each hold 250. And I have a smaller one [100] on my stereo shelves that I hope to use for new stuff that I need to check out.
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Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
you can build something like that, if one were so inclined to do so. it would cost maybe $50 and some time. [/b]
Yeah, okay Rhett! [/b]
you know, i was thinking when i typed that "this sounds like something Rhett would say"
haha.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Skeeter:
Originally posted by twangirl:
Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
How do you store all those CDs? I've been looking around for something to store 1000+ and haven't come up with much. I don't want multiple bookcases, drawers or do-it-yourself shelves. I found this (http://www.cdholdings.com/ezStore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=445) but I'm a little leery of spending that kind of money on something I haven't actually seen yet. [/b]
you can build something like that, if one were so inclined to do so. it would cost maybe $50 and some time. [/b]
Well, I'm not so inclined. I'd rather spend the money and get something decent, rather than waste a lot of time trying to build something myself and having it turn out mediocre at best.
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I was at IKEA a couple of weeks ago and they have a bunch of CD storage stuff at reasonable prices.
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My dad built me one that holds 200 or so, which I've long ago outgrown. Too bad he's not around anymore to make me a bigger one. Maybe it will be one of those home projects someday...
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by Skeeter:
Originally posted by twangirl:
Pare down my CD collection to fit into my available storage space, i.e. 1800 CDs, and keep it that way throughout the year. If I add one, then one must go. It's a nearly impossible task.
How do you store all those CDs? I've been looking around for something to store 1000+ and haven't come up with much. I don't want multiple bookcases, drawers or do-it-yourself shelves. I found this (http://www.cdholdings.com/ezStore123/DTProductZoom.asp?productID=445) but I'm a little leery of spending that kind of money on something I haven't actually seen yet. [/b]
you can build something like that, if one were so inclined to do so. it would cost maybe $50 and some time. [/b]
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IKEA makes me homicidal. I'd rather spend a little more money and avoid going there.
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Originally posted by twangirl:
IKEA makes me homicidal. I'd rather spend a little more money and avoid going there.
I love Ikea. Or more correctly I love how every stupid thing from potholders to shelves has some umlaut filled name. I got the Robin CD holders, hold about 225 CDs each, look respectable, but you would need quite a few for the 1800 cds.
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1800 Cd's, Jesus Christ....Since your job basically requires you to listen to music, I guess a lot of that is easily written off, but foget the hours or days of music, think about the money spent. I guess the 930 Club does pay well. Who knew?
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Originally posted by twangirl:
IKEA makes me homicidal. I'd rather spend a little more money and avoid going there.
I love Ikea. Or more correctly I love how every stupid thing from potholders to shelves has some umlaut filled name. I got the Robin CD holders, hold about 225 CDs each, look respectable, but you would need quite a few for the 1800 cds. [/b]
my new year's resolution is to use more words with umlauts.
and to get laid at least once this year.
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well, that's 1800 CDs accumulated over a period of years...also the labels send us a lot of stuff, most of which I don't want, but I do keep some of them. Mostly I just need to know what it sounds like in case I have to build a show around it. I DJ also, so that's a big excuse to get more stuff...gotta stay current in my areas of specialty. Plus I can write off those purchases against my DJ income, small though it is.
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Me too.
my new year's resolution is to use more words with umlauts.
and to get laid at least once this year. [/QB]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Me too.
my new year's resolution is to use more words with umlauts.
and to get laid at least once this year. [/b]
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your wife can fulfil both of our resolutions. does she speak German?
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Wie geht's?
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I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
i stopped eating fast food 3 years ago, and i promise, it will be one of the best things you will ever do. you just feel better, not as greasy and weighed down, etc etc.
i don't really have a new year's resolution.. maybe it would just to live a bit more positively. blah blah all of that "be nice" stuff. let's hope it lasts more than a week.
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Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
all of that "be nice" stuff. let's hope it lasts more than a week. [/b]
Well you can start with me missy!
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Only when I put the Hitler mustache on, when the mood is right and the lights are low.
Originally posted by Samantha:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Me too.
my new year's resolution is to use more words with umlauts.
and to get laid at least once this year. [/b]
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your wife can fulfil both of our resolutions. does she speak German? [/QB]
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Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
all of that "be nice" stuff. let's hope it lasts more than a week. [/b]
Well you can start with me missy! [/b]
i'm killing you with kindness? sound good? ahoy.
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im going to do 10 pushups a day.....i have 7 days done so far.....next year will be sit ups....
cause i cant flex....my arms just tense up...for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left....
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Originally posted by flawd101:
for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left....
do you have a girlfriend?
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Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
i stopped eating fast food 3 years ago, and i promise, it will be one of the best things you will ever do. you just feel better, not as greasy and weighed down, etc etc.
i don't really have a new year's resolution.. maybe it would just to live a bit more positively. blah blah all of that "be nice" stuff. let's hope it lasts more than a week. [/b]
yes, that was my resolution last year, and I've stuck to it with no regrets at all...power to the pirates, arrr....
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Only when I put the Hitler mustache on, when the mood is right and the lights are low.
Originally posted by Samantha:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Me too.
my new year's resolution is to use more words with umlauts.
and to get laid at least once this year. [/b]
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your wife can fulfil both of our resolutions. does she speak German? [/b]
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the more I learn about Celeste, the more I like her.
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Wie geht's?
doch, haben sie auch einen extra schnurrbart fur thirsty?
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Hahaha. Rhett's Schnurrbart ist genug.
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
Check this if the going gets tough:
Fast Food Nation (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938455/qid=1073575161//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/103-5160593-3875849?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
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Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
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Gesundheit
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Having worked fast food in college, I know what is there and it does scare me. Problem is my mom worked in the food industry for 40+ years and so all food scares me. Fancy restaurants, slaughterhouses, hell with this green onions = hepititis thing what is a safe food? Organic from your back yard?
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
That book literally changed my life. I never ate a lot of fast food, but I have not been in one since I read it 2-3 years ago. It's not just the food safety issue either: "The industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways."
Another related book is: Nickel and Dimed (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805063897/ref=pd_sim_books_1/103-5160593-3875849?v=glance&s=books)
You'll never treat a fast food worker, waitress or maid the same again.
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Originally posted by flawd101:
cause i cant flex....my arms just tense up...for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left....
Try wanking with the left hand so it can catch up....it's like someone else doing it for you too, which is an added bonus! ;)
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Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by flawd101:
cause i cant flex....my arms just tense up...for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left....
Try wanking with the left hand so it can catch up....it's like someone else doing it for you too, which is an added bonus! ;) [/b]
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
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i'm currently four days into the south beach diet... who hide the chocolate :eek:
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Originally posted by Samantha:
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
I sent this little helpful tidbit around today to some friends...you've caused quite a stir.
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Samantha:
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :cool:
I sent this little helpful tidbit around today to some friends...you've caused quite a stir. [/b]
You think that's something,I just learned this today as well.Never heard that before,anybody else familiar?
http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/ (http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/)
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
I have read part of this book, and i wonder. Is the food you buy in the grocery store really any better? i mean, its still being packed by the same corporate food giants right? I am just wondering if my food is any better for me coming from the Perdue plant?
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Thanks Grotty. I'm actually kind of scared to read that only because I don't think I want to know what I really ingested.
I have read part of this book, and i wonder. Is the food you buy in the grocery store really any better? i mean, its still being packed by the same corporate food giants right? I am just wondering if my food is any better for me coming from the Perdue plant? [/b]
probably not much better...why eat meat at all?
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Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
Originally posted by flawd101:
for some reason my right arm is a lot stronger then my left....
do you have a girlfriend? [/b]
What do you think!?
I'm so glad that I kicked the fast food thing, not that I ever ate it that much anyway. Fast Food Nation really solidified my reasons to stop eating it altogether. Just knowing how disgusting all of the "food" gets, and the fact that I am appalled at how our society has been transformed for the worse by this fast food hoopla .... Ughhh.
And that link about "the shocker" - I'm surprised you haven't heard of that. Pretty gross, huh? ;)
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Originally posted by Celeste:
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probably not much better...why eat meat at all? [/QB][/QUOTE]
Well, that was my answer too. But the book is also about so much more than the quality & safety of food. It's about how fast food is reshaping America. How it affects workers. How it affects small businesses. How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been.
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does Quiznos and Subway count as fast food?
cause i cant live w/o that Tuscan Chicken sub!
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Celeste:
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probably not much better...why eat meat at all? [/QB]
Well, that was my answer too. But the book is also about so much more than the quality & safety of food. It's about how fast food is reshaping America. How it affects workers. How it affects small businesses. How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been. [/QB][/QUOTE]
yes! yes! yes!
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Samantha:
sit on your hand until it falls asleep and then wank off. it's called The Stranger :D
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Originally posted by SPARX:
You think that's something,I just learned this today as well.Never heard that before,anybody else familiar?
http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/ (http://www.rotten.com/library/language/the-finger/shocker/) [/b]
That's been around for years...some enterprizing young chap from Yale or some hoity-toity school actually started a company that makes those giant foam hands that they all have at football games, only instead of the "we're #1" thing, he did the hand doing the shocker.
Made a fortune evidently...shocking huh! ;)
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Originally posted by grotty:
How it makes everywhere you go look like everywhere you've been.
While some people don't like that (I'm one of them), it's been shown that most people do like predictability. That's part of the reason chains do so well. People like to know what they are going to get before they get it. That's why Starbucks does so well. people know that their double decaf soy caramel macchiatto is going to taste the same in Denver as it did in Duluth.
The guy who started Holiday Inn died last year and the NY Times had a great article about how he influenced travel in the fifties and sixties. People became much more willing to take road trips because they knew they could find a Holiday Inn -- a predictable environment -- along the way.
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Had never heard of that...
I think these names are more descriptive (and funny).
"Two in the pink and one in the stink"
"two in the coot and one in the boot"
"going to town with one in the brown".
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Originally posted by Bagster:
Had never heard of that...
I think these names are more descriptive (and funny).
"Two in the pink and one in the stink"
"two in the coot and one in the boot"
"going to town with one in the brown".
If you're double jointed you can even "tickle the taint" with your ring finger while you're at it!....Not to mention stimulating the little man in the boat with your thumb. :eek:
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no girlfriend due to my shyness and stunningly bad looks :D
i heard the stranger a month or so ago.....i couldnt get my arm to fall asleep...for more then 5 seconds...wasted 2 days.....
my left hand is retarded...probaly like getting a retarded chick while shes seizuring...
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I'm aiming to cut out fast food.
Check this if the going gets tough:
Fast Food Nation (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938455/qid=1073575161//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/103-5160593-3875849?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) [/b]
And if you'd like to feel better about smoking pot, buying porn and supporting illegal immigrants, check out his most recent book, Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market..I think I love this guy ;)
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Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
And if you'd like to feel better about smoking pot, buying porn and supporting illegal immigrants, check out his most recent book, Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market..I think I love this guy ;)
we all know how much walkie hearts the illegal immigrants!
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Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
we all know how much walkie hearts the illegal immigrants!
Walkie hearts us all.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
we all know how much walkie hearts the illegal immigrants!
Walkie hearts us all. [/b]
oh he does...
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Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by i do not heart winter:
we all know how much walkie hearts the illegal immigrants!
Walkie hearts us all. [/b]
oh he does... [/b]
that's why we heart him back so much.
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illegals dont count as people. they are 2/3.....if they haven't killed anyone....
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(music related)
go to more shows ..
more shows at the Hamilton, Ramshead Live, the Howard, Jammin Java, State Theatre, 930 Club, Gypsy Sallys, Hillcountry BBQ
find some more "new" music I like.. younger acts.......
hang out with Seth again..been too long since our balcony days...
get on guest lists.. hang out backstage... party like a rockstar..do more drugs (didn't do any illegal drugs in 2016)
win the 930 Raffle in 2017
band/act I'd like to see again in 2017: New Order (reading Bernard Sumner bio has me wanting this...), Robyn Hitchcock, Yo La Tengo, Love and Rockets, Jon Spencer in some form...Lucinda Williams, Old 97s
avoid internet strife with killsally
join the 15K club!
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(music related)
go to more shows ..
That. And be a bit less impulsive with my vinyl purchases.
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more coffee, film, live and recorded music, impulse road trips and going off the grid from time to time, more quality time and conversation with family and friends and music lovers, finding that health and fitness is not impossible, continue to cut ties and/or avoid bad energy people and in general.
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No more . . . commas.
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No more . . . commas.
i enjoyed them,
commas.
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I'm still obsessing that there was a guy on here in 2004 called Walkman and people referred to him as walkie.
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I'm still obsessing that there was a guy on here in 2004 called Walkman and people referred to him as walkie.
Check out flawd101 from 13 years ago. What's a 30-ish flawd101 like nowadays?
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I'm still obsessing that there was a guy on here in 2004 called Walkman and people referred to him as walkie.
Check out flawd101 from 13 years ago. What's a 30-ish flawd101 like nowadays?
Probably dead doing autoerotic asphyxiation to anime.