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I'll be gone starting Friday to mid-April in Peru. I've set up the DBD, but y'all will need to seed the topics.

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Enjoy some nice pisco sours while eating alpaca and Guinea pig.

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eat all the quinoa!

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And to drink, Peru!

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Enjoy! Sounds like a great vacation.

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bon voyage!

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Have fun!

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Enjoy!!!

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What is something that you suck at but want to be sorta good at eventually

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Golf.

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12v electrical work

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Marriage

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it is not clear how one goes about this even after 25 yrs of trying!

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Probably having a partner that doesn’t completely suck at being a human helps.

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Love means, you never have to say you're sorry...that the other person sucks at being human.

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Speaking Cantonese.

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Speaking Italian.

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Drawing

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Guitar and languages

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So much in my life I'm very mid at - good enough to be a hobbyist but not good enough to be "good" at

- Golf

- Snowboarding

- Cycling

- Running

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no basketball? C'mon bro

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Maybe he's really good at basketball, so he can't put it on the sucky list.

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Making beer.

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She must be amazing in the bedroom.

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Well....she was really good in the Royal Tenenbaums

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Weekend

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Interesting. I went to a $160/head dinner up in far northern NC. It was an odd mix of blue haired elites and redneck royalty. I got placed at a redneck royalty table. It was a mom, her adult son who was a 3-percenter marine, his wife, and their four friends. The mom's father owns 43 apartment buildings, she owns a pool company, and the son is the heir apparent. I sat next to the son, who was throwing back $1,500/bottle cask-strength bourbon like it was water. Sure, he was a right-wing gun nut, but one of his friends was clearly gay and he didn't mind talking to me - so he wasn't overtly prejudiced. So it was a pleasant, but really weird Saturday night.

https://www.caskers.com/george-t-stagg-2018-kentucky-straight-bourbon-whiskey/

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Went to a very nice classic guitar concert at the National Gallery of Art yesterday. Performer was JIJI and she played all compositions by women for Women's History Month. She was born in Seoul, came to the U.S. as a teen on a music scholarship. Most recently taught at ASU but is moving to IU. She played wonderfully and and had great explanations of the pieces she was going to play.

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Redeye home from Santiago. Caught a couple of unexpected upgrades so it was a bit more pleasant than expected.

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Mine kicked off unexpectedly when we welcomed the newest member of the family, Es99. She was born three weeks early, but she and Mrs Bk97 are doing great. Everyone is home from the hospital now and Cf98 was delighted to meet her new little sister. Last night was Es99's first night at home and she only woke us up twice for feeding, so we're so far staving off sleep deprivation (famous last words...)

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Congratulations, enjoy, and good luck!

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congratulations!

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Best wishes to you and your family.

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Congrats!!!

You went from a double team defensive strategy to a man-to-man strategy.

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Heh, I made the same joke to my wife and she mostly rolled her eyes. I think we're done after 2, though. We're not too keen on being outnumbered in coverage

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From what I hear, the Syracuse match-up zone can be very effective.

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So no Fm100 it sounds like.

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Congratulations!!!

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Congrats!!

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Congratulations!

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Mazel tov!

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Congratulations!!

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WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

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Impressed with everyone who consistently know what is for dinner before dinner time. This is not an adulting strength for our house.

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taking the Amtrak at 500p from New Rochelle to New Carrollton, the stop before DC.

not sure what food i will find. i guess i should pack myself something ...

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Teriyaki turkey tenderloins with roasted broccoli.

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Sausages with homemade sauerkraut

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"How we coming on those sausages, Charlie?"

"Two minutes Turkish"

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I found some soup in my freezer last night. Sausage and white bean with spinach.

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Had ribeye steaks for dinner on the barbie. Pretty good but mine was a bit crispy on the outside. Leftover steak will be be transformed into Mongolian beef tonight

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I've stocked the fridge with tons of low-effort meals since I figured we'll be periodically busy with the new baby. A couple meats for smoking (trout and some top beef round), a corned beef that we planned to have on Friday until a drastic change in plans, and other various things. I think tonight I'll make tacos...that sounds good.

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Congrats on the new baby! Now try to get some sleep.

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Something you grew up with but didn't find out until later that it was unusual

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I used to go hunting most weekends as a kid with my uncles and grandpa. Haven’t gone really since my grandpa died in early 2000s, as it was mainly a way to hang out with him. Seems sort of bizarre to me now

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still having 18th century poultices in the mix for chest colds when I was a kid. That didn't survive the move to the US, you won't be surprised to hear.

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Does being poor count?

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That's not unusual.

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Unfortunately, that is probably true.

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Midwesternisms like calling the evening meal “supper” or saying “EYE-talian.”

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A positive thing about cold climate

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Sprinklers have been off since December

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You get to wear layers.

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You've probably got a pretty good hockey team.

https://www.uscho.com/ncaa/mens-division-i-ncaa-tournament/

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Had some heavy jackets that finally saw some action this winter.

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Snow is beautiful

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snow is my favorite part of winter. even after living in snow country for 30+ year i think of it as a novelty since we didnt grow up w/ it in Bay Area.

i love the quite stllness of the falling snow as well as just the soft beauty of when there is lots of it on the ground.

i also really enjoy shoveling snow as a throwback form of exercise. since it gets me outside in the snow for longer.

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Yes to all of this. When I lived in Anchorage I used to like to go out and shovel after dark with my boombox playing classical music. To this day if it's going to snow I will wait until it starts to go for a run. There's just something about snow. Unfortunately, DC has not had much over the last years.

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Dress nicely

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Not much fire risk, or less than drought prone areas.

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I don't have to mow the lawn from October through April.

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This!

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Your favorite vacation

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In no particular order ~

Antarctica - nature in the raw

South Africa - endless wildlife sightings

Turkey - wish I’d paid attention in western civilization class

Skiing (international): Ortisei, Italy and Niseko, Japan

Tahiti: Bora Bora and Moorea - honeymoon 💙💛

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I think in terms of how much more I enjoyed it than I was expecting, it was when we did a little roadtrip in the southwest from Phoenix to Albuquerque, not that we spent any time in Phoenix. (I was expecting to enjoy it but it was much better than I had hoped)... but truth be told, I've enjoyed most of them with the possible exception of a family trip to Scotland in 1993 when my mother was working through her unresolved anger at her father (who had died first of her parents, but the '93 visit was her first time in the homeland since her mother had died)

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International: 20-day honeymoon to Portugal, Germany & Austria

Domestic: 7 days driving tour of 6 New England states

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Paris. Will be there again in three weeks. Italy is great and my native Finland. Have had nice trips to Hawaii and Mexico as well.

Least favorite is El Cerrito.

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Sabbatical I took from the workaday world of tech/finance for 20 weeks. North Africa, Middle East, Turkey for the most part. Got a somewhat new perspective on life.

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My favorite vacation spot is probably Hawaii.

My favorite vacation of my life? That’s a tough one.

Top 5:

1. Peru/Inca trail hike through REI.

2. 10 days in Barcelona followed by a 12 day Mediterranean cruise.

3. Hawaiian honeymoon.

4. 14 day Panama Canal cruise.

5. 3 days in Denali and 7 day Alaskan cruise.

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some people would get in trouble ranking their honeymoon as anything but #1.

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Luckily, my now wife was with me on all those trips and would probably agree with the top 3 in that order.

Peru was her bucket list trip and I got that for her as a Christmas present.

Barcelona/euro cruise was her first time ever traveling out of the country and we had an amazing time.

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Sounds great!

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I'm going to Peru on Friday. I'll be gone for 15 days hiking in the Amazon + Inca trail hiking.

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Galapagos

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I don't think three months in Thailand on covid exile really counts so my favorite trips have been:

- 2.5 weeks in India in 2005

- 2 weeks in Spain in 2010

- 1 week in Niseko Japan for snowboarding

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Netherlands. We spent most of our time in Utrecht, which is a fabulous city to relax in. Tons of parks and walking paths along the miles of canals, surprisingly good food, great cafes, many pubs with excellent beer (that pairs perfectly with all sorts of little Dutch snacks/appetizers like bitterballen). Amsterdam had some great food and museums, but large sections of it were a little too touristy. And we even went out to the countryside in Meppel where my wife had family back in the 1700s-1800s, and we managed to find some gravestones of those family members. Utrecht just barely beats Sydney, which was a much more uptempo vacation because there was so much to do in our short time there (it was only a 5-day work trip).

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Independent thought

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A long article about the slippery boundaries between independent thought, reasonable skepticism, and conspiratorial thinking: https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/by-theory-possessed/articles/the-monster-discloses-himself

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DBD AV CLUB

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Watched Sing Street recently - a John Carney movie about a high school kid in 1980s Belfast who starts a band to impress a girl he likes. Music was not quite as good as in Once or Begin Again, IMO, but story and characters very well done and well acted. More endearing than those other movies. It sort of brings to bear something I see in my kids - that adults have these complex and layered emotions, but young people have much simpler emotions and perhaps as a result of that, much purer and more intense feelings. Very good movie, would recommend.

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I finally started the first season of Perry Mason on HBO and I am all in. I really like this show.

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Gritty, edgy...not your Mama's Raymond Burr version.

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Mr Chit! I'm sure you were as bummed as I was about Lance Reddick's passing.

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Devastated. Just horrible news my friend.

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Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with David Letterman; Bono and the Edge go back to Dublin and hang out for a while, re-write some songs (adding lyrics to Sunday Bloody Sunday for example) and hang out in pubs. David Letterman tags along. On Disney+ - I think I liked the music more than the actual film.

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what...?

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What is so confusing here?

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Tennessee decides it wants to emulate Joseph Goebbels

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1637872544895123457

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We gonna perp walk Trump or what?

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I'd like to see that very, very much.

But I think it's more likely that Trump surrenders himself just to avoid that spectacle.

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[CNN] Fulton County prosecutors are considering throwing the RICO act at Trump

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/politics/georgia-racketeering-conspiracy-trump-willis/index.html

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Just so long as he ends up in prison. Or put another way, just so long as his ass is grass.

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Crowd management barricades going up in Manhattan ahead of Trump indictment

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1637832101356617728

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