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11-27-20, 02:48 PM
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Some of the Mignon models have a dozen or so color choices - I wonder if they're the same size and if you can get a different color panel as an option? As much as I initially recoiled at the sight of a webpage full of colorful, but otherwise identical grinders, I have to admit that I wouldn't mind something like a canary yellow in the kitchen.
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11-27-20, 02:49 PM
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11-27-20, 02:50 PM
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Also, I see Brian Kelley is wearing a passive-aggressive mesh mask. Notre Dame staying on-message.
11-27-20, 03:14 PM
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11-27-20, 03:25 PM
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11-27-20, 03:28 PM
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11-27-20, 03:41 PM
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That was the deal I had. Took 20 years to get to that five, though.
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11-27-20, 04:06 PM
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11-27-20, 04:13 PM
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I engaged in full on ass holery today. A stupid cager in a Volvo wagon looked me in the eye, and then made a left turn (from a perpendicular street to the one I was on) right in front of me. I managed to get in front when he stopped for a red light and then proceeded to taking the full lane for the next couple of blocks preventing him getting past.
I hate the cagers sometimes.
I hate the cagers sometimes.
11-27-20, 04:22 PM
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So it is
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Right now I'm at 12 hours a month, and I can carry over two years worth, the rest is use it or lose it. That means I have 288 hours in the bank, and last year I gave back .16 of an hour, because I didn't feel like mathing to leave like 8 minutes early one day. I like my numbers rounded off, and that bothered me.
A lot.
A lot.
11-27-20, 04:23 PM
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11-27-20, 04:29 PM
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I engaged in full on ass holery today. A stupid cager in a Volvo wagon looked me in the eye, and then made a left turn (from a perpendicular street to the one I was on) right in front of me. I managed to get in front when he stopped for a red light and then proceeded to taking the full lane for the next couple of blocks preventing him getting past.
I hate the cagers sometimes.
I hate the cagers sometimes.
b) glad you didn't get run over
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11-27-20, 04:34 PM
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A)
B) the pies in her pic - totally store bought. ******' amateur.
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11-27-20, 04:40 PM
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Speaking of being passive-aggressive with regard to COVID measures, I see that my SIL posted a pic of some Thanksgiving pies on IG with a caption along the lines of "We had [whatever] at Thanksgiving #1 yesterday (this was the Thanksgiving with my dad that I declined) and now I'm baking pies for Thanksgiving #2 today! You can never have too many Thanksgivings!"
A)
B) the pies in her pic - totally store bought. ******' amateur.
A)
B) the pies in her pic - totally store bought. ******' amateur.
11-27-20, 04:46 PM
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It's the weekend and fine so I'm going to go for a ride.
I'm lucky. I'm salaried and get 4 weeks of annual leave plus up to 10 1/2 public holiday a year. The leave can be carried forward indefinitely or partially cashed out. And of course have access to taxpayer subsidised universal healthcare (except dental).
I'm lucky. I'm salaried and get 4 weeks of annual leave plus up to 10 1/2 public holiday a year. The leave can be carried forward indefinitely or partially cashed out. And of course have access to taxpayer subsidised universal healthcare (except dental).
11-27-20, 04:51 PM
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Correct. It has potential evil. I don't get any reimbursement for anything other than office visits, so my situation is not quite as worrisome as those where the doctors order very expensive tests that they themselves make money on. That is really concerning. I wonder if that's why the average cardiologist or gastroenterologist is earning several times what I earn?
I let the world know.
11-27-20, 04:53 PM
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11-27-20, 05:00 PM
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As has become tradition, we picked up our Christmas tree today - the kids and wife are busy decorating it at the moment. The funny part, though, is only tangentially related to the tree - as we were setting it up, the wife stepped back and looked it up and down... which is when she noticed some spatters of blood on the ceiling from last night. Oops. 
I am so happy we no longer celebrate that holiday. Nor the one just past.
11-27-20, 05:03 PM
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Ah, I'd forgotten about that. I used to be on hook duty, but I guess the kids are old enough to manage that themselves this year.
11-27-20, 05:08 PM
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I did not get the memo.
11-27-20, 05:11 PM
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Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Can you make out the number on the second one? 40?4, maybe? 4014? 4024?
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11-27-20, 05:19 PM
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I swear, I went TWO YEARS at least without a flat, and now I've had TWO in the last MONTH!!! Something about this time of year, the sandstone hillsides dry out and start crumbling and you get rocks rolling out into the bike lane, then I come zooming along, and they're waiting in areas of dappled sunlight.....
*WHAM!! FFffFFffFFffFFFfffFFFfffFFFFffffFFFFffffFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffff.........*
Amazingly enough, my little tiny Lezyne micropump is enough to pump up even the 28s, which, as it happens, are the ones I've flatted. Not the 25s. No, that would be too easy!
*WHAM!! FFffFFffFFffFFFfffFFFfffFFFFffffFFFFffffFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffff.........*
Amazingly enough, my little tiny Lezyne micropump is enough to pump up even the 28s, which, as it happens, are the ones I've flatted. Not the 25s. No, that would be too easy!
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11-27-20, 05:19 PM
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11-27-20, 05:41 PM
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