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Should Be More Popular
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#priorities
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RIP coasting
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The run was at a brewery, so there was beer at the finish.
So it is
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It is a shame. We were ready to start it again, but the country was closing to adoptions. Emotionally, it would have been too difficult to wait for years and get nowhere. Not many kids got out after my son.
I remember posting photos in Addiction from the room of our guest house in Addis. Crazy. That was July 2011.
I remember posting photos in Addiction from the room of our guest house in Addis. Crazy. That was July 2011.
Yikes.
Speaking of strangulation and Addis Ababa, my wife and I were eating lunch in the hotel (Hilton) restaurant our first trip there. There was a dude staring at my wife from the entrance of the restaurant and no matter how much I stared back, he wouldn't stop. He just walked from the buffet to the entrance staring at her.
Then he starts walking directly towards our table in the packed restaurant. I'm watching this happen and when he gets to the table, I expected him to say something. Instead, he reaches out and tries to grab my wife by the throat. The cops later told us they thought he was trying to kiss her, but strangling someone first is an odd way to kiss someone.
I grabbed him by the collar of his Members Only jacket and started pushing him backwards through the other tables. Plates and food were flying. It ended when he flipped over a chair and I rammed his head into the floor. The Foreign Minister was apparently dining in the restaurant so I was surrounded by black suited dudes.
When I later asked what would happen to the guy, they said they would probably shoot him. We requested that not happen.
Speaking of strangulation and Addis Ababa, my wife and I were eating lunch in the hotel (Hilton) restaurant our first trip there. There was a dude staring at my wife from the entrance of the restaurant and no matter how much I stared back, he wouldn't stop. He just walked from the buffet to the entrance staring at her.
Then he starts walking directly towards our table in the packed restaurant. I'm watching this happen and when he gets to the table, I expected him to say something. Instead, he reaches out and tries to grab my wife by the throat. The cops later told us they thought he was trying to kiss her, but strangling someone first is an odd way to kiss someone.
I grabbed him by the collar of his Members Only jacket and started pushing him backwards through the other tables. Plates and food were flying. It ended when he flipped over a chair and I rammed his head into the floor. The Foreign Minister was apparently dining in the restaurant so I was surrounded by black suited dudes.
When I later asked what would happen to the guy, they said they would probably shoot him. We requested that not happen.
Everyone thinks they have had a long strange trip, until they look at other folks journey. Then they realize everyone has had a long strange trip, just using different modes of transportation.
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How would I go about adding this as a quote in my sig line? And would you mind if I used this?
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
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Friendship is Magic
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Quote it, then copy and paste it to your sig on the edit page.
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The people here were ready to get the pitchforks out after the loss to the Bills. Broncos fans expect it, and expect it now.
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Generally so. As long as what they are doing is not dangerous, I am pretty much hands off. For example, my mom is totally into Reiki which is some type of "energy" healing, and also reads up on Deepak Chopra. She talks about it a little to me. It's totally unscientific but it's probably harmless. Live and let live.
It was sunny/partly cloudy all day today.
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Marcell Ozuna was running back to the dugout yesterday after tossing a ball in the stands. My pals were yelling at him and pointing to this little kid that looked to be four or five with a mitt on as big as him. When he took the field the next time, he brought a ball out and put it in the youngsters glove. I was smiling and enjoying that moment so much, I forgot to take a picture. That's OK, as I'm still smiling about it.