Something good thread

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Beeds07, Jul 6, 2022.

  1. It'sAlwaysSunnyInAthens

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    Had a creme Brulee milkshake tonight. Shared it with my one year old.. He claps and flaps his arms after every sip.
     
  2. Bert Handsome

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  3. undrtow

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    I like Hardee’s, but Bojanles is at the top imo
     
  4. houtex716

    houtex716 let's have a beach party
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    My daughter is 5 months old and starting to smile every time she sees me. Melts my heart with that big gummy smile every time
     
  5. Daniel Ocean

    Daniel Ocean I only lied about being a thief
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    My hip is killing me right now but it’s because I’ve ridden over 160 miles so far this month and 100 this week. So it means I’m alive and am still in really good shape. I’ll stretch and use my massage gun I know I’m blessed to be able to move without pain.

    Most of the pain I deal with is from working out and not from old age. I’m on the last stage of life and have two grandkids and it’s amazing.
     
  6. BuckeyeRiot

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    You couldn’t context clues your way into that one?
     
  7. Gunners

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    A horse pooped on my foot today

    I’m seeing my beloved Arsenal in a week

    maybe our most important player is a rapist but good vibes only
     
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  8. BuckeyeRiot

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  9. BellottiBold

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    In spite of being really disheartened by all of the flails arms wildly and generally having a dim view of most things, I was doing some phone storage cleanup/organizing and realized I've had some wild fun over the last year and a half or so and lived quite frivolously all things considered. There was one stretch of photo/video where I reminded myself after initial skepticism that yes - I had in fact spent all night in SF watching musical heros shred before doing the exact same thing in NYC the very next night - and tbqh that had happened multiple times.
     
  10. fsugrad99

    fsugrad99 I'm the victim here
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    Three years ago I lost a job I loved dearly because the company’s stock price took a dip.

    Fast forward three years, I’ve tripled my salary, bought a new place, and am in the increasingly small group of Gen Xers that might get to retire before my body turns heel on me.
     
  11. Tommy Callahan

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    Had my mom and dad over for her 60th birthday and watched both of them hold my 3 week old tonight. They have been over a bunch already in said time but a special night indeed
     
  12. Gunners

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    You gonna give up the drugs post Covid?

    Much more fun with them
     
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  13. racer

    racer Yuma, where I work in software.
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  14. soulfly

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    That’s fucking amazing. I need to get back into the saddle (have read very little over the last couple of years). Out of curiosity, Is this strictly reading? Reading and audio book mix? Mostly audio books?
     
  15. Cornelius Suttree

    Cornelius Suttree the smallest crumb can devour us
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    All hard books, fiction novels. T-shirts sweatshirts and books make up about 90% of my possessions right now ha
     
  16. spagett

    spagett Got ya, spooked ya
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    It's been a while since I shit myself
     
  17. soulfly

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    Nice. I know you’re a big Cormac guy because of your name. What other authors are you into? Personally, Vonnegut is my dude when it comes to American fiction.
     
  18. soulfly

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    It’s insane how much Odesza has blown up.
     
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  19. Cornelius Suttree

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    I really need to read more Vonnegut. Outside Slaughterhouse Five I'm not sure I've actually read anything but short stories back in school

    Outside McCarthy...

    Older/established or deceased types

    Annie Proulx
    James Salter
    Carson McCullers
    John Banville
    Walker Percy
    Don DeLillo

    Contemporary authors who've gotten into my top tier in the past year

    Sebastian Barry
    Sally Rooney
    Jane Smiley
    Jennifer Egan
    Jesmyn Ward

    I'm feeling like Irish authors >>> lately so looking to get into Colum McCann, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín
     
  20. Thoros of Beer

    Thoros of Beer Academy Award-Winning Actor, Tim Allen
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    FYI: don't lower your egg. Use skim milk powder rather than evaporated milk. After churning, get that product into the coldest freezer you can as quickly as you can. Any ice cream straight out of a churn is going to have the consistency of soft serve, need the COLDCOLDCOLD to finish the job. Also, once you have the product up to 170 degrees on the stove, hold it there for twenty to thirty minutes for best protein denaturing. This is all for the sake of texture and keeping ice crystals to a minimum for longer term storage (a week or two). It will also give you a luxurious dense beast of an ice cream. Or just do what you've been doing.
     
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  21. Thoros of Beer

    Thoros of Beer Academy Award-Winning Actor, Tim Allen
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    How do you feel about Doctorow? Ragtime blew me away. Same for McEwan's "Amsterdam". Love Ian McEwan.
     
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  22. soulfly

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    Thanks for the recs. Outside of DeLillo I haven’t heard of any of these people. Will have to scope them out.

    I will, however, posit that Russian authors are the best there is in the medium.
     
  23. Cornelius Suttree

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    I wasn't really a fan of Welcome to Hard Times and Loon Lake. But then read World's Fair, which was pretty amazing and a clear example of his excellence. I've got Ragtime on a shelf and have never read it. Billy Bathgate too

    Also really liked Amsterdam and want to check out more McEwan. Booker Prize winners are basically must-reads
     
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  24. Thoros of Beer

    Thoros of Beer Academy Award-Winning Actor, Tim Allen
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    You've read more Doctorow than me. The level of detail that he uses is astounding and I can only imagine how much research went into each book. Makes you feel like you're standing in the era that he's writing about.

    To your point, I keep a spreadsheet of major book award winners and cross them off as I go. Did Wolf Hall last year which I enjoyed more than I thought I would. Recently finished Lonesome Dove and Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny which were both excellent. Once you start reading those authors that are/were regularly shortlisted for awards you start to see, in stark terms, the degree of craft relative to pulpier fiction.
     
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  25. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    I coulda told you this. If it ain’t wired then it ain’t worth it.
     
  26. EMAW FC

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    OG doorbell wasn’t wired so battery was the only option.
     
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  27. Bruce Bowen

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    Quit my job a little over a month ago. My only plan at the time was to take some time off and figure out what direction I wanted to go. Well about 4 days into being jobless I decided to take a shot and start my own business. Here’s hoping I can be the man instead of working for him.
     
  28. Shawn Hunter

    Shawn Hunter Vote Corey Matthews for Congress
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    What type of business?
     
  29. Constant

    Constant Meh
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    Logo design.
     
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  30. Bruce Bowen

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    Residential/Small Business IT consulting of sorts.
     
  31. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    install the wire. open it up to the studs
     
  32. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    I'm getting to enjoy the midwest summer thunderstorms after living in the PNW for three years where I heard thunder once.
     
  33. Beeds07

    Beeds07 Bitch, it's Saturday
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    I have a two year old great niece that laughs every time I’m around. I pick her up and swing her and she just loves it. Makes my day.
     
  34. BuckeyeRiot

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    The muscle relaxers were because sleeping for 84% of two days on a couch refucked my back. The dab is just how life be sometimes.
     
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  35. EMAW FC

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    PNW rain, SAWFT
     
  36. AptosDuck

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    Took one of my kids and his best friend to sushi last night to celebrate their 20th birthdays (six days apart). They've been best friends since kindergarten, and it's been fun watching them grow up together. We've become good friends with his parents too, and we all had a good time last night talking about the last 15 years and then embarrassing the boys by having the Shogun waitresses sing Happy Birthday to them
     
  37. BrickTamland

    BrickTamland You're not Ron...
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    I smiled reading this and now I’m excited for you. :badger:
     
  38. Shawn Hunter

    Shawn Hunter Vote Corey Matthews for Congress
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    Most days when I come home from work one of my cats will greet me by running to jump on the top of cat tree to roll around getting pets and meowing a bunch. If she is hiding because she is scared of a storm or is baking in the sun in the window she won't though. Other than that, when she sees me she jumps on that tree.
     
  39. Bo Pelinis

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    Get to drink good beers with no judgment, fish with my dad and son, pull my kids and extended family on tubes and wake boards, my kids get to play baseball, swim, and fish off the dock with their cousins, and we rarely discuss politics.

    It’s just super.
     
  40. Hoss Bonaventure

    Hoss Bonaventure I can’t pee with clothes touching my butt
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  41. BlazingRebel

    BlazingRebel Dog Crew Founder Migraine Connoisseur
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    Moving Day today, yeah that was the apartment our client’s brother had, but they wouldn’t renew the lease, so we had to scramble with just under two months to find a new place to rent.
     
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  42. hood b. goode

    hood b. goode with the mandem
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    wandered over to their set at austin city limits in 2018

    Blew my fukkin mind
     
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  43. Upton^2

    Upton^2 blocked just a park away, but I can't really say
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    guys bein dudes
     
  44. Daddy Rabbit

    Daddy Rabbit obviously silly and not productive
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    Lost my keys on the morning of the 4th. Found them today after the locksmith called to say he was on his way. So I had to cancel his trip and luckily avoid a stupid tax of about $300-$400.
    :feelsgoodman:

    Been staying at my friend's house where my car is parked. Thankful for WFH and having my backpack.

    Locksmith was on his way this morning. I took off down the long driveway to meet him at the road. Found them sitting dead center of the gravel driveway 30-50 yards or so down the hill from the house.

    I must have set them on the bumper of a friend's car before she left. She had just handed me the keys maybe 60-90 seconds prior. I decided I needed something from her car's trunk and lost focus. :facepalm: #stupidshityourboyfrienddoes
     
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