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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 13:31:10 GMT -5
Apropos of absolutely nothing, was leaving a local restaurant's parking lot a few days ago when I noticed an Edsel parked near the building. That may well be the first one I've ever seen. I've seen a few at car shows. But I've never seen one in the wild. Same Here and I'm an old car aficionado myself and seeing on in the wild as you speak here - is extremely rare for Dan to see one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 13:33:29 GMT -5
For my next trick, I hope to see an AMC Rambler (we had a '63-or-so up till fall of '76). Not holding my breath, though.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 23, 2016 14:21:40 GMT -5
Just got off the phone with my best friend. He told me his mother has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She's a great lady, tough and strong and funny as all get-out and loves her grandkids more than anything, and if there is anyone who is going to grab cancer by its balls and twist until it gives up, it's her. Even still, I feel like I just got kicked in the gut. Gonna be a long afternoon. Very sorry to hear that. Hope she'll kick that disease to the curb.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 23, 2016 14:52:57 GMT -5
As always, I think it goes without saying that this is one of the best, if not the best, communities on the internet. Hey, Cap, the rest of us are lucky to have you around here. Best thoughts to your friend and his mom.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 24, 2016 12:42:16 GMT -5
Haven't chopped it up here in a while. Need to stop by more often as I love the people here. Anyways, I'm about to become an expat. I think I already talked about this. In about a month I'll be overseas living in Macau, where my wife is close to her family. I've been there about four or five times. The longest being a month, which is how much you can stay with a standard visa (you can just leave for a day though and come back in). Going to be an interesting transition. Most people speak decent enough English there, although the native language is Cantonese for the most part and the tourists make up the other big language there Mandarin. I've been trying to learn Mandarin off an on for a few years. Still haven't put my nose to the grindstone as much as I should have. Definitely didn't think this is where life would take me before I was 30. Weird. Still plan to do my best to build a comic penciling portfolio to try and break into the comic book industry while I'm there. We'd be planning to come back to the states a few times a year. The conventions would be a good reason to come back. Still haven't been to SDCC yet. Too bad Wondercon moved south. I loved it in the bay area. Whatever. I'm on a month long road trip now as some of my extended family that my wife knows is here to tour America for a bit. In LA now. By the way if you decide to become an expat, preparing for a lot of annoying paperwork.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 24, 2016 17:12:06 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 24, 2016 19:29:17 GMT -5
Haven't chopped it up here in a while. Need to stop by more often as I love the people here. Anyways, I'm about to become an expat. I think I already talked about this. In about a month I'll be overseas living in Macau, where my wife is close to her family. That... is... AWESOME!!! Living abroad was the most gratifying experience in my life, and I hope it'll turn out that way for you too, Papashogun! And Macau... Shades of Terry & the pirates! That!s extremely cool!
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 24, 2016 21:34:20 GMT -5
Good luck to you PapaShogun !
I once tried learning Mandarin. What my experience was, was that it was the tones I had the biggest problem with.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 24, 2016 23:22:45 GMT -5
Well, I found out last night that the open mic night which I've run for the last four years will be ending on July 21st. The venue is terminating the open mic and turning Thursday evenings into an acoustic night instead, with a revolving selection of acts playing there each week.
Thursday has been open mic night there for some 8 or 9 years, of which I've helmed the last four, and the venue owners just feel like it's time for a change. It's not just me either because there was a guy who had played a residency there on a Wednesday night for donkey's years and he was let go a few months back. I think the management just want to shake things up a bit. Of course, cynically, it's also a cost-cutting measure because they're going to be paying the bands who play on a Thursday a lot less than they've been paying me, but that's life.
It's bittersweet for me; on the one hand, as a musician, I play gigs and host open mics for my living and so the prospect of loosing some of my steady income is a bit scary, but on the other, I'm sort of burned out with playing there anyway and feel sort of relieved that the end is now in sight. I feel kind of optimistic and enthused that I'll now be able to go and find something else to make up that shortfall in my income, but still, no one likes to get made redundant, do they? So, yeah...mixed feelings at this point.
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Post by berkley on Jun 25, 2016 0:20:08 GMT -5
Well, I found out last night that the open mic night which I've run for the last four years will be ending on July 21st. The venue is terminating the open mic and turning Thursday evenings into an acoustic night instead, with a revolving selection of acts playing there each week. Thursday has been open mic night there for some 8 or 9 years, of which I've helmed the last four, and the venue owners just feel like it's time for a change. It's not just me either because there was a guy who had played a residency there on a Wednesday night for donkey's years and he was let go a few months back. I think the management just want to shake things up a bit. Of course, cynically, it's also a cost-cutting measure because they're going to be paying the bands who play on a Thursday a lot less than they've been paying me, but that's life. It's bittersweet for me; on the one hand, as a musician, I play gigs and host open mics for my living and so the prospect of loosing some of my steady income is a bit scary, but on the other, I'm sort of burned out with playing there anyway and feel sort of relieved that the end is now in sight. I feel kind of optimistic and enthused that I'll now be able to go and find something else to make up that shortfall in my income, but still, no one likes to get made redundant, do they? So, yeah...mixed feelings at this point. It's a tough one any time something like that happens, even if you've secretly been wanting it to happen all along. Always scary to lose a dependable source of income, even if you stopped enjoying it long ago. Still, a welcome break and an opportunity to move on to new things. Good luck!
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Post by Mormel on Jun 27, 2016 16:17:24 GMT -5
Good luck to you PapaShogun ! I once tried learning Mandarin. What my experience was, was that it was the tones I had the biggest problem with. I'm planning on picking up on learning Mandarin again soon. In the beginning, the tones definitely take some getting used to, but I found that it helps to really exaggerate them at first, and then get a better feel of the language's melody as you go along. On the side, I'm also looking at Southern Min Chinese (aka Hokkien) and it has a far more tricky system of tones than Mandarin does. It has seven of them, and they all change when followed by another tone in a clause. On a different note, is it weird that my comic books are the last thing I take with me as I move my stuff into my new house? I was unable to move everything all at once, and I still have the bulk of my comics in storage, with the exception of my Birds of Prey and Iron Man TPBs. Takes a while for this new place to feel like home, though.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 27, 2016 22:02:16 GMT -5
Yeah, it takes a little while, and some comfortable familiar comics, to help break it in
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Post by wickedmountain on Jun 27, 2016 22:36:02 GMT -5
Teeth and Gum pain today and tonight some ughh :/
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Post by Mormel on Jun 27, 2016 23:32:52 GMT -5
Teeth and Gum pain today and tonight some ughh :/ Gingivitis? If the gums are bleeding, you gotta watch out for additional infections.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 27, 2016 23:35:32 GMT -5
When was your last visit wicked ?
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