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MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
So my daughter started her first job yesterday, and she had to basically keep people in line (namely kids) for their Santa visit and then direct parents around to where to pick them up after. Today, she was the photographer, and tomorrow she has to train someone. At this rate she’ll be the person playing Santa by Tuesday
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
Dubi Doo
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That pressure is thanks to Dahlin half assing it around the puck in the neutral zone. Kinda sad our 11M dollar player isn't anywhere close to the norris conversation this year. (Prior to goal).
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And they score.
I'd fully support canning Granato after this tire fire. I'm on record with giving him until Jan, but my patience is gone.
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And they score.
I'd fully support canning Granato after this tire fire. I'm on record with giving him until Jan, but my patience is gone.
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HaNotsri
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Yesterday was a good day, went across the country (east-west) with my brother to pick up a laserdisc player and some discs. Our SHL-team also had an away game in town but I had somehow messed up the game time so we arrived 5 hours early for the game. I looked around on google and found a Bible and Psalmbook museum, we drove out into the outback with the thermometer getting close to 0F and found an isolated farm at the adress. The Texas chainsaw vibes were intense. This was the blizzard edition with snow and ice coming down hard.
I went out and saw a sign with a number to call to if you wanted to visit the museum, the line was dead. We looked around and figured out that the building with alarms and stuff must be the museum, found another sign with a new number at the door - line was dead. Then an old man walked out from one of the other houses at the farm, turned out to be the owner and then he guided us through 5 centuries of Bibles and the history of european psalm books. Felt surreal to go through 500 year old books and be able to touch them. Looking at old maps of the temple of Solomo, changes in bible translations through the original prints of Swedish Bibles as well as the first version of the lutheran Bible (not the first print but still a print from 1532). He had a small collection of the first "christian" instruments used in Sweden as well used when transitioning from everyone singing their own melody to psalms to singing the same melody and then multiple vocal parts.
The real treasure is still all the psalmbooks, he pretty much had every single psalm book from every religious movement in Sweden. The first books only use whole and half notes and no rythm whatsoever. Basically just harmonies and it was hard to decipher how it would sound just by looking at the notes since the scales were a bit unfamiliar. His great, great, great (etc.) grandfather actually wrote the first swedish psalmbooks. We will go back with modern instruments (that we can play) and stay there for a weekend researching and playing music.
The laserdisc guy lived in a village nearby and the mad man had the largest collection in northern europe and 4 cinemas at his place. We are talking a million dollar+ collection. He had some media formats that I never saw before, special vhs-tapes with an output of 1080p interlaced (wtf!?!) and a lot of special equipment. That stuff was probably more common in america but in Sweden it's completely unheard of. Will probably go back there as well, guy is a huge hockey nerd - sadly his health is deteriorating so he couldn't go to the live game.
Hockey team is sadly Sabres level but at least they scored some goals. I was 0-13 in consecutive goals at one point. Now my live goal differential of the season is 3-16.
I went out and saw a sign with a number to call to if you wanted to visit the museum, the line was dead. We looked around and figured out that the building with alarms and stuff must be the museum, found another sign with a new number at the door - line was dead. Then an old man walked out from one of the other houses at the farm, turned out to be the owner and then he guided us through 5 centuries of Bibles and the history of european psalm books. Felt surreal to go through 500 year old books and be able to touch them. Looking at old maps of the temple of Solomo, changes in bible translations through the original prints of Swedish Bibles as well as the first version of the lutheran Bible (not the first print but still a print from 1532). He had a small collection of the first "christian" instruments used in Sweden as well used when transitioning from everyone singing their own melody to psalms to singing the same melody and then multiple vocal parts.
The real treasure is still all the psalmbooks, he pretty much had every single psalm book from every religious movement in Sweden. The first books only use whole and half notes and no rythm whatsoever. Basically just harmonies and it was hard to decipher how it would sound just by looking at the notes since the scales were a bit unfamiliar. His great, great, great (etc.) grandfather actually wrote the first swedish psalmbooks. We will go back with modern instruments (that we can play) and stay there for a weekend researching and playing music.
The laserdisc guy lived in a village nearby and the mad man had the largest collection in northern europe and 4 cinemas at his place. We are talking a million dollar+ collection. He had some media formats that I never saw before, special vhs-tapes with an output of 1080p interlaced (wtf!?!) and a lot of special equipment. That stuff was probably more common in america but in Sweden it's completely unheard of. Will probably go back there as well, guy is a huge hockey nerd - sadly his health is deteriorating so he couldn't go to the live game.
Hockey team is sadly Sabres level but at least they scored some goals. I was 0-13 in consecutive goals at one point. Now my live goal differential of the season is 3-16.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
It's been a day.
My mother is in the hospital after falling into a chair and breaking 6 ribs while over at dinner with friends of my parents. And there is some automotive shenanigans with both my car (the brakes) and my son's (his insurance) that have me on my last nerve.
My mother is in the hospital after falling into a chair and breaking 6 ribs while over at dinner with friends of my parents. And there is some automotive shenanigans with both my car (the brakes) and my son's (his insurance) that have me on my last nerve.
Hope your mom will be OK. That sucks.
Car trouble is always fun these days. Shortages of parts, repair shops are always booked, meh. I used to be such a car junkie. Not so much anymore.
Old Navy Goat
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Hope she heals quickly with no adverse affects. Broken ribs are about the worse, there's very few people I would wish them on
Well, my mother is being allowed to go home from the hospital. That's a step in the right direction. I advised she pack herself in bubble wrap for the drive home.
newfiejesus
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My mudder just scared the crap outta me by describing a slip n' fall AND an allergic reaction that she endured yesterday so I feel ya. Fortunes and families can turn in an instant, so I sympathize with the shock and stress. My mom is fine, but my blind and lame Fadder had to fend for himself for an evening.
Years ago, she wiped out on some ice and fractured her hip - not a break and fall that happens to some with osteoporosis but a run in with the ice on their driveway. Her GP was vacationing and unavailable to prescribe any pain meds. The hospital was unwilling to prescribe anything without her GP's go ahead. I admit that it was one of the worst moments I have ever had on the phone speaking to the GP's answering service - I openly questioned why they were working in a health services industry if they weren't willing to try to contact the doctor under unusual circumstances. There was some spicier language interlaced with that, just imagine 2 out of three words hitting the filter here.
Suffice to say, this time the folks in the ambulance and the hospital were a much more prepared and humane lot.
Hope your ma is fully on the mend. Finding out parents have allergies later in life is not fun either.
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Finally had the conversation with the big boss today about the raise to go with my job title swap that took place 3 months ago. I was told I'd get back pay dating to when my former boss was shunted sideways, and we agreed on a 26% raise.
Also, my YOUNGER is now 14 as of today and I just can't deal with that. I got them the first 4 books of the RA Salvatore Drizzt series, which is also weird because it feels like they shouldn't be old enough to read that.
Also, my YOUNGER is now 14 as of today and I just can't deal with that. I got them the first 4 books of the RA Salvatore Drizzt series, which is also weird because it feels like they shouldn't be old enough to read that.
brian_griffin
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Cloud migration complete...??? Strangely, all of you look different, but sound the same.
Old Navy Goat
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Today is one of those days, some random doctor comes in at around 0430 flips on the lights, reads my paperwork then leaves muttering in Thai. Nurse comes in about 30 minutes later, ask who the doc was and she says he had the wrong room. Wideawake and no hockey for another hour plus
brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
Reading between the lines, we can safely assume the doctor didn't mutter "Okay to harvest his organs now."
Old Navy Goat
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Don't think they'd garner a decent price even out of the scratched and dented bin
Funny moment a few months ago - my father came up out of anesthesia and started talking to the anesthesia nurse and another person in his room. They couldn't understand a word he was saying. Based on what they said he said... he came back up speaking Lao.
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