Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire

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Core memory unlocked when the neighbors got a new refrigerator and we spent a whole summer day playing in it/with it until it was busted up beyond usefulness.

Just one of the many...MANY...reasons I'm glad I don't live in Nebraska anymore.
I've always told people with little kids that a big box is one of the greatest presents they can give their kids
 

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That looks like a plant stand that this numbnut kid gave my MIL (she used to watch him for daycare). He was proud of it but it was hideous. It was outside her front door and when they sold the house they left it for the new owner.
 

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3 of my sisters live near Blacksburg and they want me to move out there. The whole cancer thing made me feel like being closer to family isn't a bad thing.
3 of your sisters? How may siblings do you have?

I just have/had two sisters. Never realized the awkward looks people get when someone who is in there 40s (now early 50s) mentions that one of their siblings is deceased. When I hit 50, I had passed one of my uncles in survival already.
 

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3 of your sisters? How may siblings do you have?

I just have/had two sisters. Never realized the awkward looks people get when someone who is in there 40s (now early 50s) mentions that one of their siblings is deceased. When I hit 50, I had passed one of my uncles in survival already.
5 sisters and 2 brothers, actually 3 brothers but one is deceased
 

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How would you build this shelf? You have the bracing material and now it’s down to the boards to make the shelf. The width you will build it in is 63 inches. There are 3 board options. 24”/36”/48”. What combination of boards will you buy and how will you cut them if you decide to cut any?
How many shelves, just one?
 

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Then west Union may be okay but fayette is a crap hole. My bad.
I have a Fayette story as well. One year many moons ago RAGBRAI had Fayette as an overnight town. At the time it was the smallest overnight town ever. As we predicted getting food in the town was a total **** show. All the vendors were out of food so we ended up sitting in line for a restaurant for over 2 hours just to find something to eat. We finally got seated and who should be just a couple of tables over but Tom Arnold and his entourage. It was hot and he complained and got them to bring him a fan so now he wasn't just smoking a cigar in the restaurant but he had a fan to blow the cigar smoke directly at our table. We had already heard from a couple of different sources that he had been seen getting dropped off at the side of the road just outside of a few towns so he could be seen riding into town without having to ride the full stretch between towns. We ended up having to wait over another hour to finally get served and had to listen to that blowhard yell over his fan at his entourage so the entire restaurant could hear him while also enjoying his cigar smoke.

I'm not a fan...
 

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Works for carts too. Milo's passion is boxes...of any size!
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3 of your sisters? How may siblings do you have?

I just have/had two sisters. Never realized the awkward looks people get when someone who is in there 40s (now early 50s) mentions that one of their siblings is deceased. When I hit 50, I had passed one of my uncles in survival already.
Yeah, I passed my dad at 50. I was a student at Iowa State when he died.
 

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I have a Fayette story as well. One year many moons ago RAGBRAI had Fayette as an overnight town. At the time it was the smallest overnight town ever. As we predicted getting food in the town was a total **** show. All the vendors were out of food so we ended up sitting in line for a restaurant for over 2 hours just to find something to eat. We finally got seated and who should be just a couple of tables over but Tom Arnold and his entourage. It was hot and he complained and got them to bring him a fan so now he wasn't just smoking a cigar in the restaurant but he had a fan to blow the cigar smoke directly at our table. We had already heard from a couple of different sources that he had been seen getting dropped off at the side of the road just outside of a few towns so he could be seen riding into town without having to ride the full stretch between towns. We ended up having to wait over another hour to finally get served and had to listen to that blowhard yell over his fan at his entourage so the entire restaurant could hear him while also enjoying his cigar smoke.

I'm not a fan...
If you were, you would have been able to counteract HIS fan...
 
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