Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire

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Cyclones_R_GR8

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I ordered a Fitbit Sense 2. I got an email last night that it shipped so I would guess I should get it in another day or two
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Friday the 13th strikes!! Metronet does such a wonderful job of burying its fiber cable. Never realized it until now that it went under our fence and right above ground into the neighbor’s yard for a couple of feet until it goes up the pole. Don’t know if it was their dog or a squirrel that did it. Gonna be a long weekend without TV. Wife was sitting outside when she saw a squirrel go across our fence right about the time we lost internet.

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Started a new house today. It has a triple beam, but they sent double saddle plates for the posts instead of triples. Then we found out the posts are actually too high.
 
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BoxsterCy

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Friday the 13th strikes!! Metronet does such a wonderful job of burying its fiber cable. Never realized it until now that it went under our fence and right above ground into the neighbor’s yard for a couple of feet until it goes up the pole. Don’t know if it was their dog or a squirrel that did it. Gonna be a long weekend without TV. Wife was sitting outside when she saw a squirrel go across our fence right about the time we lost internet.

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Yeah, I've lost internet from the tree rats. Even lost power one time when one fried himself on the transformer behind my house. Boxster no likey tree rats.
 

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traipsing thru the treetops

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NWICY

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Well got home finally then took a nap by mistake so ended up making bacon and tomato sandwiches at midnight. Yeh there was no lettuce, lettuce is a filler in BLTs.
 

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Yeah, I've lost internet from the tree rats. Even lost power one time when one fried himself on the transformer behind my house. Boxster no likey tree rats.
Set a live trap out where the runway was under the fence and now have a rabbit in it.
 
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madguy30

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I am! Not sure that the game will go well, but hope springs eternal

I'm going to that too. I was on a walk last night and several motorcycle cops escorted the Bama buses through Middleton. I was surprised they only got into town last night.
 

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Not exactly sure.
Dealing with Covid at the moment but at least I can sing Johnny Cash songs now.
What are the symptoms? A lot of the HS football team here and a neighboring town were sick this week and have a bad cough and tiredness. Both towns got lucky to win their games.
 

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See posts here and have now figured out Badgers are playing Alabama. Woof. That's the antithesis of Hawkeye scheduling if I ever heard of it.

"Boxster, haven't you been playing attention to college football?"
"No, no I have not paid any attention to it at all,"
 
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