Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire

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Ok, eclipse sucked here. It got darker but that was it.

If a self check register at dollar general says card only and no cash, would you feed cash into it? One line running at this place and this woman decides she is going to use self check (says 5 or less) with her 30 items and then pay (when it says cards only no cash) with cash. She was owed 9.24 in change. It actually spit out the 9 bucks, but everyone stood in line until a worker showed up for her to get her 24 cents. Some people just need to wear a “I am an idiot” shirt so we know.
 
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Ok, eclipse sucked here. It got darker but that was it.

If a self check register at dollar general says card only and no cash, would you feed cash into it? One line running at this place and this woman decides she is going to use self check (says 5 or less) with her 30 items and then pay (when it says cards only no cash) with cash. She was owed 9.24 in change. It actually spit out the 9 bucks, but everyone stood in line until a worker showed up for her to get her 24 cents. Some people just need to wear a “I am an idiot” shirt so we know.
Those people like to keep you guessing.
 

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I don't care if it's tobacco or (very bad quality) hashish, you shouldn't be smoking it in your apartment.

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Ok, eclipse sucked here. It got darker but that was it.

If a self check register at dollar general says card only and no cash, would you feed cash into it? One line running at this place and this woman decides she is going to use self check (says 5 or less) with her 30 items and then pay (when it says cards only no cash) with cash. She was owed 9.24 in change. It actually spit out the 9 bucks, but everyone stood in line until a worker showed up for her to get her 24 cents. Some people just need to wear a “I am an idiot” shirt so we know.
The self checkout at Kwik Star is labeled card only. You're asked if you want to continue after scanning your first item, confirming you're aware it's card only.

Then when you click pay, the voice prompt says, "Enter cash or select payment type."

I've wanted to insert a dollar bill just to see what would happen.
 

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Ok, eclipse sucked here. It got darker but that was it.

If a self check register at dollar general says card only and no cash, would you feed cash into it? One line running at this place and this woman decides she is going to use self check (says 5 or less) with her 30 items and then pay (when it says cards only no cash) with cash. She was owed 9.24 in change. It actually spit out the 9 bucks, but everyone stood in line until a worker showed up for her to get her 24 cents. Some people just need to wear a “I am an idiot” shirt so we know.
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Really couldn't tell it eclipsed, it got mildly darker (like 6pm brightness) worked right thru it and never thought about it.
 

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Every once in a while you get a hotel room bed that is really comfy. Like the one I had last nite and tonight.
 
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For us it was like just before full dark. We could see Venus very clearly, but the drifting clouds kind of made it difficult to see more than that. The clouds moving across the eclipse gave it a slightly eerie look. And the temperature drop was really noticeable!
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Looking at the picture I posted I realize now what the daarkened sky reminded me of...it was like when we get those really thick black thunderclouds moving in, just before the downpour hits. Only these clouds were white and patchy.
And the rain very kindly waited until this morning to hit us. :)
 

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My eyes hurt while driving. That's the only way I could tell.
I had a squirrel stand up on two legs and start talking to me. It sounded like it was in German, (my grandma would talk a little at times and that's why I kinda recognized it). I wasn't taking chances so I moved around the pick up and pulled out a pellet gun incase it was looking to start an animal attack. It ran off when it saw what I got, so I just stood guard for a bit until the eclipse passed and then things went back to normal. I'm going to keep looking to see if that squirrel comes back and take care of it just in case.

I did not see any fireball drop from the sky so I was kinda disappointed. Was going to save up for football season.
 
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I had a squirrel stand up on two legs and start talking to me. It sounded like it was in German, (my grandma would talk a little at times and that's why I kinda recognized it). I wasn't taking chances so I moved around the pick up and pulled out a pellet gun incase it was looking to start an animal attack. It ran off when it saw what I got, so I just stood guard for a bit until the eclipse passed and then things went back to normal. I'm going to keep looking to see if that squirrel comes back and take care of it just in case.

I did not see any fireball drop from the sky so I was kinda disappointed. Was going to save up for football season.
Did it look like this?

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For us it was like just before full dark. We could see Venus very clearly, but the drifting clouds kind of made it difficult to see more than that. The clouds moving across the eclipse gave it a slightly eerie look. And the temperature drop was really noticeable!
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It didn’t get anywhere close to that dark for me, but it did get darker, and it felt eerie/unsettling to me too.

My theory for why it felt eerie is that it got darker like it was later in the day, but because the sun was still higher in the sky, everything just looked off in a way that I couldn’t describe
 

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The lawn care minions are in the yard across the street from me. They have SEVEN gas powered blowers going. # uberdecibels

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Random lyrics that just popped into my head as I was making a turkey and avocado sammich.

Well, another man might have been angry
And another man might have been hurt
But another man never would have let her go
I stashed the bill in my shirt


Noise level is down to 35 Db in the house since the lawn minions left so I guess there is room in my brain for randomly accessing quieter acoustical songs. :rolleyes:
 
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Hugely screwed up my Federal withholding. Gonna get tagged with a big underpay penalty.
I neglected to make the quarterly estimated pmts from some S-corp income a few years ago. Luckily, the penalties weren't too bad, a few hundred bucks. But now the biz is doing better it would be a ton more now, so maybe I learned my lesson at low cost.

Also, taxes suck. Both how much of it is squandered, and how complicated it is. Think what 500,000 accountants could accomplish with all that brain power if they weren't getting paid to decipher the tax code.
 
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