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These two should get along quite well with each other.

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Congrats indeed.

Never made it that far with any of the vehicles i financed. Always ended up totaling them or trading them in before they were paid off. Thank the spirits for GAP insurance, it saved my butt a few times.



There are some amazingly generous people still around i tell ya what. Looks like that buckeye burl vape i talked about a week ago or so is already finished and shipped my way. I had the wood sent directly to the company who makes them to save on shipping, I let them know it would take me a while to pay but they were fine holding it until i had the extra money...Then some anonymous person paid for it, all of it. Couple hundred bucks. Dont have the slightest idea who, or even why.... But im grateful as hell i know that!!
 
daizee said:
The first time I went Down Under (2001) was by slow boat across the Indian Ocean. Seychelles to Fremantle at 11 knots. Sixteen days, looking at the cruise report online. It was mostly transit, but we touched off the airguns every couple days to calibrate listening stations around the rim.
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Daiz, you have such a cool sounding job. Every time I read something here about what you did on any particular day I think to myself "wow this guy has such an awesome job. Whatever it is.."

granitestateofmind said:
I was actually kidding about water polo...though I have played it when I was young. Craploads more difficult than people think. I actually don't watch all sports equally....except maybe bicycle racing, which I have followed at times. Now, I got better things to do...like drinking and filing knives. Still, I'd prolly go see a cricket match if I was somewhere where people got excited about that sort of thing. Safer than a football (soccer) match, I imagine. Sorry to hear about the death of Richie Benaud, tho. NPR (which is a great way to kind of visit the world when one is stuck in Boston traffic) had a piece about him a couple months ago. Interesting guy.
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Ritchie was truly a wonderful bloke. Incredible cricketer, brilliant commentator and an absolute gentleman. I work at a medical alarm company as a response operator and we had Ritchie as a Client. I got the chance, or should I say privilege, to speak to him once and tell him how much I admired him. My mother in law (who I work with) spoke with him as well. She installed his medical alarm device..

If you like drinking mate, you'd love going to a cricket game. That's basically all you do there. I actually reckon Americans would really dig the 20 20 Big Bash League. Watch this:

[video]https://youtu.be/eZ_IOp638kQ[/video]

(Bugger. I thought that would come up like how you guys add Youtube vids)
 
I have an urge to buy the biggest CSA Battle Flag I can find and put it where everyone who drives by can see it.
 
worldwood said:
There are some amazingly generous people still around i tell ya what. Looks like that buckeye burl vape i talked about a week ago or so is already finished and shipped my way. I had the wood sent directly to the company who makes them to save on shipping, I let them know it would take me a while to pay but they were fine holding it until i had the extra money...Then some anonymous person paid for it, all of it. Couple hundred bucks. Dont have the slightest idea who, or even why.... But im grateful as hell i know that!!
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:thumbup: that's awesome! some smoke and happy thoughts for that person fo sho.

send me a review once you've had a chance to test it out :D
 
Daiz is a computer geek....on a research boat. It seems like a really cool job. If you wanna see some of what he does, go here: http://www.nautiluslive.org/
My youngest and I were entranced by some of the videos last year when they were mapping the Puerto Rican Trench (might not have got that exactly right). Funny part is my dad's blood brother (childhood ritual stuff) used to captain the Atlantis II, the other research vessel out of Woods Hole and precursor to the Nautilus. If you've got kids, check out the live feed or some of the vids. REALLY cool.

Here's one:

[VIDEO=youtube;SkBpummjR5I]https://youtu.be/SkBpummjR5I[/VIDEO]
 
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Been some time since I last posted, so I thought I'd let folks know what we have been doing. We bought a house in Hamilton and took possession on June 1. Since then, my friend Nate (some of you met him at the last Gathering) and I have been building a new climbing training space. And after over three weeks of 12-hour work days, we're almost done. We've been taking pics of the process and I'll post them in a new thread in the next few days. I'm exhausted.
 
DunkEm said:
CONGRATS!!!! That is an awesome feeling!
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TBL said:
Congrats on the truck!
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worldwood said:
Congrats indeed.
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Thanks!

bigghoss said:
Good deal. :thumbup: Do yourself a favor and keep it that way.
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She's still doing great despite having a decent amount of miles. I'll probably keep her until she starts to fall apart, put her back together and have another round at it. I bought it when I had no business financing a vehicle, but as I got lucky and landed a better job I decided to knock the loan out a few years ahead of schedule.




TBL said:
Definitely a nice pair there Jerry!
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Quoted for truth.
granitestateofmind said:
Giggity.
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Pretty much....

gmoneyluv said:
Been some time since I last posted, so I thought I'd let folks know what we have been doing. We bought a house in Hamilton and took possession on June 1. Since then, my friend Nate (some of you met him at the last Gathering) and I have been building a new climbing training space. And after over three weeks of 12-hour work days, we're almost done. We've been taking pics of the process and I'll post them in a new thread in the next few days. I'm exhausted.
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Fun stuff, Gus! I look forward to seeing the progress. :D My wife and I are finally going through the mortgage pre-approval process and we may make a move here before too long on a place we have had our eyes on.
 
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