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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 5:54 pm
It's been an eventful few days. Walked away from a pretty nasty auto crash (that my poor car didn't survive, and if not for a strategically-placed guard rail, neither would I), grabbed a rental and salvaged everything we could, and have spent the past four days ordering and assembling stuff. The home is almost furnished, and will be more like an actual home by middle of next week, which is just a few days before we head back to NYC. And then the last six months before I move out here permanently, which already seems to be taking too damned long.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:03 pm
(January 8, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Tonus Wrote: It's been an eventful few days. Walked away from a pretty nasty auto crash (that my poor car didn't survive, and if not for a strategically-placed guard rail, neither would I), grabbed a rental and salvaged everything we could, and have spent the past four days ordering and assembling stuff. The home is almost furnished, and will be more like an actual home by middle of next week, which is just a few days before we head back to NYC. And then the last six months before I move out here permanently, which already seems to be taking too damned long.
I feel cheated, but congrats on totally surviving like a boss 
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Calling relatives and waiting for calls to be returned. A good day actually. I'm catching up with many people I haven't talked to in a year or two or three.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:12 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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(January 8, 2015 at 6:03 pm)Alice Wrote: I feel cheated, but congrats on totally surviving like a boss Mild sprain of the left wrist and a couple of tiny scratches on my right hand. I got clipped by a truck that was trying to pass me on the left (with two trailers on a curved road with an incline in the rain and in the dark). His second trailer strayed into my lane and before I knew it we were making a big S and hit the guardrail at an almost 90 degree angle. The truck driver, as far as I know, never even slowed down.
The car was so wedged into the guardrail that the tow truck that was trying to winch it out was being dragged towards the car instead of the other way around, but he finally got it loose. The guardrail has a huge bend in it now, and if it wasn't reinforced by a post at the exact spot where I hit, I wonder if it would've held. The car was packed with stuff I was moving to the home, and aside from a laptop that got turned into a parenthesis, everything else is banged up but works. I'll give Toyota credit for living up to its rep for safety. That car went all Jesus Christ on me, giving up its life that I may be saved.
On the even brighter side, when you do finally take possession of my eternal soul, I'll have a few more tales to tell by the fireside at the end of all time.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:19 pm
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(January 8, 2015 at 4:14 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (January 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm)My imaginary friend is GOD Wrote: It's been a while since I was on this site.
Just want to say, I had heterosexual sex last night. I don't think I'll be trying that again. Like, ever. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good. It was oatmeal. One is far too few to form a relevant statistics.
You should try again with someone else  
Nah, I don't think I'll be doing that again. If I do, there where be a copious amount of alcohol involved.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:32 pm
Boy I hope oral wasn't involved.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 6:55 pm
I ate a couple of olives everyday for a month.
Tasted just as shit on the last day as the first.
I imagine it's the same for sex. :-)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 7:28 pm
Hi ftw
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 8, 2015 at 10:48 pm
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(January 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm)My imaginary friend is GOD Wrote: It's been a while since I was on this site.
Just want to say, I had heterosexual sex last night. I don't think I'll be trying that again. Like, ever. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good. It was oatmeal.
futile!!!!!! How've ya been!
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