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STEALTH 'BIRTHDAY' CONFIRMED.
Tell us, what's not bothering you ?
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I want to know where that picture is from wwwOh yeah, I forgot this thread exists.
Nice, everybody seems to be having a good time-
Oooookay.
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It's called Jimmy Butler Confused meme
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Went to the other record store in town I'm a regular at. Owner was working; guy comes in with records to sell, and as the owner steps out to take a look he looks at me and goes 'you're in charge'. This means I'm now an 'unofficial employee' at both of my regular haunts. 
I get a stack of a dozen from him of a bunch of different stuff - classical, a Sweet album, some Spike Jones - for about $60. Get home and enter the discs into my Discogs account, and one of the classical discs I paid $3.75 for could be listed and sold online in a matter of hours for $150-200 easy.
Go to my main shop, and one of the owners is about to head 45 minutes out of town to take a look at a collection, which will take him right past a BBQ joint that neither of us has been to but is highly recommended by anyone who's been. So he invites me along and I get the best brisket I've ever had, and apparently the ribs were also incredible.
Get to the collection, and it's mediocre - maybe 500 generally beat up discs, and a bunch of it is stuff that'll never sell. He pulls a dozen LPs and maybe a dozen 45's and pays about $35, and I take a chance on a couple LPs that interest me for $6. Get back to the store and look up one of the LPs I grabbed, and it's the first album on that label, an original copy, and pretty highly regarded.
Sometimes the universe just smiles all afternoon.
I get a stack of a dozen from him of a bunch of different stuff - classical, a Sweet album, some Spike Jones - for about $60. Get home and enter the discs into my Discogs account, and one of the classical discs I paid $3.75 for could be listed and sold online in a matter of hours for $150-200 easy.
Go to my main shop, and one of the owners is about to head 45 minutes out of town to take a look at a collection, which will take him right past a BBQ joint that neither of us has been to but is highly recommended by anyone who's been. So he invites me along and I get the best brisket I've ever had, and apparently the ribs were also incredible.
Get to the collection, and it's mediocre - maybe 500 generally beat up discs, and a bunch of it is stuff that'll never sell. He pulls a dozen LPs and maybe a dozen 45's and pays about $35, and I take a chance on a couple LPs that interest me for $6. Get back to the store and look up one of the LPs I grabbed, and it's the first album on that label, an original copy, and pretty highly regarded.
Sometimes the universe just smiles all afternoon.
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yes, but could life be better?
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Oh, no. That's not the kick-off to a recruitment into some weird religion is it?
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You can't be saying that when you have a monthly subscription to support the evil Dex God.
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nah, i'm good. i like how it is right now.
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Thunderstorms all night tonight
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Hope your power doesn't go out and no stray bolts hit near your vicinityThunderstorms all night tonight
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Power's generally pretty stable. It has gone out... because of a squirrel exploring (and exploding) the transformer on the nearest pole... and because the landlord mislabeled the main service in the basement.Hope your power doesn't go out and no stray bolts hit near your vicinity
Bolts - eh, a couple of good sized trees next door, but well away from any electrical service (that runs down the alley). Should be alright on that front.
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This usually happens with birds here. Nothing like losing power and seeing a bunch of feathers raining from the sky followed by that awful burnt smell.
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The squirrel that did it here I actually saw - he was on the two-phase 240V service line midway up the pole. Normally they get on the cable TV/internet line lower down, but he decided to go up one more level. When he got to the pole I turned away, figuring he would go down to the ground, but he must have decided to go up instead, and managed to get between a couple of the leads on the high voltage side of the transformer (so 6kV+, most likely), which took the transformer out and blew apart the line breaker - I just caught the flash out of the corner of my eye. I found him when I went out to look; he was pretty well done and mostly hairless. Took the electric company about five hours to get service back up, since they had to send a replacement transformer and the right crew to install it, but I gave them a round of applause from the deck once power came back.
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Did not - I prefer my squirrels braised, not charred from the inside out.
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Guinea pigs, they're cute.
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The last time it happened here, that effected my place, was a couple years ago. I have no idea how they manage to land in just the wrong spot, but all I heard was a loud boom followed by my neighbours dogs loosing their minds and all of us running out of our houses to try and figure out what the hell just happened. All we saw was feathers and a clearly obliterated transformer. I'm not even sure there was anything left of the bird to find after since I'm pretty sure it just ....... "popped"
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