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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Alabaster speaking of murph he's been on. But he hasn't been posting
I think we all get to that point sometimes, we just run out of things to say or get burned out, but it rarely lasts a long time. Every time that I think I'm out of things to say, somebody posts that they like The Black Dahlia Murder, basically begging us to teach them what death metal is. :D Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Every time that I think I'm out of things to say' date=' somebody posts that they like The Black Dahlia Murder, basically begging us to teach them what death metal is. :D[/quote'] Or when somebody exhorts us to 'masterbate' to metal. Honestly, for the past few months it's been the new arrivals that have sustained my involvement here...you know, because I'm such a compassionate guy and I want to help them out.
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Or when somebody exhorts us to 'masterbate' to metal. Honestly' date=' for the past few months it's been the new arrivals that have sustained my involvement here...you know, because I'm such a compassionate guy and I want to help them out.[/quote'] Well then, for the sake of everyone here that values your opinions and your company, I hope the cannon fodder keeps showing up for work. :D
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Thinking of moving house at the moment. Really bitten by the change bug since getting the new job and have been put onto a decent sounding rental by the seaside but not in a really commercial/touristy area. Going to have a look at it on Saturday' date=' not too happy it's a flat (apartment) though but it does sound big enough and comes with utilities included in the monthly rental.[/quote'] And leave Bag End to the depradations of Lobelia? Say never so! :D
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I think Iceni just skipped the first few chapters and went right to the "influencing people" section... :D
Winning arguments and influencing people are two very different things, I've seen ample evidence of that, 'specially on this forum...:D Speaking of winning arguments, my brother's broken through the first elimination round at Nationals. That's great because nobody on my team, including me, has ever managed that. For that matter, most national qualifiers from NM don't make it through.
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You do on here! However there is a difference between talking TO people and talking AT them :-D
Not to sound like an arrogant assho - oh, who am I bloody kidding? - but usually I don't talk to people since nothing I say seems to even remotely interest them. And to be perfectly honest, they're boring as hell most of the time. Last time anyone my own age seemed really interested in what I had to say I was talking about South African food, and that's not even a subject I know a whole lot about in the first place.
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Not to sound like an arrogant assho - oh' date=' who am I bloody kidding? - but usually I don't talk to people since nothing I say seems to even remotely interest them. And to be perfectly honest, [i']they're boring as hell most of the time. Last time anyone my own age seemed really interested in what I had to say I was talking about South African food, and that's not even a subject I know a whole lot about in the first place.
Speaking of which, my wife brought home this South African habanero hot sauce last week, and I went to put a little on my steak and eggs, only to discover that the top had a wider aperture than I had anticipated, and so of course I took a huge bite dripping with the stuff and shoved it in my mouth. Holy shit, it blew my face off. I actually got a chemical burn on my tongue. Oops.
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Not to sound like an arrogant assho - oh' date=' who am I bloody kidding? - but usually I don't talk to people since nothing I say seems to even remotely interest them. And to be perfectly honest, they're boring as hell most of the time. Last time anyone my own age seemed really interested in what I had to say I was talking about South African food, and that's not even a subject I know a whole lot about in the first place.[/quote'] I completely understand. If it means anything there are a few of us on here that do listen. Although when you get going on your long rants, about half way through I wished it was an Instagram lol
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