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    It's manageable, I guess, all in all, but I'm certainly more than ready for this $%^&*! pandemic to end.

    And you've gotta see Gladiator sometime soon! Great historical adventure:

    TNP has big plans for the weekend.

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    Hmmm...does working and maybe watching old movies count? I’m guessing no.

    TNP remains astounded by the aftermath of the US presidential election, despite the predictions.

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    Yeah. Actually, it's not quite as bad as I'd have guessed, but it's astonishing nonetheless.

    TNP lives to pursue and punish those who have failed to perform correctly, either legally, socially, or within any other realm of behavior.

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    No, but it can be a bit of fun along the way.

    TNP could really do with a beer right now.

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    Yeah, a beer sounds great right now. Just a regular draft beer.

    TNP is pretty sometimes just a good old fashioned regular draft beer is just the thing. Doesn't matter what else Turkkinpippuri you got, or even water. Nice cold beer.

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    Ayep.

    TNP has been to Maine in the past year.

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    No, never made it up there. I think it would be fun to spend time in one of the francophone enclaves, if they still exist, and maybe pick up some more hillbilly franco-canadian slang.

    If TNP were to relocate, he or she would consider a small fishing-based village a good place to end up.

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    That might be nice (and Ogunquit, Maine, which I've visited, would fit the bill), but I think a nice little college town might be more to my liking.

    TNP needs to buy a space heater for the winter.

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    Nope. I literally live by my space heater about nine months out of the year (the rainy months in the great state of whatever). It will cause a disturbing rash, which it would not surprise me is potentially melanomic, for good or bad varieties of irritation.

    TNP has had some ribs lately, and approves.

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    No, and I love ribs! All the places I would ordinarily get ribs are closed, or I don't want to run the risk of infection.

    TNP saw someone in a red hat today.

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    None. Alive.

    TNP knew that a "dance belt" is not really a belt but kind of a jock strap.

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    No, had no idea.

    TNP has a preference between Netflix, Prime and Tubi.

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    False. I've used the first two and have no preference; I don't even know what the third is.

    TNP has listened to a march tune today.

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    Yeah, actually. I don't know what you'd call it except for a march, from my haphazardly put together "Hammond organ" USB for in the car, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again." I can't remember if it was Jimmy Smith's or Don Patterson's version. If that's not a march, then I don't know what it is. It's played in 4 for the solos, but it has more of a duple/march time during the theme, and Jimmy's arrangement features a drone in fifths from the bass end of the organ and some flute-like ditherings drawing from the diminished/octatonic scale.

    TNP is not doing much for Thanksgiving this year, and thinks it's probably day to use one of his or her weekly alcohol consumption days and fantasize about murdering his or her downstairs neighbor.

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    Not doing much for Thanksgiving, check. Probably drinking alcohol, check. Fantasizing about murder... uh, not so much.

    TNP has been following all the post-Election-Day lawsuits with less than rapt attention.

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    Yeah. I mean, really? A coworker today tried to get my opinion about the "whole thing" and it was very difficult for me to conceal just how dismissive of the "whole thing" could possibly be. Yes, This Current Poster follows the various frivolous lawsuits, but not very closely.

    TNP remembered Rudy when he was a pretty good mayor (well, opinions vary, but I never heard much dissent besides "He's turning midtown Manhattan into Disneyland!" in that way only New Yorkers could complain about piddly shit). And bonus TNP: TNP has a theory about why Rudy broke bad? Because I don't know. Dementia? No idea. Therefore, it's all in the hands of TNP.

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    Yes, I remember Rudy from when he was a pretty good mayor of NYC (arguably the best of my lifetime). What happened? Well... I think he just got old, his lawyer skills rusted, and he decided it was more important to be in Trump's orbit than to have a soul or any kind of admirable public standing anymore. But that's just me.

    TNP has had pie in the past 24 hours.

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    No. I did have a very good cider, though. Dry, and yet complicated. It was a very good cider, for my tastes.

    TNP thinks it's possible to be a bit too attentive to or interested in women. Not in a harmful fashion, but in a way that one can become distracted very easily.

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    Oh, yes, definitely. And there are so many wonderful ones to be attentive to or interested in!

    TNP has recently seen a stunningly beautiful woman in a public place, but all too briefly.

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    Would have had to be in a public place for that, and we’re back in lockdown.

    TNP has certain weekend routines, and dislikes having them disturbed.

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    Not really. Weekday/workday routines, though, most definitely. There's a pretty precise schedule I follow in the mornings.

    TNP has been putting off making an appointment with a dentist and dental hygienist for a long time.

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    No, I had my annual dental checkup and teeth-cleaning just a few weeks back.

    TNP is more than ready for a cheap, safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine to get approved already, dammit.

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    Yeah, ideally several, provided they are tested and the application of each can be triaged for specific population groups. The latter's a bit of a stretch, but that would be ideal.

    TNP expects to receive a vaccination (or perhaps several in prescribed series of boluses) by probably this time next year. No sooner.

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    Sounds about right.

    TNP reads several comic strips every morning.

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    No, I've fallen out of that habit.

    TNP always checks the obituaries when he or she sees a newspaper.

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    No. I just have a very rich imaginative inner life. I can sense when my wishes have been fulfilled! In truth, no, I've never read the obits, although that would be a fun task as a copy editor to decide upon the page layout and so forth.

    TNP has very nearly lost his or her shit when he or she heard fucking Xmas music in some public place recently.

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    Yes, a few weeks ago, in my car, which I suppose is a public place. Too damn early for Christmas music!

    TNP grudgingly heard some Christmas music just today.

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    No. It was a very rare occasion.

    TNP did hear some other loathsome, dogshit music though. And bonus TNP: who in the hell plays dance music for just listening to? No, I'm not talking about a Gigue from one of Bach's dance suites, but full on music you'd hear in a fucking nightclub! WTH is wrong with people?

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    No, I haven't heard any music I really hated in quite awhile, fortunately.

    TNP will be going for a long walk tonight.

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    Nope. Just activated broadband cable internet.

    TNP thinks there are some problems with having thousands of pounds of books in flimsy bookcases against walls that include receptacles for things like coaxial cable terminals, AC receptacles, and the like.

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    Yes, in my lay opinion there could very well be, although I'm no structural engineer.

    TNP actually knows a structural engineer.

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    Not exactly by that title, but two civil engineers, at least one of whom is relatively famous locallly. The other is just starting out after her undergraduate work in civil engineering. And, my brother in law, although he's a "quality engineer" (PE) probably wouldn't hesitate to claim dibs on the title as well. I'm not actually sure what separate discipline "structural engineering" would fall under.

    TNP probably would not be the type to, mid-career as an engineer, pick up an MBA and move into the management side of things (not that there's anything wrong with that).

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    No, I'm actually right where I want to be in my career right now.

    TNP has eggnog in the fridge.

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    Nah. Don't like it. Half-gallon of whole milk. Goes good with Jameson.

    TNP knew that 'Whitey' Bulger volunteered to be part of an MK-ULTRA experiment while in prison early in his career, and supposedly was fed over fifty doses of LSD in exchange for earlier release. (According to wikipedia, he did not relish the substance).

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    I did not! But I once met his brother Billy, the Boston politico, when he came to speak about politics and public service at my college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bulger

    TNP knew that Stephen King's novel Firestarter was loosely inspired by the MK-ULTRA experiments.

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    No. Fuck no. I think that's amazing, and I bet you anything if I ever go see my pops that's going to be near the top of the list. "See if you has a paperback of *Firestarter*, then give it over" is how it would go.

    TNP would head to Australia first, if he or she should ever feel the need to flee his or her country.

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    Hmmm...as long as I am not fleeing over anything extraditable, yeah. Very appealing place for a Canadian.

    TNP is taking time off from work over the holidays.

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    No. Tis the season to be working the trailers at the unloading docks. And so forth.

    TNP has met a woman, let's say, ever, with the first name of his or her mother, and is not quite sure how to proceed. Assuming, as one always does, that she is DTF and at least friendly.

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    Just had to look up "DTF," but no, I have never dated anyone with the same first name as my mother.

    I'd love to go to Australia myself someday, as it happens.

    TNP knew what "DTF" meant without looking it up.

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    Yeah, I’ve seen it come up before on the Net.

    TNP finds themselves using Internet initialisms in ordinary speech.

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    WTF? FDS.

    TNP has heard a Christmas carol today.

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    Not intentionally. One could have been in the background of an A-Team episode, I suppose. Not sure.

    FDS! That's a new one, but I'm sure they stole the expanded version from me. Sounds pretty familiar.

    TNP thinks Cheech and Chong are actually pretty amusing.

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    Nah, never been my thing.

    TNP has cold feet right now. Literally.

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    No. Nor hot lead.

    TNP has ever heard anyone use the term "jabroni" (as a mild insult) IRL, and if so, will explain WTH it means.

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    No, that's a new one on me: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jabroni

    TNP clicked on that link.

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    No, but I did look at the exact page out of curiosity. Apparently it's not much of an insult. Maybe on the level of "chowderhead" or "dillweed."

    TNP has a preference among the following insults: "dicknuts," "fuckwad," or "chunksmell."

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    I've used the second on rare occasions, but never the first or the third. I think I just might have to use that one sometime soon....

    TNP has someone he or she wants to insult this weekend.

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    No. Not even after going grocery shopping and driving through the suburbs to fuel up. (I don't think "chunksmell" is a real word, but it could be!)

    TNP can name four or more Irish whiskeys off the top of his or her head.

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    No - just wracked my brain and couldn't.

    TNP will now do so.

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    Of course. Kilbeggan, Jameson, Powers Gold, Tullemore D.E.W. I guess you can add Bushmills to that, too, but I've never had that except maybe a few times way back.

    TNP has a habit of not throwing away imported liquor bottles. Or at least saving one exemplar of various bottles should one have a bit of a habit.

    TNP thinks it's a bit of a useful investment to drink good whiskey, provided yadda yadda.

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