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21 Feb 2024 11:33 PM
#10151
Member
By all means, if you think it's necessary.
TNP had Japanese food this week.
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24 Feb 2024 05:32 AM
#10152
Oliphaunt
Nope. The opposite. Pretty much exclusively fast food from drive-thru windows. (But no alcohol, so....meh...it kind of evens out in the wash!)
TNP has a favorite national/widespread chain fast food restaurant, and, if so, will name it. If not, explain why. In 300 words or less. Or more.
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25 Feb 2024 10:35 PM
#10153
Member
Yes, my secret fast-food passion is Arby's. (Don't you judge me!). Back when I was a kid there was an Arby's in the nearest big city to which my sisters and I would very occasionally be taken by my parents, and eating there was a special treat. I still like it.
TNP has read a Western in the past two months.
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28 Feb 2024 02:05 AM
#10154
Oliphaunt
Ummmmm....I'm going to say "No." Not actually sure I've ever read a Western....though one of my favorite genres in moving pictures for sure. Unless you want to count something like On the Road or Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (which is, actually, kind of a proto-Western...in a way...it's got rattlesnakes biting horses and Iroquois and all that!).
No, I revise that to a hard no, not ever. Unless one gets into Fenimore Cooper....I think I was supposed to read one of his in a grad seminar, but I was busy, you know, doing stuff like research and writing...or, you know, like Kafka, "Wunsch, Indianer zu werden."
But my memory is not the best. Good enough for two months, though. Mostly. Definitely not in last two months. Definitely not....pretty sure.
TNP wishes very much that some people at, say, work, could just can the balloon juice about 95% of the time. IOW, TNP can be pretty irritated by people who have some kind of compulsion to fill up every silence with chatter, especially as it concerns their own lives, about which one is not at all interested. For example.
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01 Mar 2024 11:42 PM
#10155
Member
Yes, now and then. Fortunately, none of the people I regularly work with are chatterboxes.
Some great Westerns to consider: True Grit by Charles Portis (a callow but determined young woman tries to find the man who killed her father), Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker (two gunmen are hired to pacify a wild town) and Inland by Tea Obreht (a wrangler for the U.S. Camel Corps and a tough-as-nails frontier mom are brought together by circumstances beyond their control).
TNP will poke around on Amazon a little to learn more about at least one of those books.
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06 Mar 2024 04:17 AM
#10156
Oliphaunt
I might. I know about *True Grit*....it has its followers....but somehow I imagine most of them read in my inner ear to take their teeth out in order to do a reading for Mr. Ford, as in a Walter Brennan kind of thing. Meh, I should probably read some Louis L'Amour, or *Lonesome Dove*, you know, one of those. *Appaloosa* made a fine movie, which I believe I first heard about here. *Inland* sound intriguing.
I must say, though, I'm getting back to roots and reinvestigating some (post)-modernist (no later than, say, then 1970s), modernist, and symbolist or even romantic novels. As well as memorizing random bits in foreign tongues I'd forgot, like the Symbolum Apostolorum [the shorter creed, licit for use during Lent and Easter, as well as when praying the rosary] and the Mallarmé *Plusieurs sonnets*.
TNP keeps track of which drugs one takes each day, how much, and at what time, in a notebook. Need not be heavy drugs....benadryl, ibuprofen, Chantix, alcohol, &c.
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07 Mar 2024 11:50 PM
#10157
Member
No, I don't. I rarely take any drugs at all, and when I do by prescription, I just take them as directed, and don't really need to keep track.
I've now finished Inland and very strongly recommend it. Probably the best book I've read so far this year.
TNP would like to go to Arizona this spring.
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08 Mar 2024 02:40 AM
#10158
Oliphaunt
No. Not unless they build a giant canopy over the entire state to block out the sunlight!
[tks for tip about *Inland*....that's a strong recommendation, so it will be amusing to check it out]
TNP can't really decide which pair of sunglasses (bonus points for prescription shades!) is his or her "Number One," taking after the convention some guitarists use when referring to their favored guitar.
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11 Mar 2024 11:03 PM
#10159
Member
I have two, I'd say: a rugged, matte-black pair of Ironman sunglasses for everyday use including driving, and a tortoise pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers for fancier occasions. If I had to choose, I'd go with the Wayfarers.
When I was a lifeguard and boating instructor at Scout camp back in the early Eighties, I had a prescription pair of mirrored aviator sunglasses, but haven't since then.
TNP has seen snow outside in the past three days.
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12 Mar 2024 05:16 PM
#10160
Oliphaunt
Yeah. There's still a bit of snow up around here, but over the past two days, day-and-a-half, I'd say, it's rapidly become a victim of the sunlight and warmer temperatures. Three days? Yeah, for sure, little bit here and there.
TNP thinks it will be completely futile to try to "chase" the upcoming total solar eclipse, for reasons of likely overcast weather, or not being near the arc of totality, or general whatever reasons. Maybe next time!
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13 Mar 2024 10:12 PM
#10161
Member
In many places, yes. Fortunately, I won't have to chase it, because we're right in the path of it. I'm just hoping for clear weather that day: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/fu...24/where-when/
TNP already has effective and safe eye-protective glasses to watch the total solar eclipse on April 8.
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20 Mar 2024 05:52 AM
#10162
Oliphaunt
You lucky son of a bitch! I hope you and yours have a great experience. (Oh, no, I don't have any welding glasses or such...not in the path, and it will be overcast anyway, per usual in the PNW).
TNP has had an enduring affection for artists, writers, musicians of the XVIth century for several decades...really, most his or her adult life. And never comes up empty when searching for inspiration in the past.
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22 Mar 2024 11:58 PM
#10163
Member
No, I'm more of a XVIIth and XVIIIth century kind of guy, especially for music (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Boyce, Telemann, etc.).
TNP got rained on today.
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23 Mar 2024 04:24 PM
#10164
Oliphaunt
Nah, not really. Few sprinkles here and there, but my work day is just almost beginning.
TNP thinks an appropriate response if some coworkers start in with that "happy birthday" crap is: "Yep, sure is. Whoopty fucking shit! Thanks for reminding me! 39 years!" (No, it's not my birthday, and I am not 39, nor will ever be again!)
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25 Mar 2024 09:31 AM
#10165
Oliphaunt
Nah, I never minded if people remembered my birthday, even if I didn’t advertise it.
TNP has discovered a movie recently they want to recommend.
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Yesterday 11:25 PM
#10166
Member
Not a movie, but one of my sons and I have been watching the new Hulu series Shogun, based on the James Clavell novel, and it's pretty good. It's about an English sailor marooned in early 1600s Japan, trying to survive the political maneuvering and murderous feuds between various clans after the death of the Taiko (regent).
TNP is interested in Japanese history.
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