That is certainly true! Yikes. Never even remotely considered doing that.
TNP has at least one niece and one nephew.
That is certainly true! Yikes. Never even remotely considered doing that.
TNP has at least one niece and one nephew.
Well, yeah, that is.....no....I can't figure a clever way out of that. Three nephews, no nieces.
TNP thinks one of the greatest tools of vBulletin and later variations on the web forum is the ignore list, and TNP uses it often.
Can't say as I do.
TNP has occasionally looked in on live critter cams like this one, for a bald eagle nest in southern California (link intentionally broken, as it would not appear otherwise): https://www.youtube.<br /> <br /> ...?v=B4-L2nfGcuE
No, but that looks like fun.TNP thinks "one of these days" he or she is going to set up one of those Go-Pro (or knock-off) cameras to try to catch pictures of some of the amazing birds outside his or her abode.Spoiler (mouseover to read):
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I've thought about it. My BIL has one for his outdoor feeder, and has gotten some great closeup pics, especially of hummingbirds and cardinals.
TNP thinks seven states is 'WAY too many to have the cardinal as state bird. Every state should have a unique state bird, dammit!
Never thought about it....had a similar thought about other state tokens, but that was a while ago.
Yeah, too many cardinals....and sports teams and....it can be a bit much.
TNP (I know, never talk religion or politics or sports).....TNP released a long relaxed sigh after the KC Chefs didn't threepeat at this big game.
Bonus TNP if one completely muted the TV or whatever during halftime and commercials (I was working that evening, so didn't watch any of it, just glanced at the play-by-play in text format).
I will confess to being mildly pleased, yes.
TNP has had enough winter.
More or less, yes. But wishing will not make it so.
TNP watched Groundhog Day on or near the actual day this year.
What? Nobody does that!
Anyway, no. Haven't seen in a few years and never been geographically near nor temporally near Groundhog Day. At other times, sure, sure, just not this best time of year to generally go out cruising for some local talent.
TNP has a book. And everyone he or she meets goes into that book.
Just about anyone of note, yes. Not that it leads to bad consequences for any of them, though.
TNP can look out the window right now and see bright white snow outside.
Yeah. Depends how hard I squint, but the white flies that have accumulated are still here.
TNP has something special planned for St. Patrick's Day.
No, not in particular. Not yet, at least.
TNP will be sure to wear something green.
Yeah, I have a mediocre but presentable solid emerald green tie, which I will certainly wear. Green undies? Well, too soon to tell, but at least I wear my emerald green necktie with a black suit (well....maybe slacks and a sportcoat.
TNP has recently bought too many books....and finds it gets to a problem.
I loaded up on books recently, due largely to birthday windfalls, but, hey, no problem.
TNP has had a persistent cough this winter.
Fortunately not. I've been pretty healthy this morning (if you still have one, RET, hope you feel all better soon!)
TNP will be leaving work early tomorrow.
I hope so! My main plan for personal finance is to leave work early *every* day. It's...a work in progress...lot of details, lot of ins and outs. If they release me early, I still get benefits and time off accrued for those hours...just less of a paycheck.
TNP has recently had to replace all four tires on his or her car (if applicable) and was not happy about it. But would admit driving on decent new tires is pretty sweet.
I haven't, but yes, I'm sure it would be. My front right tire keeps going just a little flat. I'll have to replace it before too long, I think.
TNP talked to at least six people under age twenty today.
Negatory. I *could* have, in practice, but just kept my head down and did my job without much need for conversation. Don't think we had any younglings on the job today, though. Meh....maybe? Not too sure. Don't think so, though, including all encounters today. TNP has ever had a problem with, say, the MCL or ACL (about the knees) or similar and if so, has found it be fairly life-altering.
No, fortunately not, although I know people who have.
TNP has sweated a lot in a sport in the past week.
Nope. I don't even do pushups anymore. I'm soaked with sweat after work five days a week. And most of my job is not that physical. Not hyperhydrotic. I sweat playing pool for hours....but hands never sweat on me, so no need for hand chalk or a glove. TNP will name a sport a middle-aged person can or should play (and, no, Tom Brady doesn't count, nor does curling!) Something good. All I got is playing pool, and that's arguably only very tangentially a sport. Or body-weight calisthenics....pull-ups, dips, pushups, resistance training....or hiking, backpacking (activites based as much on knowledge as stamina). I dunno you tell me!
I like hiking and backpacking very much. I take vigorous walks around my neighborhood all the time. Weather permitting, I also enjoy cycling.
I consider pool (and snooker) a game, not a sport. Likewise chess. Cheerleading (a sports-adjacent activity, however strenuous) and dance (a form of physical artistic expression and/or a performing art) are also not sports IMHO, regardless of what the IOC might say.
TNP agrees with most of the previous paragraph.
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Hell no! The cue sports (pool, snooker, billiards) are very much sports! Sweating over a hot table for hours, executing physical moves based upon strategic and tactical ideas. If golf is a so-called sport, then hell yes so are the cue games! TNP needs at least another bookshelf...for books.
Most definitely. By this point, I could use a whole freakin' warehouse.
TNP has at least three books underway at the moment.
It is to laugh. Yes. In fact I've transferred funds from my Roth IRA to pay off my book binge, which includes some relatively expensive volumes (think, like hundred or onefitty or so rather than rare book, but still, it adds up), by paperback standards. It reminds me of the character Udal, IIRC, from Ford's The Fifth Queen. But, yes, on any average ___day, yes. I am reading about that many a day, plus dictionaries and cribs and so forth for Greek and Latin. As discrete books, mind you. Not as just browsing the stacks. These are what one might call "books in progress." TNP would feel mightily disrespected if a former flame, while just shooting pool, playing cards, chatting, drinking at a bar were to have said "And you're not coming over to my place and crashing." Implying that were one's intent.
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Yeah, I can see how that might rub you the wrong way.
TNP has been to Florida or some other sunny place in the past month.
Not really. It was kind of sunny yesterday here, though!
TNP has been inclined to have some body work done on a motor vehicle in the past....rather than just leaving the car, let's say, with some of it's guts exposed, Terminator-style.
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