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I'm so happy that LEGO named a set after me!

Over on SD there is a google express $15 credit for Target if you use a google home assistant, so I guess Google Home device? https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/373379 Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

We have a date 1 month from now.

What's the deal with macaroni and cheese. It seems like nobody knows how to make it right. Every single time I go to a church dinner/family gathering/wedding, someone's always brought a big dish of it that they've "cooked". And my main gripe is it's never cheesy enough. All the macaroni and hardly any cheese. And it's always sort of dry and chewy, with that generic cheese flavoring. When I'm eating mac and cheese, I want it to be nice and hot and gooey and CHEESY.

I will refer to one as Jeff and the other as Ed

maybe not much but it delivers, my small adorable Tidirium Shuttle.

Maybe they need to run a raffle?

AThink this is the place for this one $19.99 retail 132 pieces. Link to brickset https://brickset.com/sets/75951-1/Grindelwald-s-Escape

Growing up, macaroni and cheese was my soul food. I made it my sole mission to master the craft with absolute perfection. What can I say, I loved the stuff. Don't make the dish much as I used to but once in a while and still got it. For that I am admittedly rather picky when I see what others cooked claiming to be mac and cheese when it looks like melted lumps of Cheetos and tastes of burnt toast. Even when they get boxes of Kraft brand mac & cheese, they still mess that up then again the directions (last time I bought any that is) when it comes to mixing the boiled pasta, butter, cheese powder with milk at the same time is just not right.

That's not at all what happened here. The investors put up $1.3 billion of their own money for the buyout and collected $200 million in management fees, which means they lost $1.1 billion on the deal. The three investment companies that bought TRU ARE the shareholders. They took the company private. As for what thombockerman said about how it's sad that they arranged it so that the debt was put on the company and not the investors, that was no special arrangement. That's just how it works for any corporation and would have been the case even if this leveraged buyout had never taken place. A corporation's owners are not responsible for the debt of the corporation. The corporation is its own entity.

I would not be surprised if Darth Raichu already posted this because, well, duh. Ah whatever. I just felt like it.

According to my 3-year old, “Life is a Highway” is Mack’s song.

Companies that need to outsource their return procedures deserves to fail. Have they not realized the companies that are still successful today are the ones that create positive customer experience when things gone wrong? If you need a third party that have very limited authority and very strict guideline on what it can and cannot do, it will just create a negative experience to that contracted employee and the customer because the 3rd party can't really do much. The argument of reduce fraud? What a bunch of BS. Just transferring the liability to the contractor and force them to be on the hook if they accepted a bad return.

THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY

If the kockshop sold super escort girls that would be emazing...

I bought 60 scar troopers and I know they had more. I bought 30 tent sets, 20 r3-m2, etc. And there were still racks of each available, plus who knows how many cases in back. They limited me to 15 at a time. I didn't think R3 was enough profit to go deeper on him. All of these polys except the kai pod were $2.50. Kai was $4. I only got 1 Kai for my kids and 2 Wu by accident.

Nothing will ever beat Super Escort Girls though.

Just buy the even amount cards. If you see a $100 gift card, likely it was bought for a gift. If you see 81.37 it's probably a return without receipt.

Yes. We both were.

You know who you are? Even Steven...

You are a lucky man.

I finally finished our Bounty upgrade MOC and put it with the rest of our ships. Sails were more difficult than I had thought , so will re do them again one day as I’m not happy with them. Overall though , a great looking ship I think.

It's hard for me to believe. Obviously, financially it was easy to see coming. But I'm sorta awe-struck in a sad way. Like you just never thought it would not be there. Toys R Us just is. It's like as a little kid watching reruns of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and then finding out that he had died. Or, as I can say first hand, losing a grandparent. Obviously, it's two very different things, and losing a cherished family member is much more somber than a company shutting down, but still. Sometimes I get really sad when I think about my grandparents that have died in the last few years. When I'm in a store, and melancholically remember to myself "Hey, just a year ago I was walking right through this very aisle with grandma." Or driving by their houses and knowing they're not there. It's hard to take in. There's that lack of control, that you can't do anything about it. And I'm sure in years future, seeing those old abandoned store buildings, or that have been converted into something else, and all the empty parking lots will be hard to take in. I've gotten those same feelings with K-Mart. It's nostalgic. K-Mart was magic to me in my early childhood, before we got a Wal Mart in my small town. It was the only big, non dollar-store type store we had. The Little Caesar's pizza place we had in it and doing the coloring sheets on the tables. Those early-mid 2000's LEGO's on the shelves. 5 y/o me riding around in the cart with one of those big plush character pillows I had grabbed off the shelf. Putting stuff on Layaway with my grandma. And then my K-Mart shut down about 2 years ago now. And she died around the same time. And every time I drive by it, and see the imprint of the removed K on the building, it makes me sad. I'd like to go into a K-Mart again sometime before the last ones close down. The nearest one's about an hour and a half away but I'd make it just for the experience. We didn't have a Toys R Us in my town. The closest was in the city about 2 hours away. So, about once a year we'd go into the city for some big outing or shopping trip and stop by. It was so exotic to me, like Disney World. A whole store instead of just a few aisles. And alot of the really big $200+ sets that I'd only ever seen in shop at home catalogs. And now to think in the near future, that'll all be gone. Abandoned buildings where children once ran though the aisles. And one of them was me. It makes me sad. Something that always was there growing up just isn't any more. I feel the same way about K-Mart, about my grandma, about Robin Williams, and now Toys R Us. I just hope we don't lose Chuck E Cheese anytime soon. I don't think my childhood could take it.

My house was ordered from a catalog, but I believe it was Eatons which is also gone. The roof was missing one 2x4 support and another was from two cut ones nailed together - we found it when we opened it up to insulate it properly. Lol, they didn’t follow the blue print so they ran out of material putting the roof on.

That’ll go over well.

Mitt Romney is to blame not WM or AMZ. They are running at a slight profit without the crippling debt the Bain buyout dumped on them. http://www.joemygod.com/2018/03/15/mitt-romney-helped-kill-toys-r-us/

I learned today that Walmart is the world's biggest toy seller and uses them as a loss leader. I guess Amazon just put the nail in thee coffin.

First set completed out of a lot that managed to pull me back into bulk.

That's what I'm talking about!

BOOM

Taco Bell makes me a sharder. Wakka wakka.

Helps to save when they all still live with their parents.

;0 - giant stone hitting the pond and waves spreading out. domino effect. margin buying (buying stock with a credit card) is now causing people to have to sell to cover their margin calls. that begets more selling which breaches more margins etc. throw on top of that vicious cycle collapse of inverse volatility etn's used as a hedging tool by larger financial institutions which are like a giant black hole of money , the waves could be pretty big. doesn't matter if you have a 20 year horizon but if you are retiring soon, could be uglish. or this is just the latest mother of all buy on the dips. meantime main street economy is doing better, at least from my perspective i'm having more sales fba in january and feb 2018 than i did FBM Jan - June 2017. jobless rate is reportedly lower though i have no factual knowledge of wtf is really going on. #fakeeverything

.. and just to prove how wrong you are.. "kocka" is a "BRICK" in Hungarian and Slovakian language... it could also meani in Czech and Slovak language an animal (cat)...

RIP Stephen Hawking.