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  1. I started working on a popsicle stick castle. It’s hard. This is close to 35 hours of work. Split across the last 4 long nights. About 1200 sticks and 20 hot glue sticks. Almost 2500 individual cuts using a pair of wire cutters just to trim the round ends off. And this is just the base. It’s 2 foot by 2 foot. But it’s sturdy and flat as hell now. I’m proud.
  2. I lost my life savings on lottery tickets last night. All $8 of it. ? ?
  3. Frustratingly lectured my 12 year old niece on basic history. She's in 7th grade, apparently near the top of her class in math, science, english, etc. But as I found out today has no grasp on history, do they just not teach it anymore? Her first guess to when the Vietnam War was in the 1700s Her second guess was the 1500s Could give me no information about WW2 or when it was and thought the Holocaust was something totally unrelated I nearly lost it when it took her almost 5 minutes to name Hitler as the leader of the Nazis. I mean he's probably the most well known person next to Jesus and Michael Jackson. Apparently it seems her history classes have almost entirely focused on ancient history, Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc and she has no grasp on anything in the past 1000 years, let alone 100. I was honestly getting worried that she didn't know what 9/11 was. It really worries me too, if a few generations from now, today's tweens are the eldest and have no recollection of history prior to 2010ish.
  4. Looks like somebody got the Official Star Wars® Ice Cube Tray jk
  5. I only had a couple sets but I can only imagine one of you guys with warehouses full and then the whole building collapses. I assume you big timers have insurance on everything?
  6. So I found out my apartment survived with minimal damage luckily. But it could be up to 2 months or more before the electricity and water is back, before I can move back. The whole grid /infrastructure is gone. The people that do have water there have to boil it since it could be contaminated. Gas leaks have been reported. My firefighter brother in law is working full time. Like FULL TIME 24/7 on call, literally living at his fire station, since it's one of the few places in the area with electricity. They don't have water to shower, so you literally got like 30 guys in close quarters, on bunk beds, working like 12 hours a day just chainsawing trees off the roads, and wiping off as best they can with wet wipes. Eventually he'll move into working 24 hours on/24 hours off. But with the electricity out, I guess he'll pretty much be living at his station for a little while. It's crazy. My landlord who stayed had his roof ripped off as he and one of his tenants that stayed layed in a bathtub under a mattress, but luckily they survived. Most of the cell towers are all out, so they can only use certain brands of prepaid phones. I can't even imagine how long it'll be before the area is actually livable. You can look online and see aerial views of everything and entire forests were knocked over, hundreds of thousands probably of 100 ft tall pine trees and downed power lines everywhere. Pretty much all the stores/gas stations/restaurants/schools/churches are seriously damaged if not rubble. The only really intact are the really big ones, Wal-Mart, Target, Sam's Club, and such. And even then, they often had large sections of roof partially ripped off. If I had to guess maybe a third of the houses seriously damaged or gone. So looks like I'll probably be living at my parents for a couple months. They're going in tomorrow in my dad's truck to retrieve what they can from our houses and come back with our cats. It was a surprise. Everyone's in shock. Usually it's only like a category 2 or 3 and even then they usually weaken significantly before they make landfall. And this was essentially a category 5. It was like the third or fourth strongest on record by pressure/wind speeds and whathaveyou. Anyone in Florida knows you'll get a few each year routinely and 95% of the time it's basically just a big thunderstorm, strong winds and rain. I remember thinking it was ridiculous and a waste of gas, overkill for my sister to insist we leave, knowing we'd get back and have a few palm branches in the yard and all these extra cases of water for nothing. Because that's usually what happens. And when you do get a bad one, it's usually off in Cuba or Costa Rica or somewhere and it's hard to relate to just pictures. And when it's closer to your area, odds are you'll just get the edge of it. But everything came together like it does every 15 years or so with an Andrew or a Katrina, and it's a direct hit, it's a strong 4/5, it doesn't weaken. It's alot to take in. Just the weekend before we stopped at some yard sales, and a Goodwill, hunting for Halloween costumes, and stopped and got donuts at a local place. That exact Goodwill and donut place basically don't exist now a week later. They look like they went through one of those garbage compactors at the dump. And that's not the exception, that's the norm.
  7. Still don't know about my house/area, but the gossip is that it was absolutely decimated. From one of her neighbors, somehow my sister's house survived with virtually no damage but 90% of the houses on her street were almost completely destroyed. Roofs ripped off, trees falling on. Literally every tree in her neighborhood was ripped out of the ground. Her kids school was leveled to rubble. The power and water might not be back on for a month. It's literally like Katrina levels in some places. Reports of chaos, people looting stores. Breaking into houses. Alot of poor, street people in the area. Neighbors said to bring self defense if anyone goes back. Hundreds of reports of people still trapped in their houses or relatives missing. My brother in law who is a firefighter spent the whole day just clearing roads with chainsaws, trees everywhere, before they've even been able to save anyone. It's crazy, videos are out of people driving around today after the storm, and like everything is gone. Gas stations completely collapsed. Every other store is caved in on itself. Debris and garbage everywhere. It literally looks like a dump. And from the neighbors that stayed, it's even worse in person. It looks like a disaster movie. A giant billboard with like a 6ft thick pole fell on a Waffle House. Power lines down everywhere. And it's like everywhere. Every street is the same. Even the hospitals people had to evacuate. The windows were all blown out. The roof of a government building was on my sister's road. TRAINS were literally knocked over. 20 ton train cars knocked off the track for miles like a kid playing with Hot Wheels. A full size display jet at a veterans park knocked upside down. Hundreds of boats all in a rubbly pile broken up at the beach docks. And I'm just seeing from pictures/videos, have no idea how bad it'll be whenever I get to go back. Mexico Beach about 20 minutes away is even worse. From drone videos, entire neighborhoods were wiped out. Hundreds still missing.
  8. I don't know if I have a house anymore. I live in Panama City and evacuated yesterday for Hurricane Michael to my parents house several hours away. We know a number of people who stayed whose houses were completely destroyed. My sister's house (who also evacuated) luckily we just found out survived with minor damage. Were worried about our cats but they stayed there so they should be fine whenever we head back. No update on my house yet. But there were some buildings just a few minutes away completely obliterated, nothing left behind but wood and rubble. A 7 story bank just down the road had every window blown out of it. A middle school completely demolished. A church we were in just a couple weeks ago just gone. The kmart a few minutes away had a 100 foot chunk of wall ripped off. My sister's neighbor had a tree fall on her house and all their vehicles outside demolished. But luckily nobody was hurt. The Walmart about 20 miles closer to the water flooded up to the tops of the doors, all you could see was the bottom of the WAL-MART sign in pictures.
  9. Finally got around to watching Her
  10. Some days, like today, I feel my pinky toe. And I get this weird sense of loss like noticing an empty space in a crayon box, and I feel like there's supposed to be a 6th, even smaller toe, and it's missing. Also, I decided I'm going to be Santa Claus for Halloween and ordered this mask.
  11. One of my female friends my age (early 20's) tells me that she's been secretly dating an older guy for some months now and hasn't told anyone because it's embarrassing, so I ask how old is he. I'm thinking maybe late thirties? Forties or something just completely crazy like 50? He's 67.
  12. Now you go over to a woodworking forum and post some LEGO sales. ?
  13. Wish LEGO would basically make a recolored version of this into a Star Wars Geonosis Arena set. Extend it out a bit to make a full half-circle. Maybe make the walls a bit taller and accomodate some seats. Three columns. A couple chariots. Obi-wan, Anakin. Padme and the 3 beasts they fight. Count Dooku. A few geonosians. And you got yourself a displayable set with tons of playability. Continually dumbfounded we haven't gotten that set yet. Even in a tiny $30 version. Nothing. Was a huge part of Attack of the Clones. Yet we've gotten 2 or 3 gunships, but not the actual scene.
  14. I got Chic-fil-A's polynesian sauce on my Prince CD in my car I cruise around the streets blasting at night to, so now my CD player won't work, and I have to listen to the radio. The hosts are constantly talking to each other over the first 30 seconds of a song until the lyrics hit, and I'm like "OK, you can shut up now.. OK... please.. I just wanna hear the music..." and that's when I can actually find a song, half the the time I get to a station I like I'm hit with about 5 minutes of ads and I live in Florida so it's always crab houses and water sports.
  15. Just trying to be cool.
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