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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Went to an award ceremony honoring all the students in our school district who scored distinguished on state testing in @ least one of three subjects Math, Reading & Science. My son James, he's

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3 years not haven't seen a bike? How is that even possible? :shock: We grow up with them; every small distance I travel with my bike.
I know you do! I had bike trauma after visiting Amsterdam! You are insane on those bikes! Trams, you see them, cars, you have pretty nice drivers, but bikes, bikes will kill you!
My girlfriend is more excited about my birthday than I am :P I turn 20 today.
Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!! That happens to me, my bf's birthday is next week and he doesn't care, but I am organizing a party :D You should enjoy your birthdays! Celebrate!! :D
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Hey Bird. Happy birthday. :) So... what's on my mind. Well there's always the overhanging guilt from not posting here enough. I got a "promotion", meaning, double the responsibility but no extra pay. I was given my own office however which is not much consolation but I admit it is nice being able to fart in peace. I've taken over leading another separate design team for an additional company. So that's two companies, two teams, that I have to oversee. I feel like all I am doing is working. Hello existential crisis! Nice to see you again! =P I've been distracting myself as much as I can with creative pursuits -- plus I have company visiting. An old MMO gamer friend of mine who drops by twice a year for visitation. I think we're going to see Godzilla this Friday. I'm keeping my expectations way low. Hope you guys are all doing well. I've been listening to a lot of Manowar to keep my spirits up.

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Hey Bird. Happy birthday. :) So... what's on my mind. Well there's always the overhanging guilt from not posting here enough. I got a "promotion", meaning, double the responsibility but no extra pay. I was given my own office however which is not much consolation but I admit it is nice being able to fart in peace. I've taken over leading another separate design team for an additional company. So that's two companies, two teams, that I have to oversee. I feel like all I am doing is working. Hello existential crisis! Nice to see you again! =P I've been distracting myself as much as I can with creative pursuits -- plus I have company visiting. An old MMO gamer friend of mine who drops by twice a year for visitation. I think we're going to see Godzilla this Friday. I'm keeping my expectations way low. Hope you guys are all doing well. I've been listening to a lot of Manowar to keep my spirits up.
That's how I felt when I took over my company, no raise, but more hours and more shit to do. At least I'll get a piece of the pie one day, so hopefully you have something to look forward to as well. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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My girlfriend is more excited about my birthday than I am :P I turn 20 today.
Happy birthday' date=' Birdy! :)
Hahaha, sometimes indeed better to hide yourself for them :D If you look the way how some people are riding their bicycle...
That's funny. There's a debate here (mostly mudslinging, from what I can tell) about whether or not American cities should try to mimic Dutch infrastructure for biking. Bikers here can be crazy and stupid, but they're nowhere near the "menace" that people make them out to be - and nowhere near as dangerous to others as traffic is to them. The only serious injury I've had (so far!) was from avoiding a pedestrian... they're the real menace, those filthy walkers.
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Had a telephone interview today for the job I applied for. There's alot of travel involved (maybe overseas) which doesn't really bother me and the job spec seems more than manageable to me. Just waiting on the expenses question until I know I am through to the next round of the recruitment process. Managed to pitch my salary at £5k a year more than I am on now too so fingers crossed.

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Had a telephone interview today for the job I applied for. There's alot of travel involved (maybe overseas) which doesn't really bother me and the job spec seems more than manageable to me. Just waiting on the expenses question until I know I am through to the next round of the recruitment process. Managed to pitch my salary at £5k a year more than I am on now too so fingers crossed.
Carrying Gideon bibles around the world, restocking hotels that have fallen into sin? :D
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Who the fuck are the Gideons? I wanna catch one...
They are the people who put the chocolate under your pillow at fancy hotels. They are the ones who provide the After-Dinner Mints, and the daisies in the new Beetles, and the Complimentary Pens at banks that are Not Really Complimentary. They write all the thank-you notes for Volkswagen's PR Department, and run all the Legoland franchises. Gideons also provided the money for Operation Odyssey Dawn and have historically been heavily involved in the Malagasy foreign affairs establishment.
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They are the people who put the chocolate under your pillow at fancy hotels. They are the ones who provide the After-Dinner Mints, and the daisies in the new Beetles, and the complimentary pens at banks that are not really complimentary. They write all the thank-you notes for Volkswagen's PR Department, and run all the Legoland franchises. Gideons also provided the money for Operation Odyssey Dawn and have historically been heavily involved in the Malagasy foreign affairs establishment.
Sorry, I was paraphrasing another Bill Hicks joke. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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They invented air freshener and Armor-All. They're behind the manufacture and placement of sneezeguards and Wet Floor signs, the planting of highway medians, and the laws governing public access to fire exits. Their women wrap individual soaps and are responsible for folding triangles into the leading edges of the toilet paper rolls in most rich people's homes. They don't belong to one particular sect or denomination, and indeed are outwardly indistinguishable from normal humans; you've passed them on the street. They've been in your house, maybe even in your bed. There's a good chance they're on this forum. But we'll never really know. They're bound by a solemn oath to avoid any possibility of discovery. The only thing you can be sure of is this: if you meet a man claiming to be a Gideon, he's lying through his teeth.

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