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re: AI makes 70s Disco music

Posted by GeauxldMember on 3/24/26 at 6:56 am to
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DarthRebel


Choosing a new walk up song for your softball league, eh?
Updating this to add I pitched my Dolphin and bought an Aiper Scuba with the 240 min battery life. It’s about 4.5 hours into its maiden voyage now, and the pool looks great. There was a bit of sand in the pool due to construction going on across the street, and it appears the Aiper is doing a better job of filtering out the sand than my old Dolphin ever did. Appreciate the recommendation. :cheers:
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Once was an adult video store and now it's a restaurant




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Was Norris a brilliant athlete and top-shelf star? Yes. But there’s no denying that his roles were part of a body of work used to show American strength, might and the pernicious attraction of taking the law into one’s own hands — something that seems less fun in a year in which our country is funneling money into bombing Iran and ICE agents are acting like one-man militias.


I’d argue times like these are when we need Chuck Norris most.
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In one extreme example of internal metal objects causing damage during an MRI scan, a woman wore a sex toy into the MRI without the knowledge of the clinic staff.


How much of a deviant do you have to be to not be able to go an hour or two without one of your orifices crammed…

re: Pool filter cleaning

Posted by GeauxldMember on 3/19/26 at 2:06 pm to
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But I change filters every 4 weeks


Damn. I don’t clean mine until my system pressure starts raising, which is usually 4-6 months.
Ever find it curious that we are supposed to be understanding of one group when they refuse service due to political views, but outraged when another group wants do refuse service on moral or religious grounds? Hmm…

re: Pool filter cleaning

Posted by GeauxldMember on 3/19/26 at 7:15 am to
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Ditto on this. Works great. I do still soak mine in a big trash can with water and cleaner first, though.

Also, I have two sets of filter cartridges, so when it’s time to clean, I replace the ones in use with the ones I have in storage. Then, I clean/dry the dirty ones at my leisure, box them up, rinse and repeat.
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my insurance agent advised to pay out of pocket, his reason was that type of claim, if the insurer did an audit, would jack up the premium almost as bad as getting a DUI


I would have a lot of questions about this. Using insurance for the actual shite you get insurance for makes your rate as high as a known drunk driver? That logic is the kind of shite that makes people hate insurance companies.
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The one thing I miss are the phone calls. I would give alot to talk to him one more time. He was a great dad and I truly miss him everyday.


Don’t I know it. I still talk to him, actually, and sometimes it helps. Try it. :cheers:
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One thing I’d like to do is to write a series of letters, or perhaps emails to my kids that will be delivered every so often after I die. I could schedule the delivery by email pretty easily.


I set up an email address for my daughter (now 5) when she was an infant. I periodically write her little notes, telling her what she’s been up to in recent weeks, with humorous stories about her, and reminders of how much I love her. I will say there is something about seeing it in my Dad’s handwriting that makes it extra-special, though. :cheers:
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Do you think he wrote it with the intentions of giving it y'all and just never got around to it? Where did she find the letter?


I think he wrote it with the intent of us reading it when he passed, just to make sure he told us how he felt one last time (my Dad was not the kind of guy who skimped on telling us how he felt about us).

It was in one of his drawers. My Mom had been dealing with early stage dementia since before my Dad even died, so I don’t think she remembered it was there. She has just recently started going through his things in earnest, as it’s made her sad every time she’s tried (I tried, too, so I know how she feels).
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Baxter, you know I don't speak whatever the frick language that is...


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Wow that had to be like finding gold


100000000000%!
My Mom found a letter my Dad wrote to me and my siblings about 10 years before he died. It was mostly him telling us all how much he loved us, how the time he spent with us growing up were the greatest times of his life, along with some memories/anecdotes about each of us.

There was also a lot about how much he regretted having to be away nights, weekends or holidays for work, and how he wished he would have had a job that allowed him to be with us more, which is funny, because we all remember him being there for pretty much everything throughout our respective childhoods.

I feel so lucky to have gotten to read this letter. I cried like a little girl during and after, and— hell— I’m getting choked up typing this. But they’re mostly happy, appreciative tears. I love my Dad. He was a fantastic father.

The moral here, though, is to love those kids and spend all the time you can with them. It’s likely what you— and they— are going to remember. Not the toys and material things, but the memories of the time and experiences. It goes by faster than you’re going to want it to; I see with my own child. Make the most of it.

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Maybe it’s always been this way and getting older exposes it


I don’t think so. Back when we were a society that built things, we had a group of tradesmen who took pride in the ability to build things that would last and fix them when they failed. We have been a disposable society for a while now, and that is now reflected in the trades. It’s been learned.

By the way, there are still people who take pride in what they do, so I don’t mean to imply there aren’t. They’re the minority now, however.
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Experts say it’s part of a broader shift redefining who the “monster” really is


Let me guess, the monster is straight, white men. :lol: