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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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My only hard and fast demand post-death is that there be no vehicular funeral procession (if there even is a funeral). I absolutely hate funeral processions as both a driver in them and a driver encountering them and I refuse to be a part of them in death or to make somebody else be a part of one on my behalf. If my family/friends want to do a New Orleans style second line procession marching from the Episcopal church in town to the cemetery a few blocks away, I'm cool with that.

Actually, I just thought of that now so I'm going to add that to the list of my demands: there must be a New Orleans style second line jazz funeral marching through downtown Birmingham, Michigan.
 
luckless pedestrian said:
Controversial #hottake - Please do not tell your family and friends that you don't want a service when you die, the service isn't for you, it's for the people left behind to grieve together
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I've told my family to have a party. I want a New Orleans jazz funeral, but with rock music or whatever music they want. I want a parade that blocks up traffic downtown just to piss off people who didn't know me. The important part, they should celebrate my greatness and not mourn my loss. Be happy.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
My only hard and fast demand post-death is that there be no vehicular funeral procession (if there even is a funeral). I absolutely hate funeral processions as both a driver in them and a driver encountering them and I refuse to be a part of them in death or to make somebody else be a part of one on my behalf. If my family/friends want to do a New Orleans style second line procession marching from the Episcopal church in town to the cemetery a few blocks away, I'm cool with that.

Actually, I just thought of that now so I'm going to add that to the list of my demands: there must be a New Orleans style second line jazz funeral marching through downtown Birmingham, Michigan.
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One of the great ironies is that you spend your life waiting at stoplights and when you die your funeral procession is allowed to run the lights. I guess it's important to make good time when you're dead.
 
funeral procession scam - paying off duty motorcycle police to allow the procession to go through intersections.
money that could/should be spent on a good meal/party to celebrate one's life.
 
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Ashes to be spread on the beach.
Requested a couple songs if they want to have a memorial service.
Pull all the liquid refreshments out of the cellar & have a party.
 
Long seasons - NBA & NHL championships played in June.

More exciting is the Olympic Swim Trials in Indy.
Women's 100-meter Breaststroke: Lilly King (from my fair city)
 
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JNA said:
Long seasons - NBA & NHL championships played in June.

More exciting is the Olympic Swim Trials in Indy.
Women's 100-meter Breaststroke: Lilly King (from my fair city)
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I've long thought that they should shave a few games from the NBA and NHL seasons and condense the rest of the schedule and finish things up a lot earlier. It always seems so wrong for the NHL in particular to be playing when it's 90º+ outside. I remember one of the finals series a few years back where they couldn't keep the arena cool enough and the players were complaining about visibility issues because of fog coming off the ice.

I also think the condensed season would help keep the more casual fans interested longer into the season even after "their team" has been eliminated from playoff contention. I get it that players want more time between games to rest and recover and that owners want more games to generate more TV revenue, but it still sucks.
 
btrage said:
Aren't we all? :)
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Um, no.

Salmissra said:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ruidoso-wildfire-new-mexico-village-mandatory-evacuations/ (New Mexico village of Ruidoso orders residents to evacuate due to raging wildfire: "GO NOW")

My MIL has been evacuated. We know from a CB/ham radio call that she is in a shelter and OK (at least physically).

Please keep your fingers crossed for her. Based on the maps, I don't think she has a house any more.
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Oh my. I hope all goes well for her.
 
"I feel sorrier for those who dream the probable, the legitimate and the near-at-hand than for those who daydream about the distant and the strange. Those who dream on a grand scale or are mad and believe in their dreams and are happy, or who are simple daydreamers, for whom the daydream is music to the soul, a meaningless balm. But those who dream the possible have a real possibility of experiencing real disappointment. It may not weigh very heavily on me that I never became a Roman emperor, but it might pain me never to have spoken to the seamstress who, at about nine o’clock each morning, appears around the corner to the right of my window. The dream that promises us the impossible has already prevented us from achieving it, but the dream that promises us the possible interferes with real life and leaves it to life to provide a solution. The former lives exclusively and independently, the latter submits to the contingencies of what might happen.

"That is why I love impossible landscapes and the great empty expanses of plains I will never visit. Past historical ages are a marvel too because there is no chance that I will ever be part of them. I sleep when I dream what does not exist; I will wake when I dream what does exist.

"In the deserted of office at midday, I look out of the balcony window at the street below, and while I can sense the movement of people with my eyes, I am too steeped in my own thoughts to actually see them. I sleep with the balustrade digging painfully into my elbows and am aware of nothing but a great sense of promise. With a strange detachment I can make out the details of the stopped street filled with passers-by: the crates piled on a cart, the sacks outside the warehouse next door, and in the window of the grocery on the far corner a glimpse of the bottles of that port wine I imagine no one could possibly afford. My spirit separates itself off from the purely material. I probe more deeply with my imagination. The people walking down the street are always the same as the people who walked by shortly before, always the same fluctuating figures, blurred movements, hesitant voices, things that pass but never happen.

"I note all this with my consciousness of my senses rather than with my actual senses… The possibility of other things… And, suddenly, behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt presence of the office boy. I could kill him for interrupting the ‘I’ that I wasn’t even thinking. I spin round and shoot him a silent look of loathing; tense with latent homicidal tendencies. I can already hear the voice he will use when he speaks. He smiles at me from the far end of the office and says ‘Good afternoon’. I hate him as I hate the whole universe. My eyes are heavy with imagining."
Pessoa in Book of Disquiet, 167
 
Salmissra said:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ruidoso-wildfire-new-mexico-village-mandatory-evacuations/ (New Mexico village of Ruidoso orders residents to evacuate due to raging wildfire: "GO NOW")

My MIL has been evacuated. We know from a CB/ham radio call that she is in a shelter and OK (at least physically).

Please keep your fingers crossed for her. Based on the maps, I don't think she has a house any more.
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Update: as of late last night, she was checking into a hotel (not in town) and her house was still standing but not out of danger yet.

We are still going on our trip! She specifically said she didn't want to come here because she wants to be close at hand in case she's needed for something during the ongoing fires.
 
Wannaplan? said:
Would you rather hire a “leading authority” as a subject matter expert, or would someone that’s just an “authority” suffice?
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The "authority" would probably provide better value; the "leading authority" probably just has better marketing and would charge too much.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
I went cold turkey on Diet Coke when I found out it's bad for arthritis. I have some injuries from my young, dumb, 10 foot tall and bullet proof days. As I get older, I don't need to make it worse.
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I broke my elbow 15 years ago and can feel the arthritis in it now.
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It has been a difficult past few weeks for everyone here and it is about to get worse... and hotter outside. So I picked up 5 dozen ice cream sandwiches for City Hall staff today to let them know that we do appreciate them and the work they do.
 
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AIB - back in the day I occasionally would get from a local ice cream shop a quart of their choco-cremes - bite size ice cream balls dipped in milk chocolate for the office.
Their flavors were Vanilla Bean, Dutch Chocolate, Buttered Pecan, Black Cherry, or Mixed

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Have you brought in treats for your office?
 
michaelskis said:
It has been a difficult past few weeks for everyone here and it is about to get worse... and hotter outside. So I picked up 5 dozen ice cream sandwiches for City Hall staff today to let them know that we do appreciate them and the work they do.
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NICE!! Oh, wait...you mean your city hall. Well I'm taking myself to the gas station for ice cream sandwiches on the way home now, Baby!! :)
 
michaelskis said:
It has been a difficult past few weeks for everyone here and it is about to get worse... and hotter outside. So I picked up 5 dozen ice cream sandwiches for City Hall staff today to let them know that we do appreciate them and the work they do.
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Is the building not air conditioned? Or it has trouble keeping up?
 
JNA said:
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AIB - back in the day I occasionally would get from a local ice cream shop a quart of their choco-cremes - bite size ice cream balls dipped in milk chocolate for the office.
Their flavors were Vanilla Bean, Dutch Chocolate, Buttered Pecan, Black Cherry, or Mixed

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Have you brought in treats for your office?
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Yes. Nothing quite as amazing as that though.
 
JNA said:
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AIB - back in the day I occasionally would get from a local ice cream shop a quart of their choco-cremes - bite size ice cream balls dipped in milk chocolate for the office.
Their flavors were Vanilla Bean, Dutch Chocolate, Buttered Pecan, Black Cherry, or Mixed

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Have you brought in treats for your office?
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Many servos around here have pic attached - they're kind of the same thing. I hate the cross-branding thing though, where now I can't find a "cosmic brownie" anymore, instead gas stations sell "brownie with M&Ms TM". Just end it. Call the planet. It's just too much.
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