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I should post a pic of my commute but tomorrow's the Sunday before Xmas and everything's weird here anyway. Plenty of sheep but all of them human - The pic that Rob posted was like the quietest patch of a really good day in Sydney. Nightmare traffic. You and Kev have it good.
Yes, the first time in the tunnels in rush hour was an experience for sure. I enjoyed it though :)
 

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Yes, the first time in the tunnels in rush hour was an experience for sure. I enjoyed it though :)
A touch of masochism? :)

It says a lot about our society that a bridge built nearly a hundred years ago managed to be an engineering marvel, a work of great art and have such redundancy built in that it still has greater capacity than it's feeder roads whereas a tunnel built in 1990 became an ugly bottleneck within months of opening.
 

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A touch of masochism? :)

It says a lot about our society that a bridge built nearly a hundred years ago managed to be an engineering marvel, a work of great art and have such redundancy built in that it still has greater capacity than it's feeder roads whereas a tunnel built in 1990 became an ugly bottleneck within months of opening.
My wife's mothers father was one of the engineers responsible for the Sydney harbour bridge.....Harold Carrington Wood. Amazing feat of engineering and you're right they were much more sensible (or scared of a collapse) that always the redundancy was extreme. I did the walk once when I was there and it's an amazing experience to see it up close :)
 

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I don't like bridges OR tunnels. When I drive over a bridge I am pretty sure it's going to collapse. I also don't like the way they move and vibrate although I know why thanks to the engineer husband who ALSO showed me many videos of like, bridge failure.

It was hard getting over, I had to mentally rehearse dying from a bridge collapse and like, it took a long time but now I am tranquil. I am like, "If I die on this bridge, I am prepared."

We have a small tunnel in Bisbee and I have been in AZ long enough (no tunnels) that I actually sort of enjoy it. Although, based on Arizona's road maintenance, I have to mentally rehearse dying in a tunnel a lot. Because frankly, it is a very real possibility.

There's this great book I think it might be called :"Traffic?" it's by this English journalist and she gets all into driver behavior and why people do what they do and why it makes NO sense. Like, people merge BEFORE they have to when it is more time effective to use both lanes until the bitter end, and politely merge taking turns. I think about it EVERY time I get the dirty honks and looks for driving up to the merge area. I think, "I am saving YOU TIME you idiots. The road is THERE,. USE IT."

She is also English and calls stuff like traffic circles "road furniture." It's a good red. I recommend it.
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The lounge is in front of my televisiono_O

I do like the Rose Finches, so much I had to get both colours;)
Hey all sorry I haven’t come back I haven’t bought any vape gear since my rose finch. That won’t Be here till the middle of the new year I assume. I’ve been focused on my bunnies and have been stressed trying to keep fluffy away from going at sassy and trying to do her.

I was out back after a 12 hour work day in the pouring rain trying to make his area safe since he couldn’t play nice with the others. I contemplated letting him go just being so tired physically and mentally. Every place I phoned ranged from 300 to 480 dollars to neuter my bunny. Plus my boy Toby needs a haircut which has gone from 180 to 400 bucks now to sedate and groom him. So I couldn’t spend money on my bunny too.

I pop into the lounge here and there since I figured I shouldn’t post bunny photos here anymore.


I didn’t even ask but over in the lounge many shinys said they would chip in and showed me how to create a pay pal. People have been very generous and I’m well in my way to getting the one bunny fluffy neutered.

I can’t belive how nice people have been ive never had any help like this in my life. I’m working on making the house bigger this weekend and my spirts are lifted once more. I don’t mind working hard to keep them happy but money really had me rethinking things.
 
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Okay so my check appears to contain my bonuses. I am very confused now, but that works for me.. I transferred the husband 1K (max limit) gifting all my family just getting it OUT of the way, and like, then figuring out what my expenses are.... Sigh. Life.

I'm seriously confused as why they would send that then do the reverse maybe enough people complained (I did not.) Who KNOWS man.

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AND my post box red Minikin 3 which is hideous but I love the V3 VAPE, well it has started regurgitating my batteries Unexpectedly. I am not best pleased. It happens again, I go after Asmodus directly.

It may be my brown LGs, they do fine in all my single battery setups I am thinking I need to charge up and marry all my new Samsungs because... Well, I do. The LGs do have great runtime makes sense to use them for that,

Oy. Notes very soon. Okay it's not 10 am but it also not tomorrow YET.

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UFO sighting in Las Vegas. Link to video in the article

Somehow I missed this. IDK why on earth UFOs would want to go to Las Vegas. *I* don't want to go and I HATE gambling besides homemade poker. I kind of have a morbid curiosity though, sort of a "WTH? What would I see?" Kind of thing. Etc.

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