What made your day today?

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Re: What made your day today?

#3921 Post by kv » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:52 pm

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Just an average Thursday :bored:

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Re: What made your day today?

#3922 Post by Pandemonium » Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:24 pm

So about a month ago, I noticed my dog Kahlua had chipped the probably the top 1/8th inch tip off of one of her lower canines. I could see the dark "pulp" in the center of the tooth. Long ago we stopped letting her play with stuff like cans and her metal bowls (see the video I posted last year in the dog thread) when it became obvious she could wreck her teeth being so crazy. But she still likes to sneak and grab large rocks and juggle 'em in in her mouth when no one's around. I've found golf ball sized rocks under my pillow.

So I took her to the vet who said she'd probably need the tooth capped and gave me the name of one of only two animal dentists locally that do such stuff. It took weeks to get in to see the guy and late last week, I finally got her looked at. Dentist tells me she'd likely need a root canal and crown depending on what an x-ray would show. The odds of infection already rotting out the inside of the tooth right up to the gum line was almost a certainty. The cost was going to be about $2,600. Luckily, my wife and I (ok, my wife suggested it and I said ok) got full coverage pet insurance when we got her and we'd only have to pay about 10% of the total but we'd still have to pay upfront the whole amount and wait about 2 months for the reimbursement.

So I take her in Monday morning for the procedure and late in the day I get the call to come and pick her up. Turns out her tooth has healed itself to a degree that the tip was sealed off, no infection at all and she didn't need a crown, much less a root canal. Total cost, about $300 (I'll get back about $270).

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Re: What made your day today?

#3923 Post by perkana » Sat Nov 17, 2018 3:15 pm

First time I sold tickets on facebook and I didn't get robbed nor killed :rockon:

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Re: What made your day today?

#3924 Post by SR » Tue Nov 27, 2018 6:53 pm

Didn't exactly make my day, but it was nice. Had an appt in Hollywood today and my nav system rerouted me through Wilton Pl....on the way back I put on some old demos and cruised by. It's a bitchin house notwithstanding the history.
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Re: What made your day today?

#3925 Post by crater » Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:37 am

That an item I ordered the other day decided to take the long way to get to me, instead of just traveling right up the coast :noclue:
Nov 29
7:44 pm
Left FedEx origin facility IRVINE, CA

Nov 30
10:51 am
Arrived at FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Dec 01
3:14 am
Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Dec 01
5:10 am
At destination sort facility PORTLAND, OR

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Re: What made your day today?

#3926 Post by kv » Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:23 pm

That's how FedEx works...


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Re: What made your day today?

#3927 Post by farrellgirl99 » Tue Dec 25, 2018 9:41 am

i won the hamilton lotto today! christmas miracle!

i saw it last year as a grad present to myself ($200 a pop tho). now ill be paying $10 to see it. its amazing and this rocks.

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Re: What made your day today?

#3928 Post by Artemis » Thu Jan 10, 2019 4:27 pm

Scored a free espresso machine today! :rockon:
I was talking to a friend of mine about buying one and she said that she would give me hers because she and her family never use it!

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Tested it out...works great!

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Re: What made your day today?

#3929 Post by crater » Wed May 08, 2019 5:14 pm

This morning around 5 in the AM my dog was in the backyard when she started barking up a storm. Now she barks outside pretty much every time she goes out (which I don't like, but she is a dog and it's what dogs do) but this was a ridiculous amount of barking even for her. I thought that maybe she had a deer trapped back there or a raccoon when I went out to get her to bring her back inside (one of my major pet peeves are dog owners who allow their dogs to bark for extended periods outside without shutting them up) Anyways I went outside to bring her in when I noticed her aggressively barking while looking up into a tree. I thought "oh, probably just another raccoon", only when I got close enough to look up into the tree I saw that it was a bobcat in the tree! It was the first time I've ever seen a bobcat and I was surprised at just how much larger it was compared to my dog (she is a Rat Terrier) but she somehow managed to chase it up the tree instead of getting attacked by it.

I scooped my dog up and put her in the house and then grabbed a camera hoping to get a picture of it. Only by the time I got the camera and went back outside (maybe took 35 or so seconds) it was gone. So the two most exotic animals that I've seen, a porcupine and now this bobcat I failed to get pictures of. Still cool though, but now I'm kind of worried about letting my dog out by herself :hehe:

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Re: What made your day today?

#3930 Post by wally » Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:45 am

I have that same espresso machine! we never use it either. :lol:

My daughter turned 18 on Sat.
Yesterday she texted me. We've been estranged for 11 years so that came as quite a surprise. We're going to talk today and I am so nervous and excited.
:banana: :heart:

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Re: What made your day today?

#3931 Post by Mescal » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:39 pm

Wow!

I really, sincerely hope you two have a good and long talk!

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Re: What made your day today?

#3932 Post by Larry B. » Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:07 pm

:heart: :heart:

If it’s worth anything, I was estranged with my mother for like 20 years, and yet today we have a more than decent relationship. Birthdays and all that stuff. Good things can happen.

Wishing you all the best.

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Re: What made your day today?

#3933 Post by Artemis » Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:08 pm

Wonderful news, wally! :heart:

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Re: What made your day today?

#3934 Post by Juana » Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:42 am

Having my aunt in town from France, and her telling me all the stories about her lil bro (my dad) no one has the sack to tell me. Interestingly enough my father, my aunts and my uncle were all born in various parts of Africa. But the coolest thing is my wife got to understand more about who I am and why I just do dumb shit like randomly buy a ranch to turn into a recording and art studio.

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Re: What made your day today?

#3935 Post by Hype » Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:50 am

Hmm... dumb shit, eh? Juana, can I have some money for no reason?

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Re: What made your day today?

#3936 Post by tvrec » Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:02 pm

Hype wrote:
Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:50 am
Hmm... dumb shit, eh? Juana, can I have some money for no reason?
Bra Haaaaa!

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Re: What made your day today?

#3937 Post by Juana » Fri Jun 21, 2019 2:52 am

Hype wrote:
Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:50 am
Hmm... dumb shit, eh? Juana, can I have some money for no reason?
Come out to the hill country its not like a uHaul will be following my hearse

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Re: What made your day today?

#3938 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:45 am

So my wife is recovering really quickly from her latest ordeal and she decided she's going back to work next week. We had this week left were she's in pretty good shape so Monday night we decided to book a short 3 day vacation in Vegas in the middle of the week. Neither of us has been there in years and she lived there for a few years when going to UNLV and wanted to see how Vegas has changed the last couple decades (which is a lot).

Because it's Tuesday - Thursday, room rates are good and probably because it's now known as the hotel where the worse mass shooting took place, we got a huge suite at Mandalay Bay for about $100 a night. I also secretly picked up front row tix for Cirque Du Soleil "O" for Wednesday night to surprise her. Even for a slow Tuesday/Wednesday mornings, the pool areas and over-rated wave pool gets really crowded and touristy. I swear to God, we probably walked 10 miles per day just going back and forth from restaurants and pools back to our room at the top of that tower. The highlight was taking our son gambling for his first time ever - he did better'n my wife or I and doubled his money. But Wednesday night with a dinner at the Chinese restaurant Jasmine overlooking the Bellagio lake/water show was great. The Cirque Du Soleil show was fun and a perfect topper to our stay.

LOL, I realized I sound like Etty......

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Re: What made your day today?

#3939 Post by kv » Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:27 am

Naw you care about others...

Glad you folks had some fun

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Re: What made your day today?

#3940 Post by Mescal » Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:15 pm

kv wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:27 am
Naw you care about others...

Glad you folks had some fun
Yeah, this!

I remember the ten miles, walking from my room to one of the swimming Pools.... hotels are just mega huge in Vegas

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Re: What made your day today?

#3941 Post by Artemis » Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:52 pm

Free booze on someone's front lawn!
I took the little Patron bottles and the Rum because they weren't opened.
There was other stuff on the lawn like dishes and kids toys with a sign that said "Free Stuff".

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Re: What made your day today?

#3942 Post by kv » Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:59 pm

Flash forward a couple of months...."gee I wonder whatever happened to arti?"

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Re: What made your day today?

#3943 Post by Artemis » Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:04 pm

:lol: I haven't consumed any of it yet.

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Re: What made your day today?

#3944 Post by perkana » Fri Sep 13, 2019 4:30 pm

"Freeway" was recently uploaded to Amazon Prime Video. I saw this one more than 10 years ago. Reese was so young...

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Re: What made your day today?

#3945 Post by crater » Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:32 pm

I was looking up what Les Claypool's autograph looked like and this image popped up.

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It made me laugh

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