Affliction
05-01-26 | 07:12 AM
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This post is all of it. I just got home from applying for the national old age pension. I was reticent to do it in Tixkokob because I wanted anonymity. Not an issue. I was the only (former) foreigner there and nobody batted an eye. I take the town bike in, to shop, and park it and walk away. Wonder of wonders. If I’m taking the bus to the city, there is a place to park it out of the weather and secure, for 40 cents. Tixkokob is a public transportation hub the likes of which I haven’t seen outside of Merida. We have services here that are normally reserved for cities with larger populations. Fiber optic internet. Two gas stations. A bank. An OXXO (a national chain of minimarts, at which you can pay various bills). I buy my phone plan there so I don’t have to deal with the app. Nor do I have to pay the commission at the bank. The cherry on top is how friendly and accommodating everybody is. When I am in town shopping at various places, I get the smiles, because it is just so pleasant.
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05-01-26 | 07:26 AM
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Blasphemy.
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05-01-26 | 07:48 AM
#2329
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It's a three-day weekend? 
That reminds me--Addiction followup investigation:
I just checked and it now says January 2026, and that's not me.
I just checked and it now says January 2026, and that's not me.
05-01-26 | 08:16 AM
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From: Tejas
05-01-26 | 08:51 AM
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My first concert was Yes doing the Fragile tour in March 1972.
It was at Shippenburg State College. Tickets were something like 5 bucks.
I was 16 and my buddy's brother was going to Shippensburg.
It was at Shippenburg State College. Tickets were something like 5 bucks.
I was 16 and my buddy's brother was going to Shippensburg.
05-01-26 | 09:23 AM
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Concerts in the 70s were great. Can't recall my first, but I saw these, some multiple times - Yes, ELP, Genesis with and without Gabriel, Jethro Tull, Poco, and others. Saw Styx when they were a bar band.
05-01-26 | 09:51 AM
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I've seen Jethro Tull (twice, 40 years apart), Elton John, Bob Dylan and the Dead, David Bowie at least twice, including once in a venue small enough that we could have been hit by his spit molecules.
The small venue was, IIRC, a gym at a private school in SF. There was another act before Bowie, and their sound system was TERRIBLE - really LOUD, tons of overload distortion, just awful. Bowie comes on, and the sound was amazing - clean, almost viscerally powerful, and LOUDER than the opening act. Lots of money buys good sound.
The small venue was, IIRC, a gym at a private school in SF. There was another act before Bowie, and their sound system was TERRIBLE - really LOUD, tons of overload distortion, just awful. Bowie comes on, and the sound was amazing - clean, almost viscerally powerful, and LOUDER than the opening act. Lots of money buys good sound.
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05-01-26 | 10:35 AM
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I saw Jethro Tull around 1990 and he was pushing a new album. He refused to play Aqua Lung and Locomotive Breath. Crowd wasn’t happy.
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05-01-26 | 10:43 AM
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05-01-26 | 10:50 AM
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Also, this was the first concert I'd been to full of middle aged Boomers, and it was funny watching all the guys get up to go pee, right in the middle of a song.
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05-01-26 | 11:12 AM
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Since deciding NOT to do the Mt Hamilton ride tomorrow because my knee was bothering me, guess what stopped bothering me? I'm STILL not riding tomorrow, but I think I'm gonna do a nice rolling ride today, maybe 20-25 miles with about 1000 feet of uppy/downy, and see how that feels.
One possibility is that something about my fit on the Battaglin is somehow triggering the knee issue. Back to the tape measure!!
One possibility is that something about my fit on the Battaglin is somehow triggering the knee issue. Back to the tape measure!!
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05-01-26 | 12:51 PM
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This raises the possibility that there are dormant Street View cars whose sole purpose is to circle about, teasing people's craving for fame, only to cruelly smash their hopes later on.
05-01-26 | 04:04 PM
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05-01-26 | 04:06 PM
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05-01-26 | 04:45 PM
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Sure, but you have to pay for the blood tests - baseline and post-consumption - to prove it.
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