Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Virtua Racing. Tang.

There doesn't seem to be an NHL thread this season, so I guess this goes here. What a crazy run!

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Laila's story began back in October, when the team rallied around her and hosted events to find a bone marrow match for Laila. She wears a shirt with the numbers of all the players on the back, because they have always had her back. With so many great stories in this run, this is by far the best.

The Sharks choke again in this story, despite perhaps the best roster they've ever had, so I like it.

The Stars also choked again if it makes you feel better, which as a Sharks fan I know it will.

Jayhawker wrote:

There doesn't seem to be an NHL thread this season, so I guess this goes here. What a crazy run!

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Laila's story began back in October, when the team rallied around her and hosted events to find a bone marrow match for Laila. She wears a shirt with the numbers of all the players on the back, because they have always had her back. With so many great stories in this run, this is by far the best.

Honestly got a little misty eyed reading that.

Nearing the end of season 4 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and I witnessed this cold open:

Detectives Jake Peralta and Rosa Diaz are in a car on a stakeout.

Rosa: Where is this guy? Deal was supposed to go down ten minutes ago. Stupid criminals have no respect for the people trying to bust them.

Jake: Yeah, I really wish he'd show up. I have to go to the bathroom so bad.

Rosa: It's like the third time today, man. What is going on with you?

Jake: Oh, Amy freaked out because I told her I'd never drink water, so now she's making me drink eight glasses a day. It's like... there's water in soda. There's water in coffee. There's little pools of water on pizza.

Rosa: That's grease, Jake.

Jake: Well, it's wet, isn't it?

Indoor plumbing.

Was digging through some backup DVDs (remember those?!?) looking for some old photos and I came across some old writing of mine that I thought I had lost. Was even able to locate a copy of the old Mac app I needed to open the file and by some miracle it still runs (probably wouldn't if I had ever gotten new versions of macOS to work on my Hackintosh). For some reason a thousand words felt like a lot more back then than it looks like now Also found some really cringe worthy poetry I had mostly forgotten about

Old high school era poetry is the *worst*...

I found an old love letter that I typed up for some reason from high school when I was searching for old X-Wing and TIE Fighter save games one time. Whew.

I just hit 55 mph with a tandem set on my tractor today. Not impressed? I95 south (west at this section.) In New York City. The Cross Bronx Expressway, towards and then underneath the apartments before the George Washington Bridge. I never hit 55 mph on that stretch of highway in my car in 30 years of having a license.

At first I thought you meant farm tractor and I was like woah you really suped that thing up!

LeapingGnome wrote:

At first I thought you meant farm tractor and I was like woah you really suped that thing up!

I got caught up on tandem, and thought "damn, you must've both been pedalling like crazy!"

Stele wrote:

I found an old love letter that I typed up for some reason from high school when I was searching for old X-Wing and TIE Fighter save games one time. Whew.

You keep your god damn poetry away from TIE Fighter, I saw her first!

Max, yeah, I'm impressed. Must be something to do with the holiday coming up?

Probably, people on LI might stay there, and everybody else would be heading east. In the part where traffic was stopped, their were panhandlers walking between the lanes. On an interstate highway! This road is pretty much an uncovered tunnel, and people just wandered up the ramps. This mayor is a joke (goes far beyond the panhandlers on the highway.)

*Legion* wrote:
Stele wrote:

I found an old love letter that I typed up for some reason from high school when I was searching for old X-Wing and TIE Fighter save games one time. Whew.

You keep your god damn poetry away from TIE Fighter, I saw her first!

Watch it buddy. I'll switch my avatar back to the imperial logo.

Remember when you play that game you're pretending to be me. I am Stele! (Said in Stark I am Iron Man voice)

Robear wrote:

Old high school era poetry is the *worst*...

Maybe, but...

A few years back I caught up with my high school sweetheart, both of us in our mid fifties. She amazed me by producing a letter I had written her shortly after leaving Navy basic training at age 19. In addition to relating every minute detail about being a naval recruit, the letter was unbelievable sappy. It even included some Vogon poetry. Yet she kept it all those years and still thought it was sweet. Or so she said.

My internal reaction to all that was "damn, missed opportunity." After college she ended up marrying a chiropractor who treated her like crap, but she waited until their four kids were out of the house before freeing herself from him. She's much happier now, after many experiences she was never able to have before. She's an elementary school teacher, which is a perfect job for her.

Who knows what might have happened had I continued sending Vogon poetry her way.

the individual Friendlys sundays you can buy at the grocery store. Granted its not the Conhead Sundae i use to get as a kid but those little individual ones are pretty good!!

Since all the Friendlys closed near me and its difficult at times to find one in the long island north new jersey area when i travel up that way...ill take a little happiness in those sundae's

I bought the Last Starfighter on Blu-ray and I'm watching it tonight. No idea if it will stand up, but I'm already smiling ear to ear just hearing the opening notes of the soundtrack. Nostalgia can be a wonderful thing.

Watching a VHS copy of Blast From The Past while at the coast. That movie holds up incredibly well!

HBO's Chernobyl is very, very good.

It's also a Stark reminder that in real life, Bruce Banner would've met a exceptionally gruesome end.

Prederick wrote:

HBO's Chernobyl is very, very good.

It's also a Stark reminder that in real life, Bruce Banner would've met a exceptionally gruesome end.

Yep.

Rescued a baby squirrel today whose mother had perished. I had to remove about 30 bloodsucking parasites from it and ground them between my fingers to kill them. Otherwise, it seemed to be in good health! And good timing, too, because a very severe thunderstorm rolled into the area shortly afterwards. We took it to a wildlife refuge.

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MaxShrek wrote:

I just hit 55 mph with a tandem set on my tractor today.

I’m a Goodjer trucker too. I thought I was the only one.

Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict has shown up on Amazon Prime, and it's terrible CGI presses all my nostalgic 90s sci-fi buttons in all the rights ways.

This was a while ago, but I bought a used copy of Bayonetta 2 for the Switch.

And the download code for Bayonetta 1 still worked.

(Insert image of fist-pumping toddler meme from 10 years ago)

I managed to replace the headlight on our Honda Jazz 2009 myself! Of course I got off track from the Youtube tutorial after 5 seconds, when I couldn't get a grip on a screw in the bumper. Meaning I couldn't remove the bumper, but with the help of a mirror and a flashlight I managed to fiddle the replacement lamp in there. Even though I couldn't reach the smaller secondary headlight on top, it feels pretty good to actually do something physical instead of something software-y!

I'm getting my teeth fixed up, FINALLY, on Friday. Went to a new dentist today to get a different quote since my savings were generally moving in a downward rather than upward direction after hitting 12k of my 30k goal/estimate by the last dentist.

7.2k with all the extractions and dentures, including healing dentures and the full-time use dentures after I heal back up.

A. I'm kind of annoyed I just spent the last 4 years NOT having this fixed because of the assholes as my last office... but...
B. I'm also SUPER EXCITED to be done with this and able to smile fully again. I can't even remember the last time I did that.

Wow, good luck Demos! It's a great feeling to get rid of long-lasting dental problems. Me, I've come to love caps more than my own friable, heavily crevassed choppers. Much easier to deal with over time.