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well it has not killed me yet, and I'm sorry to hear...hey...wait a minute...if it killed you...how is it that you are posting :D
 
well it has not killed me yet, and I'm sorry to hear...hey...wait a minute...if it killed you...how is it that you are posting :D
Zombie. Didnt I tell you guys I'm walking dead? :)

The circling of wagons that sometines occurs is maddening.
 
You want maddening. Spend the afternoon building an image for an old PC, on an old PC, only to discover, when you are almost done, that the PC supplied to you, is a piece of crap that when it gets to hot, reboots. Had to go find an old, unissued PC and start all over again.

But I got even.... I DBANed that PC.... that showed it
 
Just waiting for the power to come back. Its been out since 6am. Hoping this isn't another multiday deal.

I think I'm going to invest in a generator.
 
Just waiting for the power to come back. Its been out since 6am. Hoping this isn't another multiday deal.

I think I'm going to invest in a generator.
We've been threatening that for the last few years, Steve. If I could've afforded it, we'd definitely have done so. If I get this job I'm looking at, we'll definitely have one before next year, as this is the first year (in the 6 we've been here) that we didn't have an outage that lasted 2 full days.
 
I think if we are going to stay in this house for more than a few years, a natural gas generator would be a good investment.
 
I'm kind of addicted to the antiques roadshow. People have some cool, old stuff.
I love watching that. My favorite is when someone brings something in just to find out the story behind it, the expert starts saying things like, "And you can see here this has been repaired. It would be worth more if it had been left damaged." Then after a bit more information, they casually tell them the piece is highly desirable and worth about $18,000 at auction. I love the confused pleasure on their faces, like, "Wait...but you said...."
 
I love watching that. My favorite is when someone brings something in just to find out the story behind it, the expert starts saying things like, "And you can see here this has been repaired. It would be worth more if it had been left damaged." Then after a bit more information, they casually tell them the piece is highly desirable and worth about $18,000 at auction. I love the confused pleasure on their faces, like, "Wait...but you said...."
There are a few common types. There are the guys who think they have something really valuable, and are disappointed when it's only worth a small fortune. A guy had a 1928 team signed Yankees ball. 22 signatures including babe Ruth. It was "only" with about $35,000. He was disappointed because he thought it could be worth 4 times that.

There was another guy on who had an eagle sculpture he paid $1200 for, and it is worth about $200. I feel bad for those guys.

And then, there are those who are blown away. A lady had a deco lighter worth like $4000.
 
There are a few common types. There are the guys who think they have something really valuable, and are disappointed when it's only worth a small fortune. A guy had a 1928 team signed Yankees ball. 22 signatures including babe Ruth. It was "only" with about $35,000. He was disappointed because he thought it could be worth 4 times that.

There was another guy on who had an eagle sculpture he paid $1200 for, and it is worth about $200. I feel bad for those guys.

And then, there are those who are blown away. A lady had a deco lighter worth like $4000.
Yeah, I feel sorry for the folks who over-spend, too. Though I actually feel worse, for some reason, for those who think they have an old family heirloom from their great-great-great-uncle, and find out it can't be more than 100 years old.
 
The reason I prefer one of those pawn shop shows over Antique Roadshow is that on the pawn shows, the customers get mad, and amusing fights can ensue. On AR, people are more classy. If there is one thing I have learned, it's a simple math equation:

classy = boring
 
Yeah, I feel sorry for the folks who over-spend, too. Though I actually feel worse, for some reason, for those who think they have an old family heirloom from their great-great-great-uncle, and find out it can't be more than 100 years old.
Oh, yeah. That doesn't happen too often, though. Thankfully.
 
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