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captain yesterday wrote:Thanks, Cap. I'll pace myself on the caffeine. A garage is not a safe place to have hallucinations.John Napier 698 wrote:By midnight, I'll have worked 28.5 hours in a 48 hour period.I used to shovel snow, so I can top that, but at least I was moving most of the time.
Stay safe and drink lots of coffee, and if you start hallucinating remember that people pay good money for that type of experience and you're getting it free.
That said, you probably shouldn't listen to the cartoon platypus telling you to burn it down.
As someone that ate a bunch of mushrooms and spent an indeterminate amount of time trying to get out of a parking garage only to spend time standing in the middle of a busy street gawking at traffic afterwards I'd disagree.

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Im going to Hokkaido on 10th – 17th May, with my BF, his parents and his cousins.
Here’s the plan (we went for JTB Travel Saloon Takashimaya tour package):10th May – Night flight out of SG
11th May
Morning :
Arrive at Hakodate Airport
Transfer to Hakodate City
Goryokaku Park
Hakodate Morning MarketAfternoon:
Lunch at Local Restaurant
Hakodate Bay Area
Hotel Check in
Dinner at Hotel
Mt Hakodate12th May
Morning:
Hotel Breakfast
Transfer to Matsumae
Matsumae castle (with local guide)Afternoon:
Lunch at local restaurant
Transfer to Esashi
Esashi Oiwake Kaikan
Transfer to Onuma
Hotel check in
Dinner at Hotel13th May
Morning:
Hotel Breakfast
Transfer to Norboribetsu
Aobagaoka Park (Sakura viewing – but if there is no Sakura(likely), it will be replaced with Onuma Park (dormant volcano)
Transfer to Lake ToyaAfternoon:
Lunch at local restaurant
Transfer to Mt. Usu
Mt Usu Ropeway
Usu Zenkouji (also Sakura viewing, but will be replaced with something else(not yet determined) if not Sakura season).
Hotel Check in
Dinner at Hotel14th May
Morning:
Hotel Breakfast
Noboribetsu Jigokundani (with local guide)
Tramsfer to Chitose
Chitose Outlet Mall RERAAfternoon:
Lunch at own expenses
Transfer to Hakone Bokujo
Milking Experience (I’ll probably screw this one up, you need to tug the nipples with quite some force so I’ve heard).
Transfer to Otaru
Dinner at local Restaurant
Hotel Check in
Explore Otaru canal - I’ve heard the night scene is quite nice.15th May
Morning:
Hotel Breakfast
Pass by Otaru canal
Otaru Sakaimachi StreetAfternoon:
Lunch at own expenses
Transfer to Sapporo
Shiroi Kobito Park
Cookie Decoration Experience
Pass by Odori Park, Clock Tower
Hotel Check in
Dinner at Local Restaurant16th May
Morning:
Free and easy by tour, but I planned stuff.
Historic Village – take to Shirin Kohen station, then walk...
THIS IS AWESOME
Also, tug on the nipples while applying pressure.

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Just a Mort wrote:Oh NH, when you next see Hi, ask him about a description of me. Say I gave permission(which I am officially doing now). Then you’ll get to know how I look like lol :P And yeah I’d want to see your reaction ;)
It’s quite funny meeting people from online the first time they’ll say, what? I never imagined you’d look like that…
LOL. Knowing Hi, I figure I'm going to see about 38 photos of you in various states of surprise. Hi loves his camera.
He's due back on the 3rd, but we're off to Bats in the Sun 'til the 6th, so we'll probably have a big get-together the weekend of the 12th-13th. I figure Rivoli, Sobo, and slides. Life will be Good.
I WANT BATS IN THE SUN PICS

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NobodysHome wrote:Oh, don't get me wrong: Back in the 1980's I was "on" the U.C. Berkeley national Tae Kwon Do team. (Considering I never actually fought in a competition for them, this might be considered a stretch. But I was invited to be on the team, I trained on the team, and then I graduated before any competitions happened.) My claim to fame was that I could take a hit like nobody's business, so I'd tire out the competition.
Back then, I was a Sherman tank.
These days, I'm far more likely a Bradley fighting vehicle: Pretty safe from people who don't know what the heck they're doing (e.g., most street people), but not even a speed bump for a pro.
But I figure getting attacked by a crazy homeless guy I'd be able to avoid serious injury long enough for the cops to get there.
And isn't that what everyone strives for in a fight?
I wouldn’t even want to fight. It’s that abhorrence of violence.
Strangely if you gave me a live crab and told me to kill it since it’s my lunch, I’d stuff it into a freezer for 2 hours, then take out the dead body, start cooking, no problem. A cat’s gotta eat. So yes I would kill animals to eat them.
But I’ve got some issues that make me unsuitable for fighting. Firstly, I’m a small bit. Everyone’s bigger then me. That’s the reach problem. Next – I have glasses. Want to screw me over, possibly cause me serious injury? Break my glasses. I’m in trouble. Furthermore, I have slow reflexes and poor coordination, as well as sh*tty balance. If I tried to kick someone, I’d probably loose balance and end up on the ground. (Physics – each force has an equal and opposite reaction).Those are the reasons why I avoid fights at all costs.
Me also not know any martial arts, unless you're talking about names(well, I did a brief stint of wushu in college but wasn't really much good at it).
For close range stuff you don’t really need your glasses on. But that of course needs prior prep of keeping your glasses before you start punching people. If you...
pa kua.
Its been a very long time. Sigh.

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Sharoth wrote:*paddy paws after Sharoth, intending to drag him to John*John Napier 698 wrote:By midnight, I'll have worked 28.5 hours in a 48 hour period.Is that all? Slacker! We expect you to REALLY work! ~grins nad runs from John's wrath~
O.o
o.OLawful Good is getting interesting!

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Isn't there some labour law that says everyone should get a rest day? And how you're not supposed to work more then X hours per week?
Technically political, but I doubt anyone'll argue:
California has an excellent labor department and if you file a complaint against your company you will likely get reimbursed.
California's labor department couldn't care less what happens after that, and is an at-will employment state, so when the next week your company fires you for wearing the wrong-color shirt to work, you're out of luck. (They somehow have a long history of complaints against you from your manager, because they strongly encourage managers to keep such lists of all infractions, ever, just in case of such an event.)
So yes, John could complain, and in a state such as California he would get reimbursed. And then he would quickly be unemployed.
It's why laws are so broken in this country: Politicians see a problem, pass a "quick fix", and never ponder the repercussions down the line. "What happens after the complaint is resolved?"
A good example is being a landlord: If a tenant complains and forces you to fix something, you're not allowed to evict them for 6 months. So you're patient, play the long game, and just refuse to renew their lease when it comes up and you're totally legal.
The squeaky wheel gets evicted or fired.

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Just a Mort wrote:Isn't there some labour law that says everyone should get a rest day? And how you're not supposed to work more then X hours per week?Technically political, but I doubt anyone'll argue:
** spoiler omitted **
And most of the Top 5 populated states are at-will states. Texas, California, and Illinois are. I can't speak for New York or Florida. Pennsylvania, coincidentally, is 6th in population, and I don't know if they're at-will or not.
The basic, layman version of what "at-will" means in the US: You can quit at any time for any reason, real or imagined. Employers can fire you at any time, for any reason, real or imagined. No advanced notice is legally necessary for either party.
Edit: No *advanced* notice

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Gosh, memory is such a funny thing!
I broke one of our lovely ivy plates this morning and thought, "Oh, we should order more of those; we're running low..."
...and they are NOT cheap plates; even way back in the 1990s when we bought them they were $15 per plate. Now they're up to $30. I still remember spending roughly 2 1/2 years slowly ordering plates, bowls, and so forth until we had a full set. It was an agonizing process, but it was what we could afford, and we really loved the plates. (We got most of them as a wedding gift in 1994, but then spent quite a while filling out the rest of the set.)
So just one of those, "Random memories in NobodysHome's life" thingies.

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Gosh, memory is such a funny thing!
I broke one of our lovely ivy plates this morning and thought, "Oh, we should order more of those; we're running low..."
...and they are NOT cheap plates; even way back in the 1990s when we bought them they were $15 per plate. Now they're up to $30. I still remember spending roughly 2 1/2 years slowly ordering plates, bowls, and so forth until we had a full set. It was an agonizing process, but it was what we could afford, and we really loved the plates. (We got most of them as a wedding gift in 1994, but then spent quite a while filling out the rest of the set.)So just one of those, "Random memories in NobodysHome's life" thingies.
If they don't have to be brand-spanking-new, try Replacements Ltd website. You can look up your pattern and see what they have most of it is in really good shape and they tell you if it's not and it's a fraction of the cost. You can do it with stemware and flatware as well.

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By the way, for fans of the Nintendo Switch, you should be made aware that it currently has an apparently unfixable problem.

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NobodysHome wrote:If they don't have to be brand-spanking-new, try Replacements Ltd website. You can look up your pattern and see what they have most of it is in really good shape and they tell you if it's not and it's a fraction of the cost. You can do it with stemware and flatware as well.Gosh, memory is such a funny thing!
I broke one of our lovely ivy plates this morning and thought, "Oh, we should order more of those; we're running low..."
...and they are NOT cheap plates; even way back in the 1990s when we bought them they were $15 per plate. Now they're up to $30. I still remember spending roughly 2 1/2 years slowly ordering plates, bowls, and so forth until we had a full set. It was an agonizing process, but it was what we could afford, and we really loved the plates. (We got most of them as a wedding gift in 1994, but then spent quite a while filling out the rest of the set.)So just one of those, "Random memories in NobodysHome's life" thingies.
Thanks, but that's where they're $30/plate.
I think they haven't made the pattern in 20 years now, so it's just buying up what's left in storage places like Replacements.
NobodysWife looked up the price and asked, "Do you really want to replace them, or did you want to try to find a new set?"
I had to pry a bit to learn that she really does like the pattern, but the price sets her off a bit. I figure they're twice as expensive, but we're making significantly more than twice our old income, so it'll be fine.

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By the way, for fans of the Nintendo Switch, you should be made aware that it currently has an apparently unfixable problem.
Personally, I feel that any exploit that requires physical access to the device isn't an exploit that I'm going to worry about.
If you already have physical access to my device, why the heck are you going to bother hacking it instead of just wiping it and selling it on eBay?

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Vanykrye wrote:By the way, for fans of the Nintendo Switch, you should be made aware that it currently has an apparently unfixable problem.Personally, I feel that any exploit that requires physical access to the device isn't an exploit that I'm going to worry about.
If you already have physical access to my device, why the heck are you going to bother hacking it instead of just wiping it and selling it on eBay?
I agree, but this is my good deed. Besides, you know some teenager is going to pull this stunt on some friends when they borrow each other's stuff for a couple days.

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Gods, sometimes I *love* "between projects" time.
Technically, I handed everything off last Thursday, but of course there were the usual last-minute scrambles to clean up all the loose threads, so it wasn't until now that I'm actually "done" done.
But it's 10 on a Tuesday morning, I have a 4 1/2-day weekend starting at 2 tomorrow afternoon, and I have no required assigned work.
So I get to spend a day and a half playing with the application, writing up how to get Groovy scripts to invoke RESTful web services, review documentation for a co-worker with whom I have a great working relationship, and otherwise just clean up all my loose ends in preparation for a new project next week.
All in all, very nice.
And I am extremely jealous of companies like Lara Croft guy's, where he works his derriere off at 60+ hours a week for an 8-week development cycle, then gets a 3-week "cooldown" cycle of pretty much nothing, then another 8 weeks on, etc.
Companies that understand how people function, how much stress they can handle, and how much time off they need to recover, measured in weeks rather than days, are few and far between.
It was one of the reasons I didn't make it as a teacher. On top of the low pay and 65-80 hour work weeks, I just needed the breaks to recharge, so I never did any significant summer work to supplement my income. And without summer work, a teacher's income really just isn't enough.

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According to an online calculation, $15 in Jan 1994 is $25.60 today, so $30 isn't far off of inflation.
Wow! That's amazing! Having lived through the 70s, I thought back then was when inflation really took its toll, and since the post-Reagan slump of the early 1990s, inflation had been kind of flat.
How wrong I was!
Well, I told NobodysWife to go ahead and refill the set for us, since it wasn't that many dishes; a testament to the dish quality is that out of a set of 65 dishes total (including all types), over 24 years, two kids, and oodles of visitors, we've only lost 15. Most of them were small, so they're cheaper, but I figure under $500 to replace two and a half decades of memories is money well-spent.

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Speaking of money well-spent, once we got Amazon Prime I took to a simple habit: The moment NobodysWife or one of the kids asked me for a cable or adapter, I'd check the cable drawer and, if the cable wasn't there, I'd order at least two on Amazon.
Amazingly, it took about FOUR orders for all our HDMI cables to stop vanishing, but all of a sudden, whenever I need an HDMI cable it's there. Similarly, I'd ordered a dozen CAT6 cables and they'd all mysteriously vanished, so I ordered another dozen. Now I have CAT6 cables.
So with NobodysWife and the kids constantly battling over iDevice chargers (each of them has two iDevices, so that's six chargers plus one in each car for 8), and a constant refrain of, "We can't find any chargers!", I just bought another 9 iDevice chargers (one of those uber-cheap $12.99 six-packs that can't possibly be any good, and then 3 "decent" ones for when the cheap ones break).
Saturating the house with cables leads to greater life satisfaction.
Wasn't it Confucius who said that?

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Speaking of money well-spent, once we got Amazon Prime I took to a simple habit: The moment NobodysWife or one of the kids asked me for a cable or adapter, I'd check the cable drawer and, if the cable wasn't there, I'd order at least two on Amazon.
Amazingly, it took about FOUR orders for all our HDMI cables to stop vanishing, but all of a sudden, whenever I need an HDMI cable it's there. Similarly, I'd ordered a dozen CAT6 cables and they'd all mysteriously vanished, so I ordered another dozen. Now I have CAT6 cables.
So with NobodysWife and the kids constantly battling over iDevice chargers (each of them has two iDevices, so that's six chargers plus one in each car for 8), and a constant refrain of, "We can't find any chargers!", I just bought another 9 iDevice chargers (one of those uber-cheap $12.99 six-packs that can't possibly be any good, and then 3 "decent" ones for when the cheap ones break).
Saturating the house with cables leads to greater life satisfaction.
Wasn't it Confucius who said that?
introduces kids to the joys of android

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NobodysHome wrote:introduces kids to the joys of androidSpeaking of money well-spent, once we got Amazon Prime I took to a simple habit: The moment NobodysWife or one of the kids asked me for a cable or adapter, I'd check the cable drawer and, if the cable wasn't there, I'd order at least two on Amazon.
Amazingly, it took about FOUR orders for all our HDMI cables to stop vanishing, but all of a sudden, whenever I need an HDMI cable it's there. Similarly, I'd ordered a dozen CAT6 cables and they'd all mysteriously vanished, so I ordered another dozen. Now I have CAT6 cables.
So with NobodysWife and the kids constantly battling over iDevice chargers (each of them has two iDevices, so that's six chargers plus one in each car for 8), and a constant refrain of, "We can't find any chargers!", I just bought another 9 iDevice chargers (one of those uber-cheap $12.99 six-packs that can't possibly be any good, and then 3 "decent" ones for when the cheap ones break).
Saturating the house with cables leads to greater life satisfaction.
Wasn't it Confucius who said that?
Well, they would just lose the USB cables instead, so that, in and of itself, isn't an upgrade. Now the fact that Android has always had a setting called "Easy Mode" and it makes the phone look and behave like an iPhone...that amuses me to no end.

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Freehold DM wrote:Well, they would just lose the USB cables instead, so that, in and of itself, isn't an upgrade. Now the fact that Android has always had a setting called "Easy Mode" and it makes the phone look and behave like an iPhone...that amuses me to no end.NobodysHome wrote:introduces kids to the joys of androidSpeaking of money well-spent, once we got Amazon Prime I took to a simple habit: The moment NobodysWife or one of the kids asked me for a cable or adapter, I'd check the cable drawer and, if the cable wasn't there, I'd order at least two on Amazon.
Amazingly, it took about FOUR orders for all our HDMI cables to stop vanishing, but all of a sudden, whenever I need an HDMI cable it's there. Similarly, I'd ordered a dozen CAT6 cables and they'd all mysteriously vanished, so I ordered another dozen. Now I have CAT6 cables.
So with NobodysWife and the kids constantly battling over iDevice chargers (each of them has two iDevices, so that's six chargers plus one in each car for 8), and a constant refrain of, "We can't find any chargers!", I just bought another 9 iDevice chargers (one of those uber-cheap $12.99 six-packs that can't possibly be any good, and then 3 "decent" ones for when the cheap ones break).
Saturating the house with cables leads to greater life satisfaction.
Wasn't it Confucius who said that?
I didn't know this 'feature' existed, I have no idea how to find it, and I'm glad! GLAD! GLAD, DO YOU HEAR?!

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My plan for today at 9:30 this morning: Work until 5 pm.
My plan for today at 2pm: Work until 3:30
My plan at 2:30: make it home without throwing up (success!).
But at least I got everything done by 2 they'd expected me to get done by 5. :-)
Too much sun, gave me a headache, got myself a hat though, so hopefully tomorrow I'll make it.

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I try to practice live and let live but it's a little hard with the J part of my nature. Keep wanting to haul people to court.
Hmmm,,,,
*The proverbial campfire appear over Kjeldorn's head*
*Begin drawing up plans for a portable alignment detector - consisting of A mort tied to a stick, with which you prod people. The amount of hissing from the Mort-On-A-Stick, combine with the amount of scratch marks and court summons on/given to the person prodded determines their alignment*
...And when I got back home, I went into pigeon pose to stretch out that knee.
...
Meh.
Wide Legged Forward Bend (and C +D) though... :P
Not to start an alignment thread on FaWtL, but that's why I always despise the idea that "Evil PCs need fun stuff, too!"Being good is hard. It deserves some perks.
Well it does have perks.
Peace of mind, The respect of your neighbors and a deep sense of community.For those on the other side...these thing are more valuable, and more elusive, then anything else.

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Well it does have perks.
Peace of mind, The respect of your neighbors and a deep sense of community.For those on the other side...these thing are more valuable, and more elusive, then anything else.
Yeah, it was always funny for the first 6 years we were living here. "Hey, NH! Will you take a key to my house, just in case of emergencies? Thanks!"
It was really weird just how many people came up and just handed me their house keys.
I guess I really DO radiate, "Harmless and helpful".
EDIT: Just for Freehold: "And they were all comely, buxom young lasses who insisted that they wouldn't be able to sleep at all unless I checked in them every so often..."

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John Napier 698 wrote:By midnight, I'll have worked 28.5 hours in a 48 hour period.I used to shovel snow, so I can top that, but at least I was moving most of the time.
Stay safe and drink lots of coffee, and if you start hallucinating remember that people pay good money for that type of experience and you're getting it free.
That said, you probably shouldn't listen to the cartoon platypus telling you to burn it down.
I seen that birdfaced freakazoid once, after I smoked a whole atomica of the good stuff. Was doin' a lotta screamin' an' yellin' about "Kulthoo fuhtaggin!" an' "He comes!" an' growin' tentacles out his arse for 'im ta go stickin' in other animals.
Was pretty funny, though th' guys got on my arse later 'cause they said I "smoked th' evidence" or somethin'. Said th' paper I rolled up with was from that book o' bad juju that we was researchin'.
Dunno what the big deal is, can always get another page I figger, an' di'n hurt me none. Jimmy was a lightweight 'bout th' whole thing though, couldn't hold his smokes for beans.

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My plan for today at 9:30 this morning: Work until 5 pm.
My plan for today at 2pm: Work until 3:30
My plan at 2:30: make it home without throwing up (success!).
But at least I got everything done by 2 they'd expected me to get done by 5. :-)
Too much sun, gave me a headache, got myself a hat though, so hopefully tomorrow I'll make it.
I got heat stroke once, it was scary as heck. Glad you are OK, CY, and please be careful.

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captain yesterday wrote:John Napier 698 wrote:By midnight, I'll have worked 28.5 hours in a 48 hour period.I used to shovel snow, so I can top that, but at least I was moving most of the time.
Stay safe and drink lots of coffee, and if you start hallucinating remember that people pay good money for that type of experience and you're getting it free.
That said, you probably shouldn't listen to the cartoon platypus telling you to burn it down.
I seen that birdfaced freakazoid once, after I smoked a whole atomica of the good stuff. Was doin' a lotta screamin' an' yellin' about "Kulthoo fuhtaggin!" an' "He comes!" an' growin' tentacles out his arse for 'im ta go stickin' in other animals.
Was pretty funny, though th' guys got on my arse later 'cause they said I "smoked th' evidence" or somethin'. Said th' paper I rolled up with was from that book o' bad juju that we was researchin'.
Dunno what the big deal is, can always get another page I figger, an' di'n hurt me none. Jimmy was a lightweight 'bout th' whole thing though, couldn't hold his smokes for beans.
Where were you on Saturday evening? Not anywhere near Solano avenue in Albany, perchance?

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captain yesterday wrote:I got heat stroke once, it was scary as heck. Glad you are OK, CY, and please be careful.My plan for today at 9:30 this morning: Work until 5 pm.
My plan for today at 2pm: Work until 3:30
My plan at 2:30: make it home without throwing up (success!).
But at least I got everything done by 2 they'd expected me to get done by 5. :-)
Too much sun, gave me a headache, got myself a hat though, so hopefully tomorrow I'll make it.
Yup, safety first applies to everything. :-)

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Old Man Henderson wrote:Where were you on Saturday evening? Not anywhere near Solano avenue in Albany, perchance?captain yesterday wrote:John Napier 698 wrote:By midnight, I'll have worked 28.5 hours in a 48 hour period.I used to shovel snow, so I can top that, but at least I was moving most of the time.
Stay safe and drink lots of coffee, and if you start hallucinating remember that people pay good money for that type of experience and you're getting it free.
That said, you probably shouldn't listen to the cartoon platypus telling you to burn it down.
I seen that birdfaced freakazoid once, after I smoked a whole atomica of the good stuff. Was doin' a lotta screamin' an' yellin' about "Kulthoo fuhtaggin!" an' "He comes!" an' growin' tentacles out his arse for 'im ta go stickin' in other animals.
Was pretty funny, though th' guys got on my arse later 'cause they said I "smoked th' evidence" or somethin'. Said th' paper I rolled up with was from that book o' bad juju that we was researchin'.
Dunno what the big deal is, can always get another page I figger, an' di'n hurt me none. Jimmy was a lightweight 'bout th' whole thing though, couldn't hold his smokes for beans.
You ain't a cop, are ya? You gotta say so if y'are.