Recent Purchases

[Chris_H_2]

what's happening here? why are you posting this in the star wars thread?

[Higgs]

Looks like we have bought a new car. More interestingly though, looks like in a few weeks the wiffey and I will be flying interstate to pick it up and drive it 3,500 kms across Australia back home.

Looking forward to those wide open roads and wide open skies again.

So this happened. Hop on a plane tomorrow morning and fly off to Melbourne. Pick the car up on Wednesday, head out of Melbourne Thursday morning and cruise home across the 3,600kms over 5 days.

Getting the Audiobook/Tuneage car USB sorted as I type this.

[Peeps]

how was the drive?


years ago my father offered to pay for me and my brother to fly to california and drive back as we was moving back here. hindsight i should have went but thinking about driving in a car with them two i would have lost my mind

[Higgs]

how was the drive?


years ago my father offered to pay for me and my brother to fly to california and drive back as we was moving back here. hindsight i should have went but thinking about driving in a car with them two i would have lost my mind

Fly out tomorrow, drive back from Thursday morning over 5 days.

I'm fortunate that I very much enjoy spending time with the wiffey, so should be all good on the way home!

[Bi_3]

Breath Right strips

Well, they definitely work but my nose looked flared out for like an hour after taking it off. Not sure it's gonna be an every night thing.

[spike]

Breath Right strips

Well, they definitely work but my nose looked flared out for like an hour after taking it off. Not sure it's gonna be an every night thing.

Oh weird, that’s never happened to me. I use the sensitive skin ones though, maybe not as hardcore and you could try.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Breath Right strips

Well, they definitely work but my nose looked flared out for like an hour after taking it off. Not sure it's gonna be an every night thing.

[tree_]

I sure do wish my wife would wear those more often

[dad]

I sure do wish my wife would wear those more often

the purple tops?

[tree_]

Animation green slacks and white men’s collared button up dress shirts.

[Peeps]

safe travels mr higgs

[Bammer]

Mariners playoff tickets.

Spoiler: show

Double sideways reverse jinx

these have bad reviews. poor purchase

Fact

[Chris_H_2]

a boat load of halloween decorations for the outside of our house. i'm usually not one to go all out for halloween, but my daughter has been begging me to do something for the last 5 years or so. i'm at least keeping it tasteful (no stupid blow up decorations).

[doug rr]

will you be leaving it all up until December?

[Chris_H_2]

will you be leaving it all up until December?

oh hell no. i'm the opposite. that shit is down before my mother in law is in church the next morning for all saints day.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

I taped a couple of paper cut out Halloween bats to the wall yesterday. Feeling like I could get a bit spooky this year.

(To fulfill the requirement of the recent purchases thread- I also just dropped $1100 on concert tickets - holy F - shit’s expensive)

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Higgs]

safe travels mr higgs

They were indeed safe travels! Left Melbourne on Thursday morning and drove around 700kms per day, arrived home yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I do love getting out on the open road, away from the house and the office, and just spending time with the Wiffey. 2 audiobooks consumed across the k's, the second finishing as we drove into our home city, so perfect timing there.

And my God I cannot believe the tech in new cars these days! The thing bloody drives itself, quite literally. Comfortable, cruisey drive home. Already planning the next trip away 'cause that's what this car is for - its our "touring" vehicle.

[Ello Sailor]

[Higgs]

We played that exact song after every audio book chapter finished! Just for some variety, yannow?