Post Race!

[dday9]

Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was annoyed by those movies. The books were great, the movies...used nothing but the name of the protagonist.

[Shaggy Hiker]

In the first book, the love interest was a PhD in some intellectual field. In the movie...she was a hooker.

[dday9]

Such a purist. Do what I did and neither read nor watch them, now I can’t be disappointed.

[Zvoni]

Weird thing happened on Sunday:
I was on the AC/DC-OpenAir here in Germany.

it was the fifth (or sixth?) song AC/DC were supposed to play.
It was already dark, the lights were all out on the stage, and 75,000 people were waiting for what would happen next.

Well, what happened next, was THE Bell chiming a LOUD, low-sounding

DOONNNNNGGGGG..................DOONNNNNGGGGG................DOONNNNNGGGGG

I was jumping up and down, screaming "THE UNDERTAKER...... THE UNDERTAKER IS HERE....."

Why were all the people looking at me as if i was some corn flakes short in the box? *confused*

[FunkyDexter]

If you're waving your dong about, people are going to stare.

[dday9]

Ay oh!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Was it the start of Hell's Bells?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I almost got caught trying to swap out the taped bell sounds for my college for the AC/DC song on graduation day. I was still in my robes, even. Fortunately, I was able to hide on a balcony while a buddy of mine, also still in his robes, lured the officials away.

The room where the music was located was HEAVILY locked, though.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Didn't get the undertaker reference.

[Zvoni]

Didn't get the undertaker reference.

[FunkyDexter]

Or Iron Maiden, or Metallica... or about a dozen other Metal bands come to think of it.

[Zvoni]

Or Iron Maiden, or Metallica... or about a dozen other Metal bands come to think of it.

hrhrhrhr.... considering i HAVE BEEN to the Iron Maiden-Open Air end of July in Stuttgart....

[FunkyDexter]

I was at Birmingham NEC for Bruce's birthday before Covid. Seen 'em about 3 or 4 times I think.

[Zvoni]

I was at Birmingham NEC for Bruce's birthday before Covid. Seen 'em about 3 or 4 times I think.

End of July this year was number 13 for me...

[Jacob Roman]

Or Iron Maiden, or Metallica... or about a dozen other Metal bands come to think of it.

Try A Night in Texas - Death Protocol

[FunkyDexter]

13 for me

Well that's just obsessive.

Try A Night in Texas

Good and noisy.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Just spent a few days wrestling salmon. They don't much appreciate it. I'm pretty tired.

[wes4dbt]

WWE Cage Match??? Shaggy vs Aqua Pink!!!

[FunkyDexter]

WWE Cage Match

That was exactly my first thought

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, that WOULD be pretty accurate, especially Friday. I was down in a confined area, surrounded by metal fencing, grabbing salmon.

[Zvoni]

WWE Cage Match??? Shaggy vs Aqua Pink!!!

More like TLC .... Tables, Ladders, Chairs....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Tables and ladders, yes. Chairs, no.

[Shaggy Hiker]

My thumbs are still a bit sore. They got a workout.

[FunkyDexter]

Tables, Ladders, Chairs....

Oh my!

[dday9]

Well, it was grueling but I was able to get a new job.

[wes4dbt]

That's good to hear. I may need to borrow some money.

[dday9]

Ehhhh.... jai ne parles pas anglais?

[wes4dbt]

Be careful, that kind of talk can get you deported.

[dday9]

Aichi mama!

[FunkyDexter]

That didn't take long. Well Done.

Does it look promising?

[Shaggy Hiker]

If it doesn't look promising, then it would promise looking.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We're getting something very unusual for August: Rain. LOTS of rain.

I have a bit of a drive ahead of me today. It just got a whole lot longer as a landslide has closed a key roadway. That's what happens in this state when we get lots of rain. The hills all head for the valleys.

[dday9]

Does it look promising?

Yep, its a slight raise from what I was earning before and the work looks to be exactly what I want to be doing. Hopefully this will be my last job before I start my own company.

[dday9]

We're getting something very unusual for August: Rain. LOTS of rain.

Aside from the landslides, isn't that a good thing? I want to say I remember y'all having issue with retaining potable water.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Potable water isn't much of an issue, but fires certainly are. The water fights we have won't be affected by a single rainstorm. They took decades to start and would take years of rain to fix. Still, the mountains got pretty well soaked, which should knock down the fires.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We killed a deer on the way home, yesterday. That kind of sucked. Something spooked it and it sprinted out into the road.

[wes4dbt]

Yeah, that would suck. Never hit a large animal. Though I did hit a 12yr old boy one time. Nothing spoked him to run in from of my car, he was just being stupid. He came flying(literally) in front on my car from the blind side of a building on his skate board. Luckily it was in a parking lot and I was only going 5 or 10mph. Scared the hell out of me, he laid on the ground crying for a minute then got up and left.

[Shaggy Hiker]

To be fair, this wasn't a large animal. It was a fawn.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Still sucked, though.