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Start here => Games => Topic started by: Adam on September 15, 2010, 03:40:24 PM
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but can't afford or whatever
right now my list is:
laptop
video camera
phone
bookcase
I might be buying the laptop tomorrow though
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my fire agate ring, i have $500 saved so far for it. i recently bought a new computer, cant really say i need or want a whole lot right now, just my baby :)
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New camera
Tires for the truck
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New plumbing and carport roof for the Palace.
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I want these. I don't think you can get them anywhere in Australia though :(
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEU-Damen-hohe-Schnurstiefel-Cowboy-Stiefel-Linedance-/350224121202?pt=Kleidung_Accessoires_Schuhe_Damenschuhe&hash=item518afbfd72 (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEU-Damen-hohe-Schnurstiefel-Cowboy-Stiefel-Linedance-/350224121202?pt=Kleidung_Accessoires_Schuhe_Damenschuhe&hash=item518afbfd72)
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A decent kitchen faucet that I can still buy parts for (that cost less than the faucet) 5 years later when the fucking thing starts leaking. :P
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saving money is hard. but once i get into a groove i can save it without any problems, its gonna take me fuckin two years for my baby :(
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A decent kitchen faucet that I can still buy parts for (that cost less than the faucet) 5 years later when the fucking thing starts leaking. :P
Get one at a plumbing supply house they are usually much higher quality than big box stores
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I'd like to buy a good Mackie mixer but it will have to wait for a while. I'm done spending money for the time being.
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I'd like a really cool scooter, although I'm crap at looking after things and it would just upset me when I get it all scratched. I suppose I'd maybe like a really fast motorbike, but I know I'd just kill myself and I'm probably not :viking: enough
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i need this :laugh:
http://cgi.ebay.com/gem-quality-fire-agate-/290475346619?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43a1ae0abb
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Want:
New windows and deck and some siding for the house.
Retaining wall next to the garage so I can expand the driveway for more parking/places to work.
Huge retaining wall in the back yard.
The 2 vacant lots next door to me.
Pop-up camper (probably get one next spring).
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I need assorted paper goods and some nice dental floss that doesn't shred!
I want to get a DNA analysis! :nerd!:
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I need assorted paper goods and some nice dental floss that doesn't shred!
I want to get a DNA analysis! :nerd!:
To settle how much weeble is in you?
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Macro lens
Blofeld
After that, nothing else really.
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I want to buy some Joy perfume, but at $150 a small bottle, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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Books. Always.
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Books. Always.
When I was a child and would get the occasional money from my parents (who didn't believe in allowances or paying for chores), the next words out of their mouths went something like this, "Buy some candy, don't buy any books." Scandalous, but true.
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I'd like some starbursts, or more coke bottle gummys
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I need assorted paper goods and some nice dental floss that doesn't shred!
I want to get a DNA analysis! :nerd!:
To settle how much weeble is in you?
Yes, and to find out (perhaps) where those Weebles came from! :laugh:
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I need assorted paper goods and some nice dental floss that doesn't shred!
I want to get a DNA analysis! :nerd!:
To settle how much weeble is in you?
Yes, and to find out (perhaps) where those Weebles came from! :laugh:
they came from Weeble Wonderland, silly.
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I need a good laptop cooler. :zombiefuck:
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I need assorted paper goods and some nice dental floss that doesn't shred!
I want to get a DNA analysis! :nerd!:
To settle how much weeble is in you?
Yes, and to find out (perhaps) where those Weebles came from! :laugh:
they came from Weeble Wonderland, silly.
I've heard of that place! It's the Weeble homeland! :snowman:
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Books. Always.
When I was a child and would get the occasional money from my parents (who didn't believe in allowances or paying for chores), the next words out of their mouths went something like this, "Buy some candy, don't buy any books." Scandalous, but true.
Unbelievable.
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Books. Always.
When I was a child and would get the occasional money from my parents (who didn't believe in allowances or paying for chores), the next words out of their mouths went something like this, "Buy some candy, don't buy any books." Scandalous, but true.
Unbelievable.
Why didn't they want you to buy books? Did they think they were being "fun" parents
by ordering you to spend the money frivolously? :facepalm2:
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I was reading adult books by grade 4. We would go to the library every 2 weeks, but I could only check out age-appropriate books under the library's rules. I would have all 7 books read by that night. I was and am a voracious reader. I loved going to New Orleans once or twice a year because my aunt was a voracious reader too and for that week I could read all her books (A. J. Cronin, Frances Parkinson Keys, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas B. Costain; Look, Life, and Readers Digest magazines). I guess my parents wanted me to have a balance to my life. At least candy was my second choice.
I usually have between 5 to 8 books going at once, in various places in the house and car.
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Well, IMHO, I would simply encourage my kids to read even more. Which is what I do. They never get an argument from me if they want to buy books.
Too bad my own reading's been so poor lately. I've been reading constantly since I first learned to read, and that was at age three.
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I have been put off reading ever since I have been going to uni. But I used to read 3 or 4 books on the go quite often, haven't known of other people to do that until now. :)
I want for my car:
New tinting (as it is getting hard to see out of the back window).
New front speakers as the ones I have now are blown.
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I was reading adult books by grade 4. We would go to the library every 2 weeks, but I could only check out age-appropriate books under the library's rules. I would have all 7 books read by that night. I was and am a voracious reader. I loved going to New Orleans once or twice a year because my aunt was a voracious reader too and for that week I could read all her books (A. J. Cronin, Frances Parkinson Keys, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas B. Costain; Look, Life, and Readers Digest magazines). I guess my parents wanted me to have a balance to my life. At least candy was my second choice.
I usually have between 5 to 8 books going at once, in various places in the house and car.
I could get any books I wanted from the library, but only two at a time, so I would quickly devour them like you did your seven.
I would also read all my textbooks from cover to cover within the first week or two of school, so whatever the teacher taught for the rest of the year felt like sort of a review to me.
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xmas presents
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Me too.
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Should be taking the girls to town, so that they can get a few StNic presents.
I've got mine. But they did not have a chance yet. And StNic is come Sunday. :zombiefuck:
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I need more expectorant cough syrup. I may also need to get some antibiotics. :nerd!:
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I want new speakers for my computer. It's Dawg's fault, he gave advice in another thread and made me think about my current ones. Nothing wrong with them, they are a pair of Cambridge Soundworks (plus a very good sub) at least 12 years old and easy enough to drive, but I wouldn't mind something new now.
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xmas presents
Yeah same. Going to wait until next week when I get paid.
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Nothing right now. Feeling very mellow and happy.
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Christmas presents.
A warranty service for my car (might take it to UltraTune again).
Also, something to wear to my work party next week.
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I need bleach, for all the :laundry: I have to do this week!
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Christmas presents.
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Christmas presents.
Should I send you my list :zoinks:
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Christmas presents.
Should I send you my list :zoinks:
Only if you like to be disappointed. :zoinks:
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Christmas presents.
Should I send you my list :zoinks:
Only if you like to be disappointed. :zoinks:
:'(
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/smilies/coal-1.png) :laugh:
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Christmas presents.
Should I send you my list :zoinks:
Only if you like to be disappointed. :zoinks:
:'(
Awww, that's OK, you should shop in my hoarded apartment! Plenty of stuff here! :laugh:
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I suspect I will need to buy whatever the "Check Engine" light on my car tells me.
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Christmas presents.
Should I send you my list :zoinks:
Only if you like to be disappointed. :zoinks:
:'(
There, there. What sort of items are we talking about?
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I suspect I will need to buy whatever the "Check Engine" light on my car tells me.
A new engine?
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I suspect I will need to buy whatever the "Check Engine" light on my car tells me.
A new engine?
BITE YOUR TONGUE >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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:-[
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Okay, Check Engine light and a burny rubbery smell? Ideas? It's already in the shop, but they can't look at it until tomorrow.
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Okay, Check Engine light and a burny rubbery smell? Ideas? It's already in the shop, but they can't look at it until tomorrow.
Without knowing anything else, it's almost impossible to say. :-\
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Okay, Check Engine light and a burny rubbery smell? Ideas? It's already in the shop, but they can't look at it until tomorrow.
Out out the wires on the light and get an air freshener and you will be set
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I need new work shoes! The slip-resistant soles on my current pair have begun to wear down.
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I need new work shoes! The slip-resistant soles on my current pair have begun to wear down.
Maybe you can get slip-resistant additions.
I am thinking of getting myself something like this (http://ezyshoes.co.uk/).
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Some plastic stackable boxes
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I think it's time for a new broom. :sweep: The one I have was left behind
in the apartment by the previous tenant, and its bristles are very worn down.
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^Wow, thread bump from 2011.
According to Tafe, I need at least a 500GB hard drive with USB3. Expensive for me.
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I want something to eat so that's what I need to buy now.
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I'll need more paper supplies very soon. :tp:
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Cheap-ass pastry
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Cheap-ass pastry
Why are you looking at my ass that way? :cake: It makes me feel ... cheap.
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Cheap-ass pastry
Why are you looking at my ass that way? :cake: It makes me feel ... cheap.
Because I'm short and it's in my line of sight?
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I need to buy a printer.
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I need to buy a printer.
That's what I forgot to order. :GA:
I need to buy a spare toner for my printer.
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I should buy a Kindle instead of buying paper books, in keeping with my new anti-hoarding lifestyle. :angel:
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I should buy a Kindle instead of buying paper books, in keeping with my new anti-hoarding lifestyle. :angel:
Bookshelves are great insulators for noise and cold. I have placed my bookshelf strategically, so that I hear the least from my neighbours.
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I should buy a Kindle instead of buying paper books, in keeping with my new anti-hoarding lifestyle. :angel:
Bookshelves are great insulators for noise and cold. I have placed my bookshelf strategically, so that I hear the least from my neighbours.
I can live with noise. I don't want the bulk of shelves or the paper clutter/nesting material
of real paper books. I want to read everything on a portable device like a modern American! :autism:
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One of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7n00Xx38o
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One of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7n00Xx38o
Badass! Can you find one in your area? :green:
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Definitely getting that new broom today :sweep: along with steel wool, duct tape,
and lots of cleaning supplies, especially Lysol and glass cleaner, the type with ammonia!
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I need to buy a printer.
That's what I forgot to order. :GA:
I need to buy a spare toner for my printer.
I still haven't bought one, but now I also need to by a NAS.
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Coffee filters. I need my morning jump-start! :coffee:
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Something simple and fun.
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I want a DNA test to determine my exact ethnic mix. I love that shit. :nerdy:
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I want a DNA test to determine my exact ethnic mix. I love that shit. :nerdy:
Make it your next goal. You cleared your house. Hardly anything left to make cleaning a challenge. You need a new thing to aim for. And you've been wanting that DNA test for years and years.
Good idea for a BD present to get for yourself.
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I want a DNA test to determine my exact ethnic mix. I love that shit. :nerdy:
Make it your next goal. You cleared your house. Hardly anything left to make cleaning a challenge. You need a new thing to aim for. And you've been wanting that DNA test for years and years.
Good idea for a BD present to get for yourself.
Hell yes! I'm turning 50, I deserve this present! :2thumbsup:
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Why do you want to know? I don't understand.
Was up late last night, researching various storage solutions. I need a backup solution, sure, but this is now turning into an obsession. :-\
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Why do you want to know? I don't understand.
Was up late last night, researching various storage solutions. I need a backup solution, sure, but this is now turning into an obsession. :-\
Ethnicity is a special interest for me, has been for many years. :nerd!:
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Why do you want to know? I don't understand.
Was up late last night, researching various storage solutions. I need a backup solution, sure, but this is now turning into an obsession. :-\
Ethnicity is a special interest for me, has been for many years. :nerd!:
Maybe you'll find out that you have viking bloodlines. :arrr:
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Still researching backup solutions. :GA:
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Thionyl chloride.
Phosphorus pentachloride
PCl3
SOBr2
Concentrated sulfuric acid
Concentrated nitric
Xylene
Toluene
Acetonitrile
Lithium aluminium hydride
Sodium borohydride
Sodium cyanoborohydride
Sodium triacetoxyborohydride
Mercuric chloride
Sodium and potassium metal
TLC plates
Peptide coupling agents
Phosphorus-red
Phosphorus-white
Iodine
I don't know if I could find this-but a canister of compressed chlorine gas.
Calcium metal-turnings or granules
Aluminium powder
Magnesium powder
Phenylmagnesiumbromide
Piperidine
Nitroethane
Nitromethane
Nickel powder
Praseodymium metal, preferably in powder form, but anything meltable
THF
A tank of anhydrous ammonia would be nice
Methylene chloride
Chloroform
Methyl iodide
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Thionyl chloride.
Phosphorus pentachloride
PCl3
SOBr2
Concentrated sulfuric acid
Concentrated nitric
Xylene
Toluene
Acetonitrile
Lithium aluminium hydride
Sodium borohydride
Sodium cyanoborohydride
Sodium triacetoxyborohydride
Mercuric chloride
Sodium and potassium metal
TLC plates
Peptide coupling agents
Phosphorus-red
Phosphorus-white
Iodine
I don't know if I could find this-but a canister of compressed chlorine gas.
Calcium metal-turnings or granules
Aluminium powder
Magnesium powder
Phenylmagnesiumbromide
Piperidine
Nitroethane
Nitromethane
Nickel powder
Praseodymium metal, preferably in powder form, but anything meltable
THF
A tank of anhydrous ammonia would be nice
Methylene chloride
Chloroform
Methyl iodide
It would be cheaper to buy a bunch of alphabet sets.
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Whaddya mean QV?
Need to get a new hotplate/mag stirrer, both of mine are on the fritz, and I'm stuck with a household hotplate with no mag stirring that trips the household mains every time it turns on, and has a shitty thermostat. Works just about, but stirring if needed will have to be done by mounting a piece of wire in the drill press. Means I probably won't be able for now to do anything that requires strictly anhydrous conditions.
I might just build myself a set of heating mantles with magnetic stirring, by wrapping some nichrome wire in asbestos cloth and connecting it to a variable voltage/current power supply controlled by thermostats and use hard drive magnets attached to computer fans to turn the stirbars. Would need to make a set of them though, for all my different flask sizes (from 5ml up to 1 liter)
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@ Lestat
I know the words are chemicals, chemical substances, other chemical items, etc. It's just that when I get past H2O, I am lost. It's all a jumble of letters to me, so it would be cheaper for me to buy a bunch of alphabet letters. The failure is mine, not yours. I'm sure I would lose you in a hurry with sewing terms.
BTW - The only things I remember from high school chemistry are protons, electrons (forgot the name of the 3rd part of the atom) and covalent bonding (just the term and why I remember that is a mystery to me.)
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Covalent bonding is when an electronegative atom (an electrophile) steals charge from the outer electron shell of an electropositive atom, or the results of a nucleophilic substitution, such as say, an isocyanate reacting with an amine to form a urea (carbamate). Also including the likes of carbon-carbon single, double or triple bonding, and the more unusual quadruple, and even sextuple bonding between certain metal atoms.
The other types of bonding are either electrostatic in nature and reversible easily such as by dissolution in water, such as the bonds between atoms forming ionic salts, such as NaCl, NaOH, phosphates/phosphites/phosphonates, carboxylic acid salts etc. or take advantage of physical surface interactions, such as hydrogen bonding and Van Der Waals bonding, these are much weaker than even ionic bonding. IIRC the reason geckos can run straight up smooth glass is because of Van Der Waals bonding between the many tiny hair-covered flaps upon the feet.
In my shopping list, PCl3 is phosphorus trichloride, a volatile, somewhat toxic liquid that fumes off HCl as it hydrolyzes in moisture, reacts violently with H2O, releasing torrents of HCl(gas) whilst SOBr2 is thionyl bromide, similar in character but would release HBr and SO2 when it hydrolyzes.
Neutrons are the third superficial particles within the nucleus of the atom.
And your llikely right. While I can patch the likes of chemical burn holes in clothes sewing anything more complex is not my forte.
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Coffee creamer...I need coffee creamer.
Coffee tastes like shit without it. :P
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for a bbq today:
a bag of ice - easily obtained.
a block of ice - not so easily obtained.
a big bottle of already made green tea.
chicken
corn on the cob
spring greens for salad
the bbq may not materialize due to grading, but i want to have one. we can't just buy already made stuff because of wheat and gluten intolerance.
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Creamer? my god woman! thats disgusting!
Milk is foul enough in tea/coffee but that creamer stuff is beyond vile.
Just found out a contact has a liter of carbon tetrachloride, a nigh impossible to get solvent, its almost always replaced by chloroform or dichlor now. Banned in most labs for toxicity reasons and the fact replacements for most purposes exist. But I want some as a reaction ingredient, so I'm hoping to either trade for or buy off him as much as the contact will part with. He's kiinda starting out as a clan. chemist, so will have little if any use for it specifically. I on the other hand, do.
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Coffee creamer isn't the best by a long shot, but it doesn't need refrigeration and is cheaper than cream.
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I prefer coffee made of actual real proper ground beans (fresher the better but I admit I will stoop to ziplock sealed foil lined small packs.
I just reflux ground beans and water in a flask, then filter through the buchner, the one with the glass frit. That way theres no possible taste imparted from filter papers. Ands then suck it through with vac. Then its ready to drink.
I'm more of a tea kinda guy however. I very much like my teas. I have quite the collection. What I really enjoy doing, is growing some pots of lemon balm, and brewing a strong hot decoction of the plant, leaves and flowering tops, young shoots are the best IMO, then squishing everything up, adding almost-boiling water, leaving it to infuse, then instead of water, using that decoction to make my tea. Preferably, to my tastes, either a delicate white tea or lady grey, and sweetened with honey rather than sugar. I prefer lime-blossom monoculture honey myself, although acacia will do at a pinch. My (now dead) grandmother always used to serve her tea up with honey.
And of course, goes without saying, that its far better and far tastier without being polluted with moo-juice.
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I like vile...vile is good...and I bought the mocha flavored crap too. :LOL:
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Someone brought this to work once; best cup of coffee ever.
(http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/5007BB83-6652-69A7-451E-943D6514F0A9.jpeg)
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Someone brought this to work once; best cup of coffee ever.
(http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/5007BB83-6652-69A7-451E-943D6514F0A9.jpeg)
Wow. :o
I need to try that, I love Almond Joy bars.
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The cold liquid creamer is easier to find here than the unrefrigerated packs of singles.
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The cold liquid creamer is easier to find here than the unrefrigerated packs of singles.
Thanks. Probably why I've never seen it, I rarely glance in that section.
I like to get in and out of the store as fast as humanly possible most days. :zoinks:
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Honestly I find the thought of drinking coffee or tea in any other way than black, about as appetizing as a bowl of luke-warm clotted pus, squeezed from a scrotal abscess through the gangreous dick of a dead example of some sort of unidentifiable putrefying road kill.
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Something like the absolutely flawless native crystalline, semimetallic tellurium on sylvanite crystal some lucky motherfuck has in their element collection:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tellurium-89043.jpg/440px-Tellurium-89043.jpg)
Ain't that simply just gorgeous!?!
I'd actually pay quite a bit for that particular piece, but I doubt its for sale. Lovely or what? that crystal, the bright, shining silvery-white part is native elemental tellurium 'metal' (in quotes because Te is actually one of the metalloids, or semimetals, similar to things like elemental silicon, a couple of the allotropes of arsenic, black phosphorus, one of the allotropes of antimony, boron and germanium.)
That crystal is one of the finest I have ever seen of tellurium, near flawless gem quality to totally flawless. Although one does not want to wear it in contact with the body itself, because absorption of Te induces a condition known as tellurium breath, due to offgassing volatile alkyl tellurides such as dimethyl telluride and dimethylditelluride, that possess such a virulent stygian abominable stench that people afflicted with Te-breath have apparently committed suicide, because society ostracised them and they couldn't go out in public whilst they emitted the filthy stink. Clothes have to be burnt, because they reputedly smell too foul to otherwise bin or dispose of, and even books they touched in uni had to be retired from service, due to minute traces of the tellurium metabolites coming out in traces of sweat from the reader's fingertips.
But, that despite, that native Te is beautiful beyond words.
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Chicken, salad greens, and ranch dressing for my diet. Gotta lose a few! :situp:
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Chicken, salad greens, and ranch dressing for my diet. Gotta lose a few! :situp:
To lower the calories try using salsa instead of dressing. It's also a lot cheaper and tastier than winter tomatoes when that season comes.
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I need a new CD player. Skippy is broken. :GA:
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Skippy. :laugh:
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
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Skippy. :laugh:
Skippy had issues. :P
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
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Wine.
I need wine. :desert:
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I'd like to get some to cancel out the noises that come out of my boss's mouth. >:D
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Wine.
I need wine. :desert:
Come to the oasis, and drink! :wine:
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I'd like to get some to cancel out the noises that come out of my boss's mouth. >:D
These will do the trick. ;D
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I'd like to get some to cancel out the noises that come out of my boss's mouth. >:D
These will do the trick. ;D
Then I can tell her that her mouth keeps moving but all I hear is :blah: :blah: :blah:
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I love it that I can zone out while wearing them. I should have bought them a long time ago.
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Someone brought this to work once; best cup of coffee ever.
(http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/5007BB83-6652-69A7-451E-943D6514F0A9.jpeg)
Checked for this twice and they didn't have it....today it was there though. Just made coffee.
This is some seriously good shit. :autism:
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I have tried many of these types of devices, various brands including three Bose varieties we sell at a big box consumer store.
The Bose are clearly the most effective at active noise canceling.
While a lot of ("snobs") people who are supposedly in the know about high quality sound would totally dis' Bose any time they have the chance and while I actually consider myself a bit of a "sound guy," I like these various offerings from Bose.
Oddly, when I bought the Chevy Traverse for my son to drive (which I mostly drive now, since he will not even get his license to drive and I am done trying to push him to do so) it was loaded up option-wise from the factory. It has a top notch Bose sound system built in. I like it.
Now, do not get me wrong. I know enough about high quality sound to know that an environment with a fifty or sixty decibel noise floor is not a good place to start, so having decent sound in a car is a kind of an oxymoron or a fool's errand.
But, the sound in this car rivals the mid eighties LTD, Crown Victoria with the top sounding JBL/Crown premium system I had in that old no holds barred beast of a giant car.
I hope you enjoy your new headphones for a long time.
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Someone brought this to work once; best cup of coffee ever.
(http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/5007BB83-6652-69A7-451E-943D6514F0A9.jpeg)
Checked for this twice and they didn't have it....today it was there though. Just made coffee.
This is some seriously good shit. :autism:
It really is good. Never cared for the cold creamers as they cool the coffee too much, so have only bought it once. Have considered ordering the singles online since they're so hard to find in stores, but never got around to it.
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I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy. :trollskull:
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I have tried many of these types of devices, various brands including three Bose varieties we sell at a big box consumer store.
The Bose are clearly the most effective at active noise canceling.
While a lot of ("snobs") people who are supposedly in the know about high quality sound would totally dis' Bose any time they have the chance and while I actually consider myself a bit of a "sound guy," I like these various offerings from Bose.
Oddly, when I bought the Chevy Traverse for my son to drive (which I mostly drive now, since he will not even get his license to drive and I am done trying to push him to do so) it was loaded up option-wise from the factory. It has a top notch Bose sound system built in. I like it.
Now, do not get me wrong. I know enough about high quality sound to know that an environment with a fifty or sixty decibel noise floor is not a good place to start, so having decent sound in a car is a kind of an oxymoron or a fool's errand.
But, the sound in this car rivals the mid eighties LTD, Crown Victoria with the top sounding JBL/Crown premium system I had in that old no holds barred beast of a giant car.
I hope you enjoy your new headphones for a long time.
:)
They are awesome for their purpose, offering good-quality sound and a reasonably sound-proof bubble in a noisy environment. I have cans with better sound, of course, but nothing that so closely meets their respective targets. I am in awe of the engineering, of how Bose is able to produce such clean sound while eliminating most distractions.
I think Bose is at their best when doing this sort of thing.
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A new brain. :P
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I'd settle with new eyes. :)
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Could find you a pair, one previous owner, some use, although only suitable as a trophy or ornament for the mantelpiece, floating in a jar of formaldehyde solution. Any particular color you had in mind, or from any age, gender preference. They'd have to be NT eyes though, as of course I'd not go about removing a set from one of my own race.
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They'd have to be in working order. :P
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I''d be careful not to damage them. For you, I'd even wash the melon-baller:P
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:laugh:
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I could do with a Graham condenser. So much more effective than my current ones, which are of the Liebig type.
Although I also want a new Vigreaux column, and either 100g calcium metal, as small shot, or a couple hundred grams of strontium metal. Reactivity is less than lithium or sodium, the typical go-to in Birch reductions/Birch-Benkeser reductions, so will have less if any tendency to reduce a phenyl ring to either a 1,4-cyclohexadiene or a fully de-aromatization to a cyclohexane. Although with sodium the latter could prove useful in testing de-aromatized versions of existing psychedelic phenethylamines, basically, propylhexedrine analogs of for example, 2C-B, 2C-D, 2C-T-7 and the like, for activity as 5HT2aR-active serotonin receptor agonists. Although I wouldn't 'bee' too surprised if the planar, flat nature of the benzene ring is necessary for steric reasons, to allow 5HT2a receptor binding in an agonist conformation.
Also I'd very much like more nitromethane and nitroethane, because some fucking prick stole all I had from me.
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A sterilisation for a certain young male cat we have. He will be going to the vet some time next week.
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Well NOW my problem is finding a reaction and a scale suitable to make use of a brick-sized chunk of sodium metal, to be used in a single reaction, rather than finding enough Na to use in a reaction, without leaving enough to blow things all to hell, I've gone and got myself both a plentiful lot of Li metal and a larger than fist-sized chunk of sodium just begging for a Beauveault-Blanc reduction, but thats rather than large quantity, with quite a lot of 'boom' potential if added over anything than many hours in tiny bits.
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A sterilisation for a certain young male cat we have. He will be going to the vet some time next week.
:GA: :GA:
Notice, I used two.
It is the responsible thing to do. I applaud your courage. I did not have the courage or ballZ to do the same for my pet terrier a few years back and I lost him to his hormones and busy traffic. Sad day.
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I need to buy another 10 liter can of dichloromethane (a solvent with similar properties to chloroform, but a lot cheaper than chloroform), I have a little left, and I'll redistill the dichlor tjhat was used in my last lab project, redistilll it to purify it, after first washing it with water then drying it with first dessicants then molecular sieves.
Running critically low on dichlor. I need to buys some more pure, undenatured ethanol too, I think I'll go on ebay for that and get the same russsian 'ethylic spiritus' (translation), I'll buy a couple of liters I think, to last a while. There is a russki brand that isn't denatured, in fact, drinkable, high purity EtOH at £20 a liter!) if diluted to about 70% EtOH, it can be made into some lethal little shots, one shot and you are hammered, two and you are unconsious within minutes.
Need to buy some LAH and Red-Al, and some sodium or potassium cyanide.
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From my own experience, effective anaesthetic is important when a doctor (or vet) is disconnecting your nads.
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No shit.....you don't say.....
Although I would rather keep my nads where they are so if I meet the right girl, I can have kids.
But if I did get them...disconnected, anyone doing it better have a shitload of pain meds and anaesthetic. Sure as shit they aren't doing it while I am conscious.
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I had mine done at a hospital in Bangkok. I figure they do so many gender reassignments there that it's a good idea to be awake so you don't get wheeled into the wrong operating room and wake up with a vagina.
The scary part is that you are fully awake and they strap you down. Arms and legs.
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Fuck that! no way in hell.
And if you did just wake up with a vagina, that would be so much fucked up its barely possible to quantify.
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A sterilisation for a certain young male cat we have. He will be going to the vet some time next week.
:GA: :GA:
Notice, I used two.
It is the responsible thing to do. I applaud your courage. I did not have the courage or ballZ to do the same for my pet terrier a few years back and I lost him to his hormones and busy traffic. Sad day.
Yeah, that is sad. :(
Kira is mostly an indoor cat and we don't want him marking his territory around the house. So it's tomorrow he will have surgery. No breakfast for him and he's to be at the vet at 8:45am.
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Poor wee moggy :( *lestat sends millions of snuggles for the little gouy*
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He's sitting and staring at me right now, most likely wondering where his breakfast is.
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Aw :(
Scratch behind his ears for me Ren?
As for me, got my eyes on a couple of gallon jugs of dichloromethane.
I've been reading a couple interesting little articles too, and they are making me want some tosyl chloride, and the other paper, making me REALLY want some sodium azide, the stuff they use as the gas generating chemical in car airbags as the propellant charge. Its a reagent to be careful with, for more than one reason. It can deflagrate if ignited or subjected to impact/friction or direct flame, although it doesn't detonate, the alkali metal azides and alkaline earth metal azides don't, they just deflagrate, go up in a big plume of rapidly expanding hot gases and alkali/alkaline earth metal bits.
Also, the azide anion is highly toxic, the level of and mechanism of toxicity both being similar to that of cyanide, inhibition of the electron transport chain and choking up cellular respiration. Can kill very quickly in case of poisoning, and lastly, one has to be very, very, very careful to avoid solutions of sodium etc. azide coming into contact with solutions of lead salts, mercury salts and other heavy metal salts, and also avoid contact with transition metal salts. This is because things like lead azide can precipitate out, which are, unlike sodium and the rest of the alkali metal azides, lead azide and other heavy and IIRC (not sure, would have to look it up first, but obviously I would rule out such hazardous interactions before allowing NaN3 to interact with a transition metal compound, it would have to be confirmed in advance that such a transition metal azide WASN'T a sensitive primary explosive before any reaction with azides involving transition metals, knowing what I do about heavy metal azides. They used to use lead azide in bullet primers, like mercury fulminate, in the part of the primer cap that the gun's hammer strikes, igniting the lead azide and causing it to detonate, igniting the propellant powder charge.
So of course care is vital.
In this case its not for anything explosive-related at all though, but for some organoazide chemistry directed at very high yielding, clean and rapid synthesis of isocyanates from aldehydes via Curtius rearrangement of an intermediate acyl azide, meant to give very high yields, very quickly too and cleanly as well.
And depending or not on whether the steric constraints on some specific molecules that permit their not having EXTREME instability (not explosively, just in terms of their having a tendency, as some similar molecules do, to polymerize and turn to totally useless utter crap, of a completely unsalveagable nature, I.e once it happens, if it does, 'now you've gone and done it', nothing for it but to start the synthesis all over again and hope you can manage it the next time round, if the steric protection methods usable to arrest this process can bee made to coincide with the steric and electronic constraints which allow for receptor binding (as an [ideally decent efficacy and potency partial] agonist) at certain selected target sites, then I ought to give myself some lessons in making azidoketones; I've been having quite a few interesting ideas of late.
Oh, and I want to buy (and REALLY sure as shit stinks, do NOT wish to make, because its nasty as hell, dangerously corrosive stuff, extremely strong acid, fumes in air, and reacts very violently with water, dangerously violently, and synthesizing it....no thanks, IIRC it involves something like chlorinating sulfur trioxide (sulfuric acid anhydride), whilst dissolved in anhydrous fuming sulfuric acid, so buying it is definitely the best option) myself some chlorosulfonic acid.
Also some imidazole, as well as some oleum (fuming concentrated sulfuric acid with additional SO3 dissolved in it), because of this really, REALLY neat sounding ionic liquid based on a disulfonated imidazole structure, apparently the nitrate salt can do some pretty wondrous things vis a vis forming, at room temperature, conjugated nitroalkenes in super-mild conditions directly from the corresponding alpha,beta-unsaturated alkene compounds. I've never heard of a reagent which would permit that before, The ionic liquid itself looks rather a bitch to make, given the nasty things one needs to use to make it in the first place, but once that is done, it ought to be reusable, just re-form the nitrate salt, but the disulfonylimidazole part of this specific ionic liquid, the ionic liquid itself, once you've got it, you've got it and it can be recycled, should just need, after use, to be reacted with some nitric acid. And since I've got IIRC a couple of pounds of sodium nitrate (forget the exact weight I have of NaNO3, but plenty enough) I can simply distill a mixture of sodium nitrate and concentrated sulfuric acid together, and the distillate collected in the receiver will be concentrated nitric acid:)
(I would have white fuming nitric acid on my wish list, but it isn't going to be since I can make WFNA any time I want, nitrate salt, concentrated sulfuric acid, boil it all up together and distill and I've got all the fuming nitric acid I could eat, metaphorically speaking of course, since HNO3, fuming or otherwise, of either colour, are not what you could call high on my list of culinary treats I'm just aching to try:autism:)
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Kira is fine now. The vet said he was a very nervous cat when being put into his cat cage there. When we picked him up, he had a hard plastic cone on which we were supposed to keep on Kira for 10 days. When we got him home he wouldn't even walk with the cone on, let alone eat his dinner. So we took the cone off. He washed his back end but not excessively and is going well. now.
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I would like to buy an air fryer but they are pretty expensive, even for just a small one. May go to Harvey Norman (Hardly Normal) or the Good Guys in a few months time once I've saved the money for one.
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What is your budget? Mine wasn't dear - £140 for a 1.7kg rig.
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So nearly double that in Aussie dollars? 1.7kgs should definitely be enough. And me and Kayleigh will most likely go halves if I bug her into going shopping on payday.
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The bad news is that it's significantly cheaper in the UK - the UK one is £150 for the Family Express 1.7kg, the Good Guys Australia charge £142 (A$250) for a 1.2kg Express model. They're made in France.
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I haven't had chance to actually use mine unfortunately. It's sitting in the house gathering dust - I've used the chipper I bought though. That's good. Get one of those - it does all the cutting for you that way. You can get them on eBay for about £15, probably including shipping, to Australia.
It works out to be about £200 in Australia capacity-wise. They make amazing chips though. How many chips do you need? 1.2kg will make you 600g of chips each - think that would probably make enough chips for four people.
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A Father's Day present. I only just realised when it was today and it sucks because I have barely any money. On Saturday I'll know how much I will have to spend because all my direct debits are out of my bank account by then.
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A Father's Day present. I only just realised when it was today and it sucks because I have barely any money. On Saturday I'll know how much I will have to spend because all my direct debits are out of my bank account by then
I'm sorry to hear that. :(
My financial situation is changing. We'll see.
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A Father's Day present. I only just realised when it was today and it sucks because I have barely any money. On Saturday I'll know how much I will have to spend because all my direct debits are out of my bank account by then
I'm sorry to hear that. :(
My financial situation is changing. We'll see.
For the good, I hope.
I always saved money when I was in psych ward. Apart from bills I didn't spend anything.
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I need a new bag. Leather backpacks that aren't boring looking are hard to come by.
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A newer car, maybe tomorrow.
My wife no longer trusts her Lincoln (something in the security features has a glitch and pisses her off - I say fix it, but she says FUCK IT! I WANT A NEW CAR. So we are getting a new car for her.).
She has picked out a 2017 Impala. She does not want a car like mine or any "crossover" SUV or anything she has to climb up to get in. She climbs up all day long at work for UPS. So, at quitting time she wants a sedan.
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I need a new bag. Leather backpacks that aren't boring looking are hard to come by.
Just get a Cabin Max thing. They are fucking awesome for the price.
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Just went to test drive and "assess" her choice.
I like it fine, great stereo, very new feeling, new tires and smelling new - Only fifteen thousand miles on it. It has leather all around with heaters, basically everything on my last two cars that she wants. Like remote start (her Lincoln has this) rear view camera (her old Lincoln did not have this) Dash camera (I do not have this, but my Escalade had one), heated steering wheel, Now I am jealous, I had this on the Escalade, but not on my Traverse.
Anyway, we are about to spend a bunch of money. I like the car. As long as she likes it then it is a done deal.
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We plan to trade in her Lincoln, add five thousand from my latest "matured asset" and keep the payment low as possible.
Pretty sure this is happening tomorrow.
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Well she now has a '17 Chrysler 300 AWD with less that twenty thousand miles on it. She also liked the Impala, but she likes this one more.
Funny thing: When we started to take off yesterday morning, the Lincoln we were trading in had a flat tire. Kind of like one last gotcha.
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A 1971 Honda CB750 8)
(http://dropbears.com/gallery/honda/images/Honda_1971_CB750K2_NZ.jpg)
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A wallet that won't open to let money out and a debit card that will only deposit money. I gave up credit cards a while back.
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I'd like some portions of sodium (or potassium) metal, only, rather than being in one big chunk the size of a small brick or very large, meaty fist, hermetically sealed first covered in oil then vacuum-evacuated within an inner plastic liner, heat-sealed inside, which itself is heat-sealed in a thick plastic outer liner bag inflated with some sort of inert gas.
That way, I could use it portion-wise more easily. Na and K metal are usually kept under oil (this is somewhat of an unusual way for it to come, in double-layers of plastic liners, inert gas, and the only wet bit being a thin layer of mineral oil over the sodium metal itself), although it does keep really well, very little oxidation in storage, I've had the sodium for over a year and a half, maybe two years now, give or take a half year, and its no worse oxidized than it was when I first got it, still bright and shiny, not as shiny as a freshly cut through piece of Na that has JUST been sliced into with a knife
but that would be asking an awful lot short of melting it in a vacuum chamber after purging it with argon, evacuating, then purging again, before melting the metal under vacuum, or melting it under 1,4-dioxane.
I really want a new vacuum pump. That way I could seal my alkali metals up like that myself, it's kept far better than keeping it under oil. Stores better for longer.
I can make mt own alkali metals though, by performing a thermite-like reaction using the alkali metal hydroxide and magnesium dust in a crucible, capped and covered once the magnesium fuse burns down far enough to begin igniting the mixture, otherwise the alkali metal would be vaporized off in the heat of the reaction, which like thermites in general, burns bloody hot, a slag of alkali metal finely dispersed in magnesium oxide slag. One then uses concentrated sulfuric acid to dehydrate unmixed ethylene glycol antifreeze and distill off some dioxane, then boil up the powdered metal/MgO slag rocks under refluxing dioxane, which for whatever reasons, surface tension perhaps, as well as being an ether, unreactive to alkali metals; the alkali metal melts out of the slag and separates out in nice shiny lumps. All from magnesium dust, a strip of magnesium wire or ribbon to light it, a crucible etc. to contain the reaction in, sulfuric bog cleaner and antifreee.
Really need that new vacuum pump for storage though. And for sealing things in glass ampoules under vacuum, so they can be stored permanently without exposure to water or air. And some really big amps, say, 100ml useful capacity, for keeping aggressive reagents like chromyl chloride, air-sensitive stuff like dimethyl/diethylzinc (either of those two burst into flame on contact with air almost instantly), and alkali metals to preserve them in perfect condition indefinitely.
Oh and I need some copper (II) chloride, although I have a little bit, enough to try it out on a multi-gram scale of substrate, for a nanotechnology based reduction system, using copper (O) nanoparticles and sodium borohydride.
Some ammonium formate might not go amiss either. I can make it of course, but still, a few kg of ready made ammonium formate would avoid the long, tedious drying process, because it undergoes rearrangement to formamide (itself useful) if it gets too hot. and when formamide overheats it produces hydrogen cyanide in decomposition.
Got a few things I need to test.
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My future buys shopping list:
A jacket for my Kindle
A garment rack
Day-to-day shoes
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Just buying some 85% formic acid. Found a deal on ebay, 3x1 liter bottles for 21 quid, free shipping.
There was some 95% HCOOH available, but that was from the US. I fucking hate dealing with chemical sellers in the US on ebay, fucking gougers the lot of them. Stuff like charging 30-40 dollars for a 30ml bottle or 30g bottle of liquids or solids, the sort of thing I could buy a big sack of for the same money elsewhere, for free shipping.
Funny, the yanks always include obscene shipping fees when I know damn well they are skimming profit off it, it doesn't cost 30 dollars for a few grams of anything in the mail..shit...not talking hazardous materials, but something like say, iron filings, or sodium bromide, or zinc metal pellets, something completely innocuous unless dropped on one's head in a large heavy container full of the stuff.
Whilst the russians, the polish, the lithuanians, often the chinese, and plenty europeans will have free shipping and far less disgusting prices.
Got to say, I really, really do hate dealing with yanks on ebay.
Just changed my mind, after finding ammonium formate, which is what I'd have used the formic acid for in the first place, before pledging to buy the HCOOH.
To put it into perspective how awful a load of gouging wankers US sellers are..
30g ammonium formate in a little tiny bottle, the bastards are demanding 40 dollars to ship it to the UK! and a dollar a gram.
Poland on the other hand, will ship a kilo of ammonium formate for free shipping and handling, $77.46
Or 250g ammonium formate, $24.21 for the item, again, free shipping.
No fucking way is that on, what the US chemical sellers are doing. Fuck off, if they think I'm paying a pound a gram for ammonium bloody formate and paying more than the item itself is worth to ship just over an ounce; they can suck my autistic dick and call it beluga caviar. Then they can fuck off back under whatever slimy little rock they inhabit the bottom of, with their overpriced ammonium formate up their ass, bottle and all. Diagonally. Inserted via their nostrils. Ursurious bloody bastards.
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Christmas presents. Though it's going to have to wait until I get paid next week. I've already bought Kayleigh's present, though. It's just taking its sweet time in getting here. Well, China is a long way away.
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My daughter wants a new bed for Xmas and my son wants a new laptop.
On top of that I want to buy a couple of small presents for them, obviously. Stocking fillers. I know my son wants a model tank, he is pretty easy to buy for. I have no idea what to buy for my daughter though. I will buy some books for both of them, but I might have to potter around the shops and try to find something that my daughter would like.
I already told my wife that the gazebo and the outdoor furniture I've bought over the last few weeks are her early Xmas present. Other than that no presents to buy.
I want to buy a new phone for myself. My handphone was released more than 5 years ago, I need something more modern, but that can wait.
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I want, and as yet have not bought, 5xeach of wide-range high and low temperature-capacity mercury thermometers, and five of the alcohol type.
I have one alcohol thermometer, among non-electronic thermometers and thermocouple probes, as well as something shaped like a pistol, an electronic one, that has a detector with a trigger pressure-actuated laser sight mounted a few millimeters above the detector, which picks up photonic emissions in the infrared wavelengths and when the thing is aimed at a thing one wishes to measure the temperature of, it beeps, takes a reading within 2, at most 3 seconds and displays current temperature as well as the maximum peak temperature during the measurement, in either degrees centigrade, or degrees farenheit, the latter I quite simply, never use, because I am as familiar with the conversion factor between degrees 'F, and degrees 'C, a little switch located inside the pistol-grip flicked one way or the other to select one's preferred temperature scale for the readout, the remainder of the handle having a connector to the battery, which takes a single PP3 type battery.
Gives a little beeping noise when pulling the trigger as well as when the measurement is complete, after which, the current temperature as well as the maximum temperature taken during the measurement, showing one the peak temperature of the scan and the actual, current temperature at the time the trigger is released. Very handy, and very rapid (few seconds) result, much faster than mercury filled or those with a red-dyed alcohol filling, Although the alcohol ones are vital to me for one specific reason. Namely, if I am conducting a reaction using microwave irradiation, from, yes, a bog standard microwave oven, just as most people have in the kitchen for cooking their grub.
I cannot employ mercury filled ones, nor those using galinstan (all the rage as a relacement for thermometers containing that devil incarnate, discouraged from use these days [galinstan is an alloy of liquid metal, melts in just the heat of being held in a hand. The name coming from GAL-In-Stannum, gallium, In (indium,a metallic, very soft element of the transition metal series, very very soft indeed, fairly sure that it could be cut with a blunt bread knife) and Stannum, the latin for the metal tin, periodic symbol Sn)
However galinstan, which is unlke mercury metal, it melts in a warm hand, but when at room temp. is a soli of extremely low melting point And gallium and indium have low melting point before becoming soiid metal, so those are no use for measuring very cold ranges.
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The only really nice thermometer I have is an older photographic process thermometer made by Agfa. It came in a fitted and padded metal case, which I still have.
It is about an inch and a half wide, eighteen inches long, mercury and claims to be accurate to one quarter degree Fahrenheit. I ranges from Forty degrees Fahrenheit to One hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit. So, it will work for B&W or Color processes, both developing film and printing paper.
I also have an old Kodak version, a bit smaller with a slightly reduced range, but claims the same accuracy.
Hell, I forgot to mention it has a C scale on the left side. It is so wide so as to make the mercury spread out and easier to see in the "dark."
Never had a chance to challenge its accuracy, except that a water container full of ice appears to be at exactly 0/32.
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I need thermometers that go to at LEAST 300-400 'C, to dry ice temperatures. Something I can take the temperature of many liquefied gases, that'd survive being stuck into theresa may's sou....who the fuck am I kidding? SOUL? she no more has one of those than I have molten iridium for blood and lasers that shoot out of my eyes :autism:
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As I was saying in another thread, an HP printer.
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Do you need a super fast one with a high capacity output or a very accurate one that can make a photographic quality image?
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I need an MFP. Thinking about getting this one (https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-color-laserjet-pro-mfp-m477fdw). The output quality is high enough, the scanner does double-sided scans, and the drivers are fully Linux-friendly.
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As I was saying in another thread, an HP printer.
The laser is good, don't touch the inkjet. Last one I had blew the fuser before I ever had to buy toner for it though.
Brother is another good one...I think I'm on year 6, but I didn't go with a color this time since I'm short on space.
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Still need the spare thermometers, both mercury filled and non-metallic (for microwave chemistry)
The Hg ones are hard to get sometimes now, because mercury is demonised the world over, by pretty much everybody who doesn't have a personal stake in the mercury business.
Sure, it's toxic, but the bulk metal is of low toxicity, it's only mercury vapour, and soluble salts of Hg which are poisonous, as well as the truly and hideously nastily lethal methyl/dimethylmercury,
A big blob of Hg, vapour given off aside, is inert, more or less, one could stick one's tongue in it and not be poisoned.
The trend is, to use gallium-indium-tin (galinstan) in the metal type now, but while liquid at RT, it freezes solid at just fridge temperatures IIRC, certainly easily. So no use at all if one is measuring temperature of something in a dry ice/acetone bath, or other sub-zero applications where things must be kept VERY cold indeed, so I don't like galinstan ones. Only one I ever had, I bought from a pharmacy because I wanted to snap the end off and take the galinstan out to use it as a substitute of low toxicity for mercury in a chemical process.
I won't be buying another, unless I want to do the same thing. I want +300 degrees 'C to at least -50 or so.
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I'd like to buy 1kg each of potssium or sodium cyanide, as well as the same of sodium azide.
I'll probably go for sodium cyanide, out of the two salts, since the cyanide anion is what I'd be paying for, the other end, as an alkali metal salt at least, is irrelevant in every other respect but that of the price, and Na is usually cheaper than K
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As I was saying in another thread, an HP printer.
The laser is good, don't touch the inkjet. Last one I had blew the fuser before I ever had to buy toner for it though.
Brother is another good one...I think I'm on year 6, but I didn't go with a color this time since I'm short on space.
Agreed on pretty much everything. I won't get a Brother, though, since I don't know if their drivers play well with Linux and I'm done experimenting.
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I'm pretty pissed off.
I ordered 3 liters of 85% formic acid a couple of days ago, ebay, says 'GUARANTEED to arrive on this date, I.e TODAY'
Is my formic acid here? no. Is it fucking bollocks here. I need that damn HCOOH!
Where's my fucking formic, damn the cunts to hell. I'm gonna take them to task on this, see if I can't get some of the money refunded, because I need all I have.
No HCOOH, means no zinc-formic acid/ammonium formate reduction of....well the less said about of what, the better but it means no several hundred pounds stirling an ounce.
Not a happy bunny.
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Just had to make a weird request, a favour off my old man.
Had to beg 50p off him, but wired to my account.
Because I'm just that tiny bit short of being able to afford a 5 liter jug of 99,99% isopropyl alcohol, could afford one liter, or anything from 100ml to a liter, but for just that TINY bit more, I could have five liters. And I'm dead short on isopropanol, only got a few hundred ml of 99% and less than that of iPA that I've dried by storage over, then distillation from quicklime and even less of double-dried, first starting with 99%, then desiccation over quicklime, and finally, stored for several months over 3A molecular sieves, a kind of synthetic zeolite ceramic, basically round clay beads, in the form I have them, with the molecular structure 'tuned' to have pores of specific size, quite a feat really, they can tune them so finely, they can get within a single angstrom in diameter. So fine, they can selectively absorb water from methanol, if the right size is chosen, and anything larger than the pore size of the specification of the molecular sieves chosen, is selectively excluded, anything smaller or equal to, is absorbed.
Slow to work, they take time, and are for use on pre-dried solvents, but they are so thorough, they can abstract the very last tiny traces of H2O. In fact, they are superior for, for example, desiccation of ether or THF, for use in organolithium, organomagnesium reactions like Grignard couplings, mol.sieves take longer, but they will dry such solvents even more thoroughly than a 48 hour reflux over, then distillation from metallic potassium chips!
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Contemplating buying a liter each of perchloroethylene (a chlorinated solvent, used as a dry cleaning solvent), and a liter of cyclohexanone.
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Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
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Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
French toast
ramen from pasta
any and most veggies in buttered rice or pasta
actor's soup: hot water and ketchup with salty crackers
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2 ounces of gold
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Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
There's a great group on FB called Struggle Meals Group. It's for stretching a dollar, finding a deal, and making do with what you have. Great info there.
I need to buy a shelving unit for my office. Turning it into something different than what we originally intended the space to be.
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More bubble wrap.
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Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
French toast
ramen from pasta
any and most veggies in buttered rice or pasta
actor's soup: hot water and ketchup with salty crackers
Thanks for these ideas, QV. I love French toast!
Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
There's a great group on FB called Struggle Meals Group. It's for stretching a dollar, finding a deal, and making do with what you have. Great info there.
Cool. Something worth looking into. Thanks for that. :)
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More bubble wrap.
Something that makes me believe I'm part alien - I have never had a desire or urge to pop bubble wrap.
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Food. We don't get paid until the 8th. We're going to have to make do until then.
Are there no charitable organizations which would help you with food?
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There are some - you just reminded me that I have a list of such organisations that I was given a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks!
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There are some - you just reminded me that I have a list of such organisations that I was given a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks!
They might want to pray for you, but whatever.
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More bubble wrap.
Something that makes me believe I'm part alien - I have never had a desire or urge to pop bubble wrap.
I have the desire and the urge, and I can't. :roar:
I need it for shipping.
Every time I order one of those 100 or 350 ft rolls I stand and look at it like :autism:....
The temptation is real.
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More bubble wrap.
Something that makes me believe I'm part alien - I have never had a desire or urge to pop bubble wrap.
Maybe you need therapy?
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If they insist on praying for her, let them, nobody said Ren has to wait there while they do it.
If there is a god, I doubt he operates it like a supermarket, with ques, waiting in line, with a '10 prayers or less' line and a self-service section which repeatedly breaks down every time it is used, coming up with a message stating 'undetected prayer in the weighing area, please call a service-angel' who, after waiting about half an hour to an hour, if you are lucky, will come and give it a quick whack with a monkey wrench.
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There are some - you just reminded me that I have a list of such organisations that I was given a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks!
They might want to pray for you, but whatever.
:lol1:
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A service and new brakes for my car. Kayleigh said she'll help pay for it.
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Office supplies, basically. And beer. :P
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Sugar
Margarine
Cotton wool balls
Apple cider vinegar
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Margarine..EW, disgusting!. That stuff is an abomination fit for little more than oil lamp fuel.
Can't stand that stuff. Don't much care for those fake butter spreads that are just part butter and the rest vegetable oil, either.
Granted the proper stuff is rock hard when it comes out of the fridge and a nightmare to spread, but one can always cut a thin slice off the block and microwave it for 2-3 seconds. But for taste, it has to be the real thing. Even the smell of margarine makes me want to blow chunks, stuff is just fucking nasty.
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Sugar
Margarine
Cotton wool balls
Apple cider vinegar
Still haven't gotten any of these things. Milk is now on the list too. I'm hoping to get to the shops in the afternoon tomorrow. I'm doing a preliminary small business course in the morning in the city.
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Remember all those years when we were being fed the message that butter was really really bad for us and we should all be eating margarine?
And then it turned out that the opposite was true? That the hydrogenation process made margarine vastly worse than butter.
Of course now we are being told again that good quality margarine doesn't have significant amounts of trans fats any more. Which doesn't erase the fact that dietitians were telling us for years to eat some seriously nasty crap that was causing heart attacks.
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I have it, yes, but in moderation. Certainly not every day. Kayleigh uses butter for cooking most things. Otherwise she uses olive oil.
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I have it, yes, but in moderation. Certainly not every day. Kayleigh uses butter for cooking most things. Otherwise she uses olive oil.
Olive oil is the best oil to use. Best to use the Australian olive oil as well, the imports are often adulterated with cheaper vegetable oils. The only negative with olive oil is that it has a lower smoke point, but that's not a big deal for most types of cooking.
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She uses Cobram Estate olive oil which is made in Victoria. Kayleigh is from Victoria so she likes that aspect.
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Count me as reckless. I love butter, but can't afford it. So margarine it is. Found one brand that I really, really like. Even Martha, our cat, wants a nibble of the toast with Country Crock.
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Count me as reckless. I love butter, but can't afford it. So margarine it is. Found one brand that I really, really like. Even Martha, our cat, wants a nibble of the toast with Country Crock.
We can afford most things. Mainly the £40 bottle of bubbly we can't afford.
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I want to buy a pink noise generator I spotted on eBay. I can't say I need it, though, I already have one.
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^ I like brown noise. My fan is good enough though.
I bought milk and margarine. The rest will have to wait until we go shopping tomorrow.
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^My pink noise is for doing a house curve in my garage cinema.
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I need to buy my nephew a birthday present. He's turned 18. I might buy him a voucher from JB Hi-Fi.