Turin test

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4 weeks from now (burglars take note!) I'll be flying down to Turin, Italy for a 5-day stay, can't believe it'll be 5 years since I was there - and then it was just a day trip from Milan! So this time, we'll try to really get to know the city. Just this morning, I pre-booked our Torino+Piemonte cards for free and reduced admissions to...
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ferkixlll:
As Mark Twain posted on his notice to the next burglar: "there's a basket of kittens by the fireplace, please take one." ** A speedy recovery so that you can enjoy the trip, and remember that you'll rest once you return to work. **Looking forward to the sights that you can post.
royal:
Bicerin seems magical.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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Or, tempus fugit, as the Latins of old used to say. As one of the more senescent SG members, I have a keen sense of time passing more quickly than it used to - I can't believe that April is just around the corner!

I haven't been all that active on here, just following my faves and trying to keep abreast (hah!) of new Hopefuls...
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royal:
Keep us posted on the up and coming adventures. I'm glad to see I still know a few people around here that still post. xoxox
ferkixlll:
Must have hit the wrong key. Enjoy your travels.

Hail @drave

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Just my luck that the sets from my fave SGs always seem to drop in the middle of the night (here in Germany, that is). So it is yet again that I'll sleep thru the first few hours that the highly anticipated (by me) new set from the queen @drave All her recent sets have been super hot, so I expect no less from "Saturday...
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ferkixlll:
The disadvantage of a 24 hour cycle. Love it when you can.

Getting to 5K

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I never need an excuse to check up on @adriella (I hope she doesn't mind my posting a lovely older image of hers from Instagram), but these days I keep checking if her debut set NO RUSH has topped 5K likes yet... it's getting very close! So, if there's anyone reading this who hasn't dropped a "like" on that wonderful set, hop on over and...
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kaicito:
4,996 ... any moment now
kaicito:
...aaaaand it's done! And on the same day @adriella has another scorcher of a set in member review, too!

American Sonnet

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From the pages of The New Yorker (current issue, Jan. 14), a notable poem by the great Terrance Hayes:

American Sonnet For The New Year

things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly

things got ugly embarrassingly quickly

actually things got ugly unbelievably quickly

honestly things got ugly seemingly infrequently

initially things got ugly ironically usually

awfully carefully things got ugly unsuccessfully

occasionally things got ugly mostly...
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ferkixlll:
Just glanced at it before I turned on the Tablet. An accurate summation.

Pet peeves, vol. 1

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Don't get me started on pet peeves - I get annoyed at so much stuff that I sometimes fear I'm turning into a crotchety old get-off-my-lawn type. Not likely, because I bottle up my peeve rage inside, where it belongs and doesn't litter the streets.

And, speaking of litter (see what I did there?), THAT happens to be a pet peeve of mine. Here in...
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gadget:
The glass bottles probably are a Berlin specialty because our beer drinkers are not as discerning. Hence the cans by the roadside. I found the litter collection to be less aggravating when I did it with a friend, then it became fun.
ferkixlll:
Several years back when my daughter and I had our last adventure. She got a desk sign: I Don't Have Pet Peeves, There's Whole Kennels Of Irritations. *** Picking up the trash people throw out of their car onto my front yard, yeah I hear you.

Waiting for Two-Oh-Nineteen

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Seeing my main girl (I wish) @adriella on the Front Page is a happy way to almost ring out the old year! I'm lucky enough to have two more days off before heading back to the old grindstone for a shortened work week. Fireworks have been on sale here since Friday, and while it's theoretically forbidden to use them before New Year's Eve, sporadic "gunfire"...
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oldernow:
@kaicito I grew  up on Pogo (I'm 70); there was one book he created called the "Jack Acid Society" which lampooned Nixon viciously -- so I'm pretty sure he would have sliced up Trump as well.  Pogo was one of the first openly political (and liberal) cartoons... the first, oddly enough, was "Little Orphan Annie" where she was to represent the "Orphaned" American Communist Party taking down Daddy Warbucks... but the franchise was sold, and she (and what she represented) was bought out by the aforementioned War-Bucks...
kaicito:
@oldernow I'm aware that characters like Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Spiro Agnew or caricatures thereof appeared in the strip. I do like Kelly's drawing style a lot (I believe he worked at the Disney studios for a while)

Catchall end-of-year generic holiday message

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As the days keep on tumbling by, and the wall calendar is getting rapidly thinner, I would like to get an early start wishing y'all a restful and joyful time (whether or not you celebrate any of the seasonal holidays) as we close out the old year and ring in the new one in just a few all-too-short days - which in my case will...
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deesilvs:
Best wishes to you too Kai! I'm feeling another sweltering Xmas in Melbourne 🤪
rare:
I have exactly the same Santa in the attic in my countryside hahah

Johnny Walker

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My new job has me roaming the streets of Berlin something crazy... my step counting app tells me I walked some 85 kilometers last week, and yesterday I hit a daily record with some 28,000 steps amounting to about 20 km. Not only do I get to see the city, but I get fit and drop weight, too, so it's a win-win. I'm happy as...
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bookcouple:
Nice
chroi:
ahh sounds nice and good to keep active :D

Sweater weather is here!

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Yeah, pretty shameless grab for cheap likes ;-) originally seen at freepeopleshowroom on IG

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khachery:
😍😍
eveel:
cute
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