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I definitely care and i think of you often. i'm glad you're still around., take care and best wishes ❤️

RIP Dave you will not be forgotten

ugh. such a great story. i'll be in the old folks' home with dementia, still laughing about this. cheers, non-hetero, wherever you are

fauci has not 'flopped and said that it might be man made.' NO. scientists don't have the capaibility to engineer viruses for release. plus we've seen plenty of natural, zoonotic coronaviruses before. fauci is concerned that there is a small chance someone at the Wuhan Institute of Virology may have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and then gotten sick and gotten other people sick. Because we just found out for the first time that a few scientists that work at that Institute got sick in Nov 2019. It still **does not mean** that they released the virus. even accidentally. And there is zero evidence to suggest that anything about this virus is engineered. plenty of people, myself included, have seen the viral genome - it's publicly available of course. get vaccinated, people. i got the vaccine in january as soon as i could. it'a the repsonsible thing to do as a member of a society. and for my entire life, proof of vaccination had been required for all kinds of shit. i've had to turn it over - including titers or getting shots if my blood couldn't prove it - to work in research labs, and attend universities. vaccines have also been a routine part of international travel to some places for ages. it's kinda pathetic what this shit revealed about people. they're worse then even i imagined.

i thought i'd never ever everrrr post on this site again but yeah. this is important. and i'll admit that for awhile i was just one of those jerks that was looking for updates about your condition, rage, after my hubs told me. i'm glad to hear you're hanging in there. i wish you the best and we're pulling for you. my mom was pretty sick my entire life with a form of cancer that's also not exactly a cancer - it's not treated with chemo, basically. but it did make her really sick and in a lot of pain and also inspired me to go into biomedical research, bringing me to my other point -- if people have questions about the biology of cancer/what it is and why it's so hard to cure -- ask away also i read dark-knights post. that sounds like the total annihilation of the gut and its microbiome, and from what we're learning about that, wow . how awful. i'm not surprised and glad to hear a strict diet is helping. good luck to everyone out there struggling with health issues.

you can't go home again

that's fucked

co sign

here's Cerro Fitz Roy. the photo above is the start of the hike that leads here Patagonia, Argentina

thanks hua. and. oh ok. thanks raven i clicked on the image icon in the composition box and it asked for the image url. i didn't even try drag and drop. good to know. i can add more photos when i'm home. so we didn't go to patagonia for snowboarding or anything like that just hiking, which was still incredible also did a long road trip. i'd love to go back one day. mainly we went because i knew how awesome it would be. i've dreamed of going for ages tried to plan a trip about 4 years ago with an old oontz member, ubejinxed, actually. didn't work out though. so i'd seen a fucking unbeatable sale last year and grabbed tickets. so worth it. take a long time to fly down there.

meh. here's one flick. not the most spectacular. but there ya go. image hosting is a pain.

hey there! just back from patagonia, where i had no trouble watching netflix in both chile and argentina didn't you hear? netflix is now available in tons of countries. January 6, 2016 -- Netflix launched its service globally, simultaneously bringing its Internet TV network to more than 130 new countries around the world. also, yeah, we have the VPN too. i use privateinternetaccess. didn't work in Chnia but otherwise, it's been fine. and demonoid and piratebay are still up. https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-is-now-available-around-the-world patagonia, btw, was fucking incredible.

word. i know exactly what you mean. having travelled so extensively, i'm hoping we are prepared well for the shift in culture. mainly though, i just wanna experience life in another place. it's still gonna be awhile bc it may coincide with my 'retirement' from molecular biology, and i wanna stack a lotta cash before then i would think i'd miss tv big time. overseas, tv can be so so much different. but with globalization and netflix, it isn't too hard to get a fix nowadays.

we're also looking at a five or so year plan but we plan to leave the US for awhile. atm i am pretty torn about whether to buy some land out west

i think i got a calendar from beardz. like ten years ago. time is a funny thing and damn. that knife site is taking me back.. to before the internet existed

Kalispell was a cool lil town. i changed a headlight bulb there. travelled through Montana going to Glacier National Park a few years back i love the idea of being around less people. especially as the future approaches 40 acres. hell fuckin yea. maybe one day .... having been to all the states, Idaho might've been the biggest surprise. it's gorgeous. Montana absolutely lives up to the name 'big sky country'

oh mang i LOVED montana for the brief time i visited what a beautiful place. the american west is so gorgeous. good luck and bon voyage

is zebradrips the one that got pregnant? i crocheted booties for someone who straight disappeared. i think it was her.

lol

holy shit. welcome

damn DAO pops back in now lessee some Tesseract up in heeya

word, one of those that game the system. i have not tried them like i said, when i get the good fare, i usually try to book directly with the airline, and MOST of the time, it's worked out even this last year, when i booked patagonia tix thru travelocity bc of an insane sale (7 hundo, round trip with a 3 day layover in Santiago) priceline ended up 'exchanging' that fare (or some shit) such that i ended up with a reservation directly through LAN and United. priceline isn't even involved in it anymore. i also am usually flying internationally. i don't like to play games on those flights. that said, i'll give skiplagged a look see... i am so hemmed up with travel plans ATM though, i can't plan anymore trips until some time goes by.

all good cali. i'm not worried about thread derails with such limited traffic acapulco is super dangerous and very dicey right now drugs, cartel/gang wars.. i've heard some bad things and i'm not sure the risks are worth the good deals since there are many places suffering from drops in tourism that are so much safer. buying direct with the airline gives you so much more power. when i see the deal, i go right to the airline website the other thing is that if so and so is offering a tickets hundos cheaper than the airline itself, something is wrong. the sucky thing about places that travel hack (and priceline will do this) is that you might travel in multiple carriers and in that case, if there is a delay on any leg of a mutli-leg flight, you may be screwed whereas the same airline will help you move your way without tons of extra money i know this can all seem like too much trouble, but when you travel as much as i do, there are bound to be problems at some point and it's worth trying to minimize the damage. as for travel agents, if someone wants me to put together a trip for them, i will beat any travel agent's commission. :haha:

We hated Thailand. I'm not saying don't go, but go places other than bangkok. i've heard chiang mai is where it's at try Cambodia. also we love Turkey. we've been several times but only to istanbul i'd love to see cappadocia. so you should definitely go

i don't think you missed much, OT ;p