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i tried watching it with the wife when season 1 was airing. i was not horribly impressed, and never made it thru the entire season. maybe i'll give it another shot.

so anyways, back to not being assholes to each other. it looks like jon show was actually sacrificing himself so arya could enter the godswood and kill the night king. in the final scene with the big dramatic music, the night king notices something...either on bran's face or elsewhere, but his expression changes. bran already knows what's coming, and maybe the night king is getting wise to it. and then in the very next clip, jon snow musters up the courage to stand up and scream at the dragon...or rather, to arya. he has become aware that she's making her way in (supposedly he sees her before the scene with the night king approaching bran but it's hard to say where or when) so he stands up and screams "GOOOOOOO! GO GO" while drawing the attention of the dragon, to let arya pass by into the godswood (the dragon was defending the entrance). after that, well...the rest is the rest. it changes the ending quite dramatically, if you ask me. jon finally becomes useful. he displays another kingly quality in sacrificing himself to serve the greater good. it makes a lot more sense than him just giving up and screaming back at the dragon. and, arya hasn't somehow magically ninja'd her way into the godswood. she got a big assist. for all the ridiculousness that happened in this episode, this change makes me feel better about how it ended. i'll have to go back and watch for evidence of arya being pinned down somewhere, which would have set this whole thing up with jon.

i did that out of order. this was supposed to be last photo. desert rose plants are poppin'. 4 of 5 have sprouted now. check out this meaty little feller.

@Clu i bought a bag of crap from woot last week and this was in it. want?

It tells me they couldn't afford to break their contracts.

you know what works just as good as canned air, but doesn't cost you one red cent to use? the can of canned air you stole from your work.

lol, all those angry customer calls certainly had nothing to do with verizon's numerous lawsuits for bill cramming. or for "premium" text services. or for phantom data use. or any of the other dozens of lawsuits / class action suits verizon has paid out over the years. nah, those charges were all valid and those customers are just assholes for not wanting to pay them.

blaming customers for being horrible, when really they're just unhappy with shitty support structure and expensive-as-fuck contracts. that's how we at VERIZON have been selected JD POWER® award winners for customer service, three years running.

so then your prior statement about companies "bend[ing] over backwards to win them year after year" is inaccurate. those hypothetical companies are bending over backwards to keep their customers happy, not to win awards. no matter really, just making an observation.

maybe that should be your first sign. companies are trying to score jd power paperweights instead of focusing on customers first.

wife is on her 5-day tapout, so i'm doing some of those manly husband things today. picked up some plugs (she calls them tampax pearl, whatever) at the store and made supper for the boys. then i made some of her favorite cupcakes, red velvet. and i'm about to top them with some cream cheese frosting. be jelly of my creation.

you tipped your hand too soon. i was about to spill the beans on my grow room.

you gotta plan for this shit. hide a dime somewhere for emergencies. i think i have rations in the safe, actually.

are you having a conversation with your wife via uemb?

it's definitely make hay. farmers make hay while the sun shines because you can't make hay while it's wet from dew or rain. sun has to dry it out before i can be raked/baled. ...um, however, farmers also are well-known to make haste with the making of the hay while the sun shines. back to that whole "can't be wet" part. so if there's rain in the forecast, they make haste to finish making hay before the sun stops shining. we've created a conundrum. these are obviously the worries of lesser men though. you shouldn't worry your well-manicured head about it one bit.

i have to assume they're saving the faces for cersei / red keep infiltration. at least they'd better be, after not touching it in 803. also, arya's the most ninja who ever ninja'd in all of westeros, because she spent a few months getting hit with sticks at the house of bbw. and there's also the part where half of the cast only exists to keep her in the game. i guess that means she's azor ahai as well.

all three of these are on the docket for this evening. triptych makes some damn fine hopstuff.

we had this stuff two saturdays ago. we got like 4-5" and it was gone 24 hours later. also, i'ma have to call my parents and give them hell. they mocked us when we got that snow, and they didn't get a bit of it. joke's on you old nort'ners now, assholes!

she's dead on so far...

well now i'm fully convinced 90% of your posts are troll attempts. no one is this dumb by accident.

oh hell yeah i do. i taught her this thing where she ... nah, i want to hear you describe it first.

hop merchant caterpillars showed up last year (first year i grew hops). assholes. never had any problems with the spotted lanternfly, and i'm not sure they've made it this far west. idc if the moso bamboo is on the invasive species list. where i'm planting it (if it grows) is surrounded by concrete in the center of town, so it won't be spreading anywhere.

i've never tried growing bamboo from seed. not sure if they'll do anything, but i put enough effort into them that they'd better sprout. supposedly they're the big moso bamboo variety, and they grow up to 80 feet in native habitat. that would definitely piss off the neighbors lol.

i bought all my hops from homebrewing.org this year, and i don't know where they source them. it could be from anywhere, but theoretically all suppliers are selling the same strains that have a line back to the same mother plant. they were supposed to ship in early april, but apparently the season got off to a late start so the rhizomes couldn't be cut on time. now it's looking like the first week of may. they only ship rhizomes because the cuttings come from female plants with known characteristics. when you use seeds, you don't know if you're getting male/female, and the strain is guaranteed to have different characteristics than both parents. if you're doing it for decorative purposes only, seeds are definitely cheaper. i'll have to check out those other flowers you mentioned. they sound fun.

Not this time. Bamboo, misc succulents and cacti, agave, some climbing vines, and the desert rose. Maybe some hops, if they ever arrive in the mail.