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bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Same mall complex, has a Raiders store. Wife liked a specific jacket they didn't have the size size she wanted. Wife asked the girl if she could order it...girl got an attitude and said my wife would have to go on their website. 3 minutes later I'd ordered it on Amazon and we left. Fuckem
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Ha! Yep! These bugger do not get it. Amazon is just blowing most of these box stores away. Walmart is catching on though. You can order from them online, better than most stores and pick it up locally at the pickup check out. Pay no shipping.
 
MarAzul said:
No. Going in the shipyard this week for bottom paint. Then work up the coast a couple hundred miles and head out to sea to get around the south winds of the NE pacific high. Hope to be back in the Columbia before the end of May.
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When is that race thing to Victoria you talked about years ago?
 
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MarAzul said:
Ha! Yep! These bugger do not get it. Amazon is just blowing most of these box stores away. Walmart is catching on though. You can order from them online, better than most stores and pick it up locally at the pickup check out. Pay no shipping.
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If they want to compete they HAVE to stock things. I'll buy things and pay more if I can get it right away. If not I'm ordering from the cheapest place I can find.
 
MarAzul said:
Are you a Raiders Fan?
Do you remember the name of a Raider Wide receiver, Hernandez? Had one of those catchy names like Marvelous Marvin Hernandez or something?
Back in the 80s.
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My wife is. I don't have a team but was happy for the Seahawks when they won.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
When is that race thing to Victoria you talked about years ago?
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That usually runs in May. I decided not to do those because I do not like the new requirements they added.
One of which is $500K liability insurance which is rather costly compared to the 300 I normally carry. Really stupid too since I would be out side the coverage area of the insurance most of the time. And their silly race rules do not apply outside the colregs line. The bottom line is that is what they require in Portland for Racers, so they think is should be kept for the ocean race too. But it is not the same and they don't want to hear it. The killer was training crew in classes to qualify for the race. A bunch of fees in play here. End of that story.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
My wife is. I don't have a team but was happy for the Seahawks when they won.
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I was trying yesterday to think of his name. It was his dad that work at the lab where I did, that put me on to hiring a black kid. A marine that got his CS degree from UC Berkley. Years ago now. Oh man, he was a proud papa when his kid got on with the Raiders.
 
MarAzul said:
That usually runs in May. I decided not to do those because I do not like the new requirements they added.
One of which is $500K liability insurance which is rather costly compared to the 300 I normally carry. Really stupid too since I would be out side the coverage area of the insurance most of the time. And their silly race rules do not apply outside the colregs line. The bottom line is that is what they require in Portland for Racers, so they think is should be kept for the ocean race too. But it is not the same and they don't want to hear it. The killer was training crew in classes to qualify for the race. A bunch of fees in play here. End of that story.
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That can't stop you from stalking them.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
When is that race thing to Victoria you talked about years ago?
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MarAzul said:
That usually runs in May. I decided not to do those because I do not like the new requirements they added.
One of which is $500K liability insurance which is rather costly compared to the 300 I normally carry. Really stupid too since I would be out side the coverage area of the insurance most of the time. And their silly race rules do not apply outside the colregs line. The bottom line is that is what they require in Portland for Racers, so they think is should be kept for the ocean race too. But it is not the same and they don't want to hear it. The killer was training crew in classes to qualify for the race. A bunch of fees in play here. End of that story.
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Oh, I already won the damn thing once anyway, 20 years ago this year. That will do.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
That can't stop you from stalking them.
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Yes, my brother and I have kicked that idea around. I will renew the thought for 2019. I want the boat in Puget sound that summer anyway.
May would be a fine time to take her up there.
 
MarAzul said:
You are right of course, and I do always have a book in progress. But since I had both lenses replaced, and now must wear reading classes to read,
I can't seem to take it more that about a hour a day. Then need to wash eyes and well hell... You get the picture.

This is not really about the world being geared to me, but about who is being targeted and how. I has not been this way all that long.
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audio books....check em out...library has them for free
 
riverman said:
audio books....check em out...library has them for free
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Ha! I am already set up to do those. My Wife use both mine and her's to keep her supplied. I guess it is the on order list restriction or something.
Both mine and her's are always full of her's
 
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I haven't watched TV for a couple of decades other than the news on occasion if something is happening that I'm concerned with....as far as TV not being white enough.....for most of my childhood there were only a couple of black actors on prime time TV....Cosby in I Spy and Sammy Davis junior once in awhile...Hispanics were pretty much Jose Jimenez and Ricky Ricardo.....what they show on TV now probably targets an audience that in many cases doesn't have expendable income for cable TV.......time they are a changin'.......the only difference I could tell these days is TV is just not dominated by old white guys..
 
MarAzul said:
Ha! I am already set up to do those. My Wife use both mine and her to keep her supplied. I guess it is the on order list restriction or something.
Both mine and her's are always full of her's
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My mother was an avid reader all her life until about a year before she passed.....took me many tries to get her into audio books...once she finally tried them she loved them.
 
riverman said:
the only difference I could tell these days is TV is just not dominated by old white guys..
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Well it doesn't much matter. Even when it was dominated by white guys. I was mussing over an old run of 77 Sunset Stripe yesterday. Gawd it was awful!

I suppose I would like the Blazers on TV and the News on the radio and I would be please. I get neither.
 
MarAzul said:
Well it doesn't much matter. Even when it was dominated by white guys. I was mussing over an old run of 77 Sunset Stripe yesterday. Gawd it was awful!

I suppose I would like the Blazers on TV and the News on the radio and I would be please. I get neither.
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I get both the news and the Blazers on radio....I actually like the radio a lot...allows me to do things beside watch a screen while the games on....on youtube you can watch the game for free a day or so after they play...I usually just watch the highlights on the internet...guess I grew up listening to sports on a tiny transistor radio while out in the fields on a tractor....still prefer it.....back then it was pretty much just baseball and boxing
 
riverman said:
I get both the news and the Blazers on radio....I actually like the radio a lot...allows me to do things beside watch a screen while the games on....on youtube you can watch the game for free a day or so after they play...I usually just watch the highlights on the internet...guess I grew up listening to sports on a tiny transistor radio while out in the fields on a tractor....still prefer it.....back then it was pretty much just baseball and boxing
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Oh, I hear you. Back in the early days, if I was not in my seat, I was listening to Schonely. But I can not get that here nor in Bandon anymore either.
I could on KEX and then KXL when they use 50k watts. No more. League pass worked for some years but that has been awhile, then they began blocking me from the Blazers.
 
riverman said:
I haven't watched TV for a couple of decades other than the news on occasion if something is happening that I'm concerned with....as far as TV not being white enough.....for most of my childhood there were only a couple of black actors on prime time TV....Cosby in I Spy and Sammy Davis junior once in awhile...Hispanics were pretty much Jose Jimenez and Ricky Ricardo.....what they show on TV now probably targets an audience that in many cases doesn't have expendable income for cable TV.......time they are a changin'.......the only difference I could tell these days is TV is just not dominated by old white guys..
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I don't watch much actual TV. Watch Netflix.

Did try watching Empire when it came out. Stars Terrance Howard and Taraji P Henson. Two fabulous black actors. I was stoked to see a major tv show on a major network geared to black Americans. Watched a few episodes and realized it was a soap opera. So disappointed.
 
CupWizier said:
Hopefully Trump will soon be available to resurrect the Apprentice, lol.
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His dream job is Bill O'Reilly's old job on Fox......it's what he lives for...talking at people on TV and not being required to listen to anybody ever again
 
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