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Wawa is pretty much everywhere now with gas station/sub shops in the east from New Jersey to Florida. It's traditional rival Scheetz is more limited. There are even downtown Wawas in DC without gas.. Their subs were their big draw. But in urban settings like DC their prices and quality are just so-so at best. Definitely better sub-chains.

so it's cheaper to fly to FLL and indulge there with dozens and dozens of hot guys to choose from.

i think most of our advice is that if you can, do! few of us ever look back or regret retiring. 80% take-home pension works out to about the same as working expenses etc with 100%. ((even if the pension you have is lower, taking it and getting another job may mean more money.) i was lucky at 55 to be under the old federal CRS and retired with 80% on my 30th year anniversary day. ( i re-couped my total contributions in 1 1/2 years). At 55 half my income was coming from my salary for working 50+ hours a week and half was coming from a 2-unit "luxury building i own that requires about 2 hours per week. i was able to add some minor political consulting after leaving gov't so my retirement was more $ than working (until i got sick of the political). in short, if you have a pension or even just SSA, compare your take-home for each and if it's close to 80%, go. it's a feeling like getting out of handcuffs. (not that being in handcuffs is a bad thing for those so inclined lol).

do not expect to actually see much rent. be aware if there's any legal controversy between the parties you will be dragged in as renting the facility and possibly subject to civil and/or criminal liability. many of the big money cities, like DC, have made Airbnb places subject to most hotel registration and inspection and tax withholding rules.

Well, we are coming into the TikTok age where most creative stuff is there and i have to admit it does look better on a phone screen. When will TikTock qualify for Oscar shorts?

If @stevenkesslar gets on don't let him set the length of posts.

the British BAFTA awards 2 weeks earlier were almost identical to the Oscars. next year I really won't bother with the Oscars. LINK

Nope. HBO Max subscription is included for free with HBO and it does the same Sunday night episode garbage. What to me is unbelievable about the kid assigned by the county to help on the murder is that he acts and sounds like someone just out of junior college. There has to be some sort of plot twist coming with him because he's being played too goody-2-shoes now. And I've never heard of a big murder where help didn't come from a state. All the craziness in the town is absolutely believable common people craziness. The kid's not believable.

just so they watch it 2" from their eyes to get the widescreen. that's what VR sets are good for. he did get the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors' Guild Best Actor award. the only thing about the show was that other than Ruffalo, the other actors were average (of course he played two of the parts lol)

a Russian not of the NYC tribe? maybe is, in spite of the LA/Miami thing. all good-lookers; all basic.

I was into the summary interview for the first show before I remembered that she is British. She's got not only that central PA accent down but the disheveledness and the attitude also. I wonder if a big murder really only gets a county detective assigned to help her though. And that guy has got to turn out better than he appears now. Totally believable show easy to immerse into. ps- I hate the way HBO does one-episode-a-week instead of letting people binge from the start.

I saw Nomadland a week after seeing Bliss, so Bliss may have influenced my view of people who choose homelessness when there are beautiful alternatives they reject. Not many homeless people are so lucky to have wonderful alternatives and to see them refuse one is sad. I doubt if many of these Amazon camp nomads are really doing it long-term out of choice or it wouldn't have started with the Great Recession. But everyone's life is their own to live or waste as they want.

I have nothing but the worst wishes for MF and am glad RentMasseur has passed them. (They claim they are so conservative because they are US-based.) They have kicked Hispanic friends off for not having proof they are US citizens (US-only ID). They demand this. It is not necessary legally.

He posted a strange IG that was later removed. . First photo was him on a jet ski saying he loved the life in Miami, second in some new clothes saying he was going home yesterday, third him giving a middle finger, I guess to a question. Then he said something about how when you're in love that's all that matters. IDK Yes, I saw he charges $25 to get each sex scene on his free OF. Many of these guys have a quarter million followers. I think Viggo is the Tom Selak superstar of 2021 except Viggo, or someone, knows how to promote big time.

Viggo left to go back to Czech today. That was fast.

There was Another Round Hard to depress Danes if there's beer available. I'm just thankful there were no movies with masks in them.

He hasn't been in Chicago for a couple weeks and he's back in Ft. Lauderdale today. He was here visiting 2 weeks for our birthdays and he was here 2 months for Christmas but I don't discuss him when he's here. I've known him 3 years and he stays here a lot. The photos are 1-3 yrs old and he still looks the same. Super nice sweet guy. I'd rather have him handling his working announcements. His location will change to FTL in a day or two. He may work Boardwalk or Johnsons, he has before.

I liked Davis and that "movie" best this past year I think (although I liked The Crown and Queen's Gambit slightly more and I haven't seen Minari yet). Nomadland was great but more cinema veritie/documentary than drama. Amazing that Viola Davis can show 200 emotions/expressions in a movie and Frances McDomand can show the same stoic expression for two hours she's shown in every movie since Fargo, and guess who wins. If Minari is as good as Parasites and Shoplifters were, I might have a new favorite. The Sound of Metal was also great and a promising new actor.The Father was probably Anthony Hopkins last movie and I think living people appreciate such an honor more than dead people. (I've never been dead yet so can't confirm). I thought he was even better in Westworld so I'm glad he got his due. The Oscars did make a mess at the end and Olivia Colman wasn't allowed to give her planned acceptance speech for Hopkins. The show ended up having more drama than many of the movies. It's 2021 and if I can't watch a piece in wide-screen 4K HDR Dolby I'm not as interested. I don't know how some people handle either watching on their phone or watching in low-res in a public theater. But the academy requires a show to be shown in a public theater for 7 days to qualify. hmm The Crown and Queen's Gambit could have done that with a couple segments but I suspect Netflix wanted all it's eggs in one basket. I was amazed (again) that Another Round will have an "American remake". Like Downhill/Force Majeure, Hollywood thinks Danish or Austrian actors mostly speaking English or subtitled is too foreign for American audiences? Hollywood has a very low opinion of viewers and their remakes are always awful. The huge disappointment I had this year was that Mark Ruffalo's twins performance in This Much I Know is True couldn't qualify for the Oscars.

For the pandemic (the duration i thought) i ordered in BelAmi twins (best friends) for 6 months and went out and got a new big-screen OLED by LG..... 4K HDR on an OLED is far better than anything any movie theater offers. Movie theaters are a huge step down in quality. I suspect I'm not the only one who has gotten so spoiled on today's home screens that low-res movie screens don't appeal anymore. Anyway that was my pandemic plan. Over a year and 20 pounds later I've seen all the really good stuff and ready to get outside more and travel more. But I'll still not prefer a low-res movie theater to a good 4K HDR OLED. (With Czech twins).

The whole distinction between "TV" and "Movies" is so ridiculous now. 1999 ish. People binge 8 hours of The Crown or Queen's Gambit at a time commercial-free, not tuning in CBS Sunday nights for half-hour commercial-filled episodes like 1955. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom or Octopus Teacher on Netflix are no more "movies" because they're 2-hour shows released at once. The acting and production quality has nothing to do with the arbitrary outdated release format. Is a 3-hour piece released at once on Netflix a "movie" but a piece released as 3 1-hour episodes at once on Netflix "TV"? Hollywood's getting less and less relevant. And thanks to the pandemic, most people have seen almost everything nominated so who cares about the Oscar's recommendations.

Today there's some stories about how under admitted political pressure from the US, Brazil is not allowing the Sputnik vaccine. The EU also has been threatening members to not approve the Sputnik. All out of admitted New Cold War hate for Russia, nothing to do with science. (Hungary said F-U to the EU again and used Sputnik and achieved enough vaccinations in doing so (55%) to now fully reopen. All the other EU countries are stuck at 25%. My friend's family in Argentina is fully vaccinated with Sputnik. Russia has given India and Africa permission to use the Sputnik patent for free in making their own vaccines. Completed studies have shown the Sputnik 97% effective. Playing Cold War politics is clearly more important than science and the many additional lives lost. Back in March: LINK The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has admitted that it used "diplomatic relations" to force Brazil to reject authorization of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V amid rising death toll. The HHS said in its annual report that its US officials scrambled to "mitigate Russia’s efforts" to boost its "influence" in the region, which would “undermine US’ safety and security." and yesterday Brazil Health Regulator Rejects Russia's Sputnik Vaccine Human lives should be more important than Cold War politics (or corporate patent profits) in a world pandemic, but the US and EU seem to think science is not as important as politics.

Eugenics is science (heavily influenced by politics, but still science).

The spin is that ratings tanked because the theaters were closed. But with us locked at home and all the nominated movies free (at least on the streamers almost everyone has) I don't understand that. Maybe it means people used to watch the Oscars to see what films they want to go to theaters to see, but now everyone's seen everything before the awards.

The Onion seems to have more veracity than Business Insider. Whoever wrote this headline didn't read the article. It's the opposite of the headline. Paul Tambyah, a professor of medicine at the National University of Singapore, said the good news is that there is no concrete evidence that the triple mutation is deadlier or more transmissible. "Singapore researchers have done some work trying to link the mutations with clinical outcomes and transmissibility and have found no link between more severity or more transmissibility with newer mutants compared with the original lineages of SARS-CoV2," Tambyah said. Other scientists studying COVID have detected quadruple- and quintuple-mutants in samples as well, he said, without it necessarily affecting how well vaccines work.

I served my 30-years sentence tied to a federal desk and left 1st day eligible at 55 for greener and pleasanter pastures. I'm under the old Sugar Daddy federal CRS retirement system where I recouped my contributions in under 2 years. Never bothered to jump through hoops to qualify for SSA even. Those were the retirement systems that made America great.