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Post by theevan on Dec 12, 2022 6:37:06 GMT -5
I just had to start the daily.
Another day of sweat...
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Post by howard lee on Dec 12, 2022 7:26:39 GMT -5
My wife and daughter made it home safe late last night, around 12:15. Now the kid won't get up for school. I predicted this.
I have been summoned for jury duty today. Help me.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 12, 2022 7:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Dec 12, 2022 7:54:18 GMT -5
Good day, still dark and chilly. A big ol' snowstorm is headed to the Northland, but sposed to only kiss the Twin Cities.
It's Elderdottir's 33rd birthday -- where does the time go?
Howard, look at the bright side of jury duty: Maybe you'll get a Trump case!
I just edited a very informative piece about red-bellied woodpeckers, and now have picked up a story about local musicians who were Olivia Newton-John's backup band for years. I have an interesting job.
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 12, 2022 8:01:29 GMT -5
Biked today, nice to be out, but the forecast for the coming week is wet and colder--yuk, but that's what december brings (likely no snow dumps till next month).
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Post by Cornflake on Dec 12, 2022 9:02:25 GMT -5
Twelve-twelve-twelve? How do you get the third 12?
Good morning. We had a fair amount of rain during the night by desert standards. The overcast kept the temperature up.
A lot of people here are getting viruses. Hospitals can't keep up. It's not a good time to go to the emergency room.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by majorminor on Dec 12, 2022 9:07:29 GMT -5
Nothing in the mail box this morning but 3 big checks and a Christmas card. Not bad.
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Post by PaulKay on Dec 12, 2022 9:32:27 GMT -5
Both of us got up well before dawn today. Not sure why…rain all morning. Off to the gym later this morning then go visit my mother to look at some financial stuff..
Wordle 541 3/6
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Post by Marty on Dec 12, 2022 9:34:34 GMT -5
Good morning. 30F-36F cloudy. Getting down to my shop asap got work to do and a old customer coming by soon. As Millring might sing. I got coffee. I got oatmeal. English muffin with cream cheese. Couldn't ask for anything more. 98 Days Until Spring
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Post by Marty on Dec 12, 2022 9:37:06 GMT -5
Nothing in the mail box this morning but 3 big checks and a Christmas card. Not bad. Shit! All I get is junkmail, bills and threats.
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Post by Hobson on Dec 12, 2022 9:44:53 GMT -5
I have been losing track of the days lately, but so far I have not lost a decade.
No breakfast this morning, just tea and juice. Because Mr. H and I are going to a holiday buffet lunch with my retirees club. It's raining, which will affect attendance. We may stop at a mall after to do our walk. We must be nuts to try to walk the mall this close to Christmas. Then gotta pick up a prescription and maybe put gas in the Blazer if it's not raining too hard.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 12, 2022 10:22:25 GMT -5
Good morning
Here’s a flick Emily the Criminal Guardian magazine
"Emily the Criminal review – Aubrey Plaza charges taut thriller A gig worker turns to credit card fraud in a tense debut feature with an electrifying central performance
It’s hard to really blame Emily (Aubrey Plaza) for choosing a life of crime. A low-paid service gig brings nothing but stress. A seemingly inescapable student loan is gathering interest by the day. A couple of minor, years-back criminal charges have closed off a world of employment. It’s a familiar predicament that plagues many in America and even though first-time writer-director John Patton Ford might only show it in the broadest of strokes, it’s an effectively infuriating set-up.
When Emily is offered an opportunity for an extra income, she nervously inches down the rabbit hole. It starts off simple. She’s given a cloned credit card and has to buy a TV. She then takes it to her new bosses and gets paid $200. It’s easier than she anticipated and soon she’s doing it on the regular, edging closer to taskmaster Youcef (Theo Rossi) who slowly becomes more than her mentor. But how far is she willing to go?
Emily the Criminal is mostly as straightforward as its title, a punchy, pared-down little thriller about a woman rising in confidence as she falls deeper into a criminal underworld. Contemporary nods to gig economy aside, it’s a tale as old as time, of someone spurned by the system they once followed, that little voice telling them to stop gradually being silenced and while Ford isn’t trying to excuse Emily, he’s keen to try to explain her. From the stark opening scene, as a job interview turns to mulch in front of her, we see not just a barely contained frustration but a simmering fury, and every time there’s another ignominy, no matter how tiny, it chips away, pushing her closer to a world free from the same rules that have kept her trapped.
There are some fantastically charged moments of suspense – Emily trying to buy a car and drive away before the bank is called, a genuinely jolting confrontation with a double-crossing client – and Ford has a knack for making us sweat without relying on an over-egged score or over-stacked stakes. It’s a genre movie with its feet firmly on the ground, small in scale and tight in focus. Plaza, an actor with a history of bringing out her finest work at Sundance (from The Little Hours to Black Bear to a career-best turn in Ingrid Goes West), is incredibly engaging here, a rare dramatic role that demands only the tiniest moments of comedy. The script, which at times can be a little rushed, requires some major leaps for the character but she works hard to make us buy them, never urging us to agree with what she’s doing and how she’s doing it but never causing us to second-guess her. There’s also a crackling chemistry with Rossi even if some of the crime world plotting gets a little thin as the film hurtles toward a finale of no return.
If Ford doesn’t quite stick the landing – a late-stage backstory reveal is pretty limp, the final scene a little underwhelming – the journey there is more than worth it, an on-form Plaza drawing us close even when he briefly loosens his grip. It’s an undeniably striking debut, slick and involving enough to have us curiously excited for whatever he decides to do next."
Enjoy your beautiful day
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Post by drlj on Dec 12, 2022 10:28:18 GMT -5
Ah, forget it. Maybe I’ll post tomorrow.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 12, 2022 11:01:48 GMT -5
Coffee and Wordle. The sum total of todays productive outlet.
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Post by Marty on Dec 12, 2022 11:26:36 GMT -5
Ah, forget it. Maybe I’ll post tomorrow. Don't do us any favors.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Dec 12, 2022 11:53:15 GMT -5
Time to restock the freezer.
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Post by Dan McLaughlin on Dec 12, 2022 11:54:31 GMT -5
Have good ones.
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Post by paleo on Dec 12, 2022 11:54:52 GMT -5
Our last nice day for awhile, nice being 38 degrees and no rain or snow.
I think I'll get out and hike this afternoon to take advantage of the nice weather.
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Post by theevan on Dec 12, 2022 13:20:27 GMT -5
Twelve-twelve-twelve? How do you get the third 12? Good morning. We had a fair amount of rain during the night by desert standards. The overcast kept the temperature up. A lot of people here are getting viruses. Hospitals can't keep up. It's not a good time to go to the emergency room. Enjoy your day. Wordle 541 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Apparently I live in the past
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Post by drlj on Dec 12, 2022 13:52:44 GMT -5
Ah, forget it. Maybe I’ll post tomorrow. Don't do us any favors. Well, I did say maybe. 🤔
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