The Pleasures of Life Thread

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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When your wife walks into the room and asks if you will watch Moneyball with her tonight. Um... yes.

[Caulfield]

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What I just read:

Maj points out that Ontario is way bigger than California
Maj points out that Ontario is bigger that Texas
Maj points out that the Canadian side of Niagara falls is better.


thread jumped after relentlessly defending the raptors in the NBA forum for a week


Maj admits needing vacation...


...where will he go?

The North Pole, obviously.
Which is owned by none other than that great American, Saint Nick
AKA the Great Santa

[Majingir]

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thread jumped after relentlessly defending the raptors in the NBA forum for a week

A week...try 5 years lol. Although I wouldn't have been defending them had they gone into the season with DeRozan and Lowry still there.

Maj admits needing vacation...

...where will he go?

Outside?


lol really though, I am vacation planning. Not surprising but still sucks that most places are all booked up(and the few that aren't are obviously priced 2-3 times their regular rates).


Best idea right now is just getting a place in a nearby town and driving up to wherever it is I want to go. Not like much time will be spent inside anyways, so hotel location will only impact the drive back in the evening/night.


Originally thought of heading out to a new place, but I'm leaning towards a "nostalgia trip". Heading out to places I haven't been to in ages, but remember those places as great vacations in the past.

[pietasterp]

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Canadian side of the falls is way better. Though American side has a real nice park (technically the "must see" part of the falls is on the American side, but you can really only view it from the Canadian side). Spent quite awhile just walking through the American side park.


If anyone ever goes to the Falls, you're not getting parking anywhere (unless you pay alot for it), so just get a hotel and use that parking. Best to take their bus pass. That bus goes everywhere you'll ever need to go around the city.

Canadian side of Niagara is like Canadian Vegas. Not sure why this isn't advertised more, especially in the American Midwest and East coast. I mean, it's not as good as Vegas in my opinion, but for being right there for most of the northeast and upper Midwest? Had I known when I was younger and in the vicinity, I'd have gone a lot more...

lol really though, I am vacation planning. Not surprising but still sucks that most places are all booked up(and the few that aren't are obviously priced 2-3 times their regular rates).


Best idea right now is just getting a place in a nearby town and driving up to wherever it is I want to go. Not like much time will be spent inside anyways, so hotel location will only impact the drive back in the evening/night.


Originally thought of heading out to a new place, but I'm leaning towards a "nostalgia trip". Heading out to places I haven't been to in ages, but remember those places as great vacations in the past.

Northern Michigan is always nice. It's peak season but it's still not so crowded you couldn't get anything. Plus, there are lots of places to go - Traverse City, Mackinac, Drummond Island...

I don't work for the state of Michigan. I just think it's nice up there in the summertime.

[Majingir]

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Canadian side of Niagara is like Canadian Vegas. Not sure why this isn't advertised more, especially in the American Midwest and East coast. I mean, it's not as good as Vegas in my opinion, but for being right there for most of the northeast and upper Midwest? Had I known when I was younger and in the vicinity, I'd have gone a lot more...

Ya, it's a nice place to go. The downtown part of it with all the big attractions too is great to be at in the nighttime, as long as you don't mind lines for almost everything. I went to their celebrity wax museum one time and nobody else was there. So it was like a private viewing lol. Everywhere else though was packed. And unfortunately their restaurant chains are much more expensive. Places that have locations all over cost more in Niagara than even Toronto.


The thing I see advertised the most is the casino. Though I went there and it didn't seem like anything special (I tripled my money, though I didn't play high amounts, so that's likely why I won, taking advantage of the "easy wins to get you hooked on bigger bets". It did pay for lunch for everyone though lol). Those lurkers are annoying though. I was sitting at a machine waiting for someone, and after they came and I went with them, I looked behind and someone went straight for the machine I was sitting at. I didn't even play at the machine lol, so jokes on them.

[countryboy]

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Nothing like after spending the day before doing yard work and landscaping work, to sit on your back deck early in the morning with coffee and listen to nature talk while looking over your hard work and freshly trimmed and landscaped yard.

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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Nothing like after spending the day before doing yard work and landscaping work, to sit on your back deck early in the morning with coffee and listen to nature talk while looking over your hard work and freshly trimmed and landscaped yard.

I just got back from an early morning walk through nature, listening to the same thing. Granted, i am not observing my own hard work, but nice nonetheless.

[Caulfield]

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I know we're still in the dog days of summer, but fall is just around the corner & I love how different fall feels from spring. I dont mean weather wise either. the mind immediately knows that winter and summer are complete oppositesbut spring & fall are at least 'cousins' if not outright 'siblings' to one another. but in some ways spring & fall are as different as night & day, summer & winter. spring has a distinct feel of 'anything is possible', 'rebirth' and all that jazz. but fall, autumn , has that peaceful feel of imminent impending inescapable death. I'm not talking human death, but when the leaves on the trees die, the underbrush starts to wither and you can now see into the forest again. the grass growing slows to a halt, weeds die. decay never felt so good. THAT, is THE pleasure of life.

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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I know we're still in the dog days of summer, but fall is just around the corner & I love how different fall feels from spring. I dont mean weather wise either. the mind immediately knows that winter and summer are complete oppositesbut spring & fall are at least 'cousins' if not outright 'siblings' to one another. but in some ways spring & fall are as different as night & day, summer & winter. spring has a distinct feel of 'anything is possible', 'rebirth' and all that jazz. but fall, autumn , has that peaceful feel of imminent impending inescapable death. I'm not talking human death, but when the leaves on the trees die, the underbrush starts to wither and you can now see into the forest again. the grass growing slows to a halt, weeds die. decay never felt so good. THAT, is THE pleasure of life.

I agree i can't even explain how much i like Fall (what is Autumn?)

I mean i really love all seasons. By the time fall is ending in mid-January (i live in Texas) i am looking forward to cold days of Winter. By the time winter is over in mid-February, i am looking forward to Spring. By the time spring is over in mid-March, im looking forward to summertime activities and keeping cool with iced drinks. But i do love when the weather moves into Fall. I think its the most refreshing change of all seasons.

[pietasterp]

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I hate the winter with a passion, so I therefore hate Fall by association. But I agree with everything Caulfield posted; quite eloquently, I might add (!).

Fall depresses me, because even though it's beautiful in its own way (and tends to have the nicest weather almost no matter where in the country you live), the shortening days, the decaying of life, the impending cold/dark...it's all too depressing for me. Give me spring 100 out of 100 times. I'm the kind of person that has to look forward to something. And I'm the biggest summer fan in the world. Long days, relaxing pace, warm weather, all of it. I romanticize summer all out of perspective to its actual awesome-ness, probably.

Spring is glass half-full to me (with more being poured in). Fall is glass half-empty, leaking fluid out of the bottom...

[Majingir]

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I hate the winter with a passion, so I therefore hate Fall by association. But I agree with everything Caulfield posted; quite eloquently, I might add (!).

Fall depresses me, because even though it's beautiful in its own way (and tends to have the nicest weather almost no matter where in the country you live), the shortening days, the decaying of life, the impending cold/dark...it's all too depressing for me. Give me spring 100 out of 100 times. I'm the kind of person that has to look forward to something. And I'm the biggest summer fan in the world. Long days, relaxing pace, warm weather, all of it. I romanticize summer all out of perspective to its actual awesome-ness, probably.

Spring is glass half-full to me (with more being poured in). Fall is glass half-empty, leaking fluid out of the bottom...

I feel same about fall. Sure, I like that it won't be humid, or freezing, and as a sports fan, October is one of if not the best month of the year,and October kicks off the holidays with Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, new years. However, days getting shorter and colder and knowing the weather will get worse, eventually leading to snow, it's depressing.

January and February specifically I hate. Not much to look forward to then. That's peak winter weather, nowhere to go, not much on tv, and not being able to go outside to even take out garbage without having to get hat, gloves, jacket, boots.

Snow in December is nice(as long as it's not a weekday snowstorm) , once new years hits, it all gets old.

If only we could hibernate for 3 months a year lol. I'd choose new years until Easter.

[DamnYanks2]

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I love fall. Baseball playoffs are starting. Football is in full gear. The crisp cool temperatures.

Just drinking a Angry orchard watching some October baseball or college football is perfect.

But **** summer. I hate summer with a passion. So hurry up fall. I'm over this.

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[pietasterp]

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But **** summer. I hate summer with a passion. So hurry up fall. I'm over this.

I wanna say this is a geography-dependent opinion...

[DamnYanks2]

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I wanna say this is a geography-dependent opinion...

It definitely is southern heat is no joke. The humidity, the bugs, it's just God awful lol cockroaches shouldn't be able to fly.

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[l3ulvl]

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This probably doesn't fit here but I'm thinking it's an opposite post of a gear grinder so why not toss it here


Caught a bizarre break at Meijer bottle return area. It's busy and I'm annoyed, there's a guy with lots of a kids and he's using multiple machines at the same time (his kids using the others) which is not cool.


There's only one available machine and it's right next to the guy, I walk up and he says "um, that machine doesn't seem to be working", I'm mad, thinking he should tell his kids to back away from one of the machines so I can use it.


Instead, one of the little kids says to me "actually we figured it out, if you put the scanner side on the bottom it works". Yeah ok, thanks, kid, whatever. I try it, and it worked, the Dad is amazed, I'm amazed, and I ring up all my cans without problem, all I had to do was make sure the label was down. A 5 year old kid cracked the code lol, it went from a gear grinder to a pleasant time because a freakin' 5 year old tipped me off