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Filthy? I had a bath last Saturday and I am all clean.

Patnetters:
1. What are you grateful for?
2. What are you looking forward to in 2024?
3. What is your take home lesson now that 2023 is behind us?

3. Girls are fickle; trust them completely at your peril.
2. I'm looking forward to getting healthier and having more fun scuba diving and hiking and going to the beach.
1. I'm grateful for healthcare in Florida, having friends, having enough dough to travel, and having my parent's DNA. I'm also grateful that I am still having a social life.

gabbar says

Patnetters:
1. What are you grateful for?
2. What are you looking forward to in 2024?
3. What is your take home lesson now that 2023 is behind us?

1. Wife, kids and I'm somehow still healthy.

2. Almost nothing. Start with the good. Bahamas in about 14 days. Montana right after. Florida in March. Maybe Palm Spring, CA in April. My personal life will be good but I feel this year will be the shittiest shit show we've ever seen. I have 5 months off that might extend forever, but I'm going to enjoy it. Contemplating taking a solo road trip for a week as well. Technically not supposed to drive, but whatever. And no, not DUI or drug related.

Bad. 2020 riots will be tame I fear in comparison to what's coming this year. Pretty sure my mother in law is having early dementia, and I think the onset is gonna be quick. We're the only family that can manage that as you'll see. My sister in law wants to rob her place of work and I'm pretty sure she's serious about it. My other sister in law basically stole $70k from my mother in law. So yeah between my in laws and the political and world wide shit show coming, I'm not overly optimistic at all about 2024. I'm gonna make sure my inner circle is solid though. Wife, Kids and Nephew. Gonna try to shut it off as much as possible besides probably hanging here.

3. The timing isn't about the typical new year get fit goal. I need to be more active. I'm not joining a gym or anything but the wife runs with a group and I actually did one yesterday. Fun people that I know. I don't like running, but I should have been doing something sooner, like 2023. I got down to my high school weight back in September because of work. I'm up about 30lbs and am pissed about it though still feel good (I'm 6'3" so that's not crazy or looking fat).

I vow to be an even filthier animal this year than I was last year.

gabbar says

1. What are you grateful for?
2. What are you looking forward to in 2024?
3. What is your take home lesson now that 2023 is behind us?

1. Time to work on my own projects, among many other things.
2. More time.
3. The tide is turning in the direction of sanity.

1. I returned from a visit to Asia in September 23. Took the airport train from the international terminal to domestic terminal at Chicago's O'Hare airport. I got a glimpse of the streets of Chicago briefly during the train ride and I realized that I live in a country that is almost a paradise, relatively speaking. Grateful for what I have.
2. Peace of mind. Focusing on things that matter and controllable. My vote doesn't matter, so I am gonna zoom out from shitstorm election scheduled for November 24.
3. Each human is unique with his or her ideology in a unique situational model. This model is a combo of genetic, national, cultural, family, religious, political and financial factors. I gotta learn to identify the ideology and the model and respond to that appropriately since each ideology and model is unique. Develop a more thicker skin. Learn to not give a fuck under appropriate circumstances. And want to learn to fast for 24 hours plus and lift weights and add that to running with my dog.

Gotta learn to chill. Ohio legalized marijuana, the gateway to other drugs!

Patrick says

3. The tide is turning in the direction of sanity.

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/consumers-are-rejecting-the-great

• Growth in gas cars is now far higher than electrics, flipping a trend from 12 months ago.

• COVID vaccine uptake has plummeted. Pfizer's stock is down 50% from 2 years ago. Moderna's is down over 70% in the same time frame.

• Zuckerberg's Threads has failed. There's a lack of enthusiasm for heavily censored social media platforms.

• Decline in interest and market value for alternative meat products like Beyond Meat.

• Even DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) has hit the skids! Wisconsin just dialed back all funding and froze the programs.

1.) Family, friends, and career
2.) Full vindication of Donald Trump including re-election(I’m a hopeless optimist
3.) democrats voters are so brainwashed that they actively vote against their own self interest.

gabbar says

1. I returned from a visit to Asia in September 23. Took the airport train from the international terminal to domestic terminal at Chicago's O'Hare airport. I got a glimpse of the streets of Chicago briefly during the train ride and I realized that I live in a country that is almost a paradise, relatively speaking. Grateful for what I have.

Did you see Changi Airport in Singapore?
gabbar says

2. Peace of mind. Focusing on things that matter and controllable. My vote doesn't matter, so I am gonna zoom out from shitstorm election scheduled for November 24.

Cool, but vote. And I see what you did there. My patience is thinning also.

1. God created everything, gave us free will, gave us knowledge of the fact the every one of us has exercised our free will to rebel/reject our Creator, but knowing all this in advance He paid the penalty for our rebellion Himself. So anyone who truly seeks God and His forgiveness in His Son finds salvation and is passed from spiritual death into everlasting life.

2. The rapture of the church, it may happen today, or it may happen years from now but one thing is certain, every day that passes brings us closer to death and/or the rapture/great tribulation. This is not a prediction but rather a blessed hope. Titus 2:13

3. Evil seducers are waxing worse and worse and most people can’t be bothered to care. It has become popular to call evil good, and good evil. We live in a world where lies are so prevalent and so sacred to those who tell them that they scarcely can tolerate anything or anyone who dares question the narrative (examples Covid, global warming, and billions of years narratives). People refuse to retain the knowledge of God and how He created everything. As a result we are on a path towards great calamity the likes of which the world has never seen. Every imagination is only evil continually, for many people. So the only remedy appears to be to divine judgment wherein the God of creation will grant human desires and reward humanity with the evil it is seeking for a period of 7 years. Then He will put an end to it and set up His throne on earth for 1000 years of relative peace in the millennial kingdom. Those alive today are likely to see these things come to pass from here on earth, or the other side depending on their calling.

AmericanKulak says

Did you see Changi Airport in Singapore?

No. But I googled images of Changi. Dallas airport is nice but Changi is on a different level. Why don't they build something like that here? It takes courage to fund and develop something like that, I reckon.

gabbar says

Took the airport train from the international terminal to domestic terminal at Chicago's O'Hare airport. I got a glimpse of the streets of Chicago briefly during the train ride and I realized that I live in a country that is almost a paradise, relatively speaking. Grateful for what I have.

On paper it's Chicago, but anything you can see generally around O'hare is Rosemont actually. Population wise it's a little bigger than my town. But it has all the hotels and a bunch of entertainment crap. It's been run by the same family since 1956. Mafia and money laundering out the ass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemont,_Illinois

The politics section isn't thorough, but gives you an idea. The village mayor is paid $255k which is flipping insane. It's one of the most corrupt villages in the country and they've managed to stay mostly clean for 3/4ths of a century. My village president is a friend and neighbor. Gets paid per meeting and maybe totals $2k for the year for perspective for a similar sized village.

I can't stand O'hare. If you went to Midway you'd have seen generally what 60-70% of Chicago looks like. O'hare and the area around it is "fake" Chicago. Makes it look nicer than it really is. It's safe and there's plenty to do, but I'm just saying it ain't the real Chicago.

gabbar says

No. But I googled images of Changi. Dallas airport is nice but Changi is on a different level. Why don't they build something like that here? It takes courage to fund and develop something like that, I reckon.

I was there 15 years ago and it was way ahead. Free high speed Wifi everywhere back when it was still relatively rare in the USA, beautiful free lounges with fountains, cushy couches, even the smoking section was 4/5 star hotel/resort.

Super Polite and Efficient Sihk and Gurka security. I contrast that with Detroit, which was my US Layover, where Shaniqua and Shanaynay were cursing, rude, and talking about who needed a whoopin' in the hood.

WookieMan says

On paper it's Chicago, but anything you can see generally around O'hare is Rosemont actually.

You are correct, its Rosemont. I had a friend in Rosemont, used to visit the family. I was most likely looking at a quiet street in Rosement from the airport train. I was comparing this street with the pollution, traffic and chaos in Asia.

Cook County is known for its corruption? Cuyahoga County (where Cleveland, Ohio is) is called the Cook County of the South (South of the Lake).

AmericanKulak says

Cool, but vote. And I see what you did there. My patience is thinning also.

Removing Trump from ballot, both parties obstructing third party candidates....this is a rotten system filled with rotten people. Its not America or American...or maybe it is, since everything is business. But I still do think that American people, outside of the business systems that they work in, are generally good people.

WookieMan says

The politics section isn't thorough, but gives you an idea. The village mayor is paid $255k which is flipping insane. It's one of the most corrupt villages in the country and they've managed to stay mostly clean for 3/4ths of a century. My village president is a friend and neighbor. Gets paid per meeting and maybe totals $2k for the year for perspective for a similar sized village.

I live in a small town of 40,000 people. It seems to me that there is a good old boys theme running in the local city government. They are all connected... the city, county and state elected officials....you have to know someone....that's important. There is nepotism/tribalism in jobs and local elections.

gabbar says

Cook County is known for its corruption? Cuyahoga County (where Cleveland, Ohio is) is called the Cook County, South of the Lake.

Eh, I don't think it's remotely close. When I was doing real estate I knew some people. I didn't have their cell phone number but I knew them. Solis' daughter is a Clinton pawn and he was himself. https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/12/prosecution-rests-racketeering-trial-former-ald-ed-burke-defense-calls-danny-solis-stand Ed Burke was a high blood pressure fuck tard.

I don't think anyone truly realizes that Chicago/IL ran the country for almost 2 decades in our lifetimes. I didn't want to in hindsight, but I personally know Denny Hastert, former House Speaker. Don't know them but then you have Hillary (senator). Obama (Potus). Oh and don't forget Durbin (Senator) the Dem whip. CA comes in a close 2nd, but IL has had the highest leadership positions for decades. Then maybe Texas? or FL?

As an Illinoian I apologize. But we've held the highest positions in government for quite some time. You don't get there without bending the rules. Elected officials bend rules all the time here. Only one semi above board is IDOT (IL department of transportation). Everyone else is bought and paid for in some manner. All of them. Edit: Talking in IL this last graph.