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For me it's usually books. Thank God the wife avoided trying to buy me a sweater or shirt. So many kids in Kenya wearing my sweaters.
This year the wife gave me a book in state parks in Minnesota. I guess that is kind of for her, too. We spend a couple of weeks per year in Minnesota visiting our son in Minneapolis, and hiking. Lots of parks left to get to.
Agent Zo, by Clare Mulley, which is about a Polish resistance fighter in WW2.
A Quiet Company Of Dangerous Men, by Shannon Monaghan, a book about the British SOE in WW2.
Operation Biting, by Max Hastings, another WW2 book. This one about a mission to capture German radar tech.
The Last Tsar, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Self explanatory. Its about the fall of Nicholas 2
The Siege, by Ben MacIntyre, a favorite author of mine. It's about the six day standoff at the Libyan embassy in London
The Wager, by David Grann. Fiction about a shipwreck and murder in olden days. It's the same author as Killers Of The Flower Moon, so I have high hopes.
I received a sheet of quote stickers from Captain James T. Kirk from the goofy kid.
From the maybe son in law someday a replica of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I love the Great Lakes and the big ships, and, a lot of my days at work involve a catastrophe, so I'll keep it on my desk.

Opening or opened somewhere in North Liberty.

Yell Free Palestine for 20 percent discount.
The last bit might be a joke.

NDSU SDSU fcs semi game
tied at 7-7 in first quarter
former iowa oc and current ndsu hc tim polasek showing off what he learned under brian. good game, better than iu-nd from last night

Out November 25 on Flo. I really liked their docs recently. This one looks like it will be great.

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Ts and Ps this stooge goes down

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This is Dr Death at the age of 25.

Anyone can post a top 10 list but this guy's list seems good enough to start the conversation.

I've recapped his list below the video. Planning to check then all out. Listening to BB King Live at the Regal at the moment. Always been a BB King fan but realize I haven't heard him in several decades.

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Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings

Howlin' Wolf
(the rocking chair album)

Albert King
Born Under a Bad Sign

Blues Breakers John Mayall
w/ Eric Clapton

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Texas Flood

Freddie King Sings

[also Let's Hide Away and Dance for Freddie King's best all-instrumental album]

Muddy Waters
At Newport 1960

Jimi Hendrix
Blues

T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Blues

BB King
Live at the Regal

Leonard Hamilton over unpaid NIL $$$ last season.

Six former Florida State basketball players are suing coach Leonard Hamilton over unpaid NIL cash, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. On3’s Pete Nakos confirmed the report.

“In a landmark filing, six former FSU basketball players are suing Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton over $1.5 million in unpaid NIL cash they say he promised them,” Dellenger wrote on Twitter. “The complaint details a team-wide boycott of a practice last season over the payments.”

MSN

Ouch. That's not a good look...

Women's AP Top 25 (1/6)
1. UCLA (30) (15-0)
2. South Carolina (14-1)
3. Notre Dame (2) (12-2)
4. USC (14-1)
5. Texas (15-1)
6. LSU (17-0)
7. Connecticut (13-2)
8. Maryland (14-0)
9. Ohio State (14-0)
10. Oklahoma (13-2)
11. TCU (15-1)
12. Kansas State (15-1)
13. Georgia Tech (15-0)
14. Duke (12-3)
15. Kentucky (13-1)
16. Tennessee (13-1)
17. West Virginia (12-2)
18. Alabama (15-1)
19. North Carolina (13-3)
20. Michigan State (12-2)
21. North Carolina State (11-3)
22. Utah (12-2)
23. Iowa (12-3)
24. California (14-2)
25. Michigan (10-4)

Others Receiving Votes
Florida State, Vanderbilt, Mississippi, Harvard, Minnesota, Oklahoma State, Washington, Mississippi State

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USA Today Coaches Poll (1/7)
1. UCLA (31) (15-0)
2. South Carolina (14-1)
3. Notre Dame (12-2)
4. LSU (17-0)
5. USC (14-1)
6. Texas (15-1)
7. Maryland (14-0)
8. Connecticut (13-2)
9. Ohio State (14-0)
10. Kansas State (15-1)
11. Oklahoma (13-2)
12. TCU (15-1)
13. Georgia Tech (15-0)
14. Duke (12-3)
15. Tennessee (13-1)
16. Kentucky (13-1)
17. West Virginia (12-2)
18. North Carolina (13-3)
19t. Alabama (15-1)
19t. North Carolina State (11-3)
21. Michigan State (12-2)
22. Utah (12-2)
23. Iowa (12-3)
24. Florida State (13-2)
25. California (14-2)

Others Receiving Votes
Baylor, Mississippi, Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Michigan, St. Joseph's, South Dakota State, Creighton, Harvard, Seton Hall, George Mason, Florida Gulf Coast, Nebraska

I have not yet but am hoping to get some gifts next week. Cash wealth.

You?

To fund the Democratic party campaign debts in bait and switch post. Proceeds to get ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed.

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Community Notes for the win!

No wonder they hate X!

It sure isn’t the Wisconsin dells. Buncha fatties here. One ride you have to weigh between 250-750. My son and I were 210. They tried to team us with two women. They put us over the 750

tBW and I will be traveling over to Japan around the time my son's student teaching assignment wraps up near the end of May. Looking for the best suggestions of things to do and see over there, how to get around, areas/cities to visit, etc.

We will be over there for approximately two weeks so I'm curious if any HBOT folks have some experience traveling over there and any suggestions on being a tourist in Japan. Thanks much!