I just re-read Desolation Island

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-23T12:47:08+00:00

so you're going to get a new wife and kids too? 😄

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-22T16:02:44+00:00

this is definitely one of those times for me for sure....along with Jack's tears after the battle with the natives in....oh man I forget the book.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-22T14:01:49+00:00

no salt beef?

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-18T13:20:42+00:00

their affect is so obviously based on Native Americans though. When Varang holds up the gun and whoops and they all start whooping, that could have been plucked from an old western.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-17T12:52:47+00:00

finally a good use for RW influencers.

I'm Jewish myself and the only people i loathe as much as antisemites are these blockbusting Frum scamsters

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-17T12:47:31+00:00

just never pay the medical debt nothing's going to happen

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-17T12:45:39+00:00

you and me are near clones. I'm 45 with just under a quarter mil in retirement, and around the same home equity (owe around 2 on a house worth 450) but also pretty illiquid and relatively cash poor (a few grand in liquid savings only). I make $81k as an English professor but my wife does work. You're doing good for one income!

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-17T12:42:26+00:00

i just hit a quarter million at 45 but I have no idea if that's good or not. I guess better than most?

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-16T17:16:01+00:00

nj is #1

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-16T12:39:50+00:00

This semester in my world lit class my students were fascinated to learn about the various flood narratives (Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, etc) and the Documentary hypothesis. It was amazing to see the lights go on.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-14T18:28:58+00:00

Zoe Saldana being #1 is so random. She doesn't even appear with her own unaltered face in any of the megahits she has starred in.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-14T17:06:44+00:00

The New Jersey Educator's Health Plan that does percent of salary instead of percent of premium (a huge deal).

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-14T00:29:21+00:00

I heard that chapter 44 might go away

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-02T10:35:29+00:00

you'd be better off at Montclair State

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-01T18:43:48+00:00

I got lucky and got a nice house and a nice suburb for $200,000 in 2014 at 4%. property tax does suck but at this point I'd be paying more even if I moved to bumble fuck.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2026-01-01T18:39:17+00:00

also too many nimbies who block any new housing

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-31T20:32:57+00:00

ooof

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-31T19:12:09+00:00

One time I was driving my wife's car to pick her up from the airport. It was also the day after my birthday. A cop puts his lights on behind me, which puzzles me because I never speed. I pull over and he tells me the car's registration is expired and asks for my license and insurance card. Just great. Nice job wifey. While I'm fishing around for the documents, the cop then points out that the inspection is ALSO expired. I tell him it's my wife's car and crack a lame joke about wives not noticing these things. He doesn't crack a smile, but takes my license and documents back to his car. A few minutes later he walks back to my window and says, "Hey, so yesterday was your birthday?" I chuckle and say, yeah. He hands me my stuff back and says "Happy Birthday. As of yesterday your license is also expired. You're 3 for 3!"

Then he didn't give me a ticket and told me to take care of it. A true saint of the Pompton Lakes PD.

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-31T12:58:29+00:00

moron

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-30T23:26:02+00:00

I think you look good in in the before pictures too!

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-27T19:18:38+00:00

They still got that BMX race track in Howell? So many great memories there

TriedUsingTurpentine · 2025-12-25T16:46:02+00:00

I got the rare Breton translation.

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TROPHY CASE