…and it was okay to run out of food, but not liquor!
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Some visual popped into my heard earlier today, and I realized I could make it as an animation.
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The breakdown of the song Surfin’ Bird begins playing. A gray, rectangular, humanoid figure erratically shivers its limbs hard enough to move itself around a circle on a tile floor. A spotlight shines down from above, restricting what is visible. All else is darkness. The figure halts as the song becomes quite, and falls to the floor. The observer sees this fall repeat a few times before the motion has fully concluded.
The observer is startled, as the song returns again, and a disco ball descends from a ceiling of endless black. Two colossal, bright, golden eyes light up from the distance behind the disco ball, and lean down to watch the observer, who looks to the collapsed figure, only to see its limbs have rearranged themselves into a new, circular, abstract, floating creature. The reborn creature begins to sing along with the song, and chases the observer, who escapes toward a door. The drums erupt moments before the video ends, abruptly ending a chase sequence.
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Ah, you mean swilling the planters with bumbo.
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A funny incident happened with me 
, I had a big fight with my sibling and after 1 hour we started sharing things like best friends.
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Hello Kitty, welcome to Intfiction! Excited to have yet another programmer join our ranks! As for sibling relationships, they are strange like that. I can recall my older brother absolutely brutalizing me (carefully beyond any parental gaze, of course), but if he saw anyone else going after me, he’d come to my aid, only to immediately default into his typical hostility once the incident was over. Never really understood the psychology there.
Anyway, welcome!
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In talking to some American friends, even if you sold the sausages after voting (so couldn’t be suggested that it was influencing votes), the optics might not be good and may be even illegal in some states!
And no, I have never seen a prawn/shrimp offered from the BBQ.
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well, in Italy party feasts (e.g. Festa dell’ Unità, thrown by Communist party, then from the various successors parties) is a staple of Italian political life, and practically all major party thrown their own feast, whose happens in this period of the year. But is a thing disjoint from electoral cycles, what is discussed is more internal matters (e.g. party politics) and striking compromise deals with guests from other parties.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Back in the day, BBQ LTD, a place at Jacksonville Beach offered a BBQ shrimp appetizer. Even the memory is a positive thing.
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Making some nice summer plans 
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People rarely post a neutral thing, but I have one.
The Blue Ridge Mountains have finally thrown a terrible thing at me after days of glorious positives.
I was walking in the woods and I looked down and the ground was covered, COVERED, with little tiny wild red strawberries. My heart leapt up, because those itty-bitty wild strawberries are the best, sweetest thing ever. You can imagine my elation and greed as I surveyed a patch of ground covered with them. Tom immediately ate one and reported that it had no flavor, so we looked it up and it turns out there is such a thing as a false strawberry. How cruel is that? It was like finding treasure that looks so real and discovering that it’s fake. I never dreamed there could be a false strawberry. At least they’re not poisonous.
To balance out our bruised berry karma, though, there are dozens of fruiting wild blackberry bushes around and our neighbors assure us that these are the best blackberries ever. So in a few weeks we’ll be glutted with those. But not today, so to salve my hurt feelings, I’m making chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting today. I’ll put stout beer in the batter. It’s not wild strawberries, but it’s a great cake.
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false red strawberries in a middle of a wood ??? who is the fool whose waste energy, and also money to put an extravagant astroturf in middle of nowhere ???
Best regards from Italy,
a really puzzled dott. Piergiorgio.
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They are real plants. They just aren’t real strawberries. They just look exactly like real strawberries, except they’re flavorless. Apparently, they’re an invasive species with some medicinal properties, so my guess is someone planted them in their garden somewhere near and they spread into the woods. It was SO disappointing.
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I always give my kid more ice, while making up little drinks for the two of us- we only had one icetray in the house for the last while, and it was just enough for one and a half drinks, because of how tall the glasses are. He likes his water chilled, and ever since he was a little baby, he found it amusing to eat cucumber slices out of his glass. So he gets more ice.
Today he was a very sweet kid and decided, “Mummy. Today, I’m helping out with the ice, yeah. I had fun bustin’ the tray up last night. We have TWO. Did you see? There’s another white tray. Yup! Because we only had one before and that wasn’t enough ice!”
This is not something I’ve ever said to him, or pointed out, he just noticed it of his own accord and made sure to put another icecube tray into the shopping cart at some point.
Just like last night, where he was splitting the last of some juice with me, and poured it all over my sleeve on accident- he’d been so proud of being the one to evenly share, though it wasn’t very even, and he decided he would try to split it better- which resulted in one very soggy Sophia. I laughed it off, he helped me clean it up by getting a napkin, and it was all good.
He also loudly announced across the kitchen that “YOUR HAMSTER BOTTLE IS SO BIG. IT HOLDS EIGHTEEN ICE. THAT’S A LOT OF ICE!” which was kind of hilarious. (He calls my waterbottle that because it’s a long cylinder.)
I gave him a little kiss on the cheek and said he was the best baby ever, and he just grinned and said casually, yeah, I know, I’m your best baby ever, and gave me a thumbs up before scurrying off. He’s a sweet kid.
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Kudzu looks like grape vines but no grapes, and they are everywhere.
An invasive species…
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My wife and I closed on a house today for her parents. I’m not sure if this is a good or bad thing. 
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indeed is an actual plant:
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Still absurdly pleased with my graduation ceremony dress. Been bopping along to Chromeo while getting ready. :3
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A nice visit today from next door’s cat (a very affectionate and LOUD example of the species) while his humans are away.
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I ran a successful game of Everyone is John. It’s been a long time since I’ve GMed and I burnt out after that campaign. The game went well and not as gross as some of the videos I’ve watched on Youtube.
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Just had sports day. 1500m race, followed by 800m, followed by long jump, then 100m, then 100m relay, and finally triple jump. Tired and yet super energetic.
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