If I should ever stumble upon a Time Machine I shall be careful not to set it to go back to England between (inclusive) September 3 & 13 in 1752.
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Huh. TIL
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Or Russia from February 1-13, 1918.
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Or a crap ton of other countries / dates, but I think Russia was pretty close to last and once they switched anyone allied with Russia switched in pretty short order.
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Child #4: āDad, your birthday is important, but itās not really that important.ā
Child #3: āIt is kind of important to me. Itās more important than JFKās birthday.ā
Child #4:" Why is it more important than JFKās birthday?"
Child #3: āWhen is JFKās birthday? No one knows, because we donāt celebrate it.ā
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Got invited to a family dinner with some inlaws in Sao Paulo but they are difficult people (very right-wing religious types).
Too much effort to fly there from Rio before flying back to the UK.
Told the wife to RSVP ānoā.
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I had the mole removed this morning. It was considered cosmetic because I donāt really have any issues with it other than a family history of skin cancer, but it was only $150 and I didnāt even feel it. Itās a little sore now. Itās going to be weird, I donāt remember a time before I had this giant thing.
My son didnāt know I had it (itās on my shoulder blade and I donāt wear clothing very often that would show it), so I showed him last night. āOh my gosh! Thatāsā¦thatās really weird, momā (as he was touching/squishing it). Thanks, I guess that validates my decision to have it removed.
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Kids!!!
Are they checking it for cancer or did you just not like the way it looked?
Hope everything heals well and youāre happy with your decision.
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Theyāll have it biopsied, but Iām not worried about cancer. Iām worried about it becoming cancerous someday, though. I didnāt have a problem with how it looked, but it was positioned such that it was really hard to keep an eye on it, and it sometimes got caught on my clothing, which was annoying.
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Been making, poorly, some Turkish coffee recently.
I just did some googling and Iām not even in the same planet as to how to make it.
Trying another method right now.
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I could google, but what is it and whatās the point of it ?
Mostly itās just tasty. The stuff I bought I think has cardamom in it?
Watching a video while Iām making it, clearly Iām still making it wrong lol. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
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Random thought on coffee break. One of my fishing with nerds students is helping me with getting connected to a vc firm. I think itās about 95 percent probable they wonāt invest because well, itās not like Iām curing cancer here. But the process is looking to be VERY useful in identifying some large holes in my strategy.
Basically I need to have some very good answers as to why my business is āthe oneā. And developing those answers results in identifying things I should be doing right now.
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I assume youāre not making it in boiling sand? Thatās all Iāve ever seen about Turkish coffee. But I assume it isnāt the only way to make it, perhaps just the most visually pleasing for TikTok.
Lol no. Starting with cold water then boiling it off and on a few times.
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I created a term related to a life insurance strategy. Started using it. Now Iām seeing my competitors use it in social media.
Lawyer said about a 50% chance I could get a successful trademark.
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I spoke to a 28yo today who had a hotmail account. I asked them if it was their grandmotherās email address lol.
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And I took that personally, lol.
We used to have a PeoplePC account . . .