What have you just bought?

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Gorgeous stuff.
I drank plenty of the stuff whilst I was over there in 2010.
Can you still smoke in bars restaurants etc?
My ex loved that, she could have a fag without being cast out like a leper.
It's really nice TBF and the they seem to have adopted the wider European stance of smoking outdoors, wile amount of you yanks about
 
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More is great. One of my favorites.

Revelation Space is up there too

More?

I might start reading Revalation Space next year, but when it comes to hard Sci Fi, I want to get through lot of The Commonwealth Saga (Peter F Hamilton)

I'm currently making a list of what I want to read for the first three to six months of 2026 and I'll add the first book to Revelation Space


It's fucking amazing.

All of Michael McDowell's work is.

Download both Blackwater and The Elementals and read them both ASAP. Then read his other work.

There's an alternative universe out there somewhere where McDowell lived and rightfully became more popular than Stephen King.

He also wrote both Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas

Blackwater, Books of Blood and King Sorrow are my horror reads of 2026. I like Stephen King but I want to read other horror authors. And yeah I've been hearing lot of good stuff about Blackwater

Do you watch Booktube? I reccomand Mike's Book Reviews, I discovered lot of books through him
 
More?

I might start reading Revalation Space next year, but when it comes to hard Sci Fi, I want to get through lot of The Commonwealth Saga (Peter F Hamilton)

I'm currently making a list of what I want to read for the first three to six months of 2026 and I'll add the first book to Revelation Space




Blackwater, Books of Blood and King Sorrow are my horror reads of 2026. I like Stephen King but I want to read other horror authors. And yeah I've been hearing lot of good stuff about Blackwater

Do you watch Booktube? I reccomand Mike's Book Reviews, I discovered lot of books through him
Mote in God's Eye. My phone autocorrected.
 
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Number 61 out of 175. Got a lovely surprise from work last Friday telling me they are giving me a bonus for doing such a good job. Deided to treat myself with something nice and fancy.
 
I just purchased some vintage (made in Canada) Sorel Caribou (used) and Sorel Crusader (new) boots. My brother bought me a pair of Caribou in 97 on a snow mobiling trip and I still use them every winter for shoveling snow off my sidewalks/driveway. With my weight loss kick this year, I've been doing two 2.5 mile walks every day and wanted something for when the weather gets nasty and without wearing out my trusty pair. I've heard Sorel's quality started to dip in the 2000s when they shifted production out of the US/Canada which is why I hunted down the vintage pairs.
 
I just purchased a houseboat that is docked in Marina Del Rey California. It's a 1980 built boat and is pretty basic, but it opens up the whole area to me, as I have Venice Beach, the canals, the Santa Monica Pier and Santa Monica Beach within walking / biking distance. Can only sleep on the boat 3 out of 7nights, otherwise I have to convert to a live-in lease, but damn is it going to be nice to spend evenings seeing the sun set, and then the sun rise in a marina.
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There's a story behind my most recent purchase, as it is over 30 years in the making.

In the early 90s when I was probably 7-9 years old I went to the local strip mall with my parents, which was pretty bustling back in the day lots of people there and that same strip mall now is a ghost town because of online shopping and such. Different times. But anyway we were going to different stores and I stopped at Kay Bee toys. They used to have these large bins with a bunch of different toys all piled in there. I don't remember if they were clearance bins or just where they put toys they didn't have room to hang on the walls, but they had a bunch of them. And even had some bins outside the store up against the wall in the summer... I guess stores were more trustworthy back then. I was digging through one of the bins and saw a figure of my favorite comic book character. I was like oooh I really want this. But my parents were calling me to go to the next store, so I put it back in the bin toward he bottom and piled a bunch of toys on top of it so it would stay hidden. I asked my parents if I could go back and get it on the way back to the car and they said yeah.

So about 20 minutes or so later after we went into another store, we were headed back toward Kay Bee again and I went in to get the figure and I couldn't find it. Then I was like damn did I misremember what bin it was in? So I dug through all the bins and I could not for the life of me find it. I thought at the time it would've been so unlikely that someone happened to dig through that same bin and buy that same figure during those 20 minutes we were in the other store. My parents gave me like 15 minutes to try and find it and eventually I just gave up and went home. They said next time we go back to Kay Bee, hopefully we'll find it and we'll get it for you. Over the years and months, whenever we went to Toys R Us or Kay Bee or Clover(remember Clover back in the day?) and any other store that had toys, I'd make a b line to the toy section and look for that figure and could never find it. I asked for it for Christmas and my birthday every year for multiple years and every year they told me they couldn't find that figure anywhere. I looked for it at every store I went to until I was like 14 or 15 and eventually gave up. I never saw that figure ever again. That one time where I pulled it out of that bin and held it for a few seconds before putting it in that bin was the only time I ever saw that figure in person. It was my white whale of toys.

Finally was able to get one all these years later. Closure, over 30 years in the making! The figure?

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I used to have that exact figure back in the 90s ! Good times
 
I bought two LG UltraGear scerens for home office, and a dock, which limits the rendering (limited to 1080p@60hz rather than the 1440p@144hz the screen can)
 
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