The Workermonkey
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Hitched!
And feel GRRREEEeat!
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"I cant wait to get this dress off you!"
"A Toast," to my first plan.
P.S. I dont have any idea how these damn pictures work, ive loaded them about 4 times now, and i dont even want to talk about the last time... i had diagrams and fact sheets and such, gave up after some hours of effort, anyway....
Episode two will follow tomorrow maybe.... some of honeymoon.
PEACE
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Congratulations!!!
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, at Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:19:00 PM
PS - That feeling won't last. Whiskey helps.
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What?! Jesus man, I didn't even know you had a girlfriend. Congratulations!
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Brancibeer, at Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:43:00 PM
Ya, over the summer when things were set, i worked on a big post with pictures and everything, but the blog just seemed to eat it, and i gave up on the post.
But those i see regularly have known about it since then.
I might add i didnt know about your girlfriend... until you broke up.By
Congratulations!! very happy For you, i just hope i get to meet her. You have all my blessings as usual.
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Post a CommentTuesday, January 29, 2008
Santana to the Mets
fuck yeah! this makes me happy. this keeps him away from the Red Sox and keeps the awesome young talent in the yanks system. the only loser here is the twins who could have had a much better deal from the red sox or yankees. crisp-lester-lowry and hughes-melky-bentecort(spelling?) were both better offers then what the mets ultimately gave up. i'm not sold on humber and gomez will most likely be a flash in the pan like scott posednik. the other guys are window dressing. plus this keeps santana in the NL where he can win the cy young for the rest of his life. the mets will have to start the collapse around the all star break this year to miss the playoffs now.
i know spring training hasn't started yet, but this is the time of year i really start to get excited about baseball. this off week between the playoffs and the superbowl usually makes me forget football is even on. pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks and position players usually 2 weeks later.
while i'm talking baseball, i'd like to set the record straight on PED's (Performance Enhancing Drugs, IE: steroids). i don't care. at all. every single player can be juiced out of his mind every day if they want. i don't care. if a player shoots himself full of horse testosterone and gains 150 lbs of muscle over night, it doesn't help them play baseball. they can't run, move, lost all flexibility, can't hit anything but a home run and their careers are much shorter then they should be. the people who smartly use steroids only use them to recover faster from injuries, not get superhuman strong like most people think. hitting home runs is much more about hand eye coordination then muscle. your average MLB pitcher throws a mid-90's fastball, all you have to do is make contact with it and it'll go over the fence. it has nothing to do with muscle. and what's the difference between Winstrol and Red Bull? or a gallon of coffee before the game? i'm guessing no one has noticed that since MLB got harsher on their testing policy, the number of players appling for waivers for ADD medication has skyrocketed. can you really tell me a few hits of adderall wouldn't help you out before a game? Anyone who tells you that old records have more meaning is full of shit. you think those guys weren't on something? amphetamines used to be called "greenies" around a clubhouse and were readily available by the handful from the trainer. ricky henderson and darrle strawberry were coked out of thier minds most the time. i'll skip the hypocrisy of the NFL's track record with steroids for sake of time and space.
want a good example? think T-O a few years ago when he broke his ankle a few weeks before the eagles went to the superbowl. the normal recovery time for a broken ankle is like 6-8 weeks, he was playing in a superbowl after 3 (maybe 4, i can't remember exactly but it was short). andy pettit came back from shoulder surgery 4 months sooner because he took some drugs. they didn't help him pitch, just got him back on the field sooner. i want my teams players on the field, i don't want to see them hurt. i don't want to spend anymore time injured then i have to either. shoot me full of whatever you got doc, i want to be healthy.
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i agree with you a lot here. though it would've been nice for the red sox to pick up santana, the mets getting him is better than the yankees. i'm also starting to get excited about baseball this time of year (and golf too).
i also agree with most of what you're saying about the steriods. two points especially. first, there have always been "performance enhancers" in baseball (and all sports). so no records are really safe, or asterisk free if you prefer. and baseball is definitely more about hand-eye coordination than strength. 99% of major leaguers have the power to hit a homerun (that said, i still don't like bonds' record, but mainly because i think he's an asshole). it's a combination of coordination and the speed at which the pitcher throws the ball (and if you like, the juiced-ball era). and while steroids might make players stronger, they can also decrease flexibility. testing is so random that there will never be an even application of the standards in the league anyway. and i definitely want my players back on the field more quickly after an injury. the yankees? well, not so much.By
aaahhh but pettit was pitching for houston then
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Post a CommentFriday, January 25, 2008
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ehh, the jpg came out crappy, but if you click on the pic you can read it
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Yes indeed. Perhaps study abroad should be mandatory, well if anyone could afford college anymore. Tuition at PSU is twice what it was when I was a freshman this year.
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i love coffeeland!
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Where's Africa?!
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Hey elitist asshole:
Go fuck yourself.
The rest of us can't study a broad like you could.
We had to work, daddy won't cover us like he did for you.
Go suck a dick.By
study a broad, or study abroad? it doesn't take money to study a broad, just a set of functioning eyes.
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i think what they are referring to is that we all go into debit to achieve higher education. and yes i am an elitist asshole. i'm reminded of that everytime i leave the oh so awesome northeast. my recent trips to SC may not be the best measure of america, but when us silly northerners ask for something as little and simple as a little work from our southern counterparts, we're met with blank stares and utter confusion. fuck the south. sorry crazy tangent.
any way, i was actually looking for something in this comment like a critical typo to undermine the posters credibility, but alas, i don't know the difference between "abroad" and "a broad" either. and i even checked the spelling of "elitist".
the picture is dead on about what americans think of the rest of the world. and if you asked around, people wouldn't know where africa is.By
oh i completely agree...once you leave the northeast, this country is mostly just one big, stupid, ignorant, uneducated place.
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Yes, i would agree with this map, in theory.
Each time i go out to eat someplace interesting, i must explain the geological position, such as Nepalese which i recently enjoyed.
I have a lot more to say on this matter, but i forget at the moment.
Have i talked about my Lemming Theory of Mankind? At least 60%, but probably more like 80% of people are Lemmings(Followers) so basically whatever is going on around them, they are in. This is a built in Homo Sapien Reaction, similar to the actions of birds or bison. Honestly its true around the world, it just seems like other countries are more open, or more whatever, but really, they just have a larger base of whatever your looking for. Of course in time, culture and "whatever" changes.
Its cool at times, such as when in Amsterdam, bad during others, im thinking Afghanistan... 12 year old girl... not good. But mostly it gives you something to complain about, or strive for, or... whatever...
GO OBAMA!!!! heheBy
I guess anonymous wouldn't want to know that my MSc was free in Sweden. No, it's not in the Alps, but many people (Americans) do confuse it with Switzerland. What can you learn just from reading this comment? Sweden is in Scandinavia, extends into the arctic, and is socialist, hence the free degree. And in the event we actually don't know this person, maybe they would like to know the balance of my student loans? Probably not, because Dad did in fact help me quite a bit. Would you have refused?
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That comment had me reaching for one of my many guns! While i agree the NE is cool, I think there are other parts of the country that you all would enjoy and appreciate as well. But the the south. The south can indeed go suck a dick.
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its not about where you live. its what you learn.
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damon, you forgot to mention the income tax in sweden. I doubt it was free (but still cheaper that stateside).
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Post a CommentThursday, January 24, 2008
Bill Clinton: 'Screw It, I'm Running For President'
CHARLESTON, SC—After spending two months accompanying his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail, former president Bill Clinton announced Monday that he is joining the 2008 presidential race, saying he "could no longer resist the urge."
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Go Gints!
Yeah, thats right. All i saw in the newspapers all week was Greenbay this Brett Favre that. Fuck the Packers!
Yesterday was a very long and intense day of football watching. I got at the bar at 3:30 and didn't leave until 10:30. Then i went to another bar. Ha ha. So lucky i have today off, even though i paced myself well.
I'll be routing for the Gints come superbowl, but won't feel so bad when the Patriots win. NE sports! Fuck the south!
~Brancibeer
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hell yeah fuck the south!
GO PATS!!!By
I agree with Branci, hard to go wrong in this one: got the favorite Giants or a perfect season for another nice local team.
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i've been rooting against my beloved giants all year and its gotten them to the superbowl. i don't know if i should stop now and jinx it.
the game was awesome sunday. got there at 11 and tailgated in the fucking freezing cold. the foam on my beer kept freezing between sips. it was fun but i still haven't thawed out yet. i'm still fucking cold. still.By
I'm disappointed that either of you would even consider rooting for those silly boy prima-donnas up in foxboro. Fuck them for denying Hartford a football team. Belicock-smoker is not a mastermind anymore that Steve Spagnuolo is. The pats are about as pumped up as the housing market. Yes they are good but those in too deep will suffer horrible fates.
I'll go down with the ship thank you very much. Giants!
... perfect season... who cares? You talk like its a win-win. It's not. Giants win. Get your head straight boy.By
You better check your loyalties boy....and check em real quick.
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yeah, i never understood how there are so many giants fans in ct. ct is part of new england. also, the giants actually play in dirty jersey, not even ny. and matt, you're from vt, what gives?
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Post a CommentSaturday, January 19, 2008
oh yeah, check this out
i've got tickets to tomarrows Pats game, 10 rows back at the 30 yard line. work rules. thanks to dupont. fuck yeah.
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Have I told you lately your a deusch-bag?
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Oh, and by the way, I was going to let you help me at the brewery tomorrow, but I guess you won't be coming, deusch-bag.
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you lucky, lucky bastard. if you want you can stop here on the way back and watch the giants game.
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or just take me to the pats game
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Sweet! You get to see the RoboPats disassemble and destroy yet another team. God damn it their good. Go Gints- the hardest working team in football!
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M,
I'm sorry I called you a deusch-bag. I've been on a tequila bender for a week, and its made me a little emotional. It's just that, man, I can't go at this alone.
It's not that I'm afraid too. It's just that something like this is bigger than any one man. All our lives we've had this hole, and we've tried to fill it with family, career, religion, and these were all dead ends. Now the answer is so obvious, what we've need this whole time was right here in front of us.
Look, we need you on this buddy. I don't know who else could take your place. I need a man who's uunbridled, irrational fury can carry us through the gates of hell and back if he believed in them. I need a man who can work his tubing with speed and care. I need a man with a well developed sense of proportion and insanity, a man with good understanding of heating and cooling systems. Most importatly, I need someone tall enough to feed the fermentor without getting on a step stool. You're that man.
If you don't join me on this, who can I turn too? Ronny? He's too busy humping his bicycle with his free time to focus on what's really important to me. Murphy? Gone. Tino? Gone. Kolpack? Tempting, but his purported credentials in thermodynamics are highly suspect. I could see a position for him down the road on cryogenic project (testing phase?), but not this, this is too important. I'll be stuck with Jesse, that's what will happen. And while his unique style is admirable, it jus won't be the same. For instance, I'm just not sure how he'll feel about "Baby Seal Beer: Now with real chucks of Baby Seal"
Look, think about it. I'm not promising you riches. I'm not promising you a lifetime of happiness. I'm only promising that the worst* thing that will happen is we'll get drunk.
*(small chance of dying in a fermentor explosion).By
if there's some weird shit going on, i want in. i'm useful so its a win wi for everyone. what scares me most is that this was written at 1:37 PM, must have been a rough morning.
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i guess i should say thanks for the kind words, but i think you hit it right on the head. "well developed sense of proportion and insanity, a man with good understanding of heating and cooling systems" i think that explains me perfectly.
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Don't you remember our conversations a couple of weeks ago, when I was talking about freezing people for money, and we figured we had enough collective expertise to put the operation together all we needed was some money.
Well, I figured out how we're going to get the money. We're going to brew beer. Lots of it. Once we get good at it, we'll sell it. It couldn't be simpler.By
oh i remember it, fuck the effort of brewing beer, we just need ONE rich dumbass and we're in business. its much easier to find one sucker with cash than it is to doll out delicious beverage over a period of years.
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Post a Commentoh shit, tell hollywood i'm sorry
don't download the third episode of season 4 of the office. just trust me. if got my internet suspended yesterday. months after i downloaded it. i came home to an internet page on my screen saying that my provider had noticed i may have downloaded and illeagle file and that my service was being suspended until i deleted it. then to click on the link. so i followed orders. the link sent me t o a phone number, which was disconnected, with a referance number no ones ever head of. so i called the provider today to know if i needed a head start to mexico or not. apparently not, i guess this is a common thing and the tech guys don't like dealing with it. so after a standard IP address reset i'm bacak. and very sorrry for pissing off hollywood, i'm sorry, never again. no more downloads. i'll never watch the office again. i promise. i think this will be the opposite of the intended result. i'll never buy a product associated with the office for as long as i can remember my little paranoid episode. oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck, i hope they don't knock at my door demanding something, fuck fuck fuck, i hope i haven't said too much already. fuck.
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Where were you DL'ing from?
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it might have been before torrentbar closed but most likely from torretreactor.
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Yeah dude, hopefully you won't get slapped with a lawsuit from the corporate machine. That would freak me out too.
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Post a CommentFriday, January 18, 2008
Whats more romantic than roses on a piano?
Tulips on an organ
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poetic
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Post a CommentTuesday, January 15, 2008
Not the first rodeo
"Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.."
Brancibeers going to get personal here. I just recently had a break up with a girlfriend. We weren't seeing each other that long, but long enough- about 6 months. I liked her. She grew on me quite a bit and she was the first 'real' girl since the last 'real' girl. She initiated the ending of the relationship amiably. I gave it my best shot, expressed my feelings, told her i would like to try and work through it. But sometimes people just aren't on your playing field and you can pitch all you want but the hitters still on deck. Its not my fault, and its not hers. The timing just wasn't right, or we weren't what each other wanted, etc. These things can be hard without any clear answers. Analyze all you want (and I have) but its not going to help.
So there I went... into the usual breakup funk immediately after. Back to the depths of the dark places I fear being the most. The places where some of my nightmares were born from previous encounters. I was scared to be there. Terrified to be back after making so much progress to get out of those places. Months to crawl up the slick walls and yet only a few hours to get pushed back down. God damn it, god damn it. Why, how, ugh pain.
But wait Brancibeer! You don't want to be here, so why should you automatically default yourself to be? Sure, it was a hit, but cant you choose the way you perceive things? Can this be seen as a positive experience and therefore allow it to affect you positively...as a stimulus not a depressant? Over time you have learned to deal with these things. You know what to do and what not to do. What is good for you and what is bad for you. You have the power to choose how to react to situations, and what situations to put yourself in next. So why? Why put yourself here?
And over a month later now....yes, it worked. I've never felt stronger or better. Life is good and i'm on top. I'm not fooling myself about anything. I'm not ignoring, suppressing or pushing the feelings aside. I can still feel those things if i choose to....and sometimes I do. But there is a wealth of other feelings to concentrate on too. I've learned to moderate my discipline. I like to think perhaps i'm getting better at life and learning the best ways to go about living it. All those tough times were not spent in vain... I was working toward something.
Those hard times are like a storm sometimes. If you can just get yourself out of the innermost dangerous bands, you can deal with the usual rain and wind with ease.
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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is Love.
The First Epistle of Paul To the Corinthians 13:12,13By
Post a CommentWednesday, January 09, 2008
Obama Train Derailed
Well that was fun. That moment when you were thinking, "This Black Dude just might do it." Forget about the Black thing, the Madrasas, the middle name Hussein, his smoking habit and that he is running against the the Clinton Machine.
"This fella gots Go-Go Juice!"
Not! Just like the Dean Dream of 2004, when the most liberal dude around won the Iowa Caucus, it was too good to be true.
Back to reality folks, i say he wont win another state, let alone the key ones like NY and CA.
Get ready for "Mrs. President"
PEACE
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Well he won Iowa by a lot and Clinton was 3rd; in NH she barely beat him. So I'd say he's still ahead. That's good in my book. I haven't looked into them much because I'm just gonna vote Green or Progressive in my little don't matter state (or Kucinich if he's still in it,) but I like Obama except when he said he'd pursue "terrorists" into Iran without its permission. I'd really like a prez who knows we are the biggest sponsors of terrorism. That and one that doesn't need hundreds of millions of dollars to get elected. Imagine what we could do with all the cash if they were limited to public financing.
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i'm not really sure who's ahead. perhaps obama by popular vote, but throw the electoral college in and everything could change.
i think both obama and clinton have a pretty decent upside, but i'm worried about a couple things. first, hopefully neither would pull a lieberman and run as an indy, though i doubt that would happen. moreso, while i think i'd be happy with either at this point, i feel like i've been around long enough to realize that many americans are still just too damn ignorant to elect either a black man or a woman. it's a shame, but let's not tiptoe around the fact that there are a lot of stupid racist sexist people out there.By
our best shot is if the republicans put up a crappy candidate like romney or guiliani. guliani looks to be dead in the water at this point.
i'd love to see some kind of mathematical breakdown of how a caucaus is really able to prove anything. the way it works is not capable of providing a true winner. i would suggest everyone just ignore the numbers from it and take nothing but the fact that the few people near the top are just legitimate canidates. seriously, "stand up and move to your corner", thats how we want to pick a winner?By
Jess,
I know your in VN now, but;
HAHAHAGHAHAGHAH
Damon, go fuck yorself if you got a problem with the grammer {sic}
yammadu!By
Post a CommentMonday, January 07, 2008
Work
it doesn't happen too often but today at work i found myself totally lost. i have no idea what i'm doing for this project i'm working on. i'm over my head. i've been tasked with an impossible goal. I've been spending more time going to meetings about the project than working on it. i've made my problems known to many people and i keep getting work dumped on me from many directions. last week it was the VP telling me i'm totally responsible for what many other people are working on because its my project. i've countered with, it isn't my project, that would be the guy they promoted to project manager for this stuff, i'm an engineer. doesn't matter. i'm responsible and smart so its my problem. plus, this is my "opportunity". they want to see how i can handle this in case they decide to promote me. and basically, they all just assume i'll do it. i've been asked for more estimates, plans, outlines, timing and other things then i could possibly produce. and next week i get to go to east bum-fuck south carolina again to teach people 20 years my senior how to fill out paper work that should have been done before i started with this company. friday i was asked to send things to outside vendors because we are short on time and people. i had to inform all of my bosses that its too late for that. a 6 week lead time from an outside vendor puts us late. plus they want to validate everything soon. i've had to tell them that it isn't built yet, there isn't anything to validate. "why not?" i spend my time making lists and you take the people away from me for other stuff. i'm not supposed to build it myself yet the people who are aren't available to me. "oh". i get "oh." a lot. this job is still easier than my last two. fuck the world. i'll be just fine.
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at least you like the job better than the other two. that's good. i still like my job and that really helps the days go by quickly and not seem so bad.
where in south cakalaky will you be? perhaps i can suggest some great racist and/or sexist hangouts for you.By
So it begins. The axe is getting sharp and I got $20 on July.
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if this program really goes that bad it'll be more like end of march.
it's a happy little town called Pickens, SC. west of greenbourough.By
about time you strap on a pair and take some responsibility.
sounds like you need to hire a bitch.By
Do they know about your "Capitalization Deficiency?"
Or are you ahead of the game because your coworkers don't use punctuations?By
the "shift" button only slows me down. punctuation is where its at. thats the money character.
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Post a CommentWednesday, January 02, 2008
Yeehaw!
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. -- An 11-year-old boy who was hiding behind an old piece of furniture at an Opa-Locka apartment was shot and killed after his neighbor celebrated the New Year by shooting a gun into the trash.
NATCHEZ, Miss. -- A Natchez man shot and killed his wife when he mistook her for an intruder in their home, according to police.
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Ok, out of respect for the dead...the title was meant to make a mockery of stupid rednecks and guns
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"Next Stop Opa-Locka!" Its a memorable line for me, as i road on a South Florida train, the conductor said it with such enthusiasm, it was almost like a song... but only three words.
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Post a CommentTuesday, January 01, 2008
Happy New Year Bitches!
With love.....
~Brancibeer
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happy new year brancy!
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