I could swear life used to be much more exciting. Tonight we’re hanging out at the tiki bar, looking out at the sodden yard and listening to Cajun music (Beausoleil). You?
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HinTN
Lite humidity day and evening to wrap up July. “Who knows what tomorrow may bring?”
HinTN
Also too, Beausoleil is just fine, thank you very much.
schrodinger's cat
Arguing on Balloon Juice about who is or is not an immigrant. See the thread below. Doggie looks sad. Give her what she wants.
Poopyman
That is like ten to the tenth power more exciting than what I’m doing. I’m commenting on Balloon Juice.
Omnes Omnibus
I am waiting.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: In my boredom I looked to the right to see what the Wonkette headlines were. Who wouldn’t stop to see what this one was all about?
There’s a headline you won’t see every day. (Even though Steve King is really trying.)
Tree With Water
It did use to more exciting. It’s god’s kindly way of telling us all, “you’ve already peaked, so relax”.
Gimlet
The NYTs has a fluff piece for you on those nice Koch Brothers. Nothing about them reversing all the odious polices they are responsible for.
Once known for grim letters to fellow wealthy Americans warning of socialist apocalypse, Charles G. Koch now promotes research on the link between freedom and everyday happiness. Turn on “The Big Bang Theory” or “Morning Joe,” and you are likely to see soft-focus television spots introducing some of the many employees of Koch Industries.
West of the Cascades
Out of the 100 degree heat in Portland waiting for some folks to join me for beers at one of PDX’s myriad brewpubs. Hating on people who deny climate change.
redshirt
@schrodinger’s cat: Fine tuning semantics. We’re not a nation of immigrants at all, I’ve learned. We’re a nation of born and bred Americans, god bless us all.
Iowa Old Lady
I’m just grateful that the AC that broke this morning was fixed by this afternoon. It’s way too hot and humid for no AC.
redshirt
If you live in a hot climate, look into a geothermal AC system. It might cost more up front, but it will pay itself off in a few years.
I’ve got one and I’ve been able to keep my house at 70F when outside temps were in the high 80’s for days for a couple of dollars a day.
Neech
Drinking beers, listening to the Mets game, and hanging out with the dogs.
dmsilev
Operation Move proceeds apace. Today I closed on the sale of my (now former) home and confirmed the date for moving the workplace. Most of next week will be spent going over the new site with a fine toothed comb to make sure it’s ready. Or at least on a steady trajectory towards ready. Things like “It’s been _how many_ years since anyone checked whether that rare-gas plumbing is leak tight?”. T minus 24 days and counting…
Smiling Mortician
I like your life, Betty Cracker. Or at least, your presentation of it on this blog. The ups, the downs, the sidewayses . . . all of it. It’s like a longform, sometimes meandering — but always entertaining — serialized novel.
Roger Moore
Better boring than the wrong kind of exciting, that’s what I always say.
Randy P
Just hanging out and reading a recent Orson Scott Card. I know he’s a loon politically, and also that many people detest his fiction, especially the Ender-related books. But I’ve always really enjoyed his stuff, including everything in the Ender-verse.
But I just came to a passage in “Earth Unaware” that infuriated me. There’s a ship that’s damaged. They decide they’re moving “too fast” to do a space walk for repairs. So they need to come to a “stop”.
Orson, Orson, Orson. I thought you were one of the scientifically-minded ones. This is grade-school relativity. All constant velocities are the same, because all velocities are relative. There can’t be a “too fast”. It’s not like there’s a wind to blow you off. There is no “stop” in space. You’re always moving relative to something. Aargh!
srv
Jesus, people, the Mad Men set auction is live! WTF! Why aren’t you people with incomplete tiki bars out bidding for the bar carts?
http://auction.screenbid.com/view-auctions/individual-lots/?key=bar+cart
Me, I have to walk six blocks downhill and then back uphill for some distilled water.
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: While apparently it’s not actually a traditional Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” is still a pretty nasty thing to wish on someone.
p.a.
Wonkette with possible best headline evah:
Auschwitz Museum To Rename Itself ‘Nothing Compared To Obama’s Iran Deal’ Museum
schrodinger's cat
@srv:Well it could be worse, could be uphill both ways.
PaulW
I shall see you at the Tampa Bay Comic-Con.
PurpleGirl
Reading BJ and listening to reruns on the teevee. Slept most of the day and now I know I won’t fall asleep until hours from now. I hung one fly paper roll. Because the humidity is down quite a lot, I can have the bottom portion of windows open.
trollhattan
@Smiling Mortician:
Always mention the frogs. A significant part of the Cracker narrative.
Listening to Peter Tosh getting ready to head to the nanobrewer, then back home to burn a steak. Bachelor night.
Major Major Major Major
Watching the new Wet Hot American Summer, I think.
cmorenc
@Betty Cracker:
The dog is expressing puzzlement over why you have a taxidermied chicken on your shelf.
Gimlet
@Iowa Old Lady:
This year is shaping up to be one of the world’s hottest — and dangerously so.
In May, a heat wave in southern India — with high temperatures between 45 and 48 degrees Celsius (113 and 118 degrees Fahrenheit) — killed 750 people over five weeks. In June, a heat wave in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan claimed over 1,200 lives with a high of 45 C.
In the city of Bandar Mahshahr, Iran, the temperature reached 43 C (109 F). But coupled with the humidity, residents are actually experiencing a temperature of 68 C (154 F), The Independent wrote.
redshirt
@PurpleGirl: This reads like Bukowski in a depressing way.
redshirt
Is she even supposed to be on the couch? I doubt it.
gogol's wife
It’s really exciting here. Midsomer Murders followed by Grantchester rerun.
bmoak
Beausoleil is swinging through my neck of North Pennsyltucky in a few weeks and I’ll be there.
Iowa Old Lady
@Gimlet: My house got to 80, which doesn’t sound like much compared to those temps, but it was humid, and I’m a wimp.
Major Major Major Major
@redshirt: Maybe go down to the bar if the flies get to be too much. It’s air conditioned. Drinking near people is better than drinking totally alone, and I try not to smoke in the house.
schrodinger's cat
@Gimlet: I saw some photos of the asphalt actually melting in Delhi.
WereBear
I have shingles and contemplating another weekend of the wrong meds because of a prescription screwup. After I wasn’t properly diagnosed for a week and suffered very much.
Tell me again we have the greatest medical system in the world. When they can’t find the cause of my multi-year long chronic fatigue. When they aren’t denying it exists because I’m a mdnopausal woman and they won’t take me seriously.
Other than that I’m just peachy.
SiubhanDuinne
@cmorenc:
And a couple of fish trophies on the wall.
raven
@WereBear: Where?I got them on my forehead and in my eye about 20 years ago. It really hurt.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
ObOpenThread: The NY Times says the TPP negotiations are failing. Dunno if the spin matches the objective reporting, but it’s useful to recall that other countries have a say in whether it is approved, also too.
One of the sticking points regards protections for prescription drugs, but there are many others.
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Black drum and maybe a snook.
Wag
Had a spectacular day in the mountains. Rode my bike today and met a Professional bike racer with Team Novo Nordisk, which is a team made up entirely of riders with Type I Diabetes. Rode with him for about 10 minutes and had in interesting conversation about how the team manages insulin and blood sugars on 120 mile bike rides. Very cool.
Just finished a dinner of grilled salmon and grilled Romaine salad with a nice risotto. Enjoying my second beer, and looking forward to reading Harry Potter with my twins tonight (on book 7, getting pretty exciting). Overall a great day
Omnes Omnibus
@raven:
You made that up.
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
I am genuinely sorry. Had a bad case in 2008, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
One of the worst things about shingles, I think, is that the name itself sounds so silly and stupid, so people who aren’t familiar with it tend not to feel sorry for the sufferer. But it is horribly painful and unpleasant. I wish you a quick and thorough recovery, WB.
beltane
I’m feeling the lack of a tiki bar in my life. We have a couple of tiki torches in the garage, but it’s never quite warm enough to use them.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: snook
tybee
the fish on the right is the biggest sheepshead killie i ever saw.
Major Major Major Major
A lot of fish names sound made up… like ‘shad’.
Wag
@Major Major Major Major:
… and grouper
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: @Major Major Major Major: Okay.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: The wife and I got the shots, hope they help.
raven
@tybee: I thought this was a sheepshead until my naturalist buddy told me it was a black drum?
tybee
slippery dick
no, really.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_dick
WereBear
@raven: Well damn, now I can’t complain. Mine is my left arm.
tybee
@raven:
if it has whiskers on it’s chin, it’s a drum. if it has “people teeth” it’s a sheepshead.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: I did too. I also got a pneumonia shot and it hurt like hell and cots BCBS $300.
raven
@tybee: k
BruceFromOhio
Drinking to excess and smoking weed, toss up between reading or watching DVR items. Friday nights are like an escape route from there to here. Once upon a time we would go dancing and wake up in odd places. Now at least I wake up in my own pad with someone I know!
ETA @Poopyman: The Wonketariats are happy about their new server. Ebullience ensues.
raven
@WereBear: I was lucky, I got scar tissue in my eye but no damage. Huge frickin pills about killed me.
dreadshane
I watched it go from 95° to 72° in an hour on the East Coast of Florida,( local rain squawk)
Eric S.
I mentioned the other day I’m pursuing the purchase of a classic Porsche. Someone asked if it was a 356. Unfortunately,no. Life’s been good to me but not that good. I’m looking at a 1990 911 Carrera 4. A 964 to those in the know.
I have a pre-purchase inspection tentatively scheduled for next Friday. If that goes well we negotiate price. If the seller and I agree on terms I have to fly to California (never been) and drive it home 2000 miles to Chicago.
I won’t lie. I’m excited about the possibility.
BillinGlendaleCA
I’m planning to hike up into the Verdugo Hills either tomorrow or Sunday like last Sunday. I’m also contemplating a hike in Griffith Park and one to San Gabriel Peak.
ETA: SG Peak, I’m not gona do solo.
Mack
@redshirt: I’ve has a 5 ton gepthermal system for going on 4 years, and it has been a godsend. Is yours a vertical or horizontal loop?
raven
“Humuhumunukunukuāpuaa” State fish of Hawaii.
redshirt
@Eric S.: How rich are you?
CaseyL
@West of the Cascades: Ugh! It’s “only” 95 here in Seattle, and predicted to be in the mid- to upper 90s all through the end of next week. I look forward to an enervating weekend of sitting in front of a fan, interrupted by intervals soaking in the swimming pool.
There’s an international art fair down at the CenturyLink Expo Center, which normally I’d be all over. But there’s a substantial charge just to get in, and no air conditioning (!).
redshirt
@Mack: Vertical. 590 feet straight down. A permanent 55F down there, winter and summer.
And you? Also, where are you located?
I’m almost tempted to move to the southwest and start a geothermal business because it seems so no brainer but….
dreadshane
I hate spellcheck
Major Major Major Major
@raven: At least that one has the excuse of being in a foreign language.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Or ‘chub.’
ETA: Wait, maybe I mean ‘chum.’
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Eric S.: Nice.
It’s not one of the engines with the infamous intermediate shaft bearing issues is it?
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
dreadshane
chum = ground fish
WereBear
@raven: Blue pills like The Matrix.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: And then there’s the ones that are just words, like ‘perch’. Or ‘bloater.’
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
Mine started in the middle of my chin. At first I thought it was a cold sore. I literally (by which I mean ‘literally’) stood in front of the bathroom mirror and watched it creep up the right side of my face, all around my right eye, into my right ear, and up beyond the hairline on my scalp. It looked like a lava flow.
redshirt
You choad.
raven
@WereBear: Mine were gigantic white bills, anti-viral I think. I was completing my dissertation and the doc said “you have to slow down, it’s stress”. Right.
Benw
Space station!
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
For more years than I choose to admit, I though ‘perch’ was just short for ‘Percheron.’ Until I realized that the former is a fish and the latter is a horse.
/never took a course in zoology
schrodinger's cat
@raven: You usually get shingles when you are stressed and your immunity is low.
Eric S.
@redshirt: I’m not rich. I chose a decent profession (computer programing) and lucked into a good position. I’m spending some retirement savings but on a car likely to hold value or even appreciate.
Eric S.
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: thank you fit the well wishes.
It does not have the intermediate half shaft issue. That started about 9 years after this car was made. Now oil leaks? Like a freaking sieve.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: I got divorced, did my comps and had my wisdom teeth taken out in one week!
dreadshane
I have seldom found vehicles that hold their value.
redshirt
@Eric S.: Put a supercharger in her. #MadMaxFuryRoad
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Wow, that must have been quite a week, but you lived to tell the tale, shingles and all. Good for you!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Overachiever, aren’t you? Did I show you my semicolon?
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Nice!
dreadshane
Buy it because it makes you happy
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Ha, those were minor inconveniences
but, as shortstop pointed out, all I do is talk about myself so I’ll spare you.
Hal
Can this blog start up a Rachel Maddow debunction junction style feature as a way of countering total bullshit on social media? Someone I’m friends with on Facebook posted this yesterday and I don’t even know where to start, but the fact that this bs has been shared thousands of times is depressing.
Eric S.
@dreadshane: The vast, vast majority of cars don’t hold their value. Some collectibles and classics do. Older porsches have been doing well recently. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns and all that.
@ redshirt: us a Porsche, (wo)man. We do turbos. :-)
tybee
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
DFW = Dallas Fort Worth ?
Joel
That NWA movie looks like whitewashed hagiography…
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Go right ahead, talk about yourself, you have lead an interesting life. If your anecdotes get boring I will let you know.
raven
@Hal: Only if you spend 20 minutes an hour explaining one simple thing over and over and over.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks, I better go to bed instead.
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: That sounds so scary.
WereBear
@raven: I’ll try to avoid that combo.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@tybee: David Foster Wallace, who used a period when many of us wished he’d used a semicolon. He was in my view the finest writer of his generation. Mr. Q loves telling people I have a tattoo with “some other guy’s initials,” then when he explains that the guy is dead, they ask “is she pining?” At that he point he tells them that I never met the man, but he used a period, and thus a conversation about mental health is begun. If people talk about a subject openly often enough, eventually the stigma will fade away; I hope.
Project Semicolon, the brainchild of Amy Bleuel, has a simple but profound concept. The semicolon is a pause, not a stop. She hopes the tattoo will “start a conversation that can’t be stopped about mental illness … ”
An essay about bipolar disorder and a tattoo.
Major Major Major Major
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): That’s super cool. I’ve always thought about getting an interrobang tattoo since it’s how I feel all the time.
WereBear
@Hal: If they think #3 is easy there’s no hope for them.
redshirt
Did you see the tits on this bitch?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Major Major Major Major: That would be a great one. I’m waiting for some northerly-relocated cracker to ask me “what you got that Arabic writin’ on yer arm for girl?” It’s gonna happen
Major Major Major Major
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): it’s Farsi for “You’re an idiot”
Major Major Major Major
@WereBear: Not to mention #5 and #13, especially 13.
JPL
@Hal: hahah.. The debt could have nothing to do with folks like Mitt paying on average 12 percent in taxes. I dare say that is a tad more than 75,000 a year. Of course, he is a job creator in China, so that counts.
J R in WV
@Eric S.:
So did you hire a professional to inspect it for you? How did you find the inspector?
I want a Porsche, but I know there are some models that are fragile… I read that one year’s Boxster has crankshaft issues, a bearing goes bad with no notice, and the engine is done for.
So I would need a Porsche expert to guide me in finding a good one that won’t have “special” problems. I don’t intend to do track running, just drive on back country roads, which is all there is where we live.
But I don’t know where to find someone to guide my purchase, which is why I jumped in with questions about how you’re doing it.
Best of luck, I hope everything works out for you and it turns out to be a great car!
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
It was incredibly scary, but there was also a piece of my brain that was just disinterestedly and detachedly watching it happen and thinking, “Oh, that’s kind of fascinating, the way it’s bubbling up the side of my face like that.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Eric S.: Six speed or five?
BubbaDave
@Eric S.: I refuse to acknowledge that any vehicle manufactured since I started college can be a classic. Nonetheless, good on ya.
I myself am the sort of hopeless square who brags about my C-Max plugin hybrid and its lifetime 63MPG. I am aware how pathetic this is, but I gotta be me.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: that is some John Carpenter-level shit.
@BubbaDave: They’re playing Nirvana on classic rock stations now.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Hal: People repost lots of silly stuff. Some of it is even true.
Don’t let it get to you. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
I kind of regret that I never once thought to video it in real time. I’m sure some of the close-ups would have sent little kids diving under their seats and teenage girls clutching their dates in terror.
PurpleGirl
@redshirt: Sorry, I don’t the reference. Please explain.
BubbaDave
@Major Major Major Major:
LALALALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU
donnah
@Eric S.:
This is the beauty I’m buying:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/Rughooker/image.jpg1_24.jpg
BubbaDave
@donnah: THAT is a freaking classic. I need to go take a cold shower now.
Cervantes
@PurpleGirl:
Writer Charles Bukowski, associated with “dirty realism.”
Major Major Major Major
My punk friend and I in high school did a lot of junkyard perusal to redo this GTO chassis he got. I think we got about 75% of the way before college–it ran, but not with all the original seats and stuff. That was pretty cool.
donnah
@BubbaDave:
Thanks! She’s a ’53 Pontiac Chieftain. I didn’t do the restoration, but I fell in love. I’ve been making payments all summer, and she’ll be mine in September!
Pete Mack
I always had Betty Cracker down as “likeliest to have a talking bass on her wall.” And now I am proven correct! Go Betty!
Eric S.
Things.
I did hire a pro mechanic. I joined and used RENNLIST to find a mechanic. It is a message board of porsche owners. There are a lot of recommendations there and if you don’t find one, ask. I’ve seen threads where a person asks about a certain car not near him/her and multiple people will go inspect and comment on it.
The first water cooled 3.6L engines had the catastrophic failure, intermediate shaft, issues. They were first made in 1999. They ended production around 2006 plus or minus. I believe this issue also is in the Boxster of the same vintage. Use the Google and research research research.
The 63 mpg is awesome and should be bragged about. Loud and often. I drive less than 5k per year so a car is a toy for me.
Eric S.
@donnah: I’m not good at identifying 50s American iron but I see downstream it is a Chieften. Someone said buy what makes you happy. I love that purple beauty. Enjoy many happy miles.
redshirt
@efgoldman:
Indeed. My AC system is fairly pointless, used maybe 10 days a year and even that is luxurious.
But damn if I lived in Tucson? Geothermal well all the way.
NotMax
@WereBear
Everyone’s outbreak manifests differently of course, but what worked more than satisfactorily for me some 35 years ago (shingles neck to hip on the left side) was a B-12 shot and cortisone cream.
Silver lining is that once it passes, that side of the body will never suffer an outbreak again.
Eric S.
@Omnes Omnibus: 5spd.
NotMax
@Eric S.
If while on your cross-country sojourn you encounter some zaftig ladies in a classic Porsche, floor it and keep on going.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Eric S.: Cool. IIRC the sixes hit are 1991/2. Good luck with it.
donnah
@Eric S.: Same to you! There’s something special for everyone.
Gian
@redshirt:
my family history includes a great grandparent stealing a horse to flee eastern Europe prior to wwi, her child losing fingers working in west Virginia coal mines and deciding to get educated. on the other side someone jumped ship from Sicily, also about wwi era
the Sicilian thing lead to a father who caddied at a golf course where he couldn’t play. (Why that part of the family went to a cold part of new England and a cold part of new York…)
all that said, as a nation we allow the trafficking and exploitation of immigrants at a far more than acceptable rate. And when I say exploitation, I mean things like being coerced into being a sex-worker, being used literally as slaves in farms or garment sweatshops (both have happened in the last 20 years in CA) It’s morally wrong (about a decade ago Wal-Mart was busted using eastern Europeans whites through a subcontractor to clean the stores while they were closed, and locking the stores while they worked.) and it does prevent people from getting paid a fair wage to do the work.
We import people by the millions and then keep them in fear of deportation to cut their pay.
It’s just wrong.
Gian
@efgoldman:
the 318 with a simple intake change and a decent carb runs fairly well. I had a ’74 charger with a 318 and put an remanufactured carter 2 bbl carb on it. the folks who remanufactured it (and I’d rebuilt a carb or two in my time) put the electronic choke on it backwards. when it warmed up, it would cut off the air and die. that was a heck of a mess to troubleshoot.
burnspbesq
@Neech:
Hell of an ending, wasn’t it? To paraphrase the late Steve Gilliard, “FTFN!”
KS in MA
@Eric S.:
Oooo! Lucky you! When I win Lotto I’m going straight to the Porsche dealer.
Gian
@raven:
there is an octonauts episode about them
burnspbesq
@Eric S.:
Only the Boxster S had the 3.6. My 2004 Boxster had a 2.7 and never gave me a hint of trouble, except when I had to sell a kidney to pay for new tires.
NotMax
@raven
I want to go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawai`i
Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua`a
Go swimming by
Origuy
@Hal: In the Bay Area, the waiting lists for a Section 8 certificate are a mile long and only open up once in a blue moon (and they didn’t open up yesterday.) My housemates are on the lists in several counties and have been waiting for 10 years.
WereBear
@NotMax: Thanks. I can do the cortisone cream
OTC.
WereBear
@efgoldman: I’m so glad for her. Perhaps a referral is in order.
ruemara
@Hal: Honestly that’s not even halfway hard to rebut in 8 minutes and it’s that long just because you’d have to type it.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@WereBear: Oh man, I’m so sorry. I had perhaps the mildest case of shingles ever seen by medical personnel, and I never, ever want to repeat that, especially not a worse case of it. I got the vaccination this year just to try and avoid it, but if people don’t vaccinate their kids I could still get it.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@raven: Mine was stress-induced. I was 33, had a new baby, dishydrotic edema on one finger, and didn’t know that I had hypothyroidism yet. I was also getting lost in my hometown, and didn’t notice how hot it was that spring.
The doc didn’t give me anything for the shingles, all two spots on one shin that burned like acid had been dripped on my skin, but sent me to the lab because the doc could feel a “goiter”, a lump on my neck. The thyroid meds fixed everything that was wrong.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@efgoldman: I don’t see how that would work where I live, when the water table is normally about two feet down most of the year because it’s so wet. This year is different because of the lack of rain, but we may be sloshing here again fairly soon.
Mack
@redshirt: I’m in Tennessee. I actually worked in the industry for awhile, for a company specializing in geothermal retrofits and new construction. I have a horizontal loop because I have plenty of property, and it’s considerably cheaper. The thing is, what may well be a good investment in HVAC related businesses would be duct-less mini splits. Pretty much all of Europe using them now. If I was younger…..
mclaren
Life was certainly more exciting when Nixon was defying Supreme Court ruling about his illegal tape recordings, or when Reagan was telling unfunny jokes about how `bombing begins in five minutes’ against the USSR, or when the Drunk Driving C Student was crawling around under his desk yukking it up about how “there are no WMDs here!”
But I can do without that kind of excitement, thanks.