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Okay I just said fuck because I was a day late and a dollar short...

I think I totally just smiled in realizing that my favorite clown hater is now a Daddy!

Congrats to you and the wife! :D And good luck on that sleep and stuff you will need it.

Oh and I would likely kiss a few people above me, I have likely seen one or two of them nekkid.... and I would buy a round of drinks for all of us to share in your joy!!!
 
Thank you and thanks to everyone else for the well wishes. I am getting little bits of sleep here and there. I have learned to sleep while sittng up. That has helped except it is usually when she is talking to me.
 
At the Battle of Thermopylae, a small force of Greek warriors led by King Leonidas of Sparta resisted the much larger Persian forces, but were ultimately defeated. According to Herodotus, the Persians broke the Spartan phalanx after a Greek man called Ephialtes betrayed his country by telling the Persians of another pass around the mountains. After Thermopylae, Athens was captured and the Athenians were driven back to their last line of defense at the Isthmus of Corinth and in the Saronic Gulf.

What happened next is a matter of some controversy. According to Herodotus, upon encountering the deserted city, in a fit of rage uncharacteristic even for Persian kings, Xerxes had Athens burned. He immediately regretted this action and ordered it rebuilt the next day. However, Persian scholars dispute this view as pan-Hellenic propaganda, arguing that Sparta, not Athens, was Xerxes's main foe in his Greek campaigns, and that Xerxes would have had nothing to gain by destroying a major center of trade and commerce like Athens once he had already captured it.
Inscription of Xerxes the Great near the Van Citadel

At that time, anti-Persian sentiment was high among many mainland Greeks, and the rumor that Xerxes had destroyed the city was a popular one, though it is equally likely the fire was started by accident as the Athenians were frantically fleeing the scene in pandemonium, or that it was an act of "scorched earth" warfare to deprive Xerxes's army of the spoils of the city.

At Artemisium, large storms had destroyed ships from the Greek side and so the battle stopped prematurely as the Greeks received news of the defeat at Thermopylae and retreated. Xerxes was induced by the message of Themistocles (against the advice of Artemisia of Halicarnassus) to attack the Greek fleet under unfavourable conditions, rather than sending a part of his ships to the Peloponnesus and awaiting the dissolution of the Greek armies. The Battle of Salamis (September, 480 BC) was won by the Greek fleet, after which Xerxes set up a winter camp in Thessaly.

Due to unrest in Babylon, Xerxes was forced to send his army home to prevent a revolt, leaving behind an army in Greece under Mardonius, who was defeated the following year at Plataea. The Greeks also attacked and burned the remaining Persian fleet anchored at Mycale. This cut off the Persians from the supplies they needed to sustain their massive army, and they had no choice but to retreat. Their withdrawal roused the Greek city-states of Asia.
 
That thread is just plain dumb if no one participates, even the OP. What's the point...I'll be well read? :rolleyes:
 
That thread is just plain dumb if no one participates, even the OP. What's the point...I'll be well read? :rolleyes:

Well read? You mean you're reading the ridiculously long Wiki articles I'm posting?

Hon, please. Don't do that to yourself. I like you too much to see your brain turn to mush. My brother told me when we were kids that all the reading was bad for my brain. Turns out he was right. Don't make my mistake.

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So if he looks up at me and makes a face like "Who the fuck are you" that means he is shitting himself.

Got it.
 
I wish that they allowed good shows to continue, and shitty shows to end....
 
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun Tzu


that quote made me watch to watch Take Me Home Tonight
 
My company sent a trailer load of supplies to the tornado relief shelter at Hillside Baptist Church yesterday. For obvious reasons I couldn't be there, but there were 100's of pairs of gloves, shovels, rakes , diapers, new school supplies, pallets of water, trash bags, toothbrushes and toothpaste etc etc.

It is awesome to work for a company that gives a shit more about others than themselves sometimes.

On a side not the weather is finally cooperating and it looks like we are going to have our garage sale this weekend. All 3 of us are going home this morning so I should be able to help our neighbors out with it. My aunt is still without a lot of essentials she can call her own. We have raised a lot of money but most went to her daughters funeral and the rest went to clothes and some essential supplies.

The weather has cancelled 3 benefit concerts my wife's band was putting on to raise some money and our 3 home plus donations garage sale. Now that the little sleep depriver is here the concerts cannot happen. So we are trying to figure out different ways of raising funds. Fun fun.

Oh and fuck you insurance companies. The fact that you are taking your sweet times with paying not only my aunt but countless other people who have suffered terribly is a shame. All these people desperately need help and your greed and lack of urgent response time sickens me.
 
Just another long day of slapping my junk up against the window and shouting, "See anything you like, Chicago?!"
 
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