11.8.23

Bon TXTage

b1-66er: WARNING: If any of the Math Military have aneurysms, this is the article that's likely to make them burst...

Major Math:  ​👍​ to " https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gam… " 

b1: OH THANK GOD.
You're still alive.

MM: For now

b1: Hey.
We're all playing the long game and losing...
... But we understood that when we entered The Carnival.

MM: I'm winning. I truly enjoy the gambling world. I'm fully aware that I am being charged, but I get booze, hotels, some privileges, flights (Borgata is flying us out for free next week...just a $50 admin fee that they give back in free play; direct flight, ground, hotel, and $200 in free play for nothing)

b1: You are winning.

MM: If we lose $1,000, we are easily ahead on that given air and hotel prices, not to mention that you literally can't fly to AC from Columbus. 
(On commercial)
<lizard poker pic>

b1: That's funny.

The Accomplice: I love the perks world. Hotels.com just changed their system after giving us many free rooms over the years. Now they'll give us nickel and dime credits on the fly, I think? I'm in their highest tier, and waiting to see what happens
MArchie (grad-school friend) and I embark this afternoon in Vancouver... Looking forward to Alaska! 
Royal Caribbean perks are funny at this middle tier... I think(!) we can have robes for free to use on the ship... if we ask?!?...

b1: The Accomplice was high enough up the hotels chain that she's the only person I've ever seen referred to as
My leige
... In corporate correspondence.

TA: .... And in my next cruise or two, I'll earn... A PIN! 

b1: On the Princess line I believe that's what's referred to as 
The Grovel Tier

TA: That takes me back to the pre-Title IX days, when the high school girls earned a "GAA" brooch (girls athletic association). After Title IX, (mid-high school for me), we started earning letters.

b1: I'll buy you a sweater when you get back if your feathers are still ruffled.
You will have to say 'please' of course.

TA: Maybe you can bring me a robe... IF I ASK.

b1: That's funny.
Your mood is perfectly set for this voyage.

TA: I'm all over it! I haven't found an ice carving display yet, but I'm set on digging out the film choices, naturalist lectures, and happy hours. Tonight's entertainment is a comedian.
Massage pre-booked for 3pm, before the ship sails.¹


¹ This is the most cruise aware TXT the KTXT staff has ever seen.

10.8.23

Just WHY DO YOU still wear your letter jacket?

Special K: My new favorite baseball trivium: "4 pitchers, and 4 pitchers only, have played in the majors after attending Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton CA, and now all 4 have thrown an MLB no-hitter. "

Observation class 099

The Dear Hunter: Find the butter fly
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6.8.23

4.8.23

Look! An aonyx bracelet!!

b1-66er: !!

Dear Hunter: Angry Otter....  yeah... I bet their business end could hurt. 

b1-67er: That's got to be like fighting a greased pig.

29.7.23

Shallow K analysis

b1-66er: "Sick of Drinking? More People Are Replacing Booze with Ketamine."

b1-67er: Ketamine does not seem like a smart play.

28.7.23

All you observatory

Suttonhoo: One cold winter in Wisconsin a window cracked at the Yerkes Observatory so they replaced it with a glass plate dupe of a solar eclipse captured through the world's largest refraction telescope. No biggy
<eclipse window pic>

b1-66er: Looks great.
(the ornamentation visible out the other window is interesting.)

S: This place is absolutely brilliant -- y'all should consider a drive by on your next tren adventure
<Observatory through trees>

b1: That's a great shot too.
What takes you there?

S: Curiosity. The cat with the big schnoze is John D Rockefeller. Originally there was a wasp in the cartouche (replicated many times) to allude to how JD got stung bankrolling the construction of the University of Chicago. UofC officials got wise to the joke and had the wasps chiseled out
I like the phases of the moon best 
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