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Me? #1? on Pearl Harbor Day?
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‘Bout Time!
Mornin’ Gang
If you go to Hawaii, be sure to visit the Arizona, it’ll move you to say the least. -
36 in Clear Lake this morning……BURRRRR
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#3 Squawkster
Haven’t you pulled the pin yet?
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Should we start up a pool speculating on how high your day count will go before The Couch finds out what it has been all about? -
I tole you people already.
It’s his pre-op hormone treatments. -
OK who keeps steppin on the power cord? *grumble grumble*
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Okay i am into bacon and sausage. But really?
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bunsonburner looking rather dapper in his college days.
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On a bed of hash browns, it looks like.
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#8 – wonder if anyone’s recruiting the lil shaver yet?
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Sarge succumbs and gives up his search for cable knit sweaters.
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M42 and EG: I hope your home rehab equipment includes one of these. This is one of the best things you can use to re-activate all the electrical connections between your feet and your brain. Any time there is a big surgery, particularly to the lower limbs, the electrical system (neurology) gets all fouled up and needs to be rebooted and strengthened; the wobble board is one of the best ways to do it. I am going to take one to my BIL, now at home, to help in his recovery.
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better yet.
If you want to reactivate those electrical connections between your feet and brain, put on one of those sweaters from yesterday and rub your butt back and forth over the floor for a while then touch the fridge.
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#16: Everything is starting to make a little more sense now. . . .
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Surviving examples of the P40-B, an early WW2 fighter plane, are pretty rare.
This one is even more so.
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Eat your hearts out, people. Little Miss Sunshine is here with me, cute as ever. Lovely has things to do today, and I’m babysitting.
And she’s not with you! hahahahahahahaaaaa! -
#19 TT: Be sure to blow some rasberies on her belly button :>)
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#13 Squawk
Sarge succumbs and gives up his search for cable knit sweaters.
Those are jammies. Sarge was looking for a casual yet professorial sweater to wear to his lectures. To improve his veritas or some such.
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#20 Done and did!
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#19 TT
Little Miss Sunshine is here with me, cute as ever.
Is she still puking down your leg?
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Would have the flag out on the front porch today but it is still way too windy, and it would get scrunched on its pole and perhaps wrapped around a porch pillar. Took down the candy cane banners on the porch two days ago because of the beating they took from the wind when the front roared in.
Early morning (7am) temp here was 32 and very blustery. Now it has crawled to 35 and is still very blustery. Wind chill must be in the 20s. At least no rain or drizzle/mist so far, though that is in the forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Spent several hours in the barn this morning helping with the horses when the farrier (horse shoer) was here. What a difference being out of the wind makes, though it was cold enough inside to have toes and fingers start to complain after the first hour or so. The mares are running and playing outside after being inside all yesterday but will be happy to come in later this afternoon.
Spouse shut the outside water off and in the barn before we retired last night, just in case.
When you can’t be sure it will be on the upside of 32 it pays to be cautious. So I hauled a few buckets of water from the house to the barn this morning. This cold stretch is all too reminiscent of Christmas 1983 when Houston and environs were continuously below freezing for 5 days. That was a nightmare. At least we’re not that bad off now. But it is still a lot of work outside in the cold. -
Excerpt from TheBlaze story about young Colton’s visit to Heaven while doctors were struggling to save his life:
Of course there’s also one of the more famous examples — Colton’s claim that he met a sister he never knew he had while he was in heaven. Sonja Burpo had a miscarriage when she was just two months pregnant — something that Colton was not aware of at his young age.
Colton recalled a girl meeting him in heaven. Colton said she hugged him and told him she was his sister and that she was excited that someone was in heaven for her. Todd Burpo said it was “a huge moment of that peace that surpasses understanding” for him and his wife. He had struggled for understanding after the miscarriage.
“As a pastor, I remember when we had that miscarriage looking through the Bible (and wondering what) does happen to miscarried babies … but there’s no verse that explicitly addresses that,” he said.
What Colton told them put the family at ease.I wonder what this revelation will do to women who have abortions. This baby miscarried, so obviously she had a soul before birth. Will this revelation be rejected by abortionists? Is it too uncomfortable for them to accept? Will any of them suffer remorse? Guilt?
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#23 Mharper
Nope, she’s not puking, but I don’t have a pacifier for her, and that oral urge is very, very strong right now. She struggled with her nap, but she’s down now. The sandman beat the crap out of her, and she is O-U-T. I wrapped her up in a warm blanket and we sat on the back porch. She likes watching the trees. So she was all cuddled up, watching the trees, and her eyes went into slow blink mode, then closed. She was so tired, that even the jets taking off over the house never even fazed her.
There’s something truly sweet about a baby falling asleep in your arms. There’s just a sweetness in that complete sense of trust. -
Geez what would Yall do if it really got COLD?
………………….plenty warm enough to cruise Gracie for some birthday shopping @ the Harley shop (with the proper warm gear of course 🙂 ) -
Li’l Sunshine just left with Lovely Daughter.
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We just got back from visiting BIL over in LaPorte; it is a solid hour from Copperfield to get there. He is able to walk without assistance or limp, although going up steps is a little challenging for him. He can speak with little slurring, his left arm is still not working as he would wish but is better. I encouraged him to hit his therapy with full vigor and do more than what was asked for optimal results. He is still not cleared to drive, yet.
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Bonecrusher, your brother is blessed to have you in his life.
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It is really the other way around, I am the blessed one.
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A nice change from turkey sammiches: I made myself a T/MW melted cheese sammich with a goodly amount of thinly-sliced onion. Dill pickle slices on the plate. Piquant flavors, simple meal, washed down with a small glass of milk.
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Here’s a fabulous Steyn column.
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#33 mharper42 DAYAAM that should be required reading in every high school in the country!
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Well, I’m sitting here in the recliner which is on the north wall, with my little 15,000 BTU propane heater going full blast and Lil’ Bit is parked at my feet, she loves the heater! YUP, life is good! 😀
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#33 TT: Brutal in its simplicity and blinding in its truth, both of which are absolutely devastating to the LSM and Ds in general.
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Interesting job to have. A similar rig was used in a James Bond movie.
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I just finished cooking a big pot of chili WITH LOTS OF PINTO BEANS. Very tasty indeed.
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#10 squack
Heck, that wasn’t college. It was last week. -
#40 bone
philistine
May you have flatulation & heartburn that keeps you awake all night. -
#42 Pyro:
Food Nazi!
I breathe, therefore I have flatulence, and I don’t mind my own brand. My cast iron gut does not lend itself to heartburn. -
Pyro, don’t pack those particular duds if you are going to a Muslim country on your next business trip. The gold tights alone might be illegal there.
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#36 SD: Didja bring your almostadog to the deer lease? Dontcha have central heat and air at your home near the Rocket Ranch?
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hi y’all. Had the boss in town all week and you know how that goes. Catching up on my non work reading and thought I’d share this with you as an ounce of prevention.
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From instapundit:
A PEARL HARBOR DAY OUCH: “We reduced Japan to a pile of radioactive smoking rubble in 1,346 days. It’s now Day 1,355 and, despite promises to do likewise to the healthcare system, they’re still working on it. The FDR administration built almost a hundred working aircraft carriers faster than the Obama administration has managed to build one working website.”
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2013/12/tab-clearing.html
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Great open comments pic, Hamous.
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That’s some good religious use of pork. -
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Good mornin’.
In order of taking lead , Peter Rowan, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris. Also there Willie Nelson, John Van Zandt, Jack Clement and Guy Clark
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Mornin’ Gang 42 here in Clear lake.
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#45 Bones
#36 SD: Didja bring your almostadog to the deer lease? Dontcha have central heat and air at your home near the Rocket Ranch?
Yanno’ I’ve thought about bringing the little psychotic gal to camp, she love it but I wouldn’t if I wasn’t by myself.
And yep, we have CHA here at the house but we keep the thermostat on 70-72, great for sleeping and warm enough for most of the house but on that north wall with the only thing between you and the outdoors is a glass fireplace door and a damper, it’s always a little cooler there. If I cranked up the heater it would be way too hot in the bedroom. -
Chilly good morning Hamsters. Not quite as cold, only 35 held over from all day yesterday but slowly warming to 38 now. Drizzle must have quit late last night as the driveway is almost dry. A break from the wet would be welcome. Supposed to be 45 today. Wow. But that is also welcome.
Yea for Rice on winning the Conference USA Championship yesterday. Good grief, 56 years after the last one in 1957. No offense intended, but the mouse that roared was an owl. Love to see them and Northwestern win.
The full-page thank you note from Gary and Rhonda Kubiak in the Chron sports section today is pure class. Bravo -
Good morning, Hamsterville. It’s 41 here but there was no wind when I stepped out to scatter the bird seed, so it doesn’t feel arctic like it did yesterday.
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Music trivia: Who is this man?
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The Rice Owl victory prompted me to wonder about El Gordo. He played for Rice and Jess Neely.
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After recovery from his hip replacement, EG had a knee replacement, I think 3-4 weeks after mine. He pipes up occasionally to let us know how his PT is coming along.
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Here’s another fabulous critique of Bronco’s “management style”…
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“Last night arrivals from Saudi reached 100,620,” he wrote on Friday, describing a fraction of one of the largest deportations in recent Middle East history.
Riyadh has said it wants to forcibly expel as many as 2m of the foreign workers, including hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians, Somalis, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, who make up around a third of the country’s 30m population.
At home, the exodus of illegal workers is being seen as the kingdom’s most radical labour market experiment yet. With one in four young Saudi males out of work, analysts applaud Riyadh’s determination to tackle the problem, but doubt the crackdown will achieve its objective, as Saudi nationals are unlikely to apply for menial jobs.This fascinating article in the Financial Times caught my eye this morning. If you follow the background economic and geopolitical chatter out there about Saudi Arabia, you already know they are terrified about the future and what they’re going to do with 2 or 3 generations of people who have hardly ever worked because there are no jobs. Simultaneously, the government has imported workers, from highly skilled medical professionals to construction pros and semi-skilled / unskilled workers to really run their domestic economy.
Now they realize there won’t be the funds to sustain this distorted Saudi fantasy forever and it’s dawned on somebody that having millions of educated, unemployed and/or unemployable young men sitting around in the future is a recipe for civil and political disaster.
The reason this is all taking place is because of fracking as expressed in this October 2013 Wall Street Journal front-page headline:U.S. Is Overtaking Russia as Largest Oil-and-Gas Producer
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As if often does, California leads the country into complete health care collapse.
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Balmy 39 here at the moment with hopes of making it to the predicted 45. Barely a breeze stirring at last.
Checked the forecast for Green Bay where Atlanta comes to play the Packers this noon.
Currently it is 7 above zero with 100% chance of snow likely to dump ~ 2″ during the day. Anticipated high is around 14. Not exactly the Ice Bowl of infamy, but heading in that direction. -
Oops. Fixed the image in #57.
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G.L. -
But I cheated & used Google image search…
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Walked by the television this morning during a CBS profile of Gordon Lightfoot. He said 55 years of touring and drinking had taken its toll.
Uh, no kidding.
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#68 I did the same thing. He makes Keith Richards look like Justin Timberlake.
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Wow. I didn’t mean to give it away. That photo has to be from years ago.
The Gordon Lightfoot I saw on CBS Sunday Morning looked much older and more gaunt than Hamous’ photo.
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Naw. That’s either Pink or Floyd.
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#70 yeah, here’s a better…um…worse one.
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Anyone else played around with Arduino at all?
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It’s safe to say American country music would look very different had we not been blessed with Houston’s own native son, Mickey Newbury.
It was Newbury who convinced Roger Miller to record Kristofferson’s “Me & Bobby McGee”, which went on to launch Kristofferson as country music’s top songwriter. Newbury is also responsible for getting Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark to move to Nashville and pursue careers as songwriters.
In 1968, Mickey saw huge success; three number one songs and one number five – across four different charts; Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) on the Pop/Rock chart by the First Edition, Sweet Memories on Easy Listening by Andy Williams, Time is a Thief on the R&B chart by Solomon Burke, and Here Comes the Rain Baby on the Country chart by Eddy Arnold. This feat has not been repeated. That year, Mickey’s first album, Harlequin Melodies, was released by RCA.
John Prine: Mickey Newbury is probably the greatest songwriter ever.
One of my all-time favorites…San Francisco Mabel Joy.
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Hubby and I went to church this morning. I had put a scarf on to help keep my head and ears warm, had a long scarf around my neck, and wore sweater. Hubby has his jacket. We got to church – and I promptly put my long scarf over my other scarf and wrapped it more closely around my neck and draped one end over the gap in the front of my sweater. Hubby kept his hands in his pockets most of the mass.
The air was blowing, but the furnace never kicked on. It was actually colder inside the church than outside. Everyone was huddling for warmth. You could hang meat in the nave! -
Using Obama’s tactics, Generation Opportunity brings “opt-out of Obamacare” message to the young skulls full of mush:
At 11:30 the pizza arrived, drawing a group of 40 or so students to the tents, which encouraged Generation Opportunity to deploy one lucky staffer as its “Creepy Uncle Sam” mascot. After posing for pictures with the students already at the tailgate, Uncle Sam made his way up and down the aisles of cars, partying with any student who would have him. Soon, students from other tailgates were wandering over in search of pizza.
Two of them, Sarah and Shannon, who asked to be identified by only by first names, said they consider themselves Republicans, but hadn’t heard about the tailgate. A Generation Opportunity staffer with pizza “and was like, ‘We have two cars full of pizza, do you want some?’ And we’re like, ‘Sure, we’ll follow!’” said Shannon, who was familiar with the group’s Creepy Uncle Sam ads.
“The pizza’s a big plus,” Sarah added. “I mean I’m Republican, and my family’s Republican, and my grandpa is like, ‘Do you know anything about what’s going on?’ And I don’t because I haven’t kept up with anything. But whatever they’re [Generation Opportunity] doing, I’d be interested in learning more.”
The Notre Dame tailgate was the second of Generation Opportunity’s events aimed at college students, spreading the word that Obamacare is a lousy deal for the young. Two weekends before, the 501 (c)(4) non-profit hosted a similar party at the University of Miami during the Hurricanes’ homecoming game against Virginia Tech. That party drew national media attention after some of the more than 300 attendees tweeted videos and photos of themselves opting in to Generation Opportunity’s tailgate. -
Socialism may still delight the current horde in the White House, but the Ukrainians are slaying all the old red dragons in Kiev tonight.
The large bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin has been heavily guarded for weeks in the square where it is mounted on a marble pillar. It seems the crowds finally overwhelmed the military and pulled it down with ropes and cable. -
Snoopy Happy Dance on ice skates. Packers won 22-21 in snowy, frosty Lambeau Field with the temp around 11 above. Brrr. At least everybody could see most of the playing field most of the time, unlike at games in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia that were covered in a blizzard. There the players were dashing through the snow after the groundskeepers shoveled off the line markers repeatedly. Guess those were a return to classic football games. 🙂
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Karzai signed a security agreement with Iran but refuses to sign one with the US. Yup, Bonnie Prince Barry’s “reset” of foreign relations is paying off big time.
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I reached a milestone today – I walked my first 5K on the treadmill, and I did it in under an hour.
I had a cramp in my left foot in the beginning, and I almost stopped after a few laps because I thought I was pushing the hip/back, but I slowed down the pace and after a while I felt great. I almost stopped after 30 minutes of walking, not wanting to push too much, but thought I’d see how far I could go. The last few laps, I really wanted to quit. I made the whole 5K, and I don’t feel bad at all. I’ll probably take an anti-inflammatory just as a precaution, but I’m doing a lot better than I thought I would. -
Bravo, Tedtam
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Now, if I can just keep the bbq fire going.
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TT, sounds like you have made so much progress since your back went out. Plus you are still able to do your job AND keep the home fires burning. Well, maybe not that last thing…
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Thank you, Governor Perry, for keeping Texas out of Medicaid expansion.
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I made some saw dust today cutting out the parts for the next wood project. It was darned pleasant outside, 3 layers of shirts and some warm boots and I was neither hot nor cold and had complete freedom of movement.
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#86 That was the plan all along. The ACA was meant to fail; a means to an end and Medicaid will become the “single payer” system the Marxist-in-Chief wanted all along.
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Is Medicaid completely free to enrollees, or is there a copay for a service, or a premium to enroll?
I know nothing about Medicaid, but I am on Medicare with a CIGNA backup. Medicare charges me about $400 per quarter, and pays 80% of the charges if they approve them, after my deductible is met. I don’t even remember what my deductible is, because I met it so early this year. Then CIGNA may pick up the remaining 20%, if it is for a service they also approve, and after I’ve met their deductible.
I have paid into Medicare my entire working life, and it really p!sses me off that foreigners can sign up for Medicare by paying only a somewhat higher premium than I do. -
#86 M42: from your linkie
The good news, if you want to call it that, is that roughly 1.6 million Americans have enrolled in ObamaCare so far.
The not-so-good news is that 1.46 million of them actually signed up for Medicaid. If that trend continues, it could bankrupt both federal and state governments.So out of the 1.6 who have managed to signup of Ocare, only 540,000 actually paid the full freight. What an effing disaster. It is bad now and will get drastically worse by this time next year.
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There is no guarantee you pay the full freight if you don’t qualify for Medicaid. (I thought they admitted they have no way to verify?) — aren’t there subsidies for regular insurance available if you claim a low income?
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I just finished watching the last leg of “The Amazing Race”. There’s always at least one couple where the man just emotionally beats up on his wife/partner. That couple was one of the last three, and I was so hoping they didn’t win. I really didn’t want that jerk to be rewarded for not encouraging his wife when she was trying so hard to do well.
They came in last on the last leg, where there were only three teams competing. I wanted the woman to win, but was glad her husband was disappointed. When the host asked about how their three children were going to feel, after watching how they ran the race, “How will your children feel about how you ran the race?” I saw the woman trying to hide her pain. Her kids will see their father berating her on national TV. And when she apologized for disappointing him, he said nothing but put his arm around her and gave this wiss eating little grin to the camera, as if to say “I can’t say the truth right now.”
Jerk.
Jerk.
Jerk.
One year it was a father constantly tearing his daughter down. I don’t know if it’s worse getting it from the father or the husband.
But, on the other hand, I cheered on the deaf kid and his mother the year they ran. They were awesome together, and they received no special treatment – which is how they wanted it. -
Oh, he did show some level of respect for his wife, when she dropped her ice pick and had to use only one pick and her shoe cleats to climb an ice wall. He had to use two picks, so he knew how hard it was. He didn’t say diddly squat to her after she came out on top of the glacier.
Not even “Good job, honey, I’m proud of you for not giving up.”
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