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    *** Cyclone Fanatic Cereal Tournament: Round of 64 ***

    Grape nuts made the tourney? Must have won their conference tournament. My old man would mix grape nuts and all bran together for breakfast. All of us kids and my mother (and both sets of grandparents) would refer to that as "sticks and rocks".
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    Coolest Thing Made in Iowa

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    FTC Bans/Voids Non-Compete Clauses

    Some of the restrictions on those agreements are pretty ridiculous. Like when I worked for my last company, they had clauses that appeared to indicate I couldn't be anywhere that had building materials in it after I left for 2 years. Only 2 months to go until I can reenter society...
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    New water heater...

    $10k seems awfully high. What are they going to correct that was done wrong? Is there piping that needs to be reworked? Venting that needs to be changed? Are you switching from electric to gas (or vice versa) that requires a new service to be run? Even with that, $10k is too high. I know I...
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    Nostalgia - Childhood Toys

    We lived at the top of a hill with a cul de sac at the bottom. Yee haw!
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    Ok ok I admit my shameful secret. I kinda like the Cybertruck

    It's a wannabe DeLorian except nobody's made a movie about it being a time machine. Throw in a flux capacitor and I'm in, though.
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    Most OKish Town in Iowa

    Heck, my parents told me it was Skankeny when I was a small child 30 years ago.
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    Harbor Freight

    Wish I could find it, but some guy added names to his toolboxes. Washington, Grant, Pershing, Eisenhower, etc. Great stuff.
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    Cyclone - Baby Bash & T Pain

    Yeah, there was a guy on my gf's floor in Friley that had a bass guitar and would only play the riff from Hash Pipe. Got old quick.
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    First family vacation in Florida

    You haven't lived until you've driven past a burning car at 3 am in ATL ...
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    First family vacation in Florida

    I live in BHM area. You're lucky it was just a dirty sock on the north side of town.
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    2024 solar eclipse

    My neighbor is a pilot who owns his own plane. Maybe we can ensure we're above the clouds on Monday...
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    Dumbest thing you dealt with today?

    Gotta love licensure... Especially multi state with different registration cycles...
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    Bridge Collapses in Baltimore

    I could the you about some high school parties out on Beaver Island...
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    Food in QC

    Asserting dominance. I like it.