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That's a sight to behold dilli.:tu:

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:)

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Allow me to introduce Joran Dax :)

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Sounds like a character from a sci fi series.:)

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Well he is in good company the other cats are jadzia ezri and Tobin ;)

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He looks to be well settled in. How long have you had him dilli?

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Just completed the inaugural Swansea Half Marathon, slightly disappointed with my finishing time as I know I can do better but the heat was awful, I hadn't factored that in to it. Still I managed a 10k PB along the way and have just signed up for the Cardiff Half Marathon in a few months get a new PB.

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Well done Russ. Never doubted that you would do what you set out to do.

To make it a double sucess, how is your fundraising target getting on?

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Cheers Jo. I raised £170 from donations directly to my Just Giving page and a few others topped it up to £250 so happy with that :)

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Well done on the fund raising. Nice to know that even more dogs will benefit from your caring nature.

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Well Done Russ.

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Well done Russ :cleader: hope the donations keep coming in :)

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Drew is back home :) he enjoyed his camping trip. The first thing he did when he got home was run a nice big bubble bath then he went straight to bed he was totally shattered.

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Crunchy Frog

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Just delivered the last tranche of the current work pile so me and the OH can now go and have a well earnt rest down in deepest Cornwall (Sennen) for a couple of weeks. Looks like a heatwave is on. :Sun:

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Enjoy your earned rest Heero

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l bet he has his first pint already lined up.:D

http://www.firstandlastinn.co.uk/

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Aiming to get down for lunchtime opening. :LOL:

Gonna need a rest. August is looking very busy. Why can't clients want their work when it's winter?

Still just invoiced for £4K + VAT and another one lined up for £3.5K.

August is toy time. :)

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Hope you and your OH enjoy your break in Cornwall heero. Sun and beer sounds good :) Wishing you a safe journey.

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Thanks Weenie. Going down to see my mother, We're also meeting up with my younger sister and her OH so it's a bit of a family get together.

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I sense a family barbecue in Cornwell :D

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For me, a small bonus in that tomorrow I can watch WWE in HD. Well, you know what they say. Simple things...

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No more working for a week or three and half LOL...

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Enjoy your break Dash as the weathers going to be nice for at least a couple more weeks.

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Mrs Osem coming home tomorrow. :)

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No more misbehaving then.;)

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Enjoy taking it easy :D

That's nice :)

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I was hoping the misbehaving would resume... :erm: :D

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Yes, can't wait. :) It's been a bit traumatic here while she's been away with Osem Jnr #2 having a few unforeseen health problems and a trip to A&E but he's ok now thank the Lord.

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Glad to hear Osem Jnr #2 is better now and so very sorry to hear about the trip to A&E not nice at all when our little one's need urgent treatment no matter what age they are. I bet Osem Jnr is looking forward for Mum to be home, I know my kids miss me when I go away "or so they say" ;)

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Thanks :) Yes it's true, he was very happy when I told him mummy is home tomorrow so that brought a smile to my face. Jnr will be glad to see her but busily tidying his room and their bathroom so as to avoid the 'wrath of mum'... :D

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Glad to hear Jnr is OK Osem, and you will all be excited about Mum coming back tomorrow. :)

My happy thought, my youngest son is taking me out for an Indian meal tonight as a belated birthday present. :):):)

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LOL I wonder how many children get busy tidying their rooms when Mum is due back.

I got my hair done today and I love the new colour reddish/brown so that is my happy thought but I bet my hubby and the boy's don't notice.

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I have dyed my hair red for so long that my husband is convinced I have always had red hair. Tells people that I am lucky not to have gone grey yet. Bless him.
@ weenie. I have not had much time to post these last few days so playing catch-up. Good to hear your son enjoyed his camp. Hopefully he will have good weather for the rest of this break between Primary and Senior school. Such a memorable transition period between being a child and a young man.

@Tinky. Enjoy your belated birthday meal. I love belated presents, it spreads my celebrations over a longer period.

@ Osem glad to hear you will soon have all your family around you. I am sure that any 'wrath of mum'. will be very short lived. :)

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Thanks joglynne, think I will keep getting this colour rather than the brown I usually have done.

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Indian.... yummy. Good lad! :)

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A couple of things :)

I managed to get to my blind group today which was nice. To get out for a day away from hospital means a lot.

My new bt youview box and bt entertainment channels, much better than I expected :)

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That's wonderful dilli that you were able to get out from the hospital today to go to your blind group today.

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Brilliant dilli I bet it breaks the day up.

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Glad to hear that the transport arrived this time. :tu: to them for today and I hope this carries on for your hospital visits as well. :)

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You all seem to going to have a good time, I am off to St Helen's tomorrow for a concert, A guy called James House from Texas

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You off to St Helens Nash? try not to bang on any of the manhole covers after dark ;)

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No fear Peter

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Enjoy :)

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Just bought a Canon 70D with 18-135 lens (as noted in another thread).

My nephew is moving from Canon to another job at the end of the month, so before he left, he got me the above with employee discount - 40% off retail is not to be sniffed at... :D

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Nice camera and discount, is it on Ebay yet :D

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Nah - I've been promising myself a decent camera for ages, and when my nephew offered me this option, it seemed rude not to.... ;)

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I'd been worried that my diabetes had got a bit out of control, and typical male buried my head in the sand. However, GP sent me for blood test last week as nearly a year since had them done, and even though my HBa1c is still high (90 or 10.2), this is down from last year by 20. Last result was 110 or 12.2 so even though it is still over the normal it is at least making progress in the right way.

GP is one of those encouraging ones, he is happy with small improvements as long as they are improvements which this is. I'm quite pleased with this, as it also allays any fears about diabetes causing trouble. Now, question is do I celebrate this result without screwing up the good work?

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I have had a very stressful few weeks.

My mum has been losing weight (not through choice), she thought it might be her stomach ulcer coming back.

So she had a ultrasonic scan, and the Dr said he could see a mass on her pancreas, and of course I was thinking the worse "Steve Jobs came to my mind and if his cash could help him, what change do we have".

She then had a camera down the throat at a private hospital through the NHS, yesterday the guy who done the procedure told her the outcome of it.

While there she mentioned the "Mass" he said it more like a small swelling and its nothing to worry about.

So as you can imagine a huge weight has been lifted, and we can know look forward to our upcoming holiday.

I guess the word "Mass" is a technical term for swelling.

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l am glad your Mum is alright Hom3r as its terrible when things are up in the air and we don't know one way or the other about our loved ones.:tu:

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Just heard that our neighbours insurance is sending out a loss adjuster to do a site visit. I do not know if this is good thing or not as our insurance never sent out a loss adjuster to us, our insurance just requested that we get a tree report done on neighbours trees and forward it along with the boundary survey that states that one of their trees is mainly growing on our land and others straddle over the boundary. The report was forwarded to their insurance stating that the trees need to be removed for the safety both buildings now and in the future. I wonder if this is why the neighbours insurance is sending out a loss adjuster for a site visit. I hope this gets sorted soon as neighbours loss adjuster now has both the tree report and boundary survey for when they do their site visit. The tree report stated many other factors as it was 7 pages long. Fingers crossed we hear a reply soon, just so happy that now both insurances are involved just don't understand loss adjuster site visit when our insurance never sent one.

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Good stuff :tu:

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It can only be a positive thing dilli either way they agree with the reports or say I have nothing to worry about by getting prove to state otherwise and if they do the latter and something did happen as a result of there report then they will be liable I would assume.

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Sounds positive to me.

http://www.cila.co.uk/public/what-we-do

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Home sweet home tomorrow...

Not looking forward to the drive though.

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Well Uncle Peter let me wish you a safe drive home.

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Take Care.

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Thanks weenie & nash M4 - M5 - M6 and some fiddly bits in South Wales to contend with but at least it's not Thursday or Friday.

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Never mind, you will be in your own bed tomorrow night

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Well stuff you M5/M6. Had a very pleasant old-school run up the A49 through Hereford and Shropshire and stood in the sum total of zero gridlock. Best idea for a long time.

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Went to Tesco earlier, put my card in the cash machine, entered my pin and a Windows Host Script error popped up. I found it quite amusing :D

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Drew picked his school bag and I thought "Oh NO" here we go another £30.00 lighter in the old purse department but he surprised me and picked a Nike back pack on sale at £13.49 which of course made me very happy :D

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Nice one Weenie ;)

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Justin bieber getting punched made me feel quite happy

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/30/this-i...-more-4815000/

Last working day for a week (9 days if you include the weekends which I mostly work anyway) alarm has been turned off so hopefully a few days of 7am or later wake ups opposed to the 4.30 usual time :)

Not going anywhere but hoping to get the back garden finished and to a point where I can get my new greenhouse in.

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Enjoy your time off :tu:

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Not hard enough unfortunately.

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Off to my first Detroit Tigers baseball game on Sunday. Early birthday present from the wife. :)

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We spoke to our family last night for 3 hours on the phone as their broadband and phone had been down for over a week until yesterday teatime.:)

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Pleased to hear that den, it is always nice to chat to family for a wee catch up on the day's events or just to hear their voice.

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Yes we usually speak 4 times a week including using Skype and send regular emails to each other.

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My daft dog is chasing bubbles that Drew is making, it is really lovely to watch the pair of them playing in the back garden :)

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Taking Drew to Frankie and Bennys today, we always do this the week before he starts back school. Some son and Mum time :) he is so looking forward to starting the High School whereas I am nervous enough for the both of us.

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Blimey, when does a Scottish school year run from? August to June?

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LOL
This year the holidays were school closes 1pm 25th June and return 13th August.

School holidays
This table shows the school holidays in South Lanarkshire for school session 2014/15.

School holidays 2014/15

Types of holiday listed by month Holiday dates
August 2014
In-service day (all schools) Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 August 2014

Pupils return on Wednesday 13 August 2014
September 2014
In-service day (all schools) Thursday 18 and Friday 19 September 2014
September weekend Friday 26 and Monday 29 September 2014

Pupils return on Tuesday 30 September 2014
October 2014
October break Monday 13 to Friday 17 October 2014

Pupils return on Monday 20 October 2014
December 2014 and January 2015
Christmas/New Year Schools close at 2.30pm on Friday 19 December 2014

Schools re-open on Monday 5 January 2015
February 2015
In-service day - Blantyre, Hamilton, Uddingston and Larkhall area schools including St Athanasius's Primary, St John's Primary (Blackwood), St Mary's Primary (Lanark) and St Patrick's Primary (Strathaven).
Friday 6 February 2015
In-service day - Cambuslang and Rutherglen area Friday 6 February 2015
February break Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 February 2015
In-service day - Clydesdale area schools (except St Athanasius' Primary, St John's Primary (Blackwood) and St Mary's Primary, Lanark) Wednesday 11 February 2015
In-service day - East Kilbride and Strathaven area schools (except St Patrick's Primary, Strathaven) Wednesday 11 February 2015
April 2015
Spring break/Easter
Schools close at 2.30pm on Thursday 2 April 2015

Schools re-open on Monday 20 April 2015*
May 2015
May Day Monday 4 May 2015
In-service day - all schools Thursday 7 May 2015
Local holiday
Friday 22 and Monday 25 May 2015**
June 2015
Summer break
Schools close at 1pm on Wednesday 24 June 2015
*Good Friday falls on Friday 3 April 2015
**Lanark schools will close on 11 and 12 June 2015

As you can see they get too many day's off school IMO.

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They do in England as well. So pleased I never went to a Scottish school as thought of school in August is just wrong, but I dare say it means that Scottish families can get cheap holidays abroad as the holiday premium won't have kicked in until August.

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Nope no cheap holidays as flying from Glasgow price is far more than say from Newcastle or Manchester, we have saved up to £900 flying from Newcastle in the past.

Cinnamon waffle crunch is amazing at Frankie and Bennys :drool:

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So glad it's the weekend, some serious chilling out is called for maybe with the help of bottle of nice Blossom Hill white wine along with Chinese or Indian takeaway tonight. Decided I am going to do nothing at all this weekend apart from CHILL OUT :)

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Back in the land of 1/2 decent broadband compared to the data / communications desert of West Penwith (Cornwall). On the 3G dongle at the moment which manages a reasonable speed but when I've paid VM's bill I'll get the full-fat BB back on line. :)

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Welcome back heero, hope you enjoyed your holiday.

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Yes thankyou Weenie. Only had rain on one day and the first week was really hot. Only downside was the pub's wifi is out after a lightning strike and they haven't had it fixed and my 3Gdongle was playing up so I was effectively off-line for the duration.

Curiously refreshing. :D

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Welcome back old bean and l hope you enjoyed your time down in Sennen.

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Yes thanks Den. We even managed a trip over to Falmouth and of course picked up a few bargains in Trago Mills. :)

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Bought two packs of four bottles of Strawberry & Lime Kopporberg for £8.00 earlier as they were on special offer :) . I don't drink all that often, and I know my limits, but I thought this was too good to pass up :)

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My neighbour 3 doors down had a little girl last week and she is beautiful, you forget just how tiny a new born baby is.

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I've just been handed a litre bottle of Metaxa 7 star.

Happy days!

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Very nice, enjoy Uncle Peter.

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That sounds rather ominous.:)

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Amber nectar from the Greek gods, it's a duty-free must.

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The occupational therapist has just been and gone through what I need to make the bungalow suitable for me needs. As much as I hate the idea of using my wheelchair more she did make some good points and suggestions so I guess i'd better suck it up and all that.

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Best get any work done now and never need to use it rather than need it but have to face a long delay getting the work done. Funding problems can be a bitch to get around. <hugs>

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Reported a fault on my BT landline ( No dial tone ) to BT website. Got a quick series of e-mails on testing updates. Fault fixed within the hour and a call from the exchange engineer to verify fault corrected.

Full marks to BT. :)

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I have had a wonderful day today with Drew. We went out for dinner to Frankie & Benny's (Drew's choice) I must admit I will miss him tomorrow when he starts the High school.

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Well 4:30 tomorrow I'm on holiday, Friday is my mums birthday and Saturday we take my sisters kid to Great Yarmouth. :)

The only not so great thing will be posted if it happens :(

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Even if I do say myself Drew looked very smart today starting his 1st day at the High school. I can't wait for him to come home and tell me and his Dad all about it :)

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Very nice :tu: :)

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Following on from my eyes yesterday, before I even had a chance to park my bum in a chair he was saying the optician should not have sent me to him, he cannot see any reason for him to be involved. He said wait for my routine retinopathy screening in October as it could be the start of that or cataracts. Hopefully neither.

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Well that's the 1st day of High School over for Drew, he loved it but he was a bit shocked when he saw some pupils smoking I have told him to stay away from that area. " When I was at school I would have been one of those pupils at the smokers corner" but will not be telling Drew that ;)

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Because I was the first birthday of the school year, once I turned 16 I was asked to buy the cigarettes for others in my year. I always got the money before I went though.

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Several business invoices are in and paid. Toy budget is released. ( At last!):)

I'm looking at a new Sony Bravia* TV for the front room to replace the Philips Matchline 100Hz 28" that has done sterling service and will go up in the master bedroom. Need a decent new lappy too.

I'm letting the OH choose things starting with "i" It's a long list. LOL

*Picture on KDL42W706BSU gets 5 stars across the board plus connectivity looks good. Richer sounds seem to have the best deal. We'll have to evaluate the sound to see if a bar is needed or if the existing Hi Fi can be roped in. Seen the set in real life and it looks seriously good.

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Yippee loss adjuster coming out on Tuesday, now we will hopefully get some answers ... :hyper:

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Good luck Weenie.