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Saw eternal last night,

For me it felt flat on almost all fronts. The eternals don’t receive enough character development for them to matter. Especially not to care one way or another about their arguments and loyalties.

Also the game of thrones stark brothers seem to possess chemistry or charisma in there roles at all.


It’s not that the movie is terrible it’s just at a level of okay literally throughout the whole film with no peaks or valleys of excitement.

So the new job is great. However I need to select my health care benefits. The company promised 100% coverage for medical and 80% coverage for dental and vision.

The fine print is they will cover a maximum of 850 dollars a Month for health care (god it’s expensive), 15 for dental and 3 for vision.

The part that’s messing with my groove is somehow looking at my possible options I swear that despite paying 850 a month which I swear is more than what my last job paid, the coverage is somehow worse. Slightly higher deductible and a slightly higher maximum out of pocket. I can’t wrap my head around how this is possible.

Similarly the dental benefits seem worse for the same money.
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In South Africa a waiter would come to the table with the card machine and you go around the table one by one and pay your share.

In America the waiter takes the card and goes to the back and does the bill. It complicated things to an absurd degree. Also besides having to calculate tip, which is billed separately to the food bill (also drives me nuts) they don’t include tax in the price of anything, which also complicated the maths.


Some places have upgraded to have technology, I think often because of covid to let you pay by a phone website or something which is easier.

I despise sponsoring people’s bills at restaurants in America. The etiquette is to split the bill however many ways. The thing is I don’t drink. So it’s not unusual for others to be 2 or 3 or even 4 drinks/cocktails in to my one beer or soda.

Which means when the bill gets split equally I’m sponsoring 25% of everyone’s drinks.

Also I hate sharing plates gaps style food. The dishes that are good you get one bite off, and for every dish that is good you try one that is average or just bad.

I guess on the whole, despite having a great time tonight (I enjoyed the company) I really regret spending that much money on what was really just an average dinner.

How is this possible. The gun he carried, I thought it was clear cut that if nothing else he owned it illegally? How can there be no punishment at all?

Had to drill pilot holes but I have a couch