Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

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what kind of pre-season super cup is played in December??!?

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I won't be like ODF and sit on my ass for 39 bowl games and 8 hours of Ryan Seacrest.  Well ODF will move for food.

I'm glad that Bushie is treating himself to a little Tulsa vacation on Papa Bushie's dime this New Year's Eve though. Lord knows he needs it!

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Oh, you've started paying for your $200 Tulsa cable package? Good for you, friend. I apologize and take back my snarky comment.

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Mods, if you could merge the thread here into this one, that would be greatly appreciated.

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Bushie please don't go to work on five hours of sleep for no reason.

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Isn't it weird that Bushie spends months focusing on Christmas, but then a week before Christmas he's already moved on to focusing on focusing on New Years?

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Bushie, I never thought I'd say this to you, but you gotta start focusing on Christmas.

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As a fake Catholic, I find Bushie's views on my Pope deeply offensive.

Also the fact that Bushie is waking up hours early to watch a clock on a website turn to midnight ranks in the top 5 weirdest Update things, I think.

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Bushie's sister-in-law dropping truth bombs all over his facebook wall at the moment. So beautiful.

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I don't know what pistachio pudding is, but it sounds intriguing. Also sort of sounds like something my people would make, but with a shit ton of rose water mixed in.

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oh god no

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am i understanding this correctly:  bushie is going to get up at 4am to watch some clock on a website?  but he only cares about when the 'civilized' countries ring in the new year.

You mean you're not going to do that?

im probably not going to ring in the new year in my own time zone.

It's doubtful Bushie will either, in spite of what he says his plans are.  Once he watches the Kiribati clock change at 4am, he'll already have started focusing on Easter.

Yup, he seems to "focus" on holidays way too early and then he gets sick of them before they're even over. He was done with Christmas by mid-afternoon today, despite the fact that Christmas season is supposed to go through early January. I fear his poor Christmas tree will be sitting on the curb by tomorrow morning.

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Apparently Our Dear Friend and I were in the same state today. AMA.

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Are these the same people who are going to Africa to translate the Bible despite everyone in the country they're missionarying speaking English?

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Bushie, does God still literally speak to you?

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What do you mean by "visions"?

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What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

I guess I'm just curious if these visions/dreams exclusively happen while you're asleep, or while you're awake as well.

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What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

I guess I'm just curious if these visions/dreams exclusively happen while you're asleep, or while you're awake as well.

Whenever God speaks.  Could be while awake, could be while sleeping.

I'm still not entirely sure what you mean by God "speaking." As someone who God does not speak to, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Do you hear a disembodied voice saying words to you? Do you see Him?

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Yes, I remember that episode well. I'm curious if God still speaks to Bushie that directly, or if it's exclusively in dreams and "visions" these days.

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Bushie is, of course, correct about mormanism.

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I don't think anyone on the forum disagrees that Bushie's health and, indeed, overall quality of life would dramatically improve if he developed a light opiate addiction.

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I'm very sorry that you missed the New Years celebration in your homeland of Kenya, Bushie.

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I mean, Memphis is hardly New York City. And we're about the same population as OKC, so the comparison in pretty apt. Mostly, middle class people here live in one story detached houses on quarter acre lots. You have the green space out back for the dog to run around and there are trees everywhere. What's the utility in being any less dense that that?

     Yeah, I live in a city that has 17,000 people/sq mi. Let me tell you, there are no issues with personal space. Outside of a couple of main arteries, the city is essentially empty. Unless we are talking about some place like Cairo or Tokyo, I don't get how elbow room is an actual issue.

Keep in mind that people in Oklahoma are two to three times the size of your normal American.

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Happy 2015, Updaters!!!!

Thank you old friend! Happy 2015 to you as well! Please drive home safely!

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Bushie has always been sort of a Rainman-esque savant when it comes to stumbling upon jobs that always seems to let their employees volunteer to work for less than 40 hours a week.