My Least Favorite Day Of Entire Year & Losing My Voice - Eating Chic-fil-A / Celebration After Dark
Celebration Florida March 2025
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begins with the leaf blower right over
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there. As the recording of this
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Wednesday, March 26,
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2025, I have moderately lost part of my
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voice. And I really think it's due
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to stress-like conditions on my
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brain and
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worrying. the last day or two,
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especially this
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morning. Yesterday, I was giving it a
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lot of thought.
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Also, or I was hanging out with my
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friend yesterday, Alex, who was in the
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van TNT with me, the new Threat in
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Florida for a few years. We did some
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touring
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together. We went around Orlando and we
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were hanging out, catching up, did a lot
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of talking.
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But I really do think the stress of this
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being my tax
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day took its toll on me a little
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emotionally. It's all year
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long I am constantly thinking of the day
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I have to do my taxes and today was that
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day. Welcome everyone. Adam
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the Woo here.
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spent the day at the accountant with the
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accountant this morning. It was like it
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was the morning time. I didn't spend all
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day. I was stressed that I was not going
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to have enough in my
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savings to put away basically what I do
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because I'm self-employed. I put 30%
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onethird let's say
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33%. Give or take a little bit of how
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much I make each month and I put that in
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a separate savings account. And I'm
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always wondering if that's going to be
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enough. And that was, you know, what I
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what I was thinking about the last, you
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know, yesterday, day before, and then
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today. And I got the total. And I did
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have enough did have enough to pay what
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I what I needed to pay Uncle Sam. So,
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the IRS has got their
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money. Used to be I had to send a
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cashier's check, which was even more
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stressful because I would overnight it.
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I would get
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the delivery confirmation, all that.
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Now, they can just auto withdraw it from
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your bank account. And seeing that
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amount of money pulled out of your bank
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account, it's really uh it's really
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something. Yeah. Taxes,
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right? All right. I'm going to do a
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little walk and talk. Hopefully, this
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hot coffee will soothe the throat. I'm
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inviting you to join me. Shall you?
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I am really happy that this is where I
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live. I think Celebration Florida is a
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good good
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spot. Plant roots be here in the
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future. Again, a lot of international
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traveling coming
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up from there. I already had Yeah. Next
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month and the month after that booked
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and I was waiting on the continual or
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the months after that. So, I've already
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got April uh trip international trip to
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a country. in a different country. In
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May, another country. The April trip
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will be so far will be the farthest
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flight I've ever done in one in one
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taking. I'm going to be flying to
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California to
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LA. And originally, I was going to fly
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in on like the
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4thish, actually the 3rdish. And I've
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pushed that back, I think, till around
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the 5th or 6th. And I'm just going to
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have a one-day layover in LA. And then
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I'm just gonna get a hotel, relax, and
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then the next day have my gargantuan
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flight and kind of jump into that and go
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to a country I've never been to and very
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distant from where I am right now.
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Looking forward to that. And then May, I
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got another country I'm be spending a
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couple weeks in.
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But now that I know how my finances are
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because I like to to book things ahead
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of time, go ahead and pay for hotels and
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flights. A lot of times I wing, you
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know, just kind of go with the flow on a
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lot of things, but I do have some sort
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of a game plan as far as booking the
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flights and, you know, rental cars and
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hotels and things. I try to anyway. So,
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I think in the next couple days, I'm
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going to go ahead and book my June and
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July countries. And they're going to be
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they're going to be good ones, too.
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Now that again, Uncle Sam, Mr. Uncle
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Sam. Is he a Is it He's a mister. I
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mean, I don't know what other title he
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would be. Just Uncle Sam now that he's
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got his Cash Ola uh for this year. And I
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know what I have. I know what I have to
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I know what my budget is. I know what I
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have I can
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utilize. I can uh can move on with
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future plans for the rest of the year.
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I've learned my lesson and I learned
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from experiences, if you will, on make
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sure if you're self-employed. So, anyone
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that's watching that does similar things
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like I do, I'm not sure how other
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self-employment works, but if you're
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doing kind of what I do and with the
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YouTube thing, keep in mind that once
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you start making a little bit of a
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sizable income and that becomes your job
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or even enough where you have a a
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supplemental income that that is going
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to be taxable. And I learned back in
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2015, 2016 was the first year that I
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made enough to really be on the IRS
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radar. And I was surprised on how much I
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owed. I had no money saved. And it
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really took me by surprise. So I learned
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then to to what to do. And that has, you
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know, has progressed since then. Doing a
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little better now than I was in 2015.
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But that was the eye opening
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experience. So just keep that in mind if
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you're if you're starting off or if
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you're getting to that first that first
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step and you're wondering how how all
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that works or taxes work.
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My my method is to put about onethird of
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what I make every month away. And
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usually after write offs that I have the
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write- offs, it drops what I owe a
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little bit to less just a little bit
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less. than that. So, I have a little bit
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money left over from that one-third that
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I put away every month. And I give
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myself a little a little cushion and a
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little spending money. So, I'm almost
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like paying
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myself each year after the taxes are
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done. I got a a little extra because I I
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save a little more than I probably
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should have. But again, you just never
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know how it's going to work and you
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never know if you're going to have
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enough. And that's where that's just
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what I stress about all the time. So I
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can be when it comes to, you know, when
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it comes to the IRS, I can be stress
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free for a couple more months before I
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start planning planning next
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year. A breath of fresh air, a weight
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off my
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shoulders. Said I was not going to I was
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I was done with that subject, but I just
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Yeah, I feel so good right now. I feel
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good. This stressful
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day has come and
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gone, and it won't be around till 2026.
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Just sitting here watching the ducks
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splashing around. It's a good day.
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Definitely first world problems right
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now. It's pretty pretty ridiculous, but
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Oh, you're kind of you're kind of in
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your own situation, whatever your
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situation
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is. Now, when I worked retail, obviously
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they take they take money out. You get
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the W2. I get I think it was W2 that you
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get the end of each year you would take
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it to a tax service or do the do the do
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the do the stuff online and you would
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get a little bit of money back. I
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haven't gotten money back in a very long
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time obviously what I was saying about
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you know putting away some money so that
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when I do pay what I owe I can kind of
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pay myself
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back but I used to never have to worry
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about that. It was always kind of
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through the employer and then just doing
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the tax tax thing online or a tax
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service
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person. But I'm pretty thankful and
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pretty
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grateful, as weird as it sounds, to make
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enough to pay
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taxes. So there's a silver lining. I
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mean, I'm not happy coughing over a
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bunch of cash to the government,
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but if I didn't make anything, they
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wouldn't get anything. So, I'm content
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with I'm content with
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it. Wish they didn't take as much, but
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yeah. What can you do? Sun will be
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setting
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soon. Brought Mini Marge down here, so
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I'm going to cruise around in the golf
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cart. I'm going to get some dinner. Have
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a little celebr
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celebratory dinner.
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in
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celebration. I might just go to Publix
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though, get some food, take it back to
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my house, watch a movie. Be a very chill
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day. The sunset looks awesome, right?
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Look at
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that. Beautiful. Florida sunsets are
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great. Mostly because of the cloud
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formation. So you have the sun to bounce
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off
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of. At least that's my opinion on it.
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Guess the sun will kind of ricochet off
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the
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clouds. This is the golf course here.
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I've never played real golf, only mini
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golf, but who knows? Maybe one day when
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I'm much older and I don't leave town
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and I don't travel, I have a golf course
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in the town I live
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in. This house has their Easter stuff
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up. Easter's the next big holiday coming
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up in the future. They also decorate for
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Halloween and Christmas. A lot of the
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houses decorate for the major holidays
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here in town.
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You know, it's been a while since I've
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been to Chick-fil-A. Maybe I'll get some
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Chick-fil-A. I'm going get some
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Chick-fil-A. All right, I have ordered
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and paid and now I'm looping around to
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the meal delivery zone. Very efficient
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here. Very efficient.
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Wonder how many people that live in
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celebration take their golf carts.
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Glorified golf carts.
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They're gym E2s or E4s or E6s through
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the drive-thru here. I'm sure a few do.
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The drive-thru, they have it where they
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could just walk in and out of there.
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It's a great drive-thru. So, they walk
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out. There's two drive-through lines.
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They can pass by me, go to the other
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person, and they can just walk right
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back in here. It's genius. All right. I
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got a little high sea.
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Got to find a place to eat this. There's
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the sunset there. Look at that. Looking
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nice. Very nice. I had to stop and take
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a look at the water tower that has no
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water. It's definitely uh mixed opinions
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on whether there's water in there, but I
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saw them doing construction on this once
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and they had that removed and I can't
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imagine what that purpose that would
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serve if it did have water in it. So, I
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think it's just kind of the
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iconic water tower of Celebration right
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off of Highway 192 that has no water in
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it. If there is water in it, I stand
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corrected, but pretty sure there's no
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water in
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it. I'm going to go find a place to eat.
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I was thinking about eating in the cart,
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but I think I'm going to go over towards
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the lakefront and find a
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bench. It's too nice. It's too nice
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outside not to eat outside.
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I have my usual picnic table that I've
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sat and ate at. Well, we'll say usual,
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the one I've gone to more than the other
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ones. Everyone's out at
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night and that picnic table is utilized.
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So, I'm going to walk over here to
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another one. Oh, is that cool? The gator
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out there. I haven't seen cool in a
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while. I haven't seen where I haven't
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seen any gators in the pond
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recently. Well, the lake, not a pond,
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but body water. This one's
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available. There's even a barbecue grill
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if I wanted to do a little grilling.
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A pretty nice view. It's kind of
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obscured by that palm tree right in the
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middle, but very beautiful the sunset
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there. Hello down there,
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squirrel. I don't think you're supposed
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to have
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any of the waffle fries. I don't know.
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You're probably tempted. Waffle fries
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here. Mac and cheese.
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wrap, which I might have to put this
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back on. Take that
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home. Probably have that a little later
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or maybe for some leftovers cuz I also
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got
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this, which is the chicken
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sandwich here with
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bacon. This is what we're dealing with.
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celebration of my taxes being paid for
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2025. I'm happy. This is like golden
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hour out right now, too. Well, probably
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a little bit after golden
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hour. Not magic. Some they call it magic
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hour, but golden hour. Chick-fil-A
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time. I do like their waffle fries. I
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don't know.
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It's kind of neat that they like take
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the potato, slice it, and they just mash
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it in a little waffle
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maker. Oh, Chick-fil-A sauce.
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Also, they asked, "What kind of sauce do
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you want?" I said, "What do you
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recommend?" And then I looked over at
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the menu. Chick-fil-A sauce. So,
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Chick-fil-A sauce for the win.
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That's one thing about Florida,
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especially around a lake at dusk and
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post dusk. Mosquitoes also feels really
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good outside right now. However, I've
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noticed in the last day or two during
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the day, it's not hot, but I can
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definitely feel the humidity levels are
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starting to rise a little bit. I have no
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plans on being here a whole heck of a
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lot during the the prime summer
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months. I want nothing to do with
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summers here. So, I travel as much as I
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can and then be home in the good months.
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But then again, I'm never home in the in
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the good weather months either.
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That is good. The
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bacon bacon chicken
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sandwich. Chick-fil-A is on point. They
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know what they're doing. They know how
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to make a good
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sandwich, good service.
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Very quick getting to that
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drive-thru. Probably shouldn't have got
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this. Putting it back in the bag. It's
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going in my
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fridge. That Chick-fil-A was under
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construction for a while. Fact. I don't
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know if I've been in
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there since the construction's been
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finished. It was under construction for
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like six
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months. That might have been the first
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time I've gotten food from there. Gosh,
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I can see all the mosquitoes in front of
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me. Make this quick. I don't know if it
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shows up on camera. There's like little
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gnats and mosquitoes
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there. Something about I don't know if
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like my blood type, but mosquitoes find
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me. If there's a mosquito anywhere in
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proximity of me, it will land on me and
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devour my flesh. My fries in there, too,
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with the wrap. We'll take that home. Eat
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a little later, but I am going to polish
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this off as I'm
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walking. any mosquitoes out here. Man,
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they're
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wild. They they once they knew I was in
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that section, they told their friends
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and they all started to congregate
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around me. Yeah. I love when the night
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starts to rear its head, you start
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hearing all the insect
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day. Their mac and cheese is really
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good.
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Really good.
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Recommend. Chick-fil-A's mac and cheese.
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Tasty. I don't know if I've ever had it
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before. Glad I got it. Chicken sandwich
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is always on
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point. The mac and cheese though.
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Tasty. Tasty mac and
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cheese. Nighttime in
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celebration after
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dark. All right. I don't think I'm going
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to start heading
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back. Eventually make it back to my
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place. Just snacking on these waffle
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fries, cruising around. Celebration
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after dark after dark after
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dark after dark and celebration. I have
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returned home and decided I'm going to
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spend some time in the corridor goons
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playing a little old school NES Mario 2.
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I don't play Mario 2 as much as I play
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Mario 1. It's been a while. I got all my
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Nintendo games down there. Got these
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gaming chairs. This one's got the
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pillows in it. I'm going to sit over
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there and play a little Mario 2. All
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right, let me go with
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time. Been a while since I played Mario
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2. To be honest, I don't even remember
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how. There you go. I can pick up the the
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guys. It's been a long time since I
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threw Mario 2 on. Mario one. I used to
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play all the
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time. Going in the door. I don't
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remember much of Mario
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2. Throw the onions at these little
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guys. The bird. The jumping
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bird. Oh, into the door. Where's this
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lead? I'm in the night
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zone. A coin
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there. Oh, Luigi. Oh, there's a one
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This is how I'm spending the evening of
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my tax
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day. Oh, can I go this way? Yeah, it's
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up
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here. It only knocked off one section of
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it. That's how you do
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it. Oh, take that little buddy. Oh, I'm
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so sorry.
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There's no
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in. Oh, was I supposed to bring that
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with
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me? Oh, I
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was. It's this guy that throws the eggs.
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I have a time
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limit. Let's
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see. And then there's the egg. And then
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I go in here.
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Yeah. Let's go. Bonus
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chance. Oh, it's like I'm in
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Vegas. Please select player. How about I
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think this is Princess Peach. Not sure
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what she's called.
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And Oh, look at that. It's like
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a Oh, I'm supposed to get Oh.
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I think I got to get on that magic
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carpety
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thing. That's it. Game over. And that's
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going to do it for today. Thanks for
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watching. I'm pretty happy to have my
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taxes done and out of the way. I always
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try to do them the very end of March. I
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don't wait till the last minute on April
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15th. That would even stress me out even
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more. Stressful enough as it is. But I
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got my taxes
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done. Good for another year. Thanks for
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watching. I'll see you in the next
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video.