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BBP
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I'm quite a busy little bee right now. Saturday I came home from BF, Sunday I delivered the first round of papers and volunteered at a block party
selling drink coupons, today I delivered the second round of papers (heavy books with toy ads, 250 g each and over 200 of them, you can do the
math...), then tomorrow I'll have a third batch to deliver, and on top of that my father is planning a visit to The Hague for Wednesday.
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polydigm
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I hope you guys are well, I'm doing okay. Just dropping by quickly. I've been busy with family stuff, work, music and the garden.
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BBP
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Hi Poly, how are you?
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BBP
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Just had BF's birthday...
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BBP
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Absolutely nothing of interest happening here. Which is great since after the business of the past 2 weeks, I could use a break...
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BBP
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I'm increasingly thinking of closing down the Goose... there's not much here anymore...
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aquagoat
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I would understand that decision, with only three of us coming more or less regularly. Even though I would sadden me.
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BBP
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Membership has been opened up for about a year or two, but people don't find us. Spammers do, hoo boy.
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BBP
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I'm rather stiff after yesterday's rain stroll...
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BBP
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Hey I haven't told anything about our trip to The Hague...
Well it was exhausting. Dad had rented bicycles to get around (dead cheap, less than 4 euros for a whole day) and we went to places that feature in a
book he's writing. Also means I visited 3 cemeteries.
I hate cemeteries.
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aquagoat
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Went to watch Blade Runner 2049, it was really good, much better than I expected.
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BBP
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That's great!
I turned down the captcha settings, it had gotten really hard to read!
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punknaynowned
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hi, I'm sorry it's been so long since I dropped in to say hi.
I have been busy the last couple, or three years.
I'm still tired. Tonight I have a hedache.
Such joy I bring 
I was surprised when I put packardgoose into googlesearch and this site didn't come up.
Lots of FZ links but not the goose.
It worked only when I typed 'packardgoose website'.
And yes, duckduckgo is far better in that regard.
Ah yes! Here: I found a lovely 200Motels promo the other day. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpUGgYA6Ww
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BBP
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Lovely, great find!
Google bans sites that aren't 100% mobile compatible, I guess that's the problem...
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BBP
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Good morning everybody!
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aquagoat
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Good evening, Bonny!
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BBP
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Had a bit of an adventure at DeviantArt.
Somebody had started a Ponzi scheme - hopefully unwittingly - to buy DeviantArt premiums at a discount price. (We're talking about a cake badge, a
picture of a cake on your profile page that costs 80 points per cake. Points are dA currency and 80 points are equivalent to 1 dollar.) They'd
arranged that you'd pay 20 points to get you on a waiting list, and when you reach the top, you get a cake badge.
Some other accounts were made, by people who did leave their name, for other premiums - Golden Membership (more expensive, several thousand points
depending on the length you chose) and llama accessories (basically pictures of bow ties and sunglasses on a Llama badge, which is a picture of a
llama on your profile picture).
I'd been warning against this type of activity for weeks, both to the staff and to the admins, but it took a bit of a shock for things to finally get
noticed. The Cake Badge account had taken a run for it, leaving numerous people without cake badge, and was inactive for months.
Finally the Golden Membership owners realized their mistake, apologized for their actions, blaming them on lack of math skills, and repaying every
dime.
In total I spent a lot of time writing tickets to the support desk of dA, writing forum posts, comments, reports to help desk etc etc... Now I've
joined the repay club and wrote a hopefully helping article on why you shouldn't contemplate starting one of those schemes.
The Gold Membership admin is now busy gathering funds for the $163,75 she owes.
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punknaynowned
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BBP
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It's hard work... I'm using what I can with my excess points and my account to help fill in the financial gaps for them... I don't want to pay dA
money for points, since they should've banned that illegal activity early on instead of letting it run for months.
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BBP
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And now that I've lowered the captcha settings, the bots can read it and are logging in en masse. 
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