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      Good chance the robot was configured too fast & the lion really was pushing out a 5:30 pace.
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  Use your old TPE prints to reduce vibration
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  Tried Mclionhead for this one because the lion kingdom's other name is just too common to matter.  The problem is they dispose of all their probes by burning them up in Jupiter's atmosphere. There's a chance they crash this one into a moon to save on fuel.  The names are supposedly etched rather than flashed on perishable flash.
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 The lion kingdom finally got around to watching Duel from end to end.  It was good enough & short enough to watch in 1 sitting.  Most of the lion generation saw it long ago on TV syndication. It was apparently 1 of the movies UHF stations showed over & over in the 80's. What intrigued lions was the famous Spielberg reflection cameo.  He looked down for most of it.  It reminded lions of times when teachers would look away during a performance & lions would wonder if they should keep going.  Surely the look away influenced Weaver's performance, but it must have happened all the time to a pro. Then of course, there were the famous 70's sunglasses & the 70's living room.  Midcentury nostalgia is bigger than it was 20 years ago when we were being told it was big.  It might be the runaway cost of midcentury houses. Lions may or may not have watched it in the early 80's.  The name originally conjured images of a fast car chase.  The car chase scenes are de
We're back to revising inflation up & reporting it lower every month .  Pretty guaranteed that economic growth is going to be revised lower after being reported higher.  Still, inflation is at the historic 3.5% target.  Economic growth is really government growth in the land of the liberal voting social conservative. Balance sheet & broad fell below the strategically important 7 handle right near the start of the current bear market.  It might be an unprecedented bear market set to continue until the balance sheet is 0 or it might not.  Lions still feel at some point not far below the 7 handle, they'll have to stop tightening to hit inflation targets.
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 Had a packed dream in the final hour.  Dreamed about taking a polaroid, wondering how polaroids became the big thing again, & seeing another person in the polaroid who wasn't visible in all the digital images of the last 25 years.  Polaroids going back for the last 25 years showed the other person in the rooom but digital images did not.  It seemed to be a young man & was a ghostly white.  The lion kingdom was never alone. Then had a long time recurring dream about living in a city.  Was on the 2nd floor of a highrise on a corner.  Had always walked down the side. Then dreamed about eating in some kind of cafe, starting on the bread, & a hottie saleswoman sitting down next to the lion kingdom, trying to sell some kind of annuity.  The lion kingdom wanted a paw hold instead & got a paw hold. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lion kingdom has been searching for a reason why
 Dreamed about buying a gun & then ending up near some public gathering with it, shooting at some walls & furniture, having trouble controlling it, wondering who was going to repair the damage, then trying to smuggle it out without getting discovered.  Eventually took it apart after a long period of not finding a use for it. Noted how heavy it was despite being made of plastic.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, we live in the world invented in the early 2000's.  In the early 2000's, we lived in the world invented in the 80's.  In the 80's we lived in the world invented in the 60's.  That's how lions would describe the pace at which something goes from being just possible to being affordable & common.   It also takes 20 years to discover what product of a time is really useful.  It takes 20 years for modern construction projects to finish. -------------------
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 Dreamed about running a pay-as-you-go marathon where everyone had to stop & pay after 4 hours.  Naturally, having not finished in 4 hours, the lion kingdom was waiting in a long line for a credit card machine.  It was unbearable & lions pondered how many animals were just quitting after 4 hours. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After 2 days & 9 miles of walking, the ankle didn't have any problems with this effort.  Boughts of very long or very intense effort followed by days of long & fast walking gave better results than continuously slow running every day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intriguing how the legacy of WWII continues to be felt in the water mane breaks caused by material shortages of the time.  All the water mane breaks experienced by lions are caused by PVC breaks & soil movement.
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The mighty survey of consumer finances was updated.  The internet loves to pour over it & compare.    https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm   The big question was does anyone actually believe net worth jumped 25% during a time of  a massive disease & shutdown of the economy?  Either many animals really believe it or they somehow equate a migration of wealth out of Calif* to a creation of wealth that didn't exist before.  The Calif* refugees might have sent up the price of houses, but this came at the cost of lower apartment prices in Calif*.   Some notes for lions were once again the Trump years experiencing a flattening of wealth.  Was it because of Mr. T or lingering effects of the Obama years?   They tabulated Asians for the 1st time & found they have double the median income of any other group. Why are so many asians desperate to come to a country with half the income that they make?  Give us your tired, your poor/your huddled masses, but mostly your m
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  Dreamed about being in this spot, seeing the towers in the distance, hazy & warped in the boiling air of a hot day.  In reality, there would never be a desert style boiling air.  It was too close to the ocean so it was manly hazy from water vapor.   There were past dreams about running through the corridors, but they were endless, separated by many copies of the original elevator sections.  They were always crowded with partiers.   The lion would end up waiting for an elevator.  Another dream had a lion heading to the east edge of IV on the way home during sunset.    Although the original towers still stand, there was a big expansion in 2015.  The parking lot was replaced by more housing.  The massive bike farm & grass area was replaced by a new cafeteria.       Intriguing that the bus stop where the lion kingdom's 1st school day away from home began is still there. Those days were a successful failure but it's surprising no-one else wanted to remember their time the
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  The lion kingdom reluctantly downloaded Explorers, finally.  It took several weeks.  That's always a bad sign.  As bad as the internet's taste in movies is, the ones which aren't seeded are usually bad. All lions remember from 40 years ago is the introduction being captivating for 65 minutes only to get completely derailed, the aliens turning out to be complete George Lucas Jar Jar nightmares, & the last 33 minutes being a complete disaster with horrendous music & movie quotes.  Today, it's known for Petaluma where the grass is $3 mil.  Maybe the HD process, modern audio compression, or Phoenix River achieving martyr status would make it more bearable.     What a young lion would have done to have an antigravity machine come in a dream.  It actually looks like an audio circuit. Then we have the Petaluma junk yard which had many scenes. There were many wireframe graphics, imagined to be created by an Apple ][ but really too high in resolution to be less than EG