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My wife and I had a date night. After Indian food, we shopped at Target. I tried on shorts in the fitting room. The mirrors afforded me different angles of my Citizen Grand Touring on my wrist and I was blown away. The watch plays big at 44mm and looks like it costs thousands of dollars. Sometimes you don't know how cool a watch looks on you until you see it at an angle you normally don't see.
I bought the shorts, but I didn't even look at the fit. They buttoned around my waist. That's all that mattered.
You can get the perfect body you want but you’ll have to make sacrifices. The obvious one is that your diet, absent of starch and sugar, will have all the excitement of a wet dish cloth. But on a deeper level, remaining diligent on your diet requires that you be an asshole.
Humans love drama because drama distracts us from our empty, hideous, lonely existence. A common way to find drama is to become a fat slob, then go on a crash course in diet and exercise. We thrive on the drama of losing weight (listening to the soundtrack of Rocky), reach our goal, and then we get bored. We look in the mirror at our rock-hard abs and say, "Now what the hell do I do, just stare at my perfect body for eternity?"
A mysterious world traveller from Brazil, in transit to a hotel in Miami, won an eBay auction for my Citizen Promaster. His address was the hotel, which I thought was odd. Then he contacted me and told me to hold the watch for a week and have the shipment “signature only” as he wouldn’t be at the hotel from Brazil for several more days.
I waited, as instructed. Three days after I shipped the watch, the Brazilian contacted me with a request to have the watch redirected by UPS to a “nearby location.”
With all these warning flags, I called eBay and as I guessed they told me to cancel the order and have UPS redirect the shipment back to me (another $12; now I was out $32).
The Brazilian became irate. “I want my watch!” he wrote in a series of belligerent emails. He kept paying me on paypal even though I repeatedly refunded him.
“I want that watch!”
I explained that eBay would not let me sell the watch to him as he broke the rules.
Today he left me my first negative feedback in 10 years. I called eBay. They scoured his crazy messages and assured me the negative feedback would be deleted within 72 hours. I wait for justice.
Meanwhile, I've decided to keep the Promaster. One, it's a cool watch. Two, I won't risk the madman bidding on my watch again.
HBO's hilarious Silicon Valley is showcasing a serious 44mm Rolex on the wrist of T.J. Miller. I don't know the model but I'm pretty sure it's a Rolex. A Google image search reveals T.J. Miller is a watch man as I've seen about 3 others than the one featured on Silicon Valley.
You try to be personable in the classroom and in general. You tell jokes, you tell personal stories. You want to be funny, hip, and cool like Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais. In the process the wall breaks down between you and your audience, your students.
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