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1.3 million tickets to the games left unsold.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-tickets-idUSKCN10E21H

Air quality is apparently worse than the water quality? 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016-rios-air-more-deadly-than-its-water-study-finds-a7169371.html

If this doesn't work, weed shops are aplenty in these parts and I have tons more sales/smoking experience than these hippies.

What's the requirement to work in a shop up there? CO requires registration/card carrying which authorizes you to check/verify ID's and also sell. I only know this as I was recently looking for some part time gig on the weekends for some extra travel money and there were like 4 shops all hiring part time bud tenders near Boulder.

You just have to be over 21.

The state is working on a class and servers license, much like is required for serving alcohol, but they haven't gotten around to it yet and it'll probably be a while. Once they do, it is likely to be modeled very closely after the alcohol server's license, so a two hour (or online) class that costs about $15, a short test, and a $20 fee for a permit that lasts 5 years.

I think it was like that in y1 here. Now, even part time gigs just for weekend retail on the side require you to be "badged", whatever the hell that means ( http://boulder.craigslist.org/lab/5707898432.html )

If this doesn't work, weed shops are aplenty in these parts and I have tons more sales/smoking experience than these hippies.

What's the requirement to work in a shop up there? CO requires registration/card carrying which authorizes you to check/verify ID's and also sell. I only know this as I was recently looking for some part time gig on the weekends for some extra travel money and there were like 4 shops all hiring part time bud tenders near Boulder.

Austrailian basketball player tweeting terrible village conditions using the hashtag #IOCLuxuryLodging 

http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/sports-life/andrew-bogut-rio-2016-aussie-nba-star-rips-olympic-village-team-bosses-creates-own-shower-curtain/news-story/f9082c007d0a855b7405a380ccf0671f

Sano,

Any confirmation on today's mass protests that are being reported? Is the unrest being portrayed actually accurate?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article92947932.html

Only 19 of the 31 orgy village buildings passed inspection:  http://deadspin.com/only-19-of-the-31-olympics-athletes-village-buildings-h-1784288452

Because we're one week out and it's too late to abort.


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/rio-2016-water-pollution-virus-risk-danger-swimming-sailing-rowing-chance-of-infection-almost-a7165866.html Warning - auto play video on site.

Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by the Associated Press.

I know they've already fired all of the security force, are having boat-docks collapse, have had athlete orgy village fires start & laptops stolen from rooms, Zika, robbed/mugged paralympians, robbed tourists, and of course, the disease water.


The next 2 weeks are going to be quite the train wreck. Already reading /r/apocalympics2016 daily.

Apparently the gathering of the juggalos is coming to Denver in 2017.

Fuck you, Monday.

Duuuuuude I want to go to that so bad!


Someday.

You've a couch or air mattress in boulder if you want it. You might go alone into the breach.

Apparently the gathering of the juggalos is coming to Denver in 2017.

Fuck you, Monday.

Kept seeing people tweeting about BLM protests. My naive Coloradan self thought at a glance they were crazy rednecks in texas protesting the federal government & bureau of land management (what BLM is). Coupled with a guy in camo being the first suspect because he was OPEN CARRYING A FREAKING AR-15 AT THE EVENT, and it made sense.

Nope. Turns out it stands for black lives matter, too, apparently. Now anyways.

Makes "I went to a BLM Area to shoot some rounds today" have a much, much darker meaning now. Especially considering 75% of shots I've fired in my lifetime have been in BLM areas/land. Snowmobile/ATV usage, too.

T minus 2 hours until I drive out of my hated birthstate to once again move to Colorado.

22 hour drive. Doing a straight shot.


No. sleep. til. Boulder.

I came to peedee after it, but I have close family in Orlando. Specifically, my dad's cousin but more like an uncle figure. He's not in the closet, but no one in my closed minded tennessee family are aware of his lifestyle.

I lived with him for 2 summers from 16 - 17. He got me a job at disney, working in concessions at blizzard beach (mini donut stand across from beach haus for those of you that have been.) This was in 2002 & 2003. Prior to the first summer, he came out to me. I'm apparently the only one he's ever come out to. His method is "if anyone asks ill tell them the truth", but being a southern family, no one has the gall to ask him directly and it's don't ask don't tell. I endearingly refer to him as my guncle, or gay uncle. He's awesome.

Over those summers he was a member of a gay bowling league. Took me to said league every tuesday. Made some lifelong friends through that, all older than me. Still text a few of them a few times a year.

Guncle's type are latinos. Specifically, barely legal latino boys. He likes em young and bronze. I'm not one that ever has anxiety about anything, but the morning of I was freaking out when I found out the details of it. Luckily, my old curmudgeon guncle was home in bed & was shocked the next morning.

One of my friends from the bowling league had a close friend that didn't make it out. One of guncle's friends & his partner were there. The partner didn't make it out. His friend was hit, but had no idea until about 40 minutes afterwards - he was bleeding profusely and thought it was all someone else's blood.

Guncle lives a few blocks over from orange avenue. Have another friend there whom I met in college via WoW - he was a guildie. Have drank and hung out with him multiple times in the 407. He heard the shots from his house.

I was pretty shaken by this. I was a hour+ away from the aurora theater when it happened, at a different midnight showing. Even then, it didn't really hit me deeply. This one fucked me up for a while. I know some business owners of a casket company in Orlando. NYT, AP, and others were on site and taking pics and interviewing the owners in the aftermath. Had pics of their inventory up on the "this week in pictures" sections, too.

Just writing this out now all because I can. Shits fucked. There's so much more I could say and discuss, especially on the times. My first pride parade/events were in orlando. o-town was my first gay life exposure. hell, summers with guncle and the culture shock from it really shaped me into the person I am today.

I thought abotu throwing something up in or kill me, decided against it. So there's my very miniature discussion/perspective.

We're fucked as a species.

Moving back to Boulder. All that's left to do is decide the day. Tentatively next weekend, but work may change that for a trip up to Richmond before i go.

Looking forward to winter again. Especially the mountains - will be doing the Epic Local pass this year, mostly for Beaver Creek.

Edit: They misspelled it. Bugs me.