Tradd
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The UK strain has just been detected in IL for the first time. Someone in the Chicago area who traveled to the UK.

Wow!

I hate the taste of my tap water. What I do is put it in a glass jug in the fridge and let it get really cold. That totally improves the taste. I...

I like Miss Read’s Fairacre series so much better. Have all of them in paperback. There’s about 20 of those. I’ll have to check out Barbara Pym....

Got the NYT digital subscription yesterday and read through the app. Forgot how much I liked it. Worth the $8/month.

Reading the Thrush Green series by Miss Read. Set in a small English village after World War II. Very cozy. Comfort reads. The Hoopla app through my...

My favorite Chinese brand name is Apeman. It’s the brand for cheap, but adequate GoPro knockoff cameras. I got one for $70 off Amazon a few years ago...

Just a thought.

Iris, you might be better off with a thermal urn/pitcher that would keep your water hot. I looked at the kettles on Amazon and I only found one that...

Lovely!

This is pretty much me. Higher utility bills, but not by much. This winter has been pretty mild so far so I've been keeping the heat pretty low. I'm...

When the vent hood over the stove broke in my apartment, I asked the landlord if he would replace it with a vent/microwave combo. He did. I love it....

I may have to get a NYT digital subscription again. Thanks.

I will say the NYT has the best newspaper app I’ve come across. The Trib’s has always been horrid.

IL, I’ve been selling some scuba gear online and the boxes from incoming orders have been recycled for the stuff I’ve sold.

I have a journalism degree and was a reporter for 18 months in the early 90s. I used to love the Chicago Tribune. They’ve gone through a number...

I love percale so will have to check those out for summer.

I’ll be doing an ice diving class this winter. A few years ago there were a bunch of ice fishers that got caught on a big piece of ice that broke...

Happy, losing weight is a good thing! I forgot to ask. Is the OT all one day or spread out over a week?

Happy, sorry to hear about the OT. Other than that, how is the job going?

So sorry to hear that!

Just post whatever you like.

My priority is my diving. Not politics. I double majored in political science and journalism in college. But it’s just gotten to be too much.

12 full kitchen garbage bags (13 gallon) gone. Clothes, non-sensitive papers, a few books, just a whole bunch of crap. Glad to have it gone. I’m beat.

I had some vintage 100% cotton sheets I’d been given a while back that finally wore out. I find jersey sheets, a t-shirt like material to be good. I...

Will your BF even go for a walk in your neighborhood or a local park?

APM, I had no idea so much in CA was still open. Got the opposite impression from the news.

Sold $620 worth of scuba gear today.

Wow. That’s great.

I’m spending a lot more time on a diving forum and diving groups on FB. No politics.

Terry, glad to hear it got taken care of so quickly.

Sorry to see you go, Tammy. I’ve decided I’m staying out of the political stuff. It’s just too much. I’m staying out of it everywhere, not just...

A friend is living in Mexico temporarily. She got her cave diving training down there. She’s in Tulum, on the Yucatán peninsula. Even got her temp...

Partially went through the bathroom before starting work this morning. No diving this weekend so I’m planning on a massive declutter. Actually...

I’m definitely planning on getting it when I’m eligible.

Pitched a pair of pants I don’t like and don’t fit well anymore.

I’m in an affluent Chicago suburb. Nothing going on here.

I’m in favor of the 25th amendment option.

I’d say you maybe want a CPA. Just a guess though.

Good news! Signed onto work computer to do some work and found a message from boss. Said my error rate for last week was a VAST improvement and...

I already am on my own. What’s important to me is a ground floor unit with no steps, due to my knees. I will never live in a upper floor unit again.

You simply add more hot water as needed. It helps that the drain plug is a bit leaky. So as the water has cooled, it’s drained out a bit and I just...

I love hot baths, especially in the winter. LONG hot ones. As in, several hours long. Book/Kindle, phone, something to drink, and often a snack. I...

$600 stimulus in my bank account today. Went into savings.

jp, thanks for the link.

I’ve been doing a lot of industry reading and research in the past week or so. The workload has slowed down a bit with the holidays so there is a bit...

Razz, the only outside thing I do is dive. Last dives were 2.5 weeks ago. Cancelled New Year’s dives due to freezing rain (5 hour drive to Ohio)....

Thank you. I needed to hear that. I am going over everything with a fine tooth comb. Yppej, I have looked online, but nothing right now. Likely...

If you don’t mind saying, which country did your family immigrate from?

Same here.

OMG, I loved those! Especially the berry flavor. That was my senior year of college. Didn't get drunk, though. They were nice and berryish.

Today I got a list of errors I’d made last week. One was big - that I got written up for last Monday. Forgot to mention that had happened. The error...

I don’t know what happened, but boss was a jerk on Monday and actually pleasant the rest of the week. Don’t know if it was the holidays or what. When...

I live in a small one BR condo I rent. 12 years. It was good until I started diving. My gear takes over the place. Now I work from home and the desk...

Signed up for my ice diving class. Late Feb/early March up in Madison.

Terry, so sorry to hear this. Sounds like you really prefer one to the other.

Turkey fajitas?

I hope the trend of people getting outside more continues next spring. I hope more divers continue to dive locally/regionally and realize they...