Tradd
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At this point, we’re about ready to wash our hands of her, including the friend that lives down the street from her. The family can deal with since...

1. Make all the CBP port contact info on their port page on CBP website exactly the same. Some just have phone numbers. Others have all the dept...

Fresh mangoes. The inspection coordination on air frt to get it done soon enough so the fruit doesn’t spoil - oy veh!

Well, I thought it was just pride until she said she is refusing to go to granddaughter’s wedding because she can’t get there under her own power.

Once I submit the entry electronically, it’s usually cleared within a few minutes. However, certain commodities such as food, pesticides, etc., are...

Sure is!

I have a small space so a $99 Apple HomePod mini speaker that sits on my desk, right where all rooms connect, has been a good choice for me. Good...

There very well could be some dementia going on. A long term friend, who lives just down the street and also goes to our church, offered to bring her...

Even though the daily duty statements are still being printed out, I’m using the discrepancies report, which has hugely cut down the time spent doing...

I’m extremely tired of people who have absolutely no effing clue how things work bellyaching about how things have increased. What put me over the...

Evanston, IL is giving reparations. It’s $20K onto a mortgage. A brother and sister in their 70s wanted the money in cash as they didn’t have...

Speaking of hotel prices, I was going to head up to WI next weekend to dive with a friend. Even with Wyndham points, rooms were over $130. I said f...

I ended up restarting my Economist subscription. It $20 a month it’s not that bad.

I’ll probably make my Middle Eastern eggplant and tomato dish.

Well, if that was the case, you would have think she’d have stopped going to the doctor well before she lost use of the car. It really all looks like...

I went diving Sat. Yesterday and today have been doing some decluttering. Set up new computer set up up laptop and two monitors. Today is being lazy,...

A friend’s hubby is in IT and he provided advice when I was shopping. Monitors were $89 each. Laptop was just under $900. They’ve used Lenovo a lot...

My 2015 MacBook is on its last legs. Got a Lenovo laptop on sale and two 24” monitors from Amazon. Laptop only has one HDMI port but figured out to...

Class was a busy. See daily peeve thread.

Frugal-one, that sounds painful! The much anticipated underwater archaeology class I’d been looking by forward to for a couple of months was a...

Definite will!

I’m driving an hour to a diving spot to do the in water portion of an underwater archaeology class. Should be fun! Lots of underwater drawing.

What will you replace the grass with?

Woo hoo! That was quick!

Met a friend for dinner at a favorite Middle Eastern place. Hadn’t been there in a while. I had beef shwarma with their delicious yellow rice. Yum.

Wow. That as quick!

That sounds great. And thanks for all the support!

Now down almost 14 lbs on WW. Fell off the wagon for about 10 days, too.

Good luck!

I’m also transferring the daily duty (import taxes) reports that I send to accounting to paperless. Found out I don’t have to write the import file...

Very nice! I know the color you mean.

Yay! What color?

We don’t have to transfer anything. Anything existing would stay paper and only going forward after CBP approves would it be all electronic.

Agreed.

Yes, McD has the best Coke. I get regular. Very bad reaction to artificial sweeteners.

My own personal index for price increases is the couscous at Aldi. It used to be 99 cents back in 2020. The equivalent at thr regular grocery store...

As of a few years back, the IL zip code with the highest concentration of concealed carry licenses was on the west or south side of Chicago. Many...

A Chicago crime spree to be blamed on Indiana, since according to JP, apparently no one in Chicago can be responsible for crimes they commit. ...

Posted a bunch of small bits and bobs of dive gear on my FB page. Mostly gone within an hour. One guy took the majority of it. He missed it was all...

A friend posted on FB he was looking for a certain bit of dive gear. Turns out I had what he wanted. $150 cash for me. I’d given a pair of fins to a...

Would not vote for Trump this time around. But neither would I vote for Grandpa Joe. He just doesn’t seem all there to me.

I have lots of friends with Subarus who love them.

I wonder if “business greed” might be a better description as lots of business are small. The company I bought my diving rebreather from last...

Well, energy costs have gone up so the shop is paying more for utilities. I’m sure their supplies have gone up. And labor costs have gone up, too. ...

I got a $10K raise last year. Not expecting anything this year.

Sold a couple more bits dive gear for a total of another $150ish.

Friend just posted on FB yesterday he was looking for a certain bit of dive gear if anyone had one to sell. I had one in my spares box. Friend is...

Case that was just in the news yesterday ...

You can’t just travel to another state and buy firearms and take them home. There are federal regulations about this. I’ll post more when I’m home.

How do you explain Chicago/Cook County then? It’s all Dem. There’s a Dem gov in IL and the Dems have a huge majority in both houses of the state...

20-22 years ago I rode Chicago public transit, both the L trains and buses, all over. No more. Crime on the CTA is a big problem. News stories all...

I appreciated that Charles recycled a number of his coronation robes from his grandfather George VI and even one from George the IV, that was from...

Catherine, you WILL have to tell us the in-laws’ reaction to your small house and your interactions with them.

Yes, I’ve done that for years as well. I find the pronoun stuff mostly ridiculous, though.

I despise the MI gov. I call her “Gretch the Wretch.”

Those are great stories, JP

A friend mentioned that Hill Street Blues was free for Amazon Prime members for all seasons on Prime video. Watched the first two episodes over the...