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1-29-23, 6:26pm
As market researchers, the people in my industry have very strict codes of conduct with regard to reporting adverse events that we hear about during...
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1-29-23, 6:20pm
Sounds good. I think I'd enjoy reading that book. I'm reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Very provocative and comprehensive.
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1-28-23, 2:11pm
I read something recently that said that by now, 95% of everyone in the country has had COVID at least once, either knowingly or unknowingly. I...
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1-28-23, 11:34am
DD and I spent a night or two in Memphis on a half-cross country road trip (from Houston to New Jersey) and enjoyed Beale Street, but that was over a...
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1-27-23, 11:48am
...Give me a man and he'll know how to work it..
I have a dream!
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1-26-23, 6:03pm
I will do some research on that. But I do not have a problem with any relevant topic that sheds light on the Black experience in the context of...
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1-26-23, 5:42pm
My first thought with your "persistent itch" theory is that if you are one to seek justice you will have that persistent itch until justice is...
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1-26-23, 4:40pm
I am completely ignorant of most things that involve mathematics. I'm just trying to think of the things that would be taxable. It seems like a...
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1-26-23, 4:15pm
So you'll make me jealous, too! Next year, my dream is roof, range hood, electrical including lighting and new ceiling fans.
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1-26-23, 3:38pm
I am jealous!! We desperately need new kitchen fixtures. Maybe I'll steal the "I had a dream" approach. If you can do it, and Tevye from Fiddler...
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1-26-23, 2:16pm
Actually, the semipermanent front room is attached to a cabin that has a kitchen. I forgot about that.
"The front room, or canvas room, in each...
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1-26-23, 1:50pm
Here's an article about the tent community:
https://www.theinnsofoceangrove.com/our-blog/ocean-grove-tents/
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1-26-23, 1:44pm
The old Victorian homes have been kept intact and in good shape pretty much for 150 years. It was developed by the Methodists who had a very clear,...
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1-26-23, 1:01pm
As some of you know, one of my favorite towns I have ever lived in (for short periods of time) is Ocean Grove, NJ. I used to rent an off-season home...
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1-26-23, 10:57am
I, too, bailed on the movie (but mine was intentional). I felt it was very self-conscious, and also, I had no feelings for the protagonist. At...
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1-25-23, 2:26pm
If I had another life to live, I'd start a school. It would be heavily focused on the fundamentals, but would be highly experiential to allow for...
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1-25-23, 10:15am
OMG...thank you for the update, but sorry about this news!! It seems that surgery may be in your future, no?
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1-24-23, 8:50pm
Soup for me, too! DH made ham and navy bean soup. Delicious!
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1-24-23, 8:43pm
That's funny!!
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1-24-23, 1:58pm
So now classified documents have been found in Pence's house. Geez, wake me up when someone finds a dead body in some politician's closet. Until...
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1-24-23, 10:04am
On my list of shows I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, like all the Housewives shows.
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1-23-23, 10:19pm
Don't you know that you NEVER sit in the front row at a comedy show??? You are asking to be made fun of! In our early dating days when we were both...
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1-22-23, 11:30pm
Really?? I didn't know you could age out of jury duty. What age would that be in Nevada?
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1-22-23, 11:12pm
It's so funny, after all the flying I did for business, I am wondering if the mundane trip to Buffalo I took in January 2020 was the last business...
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1-22-23, 4:38pm
That is gorgeous! I love it! It's beautiful and elegant without being ostentatious. It looks like an angel.
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1-22-23, 12:38pm
I have to agree with you there. The trend in the fear of thinking beyond the knee-jerk reaction is a terrible shift on University campuses. The whole...
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1-22-23, 12:28pm
Same here.
I love your kitchen space, SiouzQ. I love that color yellow-orange. My kitchen is yellow (I'd take a picture but I'm on a report...
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1-21-23, 10:42pm
My next "need" I'm working on getting is a range hood. We don't have one, and DH is a huge stovetop cook! Every day frying something, sautéing,...
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1-21-23, 4:16pm
Hmm.. so I'm not sure as to why the split in benefits. If people can't afford food, why couldn't they just get SNAP?
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1-21-23, 3:50pm
Is WIC where you get handed that standard chunk of cheese? My DD used to work for a major food policy organization in NYC, and the chairman/activist...
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1-21-23, 3:17pm
I had to buy two lightening connectors on Amazon because both my iPad and iPhone were out of date. No big deal--$7 on Amazon for the pair.
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1-21-23, 3:15pm
I agree with that one... and I'll use the opportunity to brag about my son who wrote a thank-you note to his new in-laws-to-be for hosting him at New...
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1-21-23, 2:49pm
I''m reading an interesting book called "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by Graeber and Wengrow, and it really is a fun and...
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1-20-23, 1:33pm
I loved CSN&Y. I had their albums and played them all the time. Here is my favorite, and it's such a superb simple living song!! RIP David Crosby,...
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1-20-23, 8:24am
Yes... I was going to say that. Having a daughter who has NO clue how difficult it was for women to have equal opportunities as men in the workplace...
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1-20-23, 8:06am
There wasn't much in the way of computers for personal use. In 1985, I was given the job of teaching the other secretaries at my job how to use the...
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1-19-23, 4:21pm
Yeah, I think he's burned that bridge. He sides with feminists on many issues, and this becomes a feminist agenda for some. Women have fought SO hard...
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1-19-23, 2:56pm
That seems like such an obvious answer that it's mind boggling it's not common practice. If they can make a fake shark swallow Robert Shaw whole and...
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1-19-23, 2:04pm
I do think Alec Baldwin was negligent for that reason. I remember telling my kids to never point their toy guns at people! (That made for some...
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1-19-23, 1:52pm
I love anyone for who they are and how they choose to identify themselves. However, I don't love laws that favor the biology of males over the...
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1-19-23, 1:40pm
Yeah, well, if I went to confession, I'd probably get quite a few Our Fathers and Hail Mary's to keep me busy in repentance for a while. But if you...
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1-19-23, 1:03pm
Maybe it's my Catholic guilt, but if I were involved, I'd beg for some type of punishment befitting the crime. I couldn't live with myself otherwise.
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1-19-23, 12:52pm
I did look it up, and it seems that he and the armorer are being charged with two counts. Punishment is not that severe, frankly. For instance, the...
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1-19-23, 12:32pm
I thought that was all behind him. In fact, they are returning to production of Rust, with Halnyna Hutchins' husband as an executive producer.
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1-19-23, 11:33am
I think it would be fun as long as we had to live as if it were 1983. No cell phones, no computers, but don't forget your curling iron. Permissible...
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1-19-23, 11:26am
Love it!! I had a wall oven like that in Harvest Gold! That house is great.
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1-17-23, 7:46pm
I read that book, but don't know if I mentioned it here. I haven't done some of the more radical advice, like taping your mouth shut at night, but I...
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1-17-23, 9:07am
Tybee, I'm so sorry you're going through this! Have you experienced arthritis before, to a lesser degree? Does it get exacerbated in the winter? I...
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1-15-23, 7:43pm
Very beautiful!
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1-15-23, 11:57am
Yes, happystuff, when people seem to be floundering, it's not because they are either lazy or stupid. We all do the best we can with what we've got.
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1-15-23, 11:49am
I remember going to the pharmacy to pay my phone bill (a practice which wasn't unusual back in the 80s/90s before you could pay online). I'd go there...
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1-15-23, 10:16am
Yeah, back then, even that price may have been too much for him; that being said the California thing never was what it should have been in many...
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1-14-23, 3:53pm
I don't have a problem finding cardboard, but that is my favorite way of expanding my gardens. So much easier than tilling. Before the winter, I laid...
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1-14-23, 3:25pm
I think a lot of resourceful people tend to be "hoarders"--everything could have a purpose down the line. I am so impressed with the resourcefulness...
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1-14-23, 2:48pm
Hmmm, I do think that's a stretch. But language does matter. I was just thinking the other day that I personally object to the term "natural...
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1-14-23, 12:58pm
DH is totally into old films these days. I don't like them in general. I feel that past is past. There are some very good movies I enjoyed back when...
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1-14-23, 8:08am
Wrapping paper.
I have started wrapping gifts in paper bags--there are a lot around now that plastic bags are outlawed in VT. And then I decorate...
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1-13-23, 6:21pm
That room is beautiful! What views!
I hear you about the floors. Can. you get a couple of those mats that have lips on them? May not be...
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1-13-23, 5:26pm
Yes, that's what I was describing with my Meals on Wheels delivery.
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1-13-23, 10:24am
Yes, when I did Meals on Wheels I had 6 addresses to deliver to, and I used the map app to figure out the most efficient route.
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