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2-28-21, 3:38pm
Remember, I have no money in the financial markets. I may have, one day. No one I know has ever lost money in real estate in this region.
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2-28-21, 3:36pm
Yeah, but he rarely seemed to like them; it was all about getting laid.
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2-28-21, 3:08pm
I don't get UL's misogynistic, poseur, incel vibes from GP, either. Nor sarcasm or meanness. To each his own.
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2-28-21, 3:06pm
"Buy as much house as you can possibly get a mortgage for because that is a good financial investment in the long run!"
I'm still kicking myself...
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2-28-21, 2:57pm
I listen to podcasts, YouTube, and TV programs, as well as audio books. With TV and YouTube, I can just open the window it they seem to require eyes...
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2-28-21, 2:41pm
I've found at least a couple of narrators I like, and I generally listen while doing something else, so I'm perfectly happy to listen to a book...
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2-28-21, 12:16pm
Recently I finished listening to Siege: Trump Under Fire, Michael Wolff's expose' of the dysfunction in Trump's early White House years. There was...
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2-28-21, 11:51am
Always happy to oblige...:)
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2-28-21, 10:31am
If i feel ambitious (hah!), possibly spaghetti with meat sauce cooked in the Instant Pot. I love that the IP method doesn't require waiting while...
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2-26-21, 4:59pm
So far, I haven't met a jar I couldn't open, but I'm sure I have diminished hand strength.
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2-26-21, 4:57pm
I made lentil-vegetable soup last week and I was eating it for days. I finally gave up...:~)
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2-26-21, 12:22pm
I've had it a few times while drifting off to sleep, but not for years now.
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2-26-21, 10:57am
That can't be said enough.
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2-26-21, 10:54am
I guess I lack ambition, as i was approached several times about management within Megacorp, but I never considered it for a minute. With a shift...
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2-25-21, 3:46pm
Yeah--the swill she wrote elevated selfishness to the level of moral supremacy.
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2-25-21, 3:40pm
That story always resonated with me, but then I always identified with the grasshopper in that well-known story. I believe Joe Dominguez would call...
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2-25-21, 12:37pm
Likewise to both. I read one or two of Rand's books when I was a callow youth: fortunately, they had no effect on me. Her characters were so clearly...
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2-25-21, 11:14am
I've recently rediscovered leeks. I'm a fan of any member of the allium family, and they're lovely and mild in cooked dishes. I may have assorted...
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2-25-21, 11:06am
The fact that there were military and law-enforcement members involved in the insurrection, evidence of lengthy pre-planning and coordination, not to...
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2-25-21, 11:01am
I know nothing about growing anything but cobwebs, but a friend noted that her poppy seeds had sprouted, requiring cold temperatures to do so.
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2-25-21, 10:56am
Or maybe they were satisfied with their professional online delivery or pickup service.
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2-23-21, 8:06pm
Something about how the planets were aligned that made this an attractive window.
I agree that space exploration often leads to new...
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2-23-21, 6:06pm
That would take care of the salutation! :D
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2-23-21, 2:53pm
Texas oil and gas executives were truly giddy "We hit the jackpot!" they crowed, gleeful over fleecing the public. Reminds me of the despicable Enron...
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2-23-21, 2:46pm
In the face of all the evidence--and 60 court cases--that the last election was one of the smoothest and fairest in history, many Republican...
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2-23-21, 11:41am
It reminded me of the first Mars landing (was it?) when everyone held their breath, but I have too little imagination to be enraptured by empty,...
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2-20-21, 2:37pm
Surprisingly, I've done both tent camping (albeit with access to an outhouse) and "sleep out under the stars" camping (without same). Having done...
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2-19-21, 10:52am
Amazon Fresh just made a delivery four minutes ago. They'd have to be pretty intrepid porch pirates to beat me to the door. :)
ETA: Also, Amazon...
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2-18-21, 4:35pm
"They'll call you and leave" sounds pretty good.
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2-18-21, 11:13am
I only worked in one job requiring a degree--my editing gig--and I'm not absolutely sure it required one.
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2-18-21, 11:04am
I love that story!
I was with two different friends in bars in the seventies on the nights they met their future husbands. Both of them are still...
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2-17-21, 6:51pm
I consider myself a lifelong lefty, but I wouldn't (old-timey saying here) cut off my nose to spite my face. I'd prefer a public option for health...
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2-17-21, 6:47pm
I need to live in a fairly densely populated area. I can enjoy my solitude without living like Ted Kaczynski. Squirrel soup is not, as Iris Lily...
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2-17-21, 3:01pm
Politicians have been kicking the infrastructure can down the road for decades; it's past time to reverse that.
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2-17-21, 12:31pm
Scandinavia has lots of wind farms; Texas cuts all the corners it can to avoid paying for good infrastructure.
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2-16-21, 4:16pm
Salad and leftover soup, which will be dinner also. Very exciting stuff. :(
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2-16-21, 4:10pm
That's the key, unless it's for a short time with a goal in mind.
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2-16-21, 1:16pm
"My sense is that the more skills and knowledge people have, the more agency they feel they have, and the happier they may be. But that's just my...
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2-16-21, 12:16pm
The turns one's life takes are often fascinating.
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2-16-21, 11:30am
I didn't learn one practical skill growing up, I don't think.
I so envied a co-worker's wife "Oh, she's at home building a deck." Unimaginable to...
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2-16-21, 11:23am
My father was approaching a fence when he tripped at the same instant a Japanese soldier shot him. The bullet went up his back underneath his pack....
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2-16-21, 11:07am
"The one ethnic food I'd most want is a good Jewish deli. Well we have those. After that I like middle eastern. And yep I like California cuisine."
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2-16-21, 10:54am
Under different circumstances, I'd eat out at least every week or so--because despite my best attempts, I'm really not much of a cook Especially of...
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2-16-21, 10:41am
They'd be even more arty if they were upside-down...:~)
They look brave and jaunty against that snow.
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2-16-21, 10:38am
When our side really does have an election stolen, we are very gracious about it. :~)
Since there has not been a single credible report of...
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2-15-21, 4:58pm
I have two Indian restaurants close--one 3 miles west, one 3 miles south, roughly. There are many more in Kirkland and Bellevue, at least one in...
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2-15-21, 4:14pm
One of my college classes used to "entertain" at various facilities where many of the residents were clearly not particularly interested. But I'm no...
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2-15-21, 4:08pm
"Cancel culture" just makes me laugh. Righties have been attempting to cancel everything from library books to Colin Kaepernick, with varying degrees...
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2-15-21, 2:09pm
That turned into grilled cheese sandwich and lentil (spinach, onion, corn, carrot, garlic, leek) soup, which is steaming away in the IP as I type.
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2-15-21, 2:04pm
My all-electric house costs about $120 a month.
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2-15-21, 2:02pm
I integrated a blue-collar workforce. There was a bit of hazing, but for the most part it was fine. I learned I preferred all-male workmates to...
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2-15-21, 11:55am
My beloved took a picture of me at a party, looking wistfully out a window, probably wishing I had a book. >8)
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2-15-21, 11:15am
Grilled cheese and jalapeño sandwich on 21-seed bread, maybe.
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2-15-21, 11:09am
Haha! My friend and her husband are younger and have good eyes. I considered, for about five seconds, an all-white one. :~)
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2-15-21, 11:06am
I had a classmate that accumulated several degrees. He went to work in the trades--pipefitter?--because he said there was more money and far less...
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2-15-21, 11:04am
Health care workers, especially in a COVID ward, are really on the front lines. I hope she recovers fully.
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2-15-21, 11:00am
What's wrong with that kind of song, in my opinion, is that people generalize that all old and/or single people are pining away dying of loneliness,...
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2-15-21, 10:49am
That is a lovely puzzle. I just sent a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired one to a friend:...
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