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Diane Feinstein is dead.

OK you Queens of Clean, tell me—do you have a special tool to wipe down baseboards? Or (don’t tell me tjis! Haha) you actually have to bend over the...

Speaking of websites not working on mobile devices—- I have a temporary digital subscription to the St Louis newspaper. Its mobile version is pure...

The lane info is golden! I love that!

Yesterday I inquired at our small independent pharmacy here in town about the three shots. The pharmacist will give the flu shot. I need a...

My excuse…. I don’t even have baseboards in half of our house. They are being installed on the daily. But this discussion is hitting home because...

do you mean, you clean baseboards of the entire house once a month? Argh!!, Nooooooo.

that is…quite a chunk of cat! how much should he weigh? He must be a big cat. Mine are 5 and 8 lbs, little guys. Even my last fat cat was...

As far as making special memories, and all of that, sorry, I just don’t buy that hoopla. We just go where we want to go. Some trips are better than...

A honeymoon is just a vacation. If it is easy to take your dog where you are going, do it.Althought, as .catherine says, it depends on how good a...

I am waiting dor a misty evening. Probably tonight here would have been good, but I missed it. that’s nice, Roger, but it may be too spontaneous....

Of all the Biden actions this is not one that concerns me much.

Well, ya know, i’m cooking up in my mind a little ceremony in the wild part of my yard to honor Jane. It will be a tiny, druid-ish sort of affair to...

She did not entirely dismiss the existence of other worlds. Perhaps the “journey” didn’t involve swaths of geography.

Sorry for your loss, happystuff. Was she ill for a while? How old was she?

She is now JaneV3.0, doncha think?

I am reading this old thread for reasons you can probably guess. I’ve been working my way through Atul Gawande’s book “ Being Mortal” for many...

We have her name and address from donation record. There is no obituary. I called Kenmore, WA police who confirmed they paid a visit to her...

Update to the madness of the trans world: “women only spaces” which would be an annoying buzz phrase to me under normal circumstances is starting...

Behind the scenes, we have been investigating this and honestly, I will tell you, I am worried.

we had two sets of friends who went for a week+ long Caribbean sail where one set acted as captain and crew, the other set were the passengers....

Keeping technology life simple is an excellent goal, agreed. I am attracted to MapQuest displaying on my car’s dash screen because I’ve seen it work...

Sorry, I re-read what you wrote. ok so there is not supposed to be “delivered” message to non-Apple users? Why?

My car dash screen system works fine with DH’s phone and Mapquest. I want the thing that is supposed to work to actually work. I don’t want to...

well, sure. I want the route to be displayed on my dash screen but it did not work. Nothing on Mapquest worked on the dash screen. DH could not get...

See “delivered” message under my Hahaok

Reason 456 why I hate my phone: DH tried to install my phone in our car so that everything displays on the car’s screen. He did not get it...

Reason #455 why I hate my phone: When I text people, apparently what my Apple phone does is display the message in blue if I’m sending to another...

I would vote for Newsom over Trump. As repugnant as it as it is, I’ve already decided to vote for Biden over Trump but please God if only the...

I don’t have any toothpaste stories, but Sparkle Fun! sounds pretty awful.

Awwww, I love Detectorists!

It can be nice, tho, to have a thing or two from the ancient ones we never met. I don't mean rooms of heavy furniture, I mean a small tchothke or...

Everyone needs to move every 10 years to get rid of things like obscure glassware, and etc. Yet this week I had to go to the thrift store to get a...

I do not even know what you’re talking about. I guess it is not a female interest!

There is a feral cat colony a couple of blocks away from me. Someone has built them a little wooden shack cat house to shelter them. I think the same...

To elaborate, this was brought home to me when we were doing the major construction on our house in Hermann and I needed to be in Hermann a few times...

Roger…guess you do not know about the mystique of The Birkin Bag. Like a small suitcase. Coveted by thousands of gullible women. Costs thousands and...

I hate my phone and barely use it, But am seldom without an IPad Mini in my hand. Must. Have. Morning.Coffee.

Washington University’s transgender clinic as well as the trans clinic in the middle of my state have declared they will stop treating ALL minors...

That is funny. The government mandates that your for-profit insurers pay for it, but the government doesn’t pay for mine, because it comes out of its...

Ah then you have “better insurance” (whatever that means) than my publicly funded gubmnt policy. even though I really have no complaints about...

oh, wait, I take that back. Both shingles shots were out of pocket, I forgot about that, but no matter it was worth it to me. I’m pretty sure the...

Are we talking about the Rsv vax here? Did you expect it to be free? The pharmacy I use has accepted my insurance for pneumonia and shingles so I...

I myself cannot always conjure up a good definition of fascism, so I have to look it up too. I see these elements from your definition of fascism...

I read about that!

I once had a “challenge “in the library I worked for about a book that had the audacity to use an accepted term for its time, it had “ Negro “in the...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12457119/Kayla-Lemieux-school-teacher-giant-breasts.html i appreciate The Daily Mail’s continuing ability...

Without looking at the best selling album of all time charts, Tapestry was up there. I think Purple Rain by Prince was number one. Dark Side...

I enjoyed that.

Nice fish.

In my lifetime, state legislators were those citizen-legislators who ran a business (or a farm, where I come from) and stayed in the state capital...

That was the queen of England’s dilemma with the mining tragedy at Aberfan, Wales. The TV series “the Crown” accurately portrayed the queen‘s...

my friend from Virginia says one of her elders made the observation that when they put air conditioning into congressional chambers, the sessions...

Feinstein, jp’s senator, is 90. but that old fart, Grassley needs to go as well.

I’m glad you are being served by such a robust nonagenarian. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php

Mitt Romney just announced he will not run for another senatorial term. He is 76 years old. Time to make way for younger leaders, he says. I...

Interpretation of “disability” seems overly broad to me and really all you need is a doctors note to qualify. But certainly minor accommodations make...

Bingo.