Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on February 01, 2019, 12:13:27 AM
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Well, dear readers, you've read the notes, the notes said Enter February, and now it is time for you to post until the February cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: LARGESSE!
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First post after BK!
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
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I found where I can make some changes...and I turned off auto-correct!
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Off to bed...finally!
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I have not received my 1099 from my union pension, so I called them yesterday to check on it. An unsympathetic recording informed me they did not have to send them out before Jan. 31, and they would not respond to inquiries before Feb. 13. I hope that will not be a problem for my Monday tax appointment.
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I will return to my taxes this morning and leave for the Call Me Madam sitzprobe around 10:00.
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Well, Facebook has blocked me again for 30 days for calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders "lying white trash." They claim it violates their community standards on hate speech:
To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
So, I tried to let them know, and wrote: How does "white trash" violate your cockamamie community standards? I grew up in a white trash family. Instead of simply saying "you're blocked for 30 days," why don't you lay out the words you've decided violate your delicate sensibilities?
Here's the kicker: because I'm blocked, I cannot send my reply.
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Good morning, all.
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Happy birthday, Donald!
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Sorry about the block, Elmore. She’s a liar, no doubt about it.
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Birthday wishes to DONALD FELTHAM!
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Good morning to all
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Thanks to TCB for his birthday wish
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Happy birthday to Donald Feltham
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Happy Birthday, as Donald!!!!
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Happy birthday Donald Feltham!
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Last full day of vacation
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Vixters coming overs d we have the wedding food tasting at noon
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Vixmom: only a light dusting of snow in the driveway. I hope you left your furnace on. Ours is cranked and the first floor can't get above 68. Partly because we put in the outside basement entrance without insulating the basement wall.
The Carrolls once were using a friend's cottage in Yachats OR on the coast. Fortunately. We had the heat on, but most other houses there were empty in January and it never got below freezing there ... except that year. Burst pipes all over.
I should let other DRs know that in 2007 when we were in St. Croix vixmom discovered a leak in our basement and saved us from disaster. Love ya, vixmom.
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Happy birthday, Donald!
Ditto!
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Vixmom: only a light dusting of snow in the driveway. I hope you left your furnace on. Ours is cranked and the first floor can't get above 68. Partly because we put in the outside basement entrance without insulating the basement wall.
The Carrolls once were using a friend's cottage in Yachats OR on the coast. Fortunately. We had the heat on, but most other houses there were empty in January and it never got below freezing there ... except that year. Burst pipes all over.
I should let other DRs know that in 2007 when we were in St. Croix vixmom discovered a leak in our basement and saved us from disaster. Love ya, vixmom.
:)
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Good morning, all.
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Happy Birthday, Donald Feltham, sir!
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And then this happened:
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51107141_10217020746418287_1578676347029422080_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=5f2205bef24a8c71cd17473d72cc4d7c&oe=5CFDFBDF)
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And this - check out the front row:
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51095770_10217020741658168_5675549043984433152_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=130be12127751640929d7aa5d3c47b0d&oe=5CB33EED)
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The Mummy is getting his revenge for sure.
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Happy Birthday DONALD FELTHAM.
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DR Elmore: Oy!!!
Oy frickin' vey, not again.
I'm afraid they have your number.
And of course it's unfair. Totally arbitrary. Luck of the draw. Their "alogorithms" catch one thing and not another. I only rarely am exposed to it because I carefully limit my journeys through Facebook, but it's obvious there is so much vile speech there, daily, to which your remarks can't begin to compare.
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Thank you for posting the pictures, DR Jrand68.
Is that the actual BACK TO THE FUTURE attraction, or a setup for picture taking? I thought the ride/attraction was long gone, and have always been sorry I'd missed it.
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Yesterday someone asked: DR Laura, are you watching The Masked Singer? Everyone thinks Donny Osmond is on the show.
He is 100% the peacock. I sort of love this show. But I would prefer it if there were new characters/contestants on every week. After the first two weeks when you know who everybody is it is not as exciting to watch.
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
Intetesting, especially as I have to get a new tablet.
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Well, Facebook has blocked me again for 30 days for calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders "lying white trash." They claim it violates their community standards on hate speech:
To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
So, I tried to let them know, and wrote: How does "white trash" violate your cockamamie community standards? I grew up in a white trash family. Instead of simply saying "you're blocked for 30 days," why don't you lay out the words you've decided violate your delicate sensibilities?
Here's the kicker: because I'm blocked, I cannot send my reply.
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Sorry about the block.
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Vixters coming overs d we have the wedding food tasting at noon
I have been wondering when you would post wedding planning activities. Enjoy the food.
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Vixmom: only a light dusting of snow in the driveway. I hope you left your furnace on. Ours is cranked and the first floor can't get above 68. Partly because we put in the outside basement entrance without insulating the basement wall.
The Carrolls once were using a friend's cottage in Yachats OR on the coast. Fortunately. We had the heat on, but most other houses there were empty in January and it never got below freezing there ... except that year. Burst pipes all over.
I should let other DRs know that in 2007 when we were in St. Croix vixmom discovered a leak in our basement and saved us from disaster. Love ya, vixmom.
:)
I guess the happy face means you left the furnace on as well as the mention to your saving the day.
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We left the furnace on but I lowered the temp on the second floor to 60, I hope that was not a mistake. The upstairs bathroom (5x5) doesn't have its own source of heat and is a dormer so it sticks out from the back of the house. I did leave the door open and the sink cabinet door open. Also, Vixdad turned off the water to the house ( not the furnace hot water system though)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD🎂🎁🎈
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Thanks Jack!
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We left the furnace on but I lowered the temp on the second floor to 60, I hope that was not a mistake. The upstairs bathroom (5x5) doesn't have its own source of heat and is a dormer so it sticks out from the back of the house. I did leave the door open and the sink cabinet door open. Also, Vixdad turned off the water to the house ( not the furnace hot water system though)
VIBES THAT WAS ENOUGH!
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Yes, thanks Jack 😊
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Thank you for posting the pictures, DR Jrand68.
Is that the actual BACK TO THE FUTURE attraction, or a setup for picture taking? I thought the ride/attraction was long gone, and have always been sorry I'd missed it.
The ride has been converted to a Simpsons themed Krustyland ride, same exact ride, different theming.
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TheDeLorean and the train engine from the movies are still there for photo ops
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Friday morning greetings! It's getting warmer here, but we got several inches of snow overnight. I'm ready for spring...
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The Vixter is here and just tried on her wedding gear.
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Pictures to follow
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June 30th
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No photos of the dress rehearsal folks
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;)
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Good morning!
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Belated birthday wishes to DR Michael!
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Okay, here's a doozy. Last night's dream, which I didn't even remember until it popped back into my head an hour after I'd been up. It's a variation on the traditional musician's or actor's nightmare about being completely unprepared to play or conduct or act in something that's just about to begin. In this one, however, I'm not playing -- I'm page turning for the gal who is, and only for one number.
Her keyboard and other equipment are on the main floor of the fairly large mid-century red toned auditorium. She's set up down in front, in the far side aisle on audience right, and there are one or two other people getting set up down there between her and the stage. It's unclear what they're playing or doing, but probably something like bass and drums, with various other electronic equipment involved.
Of all the things to be performed, there's one song for which she requires a page turner, and that's my only responsibility in the whole concert or whatever it is. So just minutes before the performance, I'm standing there attempting to understand exactly how the music goes, and how I'm supposed to execute my duties...because it seems the occasion is pretty formal, I'm dressed formally, and though (in real life) I've done plenty of expert page turning, there's apparently stuff to figure out here about how I'm supposed to enter, leave, when and where to sit or stand, and how to otherwise comport myself. I'm trying to look over the music which is not going too well, and I'm having trouble holding her attention in the heat of these last few moments before curtain.
Next thing I know, I'm in the outside corridor on audience right, realizing that either it's time for the number, or that I've just missed it or that I'll be holding everything up as I get in there. There follows one of those horrible dream attempts at getting where you need to be in a hurry, which takes absurdly long. For some reason I'm entering from the back of the hall and having to navigate through people, but finally I'm down there, apologizing for being late. Then it seems we've just done the song and I have indeed screwed up how I was supposed to exit or not exit or something. I'm hopeful that it didn't ultimately spoil anything, and finally she and I are talking. At this point I'm reminded that her face is ever so slightly off-kilter and she has only one eye, which at first I thought was in the middle, over her nose, but then I see that it's her right eye and that the left one had been either long ago surgically closed, or that maybe she never had the other eye in the first place. Anyway, we seem to be talking it over and things are okay, but the general confusion reigns until I mercifully wake up.
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Happy Birthday, Donald!
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Oh my, that was a long one!
Smoke on your pipe and put that in.
I can explain this much:
This person was clearly based on someone I'd known on a superficial basis some 25 years ago who was blind (bingo!). She was never in music, but she excelled in a high tech fields involving computers and other technology and accessibility. We recently heard that she's been fighting a losing battle with a horrible cancer, and she'd been on my mind.
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No photos of the dress rehearsal folks
Of course not!
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The Dream-o-Matic 6000 says that you may receive gloomy news soon DR CHAS SMITH.
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Please deposit $35 in my PayPal account.
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The Vixter is here and just tried on her wedding gear.
❤
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June 30th
:D
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Nice photos, DR vixmom!
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Page 3!
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No photos of the dress rehearsal folks
I knew you were joking or we would see shoes ;)
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Elmore, similar to the traditional academic nightmare: first day of class and you can't find the classroom, don't remember what you're teaching. Once I realized I was in the wrong university in the wrong state. It used to happen every semester.
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I dream I am in the wrong university in a classroom behind a pole with no visibility.
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Just submitted a post-mortem on a project that was pure chaos. I hope it’s taken in the right way.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.
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Several people I know posted they were blocked or warned yesterday and each instance was for calling Ms. Sanders white trash. Every day, people call each other in very personal terms terrible things on Facebook - that's fine. Every one of these blocks and messages should be screen shot because they are really violating first amendment rights here and there is a class action lawsuit in the making.
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Havig my last Restaurant Weeks menu. Lunch courses incude a creamy tomato bisque and a pulled pork sandwich on a handmade bun. Coming up: a root beer float. Happy.
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Still sneezing.
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The Orville had a very funny episode last night.....
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I’m ushering tonight for a golden oldie: America.
Horse With No Name, The TinMan and, my favorite, Sister GoldenHair.
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Good afternoon.
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Well, I have been ashore in Costa Maya, Mexico.
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Basically a modern little town designed in bright colors in over-extension of Mexican architecture.
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All of it housing a bunch of tourists souvenir junk stalls, a couple of bars and restaurants, and one or two upscale jewelry stores (Diamonds International). There were some native dancers and musicians, and one full scale wrestling match in the middle of the largest bar.
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Unless you were hunting for one particular item, you could basically see the whole town in about 15 minutes.
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I’m ushering tonight for a golden oldie: America.
Horse With No Name, The TinMan and, my favorite, Sister GoldenHair.
I used to love America (the band). I still love the country.
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My arthritic hands are really hurting today. I don’t know if it is the temperature, the humidity, or the barometric pressure.
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I have taken a pain pill, but it isn’t helping.... yet!
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The internet on the ship was down all morning.
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It seems okay now.
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As part the settlement of the water damaged cabin, the ship is offering us a free meal at their onboard Italian restaurant.
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The only problem is that we have both eaten in their Italian restaurant, and hated it. Neither one of us wants to go back.
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vixmom, are the kids registered yet, and if so, where?
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I hope everything is going well for Ken, on his tour today. He was very nervous about going alone.
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There are three ships in this small port. Besides our ship there is the Oceania Rivera and Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas.
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The Royal Caribbean ship is one its larger ships, but not the biggest.
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the Mariner of the Seas has a maxium of 3,807 passengers. The largest Royal Caribbean ship can carry a maximum of 6,080, or almost twice the size.
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One more post.
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PAGE 4
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A Very Happy Birthday to Donald Feltham!! :D
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On the other hand, Oceania’s Riviera can carry 1,250 passengers, while the Rotterdam holds a maximum of 1,404.
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Well, I can’t hold this iPad any longer, so I will stop for now.
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Well, Facebook has blocked me again for 30 days for calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders "lying white trash." They claim it violates their community standards on hate speech:
To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
So, I tried to let them know, and wrote: How does "white trash" violate your cockamamie community standards? I grew up in a white trash family. Instead of simply saying "you're blocked for 30 days," why don't you lay out the words you've decided violate your delicate sensibilities?
Here's the kicker: because I'm blocked, I cannot send my reply.
That's terrible, Larry! >:(
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And then this happened:
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51107141_10217020746418287_1578676347029422080_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=5f2205bef24a8c71cd17473d72cc4d7c&oe=5CFDFBDF)
Great pictures...all of them!
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
Intetesting, especially as I have to get a new tablet.
Jane, so far I recommend it. Mainly for the price. Even though I got it at an early bird option of $219, the full price is only $269. And compared to the newest Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 (they both have the exact same hi-def screen and 64GB of internal memory...which is why I really why I wanted this), it's about a third of the price as others for essentially the same thing. The only drawback is that it can't stream hi-def content. If you download hi-def files, then those will look beautiful, but for things like Netflix, it can only stream the standard def versions. You can find out a lot if you read through the early comments of the Indiegogo campaign page, but you have to scroll through a lot of comments to get that far back. but since I don't have Netflix, it wasn't a concern for me.
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Pain-free vibes for TCB!
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Finally reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s sweet. Certainly a flipside to my other audiobook, The Plague by Camus.
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Has anyone seen the movie on Netflix? It’s from Mike Newell, who made Enchanted April and Into the West.
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Gratuitous Post #100!
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Cisco Kid and Loesser Revisited arrived in Mooresville today.
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People need to get more creative with synonyms. How about "ivory rubbish"? After all it's a computer searching for set phrases.
A couple of my dimmest in-laws didn't want to use bad words around their daughter, so they used big word. Till the teacher said she had called a boy in class a "rectal orifice".
Don't say anything bitch, say vixen. Don't say bastard, say OOW.
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Unless you were hunting for one particular item, you could basically see the whole town in about 15 minutes.
I guess the town is not the main attraction for the area.
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As part the settlement of the water damaged cabin, the ship is offering us a free meal at their onboard Italian restaurant.
Water damage! :o
I hope you plan to let them know your opinion of the restaurant.
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
Intetesting, especially as I have to get a new tablet.
Jane, so far I recommend it. Mainly for the price. Even though I got it at an early bird option of $219, the full price is only $269. And compared to the newest Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 (they both have the exact same hi-def screen and 64GB of internal memory...which is why I really why I wanted this), it's about a third of the price as others for essentially the same thing. The only drawback is that it can't stream hi-def content. If you download hi-def files, then those will look beautiful, but for things like Netflix, it can only stream the standard def versions. You can find out a lot if you read through the early comments of the Indiegogo campaign page, but you have to scroll through a lot of comments to get that far back. but since I don't have Netflix, it wasn't a concern for me.
You are comparing it to a 10" tablet? I need an 8" again and I mostly use mine to read on. I keep the sound turned off, don't watch videos on it very often, and never take photos. I post and check email & facebook, that is about it. I read some reviews of tablets and they said the best screen for reading in a bright light is the Samsung tab A (of the small tablets).
Samsung has one option that the iPad doesn't have, something that drives me crazy when I am typing on my phone. I can go backwards to delete letters but not forward as I can with Samsung. What about your new tablet?
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
Intetesting, especially as I have to get a new tablet.
Jane, so far I recommend it. Mainly for the price. Even though I got it at an early bird option of $219, the full price is only $269. And compared to the newest Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 (they both have the exact same hi-def screen and 64GB of internal memory...which is why I really why I wanted this), it's about a third of the price as others for essentially the same thing. The only drawback is that it can't stream hi-def content. If you download hi-def files, then those will look beautiful, but for things like Netflix, it can only stream the standard def versions. You can find out a lot if you read through the early comments of the Indiegogo campaign page, but you have to scroll through a lot of comments to get that far back. but since I don't have Netflix, it wasn't a concern for me.
You are comparing it to a 10" tablet? I need an 8" again and I mostly use mine to read on. I keep the sound turned off, don't watch videos on it very often, and never take photos. I post and check email & facebook, that is about it. I read some reviews of tablets and they said the best screen for reading in a bright light is the Samsung tab A (of the small tablets).
Samsung has one option that the iPad doesn't have, something that drives me crazy when I am typing on my phone. I can go backwards to delete letters but not forward as I can with Samsung. What about your new tablet?
The built-in keyboard on this new Alldocube X tablet doesn't have arrow keys, only a backspace key, which is VERY annoying. That's why I was looking to see if another keyboard (app?) could be installed. I didn't get much of a chance to do some research, so hopefully I can find out more this weekend. Otherwise, I currently have the 10.5" Samsung Tab S, and I really like that, but I wanted more internal memory, so I got this. But I also really like the arrow keys on my Samsung Tab S.
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The sitzprobe was a lot of fun, but I did not meet Randy Rainbow. Maybe next week.
DR Laura, Ben Davis says howdy.
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So at work, several of us just got a second monitor. Why? I don't know, but we have them. We could've refused them (a few people did), but I figure, why not. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes. Anyway, here is my new setup:
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I’m ushering tonight for a golden oldie: America.
Horse With No Name, The TinMan and, my favorite, Sister GoldenHair.
Tonight, I'm ushering for I Ought To Be In Pictures (https://harlequinproductions.org/show/i-ought-to-be-in-pictures/). :)
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Oh my, that was a long one!
Smoke on your pipe and put that in.
I can explain this much:
This person was clearly based on someone I'd known on a superficial basis some 25 years ago who was blind (bingo!). She was never in music, but she excelled in a high tech fields involving computers and other technology and accessibility. We recently heard that she's been fighting a losing battle with a horrible cancer, and she'd been on my mind.
:(
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the Mariner of the Seas has a maxium of 3,807 passengers. The largest Royal Caribbean ship can carry a maximum of 6,080, or almost twice the size.
I've never been on a cruise. I can't imagine being on a ship that size.
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Good evening.
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I'm glad you got to see Ben Davis, Elmore. I hope you said hello for me.
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I have never been on a cruise. If i did one, I'd do an Alaskan one. But I'm so afraid of running up the on-board bill that i would be afraid to go on a cruise.
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I got to see the baby today. He gives the best smiles. He has learned how to roll over.
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I don't have a television, so no, I did not see Donny Osmond last night.
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Well, back in August, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alldocube-x-tablet-for-high-quality-entertainment/x/5266254#/) for a new tablet. It finally arrived yesterday! I've been working to set it up and to just get used to it. The keyboard is the one thing about it that I'd like to change. I did download a new keyboard. Now, I just need to figure out how to switch to it.
Intetesting, especially as I have to get a new tablet.
Jane, so far I recommend it. Mainly for the price. Even though I got it at an early bird option of $219, the full price is only $269. And compared to the newest Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 (they both have the exact same hi-def screen and 64GB of internal memory...which is why I really why I wanted this), it's about a third of the price as others for essentially the same thing. The only drawback is that it can't stream hi-def content. If you download hi-def files, then those will look beautiful, but for things like Netflix, it can only stream the standard def versions. You can find out a lot if you read through the early comments of the Indiegogo campaign page, but you have to scroll through a lot of comments to get that far back. but since I don't have Netflix, it wasn't a concern for me.
You are comparing it to a 10" tablet? I need an 8" again and I mostly use mine to read on. I keep the sound turned off, don't watch videos on it very often, and never take photos. I post and check email & facebook, that is about it. I read some reviews of tablets and they said the best screen for reading in a bright light is the Samsung tab A (of the small tablets).
Samsung has one option that the iPad doesn't have, something that drives me crazy when I am typing on my phone. I can go backwards to delete letters but not forward as I can with Samsung. What about your new tablet?
The built-in keyboard on this new Alldocube X tablet doesn't have arrow keys, only a backspace key, which is VERY annoying. That's why I was looking to see if another keyboard (app?) could be installed. I didn't get much of a chance to do some research, so hopefully I can find out more this weekend. Otherwise, I currently have the 10.5" Samsung Tab S, and I really like that, but I wanted more internal memory, so I got this. But I also really like the arrow keys on my Samsung Tab S.
Keith likes it on his phone and is annoyed his iPad doesn't have a forward arrow to delete.
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Well, I need to leave work now. I'm off to usher!
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But before I go...
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PAGE FIVE DANCE!!
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So at work, several of us just got a second monitor. Why? I don't know, but we have them. We could've refused them (a few people did), but I figure, why not. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes. Anyway, here is my new setup:
I didn't realize how many keychains you have at work. Would you like a Silversea keychain?
Let us know how you like having two monitors.
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So at work, several of us just got a second monitor. Why? I don't know, but we have them. We could've refused them (a few people did), but I figure, why not. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes. Anyway, here is my new setup:
I didn't realize how many keychains you have at work. Would you like a Silversea keychain?
Let us know how you like having two monitors.
I would love ANY keychain from Jane! (I'm a poet and didn't know it. ;) ) Thanks! And I think it's going to take a little time to get used to two monitors. Ask me again in a couple of months and I'll let you know.
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And NOW I'm leaving.
Be back later.
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This interested me that this was a big thing, that Kim Cattrall said that she and her "Sex and the City" co-stars were colleagues, but not friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8XSAwNQ0As
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I have never been on a cruise. If i did one, I'd do an Alaskan one. But I'm so afraid of running up the on-board bill that i would be afraid to go on a cruise.
I don't think of you as a shopper so I don't think that would happen. The salon is expensive, massages & hair styling, etc. I think the biggest onboard expense can be drinks and the extra restaurants that charge. Alaska is a shorter cruise so maybe one extra restaurant as a treat and the rest is included. You can buy a drink package but we don't drink enough soda to make it worth the price and since I am fussy, the alcohol options are not what I want. We only order one drink a day. You can figure out what the cost might be before booking a trip. If you like wine, instead of ordering by the glass there is usually an option to purchase a bottle and then request it wherever you are dining.
The big extra expense is the tours. For Alaska you would want to go on at least one hike. Even then you could just stay in the towns and save money.
If I could say any cruise it would be Alaska.
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I got to see the baby today. He gives the best smiles. He has learned how to roll over.
Awww, wonderful.
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DR Laura how far away from you is the baby?
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Good evening.
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Ken returned from his tour at about 4:15 this afternoon.
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He didn’t seem as excited about the tour as he had hoped.
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Did he enjoy his tour?
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He didn’t seem as excited about the tour as he had hoped.
Sorry.
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That is always disappointing.
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He said the pyramids weren’t as big as he had expected.
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He was very hot and very tired, which might have something to do with it.
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We went to our usual place for dinner tonight. Aside from our wonderful waitress, two other waitresses stopped to say hello. Two managers stopped plus the bar manager delivered my drink and sat to chat with Keith about his Manhattan. They are now stocking the good cherries for him and will soon be getting in a better Vermouth. They like to keep their regulars happy :)
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He was very hot and very tired, which might have something to do with it.
That can and then later your memories improve.
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He said the included meal was half a ham and cheese sandwich and a bottle of water.
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DR TCB do you agree with my comments about extra spending on the cruise?
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He said the included meal was half a ham and cheese sandwich and a bottle of water.
That is shocking unless it was mentioned up front.
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He doesn’t eat cheese of any kind, so I would imagine he was disappointed.
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Also, he is diabetic, so he has to be very careful of how he balances his meals.
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Did he mention that when he booked the tour?
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DR TCB do you agree with my comments about extra spending on the cruise?
I would say you are correct. It is important to remember that any beverage, other than coffee, tea, or milk at meals is going to cost you. I don’t mind the tap water onboard, but a lot of people can’t drink it, so they end up buying the bottled water, which really adds up.
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Also, most of the soda packages give you unlimited soda on tap (not cans) from the various bars. That can be a pain if you want to keep soda in your cabin.
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What happened to your cabin that you have water damage?
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I forgot about the water and soda cans.
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Did he mention that when he booked the tour?
If you want the world's worst food for a diabetic, then tell people you travel with are diabetic. It will likely send a person into a carb coma.
The America Diabetes Association board apparently has reps from seven or eight insulin producers on it. And they seem hellbent on protecting their own interests.
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The concert was great. I forgot about Ventura Highway, This Is for All the Lonely People and I Need You as hits of theirs. Pure nostalgia.
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Six!
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One of the songs America performed was called Hollywood and they had interesting images from the past 70 years or so, plenty of places that BK, Jane, ChasSmith and more would have recognized from the past. Great stuff.
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I’m ushering tonight for a golden oldie: America.
Horse With No Name, The TinMan and, my favorite, Sister GoldenHair.
I love these songs... reminds me of my first year of college
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vixmom, are the kids registered yet, and if so, where?
They have decided not to register as since they set up housekeeping nearly three years ago they have everything they need
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Well, Facebook has blocked me again for 30 days for calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders "lying white trash." They claim it violates their community standards on hate speech:
To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
So, I tried to let them know, and wrote: How does "white trash" violate your cockamamie community standards? I grew up in a white trash family. Instead of simply saying "you're blocked for 30 days," why don't you lay out the words you've decided violate your delicate sensibilities?
Here's the kicker: because I'm blocked, I cannot send my reply.
That's terrible, Larry! >:(
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I wonder if they consider white trash to be a racist term and are blocking on thatbasis
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Finally reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s sweet. Certainly a flipside to my other audiobook, The Plague by Camus.
I enjoyed both the book and the movie
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So at work, several of us just got a second monitor. Why? I don't know, but we have them. We could've refused them (a few people did), but I figure, why not. I'll try it out for a while and see how it goes. Anyway, here is my new setup:
I had 2 screens at the last job and I loved it. I only have one now and I miss the second screen
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We had a wonderful day with the Vixter
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Tomorrow we must pack up and head out early so I'll post more tomorrow
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Goodnight
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Did he mention that when he booked the tour?
If you want the world's worst food for a diabetic, then tell people you travel with are diabetic. It will likely send a person into a carb coma.
The America Diabetes Association board apparently has reps from seven or eight insulin producers on it. And they seem hellbent on protecting their own interests.
Oh my. I don't know how to cook for a diabetic. When I have asked I have been told not to worry about it.
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vixmom, are the kids registered yet, and if so, where?
They have decided not to register as since they set up housekeeping nearly three years ago they have everything they need
Are they taking a honeymoon? I know people who have registered for various activites, hotels, etc.
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Finally reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s sweet. Certainly a flipside to my other audiobook, The Plague by Camus.
I enjoyed both the book and the movie
So did I.
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Tomorrow we must pack up and head out early so I'll post more tomorrow
Safe and easy travels.
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People need to get more creative with synonyms. How about "ivory rubbish"? After all it's a computer searching for set phrases.
A couple of my dimmest in-laws didn't want to use bad words around their daughter, so they used big word. Till the teacher said she had called a boy in class a "rectal orifice".
Don't say anything bitch, say vixen. Don't say bastard, say OOW.
;D
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DR Vixmom were you pleased with the food tasting?
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The woman in the booth next to us at dinner was celebrating her 102nd birthday.
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I made about three ounces of spaghetti with red sauce tonight for my snack. I'd only had an omelet and bagel for food.
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I was expecting a package of books today (my books, older stuff) but they didn't arrive until six thanks to the ineptitude of UPS.
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Otherwise, I've done a lot of proofing (still not quite finished, but not too much more to go) - got one proofer's copy back, so once I finish then I can enter all those fixes. She really loved the book - thought it the best of the Adrianas, which made me happy, and she got right away what the slight difference was with this book.
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And I tried, heaven knows I tried, to watch Black Panther and I finally gave up after forty-five minutes of its relentless blather. How this thing is up for best picture is anyone's guess - oh, wait - it's actually easy to understand in today's Hollywood climate. I'm glad there are people who like these things, but I'm not one of them. This one and the female one from a couple of years ago, well, I think in years to come people will look back at these and think, what on earth was I thinking.
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Well, Facebook has blocked me again for 30 days for calling Sarah Huckabee Sanders "lying white trash." They claim it violates their community standards on hate speech:
To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
So, I tried to let them know, and wrote: How does "white trash" violate your cockamamie community standards? I grew up in a white trash family. Instead of simply saying "you're blocked for 30 days," why don't you lay out the words you've decided violate your delicate sensibilities?
Here's the kicker: because I'm blocked, I cannot send my reply.
That's terrible, Larry! >:(
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I wonder if they consider white trash to be a racist term and are blocking on thatbasis
Recalls to me that Phoenix Times interview with Barbara Harris, "Barbara Harris Knew Bill Clinton Was White Trash"
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/barbara-harris-knew-bill-clinton-was-white-trash-6410220
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Then I watched a new Netflix movie - Velvet Buzzsaw, a totally weird and wacky art world "thriller." Not much of a thriller, more of a horror movie, which anyone can see coming in the first thirty minutes. It doesn't add up to much and it thinks it's funnier than it is, but the performances are fun and it moves right along.
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I guess that says something about a person's interests the most famous use of the words "white trash" is in that Barbara Harris article.
:)
The article is cited a bit for her saying the problem with theater for her was that she loved developing a show and rehearsing, and didn't like playing show over and over once it was frozen.
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I had a medical scare that'd prompted me to make an appointment for Monday, and now the symptoms have left.
I love the online info which basically said it could just need a pill, or alternatively, you could die tomorrow.
Trying to decide whether to keep the appointment, since it's the first use of the 2019 deductible.
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Good decision making vibes.