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03-25-2019, 07:59 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2015
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Originally Posted by robnplunder
I bought my house new 20 years ago. It came with the inside walls of garage unpainted which I finally painted it today. What made me painted after so many years? I had enough leftover paint from re-painting the external house walls.
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I'm going to be doing that this spring - but only to sell the house. Garage walls last painted in 1960 when the house was built. 1960's pastel blue right now, on half-swirl plaster walls, and even the ceiling. Millenials would run screaming.
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03-25-2019, 08:38 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Held a yard sale yesterday. Lots of stuff no longer our problem! We averaged $65/hour! A few things packed back into bins to hang in garage until our neighbor hosts a neighborhood yard sale in a couple months. Bonus - one customer works at the dog rescue I had been collecting towels & bedding for - took the entire load back to work! No longer in our house! Yay!
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03-25-2019, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Went house shopping. Developed 3 options for getting down to one house. DW and I are not agreeing on house, location, or plan of attack.
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03-25-2019, 11:12 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Originally Posted by Christine
I'm really impressed with the helicopter crews. The local paper interviewed one of the pilots. She said she just flew back and forth as fast as possible and focused so hard on the job that time stood still...
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I am also impressed that they could airlift so many passengers.
Headline on another article: "Norway wants to know why cruise ship sailed in stormy weather, forcing air evacuation".
Well, the cruise line has to make a living, rain or shine. 
See: https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...er/3265772002/.
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03-25-2019, 11:16 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
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Originally Posted by Ronstar
Went house shopping. Developed 3 options for getting down to one house. DW and I are not agreeing on house, location, or plan of attack.
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Sounds like you have an agreed upon starting point.. 
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03-25-2019, 02:40 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Ronstar
Went house shopping. Developed 3 options for getting down to one house. DW and I are not agreeing on house, location, or plan of attack.
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 ... so what's new?
Made a doorknob of a cabinet sitting in my garage. I didn't want to buy the doorknobs - hassle to drive to Home Depot and back just for a doorknob. I looked around my house to find old ones I can salvage but didn't find any. In the end, I used two wine corks, screwed them on the door. They look nice.
Oh, yeah, painted the cabinet, too.
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03-26-2019, 03:12 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Haven't done it yet, (or perhaps it hasn't done me), but I have an 08:00 a.m. appointment for a Cystoscopy at a hospital about 20 miles from here.
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03-26-2019, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Nemo2
Haven't done it yet, (or perhaps it hasn't done me), but I have an 08:00 a.m. appointment for a Cystoscopy at a hospital about 20 miles from here.
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Good luck.
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03-26-2019, 07:49 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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Originally Posted by Gumby
Good luck.
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^ What he said.
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03-26-2019, 07:56 AM
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#570
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Haven't done it yet, (or perhaps it hasn't done me), but I have an 08:00 a.m. appointment for a Cystoscopy at a hospital about 20 miles from here.
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Just had one last week. Good luck, it is an easy test to pass.[emoji23]
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03-26-2019, 08:02 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Yesterday something we'd been hoping would happen for more than 20 years finally came to pass. We had reliable, high speed, uncapped, reasonably priced, fiber internet service installed at the house. Instead of seeing our download speeds slow to 1-2 Mbps during peak Netflix hour last evening, we continued to get a solid 50 Mbps.
Life is good...
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03-26-2019, 08:20 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2011
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Originally Posted by MRG
Just had one last week. Good luck, it is an easy test to pass.[emoji23]
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Still have an infection....back on antibiotics.....possibly/probably caused by large kidney stones in each kidney...first side, (8mm), will be addressed April 08....(won't do both sides at the same time in case of problems).
Back to the local hospital....blood tests/urine tests/EKG.
I used to be smug about not having doctor's appointments.....now I'm becoming the 'regular' that sits in the corner mumbling to himself.
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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03-26-2019, 08:30 AM
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#573
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Still have an infection....back on antibiotics.....possibly/probably caused by large kidney stones in each kidney...first side, (8mm), will be addressed April 08....(won't do both sides at the same time in case of problems)...
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Kidney stones are no fun. Good luck to you.
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03-26-2019, 11:27 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,501
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Originally Posted by Nemo2
Haven't done it yet, (or perhaps it hasn't done me), but I have an 08:00 a.m. appointment for a Cystoscopy at a hospital about 20 miles from here.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Still have an infection....back on antibiotics.....possibly/probably caused by large kidney stones in each kidney...first side, (8mm), will be addressed April 08....(won't do both sides at the same time in case of problems).
Back to the local hospital....blood tests/urine tests/EKG.
I used to be smug about not having doctor's appointments.....now I'm becoming the 'regular' that sits in the corner mumbling to himself.
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Drat! I hope all goes well. None of us would want to have kidney stones at all, much less in each kidney.
I'm having routine lab tests done today and frankly I hate even getting those done.
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
Yesterday something we'd been hoping would happen for more than 20 years finally came to pass. We had reliable, high speed, uncapped, reasonably priced, fiber internet service installed at the house. Instead of seeing our download speeds slow to 1-2 Mbps during peak Netflix hour last evening, we continued to get a solid 50 Mbps.
Life is good...
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Hot dog!!! AT LAST you have decent internet.   You sure have been waiting long enough.
They have been promising us fiber for at least 10 years that I know of, and tearing up the street and sidewalk through the neighborhoods to prepare for it, but so far absolutely nothing. They just advertise that it's coming soon, as they have for years. I guess promises are cheap.
Our regular Cox cable has gotten a lot better in the meantime, probably due to possible future competition. Just checked and it is 118 Mbps right now as I type this, although it's advertised as "up to 100 Mbps" for my midlevel internet. Now, if only it didn't go down quite so often. I know, I know, never satisfied, right?
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03-26-2019, 12:23 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2011
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Originally Posted by W2R
I'm having routine lab tests done today and frankly I hate even getting those done.
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Enjoy! I said to DW that I'm such a fixture at Dr.'s offices and hospitals now that I'll likely be getting Christmas cards from the janitors, nurses, etc, from now on....one of the family an' all that.
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03-26-2019, 01:00 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
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Look for tons more posts going forward from "you know who"!
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03-26-2019, 06:47 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Gym day for me, then groceries. Tried to find what happened to my prescription that was lost. Finally got it this afternoon.
Spring is starting, our local swan came back for the summer. When I came home a wild turkey was walking around the yard and toward the canyon. I don't know what it was doing walking around in a couple feet of snow. I'm sure it knows more than me. A couple days ago there was a beautiful fox that crossed the road ahead of me.
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03-27-2019, 04:57 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2017
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Colonoscopy day for me today .... Yay!!!
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03-27-2019, 04:58 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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Originally Posted by albireo13
Colonoscopy day for me today .... Yay!!!
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Glad to hear that things are looking up!
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03-27-2019, 05:21 AM
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#580
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Yesterday played 9 holes of golf and then started pressure washing my driveway. Bought a Greenworks Pro 2300 electric washer and boy does it do a good job. My driveway looked almost black in spots but now looks brand new. Finished 2/3 of it yesterday and will knock out the rest today. Got the house trim to tackle but will do that later in the Spring.
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