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    Getting my first Apple watch

    I inherited my wife’s Apple Watch when she upgraded to a watch that did heart rhythms. I never wore a watch in the past, but I’m really attached to it now. Phone calls, text notifications, heartbeat, timers, control music, and more
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    First Paid Job

    1975, I was 16. Weeded onions in the Tulelake California area. Summer work, six days a week. $2 per hour. Worked alongside several school friends. Some fun memories, and have forgotten the not fun parts like crawling thru the fields.
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    Fun Poll: How Do You Eat Corn On The Cob

    I do a ring around both ends, then eat rows going across.
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    Introvert Extrovert

    Introvert. I should have used all caps for emphasis. Groups of more than 5-6, I run and hide .
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    Retorq Lug Nuts?

    After having a front tire fly off a couple days after a tire rotate, I stop by the next day each time to get them checked. Just a stop on the way to the coffee shop.
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    Sexual Frequency Poll !!!!

    I was hoping for an option between daily and weekly... Also curiously watching the votes tally up.
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    Hands tingling !!!!

    PCP is a good starting point. I have numbness and pain in hands, and it is due to cervical issues, c5-c7. Pinching of the nerves leaving this area causes the pain/numbness. It shows up on an MRI. Treatment is PT, nerve drugs, injection, surgery. I’ve had it for five years. Another one of...
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    Class of 2019

    Congrats Carpediem! I retired couple months ago after 37 years in IT. Did a lot of reflection on History if IT during that last month on the job. It was quite a run from the early 80s to present. Birth of the PC, networks, internet, mobile, etc. quite a ride when I think back of what all...
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    Class of 2019

    Congrats!!! I also gave 3 months notice...first month was full of wowzzz, what are you going to do, etc. second month was quiet, not much chatter about it at work. Then, that last month just zipped by, especially the last two weeks...
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    go to Auschwitz?

    Visited Dachau and then Auschwitz a few years later in 2008. It was a cold, windy March day in Poland when we visited. I stood on those famous RR tracks where human beings were sorted. I stood in the living quarters. It was chilling cold, even wearing appropriate clothing. To this day, I...
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    Class of 2019

    Proud member of the Class of 2019 Finished out 37+ years on March 29, 2019. Just hit 60, Wife 58. Retirement is everything I had hoped it would be!!! Going to be awesome.
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