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01-26-2019, 07:00 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Originally Posted by street
Thanks Ron, I sure would love to see some of your carvings. I bet they are great.
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I don’t carve anything - just build wood boxes, furniture, hiking sticks, and turn stuff on a lathe.
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01-26-2019, 07:11 PM
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#142
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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You do beautiful work on the things you make but for some reason I thought you were going to try carving. If not you then there was someone else that had mentioned that. Thanks Ronstar.
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01-26-2019, 11:42 PM
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#143
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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We saw a play last night called Communicating Doors, which was very entertaining. Today we went to The Souper Bowl, a contest where the ticket buyers walk around downtown Sausalito and and taste clam chowder at 12 of the restaurants, then vote on the best one. We had nice weather and pretty views. Some restaurants had other kinds of soup like lobster bisque or clam chowder so it was a good selection, plus the walking from one restaurant to another helped burn off some of the calories.
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Even clouds seem bright and breezy, 'Cause the livin' is free and easy, See the rat race in a new way, Like you're wakin' up to a new day (Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether lyrics, Alan Parsons Project, based on an EA Poe story)
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01-27-2019, 05:08 AM
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#144
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Albuquerque
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Today I decided to check out upcoming rock and country music concerts - have not been to one in years and I want to start back up again. For the summer concerts that interested me, could not figure out on main box office website if ticket sales had not started or if already sold out. Only thing available was a megaticket for five concerts - sale began a day ago at 10 am and few seats were left. Some oddball websites seemed to have a limited number of tickets for the individual concerts but much more expensive. So I grabbed a megaticket and it was not cheap. This was more complicated than I expected. Hard to believe you have to buy a concert ticket five months or more in advance.
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Retired on 9/30/2017 at age 62
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01-27-2019, 06:48 PM
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#145
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gone traveling
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: NW Ohio
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Helped my daughter cut up, and split about 1/2 a truckload of firewood, that was too big for her woodstove (0 degree windchill), then went to a really good pizza buffet, that has good salad, and meal items. Trying to warm up around the fire tonight.
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01-27-2019, 09:53 PM
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#146
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
While doing the Rhumba in the tundra?
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Somebody mentioned the Rumba?
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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01-28-2019, 01:13 AM
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#147
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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It's 1AM and I am still listening to some Rumba.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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What did you do today? 2019 version.
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01-28-2019, 09:48 AM
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#148
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2015
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What did you do today? 2019 version.
Sharing one of my favorite rhumbas since it came up.
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Wisdom starts with wonder
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01-28-2019, 01:10 PM
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#149
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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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Called DishTV to cancel our service after completing our two year contract. I lost count of the number of times I said, "Please cancel our service" before the CS rep finally stopped asking questions, offering a better deal, or running down the competition and agreed to do what I asked. Sigh...
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Numbers is hard
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01-28-2019, 02:18 PM
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#150
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
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Swimming at the therapy pool. 92 degrees, too hot. I transferred to the family pool 82 degrees and much better. YMCA is awesome. I was the only one in the family pool. Heading out to dinner.
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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01-28-2019, 02:33 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Love this retirement gig, I didn't do nuthin' all day. DW took the car to the car wash just in time for the forecast rain/sleet/snow tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night and the Deep Freeze to follow. When I pointed that out I was informed that her car would be a Garage Queen until the snow melted. In the meantime we'll use the 4WD pickup truck.
I am now so informed. 
It's all still better than having to go to work.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-29-2019, 12:41 PM
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#152
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Went hiking. Saw some petroglyphs. Grilled some burgers.
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01-29-2019, 01:09 PM
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#153
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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Wanted to hike but -35 degrees with the wind chill so didn't do much.
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01-29-2019, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Gym day. Picked up a prescription. Got home before the snow became a problem. We might, I say might, get a half inch of snow, and yet the TV news at the gym managed to yap about it for 15 minutes. Must be a slow news day.
"Ohhhh, look! A snowflake! Mike, get a shot of that before it melts!"
"It's not a snowflake. It's a clump of cat hair".
"Well, make it out of focus so they can't tell."
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-29-2019, 02:39 PM
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#155
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 1,677
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Pickleball for a few hours this morning, then lunch and a shower. Now I’m relaxing with some tea and my Kindle. I’m re-reading “The Passage”. DH and I watched the first two installments of the TV version before he decided he didn’t like it and I decided I preferred the book version.
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01-29-2019, 02:41 PM
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#156
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
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Played Pickleball for the first time in 75 days, as was recovering from a hernia repair.
Boy, did I miss playing.
Being able to play at 10am on a weekday is one of my defining acknowledgements of being retired.
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01-29-2019, 02:48 PM
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#157
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 270
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Biked 7 miles (stationary bike) this morning
Then did online work from home today.
Its snowing now....I teach tonight.
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01-29-2019, 02:53 PM
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#158
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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I finally got to see "Bohemian Rhapsody " . Great movie ! I ended up singing along with "We are the champions ".
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01-29-2019, 02:59 PM
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#159
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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Quote:
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I finally got to see "Bohemian Rhapsody " . Great movie ! I ended up singing along with "We are the champions ".
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I need to go see that film, I’ve heard nothing but good things.
We went to see Jake Shimabukuro last year, and his closing song was Bohemian Rhapsody. He urged the audience to sing along, which gleefully complied.
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01-29-2019, 04:20 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I had a breast biopsy because the mammogram found something had changed. Sitting here with a small ice gel pack and I have to wear the bra overnight.
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