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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
A milk man delivered milk next door to me until the woman, age 93, died a couple of years ago. So there was milk delivery still available. We still have a postman that puts a pack across his back and walks door to door to house mounted mail boxes. T…
Thanks to MFO and the regular posters and linkers who make my everyday richer in more than one way. And thanks to the Casino that is preparing my feast.
We've gone from a culture of need ("demand it and it will appear") to a culture of change ("create it and they will adapt"). Does the second way of thinking lead to the greater creativity?
I don't know if it's illegal or not (think war opponents) but if the President can do this on his own individual whim, it's scary. Until I thought about war enemies, my knee jerk reaction was "he can't do that".
From a make it up as you go 10 year old
There's a four leaf clover in those woods over there
It will bring you good luck for your life
But that four leaf clover in those woods over there
Can't be yours 'cause it's already mine.
There's a big pot o…
I recently ran into a 21st century problem. Our cell phone android version will not run the apps required for upgrading my home to smart. Namely I couldn't connect a Ring Doorbell Pro to my router because my router password resulted in a "Failed" me…
I worked with an Air Force Colonel once that said that he used degrees as a filter for jobs with many applicants. He said that finishing a bachelor's degree showed that the applicant was not only capable but also was someone who could stick with it …
Who knows who has my or your data. Breaches OPM, State of Delaware, Home Depot, and a host of smaller ones, both government and private. At one time I was receiving four free scanning services all related to stolen data bases at the same time. So fo…
The country has precious few resources going forward if we don't get back on track. We would be well advised to do anything we can to encourage education, innovation and inspiration. If the "best and the brightest" can't get a bit of help, how can y…
The last year of boomers turns 67 in 2031 giving them more than 10 year to accumulate savings. I don't know about you but, even with the 2000 and 2008 downturns I doubled my savings between 2000 and my retirement in 2010. I have a passion for number…
Maybe it is who we are as a culture or, maybe, a species. Do we really worry more about the wealthy and their businesses and farms (or the profit derived from them) than about food for the young?
At the minimum, don't you find it interesting that t…
That'll only get less than 13 of my commune buddies into the $569 seats. We don' like the cheaper ones. Maybe only send my husband and the rest of the border security watch crew. They like stuff like that and Canadian intrusion won't uptick too much…
Much to my surprise Vanguard emailed that they would issue me a 1099 at the end of February. They recently converted my account adding a brokerage account with zero dollars. For who knows what reason they insisted on doing this. The accounts they br…
Where I live the complaints of infiltration are of rich Canadians to the north and rich Californians to the south buying up all the property and raising the price of housing beyond the affordability of local workers. Canada, California - BUILD THAT …
What @rforno said. Back to the day of "the computer made me do it"; "the computer made the error"; "the computer says so"; and so forth. After the 90s people became sophisticated enough to realize "the computer" did whatever the human programmed it …
@hank: my great uncle (d. 1950's) owned a still-running GE refrigerator that was so old it earned him recognition from the company. I recall it sitting on legs an having a round refrigeration coil on top. It kept on running despite his demise.
Ah, t…
After playing with the calculator, I am confused. My husband's RMD has been straight forward since he was born in the first half of the year but I was born in the last month of the year. So I turned 70 in December 2018, will be 70.5 in June 2019 and…
If it's the truth, the facts, a direct quote from Twitter, etc., how is it "bashing"? Wouldn't it require a bit of innuendo to be considered bashing? If bashing is just hitting, it would seem to be a straightforward fair game.
