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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'll pat my own back, thank you very much.




You really shouldn't pet strays. You might get bit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'll pat my own back, thank you very much.




You really shouldn't pet strays. You might get bit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Oh, you mean you're NOT so awesome ?!!

I never would have guessed.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh.

It's too bad.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not a handyman. I'm an artist.

And no, you couldn't.


You drunk on that box wine, Karen.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh.

It's too bad.

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Originally posted by Brenda:

My friend and I will have a wet meet up tomorrow. We may stay in the mall for lunch and just tool around there.

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Sigh.

It's too bad.

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Originally posted by Brenda:

My friend and I will have a wet meet up tomorrow. We may stay in the mall for lunch and just tool around there.

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The mall is ... OPEN? (Things here are still closed, seeing as how cases are still going up.)

I was chit-chatting with a friend back in NYC. Apparently masks in public are a state law. How's that going by you?



Anyway - stay dry! And relax and have a good time! And then (hopefully) tell us all about it!

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SIX: If you'd like Kiki to keep her trash talking out of this thread, I'd ask Sigs and Brenda to say as much.

There's no need for it in here, and it's just as welcome now as it is when T brings it into the Garden.

Thanks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNY: SIX, I would hve said it differently, and out of concern for you, but I agree with KIKI's point. The money that you "don't spend" is NOT income. It's great to get rebates and points and shit, but spent money is just spent money.

We used to have a joke where I worked... someone would find an ad for some really expensive luxury item .... HALF OFF ON TOP LINE CALLAWAY GOLF CLUB SET WITH FREE SET OF BALLS!... and we would laugh and say we couldn't afford to save like that, and toss the ad in the recycler.

Or dd brings me a coupon $0.75 off on [some comparatively expensive meat] and I explain, again, that even if I use the coupon it will still cost more $6 more than if I threw the coupon out and bought a cheaper brand.

I don't see you buying luxuries, and I'm glad you have an A/C, but to say that you didn't spend $100 [more] on the unit means that your A/C is basically "free" is the kind of contextual thinking that gets people in trouble.


SIX: The $100 I saved by buying it 3 weeks early is only 1/3rd of the money I am talking about. The other 2/3rds is the $200 credit I get on my new card when I spend $1,000 in 3 months, and THAT IS income. I regularly get over $500 tax free every year doing this.

I have zero debt and I pay the cards off every month. I've done so since August of 2005.

So yes... My A/C is free this year.

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SIX: If you'd like Kiki to keep her trash talking out of this thread, I'd ask Sigs and Brenda to say as much.

There's no need for it in here, and it's just as welcome now as it is when T brings it into the Garden.

Thanks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNY: SIX, I would hve said it differently, and out of concern for you, but I agree with KIKI's point. The money that you "don't spend" is NOT income. It's great to get rebates and points and shit, but spent money is just spent money.

We used to have a joke where I worked... someone would find an ad for some really expensive luxury item .... HALF OFF ON TOP LINE CALLAWAY GOLF CLUB SET WITH FREE SET OF BALLS!... and we would laugh and say we couldn't afford to save like that, and toss the ad in the recycler.

Or dd brings me a coupon $0.75 off on [some comparatively expensive meat] and I explain, again, that even if I use the coupon it will still cost more $6 more than if I threw the coupon out and bought a cheaper brand.

I don't see you buying luxuries, and I'm glad you have an A/C, but to say that you didn't spend $100 [more] on the unit means that your A/C is basically "free" is the kind of contextual thinking that gets people in trouble.


SIX: The $100 I saved by buying it 3 weeks early is only 1/3rd of the money I am talking about. The other 2/3rds is the $200 credit I get on my new card when I spend $1,000 in 3 months, and THAT IS income. I regularly get over $500 tax free every year doing this.

I have zero debt and I pay the cards off every month. I've done so since August of 2005.

So yes... My A/C is free this year.

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Actually we got lucky no rain today.

This mall isn't that big and there are still 3 stores not open in it. And the food court is mostly open but much less seating. So I grabbed a table to wait for her. (We've been lucky. No major spikes since BC has partially reopened. We are looking good for phase 3 by around the middle of June. Now just because this mall is, I don't know about the big one in the next city too me. My friend said that one big mall in the city she lives in isn't open.)

There is no provincial law that says you have to wear a mask. Some people do and some people don't. I kept the one I was given at my doctor's office over a week ago and used it when I went to the vampires on Monday. Most people working in the stores have masks and gloves on, that includes the food places. My friend was wearing a mask but then she was on buses coming in from another city.

So, we met at noon and had lunch from A&W, that is a fast food place. She bought some sort of chocolate desert from the place as a treat for herself and it looked terrible to me. She said after eating most of it, it was terrible. We talked for a bit then went shopping. We found what we were looking for in one store. Then she wanted to spend another gift card that I had given her for Christmas in a comic shop. So we went in there and she found a collectable that she liked. I found a comic book that I like but I didn't buy. I have to go out tomorrow, so if it is still there I just might buy it.

We went across the street after to another store and she found a couple of more things that she needed. I should mention that she just moved a month ago, so somethings of hers need replacing. She thought about buying some flowers from this place but decided not too.

Anyways she was out here for a couple of hours and we had a good time, gave her a hug before she ran for her bus as after that she had to grab what is known in BC as the "sky train" which is a commuter train that runs from Vancouver to her city.

So, yeah. Good day.

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I was smiling the whole time I was reading your post. THANKS for taking the time!

And YAY. All in all, it DOES sound like a good day!

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Actually we got lucky no rain today.

This mall isn't that big and there are still 3 stores not open in it. And the food court is mostly open but much less seating. So I grabbed a table to wait for her. (We've been lucky. No major spikes since BC has partially reopened. We are looking good for phase 3 by around the middle of June. Now just because this mall is, I don't know about the big one in the next city too me. My friend said that one big mall in the city she lives in isn't open.)

There is no provincial law that says you have to wear a mask. Some people do and some people don't. I kept the one I was given at my doctor's office over a week ago and used it when I went to the vampires on Monday. Most people working in the stores have masks and gloves on, that includes the food places. My friend was wearing a mask but then she was on buses coming in from another city.

So, we met at noon and had lunch from A&W, that is a fast food place. She bought some sort of chocolate desert from the place as a treat for herself and it looked terrible to me. She said after eating most of it, it was terrible. We talked for a bit then went shopping. We found what we were looking for in one store. Then she wanted to spend another gift card that I had given her for Christmas in a comic shop. So we went in there and she found a collectable that she liked. I found a comic book that I like but I didn't buy. I have to go out tomorrow, so if it is still there I just might buy it.

We went across the street after to another store and she found a couple of more things that she needed. I should mention that she just moved a month ago, so somethings of hers need replacing. She thought about buying some flowers from this place but decided not too.

Anyways she was out here for a couple of hours and we had a good time, gave her a hug before she ran for her bus as after that she had to grab what is known in BC as the "sky train" which is a commuter train that runs from Vancouver to her city.

So, yeah. Good day.

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Hugs are nice. I forgot about that until my brother came. Seen my old man a few times but he's still scared to touch anybody.

You going to start playing Mahjong again soon?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Good on you with the cleanup, SIX!

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I never caught before that you did it indoors. That's a bummer.

I think I've just seen too many movies where people play pick up games of chess in the park, and I always imagined you and your friends playing Mahjong outdoors.

Maybe you have a place outdoors you can meet until the center comes back, now that the weather is finally getting nice around your parts?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I think I might have to bite the bullet and buy another car... :(

I put over 200 miles on it today and ran a few cycles.

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Tried a temporary patch with some soda cans and aluminum tape but the flex pipe is so fubared compared to the smaller holes last time I passed that the patch won't last more than about 2 minutes before busting.


I think there's just too many things to fix on it, and I'd really just be throwing parts at it until I figure out which one will make the stupid test run. Even if I find somebody to weld a cheap flex pipe on for me for a reasonable price, I still might have to change the thermostat for the coolant, and it's still possible that it's an 02 sensor or two keeping the test from happening even if they're not throwing any codes.


I looked into pricing a device that would fool the system, but those are NOT cheap at all. In fact, it would cost more than fixing all of the other things combined, and even then you need a bit of knowledge of how those systems work so you make it work to your car's specs.


Freaking ridiculous after all we've been through that I'm going to have to dump this car because of a stupid government test.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Hey Signy - my back has pretty much been teetering on the edge of crapping out the whole time. I do fairly limited physical things (washing dishes, tidying up the house, cooking, shopping and running errands, and so on) until it starts to get cranky. I'm sure you've felt that kind of thing too, where you just happen to move the wrong way and all of the sudden it tweaks intensely. But I can manage maybe three total hours of work, not counting breaks to rest my back, until that happens. And then I stop. And then I'll often move on entirely to sit-down jobs. One good thing about having so much to do is that I have no end of choices!

On the positive side, after that initial AM where I woke up almost unable to move at all, not even to shift around in bed, I haven't had a repeat of waking up so crippled - nothing beyond the normal morning level of stiffness. Rest in bed, sometimes with the heating pad, seems to reset the previous day back to a better morning.

Thanks for asking. I appreciate it!

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I think I might have to bite the bullet and buy another car... :(

I put over 200 miles on it today and ran a few cycles.

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Been there, done that. But my car's only problem was that I had put a new battery in it.

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I'm sure it will mend in time.

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Sounds like a nice day, BRENDA! I hope you have many more!

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Jack, you are a head of me. I think I might have understood about half of your post. But then what I know about cars you could fit on the head of a pin. Since I've never driven or owned a car.

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Everything I put in that post I didn't know a thing about 3 days ago.

Like owning a house, owning a car is great until it isn't.

You've gotten by this far without either. I'd say your much better off without them.




Oh... tip of the day: Don't use safety glasses when using a sawzall to cut a steel pipe 3" from your face. Use safety goggles.

If you don't, you'll learn very quickly the hard way that getting metal shavings in your eyes is not fun, and if you didn't wear contact lenses like me you might even go blind.

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Yeah, Sundays I don't usually do too much unless it is something that I've been putting off for a while. And that I covered last week. So I just messed around with this thing, listened to some music and watched a little tv.

I really need to get a couch as watching tv in a dining room chair isn't good for my back.

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Jack, you are a head of me. I think I might have understood about half of your post. But then what I know about cars you could fit on the head of a pin. Since I've never driven or owned a car.

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Everything I put in that post I didn't know a thing about 3 days ago.

Like owning a house, owning a car is great until it isn't.

You've gotten by this far without either. I'd say your much better off without them.

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Would have loved a car before the seizures but yeah now not a good idea. A house would have been nice again if I could have afforded it when I was younger. Now, it's not really a possibility.

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Oh... tip of the day: Don't use safety glasses when using a sawzall to cut a steel pipe 3" from your face. Use safety goggles.

If you don't, you'll learn very quickly the hard way that getting metal shavings in your eyes is not fun, and if you didn't wear contact lenses like me you might even go blind.

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That's not so good Jack. You have got to be more careful.

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Yeah, Sundays I don't usually do too much unless it is something that I've been putting off for a while. And that I covered last week. So I just messed around with this thing, listened to some music and watched a little tv.

I really need to get a couch as watching tv in a dining room chair isn't good for my back.

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My problem is too many years behind me where everyday was a lazy Sunday. I'm paying for it now.

Hope I can enjoy them again one day if I keep at it. In the mean time, enjoy them for me.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I'm sure you will one of these days Jack.

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Hey Brenda - I think if you get natural peanut butter - without hydrogenation or added fats - it's really low in saturated fat! One tablespoon has about 1.5gram of saturated fat and 12.5grams of UNsaturated fat.

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