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Yeah. Remember when I posted that article where they were getting rid of it? I guess that was BS.

The US Senate voted unanimously to end it, then the House never bothered to take it up.

I guess it will be dark before 5PM tomorrow.

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Yeah, I do vaguely.

My province has voted to get rid of it. The problem now is that we are waiting on Washington state, Oregon and California along with DC to get their acts together so we can do it.

Nobody wants it anymore it is outdated.

I always need a reminder about it or I will forget. Stupid pain in the backside.

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Yeah. I posted that it was the first time that the US government did anything that we can all agree on, but it looks like they screwed that up like they always screw everything up.

Your province should just go ahead and do it. This is just one of a million examples of how US has too much indirect control over the ebb and flow of the world. It's like when I argue with people here about how WE caused the world to be stuck in such a high inflationary recession right now with the policies that WE enacted. WE did that. But the other countries themselves are also to blame because where the US lead they all followed.

I don't mind forgetting about it. There have been times I've gone weeks without even realizing the clocks should have been changed.

What I hate is the darkness before 5PM. The days are already short enough as it is.

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Well, it's here. Winter, I mean. Stay warm and snuggly!

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I finished spackling everything in the porch. It's COLD outside.

Right now I'm going a little caulk crazy on my bamboo entryway table. I probably won't get around to putting any paint on it today while I'm waiting for it all to dry. Even though it's cold out, my furnace isn't going to be turning on today and drying up the air since I've got it set so low.

Tomorrow is a little warmer. I'll (hopefully) sand off all the spackle and caulk everything that needs caulking and then (hopefully) put the final coat of paint on all the trim on wednesday when it's 60+ outside.

I'm kind of regretting planning on having my dad come over on Thursday. Now I'm seeing the high for Thursday is 71 degrees and from there it plummets. Saturday is supposed to only be 35 degrees. Gross.

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oh yeah. According to wunderground you're right in the middle of a blob of cold northern air. But I'm sure you knew that.

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Dress warm, SIX!

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It sounds like it worked out well for you, SIX. Good deal!

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About 3.5 hours. That's quicker than I figured a coat would take.

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Over at this end I was busy sorting mail when the power went out. No particular reason, it wasn't stormy or windy or anything. We must be on an old circuit bc our section (all 1600+ accounts) goes out 3 times a year, but the lights across the street stay on - they're on a newer circuit, I think. And it doesn't take long, relatively speaking, to fix- usually just a couple of hours. So I think it must be an old relay or switch or something simple that they could have replaced any time in the past 20 years, they just haven't.

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I'm on what the neighbors refer to as the "old circuit" here myself. When me and the neighbors across the street lose power, most of the rest of the block doesn't. It's probably vice/versa too, but who notices when other people's power is out when yours isn't, right?

It used to be a pretty big problem around here. I remember for years I just didn't bother resetting the times on the clocks because brownouts would just knock 'em out long enough for the blinking 12:00 and no matter how many times I called about it they didn't do anything. I'm thinking one of the times when it went out something busted though and they finally accidentally fixed it because we're good now.

Maybe you get lucky and something really breaks on you so they'll finally fix the problem on your end too. Good luck!



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Sounds like a busy day. I hope everything goes smoothly for you!

AFA snow on roofs... where I came from, that means that your roofs are well- insulated. Those that aren't leak heat and melt the snow. You must have good building codes.


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I am off to mah jong in the cold tomorrow morning.

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I am off to mah jong in the cold tomorrow morning.

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Good luck! Stay warm!

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We have super hard water around here, and scale builds up everywhere. I fixed daughter's shower head a month or so ago by soaking it in vinegar. Our "rainfall" shower head was leaking out the top, so I took it off and soaked that too, and replaced the filter and washer. Unfortunately it's still leaking out the top, I think from the ball- socket fitting that allows you to adjust the shower head. But at least water is running out of all of the jets now.

We broke down and turned on the heat, since it's hitting 55 tonight. Set the thermostat to 65 bc otherwise the bedrooms get too warm for comfortable sleeping.

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I was assaulted by Christmas music at the dentist office on Monday. It's only the beginning of November.

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I was assaulted by Christmas music at the dentist office on Monday. It's only the beginning of November.

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Oh no!

But you should count yourself lucky, I would think Brenda. Maybe in Canada the creep hasn't been as bad as here in the states, but back when I was working overnight at K-Mart in the mid 2010's we already had to hear Christmas music while the Halloween merch was still on the racks.

I remember fondly helping my buddy Ed put all of the poseable skeletons in suggestive positions while listening to the song that Paul McCartney has apologized on many occasions for unleashing upon the world.



I can do about one week of Christmas music per year. That's it.

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Off to do my laundry and then get a walk in.

Computer acting strange this morning. Icons on task bar wouldn't show up until I hit main icon for google chrome. Then I had my malware icon show up and go then skype show up and go. Don't know what is happening.

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Off to do my laundry and then get a walk in.

Computer acting strange this morning. Icons on task bar wouldn't show up until I hit main icon for google chrome. Then I had my malware icon show up and go then skype show up and go. Don't know what is happening.

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Oh dear.

I don't know what to suggest except try rebooting. If you have the option try rebooting in safe mode.

Have you clicked on any strange email or website links lately?

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I was assaulted by Christmas music at the dentist office on Monday. It's only the beginning of November.

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Oh no!

But you should count yourself lucky, I would think Brenda. Maybe in Canada the creep hasn't been as bad as here in the states, but back when I was working overnight at K-Mart in the mid 2010's we already had to hear Christmas music while the Halloween merch was still on the racks.

I remember fondly helping my buddy Ed put all of the poseable skeletons in suggestive positions while listening to the song that Paul McCartney has apologized on many occasions for unleashing upon the world.



I can do about one week of Christmas music per year. That's it.

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Maybe the creep of Christmas music is getting slower as I haven't noticed any on in the local malls. Which is a relief.

Now, the Christmas merch started creeping in along with the Halloween stuff. And that's been going on for years.

Now, that is funny SIX. You know I wonder what Paul McCartney is talking about. Will have to look that up later.

One week then you are a better person than me, SIX. Usually when I start hearing that I want to rip the wiring out of the speaker system and that is what happened at the dentist on Monday.

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Off to do my laundry and then get a walk in.

Computer acting strange this morning. Icons on task bar wouldn't show up until I hit main icon for google chrome. Then I had my malware icon show up and go then skype show up and go. Don't know what is happening.

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I remember fondly helping my buddy Ed put all of the poseable skeletons in suggestive positions while listening to the song that Paul McCartney has apologized on many occasions for unleashing upon the world.

Yeah. We had a lot of fun with those skeletons. We'd put hats and other costume stuff on them too when we were posing them. It's pretty hilarious because the cameras were on all the time so they knew who was doing it, but if they fired me and Ed they'd be even more screwed than they already were so nobody even bothered to tell us to stop doing it and they'd just fix them every morning.

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I was assaulted by Christmas music at the dentist office on Monday. It's only the beginning of November.

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Oh no!

But you should count yourself lucky, I would think Brenda. Maybe in Canada the creep hasn't been as bad as here in the states, but back when I was working overnight at K-Mart in the mid 2010's we already had to hear Christmas music while the Halloween merch was still on the racks.

I remember fondly helping my buddy Ed put all of the poseable skeletons in suggestive positions while listening to the song that Paul McCartney has apologized on many occasions for unleashing upon the world.



I can do about one week of Christmas music per year. That's it.

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Maybe the creep of Christmas music is getting slower as I haven't noticed any on in the local malls. Which is a relief.

Now, the Christmas merch started creeping in along with the Halloween stuff. And that's been going on for years.

Now, that is funny SIX. You know I wonder what Paul McCartney is talking about. Will have to look that up later.

One week then you are a better person than me, SIX. Usually when I start hearing that I want to rip the wiring out of the speaker system and that is what happened at the dentist on Monday.

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Oh... you're no doubt a better person than me, Brenda.

Yeah. We had a lot of fun with those skeletons. We'd put hats and other costume stuff on them too when we were posing them. It's pretty hilarious because the cameras were on all the time so they knew who was doing it, but if they fired me and Ed they'd be even more screwed than they already were so nobody even bothered to tell us to stop doing it and they'd just fix them every morning.



Oh... come on now. You have to know what Paul McCartney song I'm talking about. One of the worst Christmas songs ever made. An evil little ear worm that will never leave your head once Christmas comes around because they play it constantly.



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Off to do my laundry and then get a walk in.

Computer acting strange this morning. Icons on task bar wouldn't show up until I hit main icon for google chrome. Then I had my malware icon show up and go then skype show up and go. Don't know what is happening.

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Download and install Malwarebytes immediately.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download

If they offer you the full trial, take it. They won't ask you for any credit card info and after like 15 days you'll just go to their free protection.

Then run a scan on your computer. Full scan if you can figure it out in the menu, but at the very least run a regular scan.

Any "malware icon" showing up that isn't from Windows Defender or an alternative Antivirus program that you installed on your computer yourself is a scam. Do not click on that, don't call any phone numbers that pop up, don't put any personal info into your computer anywhere until you run Malwarebytes.

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Sounds like a blast you and your friend had with those skeletons for sure.

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I am being serious here when I said that I had to go and look it up. Once I read the title then I remembered the song. But I've never heard it that much.

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Yeah. I miss the dude. After we all got fired overnights at KMart before the store closed for good he kind of just disappeared. I hate to say it though, but I don't know if I would have been able to sober up if we kept hanging around. Lots and lots of drugs were done by most of the overnight crew, and any time we hung out outside of work we were drinking. Hope he's doing alright.

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I am being serious here when I said that I had to go and look it up. Once I read the title then I remembered the song. But I've never heard it that much.

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You haven't heard it that much????!!!!! Lucky you!



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Nice, pleasant Sunday here.

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