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Out in a bit. Couple of things to get done before my phone meeting this afternoon.

SIGNY: PHone meeting?

BRENDA: The phone meeting was with the published poet that is helping me try to get my book published. Don't think she's took keen on me working on the Sabbath and she used that word but it works for me. Sunday is my one day to get heavy book work done as I don't need to think about anything else.

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Or maybe SHE doesn't like working on the Sabbath?
Is she Jewish?

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Oh, that's interesting.
I remember reading about pioneer days, that on Sunday(?) you spent a good part of the day listening to a long sermon and the rest of the day reading the Bible. I didn't realize that some Christian religions still did something like that.

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Oh, that's interesting.
I remember reading about pioneer days, that on Sunday(?) you spent a good part of the day listening to a long sermon and the rest of the day reading the Bible. I didn't realize that some Christian religions still did something like that.

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Waaay back when, my first "real" job was as a store cashier, and altho the supermarket was open on Sunday, we weren't allowed to sell anything other than food. There was a man visiting from Florida who was trying to buy steak and some other things, but when I told him I couldn't sell him the disposable razor he got pissed and left everything on the conveyor. But NYS blue laws went the way of the dodo 50 years ago. Same with the he Latin Mass, required Sunday church attendance, women having to wear a hat, or at least a lace cap in church. Not disappointed with that, but sorry that Christmas turned into a shopping marathon and the holidays lost their meaning to the pressure to buy, buy, buy. I think of the store clerks and think they should have paid time with their families.

I wonder if BRENDA'S area has blue laws. The Vancouver area is very progressive and metropolitan, so I kind of doubt it, but maybe im wrong.

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Oh, that's interesting.
I remember reading about pioneer days, that on Sunday(?) you spent a good part of the day listening to a long sermon and the rest of the day reading the Bible. I didn't realize that some Christian religions still did something like that.

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I imagine they have a church that they attend in the city that they live in.

Pioneer days? Don't need to go that far back. Heck, my dad and his brothers and sisters and my grandmother would most like have been dragged to the local protestant church on a Sunday when he was a child. My grandfather was a Scotsman and he ruled the roost. And in their case I am talking the late 1910s.

My boss and her husband attend a church in another city then stay to help prepare a meal and eat there afterwards.

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Oh, that's interesting.
I remember reading about pioneer days, that on Sunday(?) you spent a good part of the day listening to a long sermon and the rest of the day reading the Bible. I didn't realize that some Christian religions still did something like that.

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I imagine they have a church that they attend in the city that they live in.

Pioneer days? Don't need to go that far back. Heck, my dad and his brothers and sisters and my grandmother would most like have been dragged to the local protestant church on a Sunday when he was a child. My grandfather was a Scotsman and he ruled the roost. And in their case I am talking the late 1910s.

My boss and her husband attend a church in another city then stay to help prepare a meal and eat there afterwards.

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Oh, no. You don't understand. WE were dragged off to church every Sunday! I was still going to church when I was 16, if just to keep my mom happy. In fact, since I went to a Catholic school until 8th grade one of the nuns got it in her head it would be nice if we sang in choir for AM mass... every morning!
Also, church for Easter, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Stations of the Cross... I forget how many other holidays.

But on Sunday we didn't have to sit quietly and read the Bible. Us kids played and later helped out with housework. Dad rested. Mom, being a nurse, occasionally was rotated thru weekend duty. Strict Bible-reading, no work and no fun, was pioneer days, and maybe some current Christian religions like Seventh Day Adventists or Jehovah's Witnesses or something.

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Waaay back when, my first "real" job was as a store cashier, and altho the supermarket was open on Sunday, we weren't allowed to sell anything other than food. There was a man visiting from Florida who was trying to buy steak and some other things, but when I told him I couldn't sell him the disposable razor he got pissed and left everything on the conveyor. But NYS blue laws went the way of the dodo 50 years ago. Same with the he Latin Mass, required Sunday church attendance, women having to wear a hat, or at least a lace cap in church. Not disappointed with that, but sorry that Christmas turned into a shopping marathon and the holidays lost their meaning to the pressure to buy, buy, buy. I think of the store clerks and think they should have paid time with their families.

I wonder if BRENDA'S area has blue laws. The Vancouver area is very progressive and metropolitan, so I kind of doubt it, but maybe im wrong.

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Oh, that's interesting.
I remember reading about pioneer days, that on Sunday(?) you spent a good part of the day listening to a long sermon and the rest of the day reading the Bible. I didn't realize that some Christian religions still did something like that.

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I imagine they have a church that they attend in the city that they live in.

Pioneer days? Don't need to go that far back. Heck, my dad and his brothers and sisters and my grandmother would most like have been dragged to the local protestant church on a Sunday when he was a child. My grandfather was a Scotsman and he ruled the roost. And in their case I am talking the late 1910s.

My boss and her husband attend a church in another city then stay to help prepare a meal and eat there afterwards.

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Oh, no. You don't understand. WE were dragged off to church every Sunday! I was still going to church when I was 16, if just to keep my mom happy. In fact, since I went to a Catholic school until 8th grade one of the nuns got it in her head it would be nice if we sang in choir for AM mass... every morning!
Also, church for Easter, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Stations of the Cross... I forget how many other holidays.

But on Sunday we didn't have to sit quietly and read the Bible. Us kids played and later helped out with housework. Dad rested. Mom, being a nurse, occasionally was rotated thru weekend duty. Strict Bible-reading, no work and no fun, was pioneer days, and maybe some current Christian religions like Seventh Day Adventists or Jehovah's Witnesses or something.

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The last time I went to church with the family I may have been about 16 years old too. I remember it was Easter. I got the communion and went back to the pews. The wafer was stuck hard to the roof of my mouth as it sometimes does, and with our relationship having already been on very thin ice for going on a year at that point something just possessed me to look my mom right in the eyes and make a big "NUM! NUM!" exaggerated chewing sound and say "YUMMY."

That slap came so fast and so hard there was no ducking out of the way.

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Out on a Monday to get some stuff done. Returning "1923" to the library. Another prequel to "Yellowstone". Harrison Ford may still be the man but the soapiness of that is just ugh!.

Still dry and the sun is out.

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The last time I went to church with the family I may have been about 16 years old too. I remember it was Easter. I got the communion and went back to the pews. The wafer was stuck hard to the roof of my mouth as it sometimes does, and with our relationship having already been on very thin ice for going on a year at that point something just possessed me to look my mom right in the eyes and make a big "NUM! NUM!" exaggerated chewing sound and say "YUMMY."

That slap came so fast and so hard there was no ducking out of the way.

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Except for the slap, that was truly funny!

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Out on a Monday to get some stuff done. Returning "1923" to the library. Another prequel to "Yellowstone". Harrison Ford may still be the man but the soapiness of that is just ugh!.

Still dry and the sun is out.

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Hubby loves to watch movies. Me? I get bored.

It's hard to find a movie that I will watch all the way thru, but I highly recommend "Tomorrow Man" with John Lithgow and Blythe Danner. The movie is offbeat and hard to explain, but definitely not soapy.

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So OOC, since soap comes in a variety of types, what is it that rubs the wrong way with parts of the series?

The unwillingness to present situations where the good guys aren't always good?
Where situations don't have easy resolution?
Predictable narrative, always ending in an "emotionally satisfying" way, i.e. happy ending?
Predictable characters?
Poor acting?
Too much focus on romance?

There are a couple of series that, to me, peg the meter at 30. One was "Little House on the Prairie" which, in all honesty, I couldn't watch more than a few episodes. The other is "The Good Witch", which I just can't continue, it's so grating on the nerves.

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Sometimes, lightning will come from the upper parts or near
the top of the storm, where the positively charged particles
are located. These lightning bolts are called positive
lightning because positive charges are moving from the
cloud to the ground. Although not as common as negative
lightning, the positive lightning is much more dangerous
because its charge can be ten times greater than a negative
lightning strike. Plus, many positive lightning strikes
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Was the weather particularly threatening?? Big dark clouds building up, gusting winds, that sort of thing? Or did it come like, er, "a bolt out of the blue"?

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Back and in for today. Lousy morning at mah jong.

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Oh, too bad.

I hope your mahjong group is at least good natured and not fiercely competitive! I used to play bridge with real experts at lunch. The lab manager was a bridge master, and another guy used to go to Vegas to win card money whenever he wanted some pocket change. They didn't take that lunch game all that seriously, and you can tell bc they let me play!

There was a lot of "table talk", good-natured kidding, little plastic awards that came out when someone was doing something stupid. It was the best time! For a while we had a rotating scrabble game too. That game more my speed! We all laughed and kidded each other over that too.

But we also had a rummy game, and THAT table was fierce. Gave me a headache.
I was just looking for some good-natured fun and relaxation at lunch. I had enough headaches at work with a sociopathic supervisor. A little levity always helps the day along.



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Back and in for today. Lousy morning at mah jong.

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Oh, too bad.

I hope your mahjong group is at least good natured and not fiercely competitive! I used to play bridge with real experts at lunch. The lab manager was a bridge master, and another guy used to go to Vegas to win card money whenever he wanted some pocket change. They didn't take that lunch game all that seriously, and you can tell bc they let me play!

There was a lot of "table talk", good-natured kidding, little plastic awards that came out when someone was doing something stupid. It was the best time! For a while we had a rotating scrabble game too. That game more my speed! We all laughed and kidded each other over that too.

But we also had a rummy game, and THAT table was fierce. Gave me a headache.
I was just looking for some good-natured fun and relaxation at lunch. I had enough headaches at work with a sociopathic supervisor. A little levity always helps the day along.

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Usually there are rounds of applause for when someone gets a really high score. That happens when they are handing out the little bit of prize money.

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Back and done for today.

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Oh, too bad.

I hope your mahjong group is at least good natured and not fiercely competitive! I used to play bridge with real experts at lunch. The lab manager was a bridge master, and another guy used to go to Vegas to win card money whenever he wanted some pocket change. They didn't take that lunch game all that seriously, and you can tell bc they let me play!

There was a lot of "table talk", good-natured kidding, little plastic awards that came out when someone was doing something stupid. It was the best time! For a while we had a rotating scrabble game too. That game more my speed! We all laughed and kidded each other over that too.

But we also had a rummy game, and THAT table was fierce. Gave me a headache.
I was just looking for some good-natured fun and relaxation at lunch. I had enough headaches at work with a sociopathic supervisor. A little levity always helps the day along.

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My group is a case of yes and no about competitiveness. Just depends.

Usually there are rounds of applause for when someone gets a really high score. That happens when they are handing out the little bit of prize money.

But sometimes you can hear a little grousing.

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But is there laughter??
I hope so.
Not enough laughter in today's world.


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How's that shelving unit?

Projects like that seem to require a fourth hand. Two to hold pieces together, and two to fasten. I hope it isn't too difficult.

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