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Just got a call. Pick up mah jong game for me tomorrow afternoon.

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Fingers crossed!


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Got back after 5pm today and I actually won the first round.

Regular game tomorrow morning.

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Got back after 5pm today and I actually won the first round.

Regular game tomorrow morning.

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cool!


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If you keep describing your games, I might actually get a glimmer on how to play it!


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How much are hearing aides in Canada, Brenda?

Those things cost a fortune here if your insurance doesn't cover them.

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How much are hearing aides in Canada, Brenda?

Those things cost a fortune here if your insurance doesn't cover them.

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Hearing aides are expensive in Canada. But I am lucky as mine are covered by my medical. Thank goodness.

And for price in my province you are looking at over $1,000 and it doesn't matter on the set up. Battery that go inside the ear or battery that only the mike goes in the ear or the rechargeable ones that I got right now that are going.

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Hey! That's progress, SIX.


About your hearing BRENDA. Altho everybody loses hearing as they age, you seem a bit young to have lost so much in your left ear. And since it's one side, I imagine it's due to something specific that's unlikely to affect your right ear? I hope that means you can plan on having just the usual "aging" in your good ear.

My own hearing sucks. I have el cheapo online hearing aids that help, if I wear them. Family keeps telling me to use them, but right now "taking care of myself" is so time -consuming and onerous I just can't seem to add ONE MORE THING to the list of things I have to do on top of everything else I'm trying to do. Altho for family's sake I suppose I should get to that. Sigh.

Anyway, GOOD IN YOU FOR KEEPING UP WITH THAT. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR BOTH YOU AND THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU THAT YOU HEAR AS WELL AS POSSIBLE.



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How much are hearing aides in Canada, Brenda?

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Hearing aides are expensive in Canada. But I am lucky as mine are covered by my medical. Thank goodness.

And for price in my province you are looking at over $1,000 and it doesn't matter on the set up. Battery that go inside the ear or battery that only the mike goes in the ear or the rechargeable ones that I got right now that are going.

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Yeah... I think they're something like $3,000 to $6,000 here.

I'm glad you're insured on that.

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Onions for breakfast???
Who the heck cooks onions at 9AM????


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Got some much needed cleanup done today, and taking a break from paperwork right now.

I told my dad I owed him one for the favor of throwing that old car my way, so it appears this week he's cashing in those chips. I'll be heading out his way and helping him move all sorts of furniture into other rooms so we can cut up all the old carpet in the house.

The old carpet was fine and he didn't want to spend the money on new flooring, but my step-mom is gung-ho about it.

Between all the yard work and house work he was doing before they went out of town, he damn near broke his back cutting up the living room the other day. And that was with the carpet knife I had him specifically go out and buy. He told me that thing was a lifesaver and it cut through the carpet like butter. I told him he'd be thanking me later when he hadn't spent a day trying to cut through that with a utility knife.



Still have 3 rooms and the basement/stairs to tear out, and I'm not going to let him do all that on his own. I also may be bringing some of that carpet back with me. I'm pretty sure his basement floor is larger than my back patio is, so even though I painted the floor out there it might be getting some carpet on it now anyway.

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Your friend sounds pretty busy. I hope you finally get your meeting.

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Phone meeting done and I will attend to that by the weekend. She finally sat down to supper last night with her husband at 9pm. So just as well we moved our meeting until today.

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Phone meeting done and I will attend to that by the weekend. She finally sat down to supper last night with her husband at 9pm. So just as well we moved our meeting until today.

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Woo hoo!

Glad there's a pickup game for you tomorrow too!!

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Good on you for helping your dad.
Wanna come over and help a couple of old farts?

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Just OOC. Is wife going to get new flooring i.e. wood or engineered wood or vinyl?
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There's a mix going in there. I know that she has no interest in actual hard wood flooring. Somehow my dad talked her out of redoing the kitchen floor. They put down that faux fake wood in there at least 20 years ago and it looks as good as it did the day they put it down. Hard rule of no shoes in that house does wonders over the decades.

There's not a single bit of carpeting in that house that needs replacing either. This all started when their 2nd bathroom had a burst pipe or something later last year and it waterlogged the carpet in the back porch. My dad tore that out months ago, but now it's turned into redoing the whole house. They only needed one large window in the Living room replaced too, but she's replacing all the windows in the house.

I told my old man to relax and let her do it if she wanted to. The entire job is completely illogical, but at the end of the day she's just spending her own money since it's coming out of what she was going to get in the will. Ain't no way he was going to spend it down before that happens.

There's painting involved too, but I won't be doing that. They're really overpaying somebody to do it, although I suppose those prices probably are sound in 2024, but I would have been offered probably only half as much and she's the type that would be holding up a magnifying glass everywhere and I'd still be hearing about anything that wasn't perfect 10 years from now. Not interested.



Hey... It's all going to be putting food on somebody's table. I know everybody in that industry is hurting right now, so it's nice that some people are still comfortable with replacing a bunch of stuff that is perfectly fine as it is.

Their entire bill for all of this work is in the area of around 1/3rd of what I paid for my house. I hope they're happy with the results. The problem is that when you're starting out with walls that already looked great and a house full of carpet and other flooring that looked like it was brand new because it wasn't abused, they're really not going to notice much of a difference after it's all done. The only real upgrade they're getting here is that large living room window which has had problems for a while now.

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Any rain for the interior? (She asked, hopefully.)

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Maybe she just wanted new colors?

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To be fair though, now that it's over, those carpets were a bit more beat up than I assumed they were. They were installed over 30 years ago now. I still would have taken the basement carpet for my back porch, but even though it was just barely big enough I didn't realize that there were two posts that they cut around to install it and it made it unusable for my purposes. I also didn't realize we weren't moving the beds out of either room and we were cutting the carpet out while moving them around, so even though it would have been possible to grab the smaller piece I wanted I decided it wasn't even worth the hassle and I'll just get myself a remnant whenever I'm ready to put anything down.

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I was against replacing a bunch of windows at this end. Yes, we still had a 3 medium sized single-pane metal frame windows in the kitchen, one ginormous sized one in the den, and two small bathroom windows (facing south). But IMHO our solar panels amost pay for our A/C. And our heating bills, altho they can get pricey its only for 2 months. So it doesn't make economic sense to pay north of $20,000 for thermally insulated windows to save maybe $800 a year in heating and cooling costs. The payback period on that is ... uh... 27 years??? It would make more sense to add insulation and an exhaust fan to the attic.

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I hear ya. I figure if they still work, they don't let water in during the rain and they aren't letting all the cold air in during the winter then there's zero reason to replace them.

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But, hubby really REALLY wanted it done. He's been agitating for it for years. And if our $$ is going to be inflated away and it makes him happy... well, what the hell?

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Can't bury it with you, right? I'm sure you've both figured out how DD's going to get by on her own one day and that's what matters in the end.

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The one big improvement is we replaced a solid kitchen door with a divided light door, and OMG it brings so much light into the kitchen!

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That is sweet. It's something I'd like to do one day between my kitchen and my porch even though I spent all that time restoring the old solid door I have there now. That porch gets so much natural light with all those big windows but my kitchen only gets the light from that little window above the sink. It would be awesome one day to have a whole lot of glass with minimal wood there one day.

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Every time I look into the kitchen, my first thought is "Who left the door open???" It's gonna take at least week until I get used to it.

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I really REALLY like this contractor. He's got the job gutting our 3 bathrooms and redoing them. Those bathrooms were eyesores when we moved in 30 years ago.

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Good for him and good for you. Word of mouth is gold. The guy I used to do odd jobs for did what he did for 50 years and never paid any money to advertise and always had work. You treat your customers right and they're going to treat you right.


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