Cantor figures in my story as well. I visited them (actually their electronic trading subsidiary, eSpeed) on Wednesday 9/6. That’s how I knew the cell phone service didn’t work that high. The conference call I was to take at 11 involved them too, peripherally. In one of those weird coincidences, I actually spoke to the guy about the 93 bombing of the building on that visit. You see the twin towers were the only buildings I was aware of at that time that checked ID and printed out a temporary badge for you to use. It seemed really novel at the time. But since I wasn’t expecting it, it made me late to the meeting. (There was always a queue near the top of the hour) The guy said he always expects a first time visitor to be late for that reason. That tight security got us talking about the 93 bombing. He said he was at Bankers Trust across the street and saw first responders jumping off helicopters onto the roof and thought (I can still hear him saying it) ‘whatever they’re paying those guys, it ain’t enough’. Five days later he was dead from the next terrorist attack.

I was one of those people. The best was when you got upgraded. First class on domestic flights had three rows and the back one was smoking. It’s so hard to imagine that now yet I lived through it.

I have a high school friend who’s been a flight attendant with United for 35 years or more. I’ll see her in October at our reunion.

Italian Taralli crackers. A bit bagelish (they're boiled before baking) snacky cracker. https://breadtopia.com/italian-taralli-crackers/?utm_content

Dipstick

To be fair, it is easy to miss.

@realplayer You'll find it! It took me a long time to know my sling bag was "the one". It took me some trial and error. The "study abroad" leather bag was too small. Backpack was good when I didn't have a car but wasn't comfortable with security when using both shoulder straps. My messenget bag is large enough for general use. It's also is a stealth briefcase. I've been handling massive amounts of paperwork, forms, documents, etc. for a couple years, and I'm still doing that. Good luck!

I like him and have donated a few times...

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@AdagioM said: I just read Yesteryear, which is this years buzzy novel. I enjoyed the first half, started wondering how she was going to write her way out of it, and decided the end was a flunk. YMMV. It’s been a long time since I have seen so many people split on a novel. Every review I see is either “life changing” or “I don’t get the hype”.

Oh geez... crazy talk trying to say where the money that will never appear will come from!

On second thought, we met with our financial guys yesterday. They told us we weren’t spending enough money, which felt pretty weird. We live pretty high on the hog as far as I’m concerned, but with my side consulting we haven’t touched our IRAs in seven years of retirement. Maybe I do need one.

Thanks guys!

Link to video Peridot. Richard Yard. It reminds me of the old saying about the Tiffany's counter- if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. I thought that slogan was silly at the time- but it made a point.

Of course. Lol, Joe.

Link to video Ok, I lell my HS story. My best friend Hara and I were the two alternates. We couldn't serve well enough. We had no game to speak of. We didn't have the knowledge needed to get through a match. If we had the experience we would still not have the stamina. So we enjoyed hitting with each other. I loved hitting in the concrete "courts" they have for this. We spent a lot of time together at city parks for tennis. We listened to music (Broadway, Streisand, almost every album). No disrespect to Streisand at all, but when I hear her voice now, I switch it off. It was definitely a brief musical phase for me though. We talked outback dating (others, not each other, lol). Good times. I wish I could have done more in HS but there wasn't much opportunity for playing tennis in inner city Tampa, and more to the point, I didn't have the opportunity to take lessons. So yeah. Glorified waterboy. Lol!

And control. They want to know who is pregnant. They want to know who has guns. etc.