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    Great!
  • No applause

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    Glad it went well. Applause instructions have become important. Saw Turandot. At a break in an aria, gray haired men jumped up and applauded. The cast dealt with it my moving ahead and skipping the remaining part of the aria.
  • Routers not made in US banned?

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    I feel like if we wait a moment, the government will find a way to approve of those routers, FOR A FEE. Which would of course be passed on by the company to the consumer.
  • Anybody been to Spain recently?

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    @AndyD I wish I’d had a week! It feels like Paris, which I love, so culturally significant. So many museums (I love art museums), and so much public art. And everything is so much older than where I live; the Europeans didn’t start colonizing here on the west coast of the US until the 1800s. The friend I flew over with decided to extend her trip because her husband was going to be away when we were returning. She went to Granada and Seville. Her pictures from Seville make me want to visit there, too. I speak a little French, no Spanish, but things were pretty easy to figure out with a Latin language in common.
  • Galloway

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  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    [image: 1774355618072-20260324_115942-resized.jpg] Prunus in beautiful flower
  • Dead or Alive? (political)

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    Leave it on, you may yet be proved right that he is dead. He has been notably off stage. Especially compared to the theatre of Trump
  • Only 99F today

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    I'd like the lows to rise to 65- 69. The forecasters slipped up and last night's forecast low of 60 ended up being 4 hours at 59. Too cold.
  • Best burger dives

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    Speaking of which, I had to charge my phone charger at my secret place for doing that last night. I've mostly stopped eating sugar. I have/ had a sugar tooth. I took a notion to go to the convenience store. I spent $3.21 on an X-Large fountain soda and one creme filled donut with chocolate icing. As if to prove the point, I actually got sick. Boy, when you stop eating this stuff and then you eat it, your body lets you know about it.
  • Wilde (1997)

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  • The original brochure for the 2019 Hyundai Accent

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    South Korean cars were a revelation to me. I've always liked Japanese cars. I can remember every Honda Civic from the 1st generation 1973 cvcc to my 7th generation hatchback. The 4th generation was my favorite but I didn't own one. I wish the timing had worked. I can remember the 1st generation Accord. My 1997 Accord was arguably the best car I've owned. I can remember the first Toyota Tercel. I can remember every Japanese brand's small truck. Etc. Then Korean cars came along and had a poor reputation. Then they got better and fast. My 3rd generation Hyundai Accent was a tank. I remember being surprised at some point in Hawaii when about 60% of the cars on the road suddenly turned into Hyundais and and Kias. I can't wait to own this one.
  • Happy belated birthday, Andy!

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    @AndyD That’s great!
  • My favorite condo is pending

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    https://share.google/dNvjYz4fQwzA6aRJg New favorite. Listing price is impossible. Have only glanced at the carrying costs. Sill, the market is on a downhill slide. What do you think about this one?
  • New Book! (shameless self-promotion)

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    Congratulations, Dwain! I think I’m going to reacquaint myself with Dan and Greg by re-reading Plausible Deception, and then swing into Sinner’s Prayer.
  • Hard to imagine they could sink any lower

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    Again, my advice is save your 5¢ on Lucy's psychotherapy.
  • USPS out of business?

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    They were making money delivering Amazon packages but a certain President threatened them helping to build the case for Amazon to develop their own network for delivery
  • Ditch the internet phone?

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    I'm going to have to face this set of decisions when I move. For one thing, I'm replacing my 2024 Motorola Edge with a Pixel 10 Pro XL. Life is too short. Then I have to figure out how to get internet and whether I want to have television again. I can't know now what the options will be or how much they will cost so I'm not worrying about it.
  • Celebrity deaths always happen in 3s they say…

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    Robert Mueller.
  • What causes hangnails?

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  • BTS returns ...

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    I plead blissful ignorance. I am swimming upstream because contemporary mores in the arts dictate that one must not ignore pop culture.