HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANDY!!!

Robert Mueller.

Thanks, Daniel.

Andy, Our Mother's Day is May 10. My mother passed several years ago of cancer 3 hours after Mother's Day ended. It's always a solemn day for me but the loss gets easier all the time. I suffered intensive grief for two years. Then that period stopped. My thought at the time was I don't have to experience that again. My cousin found my mother's large cardboard box of old pictures including many of her throughout her life and many family pictures. She's offered to send them to me after I move. I thought that was extremely thoughtful of her.

@realplayer i pretty much only use my phone for calls and texts. At home I am either streaming on a TV and surfing the net on an iPad or my laptop. I wouldn’t notice any degradation in speed when the phone is Bluetoothed/Linked2cell to the Panasonic system.

My last car, the one that was totalled late last summer, was a 2014 Hyundai Accent. I liked it a lot. It was old enough to not have ridiculous and annoying features. My current car is a Hyundai Elentra and I like it a lot as well. For a '25 model, it's not terribly laden with intrusive software. I love the auto headlight dimming feature, but I hate that in the middle of a sunny day, if I drive into the shade of a few trees for a few seconds, it beeps and flashes "You're headlights are off". I haven't figured out how to turn that off yet. Another bad feature is that the only interface to the stereo is Bluetooth. Period.

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

Carrot salad was very good. Thanks, Bernard!

It used to be a standard bearer. Now it's only a puppet of its owner and his agenda.

What CHAS said. There is no low that's too low for the republicans.

Um, that’s not going to help matters.

LOL LOL

BYW, we had the best fish from the cleanest fishing grounds in Hawaii. That's one of the very few things I miss about living there.

There used to be very different implementations for Wi-Fi extenders/mesh in the old days, but if you buy Wi-Fi extenders/mesh today, they would all be based on the same set of technical standards. If you call up Comcast/Xfinity today and tell them you want to order "Wi-Fi extenders" or "Wi-Fi mesh," regardless of which terminology you use, you will get the same thing.

@Steve-Miller said: That’s pretty crazy. I wonder what went wrong? That type of construction is pretty straightforward and hard to screw up. Leave it to Florida to screw it up. New built homes being built with a shocking lack of quality control are the rule not the exception here. There is a plausible theory that new built homes here are designed to fail before a 30 year mortgage can be paid off. I wouldn't believe it but I see it all the time. Oscar's razor says it's planned obsolescence. Builders here (and building in the state, I guess) have a scandalous reputation. They build the homes like matchsticks with things that can't be seen having clear patch up work (once you can look at it) and attract buyers with interior surfaces. This is their MO. I filter out "New Construction" every time I look at listings.

@jon-nyc said: If it’s 33 out I’m going to tell Mayla it’s 0. Not 0.56. Props to both Big Al and you. You guys have impressive mathematical skills. I limit myself to using the notation-- "F" although I am sometimes lazy and use-- "°." I almost always use this notation out of respect for people who don't use this scale. I convert by using a conversion program after searching. I'm sure timeanddate.com has one. Unfortunately, they only have an app for Apple not for Android at this time.

I don't disagree but Denmark has agreed to everything the US has asked for since WWII. Americans consider this (yet more) belligerence and consider its source. You have to admit this one seems to want to rule over everywhere, over everyone, and over everything.

Btw, her fans have bolted. Her recent actions go against everything she represented from the beginning of her career. Her professional reputation is irredeemable. This wasn't transactional. Her strange behavior started some time ago. I noticed it when she started putting out videos pushing fundamentalist Christianity. A lot of strange things happen in the music industry. The hit put out on Rhianna's life is only the latest example.