Excellent idea! Congrats! I used to have a Danby (Canada) portable washer. Loved it! Your LG lasted 3 years? I was just talking about this in the other thread! My 2 year old Amana just died. Good luck!

On the other hand, we gave Harry and Meghan back. Major win.

Batten down the hatches!!

Thanks, so much SK, Adagio, Joe and Andy!! : ) @andyd Do I have lists? I don't have a long list of things I really want. I want a good full size mattress set! I have a long list of household things to have inspected by contractors and fixed. My clothes washer was 2 yrs old. It died. I'm getting a replacement different make from Lowe's. I want a Speed Queen all mechanical model at 2x the price but it's not in my budget. So the new scam is the electronic circuit board controls fail after a year or two and nobody can fix them. My bathroom has a minor leak. The source point is the bathroom vent cap on the roof. Also, the previous owner took the duct away from the actual fan to the roof. You can turn it on when you take a shower and it blows water up into nowhere. Similar is the floor structure. A few of the times are loose and a few broken from normal use not damage. Everything is white tile with a barely noticable slightly raised diamond pattern; I don't know who would make such a choice but it's tile in the sub-tropics- so it's all good. Well, these structures need something called a vapor barrier under the floor. This plastic vapor barrier and the AC unit's duct system have to be maintained or eventually new instalations and repairs @ x sq ft would be approx. 7k. I've got to get estimates in September. I'm sleeping on a $200 Wal-Mart all in one mattress. I put a folded towel over it and prevent the metal springs from causing pain, discomfort, and nerve damage. I want a GOT certified wool mattress. I'm an Anglophile and a history fan. Sleeping on an organic wool mattress is an interesting idea to me. It seems archaic in a good way. But $$. I wish you and your wife many years of restfulness and happiness with your new mattress! BTW, I was able to find the perfect size rug for the living room. It covers as much floor space as it can without blocking any air vents. Wal-Mart, 100% wool, hand-tufted in India, garden pattern, not organic dyes of course. $399. Not a great price but met requirements. Then I got a great little canister vacuum for less than $70 that's a Miele base model copy and slightly miniaturized. Bag. Filter. Clever!

The TING came from State Farm. It helped during a recent power outage.

@DougG said: Great, now Jon’s last post expects me to come up with a rhyme for “lits”. I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. Could this be the end of the word association thread?

@AndyD said: Looking forward to hearing you learn & play it Shirokuro. thank you!! I'll struggle along beside you. Yay! It's good to have a partner! (Partner in crime in struggle)

Sadly, my Thai basil. Now the leaves aren't much good.

Lits

Link to video Omg!

Yes and seems so random as always.

@jon-nyc said: [image: 1786805318857-screenshot-2026-08-15-at-09.07.28.png] Yes, and Madonna took the first "selfie" in "Desperately Seeking Susan." I mean this as a cultural phenomenon, strictly speaking. People have been pointing cameras at themselves and others for a long time. Lol!

Well, they were a communist country for the better part of a century. I will make a note to unpack my smallest violin to play for the oligarchs whose assets are seized. I know the subtext is- "Putin bad!" 10 years of Trump the Ubiquitous and- "Putin bad!" have made a long 10 years. I know this is a legitimate news story but Russia didn't practice "capitalism," either before the break up of the USSR, or after.

Interesting. QEII had them. Assume she could have had any breed. That's a recommendation. Not a dog person. Wouldn't know where to begin.

Never heard of him though the character looks familiar. I only saw RHPS once.

So I made the mistake of thinking that closing my Spectrum account would be quicker if I did it over the phone. Oh boy. They put me through to their account retention dept. Bastards. It all started out fine and I thought I was just speaking with someone who would take my directive, tell me what I owed, and close my account. What a spiel she went through. It was insulting. She seemed to forget that I had already switched providers and was only interesting in ending my relation with them. After 3 or 4 times of telling her I was in no way interested in what she had to offer I said, in a well-raised voice (I was fed up) that I'd go to my local office and hung up. The clerk at the local office actually sympathized with me. Apparently Spectrum has been hemorrhaging customers. I looked it up when I got home... Spectrum lost 172,000 internet subscribers in the second quarter of 2026. This follows a loss of 120,000 internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2026. Can't say I'm all that surprised.

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