Thanks everyone! Yep, it couldn’t have worked out better! And I’m so glad we didn’t do an actual wall there instead, esp. given how nice the room is down there.

And I am glad we got it installed now, before we moved. It’s definitely safer, and it’s one of those things that if you didn’t do right away, it would just stay that way forever. Until someone fell off the stairs 🙀

@ShiroKuro Awww, thanks!

If anything the court has leaned toward reducing the power of the executive branch.

Sarah Isgur, one of the another’s of the piece, has long talked about 3-3-3, evaluating them in two dimensions with the x axis being ideology and the y axis being institutionalism. Roberts is an institutionalist above all, to the occasional disappointment of conservatives.

I was totally expecting @Mik and/or @jon-nyc to chime in...

Good suggestions; we haven't had bananas around the house for a while.. The Costco organic bananas are great...they look a little green but they always taste wonderful. And they have a little plastic wrapped around the stem end that keeps them from ripening too fast. They're the poor man's version of these Nana Hats that were on Shark Tank a while ago:

https://nanahats.com/

😆😆😆

Ah, found the solution. The part of the window with the x was off the top of the screen. If I grabbed the bottom of the screen and pulled it up, the top appeared and I was able to resize the window to make it all visible. It must be some setting I have, because everytime going to a chat, it appears the same way off the top of the screen.

How likely is it that he would drop out???

Thank you! If you should feel so inclined (assuming you have HGTV), it's Season 194, episode 8. I hope to be able to watch it after we move!

Mary Anna,thanks for that recollection and 'remembrance of Aurthur C. Clarke's vision of a space elevator. It's a concept that has reemerged ocassionally. I truly hope that this vision becomes reality. It truly is potentially revolutionary.

Big Al

Yikes! Well, I guess I was right to make a fuss about it then! 😁

These are great! Like Big Al, I love the cat on the flying saucer!

@Axtremus said in Alzheimer's study retracted:

People who work to reproduce experiments to verify key results should get more respect and more funding.

YES!!

I think it was Santa working solo....

@Mary-Anna said in Today's puzzles:

A couple of years ago, I switched to Duolingo and am (slowly) learning Spanish.

I started using Babbel to brush up on my Spanish (four years in high school), but got off track. Thanks for the reminder; I need to get back to it.

@CHAS said in How much to tip tuner "for gas":

@wtg 🙄

😊

(I just saw that when you hover over an emoji, text appears that tells you what the emoji is if you couldn't figure it out simply by looking at it.

🆒 )

Oh cool!! Will peruse this later when I have time to give it justice.

@DougG said in I am NOT expecting a big competition for my position in the senate this fall:

I’m sorry for the confusion, ladies.

What I actually said is, “My seat is up for grabs.”

Not really the same thing at all.

🤣

this has been a test of the moderator’s abilities to keep crap posts off this new site.

If that's the case, I would have to ban myself.