I do but you didn't call on me.

@Mik said: It is true that most of us here are entering a phase where life will take more away from us than it gives us. I find that I need to try a bit harder to maintain social connections and work a lot more on health, but I think it is worth it. I hope I can continue. Most of all I hope to die before I have to be placed in a home, unable to do anything that resembles life to me. I already have only a handful of living family members left and I'm close to none of them. Correction: I'm close to one of them, my late aunt's cousin who's in her '80's and lives in Seattle.

Bernard, I've just been through the wringer you're describing: trust, trustee, secondary trustee, power of attorney, and medical power of attorney. It's a long, intensive, and expensive process. My advice is to take it step by step, be patient with yourself, take the time you need, and be encouraged that you will accomplish your goals. It can be confusing at times. It can be frustrating. It can seem endless. You'll get there, just don't rush anything. I'll be holding a good thought for you.

Lol!

+1 re: the DNC

@bernard Did you see that Fetterman was the single vote to decide not to end the Iran debacle? He and his comfy clothes should be in an insane asylum, or he should be in prison for complicity in war crimes, or he should be in a military prison for treason, in my opinion.

I've heard many times the freeholders are often what we would call private equity firms and are practicing financial predation. I'm living where I was born. It's disheartening to see houses of the exact type my family lived in since I was born rise from well under 20k in 1963 to over 400k today. Wages and productivity were decoupled in the '70's with wages flat lining and productivity rising dramatically. People in this country today in general literally are not being paid wages that that equal what it costs to live. This country is and is about to be more so in a foreclosure crisis, also. Our neverending inflation crisis just got dramatically worse, also. This isn't the country where I was raised. It's not prosperous and in fact is holding on by a thread.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/chinese-evs-take-world-storm-united-states-rcna344680 I do not trust cars from China in the same sense that I do not trust network routers from China or computers from China. Still, articles like this makes me question of the American car industry is still alive only because of protectionism.

@wtg and @bernard I spent so much time on the music school's website, you'd think I was planning to move there! I would love to be in a class with your, Bernard!

It's encouraging to see progress in what are sometimes regarded as mature technical fields. Having been involved with technical services to the steel industry earlier in my engineering career, I still find news of advances there exciting. Big Al

Very clever! How does it deal with the discard?

Thanks everyone!

[image: IMG-5962.jpg] It’s largely a chronicle of his life (hippie surfer baker chef) up to when he opened the Tartine bakery. It’s a good story. There’s also a good bit of it dedicated to recipes that use day old bread - fancy ones! - and various permutations like baguettes, English muffins and brioche. But in the middle of all that is the base recipe and how he developed it. How it’s supposed to look (big holes, baked very dark), how it’s supposed to taste (not sour. Chad doesn’t like sour). Also pictures. The soupy mess that I get when I use his recipe is not a failure - it’s how it’s supposed to look! It’s what gets you the big holes! He goes on to tell how to make it come together again, something not in the base recipe. Read it straight through in one sitting. I’ll read the part with the method again before my next bake.

Turn on automatic software updates for networked devices. That’s about the best advice that can be given to most casual tech users.