Fetterman's looking promising there. He seems unafraid to say the emperor is naked. The irony is not lost given his sartorial splendor.

@ShiroKuro so true. A couple weeks ago we went to a holiday champagne tasting at my favorite wine merchant. A nice event, date-worthy. There was a couple at the next table. The woman looked very alone. The guy with her was looking at this phone the whole time. i don't think he said three words to her in three hours. I damn near asked her to join us, but I figured that would start a fight and ruin our outing.

Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes? It's not my fault the NYPD released conflicting evidence. Steve, we've posted at these fora for the better part of two decades. I don't know what to tell you if me speaking my mind makes you discontent.

Welcome to the world of Ohio politics. Hopelessly corrupt with a side of incompetence.

It is indeed! As an aside, finding good socks seems to be increasingly challenging.

Cuisinart. Toaster, oven, convection oven, and air fryer

@wtg That’s the series I’ve been watching. Thinking I may try one recipe per week.

Saw it in 3D from the wheelchair row with mom-in-law over Thanksgiving weekend. Loved it! I haven’t seen the musical, so it was all new to me. But I did catch the wink cameos of Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Only because I used to watch Glee. I loved the singing, Cynthia Erivo especially.

Yeah, ours too!

One small detail - I don't see much smoke coming from those stacks. One looks to be primarily condensing steam in the cold air and the other looks like a flare stack with a giant plume of flame. I'm as much a friend of the EPA as anyone, but it's important to know what you're dealing with. All that being said, I like the star they put up. We also have a star with lights that I made for my wife many years ago that we display in a field below the fence row adjacent to our house each Christmas. It's visible to the main road in our area from that location. Big Al

Ooohhh that’s adorable!!!

@Bernard - Your recipe for the date torte is almost identical in concept to the no-bake torte that my Mom used make, the one that got me back to her notebook to look for the recipe. My Mom's torte (Šaldytas tortas - Frozen torte) uses arrowroot biscuits for the cake "layers", like your Mom's recipe uses graham crackers. The filling consists of a sort-of butter cream frosting that has chopped dried apricots, prunes, and finely chopped almonds. After it's assembled, the torte goes in the freezer for a day or two, and the arrowroot biscuits soften up and kind of meld with the frosting. They've stopped making Nabisco arrowroot biscuits, but I think the Gerber version will work fine even though they're a bit thicker than the Nabiscos were. We have a number of stores that carry Eastern European products (Polish, Lithuanian, etc) and there may be a cookie available at one of those that might also work. I'll post the recipe after I translate it from Lithuanian and find some suitable biscuits. And I'll definitely be trying out your recipe, as I'm a huge fan of dates!

@Bernard good question, Bernard. I could imagine that the bar arranged for it to be there some years ago, then the bar changed ownership or a manager quit, and the new person in charge didn’t care or just let it slip down the priority list…

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386623249283?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wdky4ouqts6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE Everything that is old is new again... for a price. Wow! I like the disclaimer-- the battery is probably dead, the phone probably doesn't work.

If one has a solid account at Little Greene and a good budget it could shine.

Words fail. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources tell ABC News, has been helping interview candidates for top health jobs in the incoming Trump administration. Aaron Siri, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad, has long fought against the widespread prevalence of vaccines. He has also filed petitions seeking to pause the distribution of other vaccines, including Hepatitis B, and to revoke the emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines. The polio petition was made on behalf of one of Siri's clients, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a group founded by Del Bigtree, another close Kennedy ally who also has been involved in health-related transition matters, according to sources. "Petitioner requests that the FDA withdraw or suspend the approval for [the polio vaccine] for infants, toddlers, and children until a properly controlled and properly powered double-blind trial of sufficient duration is conducted to assess the safety of this product," Siri wrote. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jrs-lawyer-top-ally-asked-fda-revoke/story?id=116769906 Would love for these anti-polio vaxxers to talk to Ayuba. I met him a number of years ago when he stayed at my neighbor's house on a Rotary visit. She was active in the Rotary vaccination program in Nigeria and also in India, traveling multiple times to both countries to administer the polio vaccine. https://www.afro.who.int/news/neglect-inspiration-ayuba-gufwans-story

I just looked at my sleep history on my iPhone. I've been using an Apple Watch since May of 2023, so 19 months (before that was a Fitbit). My average sleep duration for those 19 months is 5hr38m

I’ve selected a Steinway for a concert hall here. They really are different from one another. Some say this is true of Steinway more than other makes. So many factors to consider: how responsive to input, ease of playing, tone quality, sound projection, brightness etc. Another pianist was with me. Out of five pianos, we both agreed on the best one.