I agree with you! But I'm going to make a point of looking through their scores more often, if for no other reason than I can listen and follow along, which I always love doing.

Plus, I'm paying, soo....

I don't really have a problem with leaning artwork, leaning mirrors etc. But I look at that sofa artwork and see an accident waiting to happen! 😄

Thanks for sharing that Jodi, it sounds sort of mixed but manageable.

@Jodi said in Alzheimer’s/dementia and finances:

Care taking jobs don’t pay that well.

Yep, this is one part of the problem. The cost to the residents/patients is another...

It’s pretty depressing for the rest of us.

I can only imagine. I'm sorry!

@wtg said in The doorbell rang:

Or it was a distraction ruse, something that happens in our area quite often. One guy comes to the door and engages the homeowner, especially seniors (I think I qualify), usually trying to get them to the back of the house and away from the front door. An accomplice gets in the house and steals property.

I’ve heard about this happening more in this area as well. 😞

Once we move, I wonder if we’ll be more vulnerable to that kind of thing, mostly bc it’s a nicer house. Our rental house is pretty nice on the inside (mostly) but the outside is so drab and in need of various tweaks and repairs , I can’t imagine it would be much of a draw for that kind of crime.

Yes, on the money.

@jon-nyc

On a history note...where are you in your quest to read biographies of the Presidents from the first one onward? I think it was a 2010 New Year's resolution. I thought it was a great idea, one that I was going to adopt.

Got a recommendation for a good biography of Washington? 😊

She is one of the righteous. May she rest in peace.

Big Al

@AdagioM said in I FOUGHT:

@CHAS

That was good, but what about this version?

https://x.com/ResisterSis20/status/1796533014924771722

I just sent that to about ten people.

Best one I've seen so far, and I've seen a bunch of stuff.

@Big_Al said in home now for sale in my neighborhood:

the pool is saltwater.

I wonder if this is becoming a thing now... we met someone recently and he was telling us about their community pool, which is a saltwater pool. I don't think I ever heard of one before outside of a very fancy spa...

😆

Big Al

The "cat in a window" picture reminded me of a stationer's shop in downtown Pittsburgh that had a cat that slept in its front window for many years.

Big Al

🤣

Thanks for the morning chuckle, jon.

I think he'll have to pay a fine . Would be surprised if he gets home confinement, and totally shocked if he it was jail time.

2024 is going to be a very interesting year. The Dem convention is in Chicago this year. @Rontuner - you' live down in the city. Are you planning to take a well-timed vacation?

AO Smith. That’s the brand almost all the local contractors are installing, and based on googling around, I’m resigned to the fact that they’re all probably crap anyway 😕

Ditto

I would try it -- if someone else would make it for me! 😅

i always wanted to try bullet coffee.. or what was it call? Bulletproof coffee??

Much better.

Related...I'm trying out the Darkly skin with my wtg user id and so far it's kind of nice. I use a different skin that's a white background when I'm wtg-admin. I want to be sure I'm totally aware of my where I'm at because I can do a lot of damage in admin mode if I'm not careful. 🤞

Skins let a user customize colors, but I've also been looking at some of the different styles/layouts that are available with this forum software. You can choose from different styles that would apply to the whole forum. I don't have a lot of experience with bulletin boards besides WTF and various iterations of TNCR. They currently use the same platform that we are using here, but a different style. Here's a link to the recents page on their site so you can see what it looks like:

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/recent

There are others and I'm kind of scoping them out just to see what's out there. Does anybody post on a forum where you love the layout? If you can link to it or do a screenshot, that would be great. I have to check with @Axtremus to see how tricky changing the layout is so I won't start a separate thread on this yet. But if you have any ideas or examples, please let me know.