I love vegetables and have coffee and chocolate every day, so this is good news. (The chocolate is milk chocolate, but never mind that. It's got polyphenols in it, plus a smidge of calcium and protein from the milk. I'm sure my statin will deal with the milk fat.)

I’m one of those weirdos who loves performing but still gets the shakes! Back around 2005-2006, I was preparing for a recital where I played several pieces. A year or so before I had had a major crash and burn stage fright event, so in preparation for the recital, I read as many books as I could find about dealing with stage fright. The Inner Game was one of my favorites. The recital went well btw.

Odd that it is new construction and also for sale. I wonder what the owner was thinking? Big Al

Ugh. "our way or no way" seems to be the mantra that's also spread to the current Republican party...

I have never signed up on FB, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, or TikTok. I had a Nextdoor account briefly but deleted it. Juice wasn't worth the squeeze, people post the nuttiest stuff. Like you, wish I had access to FB Marketplace and the ability to post stuff to sell on Nextdoor, but oh, well....I'll just have to live without them.

Good grief!! Re the ads.... can we please not be encouraging distracted driving anymore than it already is???

I don't want to know what they plan to do in there.

@Steve-Miller Wish that were surprising. Got a letter from a company offering to lease farmland to solar panel use. The letter's wording reeked of fraud and the $$ offered what cheap. Tossed it.

Yeah, but have you read the sequels? There’s merch too.

Now I have a taste for Cheetos....

Thank you, everyone! Yes, it's a blessing to have my brother back in my life and I won't lie. I'm looking forward to having an car again.

What a great story! Thanks!

@pique - Too funny. Is there anyone watching us here? Good question. I looked at the admin forum dashboard and I do see some statistics for forum page views, and one of the categories is Bot Page Views. Not sure exactly what that represents and how it compares to the number of Guests on groupee. Maybe @Axtremus can fill us in on how this works, and whether we can opt out of being a source for AI training if we choose. Though as @Big_Al said, maybe we'd be contributing something of value to AI.

Yak Traks vs. micro-spikes https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/ztxbjz/yak_trax_or_micro_spikes/

@AdagioM said in An Interesting Article About Health Insurance ...: The proliferation of assisted living/memory care centers makes me nuts. Yes, we need a way to care for our elders. But it feels like the centers are in it for the money, not about the care. Exactly. And it seems like the nice ones are super, super expensive... We're trying to figure out a way to have my mother move to our new town, and I was hoping maybe she could move into one of those mixed communities that have independent living apartments and assisted apartments in the same complex. It would be nice if she could start in an independent one and have the option to move into assisted if needed... But I don't know... and she's not keen to "live with a bunch of old people" as she put it! She's 80, for the record.