@AdagioM

We own a mobile home together in a well established, very nice, and very well managed mobile home park. Our mobile home is estimated to be worth over $200,000 by Zillow, and even though I think this figure is ridiculous, we bought it five years ago and prices have gone into the stratosphere since the pandemic.

The title is recorded in such a way that we'd both have to agree to a sale or one of us could sue the other, the asset would be held by the court, then sold off with the proceeds being divided between us according to terms decided by the court, in a process that would take a year.

I have no interest in either option.

It's true that his behavior often amounts to what my indomitable late sister once described as a kind of metaphorical predation.

It's just he lacks the intellect that would be required to overcome my instinct for survival and ability to defend myself. He has never been able to beat me in a fight.

The best example of this dynamic is he put my name on the title conjoined with "or." Maybe a year later he just announced that he wanted me to leave meaning move out. I asked him if I could stay. He said yes. He did the same thing a few months later. I ignored him. He did it a third time and I took his name off the title. He, his mother, and his sister panicked. I told him I'd add his name to the title conjoined with "and" and that he would pay the fees involved. That is exactly what happened.

He can do whatever he wants but I will remain adamant about not giving up what I have achieved after the instability and humiliation of being "just a renter" as they used to derisively say in Hawaii, especially given the astronomical cost of rent in this state.

We don't own the land so we.have to pay a pretty much nominal monthly rent. A 2 bedroom apartment would rent for twice the price.

He was the love of my life but became extremely narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled after loosing his last job in Hawaii and then spending the night screaming and crying.

He was still loving then but over a period of weeks he withdrew into his thoughts and feelings to a pathological degree.

The worst part of it is he's much too intelligent to not know that these drugs are weakening his body and shortening his life.

So if anyone wants to create/update their signature line:

Click on your avatar in the upper right hand corner. Select "Edit profile" from the dropdown. Update your signature (and any other info you might want to add, like your website). Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the Profile page and "Save changes".

You can also change your Picture if you don't want the default icon of the first letter of your user name.

Click on your avatar. Select "Change Picture" Upload your picture, either from your device directly or from a URL. I decided to keep my WTF avatar of my pup Maggie, so I just logged into the original WTF and did a "copy image link" of my pic over there. Save Changes.

I've added a link to this thread in the Tips , Tricks and How-Tos thread.

I liked seeing people having fun. There's a lot to be serious about, but we all need to smile sometimes.

Big Al

I remember you.

@Qaanaaq-Qaalaaq said in Bose brings back the 901:

In a house, Bose 901s can overwhelm and deafen you with sound. A friend from the Army had Bose 901 speakers. 901s rely on bounced sound reflection off of a wall. I think it had nine speakers facing the rear and one speaker facing the front and they could handle lots of wattage. You need a powerful receiver to really take advantage of 901s. They were expensive too as I remember. Because they’re so powerful at loud volumes, they’re better for discos and roller skating rinks than home use. Playing the Bachman Turner Overdrive song “Sledgehammer” at full volume would cause the walls to vibrate.

Yes, good point. My school had a set of Bose speakers and we used them for outdoor parties every weekend. They were base heavy not surprisingly and were very, very loud.

@wtg said in Beekeepers. And appliance store.:

@Big_Al

Gift link! don't know if it will ask for you to sign up, or if you can just read...

I was able to read the gift link. Thanks!

That looks like a business I'd like to patronize if it was in my area. That styrofoam recycling operation is ingenious.

Big Al

I read stuff like this and I start thinking again about going to law school.

@Jodi
LOL 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

@ShiroKuro said in Package thieves stealing iPhones:

How do they know that it's a phone that's been delivered?

One theory is that someone on the inside (of ATT, for instance) gets hold of the tracking numbers for phone shipments.

Darn
I suspect the staff of The Onion has been leading Alex Jones to believe they want him to front their acquisition just for laughs.

I'm thinking that you may have picked up a draft of a thread that you started sometime in the past and forgot about. This platform keeps a draft copy of whatever threads and posts you started but didn't actually post.

If you start a thread but don't finish posting it, that draft will be saved and a colored bubble will appear the lower left hand corner. Hover over it with your mouse (laptop - not sure how to do that on tablet or phone) and it will show "New Topic".

On a related note...

If you start a Quick Reply in thread A but migrate away from it to read thread B, you'll find your unposted post is still there if you go back to thread A. You can erase it or finish it up and Quick Reply.

Finally, if you open a full edit screen, type something in and then Hide it, the draft gets saved and colored bubble will appear in the lower left hand corner of the screen. If you're on a laptop and you hover over it, it will tell you "Replying to (topic name)". You can just click on it and it will take you back to the thread and you can either finish up and Submit the post or Discard it.

If anyone needs screenshots, please give a holler and I'll put together a Tips and Tricks post on how drafts are handled.

Lol!

@RealPlayer - 😁

Bringing order to the yard here....lots of leaf raking....

As always, working outside is very grounding.

Well, I’m not sure I want to go looking to see what that site is!

Yes, it was exactly that way.

I finally had a chance to read the article and look at the pics. What a bizarre house. I mean it's really creative in some respects and retro in others (some of the furniture looks like it came out of my parents' house). Definitely a niche bit of housing.

These are all great but the handsome cat at the top might be my favorite!

My friends in Pueblo got almost 2 feet of snow between yesterday and today.

Link to video

@Steve-Miller said in Who wants to help?:

Ohio has started growing wines all over the state. It’s universally terrible.

Let ‘em go.

Yes. There are a few producing decent, not great, wine. But not many. The French hybrids are yucky.