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Or did I imagine it?

Green is my favorite color but emeralds are not on my list of favorite gems.

I don't like inclusions. Heat is the only treatment that doesn't bother me much. I guess it doesn't bother me for tanzanite I'd be ok with it for sapphire depending on the quality of the material and the jewelry being made. I'm thinking about good quality material and fair quality jewelry.

There are many other green gems.

But that's just me.

@wtg You win the internet today. Grave shopping. We just looked. We didn't buy anything. Lol.

I just got home and checked. It's not expected to be serious here.

Many people got rained dumped on them in Honduras and the same phenomenon that happened in North Carolina happened to them. Water totals double (and more) when a hurricane hits a mountainous region. There's the rain from the storm and then the next thing that happens is it flows downwards from the mountains.

Well, it turns out Milton did slight damage to my roof. Integrity (metal) not compromised, no leaks. FEMA (wrongly) denied our application because of an internal mix up. I understand this has happened to many people.

And, I guess there's a new hurricane and/or storm that's going to hit the west coast of Florida. I don't know. I haven't looked at meteorology sites since yesterday afternoon.

It had me at hello.

BTW, he forgot to mention Arab American voters and young voters. Lol.

Did you know Harris underperformed Biden in every county in the United States?

Ouch.

@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.

Yes, Ax.

It's not the fact that Harris had trouble communicating. It's the fact that she froze like a deer in the headlights whenever she didn't have a teleprompter or whenever her teleprompter malfunctioned.

It's true that Trump is surrounding himself with a group of very unpleasant people.

The issue of concern for my generation was the first Iraq war. It seems that such concerns never end.

It seems looking back on it now even though it was such a short time ago that Trump won on the day that Harris was elevated. Her one talent was to read a speech in public and she couldn't even do that without outbursts of inappropriate laughter.

Biden didn't govern well during his term and ended it with a trainwreck.

Lol!