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Joe, thanks. I expect the recommendations will be very specific. I remember something about a paste from a video. I compartmentalize tasks like this and just haven't found the right time to figure it out yet. I bought an adult tricycle. It's 24", 1 speed, and folds in half. It has a basket in the back of course and I plan to use it to get exercise, go the mailboxes, haul garbage to the dumpsters, and I've decided I'll ride on the sidewalks to my nearest CVS and Publix a little more than a mile away when I get lights and reflectors to make it safe. It's not assembled yet. I made a deal with housemate to assemble it. The bike shops balked at doing it and offered me prices of $240 and $250. I couldn't pay that. That would be ridiculous. I haven't had a bike in forever. I'm looking forward to it.

@Steve-Miller said in My new stereo system: @Mark I listened to that album so much when it first came out that I wore it out. I even had my artist friend airbrush a copy of that album cover on the refrigerator door in my first camper. Haven’t thought about it in years. Time to listen again! Lately I’ve been thinking about buying a vintage system. Nothing fancy- probably a Pioneer SX-535 like the one I bought in 1975 for $36/month. Been watching vintage stereo YouTube videos and appears that they made a ton of them, they’re reliable, parts are available and they’re easy to service. The soft blue backlight would set the perfect mood for listening to the Surf’s up album! Check out Sounds Classic in Rockford, IL. They really have some nice, fully restored, vintage audio equipment. https://www.soundsclassic.com/index.html

Sorry, I’m afraid I don’t have an answer. I’m a phone noob. Anybody else?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/01/mark-zuckerberg-funding-affordable-housing/amp/ Never liked him. Never trusted him.

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Interesting, Andy. My cousin said it will be August. I hope it will be the beginning of August. Hurricane season starts June 1 and the worst of it in mid-August. I have work I want to get done in preparation. I guess my brother hasn't come to terms with the fact there isn't a new will. It's become an awkward situation between us. I'm ignoring him. He can call or text anytime. I have a lot to think about now without using my energy on any drama I can avoid. My housemate is being difficult every day. He has health insurance. He should go to drug rehabilitation long enough to detox. He won't and as long he's drug addled, he won't be reasonable, cooperative, or pleasant. I'd like to buy him out but even if I can there's a long haul between then and now. Even if I can, he'll leave plenty of logistical problems he created or had a responsibility to prevent. Yes, greed is real. So is jealousy.

Most middle class families in the Mid-century might have been able to afford to set up trust funds but it wasn't in their DNA. My mother told the lawyer who visited her in the hospital when she was dying (paid for by my father and his brother) she wanted $50,000 to go into a trust for her granddaughter's education and she wanted $10,000 to go to her granddaughter's mother for home repairs. My sister told me many people witnessed this but the lawyer claimed these requests were impossible to understand, and after some time, my father convinced her to sign the will his lawyer put in front of her. The tumor attached to her lower spine, the brain cancer, and a single chemotherapy treatment for her brain had her sad and discouraged. In the final analysis, I think she was in too much pain to write the will she would've written it the clock could have been turned back three weeks.

Lol!

It’s not cruel if it pays for tax cuts for billionaires. It’s a zero sum game.

My phone just asked me to set up a biometric identification i.e. fingerprint by pressing the power key. Except every time I did the Google messenger pop up blocked the UN started fingerprint. So today I'm locked out of Google Play. I wanted a note application. I also looked up my phone's specs and even though it has a new 5000 x battery my most important criterion, it has an LCD not an OLED display. I should have looked up the specs before I bought it. I guess the price was right (299) and I was in a panic having no phone with my phone lost. No, don't buy this phone. I don't regret it exactly but I'd be lying if I said I liked it. It's software interface is nothing short of bizarre and I have to live with my mistake if choosing an LCD screen. I hope this phone's battery lasts more than the last one's becoming very, very fast draining in only two years. I don't want to go through any of this again soon.