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@andyd I'll take a good decade over a good one and a bad one. My medical power of attorney is complicated AF. I'm going to make sure it's know that I want DNR and no life support. I've had an interesting life. I have no plans to spend years suffering if there's no real point.

As far loss, lifelong friends, since I was 3, since I was in high school, since I was in college, have become estranged over the decades. There's one I'd like to find but haven't had any luck in years.

I have no family except a brother who is a narcissist from hell and has decided for the second time that we will be estranged since there's nothing I have that he can get from me.

I have a cousin who doesn't understand me. I'll put that diplomatically.

I have an aunt in her '80's whom I think the world of, and she's invited me to Seattle, but in will be a year or more before I'll be moved, settled, healed, and in a new rhythm managing my new responsibilities.

The grim reaper cut down almost my entire family without giving me much of a break. Such is life.

Well, we all know what our greatest poet said-- 'Better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.'

Strangely, I want to be on my own. It's a new adventure.

this is to be believed.

This approach is the only solution, imo.

Housing first is the consensus of homelessness experts in the US (where the federal, state, and county governments are hopelessly corrupt in how they pay vast amounts of money to themselves and like minded people; Trump flipped this logic upside down, and made homelessness a criminal offense, at a time when more and more people in every age group, in every state, are becoming homeless for economic reasons.

Well, it looks like 90° F every day.

We had some rain yesterday, we're supposed to have some today, and again tomorrow.

This is good news because the State's draught is exceptionally bad.

The irony reeks.

I saw that @big_al! I'm not a fan of blue green and it's too bad because unheated blue green sapphires are a bargain. I trust this is a rare color for diamonds, but what a vault I could put together of jewels, gemstones, and watches if I had $17 million! Thanks for thinking of me.

What a nice view.

A black snake came in my backdoor. I found him in my bathroom. He attacked the plastic clothes hanger I used to get him out. Of course, there's no way I'm going to let a snake live in my home, but I trap and put every animal outside for their own good. Mosquitoes are an exception because you can't control them. The best you can hope for is to kill them or barring that that they bite, get it over with, and leave you alone. I wouldn't have mosquitoes if it wasn't a choice between leaving doors open and roasting to death.

Should the executive be suing the IRS in the first place?

I finally thought of something good to say about Trump.

He sets the high bar for grifting in the US.

Yes.

Our County is trying to "discourage" them. With what power I have no idea. And this is an urban county. The results would be catastrophic.

Steve-Miller said:

@Daniel

If that’s the one I’m thinking of it’s actually the size of Manhattan!

Yes.

The USPS is an independent entity of the executive, not
a part of the "Department of Justice" and its magic ability to interpret the Constitution (or ignore it completely).

But these are the times we're living in.

It will be great PR for the USPS when someone opens their package and accidently blows their brains out.

I want to defend the USPS but it's getting increasingly more difficult to do when they won't defend themselves.

It kind of put things in perspective.

The Japanese are the Japanese. Do I get to spin the wheel and win a free washing machine?

It's always hotter in central Florida than the Gulf coast. I can image it is hot AF in Orlando. Spring weather was nice while it lasted. I believe we start out hurricane season June 1. I hope I'm living in a concrete block building by the time one hits. We had no hurricanes last year after getting walloped the previous year. I doubt we'll be as lucky again.

Well, it was predicted to me a high of 89 ° F, and the monitoring station that gives me the forecast (it's a subcontractor of The Weather Channel and 8used by Google) is always a higher forecast temperature at the airport to the north and to the east of where I live, and nope, I don't know the location of this monitoring station.

It always been up to 3° off, almost always adjusted to be higher than than the original forecast.

They're also in the habit of forecasting rain and then calling it off. That's happening today, predictably. Three hours of heavy rain has turned into there might be rain for a couple hours.

It would be more comfortable if there was moderate wind (13 mph+) but it's about 6 mph.

I guess this is the first summer day even though summer hasn't officially started.

Happy Birthday Day, Steve!

What a high price for a small diamond the cut of which is not particularly noteworthy. I think that this might say more about the market than about the diamond however rare the color.

I need an application to professional school about as much as I need a hole in my head. Respect for anyone who can get out of bed at that age. But for most of us who are old and getting older, windows of opportunities have closed or are closing because of exigent and heath factors. Maybe we should celebrate the normal as well as the extraordinary. Too many random factors enter into such outcomes as this to look at them as an ideal, in my opinion.

It it the second gutting. Who needs diplomacy when none of your former allies nor your enemies takes you seriously anymore? Who needs diplomacy when you have ineffective foreign policy that makes no sense anyway?

They look very nice! RM took a hacksaw to both our hoses and put them in the dumpster. It wasn't his finest hour. I can't replace them. Now I use buckets and scrub brushes or mops. I aways enjoyed spraying down the carport. It's something I watched my grandfather do in Tampa until he died. We also used to wash the cars. I won't be needing a hose in an apartment building but I like them a lot. Good for you!