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Love house built around courtyards.

Many places in the world.

Many time periods.

But look at this.

Ingenious!

Mark, Wow! Congrats!

Well, as you might expect from my "Not this S again" thread, I am not surprised.

I'm not surprised by this same story being broadcast, on different days, with different players, again and again, either.

I could have told you they weren't going to find it.

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My feet are freakishly narrow. Nike made N shoes for decades and recently quit. It's the same thing with dress shoes not that I wear them. I can only conclude the market is so limited that it got to a point where companies decided it wasn't worth it for them.

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@RealPlayer Oh, no, RP. I'm sorry to hear that you are living with pain. Hope you find a good solution soon.

+1

I haven't cared much about keys for an unusual amount of time. I had the key to my old place and would... well I'm not going to want to remember it in detail...

Suffice it to say I locked the place when I left.

I've told the story about the electricity being shut off.

So, yeah. This was in winter. Just a fact.

It stayed off in the spring.

It stayed off in the fall.

It stayed off a 2nd winter.

It stayed off in the spring.

It stayed off a 2nd summer.

Then I moved the 2nd week of last August this year.

There were countless nights the back door and porch door stayed open all night because of the heat. There were countless days both these doors were left open all day. So day and night.

Dying of heat stroke didn't seem like an option.

It was dangerous. Being born here, I know how dangerous it was....

Then x, y, and z happened, and I don't have doors or windows left open.

Everything is kept on lock down 24 hrs a day and if I am working outside (and this is often), I'm always aware of what doors are open or shut, and if they are or are not locked.

I like my new locks and deadbolt.

I like my new keys.

They have an oval shaped top. You inset the key, and then turn it with your thumb and/or index finger. Your fingers have a place on the key where you can turn the key and apply pressure at the same time.

One set of keys is on my old lanyard and it's somewhere inside where I know where it is at all times.

I like my old landward keychain. It's Stitch merchandise from Disney. This set is waterproof. I'll point out one impractical thing about it. The attached charm (Stitch's face) gets in the way of using the door key. This is a distraction and wastes time you want to be using to unlock the door. But NBD.

I bought a second keychain with a clip. I might later but haven't used the clip. The keys are in this keychain. Also linked through this keychain is a second one that's big enough to fit in the hand and heavy enough to balance the house and car key.

I like my new keychain.

It's a disc and the disc hangs between two "arms". It can be spun around 360°. The disk is an LED flashlight. You turn it on- high, low, flashing red, and finally off with a button in the center.

I'll post a link to an image.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/67fk6VWpzBasFsYy5

I don't know why the picture has what looks like a plastic pull tab with an arrow. It doesn't exist IRL.

I had the locksmith take the aftermarket key fob receiver that was creating havoc with my electrical system out of my car and threw the fobs away.

So my keys are just old fashioned keys.

BTW, I strongly advise not adding aftermarket key fobs to older cars. This is asking for trouble.

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Amelia Earhart, her navigator, Fred Noonan, and her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra are lost.

"lost (lôst, lŏst)

v.

Past tense and past participle of lose.

adj.

1. Unable to find one's way: a lost child.

a. No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something: a lost pen.
b. No longer in existence; vanished or spent: lost youth.
c. No longer known or practiced: a lost art.
d. Beyond reach, communication, or influence: The expedition was lost to the world for two months.
3. Not used to one's benefit or advantage: a lost opportunity.
4. Having not been or unlikely to be won; unsuccessful: a lost battle; a lost cause.
5. Beyond recovery or redemption; fallen or destroyed: a lost soul.
6.
a. Completely involved or absorbed; rapt: lost in thought.
b. Bewildered or confused: I'm lost—can you start over?
Idiom:
be lost on

1. To have no effect or influence on: Her advice was lost on me.
2. To be beyond the comprehension of: The lecture was lost on us.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

The approx. 50th attempt to find the wreckage because e.g. the leather some of a woman's shoe was found on a remote island continues apace.

This isn't only a fool's errand- it's an industry at this point, imo.

The globe is vast. The time is long past.

No matter.

Some facts must be cultural "mysteries" for God knows what reason.

We're all so full of "forever chemicals" (another fun word combination) that if these chemicals trip the balance between health and disease or between life or death nobody will be the wiser

Interesting. I remember that girl and I'm sure I could Google her. Whoever put her up to it and profited from it is a con artist. I say con artist but it was no doubt many people operating together. I can't tell you how many 3rd rate artists made fortunes in Hawaii selling on Front St. In Lahaina until the art market cooled and the town burned to the ground a few years later.

A polity is a paradox.

It's real. It's artificial.

It's meaningful. It's meaningless.

Etc.

They say time flies.

They could as well say maps change.

And the Prime Minister is against it?

Knock me over with a feather.

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72 retired generals, admirals, and other high ranking officials wrote a public letter in protest.

Only then was it cancelled.

It you don't know the MTN YouTube channel, this is it.

I had never heard of the one hand thing either.

I have a similar thought about dividing what's important from what not so much.

So- wallet, phone, and keys.

I have one of those rubber things to hang glasses around your neck.

I need to stop thinking of them as being in the same category.

I'm near sighted but I could function without them if I had to and replacing them is easy.

I lost 2 phones in a short amount of time. It freaked me out.

To set up a new phone with the same number took me an hour on the phone (my neighbor's) the 1st time, and 3 hours on the phone at Best Buy the 2nd time.

The 3 hours was with no break, although the call randomly disconnected after an hour; then the 2nd call took 2 hours.

The 1st "agent" failed. The 2nd succeed. I have a feeling it's because it was a side job- he was studying electrical engineering. Even he only made it work at the last minute. Hence, the need to stand there forb 2 hours.

Well, I don't know how weird I am but I'm a nerd for sure.

Lamps.

'50's lucite table lamp. Keeper. Left here.

'70's porcelain base table lamp. Keeper. Left here.

'80's solid resin base in shape of tree branches with "carved" scene of mother American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) 🤪 feeding baby. Keeper. Left here.

I wouldn't pay $1 for it at a garage sale but it's functional.

My lamps. This was a project.

2 small, matching ceramic lamps with mid-century design (I guess it's supposed to be like a woven basket, pineapple shaped, shade narrower at top than at bottom, takes (and I use- this was the point) incandescent bulbs with not many lumens. 🤪 Shades are tan.

1 small ceramic (advertised- in fact it's resin) lamp that's same size and also uses incandescent bulb.

Mid-century design- geometric. Looks like a jar with pattern of vertical lines. Pale- medium and unique orange color. Shade is not tapered. Shade is white.

Desk lamp with small round base, metal to bend to point the light. Also incandescent.

I'm trying to get the rest of the bulbs in my light fixtures replaced with LED.

Most of the fixtures are banks of lights in "boxes" on ceiling covered by plastic grates in the kitchen and large bathroom.

So the grates have to be taken apart and cleaned to replace bulbs. They aren't readily accessible. The minute the grates are moved dirt will start falling everywhere, the grates will be greasy, and they're too big to be cleaned inside.

So 2 projects in 1.

Oh, and I bought a $19.99 tall lamp from Walmart and tried to assemble it. So dumb of me to waste $19.99 on a tall lamp. $19.99 tall lamp?

I got the rods screwed together except the last one. It sits in a corner of my living room with the top most rid and actual light fixture hanging toward the floor waiting to be taken to the dumpsters.

I'd like a nice (enough) tall lamp for the living room. The living room is a pretty vast space with no ceiling fixture and no wiring for one.

Maybe I'll attach a chandelier (from Murano- j/k) from the ceiling with an extension cord. Yes, I like this idea.

There are 2 clamshell storm shutters outside the 2 living room windows.

They're open. I'm having them shut, for storms but mainly for privacy.

I have two in the big bedroom. They're shut. Some light gets in but nobody can see in at any angle. In fact, I could take the excuses for curtains that are there now and take them away. They're going anyway. It course I'll replace with something basic.

Lamps, yes. The real logistical challenge for me is keeping track of bulbs. I still don't know what I have installed, everything I have stored, and what bulb where is ready to say good bye.

ArchaeoHistories on X: "The second, alternative version of the Mona Lisa is widely known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa; an early 16th-century portrait that depicts Lisa del Giocondo looking noticeably younger than she does in the famous Louvre painting... Hidden from public view for decades, a myste… / X

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Another fake. Mysterious MA.

He didn't paint it. It isn't from his workshop either.

Think about it. All these people have are assertions.

Look at this monstrosity. Look at the face. Look at the background.

Forgive me for being blunt but FFS./ rant

@jon-nyc Welcome to Pinellas County! I'm glad the weather was good for you! Need I say awesome work and poster of you!

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His mother is his foil.

She never leaves him alone. She's always making him do chores.

Who can say when it's fiction but let's be honest. Someone spoiled him. Lol!

@shirokuro I admire your positive attitude!

I need to be more positive, and whatever I do, I need to develop better discipline and consistency.