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Yeah, you hear a lot about the downsides to the new laws but reforms were needed.

I'd like to have replaceable batteries back again.

No, not really.

There are new laws, after that happened, but most of them are good, e.g. a law that says all condo HOA's in certain categories (25 or more residents? 3 or more stories? I should know this by now) must publish all of their documents on a State site along with transcripts of all HOA meetings.

These documents include how much they have in escrow, all recent repairs, and if you do your due diligence, you can tell if a condo has had special assessments or is likely to have them.

The places I'm looking at are modest, and solidly built.

They differ from the Miami market because Miami has virtual skyscrapers making special assessments expensive.

The main difference between the Clearwater market and the Miami market is that all of the Miami metro area is on the Atlantic coast.

It gets a tremendous amount of water thrown at it. Water is what is causing the corrosive damage.

We border the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf is placid unless there is a tropical storm or hurricane.

We don't really hear about special assessments ruining people here.

Miami and the SE coast is definitely a very different market than Clearwater.

I have a lot of factors to process, but, no, I don't worry about special assessments, taxes, or insurance. I will learn everything there is to know about any specific complex before I decide I want to buy.

I wouldn't want to be buying a condo in SE Florida.

He used to or still does (?) famously end his posts with-- "Sad." It turned out to be prescient.

@wtg said:

Bad news. A raven seems to have breached the nest and cracked both of the eggs. ...

I'm reminded of the Melody Gardot song-- Bad News for some reason.

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️ The stamps were my favorite.

Wow!

It's no different for tennis. Today's generation is amazing.

Well I'm not eating candy again. I'm going to watch the whole video because a woman breaks down all the test results and gives alternatives to various products.

The State of Florida found a person's permissible arsenic level for a year in one candy bar.

I knew they tested different products and found arsenic in candy.

I didn't know how much.

I watched part of their press conference with the Governor's wife and the Surgeon General.

0:00- 2:00.

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Interviewee answers the question-- 'Why did Jack decide to get married?'

That's wonderful!

Thank you for your encouragement. I appreciate it.

To answer your question-- yes.

My alma mater had a Steinway c. 20's.

It was in the music room of Charles Ringling's mansion.

Everyone who played it adored it. It was exquisite.

@Axtremus said:

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https://newrepublic.com/post/205753/melania-documentary-flops-behind-scenes-crew-regret

• Amazon paid $40 for its rights
• Amazon spent $35 million marketing it
• It is projected to make $1 million in the first week.

This bit of grifting sent her public image to a place of instability. Her bizarre speech about Epstein when she claimed she knew him only because they were randomly at the same parties in New York toppled her public image to the point of no return. She is the most unpopular Fist Lady in U.S. history.

This ad for a piano c. 1908 appeared in a my YouTube feed.

Wow. I'm no expert but I know this is the price point of the least expensive upright made by the same company today.

Any such instrument would be wasted on me but it's still fun to dream.

https://thepianoplace.com/?gad_source=2&gad_campaignid=23623327430&gclid=CjwKCAjwzLHPBhBTEiwABaLsSiL8dC5U5c3sZsocxWPTjzn8lwJ6QY-CV_s5s45DdQgDHH9uLoZtXhoCwroQAvD_BwE

Btw, this is my latest real estate find.

It's been for sale for 3 days.

I've saved the listing.

My sister-in-law and I are making a spreadsheet.

Well, actually, she's making a spreadsheet. I'm only giving her data.

Of course, it's too early to tell if this will be a viable possibility.

I especially like the floors. They are all either stone or hardwood.

Laundry hook-ups.

3rd floor. Elevator.

Concrete block on concrete slab, c. 1972.

2205 Belleair Rd Apt A35, Clearwater, FL 33764 [Updated 4/23] https://share.google/WoavJjXFVHkC2lWez

I could easily live here.

I doubt it will happen but we'll see.

Florida migration boom fades as rising costs push residents out - Axios Tampa Bay https://share.google/nYXcRq7rCyLT5tyts

Real estate prices here according to one source (don't remember where I heard it), are projected to change 0.0% in 2006, after years of climbing prices.

This isn't what I'm observing in my area. I'm seeing prices decline in real time. Moreover, buyers are getting discounts off of asking.

The renovated place I wanted in my area of the city was listed for 99k. It sold for 89k.

People aren't buying. The economy is getting worse for various reasons. Energy when factored into inflation will make it still worse. People don't have the income. They don't have the savings. They aren't optimistic about the economy.

Everyone seems to agree that many people will lose their homes, and unlike in 2008, this time it will be institutional investors and cash buyers who will be able to afford to buy.

I mean I think the situation in general is a mess.

It's all Greek to me.

I'm no expert but I just think it's dumb.

I love part where you type something into Google and while you wait it says, "Thinking..." under, "AI."

Thinking? Don't wear yourself out.

Thanks, jon. It's ok. I'm playing the long game.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most beautiful and glamorous women of my lifetime.

Only a few other famous women were/ are in her league in this pantheon of my own creation.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Wikipedia

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I found this very good channel with shorts about her recently:

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I think the thing I admired most about her was the way she effortlessly moved around the world as if she owned it.

I also found out recently that she was part Black. A famous English portrait photographer (I think it was a society photographer and the name escapes me at the moment) noticed this immediately and wrote about it in extant papers.

Google AI says--

"The Van Salee Line: Her father’s ancestry included the van Salee family, a prominent New Amsterdam family with North African roots."

Historians and quasi-official sources go out of their way to deny this fact.

Unfortunately for them, the best argument they can muster is that she identified as white.

What a bunch of woke nonsense. Lol.