
DougG
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Laughter is the best medicine -
It’s a Human Service I supposeand they say romance is dead.
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Has Marjorie Taylor Greene ...I think there’s 100% chance of her ending up being a blogger…
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ICE agent caught in stingA simple case of mistaken identity. (“ I THOUGHT that cop was a prostitute… “)
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Are you singing enough?To experience singing at its highest level, with the edgiest, most sophisticated new music and sexiest and coolest singers, the place to be is the ukulele group at the Reno adult education center…
unless you’ve sat around with a bunch of 70-year-olds, singing Gene Autry and Beatles songs have you really experienced music?
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The verdict is inIf the sandwich hits, you mustard acquit
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Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?Ken- always with a snappy comebacks. how did he come up with that in only two months?
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Laughter is the best medicine -
Where do you sit at a piano?Facing which way?
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News that Doug can use...if it’s on TikTok, it must be true!
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Bosendorfer at Costco!at least it’s under $180,000.
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Craftivism in PortlandI saw this over on Facebook and I love it!
and I will miss adagioM when she’s deported…
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Contingency planning... SighThe difficult part of the contingency planning for me is not the finances and trust. All three kids are capable and willing to handle things on that front if I need them.
What I need a contingency plan for is if something comes up where it’s difficult to live by myself, even for a period of time. I live alone ,with my children thousands of miles away, in a neighborhood where I don’t know anyone. I’m at an age where I’m constantly reminded of this. three of my closest friends have had an event in the last year that impaired their independence. The one with a daughter living next-door to her has quite a bit of time to figure out what she wants to do next. the other two had to scramble to find someplace more workable to live in a very short timeframe.
So I figure the next move I make,whenever it is , is to some form of more communal living. I’d like to put that off as long as possible, but if you shop potential spots the nice ones have considerable waiting lists.
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Windows 11since the only thing I use my old non-Windows 11 eligible computer for to do my taxes every year, I was planning on splurging on the $30 one year extension for support rather than buying a new computer. when I went into the process to buy the one-year extension, it turns out because one time in the last 7 or 8 years I played around with backing up my computer to the cloud, they said I was eligible for the one-year extension for free. (I don’t use their automatic back up. I think I literally tried it for one day.)
so I’m good for one more year. 30 bucks saved!
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Contingency planning... SighI just updated all my trust stuff last year so I’m just in a cycle of having to updated every couple years now. in the past I’ve actually had friends without kids name me as their successor trustee because I’m experienced in tax and investments and am/was intermittently honest. As I got near retirement age, I had them all move to professional trustees as the odds of me being around for many decades decreased.
generally, for finding a trustee they liked, I suggested they start with wherever they held most of their investments. I generally prefer the trust departments at the investment companies over the banks, (no problems with honesty or ethics with the banks, just continuity questions of who the hell they will actually be dealing with by the time they’re needed.) At least one friend has been very happy with the trust department at Fidelity, who works closely with their investment advisor.
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Breakfast Cereals
https://www.shoplavana.com/cdn/shop/files/IMG-7810_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1719435901I don’t know what I would do if I met a woman wearing this..
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She looks pretty damned good for 116So, she’s single?
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Breakfast CerealsI’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)
The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….
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Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?I hope the fact that I still look 28 years old doesn’t prevent me from being eligible.
