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Agreed!

I give up on posting photos. I’ve spent way too much time trying (yes, I know I’m old.). If you’d like to see the Wolfard oil lamps, see wolfard.com

I have two of the tall cylindrical ones.

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@ShiroKuro said:

I think we need some photos of all these lamps, or at least any interesting ones! Starting with the oil lamps, @realplayer !

These are the two Wolford lamps (Wolford is the manufacturer in California). I’ll have to dig out the other ones because we put them in storage when the living room got painted.

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You don’t want to know about my ceramics collection (or maybe you do).

Six OIL lamps. The first one was left in the house by a previous owner. Then I found a matching one in an antique shop and thought it could use a mate, and they could flank the fireplace mantel. Then I fell in love with a pair of sleek modern ones (Wolford) to grace the other mantel in the foyer. Finally, I bought and reconditioned two hand-held lamps for carrying around the house during a power outage (memories of Hurricane Sandy).

Beautiful! Thanks for posting Grotriman’s performance!

Jodi, your meeting places sound ideal. Here, the island is 500,000 people, so it’s regional. There are a few long-established bars/restaurants and a few coffeehouses that have a following…one of which is run by a 60s-ish commune with requisite decor. One of the bars is where the local politicos gather for the St. Pat’s parade and you do get the local flavor.

Never went to a reunion. There were few people I would care to meet again.

@kluurs there are indeed restaurants that have an old-person vibe. When I was in my 20s in San Francisco there was Sears Fine Foods near the Powell St. cable car. Plush décor, banquettes, white tablecloths, older patrons, an air of formality. Still loved going there, even though I was just a hippie kid. There was a posh hotel on Market St. that had sumptuous breakfasts amid chandeliers (surprised they served us in our countercultural attire).

Ms. Kluurs sounds high maintenance.

It’s amazing how we know we’re different from “those people.”

My daughter has become a British citizen! It happens that my father-in-law was born in England, and that sealed the deal (after the requisite paperwork etc.). There was a ceremony in Manhattan today.

She feels if things here get much worse, she and her family can move there.

Of course, my wife could too, and maybe by extension, yours truly.

Congratulations, Bernard, it’s a beauty! I never saw a pump organ (or most any organ) with a full 6 octaves!

Maybe they should be called spongy cabs, just as gypsy moths have been renamed spongy moths.

We have a 2022 used Subaru Outback, and that braking feature has engaged a couple of times when in reverse and it was hard to gauge by sight how close we were to hitting something. So I was glad for that. But it never just engaged at driving speeds.

Anker made a faster-charging cable for our older iPhones than Apple did, and they’re braided and reinforced so they’re not as likely to kink or fail at connection points.

Somewhere I read that it’s best to unplug them even if your phone is not plugged into the other end. (Speaking of charging cables here.)

I’ve thought about doing that…but the NYC area can get surprisingly warm in winter.

But our unheated garage makes a dandy refrigerator.