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Good morning.
Looks like a Caddy to me.
Super Dave will know. Along with the specs.
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Good Monday morning. One of the dumbest things in all of medicine is the routine of waking up every patient in every hospital every two hours all night long. It defies logic.
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Edmonton, Alberta currently -29F
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#1 Yup, I’d say an early 60’s Cadillac, hard to tell from the picture but 62 maybe?
Podunk Alabama 66 degrees.
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Still no results from the PCR brain scraping on Monday of last week. I don’t think I will ever see the results. I had to take a home test here at the office ant the results are: (drum roll please) NEGATIVE, GOOSE EGG, ZILCH, ZERO, NADA, I’M CLEAN!
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#2 – You get 2 hours?
Count your blessings Brother!
I was lucky to get 60 – 90 minutes at Memorial Hermann!
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#2 & #6
They have to make sure you are still alive. They do not get paid to take care of dead people.
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I should be at work, but over the weekend I found out my wife gets today off as a paid holiday. So now I’ll just work Wednesday instead of taking it off like I had originally planned.
In other news, my personal experience mirrors what yesterday’s coffee & covid said. I now know more people that currently have covid than at any other point during all of this.
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Look for a new booga booga social justice story to take the headlines in late January or early February once the Dens realize the covid story is so 2020.
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Rocky Mountain House -38, feels like -49. Need to go check the chickens before the eggs freeze.
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Morning gang. A bright, sunny, warm Monday morning here in Big D. I may have to go for a walk later this morning before it gets too hot – who would have though about it getting too hot at Christmas time? And what’s up with the bowl game cancellations? I’m smelling another conspiracy in the making here. COVID is getting the blame, but I think the transfer portal and seniors looking forward to the NFL draft and opting out of the game are the real culprits. Oh well, they were having too many made for TV bowl games anyway. But there is something (a conspiracy) afoot here, I just haven’t been able to zero in on it yet.
Hoping you all have a good day now and have a speedy recovery from all those Christmas injuries where you discovered that you just can’t do some of that same stuff anymore. Some life lessons are just more painful and harder to learn than others. More later as it develops.
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Exactly 70 years ago, on this day in 1951, The African Queen premiered in Los Angeles. The film stars close friends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, who were named the greatest male and female screen legends of all time by the American Film Institute. The part of steamboat captain Charlie Allnut won Bogie the only Oscar of his legendary career.
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Re: Sleep in the hospital
I still LOL when I remember that frightening day, last Feb. 15th, when my ‘sploded four times. When it happened the first time, Hubby got me to the hospital (where #2 incident happened at check-in), but had to leave me there. I went through the whole day, not knowing if I was stroking out, had a tumor, etc. I had ‘splodey head again as they sat me up from my first CAT scan, then again at the end of the day. I had gone through the whole day lonely, scared, in pain (extreme at times), and trying to keep myself cheerful as the overworked staff tried to help me. I was offered no food, as we didn’t know if surgery would be needed, so all I had all day was water. Fortunately, I thought to bring a water bottle with me, which got refilled throughout the day. The last head ‘splosion happened around 10:30, as I finally broke down crying because I just felt so badly and was hungry on top of everything else. So, four ‘splosions in one day, on top of all the emotional turmoil and pain.
One thing I did remember to do was to explain to every person in charge of my person, nurses and doctors, was to explain: (1) I was keto, *do not* give me glucose – that would throw my whole metabolism off and no telling how that would affect my well-being, and (3) I am the poster child for low blood pressure, and *do not* medicate me for that. I had more than one doctor thank me for those notes during the day.
So here I am, end of the day, the last procedure attempted, and I finally had a bed in the ER bay. Jennifer, my nurse, was sweet and got me something to eat. (She’s keto, also, so knew what I could have, God bless her.) I was exhausted, and was surprisingly able to fall asleep, even with all the beeping and commotion outside my room. Even with the door open, the long day overcame my usual inability to sleep with noise activating my brain. I was dead asleep, only to be shaken awake by Jennifer’s scared voice and her hand on my shoulder. “Wake up, Tedtam! Wake up!” she said. “What? What’s going on?” I sleepily replied, then came wide awake. “Did they find something on the scans?”
“Look at your numbers!” she said, “You need to wake up!” I rolled over to see my blood pressure was 52/48. “I’ve seen those before, I’m not scared,” I said. Her reply made me crack up inside: “Well, they SCARE ME! You need to wake up.” Being awake and having the shock of thinking I might actually be dying, my blood pressure went up, she calmed down, and I went back to sleep. I guess the emotional toll of the day resulted in an equal and opposite reaction when I closed my eyes.
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I have not been keeping up at all, I did not know you could get the rona again. Oldest son tested positive, we were with him Christmas Eve and his house was the scene of the hoverboard wreck Christmas Day. No signs of anything yet, I’m off this week I guess we just keep to ourselves.
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I think this is a great point: Why listen to CDs?
Streaming platforms just aren’t designed with the serious music fan in mind. Back when you had to buy a physical album to listen to it, you really listened to it—even the songs you didn’t like at first. Eventually, some of those tracks would become your favorites. (Other tracks simply sucked, of course.) You paid good money for that CD, after all. Skipping half the tracks felt like an admission of failure.
I know that with my vinyl and CD recordings, I *did* discover some not-ready-for-prime-time songs that I really enjoyed. There was a Dan Seals CD that I loved, and I remember that some of my favorite tunes never made it to the radio.
That CD is long gone. Maybe I can find it at the thrift store, if I look hard enough.
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The lowest I’ve ever measured my blood pressure is 106/65.
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#17: That is about the bottom for me as well. Heart rate is usually around 80-90 resting. My motor just runs fast.
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16. I have Amazon unlimited music. I use it just like I did with CDs. I hear a song I like and I add the whole album to my collection.
Since my formative years were spent listening to vinyl, one thing that has always bugged me about CDs and streaming are those classic songs that come in pairs and should always be played as one. I feel cheated when only half is played.
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My heart rate runs 65-70 and blood pressure averages 125/75.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Monday, December 27, 2021 ☙ ASHAMED
Happy Monday C&C, it’s that awkward week between Christmas and New Year’s, when you want to keep celebrating the holidays but — unless you’re taking vacation or retired — there’s still stuff to do. Hang in there! Today’s roundup includes: the FDA approves another new Covid therapeutic; Boston’s mayor orders a mark to allow people to buy or sell; a study finds injection risks for some exceed infection risks; a study finds Omicron to be mild; Dr. McCullough’s iodine formula; Florida pushes healthy preventative medicine and okays off-label use; Omicron hysteria strikes Florida; and an amazing WaPo article that gives insight into the psychological damage experts have created.
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*In another crazy, amazing, Covid coincidence, the FDA approved Merck’s Covid therapeutic for emergency use — within 48 hours of approving Pfizer’s pill. Wow. The Merck medicine is called molnupiravir and is supposed to be taken twice a day for five days. Already-known side effects include interference with bone growth in young people and potential harm to babies in the womb from any exposure to the drug, so it’s not recommended for pregnant women or people trying to conceive.
I mean, how lucky are we? What are the odds? TWO Covid therapeutics that navigated the long, difficult journey through preliminary trials and FDA approval — ending within two days of each other. And, in another amazing coincidence, they’re coming out right when the case for the injections is falling over like a poorly-maintained hi-rise condominium.
The U.S. has already bought 3.1 million doses. Because, I guess, it suspected the FDA was going to approve its drug, Merck says it will already have manufactured 10 million doses by the end of this year, and 20 million more in 2022. A good gamble!
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Boston’s new mayor, Michelle Wu, announced a new executive order as one of her first acts in office — a mandate for businesses to require proof of Covid injections in order to allow people to buy (customers) or sell (staff).
“There is nothing more American than coming together to use the power of government to force other people to do what we want them to do,” Wu said. Or something like that.
Wu’s hobbies include raising Dalmatian puppies, smoking long-stemmed cigarettes, and collecting furs.
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Dr. Peter McCullough, whose paper on Covid-19 early treatment remains the most-cited scientific paper on Covid, is a big proponent of using an iodine rinse to stop the virus from reproducing in the nasal passages, and swears by it. Here’re his instructions, in case you know anyone who’d like to try his simple formula: https://tinyurl.com/4fm3vc6p.
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A new (updated) pre-print study titled “Risk of myocarditis following sequential Covid-19 vaccinations by age and sex” concludes that, for males under 40 years old, the risk of myocarditis from the injections is HIGHER than the risk of myocarditis from Covid infection. So.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/4ww9snpj
You know, if we had a well-funded government agency devoted to studying safety and efficacy of drugs, this study might generate some interest. Oh well. Maybe next pandemic.
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Another pre-print study published in MedRxIV titled “Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of the Omicron variant in South Africa” finds that it can break through both natural immunity and injected immunity. But the good news is, the symptoms of Omicron infection appear MILD and BRIEF. The researchers also found that some pulmonary involvement rarely occurs, but when it occurs it is easily treated.
It is reasonable to assume that the risk of hospitalization and death will be very low with Omicron.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/5t2v4hdu.
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✈️ It seems like my anecdotal experience of lots of recent new Covid infections is not unique. Over the weekend, more than 3,800 flights worldwide were canceled largely due — apparently — to flight crew testing positive and being unable to fly. There were over 1,000 flights canceled in the U.S. alone on Christmas day.
United Airlines, one of the first carriers to impose a vaccine mandate, canceled more than 200 flights over the weekend.
The Epoch Times reported that in China — which the New York Times says completely beat Covid using super-strict lockdown policies — Chinese carriers accounted for the largest number of worldwide cancellations. Weird. It’s like those lockdowns didn’t work or something. But that can’t be right, can it, New York Times?
Maybe the airlines need to go to an NFL-style policy of only testing symptomatic folks? Just asking.
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The Omicron media hysteria has begun in Florida. Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Times breathlessly printed an article headlined, “Florida’s second COVID Christmas marred by 320% infection hike.”
Marred! I have to say I’m impressed with all the new synonyms they’re coming up with for this latest wave. It does show SOME creativity. Well, a little.
Anyway, you have to read way down in the article to find what should have been the real headline: “The surge in infections has not yet resulted in a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 patients admitted at local hospitals.”
Oh!
Gosh, something is nagging at my subconscious … wasn’t the whole original problem supposed to be overwhelmed hospitals or something? Something about a curve, and twisting it or bending it or something? I can’t remember. Who cares. Cases!
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Well, you knew THIS was coming. New York’s replacement governor Kathy Hochul, who gives Jim Jones a run for his money in the competition over messiah complexes, signed a new law late last week criminalizing fake vaccination cards. It’s now a misdemeanor in New York to “falsify” a Covid vaccination card, and a felony to alter computer records of vaccination.
So the hackers were already working on this, huh?
New York State Senator Anna Kaplan told CNN, “Countless employers, schools, small businesses, and communities are relying on genuine proof of vaccination status. It’s never been more urgent that we protect this process from fraud.” [And yet, there is no sense of urgency to protect our election process from fraud. Go figure.]
It’s an emergency! People are RELYING on injection cards. Lock those fakers up!
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Last week, Florida’s surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo issued a statewide public service announcement supporting commonsense prevention strategies like optimizing vitamin D, staying active, eating nutrient-dense foods, and boosting the immune system with supplements.
The CDC could not be reached for comment.
Florida’s Health Department’s HealthierYouFL.org website now says that “Physicians should use their clinical judgment when recommending treatment options for patients’ individualized health care needs. This may include emerging treatment options with appropriate patient informed consent, including off-label use or as part of a clinical trial.”
Finally! Somebody said it. Patients are individuals, and off-label use is not some bizarre conspiracy theory. Good news for Florida docs, at least those outside corporate hospitals. This makes it very hard for licensing boards to punish doctors for prescribing “emerging” alternative treatments.
It only took two years.
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In a remarkable article that unintentionally gives the game away, last week the Washington Post published this remarkable headline: “Thousands who followed the rules are about to get covid. They shouldn’t be ashamed.”
The article begins with an anecdote about “Aline,” whose name was anonymized to protect her from … something … maybe other pro-vaxxers? Anyway, after explaining that Aline did everything right, took her jabs, wore her masks, and distanced, she STILL GOT COVID. And she’s not too happy about it:
“I feel very embarrassed and dumb,” she says, and upset that she’s causing her family stress. “It’s eye-opening that I feel so much shame from it. I’m realizing how much judgment I was secretly harboring against people who got it before.”
Well. At least she’s developing some new self-awareness. But the point is, and this is a really important point, pro-injection folks feel SUPERIOR until they get Covid, and then they feel ASHAMED.
The WaPo quotes a clinical psychologist, Jessica Stern, who explains how the game was set up from the beginning to punish non-compliance:
“Because the narrative is so closely connected to our behaviors, I think there’s this implication, or this assumption, that if you get sick, you must have done something wrong to bring it onto yourself.” That’s not true, she stresses, “but unfortunately it’s inherent in the way we’ve been thinking about and talking about covid.”
Read that carefully. Psychologist Stern isn’t saying that it was WRONG to make people feel ashamed to get sick. She’s saying that’s just an unfortunate side effect. In other words, it’s unavoidable collateral damage.
Stern defines “shame” as “the combination of embarrassment or guilt and identity — one of the most visceral emotions.”
So this shame they’re feeling isn’t just a transitory or fleeting unpleasant emotion, a passage through one stage to another. Instead, the shame undermines people’s basic identity, their core recognition of self and their place in the world.
The Washington Post blames this tragedy on misinformation: “Some people have misunderstood the role vaccines play in preventing illness, believing that they protect against any and all infection.”
I wonder where people could have gotten THAT misunderstanding, the crazy idea that the vaccines were supposed to stop any and all infections? Maybe from Rachel Maddow? https://tinyurl.com/yrkakkvf. Or, from Fauci, Biden, and Walensky? https://tinyurl.com/2p95s672. Dangerous misinformation! Misunderstandings!
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Finally, the WaPo wraps up by offering ashamed Covid-getters some practical advice. We can’t just leave them hanging out there. They used to be one of us! One of the clean ones. So here’s what WaPo suggests:
1) Acknowledge you were feeling judgy and perfectionistic: “it makes sense that you might be feeling, well, mortified at the idea that others will think you behaved carelessly.” It makes sense! To the WaPo, anyway.
2) Don’t hide your condition. Comparing getting Covid to getting HIV — a recurrent theme throughout the article — the WaPo says you still need to get proper treatment even though you can’t stand the idea of telling anybody that you got Covid.
3) Don’t try to talk your way out of it. Psychologist Stern says you probably feel overly defensive, but nobody wants to hear all your excuses. You got it, deal with it. Instead of rationalizing, try to deflect with humor, saying something like — and I am not making this up, this is what the article really suggests — “I’m super careful, but it got me!”
4) Learn from your mistake; quit partying so much; mask up. You screwed up, okay? But the important thing is, what can you LEARN from your mistakes? WaPo says — again, not making it up — “As psychiatrist Sue Varma puts it: ‘Maybe not going to the nightclubs anymore, right?’”
Or, and I really wish I was making this up, ORDER MORE MASKS:
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Now … why would you order more masks if you ALREADY HAD COVID??? The issue of immunity — the ACTUAL bright side of their shameful infection — never ever comes up in the article. Not once. Fascinating, isn’t it?
5) Turn your shame inside out. Use your shame as a new reason to feel prideful about yourself. “It could be that you’re very diligent and very conscientious, and that’s why you’re taking this so hard,” Varma says. “That just means you’re a thoughtful, considerate, caring human being trying really, really hard.”
See how easy it is? Just substitute one reason for feeling prideful for another.
Finally, way, way down at the very bottom of a very long article, in case somebody reads the whole ridiculous thing all the way through, the WaPo assures its shamefaced readers that “you’re not a failure!”
Can you imagine living in a state of mind where if you catch a cold you think that means you are a FAILURE? Failed at what exactly? Mask wearing? Jabbing? Hand washing? What exactly about the idea of “bending the curve” somehow morphed into a kind of class-signaling virtue of avoiding illness? When — how? — did they start thinking Covid was like HIV? That you can only catch it if you do something unclean or socially unacceptable?
I’m thinking the psychological fallout from this pandemic — the media-generated version of the pandemic — is going to last a long, long time. If you are looking for a new career with bright prospects, consider counseling.
Thanks, experts!
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1956 Pontiac Star Chief Convertible, complete with Continental Kit.
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Best Christmas movie ever – The Lion in Winter. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/
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Morning, y’all. I need to go to the store, as out of milk and out of bananas is actually an emergency. I could get those within a mile of home, but I do have other things on the list.
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I had a nurse in the family tell me over the weekend that the best way not to get covid is to not get tested.
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If one were truly malevolent, why wouldn’t they dose the nasal test swabs with the pathogen(s) in question that guarantees a solid inoculation? Gotta keep that fear up, dontchaknow? This WLR thing is a gold mine for those on the inside and they do not want to let go of all the filthy, ill-gotten, lucre.
The quaint notion that the Fauci types are looking out for our best interests should have been dismissed a long time ago. That it still persists in anyone outside of the 20% who would vote for a steaming pile of feces as long as they have a D behind their name absolutely boggles my mind. -
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So I wunner if wimmins get one extra boob per booster? At the rate they’re going, wimmins are gonna have more teats than a pig this time next year. -
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😀There’s a parking lot testing station near our bank. For weeks there was no one there. Maybe one person, one time.
Then the moronic OMIGOD variant appeared, and within two days there was a line, properly spaced folks 6 feet apart, on their phones as they awaited the nasal swipe.
And I wondered…how many of them actually have symptoms? Did they just get in line because they’ve been brainwashed to think testing is therapeutic? Did they all actually get sick within the last 48 hours? Are the confusing activity with progress?
I would venture that: few (if any) yes, no, yes
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They mighta thought they had to make sure they wasn’t gonna kill granny by visiting.
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I’ve had two tests:
One was when I had a pretty bad lower respiratory infection and they tested for flu at the same time
Two was when I was “contact traced” at work. My exposure there was a 2-3 minute conversation at a distance of about 15 feet. -
30. All the tent testing places are packed. I imagine the main reason is so many people traveling to Mexico for Christmas. Currently, there’s no testing requirement coming or going but you never know what Brandon will come up with next.
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Texpat checked in earlier.
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Good news!
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“There is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level,” Biden responded when discussing the scamdemic with governors. This guy is an imbecile.
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Got off my azz and went for a little walk around the neighborhood. Felt pretty good and the warm radiant sun rays were just about right. I might outta start doing that a little more often.
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BTW, this James Webb telescope looks to be a really big deal. Makes Hubble look like a grade school project. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211226.html
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I had a nurse in the family tell me over the weekend that the best way not to get covid is to not get tested.
Did he/she elaborate?
Is Count Fraudcila spiking the swabs?
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I took the nurse comment as facetious.
Meaning: 95% will be asymptomatic or barely symptomatic. So who cares? Screw the test.
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A friend in England mailed me a Christmas card on 6-December and I just received it today.
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Hey! It beat Epiphany!
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Did he/she elaborate?
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I took the nurse comment as facetious.
He said it was a combination of false positives and asymptomatic people taking tests.
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Hey! It beat Epiphany!
I think Orthodox Christmas is in January so it’s early!
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Look for a new booga booga social justice story to take the headlines in late January or early February once the Dens realize the covid story is so 2020.
The original plan was to come out blazing with Climate Change Apocalypse – coordinated across the entire culture and all institutions. So bad that children will be jumping off of buildings in despair.
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I nominate Greta to be the first.
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So, it seems I am reaching the point where I may need a brain transplant. Today, I have done the dumbest thing ever. I headed out to Walmart with my short must-have list, got my necessities, and got checked out. Near NW was pretty much abuzz with traffic and shoppers, so when I had pulled in to park, I went up and down a couple of rows before I gave up and parked a long way from the entrance. S’okay, it was nice out so the long walk to the door and then the long walk back to the car were not a drag.
I got my purchases stowed in the trunk, didn’t see a cart corral anywhere around, so just pushed the empty cart up to a nearby bare spot in the row I was parked in. Left and headed out, but the first intersection I had to get through was swamped, so it was 5 or 10 minutes before I was able to drive through it. In the meantime, I had noticed my purse wasn’t in the passenger seat, and I didn’t remember putting it in the trunk. I turned off as soon as I could and headed back to Walmart.
Drove right to the area I had been parked in, spotted the cart where I had left it, and saw my purse was in the baby seat. My wallet — containing all my credentials that would take me a month to replace — was still in the purse. Dodged the bullet this time, but what about the next time I do something this stupid?
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When I went to Krogers last Friday and returned the cart I noticed someone had left a 12 pack of Coors Light on the bottom of their cart. I already had a 12 pack of Topo Chico so I left the Coors Light on the cart.
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Hamous the hipster.
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So you wouldn’t take a free 12 Pk of Coors Light? Me neither why bother, who would drink it?
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We’re all going up to the Half Shell Oyster Bar in a bit, we want to beat the crowd. We’re taking the kids and sister is going also. She’s only had a short visit with them since they’ve been here. She has been real busy, celebrating Christmas at several different kinfolks homes.
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So you wouldn’t take a free 12 Pk of Coors Light? Me neither why bother, who would drink it?
Exactly. Feeling nostalgic, I did buy a six pack of regular Coors a few years ago when they brought back the barrel style bottles. It wasn’t undrinkable, but I haven’t bought any more.
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Okay, the tissue companies need a boost. Get yours out now.
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I finally got my results from the test I took last week and it came back NEGATIVE ( – ). No infection. Whoooo Hoooo.
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Dude gets it almost right about retro-install of electric radiant heat.
Ideally, there’d be a layer of some kind of insulation underneath all this, to drive the heat upwards instead of getting sucked down into the building foundation or other structures.
I’m not so sure about the leveling compound. If it has a lot of air (I just don’t know), it could interfere with optimum heat transfer. Same if it has any fiberglass fibers in it. There are some snap-in floor mats that provide the insulation as well as holding the tubing in place, for hydronic systems.
And, while installing in the floor is the most comfortable, as there is nothing quite so satisfying as warm tootsies on a cold day, radiant can also be used as a wall panel. It may not create a warm floor, but if you have carpet, a wall or ceiling panel is certainly an option. Current radiators can look quite modern and clean. Then there are towel warmers, tub warmers, etc.
Here are some Runtal radiators.
I asked at one conference if one of those wall radiators could have a decorative metal plate in front of it if I, as a housewife, didn’t like the look of the radiator. The answer was affirmative, but for some reason all of those men thought it was an incredibly smart question. Being the only woman in the room, I thought it was a rather benign query, but for some reason I got a lot of compliments after that session was over. Those men were truly amazed. I guess it highlights the difference between the sexes.
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Sowing Winds and Reaping Whirlwinds
The Left is being consumed by its own hatreds and hubris.
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That was real good.
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I”m watching “Rover’s Makeover” dog grooming video. Mary Beth is doing an undercoat removal video on a German Shepherd whose owners have been unable to relieve their poor dog of that heavy layer of fur. Mary Beth uses a bathing system to remove undercoat – a soap and/or conditioner along with a firm spray. The conditioner allows the fur to “slip” loose and fall into the tub.
This German Shepherd looks like it is melting, the fur falling in clumps. He is going to feel so much better when all of that extra hot fur is removed.
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#55 – We were truly BLESSED to see ABB live!!
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All caught up with Yellowstone and 1883 now. Can’t believe only more Yellowstone and wait again.
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GJT says:
DECEMBER 27, 2021 AT 22:26
All caught up with Yellowstone and 1883 now. Can’t believe only more Yellowstone and wait again.Gonna be a long wait. I understand Coster has called it quits.
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Well, it’s bedtime out here in Big D again. You all have a good evening. Nite, nite.
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Sounds like at least one more season.
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