That is wonderful, Ajisuun, I am sure you are already noticing the difference in your productivity and how you feel. At least, when I eat right, I notice.
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I just finished reading The Third Target by Joel Rosenberg. It is an interesting book. But it doesn’t end. It stops in the middle of a battle and the President of the US is missing. Presumably he will be found is a subsequent book, but this, my opinion, is not the way to end a book.
I have read books that had unsatisfactory endings. This is the first ever that I have had a book stop abruptly. The principal has just transmitted a story to his editor and the editor is not sure he’s going to print it. End of chapter, I can understand that. but it’s also end of the book..
🙂 Goodbye Christmas and New Year’s (this was a very blah year for me)
😦 Carol’s still in the hospital and hasn’t been transferred yet; she also still has the runs which is what they’re trying to clear up as it’s a continuing drain on her potassium levels (which was what was wrong in the first place that landed her there)
😦 Hoping the library will cut her some slack on returning 2 books that are due today, but I kind of doubt it since there’s a waiting list for both books. If I have to, I can go up there and get them returned today
🙂 Several bags ready to drop at the Salvation Army truck, assuming it’s in its usual place today (and isn’t taking the weekend off for the holiday). It’s close, I may drive by first just to make sure it’s there
😦 Monday’s coming much too quickly
🙂 We’re supposed to get a decent amount of rain in the coming week
😦 2016 and the state of the nation (& the world) and the coming crazy election; too much chaos, I don’t really like roller coasters; I’m the one who holds everyone’s coats, preferring to stay on solid, level ground
Donna, I’m reading the “Next book”, The First Hostage now. The title tells you that the hostage is the president. The first two chapters are recaps of the previous book. I scanned across them. Don’t buy the first book unless you intend to get the second.
Don’t get the second without having read the first. It will just be confusion.
And much depends on what the people want done and undone, how much broad-based support there will be for a new (hopefully more rational & more conservative) president.
Alas, we’re probably stuck with Obamacare, although it could hopefully be modified. The U.S. also has lost a lot of global stature over the past 8 — well, it only seems like 8 (or 15), I guess it’s been 7 — years, starting with Obama’s “apology” and bowing tour way back when. It remains to be seen whether that can be reversed any time soon. We’re seen as very weak and vulnerable now (and we actually probably are).
😦 Wow, I’ve been so confused about what day it is with these end-of-the-week holidays this year. Our trash pickup usually is Friday mornings but, of course, it was bumped a day due to the holiday. Still, I somehow “forgot” it would be this morning until I heard the trash trucks roaring through the streets.
🙂 Fortunately, I was able to get my trash & recyclables out barely in the nick of time.
😦 25-year-old plus washer & dryer are acting up — put a big load in this morning and when it was done, it was wetter than usual (I’d noticed this happening before), the spin cycle may not be working? Now the dryer sounds like it’s struggling, but that could just be because it’s a heavy load that was a little too wet when it went in.
Chas- Rosenberg does that with a lot of his books. I got one as a free download not knowing it was the first of a trilogy. I ended up buying the others as paperbacks. Now I have books 2 and 3 laying around. I like his stories, but disagree with some of his dispensational end-times theology.
😦 Lee pays Emily’s lawyer $100 each month to pay off what we owe from when she needed him to accompany her to court. He has gotten notices from their office that there have been late payments, accruing more interest to pay. He is certain he has paid on time (via internet bill paying), & went online to double-check.
What he found was that the checks have gone out on time, but the lawyer’s office has not cashed them until a month or two later, counting that as our payment being late. So he will be stopping by their office to straighten that out.
Is it just me, or does it sound like something hinky is going on in that office?
You can show them the dates on the checks and the entries in yourledger.
At Bank of America, you can get copies of the checks.
Yu shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s poor bookkeeping..
Donna said:
“. And much depends on what the people want done and undone, how much broad-based support there will be for a new (hopefully more rational & more conservative) president.”
Donna, you’re in the business. You should know that it doesn’t matter what the people want done. It’s where the money is. Most people don’t know what’s happening and many who do don’t care.
😦 I think we’re going to have to buy a new stove. For a while I’ve been noticing that things took longer to cook in the over than they should, but since mostly I’ve using it for things like frozen pizza, frozen fish, tater tots, etc, and I don’t usually go by the time on the package, just check when it seems like food should be ready, I hadn’t realized how bad it was until Christmas Day. The frozen lasagna was supposed to be done in just under 2 hours, so I have it a bit more time before I checked it, and the meat thermometer wouldn’t go in because the center was still frozen! We snacked on cheese and crackers and other stuff, then finally after cooking for nearly four hours it was ready. I bought an over thermometer the next day, and now I wait for the over to get to the right temperature, which takes quite a while. Even then, I discovered when I made a frozen pizza two days ago, it’s not heating on the bottom. The top of the pizza cooked fine, but the crust was busy sagging between the bars of the rack. No wonder my brownies and muffins seem fine when I use a toothpick to check for doneness, but then the bottom turns out to still be mushy.
🙂 The current stove only cost me about $75 used, and it lasted around five or six years. And now we can afford a new stove, which would have been much more of a problem then.
🙂 I have a fire going in the fireplace tonight for the first time in a long while (my jasmine bush had grown over the top of the chimney so I didn’t dare use the fireplace last year). The heater is on, I’m listening to KLOVE (a Christian station) and it’s kind of nice.
I will probably have to start looking at washer/dryers soon. When it rains it pours. But I still have the delicate cycle … I lost the “regular” cycle several years ago so have been using the “Perm Press” cycle since then.
If that’s now going, I suppose I can use the delicate cycle and still get all the functions? 🙂
Meanwhile, I need one of those old-fashioned clothes wringers to get the excess water out of all my heavy sweatshirts and towels … My poor dryer.
🙂 Spin cycle works on delicate. Whew. It’s the last of 3 cycles available on my poor old washing machine (repairman at the time said it would cost too much to fix when the first cycle went out, he said just move everything to the next working cycle available).
So I suppose I’d better start looking around to replace the washer/dryer (dryer is just as old). I don’t want a lot of bells and whistles. My friend actually got a free washer from SoCal Gas last year, I think, when they were giving them away to get rid of the old high-energy machines. They literally knocked on her door with the offer. I can at least get rebates from them for new machines.
Craig’s list? I know I got rid of a perfectly good washer once for a trivial amount of money and friends are still using their machines purchased used for pittance years later.
I, of course, should not be giving advice on appliances . . .
Unfortunately, while the Maytag I purchased in 1979 was still going strong in 1998, we replaced it with a Maytag water saving Neptune and have regretted it ever since. I think I went through four motherboards on that one before declaring it a lemon and getting another machine . . . . Our current washer, from Sears with a warranty, is doing well but was my third front loader, water-saver machine in 15 years after all that great work by the first Maytag.
Sigh. I know it’s me, but a warning to the wise is sufficient. I hope. 😦
Pauline–is the bottom burner still working? You can replace just the burner on most stoves.
😦 Mine started on fire the other evening. We had company and my husband made his homemade macaroni and cheese. I sprinkled the fire out with salt. I always have baking soda and salt close to the oven (in a cupboard). Good idea for everyone. Unfortunately, I forgot it had started on fire and I restarted the fire the next night when preheating for a pizza.
:} My oven is now clean.
🙂 Last family Christmas. Had a lovely weekend with SIL, youngest daughter and their four children.
🙂 SpeedQueen, hadn’t heard of that brand before. I know they still sell the workhorse Roper models at Lowe’s (which is the brand what I’ve had all these years and has been so good) — top loading washer, so probably doesn’t save much on energy, but I may just go that route. Prices are also still reasonable for those. Hopefully they still have a good reputation.
😦 Hmmm. Advice from michelle on appliances. … 🙂 🙂 😀
I would tend to buy new rather than used in a washer/dryer, tough, I’m going to start pricing them I guess to get an idea on ratings & costs.
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🙂 lost 2 more pounds this week even with Christmas
🙂 completely unpacked and settled
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That is wonderful, Ajisuun, I am sure you are already noticing the difference in your productivity and how you feel. At least, when I eat right, I notice.
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I just finished reading The Third Target by Joel Rosenberg. It is an interesting book. But it doesn’t end. It stops in the middle of a battle and the President of the US is missing. Presumably he will be found is a subsequent book, but this, my opinion, is not the way to end a book.
I have read books that had unsatisfactory endings. This is the first ever that I have had a book stop abruptly. The principal has just transmitted a story to his editor and the editor is not sure he’s going to print it. End of chapter, I can understand that. but it’s also end of the book..
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Is the ‘next’ book out already or not?
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🙂 Goodbye Christmas and New Year’s (this was a very blah year for me)
😦 Carol’s still in the hospital and hasn’t been transferred yet; she also still has the runs which is what they’re trying to clear up as it’s a continuing drain on her potassium levels (which was what was wrong in the first place that landed her there)
😦 Hoping the library will cut her some slack on returning 2 books that are due today, but I kind of doubt it since there’s a waiting list for both books. If I have to, I can go up there and get them returned today
🙂 Several bags ready to drop at the Salvation Army truck, assuming it’s in its usual place today (and isn’t taking the weekend off for the holiday). It’s close, I may drive by first just to make sure it’s there
😦 Monday’s coming much too quickly
🙂 We’re supposed to get a decent amount of rain in the coming week
😦 2016 and the state of the nation (& the world) and the coming crazy election; too much chaos, I don’t really like roller coasters; I’m the one who holds everyone’s coats, preferring to stay on solid, level ground
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🙂 That said, this is the year our current president will (finally) leave office
😦 Longest 8 years ever
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Donna, I’m reading the “Next book”, The First Hostage now. The title tells you that the hostage is the president. The first two chapters are recaps of the previous book. I scanned across them. Don’t buy the first book unless you intend to get the second.
Don’t get the second without having read the first. It will just be confusion.
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The “eight years” ain’t over yet.
But a subsequent president can undo much of the damage he can do from here on.
Unless Hillary is the next president.
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And much depends on what the people want done and undone, how much broad-based support there will be for a new (hopefully more rational & more conservative) president.
Alas, we’re probably stuck with Obamacare, although it could hopefully be modified. The U.S. also has lost a lot of global stature over the past 8 — well, it only seems like 8 (or 15), I guess it’s been 7 — years, starting with Obama’s “apology” and bowing tour way back when. It remains to be seen whether that can be reversed any time soon. We’re seen as very weak and vulnerable now (and we actually probably are).
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😦 Wow, I’ve been so confused about what day it is with these end-of-the-week holidays this year. Our trash pickup usually is Friday mornings but, of course, it was bumped a day due to the holiday. Still, I somehow “forgot” it would be this morning until I heard the trash trucks roaring through the streets.
🙂 Fortunately, I was able to get my trash & recyclables out barely in the nick of time.
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😦 25-year-old plus washer & dryer are acting up — put a big load in this morning and when it was done, it was wetter than usual (I’d noticed this happening before), the spin cycle may not be working? Now the dryer sounds like it’s struggling, but that could just be because it’s a heavy load that was a little too wet when it went in.
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Chas- Rosenberg does that with a lot of his books. I got one as a free download not knowing it was the first of a trilogy. I ended up buying the others as paperbacks. Now I have books 2 and 3 laying around. I like his stories, but disagree with some of his dispensational end-times theology.
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😦 Lee pays Emily’s lawyer $100 each month to pay off what we owe from when she needed him to accompany her to court. He has gotten notices from their office that there have been late payments, accruing more interest to pay. He is certain he has paid on time (via internet bill paying), & went online to double-check.
What he found was that the checks have gone out on time, but the lawyer’s office has not cashed them until a month or two later, counting that as our payment being late. So he will be stopping by their office to straighten that out.
Is it just me, or does it sound like something hinky is going on in that office?
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You can show them the dates on the checks and the entries in yourledger.
At Bank of America, you can get copies of the checks.
Yu shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s poor bookkeeping..
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Donna said:
“. And much depends on what the people want done and undone, how much broad-based support there will be for a new (hopefully more rational & more conservative) president.”
Donna, you’re in the business. You should know that it doesn’t matter what the people want done. It’s where the money is. Most people don’t know what’s happening and many who do don’t care.
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😦 I think we’re going to have to buy a new stove. For a while I’ve been noticing that things took longer to cook in the over than they should, but since mostly I’ve using it for things like frozen pizza, frozen fish, tater tots, etc, and I don’t usually go by the time on the package, just check when it seems like food should be ready, I hadn’t realized how bad it was until Christmas Day. The frozen lasagna was supposed to be done in just under 2 hours, so I have it a bit more time before I checked it, and the meat thermometer wouldn’t go in because the center was still frozen! We snacked on cheese and crackers and other stuff, then finally after cooking for nearly four hours it was ready. I bought an over thermometer the next day, and now I wait for the over to get to the right temperature, which takes quite a while. Even then, I discovered when I made a frozen pizza two days ago, it’s not heating on the bottom. The top of the pizza cooked fine, but the crust was busy sagging between the bars of the rack. No wonder my brownies and muffins seem fine when I use a toothpick to check for doneness, but then the bottom turns out to still be mushy.
🙂 The current stove only cost me about $75 used, and it lasted around five or six years. And now we can afford a new stove, which would have been much more of a problem then.
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Don’t buy a Viking.
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At this point in my life, I purchase whatever Sears is selling with a warranty.
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🙂 I have a fire going in the fireplace tonight for the first time in a long while (my jasmine bush had grown over the top of the chimney so I didn’t dare use the fireplace last year). The heater is on, I’m listening to KLOVE (a Christian station) and it’s kind of nice.
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I will probably have to start looking at washer/dryers soon. When it rains it pours. But I still have the delicate cycle … I lost the “regular” cycle several years ago so have been using the “Perm Press” cycle since then.
If that’s now going, I suppose I can use the delicate cycle and still get all the functions? 🙂
Meanwhile, I need one of those old-fashioned clothes wringers to get the excess water out of all my heavy sweatshirts and towels … My poor dryer.
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Donna, can you just run them through another spin cycle and get more of the water out before putting them in the dryer?
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I’m going to try that, Kare
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Oh, the hardship.
It’s almost as bad as going down to the river (or ocean in my case) and washing clothes on the rocks …
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Oh no,Chas I began that book this week 😦
This house where I am staying with a friend is under construction, but today they got the internet working just for me!!!
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🙂 Spin cycle works on delicate. Whew. It’s the last of 3 cycles available on my poor old washing machine (repairman at the time said it would cost too much to fix when the first cycle went out, he said just move everything to the next working cycle available).
So I suppose I’d better start looking around to replace the washer/dryer (dryer is just as old). I don’t want a lot of bells and whistles. My friend actually got a free washer from SoCal Gas last year, I think, when they were giving them away to get rid of the old high-energy machines. They literally knocked on her door with the offer. I can at least get rebates from them for new machines.
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Do you have a sock stuck in the motor?
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Craig’s list? I know I got rid of a perfectly good washer once for a trivial amount of money and friends are still using their machines purchased used for pittance years later.
I, of course, should not be giving advice on appliances . . .
Unfortunately, while the Maytag I purchased in 1979 was still going strong in 1998, we replaced it with a Maytag water saving Neptune and have regretted it ever since. I think I went through four motherboards on that one before declaring it a lemon and getting another machine . . . . Our current washer, from Sears with a warranty, is doing well but was my third front loader, water-saver machine in 15 years after all that great work by the first Maytag.
Sigh. I know it’s me, but a warning to the wise is sufficient. I hope. 😦
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😦 R is back to some of his old ways. (See the prayer thread for more details.)
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Our appliance repairman says SpeedQueen washers are good. They are worth the extra cost, he says.
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Jo, if you’re reading The First Hostage, put it down until you read The Third Target. It’ s like starting a book in the middle.
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Nope, I have the Third Target
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Pauline–is the bottom burner still working? You can replace just the burner on most stoves.
😦 Mine started on fire the other evening. We had company and my husband made his homemade macaroni and cheese. I sprinkled the fire out with salt. I always have baking soda and salt close to the oven (in a cupboard). Good idea for everyone. Unfortunately, I forgot it had started on fire and I restarted the fire the next night when preheating for a pizza.
:} My oven is now clean.
🙂 Last family Christmas. Had a lovely weekend with SIL, youngest daughter and their four children.
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🙂 My clothes are dry.
🙂 SpeedQueen, hadn’t heard of that brand before. I know they still sell the workhorse Roper models at Lowe’s (which is the brand what I’ve had all these years and has been so good) — top loading washer, so probably doesn’t save much on energy, but I may just go that route. Prices are also still reasonable for those. Hopefully they still have a good reputation.
😦 Hmmm. Advice from michelle on appliances. … 🙂 🙂 😀
I would tend to buy new rather than used in a washer/dryer, tough, I’m going to start pricing them I guess to get an idea on ratings & costs.
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Well that’s weird. I did a search at Lowe’s website for “Roper washer” and got this:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_41153-1366-80793___?Ntt=roper+washer&UserSearch=roper+washer&productId=1085895
Wow, SpeedQueens are expensive …
My other limitation is space, my current set *just* fits and they aren’t very big.
Appliances now are so much bigger than they used to be.
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And more expensive. And shorter-lasting in life span.
😦
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Purchase a second bag or not,that is the question
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