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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 25, 2024 12:39:56 GMT -5
From the first article:
That sentence reads like no families practice emergency plans in case an angry drunk crashed his car through their garage and then their homes.
Seriously, though, what a needles and tragic event, Joe. It was good to read that State Farm has her covered.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 25, 2024 9:52:21 GMT -5
It's clear and relatively cool today. Clouds are supposed to move in later, the harbinger of stormy weather we're expecting all weekend.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 24, 2024 8:13:16 GMT -5
It's nice and sunny out, but still a bit cool to be sitting outside. Good news for me is that I got the clearance to start work part-time on Monday. Living in the country with a driving restriction I feel like I've been under house arrest, and it'll be good to get out.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 23, 2024 8:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 22, 2024 16:45:55 GMT -5
Race and Hispanic Origin, Boise
White alone, percent 85.0% Black or African American alone, percent(a) 1.5% American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 0.6% Asian alone, percent(a) 3.4% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.3% Two or More Races, percent 6.8% Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 9.1% White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 81.2%
That's pretty diverse! Here's ours: Population White alone, percent 96.9% Black or African American alone, percent(a) 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 0.4% Asian alone, percent(a) 0.6%
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 22, 2024 8:44:50 GMT -5
A trip down the Great River Road sounds like a fantastic trip, David. I bet you both are enjoying the heck out of it.
It's sunny here, but windy. I hear clouds are rolling in later.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 21, 2024 13:28:38 GMT -5
Occasionally, paul, I'm right. But I admit my error that time. Although when you tell that story you always neglect the trombone slide episode. Gee, I wonder why.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 21, 2024 13:25:01 GMT -5
As convenient as four lane highways can be, I do miss the two laners that went right through the middle of small towns. You'd have to slow down, but there was more to look at. Highway 30 in Iowa is still like that from Mt. Vernon on east, and that's the route I take when visiting friends in suburban Chicago. It doesn't take that much longer, and I get go through the very heart of place like Clarence, Wheatland and Grand Mound. This is the Lincoln highway and it goes all the way to Batavia, which is my suburban Chicago destination. Next time I go I'm taking that for the entire route.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 21, 2024 11:07:28 GMT -5
Yes, they do have a budget for money. And they are required to spend that budget. These places will not hesitate to pay you if you ask.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 21, 2024 11:05:58 GMT -5
Yes, you're luck Terry. A few years ago when I was on an empty taking a patient to Cedar Rapids in the hospital van a white table with folding legs sailed out of the bed of the truck a ways ahead of me. The kind of table with folding legs like one might see at a funeral or an arts and crafts show. It went straight up into the air and seemed to float for a bit on it's back, legs folded. I knew that wouldn't last; it would turn and crash to the ground quickly, the whole thing was unpredictable. Instinct told me not to stop, but to drive under it. I landed about 50 yards behind me right in the east-bound lane, which I was using. I said to the patient, who was a very aware and lucid gentleman sitting behind me, "damn!" He said "what?"
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 21, 2024 10:51:29 GMT -5
If you're going to do it live you have to be able to do it in practice, even the 15 minute breaks and then back at it. I'm just glad I never endeavored to "stand" while playing. I have to respect guys like Doyle Dykes, Pat Donohue, Tommy Emmanuel, and many others who perform standing up. You have to practice playing that way also. I've never liked playing standing up. I've always sat, standing is if yoursomeone you play with, I thought, so I never did. Now I find it quite unwieldy. It's a sunny day out there, the high will 60. There's not a whole lot I can do yet, and a lot I can't do well, but one thing I can do after a lot of hospital time is walk. So I'll do that again today. It feels good to be mobile for a distance again.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:57:01 GMT -5
I dreary, chilly day, guess I'll go to Cedar Rapids this afternoon and make some music at the West Music jam. Say hi to Virginia.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:50:27 GMT -5
Who is Pharrel Williams?
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:46:33 GMT -5
That was funny!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 13:28:59 GMT -5
Greetings, Doc Froon. Nice to see you back.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 11:41:55 GMT -5
Hey Doc Froon, so glad you're back! Please do stick around!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 9:05:48 GMT -5
It is no secret that reading increases your vocabulary I would readily agree with that. Being a reader, I come across new and intersting words frequently. When I try to use them, however, they are often mispronounced, for which I am readily corrected. My excuse: I'm a reader, not a speaker. Welcome back, Rockerbob. We'll enjoy having your company again.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 18, 2024 9:54:58 GMT -5
The rain just kept coming down this morning. Living in a drought area, the sound of rain always makes one take pause even though we've had plenty this fall.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 17, 2024 19:55:39 GMT -5
Good things to have. The one I had last fall sent me off on quite an adventure. Slice and dice, cancer scare, cancer un-scare, probes here and there, incisional hernia, scheduled patch job this may upcoming. 70 years of never having spent a day in hospital other than the day I was born, then BOOM! But, I'm alive, happy, and in good shape (relatively speaking), but without that colonoscopy catch, I would be in big trouble. My colonoscopy last December sent me off on quite and adventure as well. But with all said and done, I did walk out with good news. The cancer doctor told me that there is nothing he can do. That freaked me out until he said "You don't have cancer". Whew!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 17, 2024 19:18:34 GMT -5
If I hadn't read this thread, I wouldn't notice any change in NPR news coverage than what it was before.
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