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Post by epaul on Oct 10, 2023 13:08:39 GMT -5
Happy Birthweek, Evan! ![](https://i0.wp.com/blackhawkcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1957-Buick-Roadmaster-Convertible-13.jpg?resize=1080%2C723&ssl=1)
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Post by epaul on Oct 10, 2023 9:08:37 GMT -5
Twins Win. Diamondbacks Win.
See you in the Series, Don.
Expecting a good freeze, I harvested eggplant and peppers into the night and constructed a heated tent over the remaining basil.
It didn't freeze.
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Peter !
Oct 9, 2023 14:44:22 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 9, 2023 14:44:22 GMT -5
You might be right. Bummer.
Having either the #1 pick or Fields in your pocket as a bargaining chip would have been a lot fun and a fistful of extra picks.
But, it still might end up being pretty interesting offseason for da Bears.
Football is a year-round sport
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Post by epaul on Oct 9, 2023 9:26:19 GMT -5
Twins took one from those dratted Astros. In part due the great game Carlos Correa, the Astro's former great shortstop, now the Twins. It was a sweet "homecoming" for Carlos! Series tied. I think we will take them. If not, there is always the Vikings!
(there isn't the Vikings)
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Post by epaul on Oct 9, 2023 9:10:59 GMT -5
Plus they got a couple #1 picks in the deal.
Detroit has always had high draft picks, but, finally, they started getting them right. Detroit has more good young, amd FAST, talent than any team in the league.
(and in another year or so, Chicago will be the same. Young and fast. (with more juicy picks coming their way this year)
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Peter !
Oct 8, 2023 12:25:42 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 8, 2023 12:25:42 GMT -5
The Roar has been Restored!
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Post by epaul on Oct 8, 2023 11:06:17 GMT -5
... Might take the old road bike, pump up the tires rock-hard, and take a ride on a freshly paved rails-to-trails bike path. It's time to give the old prostate a good draining. I added that last part. Tam is a little shy about the personal. But, it's important that we who were assigned male (by someone who didn't even know us) discuss these things.
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Post by epaul on Oct 8, 2023 10:52:10 GMT -5
I'm waiting for season two of Loki to drop.
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Israel
Oct 7, 2023 22:43:49 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 22:43:49 GMT -5
Oh, and this forum's fault. Well, only you liberal types. So what the hell you going to do about it! Huh? Huh? Huh?
Huh? Huh?
Huh!!!
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Israel
Oct 7, 2023 22:40:03 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 22:40:03 GMT -5
There has to be a political solution to the Israelis/Palestinian conflict.
I've heard that my entire life. We all have. There has to be a political solution.
I have heard every candidate for president, one after another, say there has to be a political solution and they have this idea that will lead to one. I have seen every president in my life attempt some kind of political solution and then get immediate blame or praise, and then, down the road, get nothing at all resolved whatsoever for whatever it was they got praise or blame for at the time. Nothing.
70 plus years of politics. Maybe more. Nothing. No political solution. Just political problems. And continued crap.
If there is ever to be a political solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it sure the hell won't come from us. We have no political solutions for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. 70 years of our political solutions has proven that. If there is a political solution, its not coming from us, it has to come, has to, from the Israelis and Palestinians.
Or the Vulcans.
But, yeah, this is Biden's fault. And my cat's.
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Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 21:45:55 GMT -5
Political creatures politicize. That's what they do. Seek for advantage, search for blame. Seek, search, make up. Doesn't matter.
Truth is, Israel and Hamas have their own agendas. Follow their own plans for their own reasons that have nothing to do with us.
But, what actually is over there doesn't matter to our politcals. Only their Game matters. Insert their favorite friend when things go good over there and jam in their favorite enemy when things go bad. President X paid too much attention to this! President Y paid too little attention to that! IT's HIS FAULT. NO, IT'S HIS FAULT.
We've all lived long enough to know this shit. We've seen forty, fifty, sixty years of it.
Did Hamas do this to sabotage the possible maybe weak ass accord the Saudis were getting close to maybe possibly signing with Israel? Turn it on its head. If you want to sabotage a deal and screw with the Saudis, even better to wait and let the Saudis sign a deal with Israel and THEN start an Israeli/Palestinian blood bath and put the screws to the Saudis and the doomed deal they just signed and watch them squirm. The Saudis have to condemn Israel and blow up the deal and show their ass to the Arab world... or they stay with the deal and side by their actions with Israel...and show their ass to the Arab world... and add fuel to the growing anti-Royal sentiment in the fractious ready to blow Arab world... and serve Hamas' grand plans.
But, all that is us thinking we know what's going on over there and have all this influence in what those crazy bastards are up to. Hamas has their agenda. We are not consulted. Israel has its agenda. We are not consulted. We are used. we are ignored. But we are not consulted.
But, regardless of anything that actually is, our political bullshit artists are busy spin, spin, spinning away claiming all credit for themselves and casting all blame on their foes.
We've seen this shit. We know this shit. And we know who's dealing it.
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Israel
Oct 7, 2023 19:46:06 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 19:46:06 GMT -5
Plus, Biden has been mixing up all our blood. Somehow.
But, Trump will un-mix our blood. Get it nice and pure again. And he will solve the Ukraine problem by giving those inconvenient bastards to Putin. And he will solve the Israeli/Palestinian issue by sitting them in a room, all 12 million of them, and make them watch a video of his book, The Art of the Deal.
And what are Casper and I are going to do about all of it? We are going to have some ice cream. Me vanila, Casper chocolate.
(Dog lovers, don't worry. Casper once ate a 16 oz. chocolate Easter Bunny to no ill effect. A little chocolate ice cream won't even make him burp.)
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Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 14:33:11 GMT -5
My impression is the kid's today are far more familiar with, and appreciative of, the music of thirty and forty years ago than we were of the music that preceded us by the same margin.
Our generation, and the ones that preceded us and immediately followed us, were limited in exposure, for most and very general part, to any music other than what was being played, and promoted financially , on a few radio stations. And what was played was the current top 40. Over and over.
Today's airwaves and cyberwaves are filled with the pop music of not just current hits, but with music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 10s. None of it has gone away. And any spin of the radio dial, mouse click, or Alexa request is as likely pull something from the 50s and from the 2020s.
I have been in high schools on and off for the last fifty years, and in every one of those years, I have seen T-shirts of groups from my high school days. Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead, those groups are still known and listened to and they still show up on T-Shirts. Groups like the Eagles, Arrowsmith, Men at Work, Queen are still listened to and show up on the occasional T-Shirt. Some kids will hone in on particular period and adopt a band that may not have been recognized as great at the time much like an English grad student will immerse in early Victorian poetry and call Gerard Manley Hopkins their own.
And I have only mentioned pop/rock. Country is the same. Johnny and Dolly haven't gone anywhere.
Technology keeps "old" music alive in the present, plus the old music is just so much better than so much of crap being done today, it is guaranteed to last forever.
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Israel
Oct 7, 2023 13:54:23 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 13:54:23 GMT -5
It's Biden's fault!
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Post by epaul on Oct 7, 2023 10:12:28 GMT -5
Today is Homecoming for the University of North Dakota. And my house is at the end of the parade route down University Ave, whereupon the parade, now officially over, takes a right on 23 Street and goes past the other side of my house as everyone heads back to the starting grounds. (and as I was at the end, it was almost like it was a private parade for me as the crowd was spread out along the beginning and middle)
So, Casper and I spent the morning in the corner of our yard and watched the parade. The marching band stopped right in front of us and played their final piece, then turned and marched past us. I knew a couple of the trombone players from various deals and I got some nice shout outs.
It was quite a parade with lots of floats and fun stuff. And, as the parade finished at my place and then took its turn for home at my place, Casper and I got lots and lots and lots of candy (as it was safe to whittle the surplus supplies down). Much of the candy was hand delivered as Casper is still quite the chick magnet. And there were lot's calls "I like your dog", "I like your garden", "Put your pants on".
A fun start to the day.
I love where I live!
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 19:41:15 GMT -5
To the point, I think "Here, There, and Everywhere" is the Beatles prettiest song. Prolly tied with "Yesterday" for my favorite. Both melodies are so sweet and neat.
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 18:46:18 GMT -5
My kids love the Beatles.
And the Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Harry Chapin, Tom Paxton, Stan Rodgers, Blondie...
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 18:23:00 GMT -5
I called my pharmacy last Monday and asked if they had gotten in the new Covid booster yet. "Yes, we have, and we only have one dose left".
"I'm coming right in. Hide it."
I zipped right over and presented myself at one of the windows, "Still have that Covid booster?"
"Yes. Take a seat and someone will be right with you."
After a brief wait, the shot-giver lady called me in to her office. I had just seen her for the RSV shot, so we chatted about stuff for a bit, and then she asked, which arm, and then poked me. In and out. Easy Peasy.
On my way out, I saw a friend and stopped and we chatted for a while. As we were chatting, the shot lady came running up to me. "I'm so glad you hadn't left. I gave you the wrong shot. I gave you the flu shot."
"Oh."
...A little earlier than I had planned, but no harm...
"Can I have the Covid shot now?"
So, I got both shots. Same day. Same arm. Not the plan, but no soreness, no problem. I'm just glad the wrong shot was the flu shot and not a blast of estrogen or monkey hormones.
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 18:02:36 GMT -5
In another visit (to a different doctor), the doc's personal notes began "The patient presents with his wife today. He has no complaints."
I immediately read that to Charlene and said, "Forget the parade candy words, that's it in a nutshell. I have no complaints, honey!"
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 17:56:45 GMT -5
In addition to a whole bunch of other stuff, my hospital's online "MyChart" lists the doctor's personal notes concerning my visit. I saw a new doctor recently for something and in his post-visit notes I read the following: Patient appears well-nourished.
I like that doctor.
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