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    Take me out to the ball game.........

    We're vacationing at our condo in AZ for about 5 weeks and, as we sometimes do, we took in a Seattle Mariners spring training game. They played the Texas Rangers and we beat them 9 to 5. It was a perfect day for a game with temps just above 70, no wind and light, thin clouds. The Surprise...
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    National Guard in NYC's subways????

    New York now has posted National Guard troops in the subways to fight the rising crime. I read an article online today asking whether that would make people feel safer or less safe while riding the subways. I know when we were in Europe recently we encountered numerous troops that were heavily...
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    Are you on the NVIDIA bandwagon?

    I own some NVIDIA stock and have held it for awhile. I knew it was going to report it's earnings today and knew they were going to hit a home run so was not too surprised to see how well it did. As of right now it's up almost 15.5% which equates to a gain of $104.00 per share. Anyone else...
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    Self Checkout---Like 'em or hate 'em?

    Lately I'm seeing more and more online articles written by people who are very unhappy with the self-checkout registers in Walmart and other stores. Their reasons vary, but there's no doubt about their being pissed off at them. I guess I don't get it. I always head for the self-checkout...
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    NASA, What have you done for me lately?

    We all have grown up with NASA and watched as they have had one failure after another. Now they want to build an apartment building on Mars. WTF is that all about? NASA's budget for 2024 is $25.3 billion. What are they doing with all that money? Elon Musk has built a fleet of rockets that...
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    Am I missing something???

    I don't watch much TV, and it's usually the news or NFL when I do watch it. That generally puts my football and news watching in the evening. Well, except for bowl games and football games on Sundays. Lately it seems that most every commercial is filled with obese black women (or sometimes...
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    Conservatives, who are you likely to vote for if....

    OK, Donald has been kicked off the ballot in Colorado. If other states follow suit he may not have enough votes to pull out another election. If that happens and there was absolutely zero way he could win, who would you likely vote for? Hailey, Ron or Vic? Why?
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    It's a Charlie Brown Christmas for us....

    On October 13 we returned from a 4 day trip. When my wife walked into her closet to hang some clothes she found the carpeting in the closet was soaked. Further checking disclosed water in the bathroom, laundry room, master bedroom and in the garage. Bummer. I called the insurance company and...
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    I've been absent a bit lately, here's why

    I haven't been able to spend as much time on here as I used to but it's because of a bit of turmoil in our house. In September we took a couple of days and went to my wife's reunion then a couple more days and went to Lake Chelan for a brief stay and a great lodge up there. When we got back...
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    I've been absent a bit lately, here's why

    I haven't been able to spend as much time on here as I used to but it's because of a bit of turmoil in our house. In September we took a couple of days and went to my wife's reunion then a couple more days and went to Lake Chelan for a brief stay at a great lodge up there. When we got back, we...
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    Amazon = Amazing Customer Service

    I've used a Kindle for years, probably decades and have had zero problems with them. I was on my 4th one, having replaced the previous ones due to improved features, not with issues with the Kindle themselves. About 2 weeks ago I started having issues with this current one so I decided give...
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    Never been through a lock? Read on....

    As long time boaters on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, we have passed through all 4 locks on each river many times. I first went through Ice Harbor Lock with my 20' open bow boat and over the years as we've moved up in boat size I've also picked up many tips and tricks on how to do it safely...
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    Is it time to buy BUD?

    No, not the beer silly. I'm talking about buying Budweiser stock. Bill Gates jumped in and bought a ton of it and that caused me to take a look at it. Right now the Bud APAC LTD Shares are sitting at $2.14/share. I bought a couple of hundred shares on a limit order at $2.15/share. I never...
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    Bring your fishing poles

    My wife and I spent the weekend in Lake Oswego, OR, which is a city adjacent to Portland. Her son was playing in a tennis tournament and we wanted to encourage him. He's usually and ACE player but this weekend his game was not what it could have been. Long story short, we had lunch Saturday...
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    Are you an Amazon junkie?

    I read an article awhile back that talked about the number of times individuals order stuff from Amazon. I forget the average orders per month, but it was in the teens per household. So, are you a certified Amazon junkie? How many times per month does your family order stuff from Amazon?
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    I don't get it.

    OK, Yellow Freight lines went bankrupt and fired all of their employees. I won't get into all of the reasons that led to the bankruptcy, but I do have something that puzzled me. The 13,000 employees are saying they are going to have a hard time getting new work. Yet, on virtually every...
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    Just sharing a bit of good news.......

    As many of you know I have Stage 4 Prostate cancer. I've had my series of chemo infusions and am on a daily regimen of pills, 13 in the morning, 3 at night, and two shots every 3 months. About 2 years ago I had a bone scan done to determine how far the cancer had spread through my body. I...
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    Are you surviving the heat???

    With this "heat dome" settled over much of the east coast and Gulf Coast states and the midwest, and many of us exposed to temps reaching 100*, where do you set your thermostat to stay cool in your home? Also, who pics the temperature setting, you or your spouse? :rolleyes:
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    What the hell is wrong with our retail stores today?

    Yesterday I went into my local LOWE'S store to get one pressure relief fitting for a hose bib. I spent about 10 minutes looking for the part in their bins so I wandered around until I found one of their employees. I showed him a photo of the part I needed and he looked in his hand held 'puter...
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    A Different Way to spend a Friday

    Last Friday the H-1 Unlimited Hydros were having a time trial day to get the boats tuned for the season. The guy across the street from us owns two hydros and he had both of them down there. They changed props and shafts around (at around $25K each) trying to dial them in. The best part for...
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