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During this global pandemic, what have you done to occupy your time?  I can honestly say that my life isn't far different than before people started catching [and many dying from] COVID-19 besides having to wear a mask in the store and not having to commute 60 miles round trip daily. However, the lack of drive time to and from work actually made me more productive in my role. Moreover, I get...

This subject is a little dark, but something that I think people need to share with his / her loved ones even if it's just in case something happens. My mother and stepfather have a living will and I had to sign it as the executor. I have no idea if my father or stepmom has anything like this in place. The company I work for has certain free services that employees can take advantage of...

To start off, I'm a smoker and have been since age 14. My parents (dad, mom, stepdad, stepmom) and my grandparents except for one, most of my great grandparents, and several of my great aunts and great uncles are or were smokers. Those that don't or didn't smoke, eat... a lot and usually end up with heart problems or diabetes. Oddly enough, the only smoking related illness that I know of...

The weather has been fantastic. Dry, but cool and crisp for weeks now. Perfect early fall weather. I've started working on the garden fence again because of it, even though the rabbit threat is still a bit high to be taking wire down. I've been able to wrap it back around the corner I'm working on well enough at the end of the day without actually clipping it on, so no problems yet....

Making abortions illegal does not reduce the steady demand for terminations by even one case. The real abortion rate in Mexico and Czechoslovak, where elective abortions are mostly illegal, is at least twice that of the United States which plainly illustrates the only pertinent point. Making abortions illegal does not stop women from aborting. What it does is to make criminals of the women,...

I sure wish they made these today. They're so educational. My son learned a lot about grammar and basic math from these. Then when he did a project regarding the branches of government, we watched the ones that were related to that subject. I love these and they bring back a lot of memories. Which one is / was your favorite?

Inflation The CPI for August came out last Friday, and for those interested, here is the link. I have previously stated that the current CPI is misleading as consumer spending habits have been altered due to some virus. You can't say that food spending away from home was 6.279% of spending last year and remains the same weighting currently. So the official CPI-U was up 0.4% last month and...

I live in a suburban town just south of Detroit called Wyandotte. Neighbors homes are near mine, but we're a close neighborhood. We all know each others names and help each other when needed. The type of home I live in is what one might consider a farm style house; it was built in 1906. We've put $65,000 into it to make it our own and to make it warmer, more efficient, and more comfortable....

I have a dog named Rocky. He is an American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) and about a year and a half old; it's an estimate because he's a rescue. I also have a 5 year old cat named Palooza; she's a rescue too, but she was born in the home of one of the rescue employees so we know her age. Rocky is a mama's boy that clings to me like white on rice. He is NOT scared of thunder or lightening...

For me, I can't possibly pick just one vehicle for my favorite. Now, I will say that I prefer the styling of the previous generations. It seems that every modern vehicle I actually like or am attracted to for one reason or another, it's discontinued. That's pretty frustrating. One of my downfalls is that I prefer a manual transmission over an automatic. Today, it's a theft deterrent; however,...

Q: What do you call a bunch of inbred Trumpistas bobbing up and down in the middle of Lake Travis? A: Proud buoys