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Tahlvin

I have asthma (very well controlled, as long as I take my preventive med), so I'm susceptible to pneumonia causing severe respiratory problems if I do catch it. And having been hospitalized once a long, long time ago because of pneumonia and asthma complications, I don't ever want to repeat that.

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I tried to get my flu and COVID shots at a pharmacy a few weekends ago, but my insurance wouldn't cover it. So I had to wait until during my annual physical that had been scheduled months ago for a Monday morning. And I didn't even know that would happen until they asked me at the start of the visit...

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I had a checkup yesterday, where I got 3 shots (flu, COVID, pneumonia), gave blood, and had a foot x-ray to make sure I don't have a stress fracture (I don't, just some tendonitis from running). Slept like crap because both shoulders hurt from the shots and I'm a side sleeper, so I couldn't get comf...

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Since I'm the same age cohort as you two, and watched the same Saturday morning cartoons growing up, I visualize it as cartoon sheep jumping over a fence as well. Although I do love your sons idea of laying down in the field and the sheep jumping over him.

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The Long Earth -- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Absolutely addictive. Couldn't stop listening. It's flawed in a bunch of small ways, but it's such a huge ambitious effort that sucked me in and let me ignore all that. And this is book one of a series (a series of five so far, I think), and it's...

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I've read a couple of her non-MurderBot series and they were pretty good. The The Books of the Raksura series has a few things that may be a bit more on the mature side in terms of sex (nothing explicit), so may be more for teen and older. The Ile-Rien-related books ( here and here ) were also good....

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That sucks. Hope everything and everyone is okay.

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Congrats on getting them forgiven!

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Richard Roundtree. RIP, Shaft!

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Already have it pre-ordered! Can't wait!

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I use LastPass as a password manager, similar to Kyle's. So for websites, each site has a unique, complex, machine-generated password. I also have to create logins for accessing my clients' networks, and each one has a different policy for how often passwords need to be changed, complexity, etc. (i....

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Suzanne Somers, a day before turning 77.

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Good luck! Take it easy to start, and slowly build up in intensity and distance, and you should do fine. If/when injuries happen, ease off and give your body time to recover.

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A bit late in being posted as he died in May 2020, but this recent editorial cartoon is what brought it to my attention: Charles Saunders. Black journalist and author of "Imaro", what may have been one of the first Afro-centric sword-and-sorcery fantasy novels.

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Michael Gambon aka Professor Dumbledore.

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There's a big difference between training dogs for search and rescue and training them to be attack dogs, usually including which dogs are used for which type of work. How convenient that Ethan's SARS dogs happen to be dual-purpose dogs.

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Seriously, with all the "perps" Jade and Ethan have killed so far, do you honestly think this virtual army is going to politely capture them rather than at least one person in the group proactively just busting a cap in their asses?

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OMG! This is AI-generated Amish gun porn!

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If he wins reelection, he could always pardon him on the first day of his second term. At that point, he doesn't have to worry about reelection anymore.

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Side note- I don't know much about tracking dogs, but if Jade's been wearing the jacket all day, aren't the dogs just going to lead them to Jade, who will be standing like three feet away? I'm guessing not because I'm pretty sure (but I don't know for sure) that these are Amish tracking dogs and, a...

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From an aggressive form of skin cancer, of all things. Wear sunscreen!

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Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell dies at 56 of acute liver failure.

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My wife swam competitively in high school and college until her shoulders gave out. She's hoping to start going to a local fitness club with a pool to do laps, now that school is starting back up and there won't be as many kids there during the day. It's a great full-body workout. As for me, I'm a r...

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Taking a little break from running. Have a sore Achilles tendon in the left foot, and am replacing the treadmill because of various issues with the other one (they get plenty of use!). In the meantime, the wife wanted to try a rowing machine, so we picked up a fairly inexpensive one. So I've been do...

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Does that apply to everyone including himself? Because I'm thinking he'll change his mind as soon as he gets inundated with hate posts. But he seems to be doing everything possible to drive people away from his platform.

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http://www.dorktower.com/2023/08/11/mensa/

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Someone stole boxes of trading cards days before GenCon and were caught on camera.

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Does not happen around here that I've seen.

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My family tree has been mostly benign. I haven't found any ancestors that owned slaves so far. I have found an ancestor that married a relative of Princess Di, that's perhaps our biggest brush with fame. It's not all sunshine though. There's one relative that married an indigenous woman and had seve...

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Did Mitch McConnell just have a stroke during a live press conference? I definitely don't agree with much of the man's politics, but I hope he's okay.

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Sinéad O'Connor, 56.

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Sorry about that.

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Get together went okay. A couple of the people I was most worried about did not show up, and the others either didn't say anything or limited their comments to when they were away from me or any of my kids. Now I'm on a weekend road trip to Colorado. My daughter needed a copy of her birth certificat...

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I do leave a tip for the hotel cleaning staff. Like Phoebe, it's changed in recent years. It used to be about $5 each day when they would clean the room. Now that they only clean the room once per stay, it's usually $5 per stay at the end of the stay, since they have the same amount of work to do as...

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I enjoy Denny’s breakfast. My favorite was one in Hawaii where you could sit outside on a balcony and hear the ocean while you ate your waffles.

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Happy 4th of July, everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Life has been busy. Hope all my NPR friends are doing well!

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I'm looking for some serious advice from the folks on this board. My child came out as transgender in 2016. After telling our family, one of my sisters, C, who still lives in our hometown in Indiana and is an evangelical Christian, sent my wife information from Focus on the Family, which is strongly...

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And she strikes again with Cinderella Snapped:

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I get the walk-in bathtub ads, as well, and I've never even googled them.

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My wife enjoyed it, too, and she does not like role playing games, so it was a good enough fantasy action-adventure movie to interest her.

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The new Dungeons and Dragons movie with Chris Pine. I enjoyed it for what it was. It’s not going to do for RPG movies what Iron Man did to superhero movies. But it was much, much better than previous D&D movies have been. With a nice nod to the classic D&D cartoon thrown in, as well.

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Sorry to hear that. You and your family are in my thoughts.

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I watched it a few years ago. If I recall correctly, it actually holds up fairly well. But I may be willing to watch it again to confirm if that’s really the case.

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Here’s the info for the one I’ve done, with some FAQ at the bottom: https://www.ancestry.com/c/dna/ancestry-dna-ethnicity-estimate-update They periodically update it, so my ethnicity mix has changed a bit since I first took it. And as my mom and her siblings take the test, it’s interesting to see ho...

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We'll be helping my daughter and her boyfriend move to Boulder, CO, next weekend. We'll be driving through Nebraska and near Denver on the way, so I'll be sure wave to all of you as we pass! Oh my goodness! If you're coming through during the day you should stop and say hello! We could have a lunch...

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I can only trace my surname back to 1750s in America; I know they're German, but cannot locate the original ancestor of that name that crossed the Atlantic. I've even hired professional genealogists to try to track down the parents of the guy born in 1750s Pennsylvania, and they're having a hard tim...

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He does a travel show on PBS that I've watched off and on forever: https://www.ricksteves.com/ We're doing the Best of Scotland in 13 Days tour. Then the following year, we want to do the Best of Germany, Austria & Switzerland in 14 Days tour. Then we'll see what's next. We'd love to see France,...

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The wife and I will be going to Scotland in June 2024! We’re doing a Rick Steve’s tour.

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We'll be helping my daughter and her boyfriend move to Boulder, CO, next weekend. We'll be driving through Nebraska and near Denver on the way, so I'll be sure wave to all of you as we pass! Oh my goodness! If you're coming through during the day you should stop and say hello! We could have a lunch...

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It seems to be spouting nonsense now. Option 1.

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