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This one goes in the microwave to keep my shoulder happy... Thank you "SWC Friends"

If you have looked everywhere in your house for your coffee cup but it appears to have inexplicably and completely vanished from the face of the earth; and you are beginning to lose your mind, wondering if some dastardly coffee cup thief has broken into your house and run off with your cup, here is a bit of friendly advice:

Moved the old TV and AV receiver into the basement. My old JVC amp was just not working that well anymore. A Carver receiver I got in a horse trade would drop out intermittently on one channel. I had read that was common for the amplifier portion as they age. Got the surround sound, TV, DVD and Roku all working fine. Downside is the Onkyo receiver doesn’t have a phono pre-amp, nor a tape loop for my CD recorder. My budget doesn’t have a pre-amp in it at the moment. But this is also the time of year to just sit in the basement listening to LPs. What to do. I suddenly remembered the Carver had an RCA jumper from pre-amp to amp. I connected the pre-amp out to the Aux input on the Onkyo. Hooked up the turntable to the Carver and it all worked! It also sounds better than any setup I have had in the basement in a long time! Now to set up the CD recorder so I can transfer some of the LPs to my digital collection....

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863

Things are looking really good, she just needs to quarantine for treatments.... I don't think I told you all the story of my step-dad going grocery shopping for the first time in about 30 years. The short version is that my mom gave him a list and he came back with about $500 worth of groceries for two people. He bought a lot of meat because it was on sale. He had to go back this weekend to pick up a few things. One thing my mom put on the list was a chocolate bar. My mom has treated herself with a Hershey bar after grocery shopping as far back as I can remember. All she wanted was a plain old Hershey bar. Instead of a Hershey bar, my step-dad got her a family pack of Oreos, a bag of Lindt chocolates, and six different fancy dark chocolate bars from the gourmet section of the store. He's trying his best.

I think that you should set up a webcam for us. Kinda like @sheep_herder's Miles city cam. We could keep an eye on them. You could even give us the contractors cell number and we can text him when he is doing something wrong.

I think they're great too! Last Friday at 5:30 Fedex dropped a set of headphones off at my house. No idea where they came from, as I didn't order any.

On one of my racing forums a driver said that because his wife thinks he loves his race car more than her he decided to name it like this.

I'm not really planning on moving... I'm too lazy for that. But a house around the corner from me has two cabins on the property. I would spend most of the day in one of these.... This house also turned a three car garage into a movie theater....

Awww, that's sweet that he wanted to get her some nice treats, but sometimes you just want a plain chocolate bar. Next time he may want to consider shopping at the gas station. it does make things easier.

They really work! They should be good for lawn mowing, but I think I prefer normal headphones for household use.

@BR46 are you here:

I've always felt that the word that means "words and phrases that are the same forwards or backwards" should be, in fact, one of those words; such as "palinilap" or "dromemord".

I was scheduled for 2 appointments on Friday..the cancelled 1 ..not sure why...they cancelled the annual physical..when 3 weeks ago they insisted I make a second appointment for the pre-op... Apparently we had a domestic issue in the building...7 squads, dogs and a helicopter around midnight. Barbara died..the lady diagnosed just last week... Just frustrated...tired of being the glue that holds this place together...

That is where some sneaky bastage keeps hiding mine too!

Yes, I do miss it and the days when sports were something to look forward to instead of 24/7 coverage on 217 channels.

Mmmm smells like lavender

I don’t have Bose but I have headphones that are noise canceling. I bought them online when I needed to hear my phone ring while mowing or snow blowing or running the chainsaw. They not only block out the noise but when the phone rings the music stops and I push a button on the right headphone and answer the phone. They worked great for that all summer if my wife needed me she could just call me. Her condition has got worse and she is unable to use the phone now.😥 I need to make a run into town but I’m afraid to leave her for a short run. I expect from the way she has been acting one of these times she will fall asleep and just not wake up.

We just got back home. My Dad is still clinging to life. My brother is able to stay until the ‘time’ comes. Then I’ll spell him so he can get back home before the funeral. If my Dad still makes it to Friday, I’ll head up again for the weekend. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. We read him his favorite Irish story today, the picture is from last St Patrick’s day.

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I last rode my bike on the 24th. If felt good to ride, and even though it rained cats and dogs before and after both rides that day (10 mile each way), I didn't get rained on. The bike got disgusting though, but living in a NYC apartment, I really didn't know how to wash it without a hose or access to the outside world and buckets of water to rinse and wash with. I was frustrated, but found a way to improvise.

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Well, all the parts and pieces finally showed up and it's all together. Since I won't be able to sit down with the client and show him all the ins and outs of the things he should know, I will do a video instead. Should have that done in the next couple of days.

I have bad eyes. Was it a car or a cat I saw

I read on the internet it was the result of an illegal game move.

Mike and I have done many MS rides together in the past. I recruited him years ago and his motivation was that his Dad had MS. In the meantime Mike has been diagnosed with MS, he is doing remarkably well managing the disease and we hope that continues. BikeMS Chesapeake Challenge will be a one day event this year so we formed a team, JABR (Just Another Beer Run) with Daniel and Rodel making up the rest of the team. Training starts soon.

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So if I had three coffee cups, I wonder how long it would be before all three were in the microwave?

Ah, Florida. The hotbed of US Nationalism, but also a welcoming tourist economy! I agree with the decision to vaccinate everyone. The virus doesn’t check passports, so if you want to eradicate it from your community, you get everyone vaccinated. But that also includes the undocumented workers in the laundromats, groceries, restaurants and fields, not just the snowbirds.

Oh yeah! A sheep fleeces man story is even better than man bites dog!

The cabin is nice, but life withoot a garage is no fun! (Yay! Otto Correct now recognizes “withoot”! I am surprised that a robot cut me that slack, Jack!)

This. I'm sorry for you & your family. If I may offer some advice. I'm glad you are going to be with your mom. She will need this. Her brain will be scrambled for a good long time. Sometimes all she needs is for someone to just "be" with her.

I've been avoiding this thread all day, trying to think of what to say. I came up empty, but know that you have been in my thoughts all day.

That is so cool that you were able to spend the weekend and read to him. The day before my dad passed my wife and I and our youngest son and his girlfriend (now his wife and the mother of their six kids) visited him at my brother’s home. Our son brought his guitar and he and his girlfriend sang my dad’s favorite hymns to him. He passed the next morning. I wish he could have lived to see his great-grandkids. He always loved red hair and three of my son’s kids have beautiful red hair.

Apparently rainbow sloths don't leave their native Michigan.

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My sister picked up a state lottery scratch-off when she bought big-lottery tickets for last Friday. She won $10,000 with the scratch-off! She didn't the big ones but she was still happy!

Maybe one of the sheep’s took them from your porch. I think you have been fleeced by your own sheep.

This cabin looks awesome! I want to live there!

You trying to force me to opening that box with the crepe maker in it?

I get goosebumps...

I am working from home most of this week due to the concussion. I will try this.

IMO RG's right. Bunghole rhymes with heart so very well why didn't we think of it.

1/19 1.7 miles walking the dogs with WoBG.

I’m sorry for your loss. I’m glad he went peacefully. I still remember when he was there for you at the end of your coast to coast trip.

Somewhere out there, Leonard Cohen is smiling and nodding. So many beautiful versions of this, it's hard to pick a favorite. Just a beautiful song.