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  1. Pornhub used to be the king (queen?) of online pornsites but it's now 2nd rate compared to Eporner or Noodlemagazine. I admit to surfing them on occasion, usually after I'm sent there by a search of something like "April Bowlby nude" - to see if the woman who played "Kandi" on 2 1/2 Men was ever nude in a movie (never).
  2. They're ok when friends cook them, but I wouldn't go out of my way to cook them myself.
  3. Daffodils, which flood some of the fields alongside the trails I bike or walk with Jake are so beautiful. Robins, where a few pairs build nests in or near my yard and are used to me and don't dive bomb me when I walk near their nests. But they dive bomb friends and relatives, which amuses me a lot! I do miss the Canada Geese after they fly back north. In one park that I walk with Jake, there are so many they darken the sky when the flock flies over you in Winter. I'm amazed I've never been pooped on.
  4. Saint Paddy's Day began as a happy day for this 25% Irish-DNA suburban farmer. Later, I'm having corned beef and cabbage - which isn't traditional in Ireland - at a family dinner. In 2022 I didn't know what I was doing growing veggie seeds in a limited sun location and peppers and Brussels sprouts were a disaster. In 2023, with my 2-shelf micro greenhouse with grow lights and heat pads everything grew well and the garden flourished I thought I had it all figured out. But I hadn't realized the corner of my back porch get cool in windy, cold March, the correct planting time for me but I was a month late in 2022-23. The 22W heat pads did NOT work like they had in '23 and I should have had cardboard under the heat pads which were sitting on wire shelving and humidity domes over the 10" x 20" 1020 trays. So it took a few days after planting Pepper and Eggplant seeds on March 8th before I figured out what to do. to get the desired 77°-83° soil temperature for peppers: low 70's to 60's can mean 40 days for seed sprouting and the resulting plants are weak and produce poorly. I hoped the few days of lower-than-wanted temps didn't "set" the seeds on a course of not germinating and have been looking each day for sprouts. Today was the day! Two sprouts appeared! There's a Jalapeno Sprout in the upper middle of the left picture and an Black Beauty Eggplant sprout to the right of the upper middle of the right picture, both so new they're bent in upside down "U" shapes and their leaf ends haven't stood up yet. This is a big relief: the initial too-low temps didn't slow germination down by much with the first sprouts 9 days after planting! Last year my peppers sprouted in 8-25 days (data at bottom - I keep track so I know what to expect next year). My tomatoes sprouted in 4-11 days last year, most within a week, compared to 8-25 days for peppers, so I planted tomato seeds a week after the pepper seeds, March 15th, so they'll all be ready for the garden by May 15th. Seeds Planted & Sprouted 2023 # of cells Name of Seed (dates seeds sprouted) 2 seeds planted per cell April 4 3 Johnny’s Seeds Cupid Red Mini Bell Peppers (1 4/11, 2 4/12, 1 4/13, 1 4/14) 3 Urban Farmer Red Petite Bell Peppers (2 4/14, 1 4/17, 3 4/17) 3 Johnny’s Seeds Eros Yellow Mini Bell Peppers (1 4/10, 3 4/11, 2 4/12) ALL 3 Urban Farmer Yellow Petite Bell Peppers (1 4/13, 1 4/20, 1 4/22, 1 4/25) 3 Thresh Seeds Orange Mini Bell Peppers (2 4/11, 1 4/12, 2 4/13, 1 4/15) ALL 3 Urban Farmer Purple Petite Bell Peppers + 3x2 planted 4/17 April 6 6 New Ace Bell Peppers (2 4/15, 5 4/16, 2 4/17, 1 4/18, 3 4/19-22) ALL 6 Lady Bell Peppers (3 4/14, 4 4/15, 3 4/16, 4/17) April 6 6 Sun Gold Cherry -6 crushed? no growth, then 6x1 planted on 4/12: (1 4/14, 1 4/15, 1 4/16, 2 4/17, 1 4/23) 3 Yellow Pear Cherry (5 4/11) 3 Black Cherry (2 4/13) 3 Orange Roussollini Cherry (4 4/11) 3 Nepal Tomato (1 4/10, 3 4/11, 1 4/12) 6 Brandywine Sudduth (5 4/11, 3 4/12, 1 4/13, 1 4/14, 1 4/16) 6 Kellogg’s (Orange) Breakfast Tomato (2 4/14 1 4/15, 1 4/16) 3 Wapsipinicon Peach (2 4/10, 2 4/11, 1 4/12) 3 Supersonic (4 4/13, 1 4/14) 3 Cherokee Purple (2 4/11, 1 4/12, 1 4/13, 2 4/14) ALL April 9 (2 seeds/cell) 3 Polish Linguisa (2 4/13, 4 4/14) ALL
  5. My 4-week Mounjaro 2.5 units/doae prescription came in today. My sister said she does her 5-unit weekly dose on Monday in case in makes her a little sick, so she won't miss any weekend parties, etc. But it's never made her sick. I said I'm doing it on Saturdays starting today since I have nothing big going on through next Saturday and I've only got the 2.5 unit starter dose. I also did Tresiba, insulin for Type-II diabetics that replaced Soliqua which wasn't working well for me. I'm still taking Xigduo ER (Metformin plus some other stuff) and other meds. So we;ll see how the blood glucose sensor responds to all this.
  6. Foxes and Fossils have a lot of great performances. Very Talented!
  7. Couch's linked article says Pickett didn't want to battle Wilson for the starting job. He probably had no chance to start at the beginning of the season, but Wilson may not have much any more and Pickett may have gotten the job back during the season.
  8. There have been times I've done a double-take of someone I see in public thinking I know them, when it suddenly dawns on me the person looks like someone I new many years as that person was many years ago! Sometimes I want to ask them if they're related to that person but figure I'll seem loony.
  9. I spent years having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or cheese or tuna fish for lunch on EVERY Friday and 3 hours of fasting before communion and in 5th to 8th grade I was an altar boy assigned a lot of weekday masses before school, usually Bishop Murphy's 8 am mass - I did it 6 months in a row once - where you HAD to take communion. Then they changed all that. Remember George Carlin's joke about people doing a bum rap in Purgatory for eating meat on Friday? I figure I'll get compensated for being wrongly oppressed when I get to the Pearly Gates like prisoners who are found to have been wrongly convicted do when they're released. Besides, I've heard you just have to answer a question correctly to get into Heaven now.
  10. He was fun to watch. Sorry to see him go but happy he's going out a sure Hall of Famer.
  11. I loved PT after rotator cuff surgery. My usual therapist was Brianna who had massive boobs which she often pressed against me when stretching my arm and shoulder muscles. I appreciated the cushioning.
  12. I'm also very fortunate that I worked for the USA's 35th largest school system - Maryland's public school systems are countywide - so there are several tens of thousands of workers and retirees so we get the low huge company rates. The 75% subsidized, near-Cadillac insurance for retirees is paid for by the teachers union taking a cut in pay in each contract in order to cover the cost. So the retirees get very good health, prescription, dental, and vision insurance for a $185/month copay for single, about double for a family. When you're a teacher you know you're going to get it when you retire so you have no trouble supporting it. When I was my high school's union rep it took about 10 seconds to pass the motion and no one wanted to debate it. When Mike Ditka and other NFL retirees were angry about how poor the healthcare is for many NFL retirees, I wondered, "They make so much money: why don't the current players pay into a fund for the retirees. If a teachers union can afford to do it, the NFL Players Union surely can."
  13. I get 90 day supplies of meds for $10-$20, $40, or $60 depending on the cost-level it's in through my teacher's pension-based Medicare Supplemental. I think I pay $40 for a 2x/day, 90 day supply of Xigduo Extended Release which is 1000 mg Metformin plus something else per tablet and $8 to $30 for 90 days of my other meds, mostly generic stuff. My 90 day supplies can only come from CVS, which is the Prescription Benefits Manager for my Carefirst BCBS Medicare Supplemental. I could get 1 month supplies from anywhere, though I think I can only repeat the same script 3x. So I guess I'm stuck with whatever level of prescription CVS says it is.
  14. One of the questions I was asked today while a nurse checked my weight (282 fully clothed), blood sugar (115), and blood pressure (137/87) today before I met with my diabetes doctor was, "Do you have a living will?" I told her I had ordered a kit and was working on it. Semi-true. My sister did and I want to look at it and see if I can just copy it. The echeck-in you do online before you come into the U. of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center's Diabetes Center is about 12 e-pages long and wants to know everything medical about you, your family and friends and if you've been exposed to Covid lately. Then there are a few pages of legalese about who is responsible for your bills. I guess it's all worth it if they actually bother reading it, remember it, and can apply something from it to your treatment!
  15. Pat and Mike had been drinking buddies and friends for years. After having a few drinks in a bar, Mike said to Pat, “We have been friends for years and years and if I should die before you do, would you do me a favor? Get the best bottle of Irish whiskey you can find and pour it over my grave.” Pat replied, “I would be glad to do that for you my old friend. But would you mind if I passed it through my bladder first?” I heard this from an Irish comedian performing on a Greek Odyssey Cruise: A man walked into a pub, sat down next to another man, and they began conversing. "Where are you from?" asked the 1st man and the 2nd answered, "Dublin, Ireland!" "I'm from Dublin, too! Let's drink to Dublin!" The 2nd man asked, "Where in Dublin did you live?" and the 1st man answered, "6th Street." "I from 6th Street, too! Let's drink to 6th Street in Dublin!" The 1st man asked, "Where on 6th Street did you live?" and the 2nd man answered, "`123 6th Street." "I lived at 123, too, Let's drink to 123 6th Street, Dublin, Ireland! So they took their last drink and both passed out. The bar owner walked in and asked the bartender if the pub had a lot of customers today. "Just the Sullivan twins," he answered.
  16. My endocrinologist replaced my diabetic injectables with Mounjaro (once a week) as I had hoped and Tresiba (once a day). The pharmacy texted me, "We're placing an order for Mounjaro. Will text you when ready." I hope they're not having supply troubles again: some doctors were prescribing it for weight loss to non-diabetics. They have Tresiba in stock.
  17. As far as forecasting the future stock market goes, I love this excerpt, especially the last paragraph, from great investor Peter Lynch's book, One Up On Wall Street, about market forecasters predicting the stock market where he compares them to ancient "gizzard squeezers." Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund, building it into the then-world's-largest-stock-fund for 14 years with average 21% annual gains. Obviously you don’t have to be able to predict the stock market to make money in stocks, or else I wouldn’t have made any money. I’ve sat right here at my Quotron through some of the most terrible drops, and I couldn’t have figured them out beforehand if my life had depended on it. In the middle of the summer of 1987, I didn’t warn anybody, and least of all myself, about the imminent 1,000-point decline. I wasn’t the only one who failed to issue a warning. In fact, if ignorance loves company, then I was very comfortably surrounded by a large and impressive mob of famous seers, prognosticators, and other experts who failed to see it, too. “If you must forecast,” an intelligent forecaster once said, “forecast often.” Nobody called to inform me of an immediate collapse in October, and if all the people who claimed to have predicted it beforehand had sold out their shares, then the market would have dropped the 1,000 points much earlier due to these great crowds of informed sellers. Every year I talk to the executives of a thousand companies, and I can’t avoid hearing from the various gold bugs, interest-rate disciples, Federal Reserve watchers, and fiscal mystics quoted in the newspapers. Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed’s policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can’t predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.
  18. I got this or the previous Vizio version at Costco when I moved back into my house in the summer of 2021. i don't see it listed there now but this is very close to the same. The bar sits in front and below my TV and the subwoofer on the bottom shelf of the entertainment stand. I have a slight hearing problem and the ability to adjust the subwoofer, treble, and bass lets me get great sound that fits me from the sound bar and subwoofer without being unusually loud. If you get something like this, since you're in an apartment, be careful not to do too much subwoofer bass: that can travel through floors and ceilings. My TV is in front of a living room wall where the kitchen is on the other side of that wall. Sometimes when I cooking in the kitchen I'll hear a strange low-pitched beat and look out the window to see who is making noise, but it's usually the music for some TV ad coming out of the subwoofer.
  19. If the Ravens, Bengals, and Browns have good years the Steelers have a tough schedule with one more away game than home: My guess is they'll go 2-4 in their division, and win 6 of their other games at most - unless Russell Wilson is a real surprise at QB after two top coaches have let him go. Mike Tomlin is a great coach, but he doesn't seem to have a lot to work with and the Steelers aren't having a lot of luck in the annual drafts lately. At home the Steelers will play the Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns in the North, in addition to the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Giants and the New York Jets. On the road the team will face Baltimore, Cincinnati and Cleveland, as well as the Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Commanders.
  20. My undergraduate college advisor, Prof. Vitullo, who hired me to do research out of his research grants, would guide me to a point but make me decide what to do next when something went wrong to get me to think deeply about the chemistry involved. When I got that wrong, he'd laugh and sarcastically say, "Yeah, you're a real Rocket Scientist this week!" So I took a magic marker and wrote "Rocket Scientist" on the back of my lab coat. When I took it to IIT, my research advisor there, Prof. Kresge who had been Vitullo's grad. advisor, saw me in my lab coat and asked, "Is Dr. Vitullo doing rocket fuel research now?" Coincidentally, a few years after grad school I did research chemistry for a subsidiary of Dow chemical. The other research chemists were foreigners so I got security clearance and was put in charge of developing the manufacturing process for a component of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile's fuel! I had finally become a real Rocket Scientist!
  21. Good Luck! I've seen photos of the damage from big frozen rain but, fortunately, haven't had to deal with it.
  22. MickinMD

    Pizza night

    I might make my own pizza tonight or splurge and buy a Papa Johns The Works pizza. I have to test the new program of type II diabetes meds I'll be prescribed when I see my endocrinologist today.
  23. Mine was 213 after a 300 Cal Jimmy Dean "Delights" (allegedly healthy) Farmhouse Breakfast Bowl plus one Ding Dong. I also often have the "Dawn Effect" where the glucose is fine when you go to bed and high when you wake up and that contributed a little to the reading. It's now under 200 and dropping with a 12-unit shot of long-duration insulin. Mine has been running high and I see my endocrinologist in a couple hours, who says we may try a new program of meds. My sister and BiL are taking once-a-week Mounjaro along with other meds and are seeing good glucose results and losing weight. I'm going to see if that's good for me today.
  24. I'm no Roethlisberger fan, but there were conflicting reports about what happened, the woman said Ben didn't wear a condom but a rape kit used on her couldn't find any genetic material.
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