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I will limit my posting online for a little while, a catch-as-catch-can situation. I will be occupied on and off for a few days. After 92+ years, my mother-in-law peacefully passed away this morning just about 9 AM New Orleans time. Her kids and grandkids that COULD make it DID visit with her...

Serious dissenters exist regarding climate change but their arguments have been offered in another thread. This statement proves that the science ISN'T "settled" which in turn suggests that those who claim it IS settled are attempting to bully someone into submission by using the tactic of...

I'm going to step in here. Let's start by saying that one of my stepkids is gay and lives with her wife, because same-sex marriage is now legal in Louisiana. I was prepared to defend my step-daughter until it turned out I no longer needed to do so. So I had a vested interest in studying this...

I think there is a shade of difference between being intentionally controversial and simply offering an opinion on an undecided issue. For instance, if I suggest that it is possible that loopholes exist in the concept that the speed of light is an absolute limit, that is a matter that currently...

Ann, I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. I've got a Cajun wife, three step-kids, three step-grands (all boys), and an extended family that goes on nearly forever. My longest-running job, from which I retired after 28 1/2 years, was as a systems administrator for the U.S. Navy (contracted)...

Don't know him personally but some of his musical instruments are top-notch. I know that he works closely with Stevie Wonder to get his keyboards up to Stevie's "Funk" standards. And I am of the opinion that if Stevie Wonder likes your contribution to the field of music, it must be a damned...

Bee, well aware of that - but in New Orleans you see every combination of the TV, TG, and gay communities. When I used to play music on Bourbon Street in one of the corner bars (to work my way through college), I used to see TVs, gays, and a few TGs (though back then the surgical option wasn't...

When talking about one's perceptions of gay people: I used to be very close with a woman who was my bridge partner. (We played tournament bridge, of the style known as "Duplicate.") We were very good players and lot of people saw how well we got along. They started to question whether we...

Bee, sometimes you find that the person you loved and trusted has changed. What's the old Chinese saying? We are a new person every five years. I know that my wife's ex stepped out on their marriage several times, and after 24 years of marriage, she gave him an ultimatum: His choices were to...

Bee, one of the more enlightened things about one of my early jobs was that the boss really WAS into helping new supervisors and managers with advice on how to recognize issues in employee performance. He sent us to management classes and I remember at least some of what I learned. You just...

Thanks, Bee. Delta (my mother-in-law) is 92 and has inoperable metastisized cancer, so to be honest, we've been anticipating the decline for some time now. In fact, we are surprised she lasted this long. We've got family members taking turns sitting with her in the hospital because everyone...

There is only one way for me - take the time to prioritize, to recognize what really IS important, and to then pick highest priority first. Before I sound TOO much like a total workaholic, doing things to help me unwind can take VERY high priority sometimes.

There is an old phrase in the USA, "being nickeled and dimed to death" (to be taken as going broke for an accumulation of small charges.) I would suppose it to be possible that your 1% improvement would be a case of "saving nickels and dimes in the hope that it adds up on the bottom line."

Jon, I've been checking but there aren't any new posts and at the moment I don't have any ideas for new threads. We're going through "an issue" at home as my mother-in-law's illness progresses so we are focusing on other stuff right now. According to the dates on posts, the "techie" side of...

My gastro specialist took me off of ALL supplements. The more things you take, the more your liver has to metabolize. He allowed me to return to an eye vitamin based on the AREDS-2 formula. (You can look that up.) He said that as long as I avoided too many things with fish oil, it would be...

My wife and I have decided the nature of our problem. Every shopping cart has hidden magnets in them and as we roll past certain displays, food jumps in. Not stuff we intended to buy. Food just jumps right in there. We make a list by examining the pantry, fridge, and freezer. As we go...

Then buy some cheap electricians tape, which comes in multiple colors. You might be able to find such things at your equivalent of "The Dollar Tree." (Where every item is guaranteed to be $1 (USA) or cheaper.) Put a small loop of colored tape on the upper part of the hanger. Color code them...

Steve, many forums have become "impure" over time. The Excel Forum has an Access section. Jon's Access forum has Word and PowerPoint sections.

Bee, I would also have kept it simple. But my dear wife is ... meticulous, shall we say? It keeps peace in the house if we have the color codes and stick with them.

I should note we only use freezer tape on things that cannot be put back in their original container. Jars - we write on the lid or the label. But if it went into plastic storage containers, the freezer tape comes out.