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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

540a. I think it is a trip to start with the very oldest page of My Posts and to read through the titles, until one strikes your fancy to open it. Quite a few wonderful memories in there.

I did this yesterday! It is a trip. And I see how my life and interests have changed.

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541a. I think Once Upon a Time (Did I get the title right?) will become one of my favorite TV shows. Great first episode, last night. Only problem, my shitty TV muffles the sound. I have to strain to understand the dialog, often not understanding what is said.
542a. I think I am finished helping out my brother in law. Yesterday, I put a grab bar in his bedroom on one side of the room. On the other side, I put a heavy duty eye hook in a stud and attached a rope, with a handle, that stretched to his side of the bed. Then slid a rope over the end of the bed, with a handle that he could grab to pull himself about. These last two are his own inventions. He should know by today if they are satisfactory.
543a. I think the NO Saints football team was a bit cruel last night - scoring 62 points, while allowing the Indianapolis team just 7. Would it be asking too much to allow the Colts another three points, via a field goal?
544a. I think every time I think the cool weather is here for the season, another disappointment lurks. Going to be close to 90 next three days.
545a. I think it's back to the siding today. Not such a tough job, except for the constant moves, up and down the ladders.

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@edgarblythe,

Be careful, edgar. I quit using ladders many years ago when I had an accident while trimming my apricot tree by hitting my head on the cement. it was emergency room for me.

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546a. I think I am still safe, relatively, on a ladder. If I begin to detect a problem I will reluctantly give it up. I got gravel in my eye yesterday. The accident was some kind of fluke. I walked on the grass, around a building, when suddenly I felt it enter my eye. There was no wind and I was all alone. After going to the emergency room, I am off for a day or two. Just as well. My vision is blurred.
547a. I think I will rest in a few minutes.

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548a. I think Murphy's Law is at work for me just now. When I went to the emergency room for the gravel in my eye, I forgot that, the night before, I took a couple of my wife's generic vicadin tablets. I was sore and feeling a bit of pain. I took them to help me sleep better. The drug test I took was about 14 hours later, so the drug is pretty certain to show. I don't know how this will affect my status.
549a. I think the speckled woodpecker I have been seeing, lately, must have found something it likes in the food I set out. I thought they ate only insects.
550a. I think I better go have some breakfast.

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551a. I think I should be working now, but the way the doctor worded my back to work status, the manager is uncertain and waiting to hear from the main office.
552a. I think the rain ought to be here today. We got a 50% chance.
553a. I think the true beneficiary of my off time is Punky the dog. We play with her chicken and take excursions in the back yard much more frequently.
554a. I think so much off time makes me lazy.
555a. I think but I can't prove it putting colloidal silver in my eyes yesterday sped up the healing over the gunk given me by the doctor.

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@edgarblythe,

You deserve the rest, edgar. Enjoy it.

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@cicerone imposter,

I did need time off, truthfully, CI.

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556a. I think WORK TODAY. Yup. It feels good to be needed, even if it's to bust your butt a few hours. I had found myself becoming less productive in every way around the house all week.
557a. I think fall is finally in evidence. Nice sweater weather. Also, it rained a bunch yesterday and during the night. Perfect.
558a. I think I spied a squirrel, hiding a peanut, until it saw my face in the window. Those animals and birds eagerly await my giving, but will not allow me to watch as they partake. Actually, that is good. All too often an animal trusts humans, only to be betrayed or abandoned, at last.
559a. I think of poopity heads.
I wish diane well, this AM.
560a. I think I prefer my western movies mostly in black and white. The colors are either too shiny new or grainy dark in the color ones. In black and white, the scene magically looks authentic.

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@edgarblythe,

561a. I think most people are at various stages of mental degeneration after they reach 13.

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@spendius,

Most - not all.

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@edgarblythe,

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557a. I think fall is finally in evidence. Nice sweater weather. Also, it rained a bunch yesterday and during the night. Perfect.

Very good to hear that, edgar.
Wishing you lots more rain!

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@msolga,

It rained in the late afternoon and then lightly all night long. I am content.

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@edgarblythe,

no flak over the test, ed...?

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@Rockhead,

Not a word. I figure now, that if I had taken it the same morning, instead of at least 14 hours before, it would have been a different tale. I guess they could tell it.

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561. I think those expensive beautiful coffee pots are a rip-off. None lasts all that long. We bought the plain Proctor/Silex model this morning, for about 20 bucks - twelve cup. Just has an on-off button. I bet it lasts a lot longer than the last three or four we went through.
562a. I think there has to be new music, to interpret the world as it moves along. I have resisted the current rhythms solely because I have been living in the past. Some time in the Seventies, I saw what amounted to, in my eyes, a paradigm shift. The Peace Movement was no longer possible. The Civil Rights movement had reached the point to where society generally no longer feels an impulse to change and accommodate. Fundamentalist thought found acceptability, enough to put Roosevelt's legacy on the chopping block. So many things, that made me feel engaged, swung away. And, I note an abundance of talent and wonderful sounds to make up the latest century's soundtrack, but I can't accept them. I have to have folk rock, rock n roll, Belafonte and Sinatra, as well as Hoagy Carmichael and Glenn Miller. I don't begrudge the new music. It has to be, because nothing is static. But I can't come with it.

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@edgarblythe,

Re coffee-makers: I've done research (personal and other consumers) that says that if you filter your water, you'll get better coffee taste and coffee-makers last far longer. Buildup due to calcification and other minerals ruin the coffee taste quickly and the machine deteriorates much faster, too.

Research I've seen seems to indicate that older coffee-makers (from 8-10 yrs ago) lasted longer. With the invasion and increase of Chinese manufactures in our stores (and subsequent decrease of QC), they're failing in average of 2-3 yrs..intead of 4-5 yrs or longer.

A month ago I bought a Cuisinart 12 cup - not because I'm a fan of fancy more expensive machines, but because I'm hoping for a better coffeemaker. It has an insulated metal carafe...so no chance of breaking. the coffee keeps it's heat on it's own and there's no active heated base-plate so the coffee wont get overheated and scorched taste. All the other machines in past wouldn't keep coffee heated properly anyhow - the biggest complaint by most consumers.

I had replaced a Black & Decker coffeemaker that failed after 2.5 yrs. I've had Braun and liked the Braun - except that the glasss carafe broke and it wasn't worth it to replace just the glass.

The older Proctor Silex coffeemakers I see by other reports is reasonable by many consumers in the under-$30 category.

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Of course - clean water and a clean pot. Most of the new pots are beautiful. But I don't like them. I have practically given up on anything I buy having craftsmanship these days. The coming of dollar stores didn't help any. They probably figure, "If that's all ya gotta compete with, whey even try?"

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@Ragman,

My solution to coffee-making is my morning trip to McDonalds (one block from where we live) for my .53c senior coffee which tastes very good to my palate. Refills are free.

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CR picks McDonald's as top coffee
by Nicole Weston, Posted Feb 8th 2007 @ 10:23AM
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bConsumer Reports recently taste-tested four widely available brands of coffee - McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts - to see where you could find the best coffee in the country. They were treading old water with their report, as both AOL and USA Today have done identical taste offs in the past. Unlike the previous tests, however, CR picked McDonald's as offering the best coffee of the bunch, describing it as "decent and moderately strong. Although it lacked the subtle top notes needed to make it rise and shine." USA Today, in their test, picked Starbucks.
Needless to say, you can do a lot better than McDonald's - no matter what CR says. One option is to brew coffee at home. With a little practice, you can beat out any store bought coffee, and it's less expensive in the long run. Another option is to try different local coffee houses, where you will be able to find a real cup of coffee, not just fast food coffee that is better than the rest.
New Yorkers can get started with the recommendations in the NY Post, where they didn't look too kindly upon CR's taste in coffee. Their top picks include Amy's Bread, 71 Irving Place and the MUD Truck.

Read more: http://www.slashfood.com/2007/02/08/cr-picks-mcdonalds-as-top-coffee/#ixzz1cCloztHK

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When the coffee pot malfunctioned this morning, I told the wife, "I ought to get some at McDonald's." There is a Jack in the Box a bit closer, but I knew Mickey D's coffee and not at all theirs. She vetoed me and we went early for grocery shopping and picked up a nice little 12 cup pot at HEB. It makes very good coffee.

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