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If I'd been able to go, I probably would have spent 90% of the time in the smoking tent just talking with other pipe smokers. That's what I really miss about the "old days"; going into a brick and mortar, buying a courteous ounce or two of tobacco and smoking with friends.

One of my friends, divorced for many years, says he eats almost all of his meals in restaurants and during the worst of the pandemic had them delivered. Honestly, since the pandemic began, the only food I've eaten "out", as in a restaurant, has been at the Costco food court.

I still have one Castello Searock. I never smoke it but keep it for its memory. I was smoking it while scrubbing the toilet in the laundry/mud room bathroom. I sneezed and the pipe fell into the porcelain throne. There was just toilet bowl cleaner in the water and I thoroughly cleaned the pipe...

I'd be working off those calories for the next few weeks, if not months. I only get pecan pie in my dreams.

Most retailers favor DST because many people don't like leaving a store with packages when it's dark outside.

75 is in my rear view. Of course I have more tobacco than I'll ever smoke and 80+ pipes, of which I smoke the most recent five that I've bought; all maple and $20.00 each. This would have been 45 years for my marriage, but cancer took my wife almost 14 years ago. I may buy more tobacco, if I'm...

I also have gout and for the last couple of days it's been out of control. Usually it strikes the great toe on my right foot. The joint, from years of distress, looks like a bunion. This episode has landed in two joints of my left hand thumb.It is very painful. I usually can trace an episode...

I did half. I removed 10 compressed rolls from the noodle presses today, wrapped, labeled, and bagged them. Tomorrow, I will fill the noodle presses for the last time. I already have weighed out 4.8 oz of tobacco for each press. And that will be the end of my noodle pressing.

My daughter's kids this summer will be ages, 7, 6, and 3. Getting them to bed at night with DST is difficult when the sun is still shining.

It's up again in MN. I went to the bank to make a deposit and the lobby was closed, with a sign on the door reading, "Due to the recent surge in reported Covid cases, only the drive up lanes are open until further notice." My MD nephew says his St. Paul hospital is seeing a rapid influx of...

That would be my choice.

While most kids seem to be taking a bus to school, but they still have to walk to their bus stop and stand outside in the dark during daylight savings.

I "power washed" both Chromebooks, removing all trace of me and gave them both to a young very computer literate friend who has two teenage sons. He says he'll put another operating system on each.

The discussion has reached beyond my pay grade.

And yes, I do know that there are numerous Linux operating systems that can be loaded on the Chromebooks. I do not have the skill to do that, nor do I want to learn another operating system. I am quite content using Chrome on a Chromebook. I guess, that in June, when these Chromebooks no longer...

Today, I took a good look that the Chromebooks that I usually use. I had not paid much attention to their end of life, which basically means that point where they no longer get security or operating system updates. Much to my surprise, both of them are end of life in June of this year. I am not...

I was about to register and book flights, when I realized I have a huge family gathering that weekend. Maybe next year. Oh well.

You are both correct. I would have never guessed correctly. In the article where this photo appeared, she says that's how her body really is today; that she's done "sucking in her gut." She's only 63 years old. Unless she has some physical disabilities, she might be healthier if she spent a...

I think the nature of vehicles will "morph". As I wrote in another thread, one of my friends has a hybrid SUV which he uses for trips; up to his lake home, etc. and he also has a Chevrolet all electric Volt with which he drives to his office and around town for short trips. I no longer drive any...

That's what it appears to be. It has nothing whatever to do with the current domestic political situation. If any administration enacted price controls, then we could talk about political influence. Our free marketplace without price controls allows prices to go up or down. I think it's call...