Traditionally, hard copy text books cry out for hi-liters and underlining of what seem to be key points, not as easy to do electronically. And little skinny sticky notes to mark certain pages. One time I was on an airplane flying out of Columbus, OH and a lot of the other passengers were associated with Ohio State, and they were all marking up their books like crazy, even what looked like novels they might have been reading for pleasure.
I just read a review of Cash for Patriots - if it's the same one as what you're seeing, it's not money from Trump. The premise is that Trump's tax code reform will make it more attractive for corporations to pay larger/more dividends, so if you invest in the right companies, you will make a profit. They are selling an investment newsletter.
I have a solar chargeable/usb chargeable lamp/flashlight that pops up to make a 360 degree lantern or mashes down flat to about the size of a hockey puck and still works as a flashlight. You can charge a cell phone from it and press the button a couple times, and it flashes S-O-S in morse code. It was sold by Survival Frog. It's bright enough to read by.
Yeah, well happy un-birthday.
Don't worry about the jewelry - you can give it as gifts. The important thing was you got friends together for a few hours, and sometimes it takes something like that as an excuse to put it together.
I think you have to call it in every time. Some power companies have online maps where you can see where the reported outages are - assuming you could get online with your cell phone etc.
I have most of Agatha Christie's novels in vintage paperback, other authors as well. I wish I could find someone who wanted them. Let me know if there's some particular one you're looking for, and I'll be glad to send it to you.
I think cowboys are cuter than a bug's ear, but I have enough real cowboy cousins to know I would not have done well married to one.
It's hard work to live within our means - requires conscious decisions to do with less or even without something that seems important at the time, or it gets away from us. It's not glamorous or fun, that's for sure. And the more family members involved, if they're not all committed to it, the more difficult it is.
I worked as a bookkeeper at a computerized restaurant every weekend for a year - had another full-time job at the time - because I figured that would be a good way to learn about computers. It helped with certain aspects of learning that subject area.
Hooray for Jeremy! There are some household tasks that seem just insurmountable, and to a young person it's whoosh-whoosh! and done.
I don't know why bands have to be so loud - I think music should be background music to conversations not blister the paint on the walls.
I run a couple community Facebook groups and we just weathered a bad 5 years after a giant flood and then our highway being closed most of the time for the past two winters. I kept everyone informed about what was going on and tried to keep it interesting. Once in awhile someone'd say something like 'Thanks for all you do, Laura' and then a bunch would chime in, and I felt like I was at my own funeral, assuming people were going to say nice things at it.
I know what you mean about the English breakfast. The 'bacon' was what we'd call ham, so it's meatier and yes, limper, than our what they'd call 'streaky bacon.' And I don't think theirs is smoked or has hickory smoked flavor - seems lie it was brined, so different flavor.
And the breakfast sausage up in Yorkshire where I've visited doesn't have sage in it and our usual spices, and I got homesick for Jimmy Dean's version.
That sounds like an interesting story about the Canadian guy.
I love it when things 'fix themselves.'
I'm currently trying to trick my older PC laptop into being able to update the OS on an ipod. The OS version now won't update wirelessly, has to be connected to a computer.
I'm avoiding installing the latest Mac OS onto my MacBook Air because Filemaker won't run on the latest OS - found that out the hard way. Apple owns FM now, so it feel like a scheme to get me to upgrade to the latest FM when things are perfectly fine with the current version.
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