Forum: The Library Café
Mar 27 2021, 04:22 AM
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Mar 14 2021, 10:53 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Feb 24 2021, 07:36 AM
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Re: What is happening
When it comes to plates, your XAN71A (or XAN7IA?) vanity plate is one of the coolest I've seen in a while.
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Forum: The Library Café
Feb 14 2021, 11:27 AM
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I hear you! I'm so glad we're having a proper winter this year. No ice, just a decent amount of snow (30 cm or about a foot).
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 30 2021, 04:03 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Dec 25 2020, 01:40 PM
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Dec 22 2020, 01:52 PM
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Forum: The Library Café
Dec 4 2020, 02:11 PM
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 29 2020, 02:33 AM
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Re: What is happening
Thanks, my workday was pretty good. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, too, and found something to be grateful in this crappy year. My life's been pretty good compared to many, but even I am so...
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 22 2020, 02:08 AM
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We don't print much, so for us, injets would be a waste of money because we'd have to get new cartridges for every print run. For the occasional photo we want to print, we'll use an online photo...
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 14 2020, 01:35 AM
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I am so sorry for your second loss in such a short time. How is Kibby dealing with losing both of her grandmothers in such a short time?
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 14 2020, 01:32 AM
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Glad to hear it. I feel very fortunate as well, nobody I know personally has even tested positive, let alone had a serious form of the disease.
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Forum: The Library Café
Nov 6 2020, 09:40 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Oct 30 2020, 04:21 PM
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Forum: The Library Café
Oct 15 2020, 06:08 AM
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I'm so sorry. I wish you strength in coping with this. I haven't been there, so I can't really imagine what it's really like to be in your situation, just watching someone suffer and not really be...
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Forum: The Library Café
Aug 11 2020, 04:54 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 31 2020, 04:07 PM
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That's a lot easier said than done. So many parents are simply not capable of homeschooling their kids, which is what this effectively amounts to. Especially not if they have to be at work during the...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 31 2020, 03:54 AM
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No, that's true, and perhaps they're right. That said, the numbers are only confirmed cases, who knows how many have had it and recovered without a formal diagnosis, or else died from it but without...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 31 2020, 02:13 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 30 2020, 07:18 AM
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Yeah, well, the influenza shot question is tough, because there are so many strains, and the viruses mutate very quickly. But even so, most people who have been vaccinated and get it are...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 30 2020, 12:14 AM
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Thanks Allen, I see where you're coming from now, and I really appreciate the clarification. The world has changed a lot in the last fifty years, in many ways for the better (I think) and in some...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 29 2020, 06:36 AM
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Good luck and have a safe and fun trip!
I'm glad your mom is getting hospice care. I hope that makes things a bit easier for you for now.
Congrats to Kibby on her first quarter century. I...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 28 2020, 11:29 PM
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Good luck with nursing Bob back to health!
How much is he supposed to weigh when he's healthy?
Oh, and in the spirit of not engaging in political discussions here, please don't say...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 28 2020, 11:23 PM
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 27 2020, 05:12 AM
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This forum gets so little traffic that it's only a matter of time before it's closed down. I don't think the site's actively moderated anymore, unless someone flags a post. I haven't seen Cheryl or...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 17 2020, 08:57 AM
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Oh, I don't know. My year hasn't been too bad so far. But I'm very lucky, in the sense that the virus hasn't really impacted my life all that much. My sister got a cold and tested negative, other...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jul 3 2020, 11:09 PM
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Oh my, 2020 has been really rough on you. I'm so sorry. Give Oden a scritch on the chin for me, if she likes them.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 12 2020, 10:45 AM
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Good to hear that your mom is home again and that she and her cats are happy. :good:
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Forum: The Library Café
Jun 2 2020, 02:39 AM
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Glad to hear it. Will you need surgery to get the impacted wisdom tooth out?
Zelandeth, it's coming along great. The layout looks functional. Is the thing in the corner your draining board?
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Forum: The Library Café
May 31 2020, 11:11 PM
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Forum: The Library Café
May 3 2020, 03:33 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 26 2020, 12:55 AM
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 5 2020, 03:20 AM
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Re: What is happening
:lol: He's using his own computer rather than the Chromebook issued by the school, so he has access to more stuff on it than just schoolwork. But he's been pretty good doing it so far, with minimum...
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Forum: The Library Café
Apr 4 2020, 08:15 AM
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Same thing applies here, too. Restaurants are shut. Takeouts are allowed, luckily. Anyone with an office job is asked to work from home and for government employees like me, it's mandatory. Schools...
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 29 2020, 05:39 AM
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Glad to hear she's doing better.
We've been trying to support our local businesses by ordering takeout food about twice a week. The burger chains will survive, I'm less confident about the local...
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 28 2020, 04:32 AM
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My husband's doing all our shopping. He goes once a week. The only problem is to get the bread to last long enough, I suppose we'll need to buy more and put some in the freezer.
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 28 2020, 04:28 AM
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I hope she'll feel better soon. I also saw your later post. If Kibby's been diagnosed with asthma, she's in a high-risk group regardless of age.
I'm astounded at this degree of helicopter...
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Forum: Dragonriders of Pern
Mar 23 2020, 02:43 AM
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Re: New Pern Books !
Re-reading Moreta seems like a good idea. Maybe Nerilka as well... But Moreta's the first Pern book I ever read and still my favorite.
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Forum: The Library Café
Mar 21 2020, 10:17 AM
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As of Wednesday, they announced a state of emergency. This is the first time it has happened since WW2. This means that emergency funding is available for businesses that are forced to close due to...
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Forum: The Library Café
Feb 22 2020, 01:31 AM
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Oh wow. Annoying, but looks like it could've been a lot worse.
Still no snow. Officially, it's not even thermic winter, because average temps don't drop below 0 C. In some places, cherry trees...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 19 2020, 02:52 AM
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Cool pix once again! Have you given any thought to restoring the woodwork? On one episode of Wheeler Dealers they restored it in a 1965 Mark 2, but no doubt youtube has lots of how-to videos.
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 16 2020, 12:40 AM
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Swapping a Lada for a Jag? Way to go! That's quite a story. And I bet it'll be an absolutely awesome car once you get it fixed up.
That pocket knife with the retractable blade? Looks pretty...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 7 2020, 12:17 AM
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Box cutters? I never used anything bigger than a Stanley knife with a half-inch blade to cut the box tape. I guess if you really tried, you could cut somebody's carotid artery with it... But no...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 6 2020, 11:31 AM
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Your long reach surely helps. :) Cashiers with shorter arms may be forced to deal with the items more or less in the order they show up on the belt, if they even think about it.
Yikes, I just...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 6 2020, 12:37 AM
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Interesting stuff on the Lada! Reminds me of when we lived in the UK in the mid-80s and my dad drove a left-hand drive 1984 Volvo 240 estate. Although he had covered the part of the headlight lens...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 5 2020, 01:12 AM
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Congrats! Way to show them. I hope they quit being on your case for being "slow", when you obviously aren't. And taking the time off rather than the money sounds like a good idea, if you can afford...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 5 2020, 01:06 AM
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Yikes, the struts sound a bit iffy! I think I've seen them replaced at least on one car on Wheeler Dealers. But if he ever needed to replace those, he'd either get the proper tools or take the car to...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 4 2020, 01:23 AM
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Oh, my goodness. I hope you get your heating fixed soon.
How are your fixing projects coming along, Zelandeth? Reading your posts is almost as good as watching Wheeler Dealers. :) That's one of...
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Forum: The Library Café
Jan 2 2020, 12:57 AM
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Ouch, Mawra, that's awful. I hope things improve for you shortly. Happy to be on vacation until next Tuesday (Monday's Twelfth Night so we get it off, too).
Happy New Year!
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Forum: The Library Café
Dec 30 2019, 01:02 AM
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Hello again everyone! Glad people are still here. Hope you're having a great holiday season. I'm on vacation this week and had three days off (24-26) last week, lovely.
Sorry I've been absent...
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