Cool and damp, but hoping for clear and drying later. I’ve got stuff to do outdoors. So we’ll see what happens.
Didn’t get done yesterday what needed to get done, so all that remained got shifted to today.
We’ll see about today.
Super short post today, I’ll make it up to y’all.
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Stack!
Went Hippie. He’s running the Ronald McDonald House communal labor camp. Just another franchised marketing operation involving real estate.
“Mop that floor then you can see the kid.”
Been there. Done that.
Seriously, the donation bucket is the only place you will even see Ronald’s name these days in the restaurants.
60F and wet. Probably not going to be a day when I can dry out the stuff and take it down.
Fell asleep in my desk chair last night, woke at 2am, hit “Post” and hit the hay. Hands and brain barely working well enough to type…
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“Experts“ are saying that Major League Baseball has a diversity problem as there are not enough black players. Baseball is racist. Have these clowns ever looked at the NBA or NFL?
You get the best regardless of skin color.
I’ve noticed that Adobe Acrobat has been updating frequently these days, which makes me wonder what’s up.
I remove the icon from my personal laptops, but I don’t have admin on the work laptop. Still I try to move it out of the way of my frequently used applications, and it moves back with every update.
Two updates in the last week.
My win10 family desktop was in recovery mode yesterday morning. Patch and reboot Tues? Windows started fine when I chose “shut up and start windows you whiny pile of junk” or something like that.
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The local Major League Soccer “Football Club” has several stars which require a translator when they speak to the press, and the … coach … Is that the right term in soccer? … seems to be the only one who speaks unaccented English.
Most of the players appear to be some variant of caucasian. That situation seems acceptable to those fans. The city subsidizes the team with a sweetheart deal for the land under their stadium.
https://www.austinfc.com/roster/
As for other sports, the Yucs have used the NFL “diversity” rules as an excuse to cheap out on head coach hiring decisions two times in the last 15 years and they are heading towards confirming a third with a firing next year if things don’t turn around. The crazy thing is that the sports press insists on the discards continuing to be considered by teams for head coaching vacancies, the latest victims being Houston fans, saddled with Yucs 4-28 failure Lovie Smith for at least another season.
Keep trying, and eventually you will succeed..
or not.
You may die trying, you may collapse,
but you have to try to make any progress.
Said no politician ever.
I am in a miserable mood today. Generally pissed off at the world and weirdo Wednesday drivers. Subbing again today, shop teacher. Some of the students have not progressed very high on the food chain. Plus I voted yesterday and the miserable choice of candidates was depressing.
Got the clot booster yesterday. No ill effects other than the arm being a little sore. In December I get my second shingles injection. At that point I should have everything “recommended” by the VA. Flu, shingles, covid, and pneumonia
I have also come to the conclusion that if I was to get diagnosed with cancer tomorrow I would with few exceptions (prostate, skin) tell the doctors to screw it. Give me drugs to keep me comfortable and just let the disease run its course. Chemo and radiation are not worth an extra 5 to 7 years of life. I have seen what it does to people and it is not pretty.
I would just cash out my necessary investments, fly 1st class to Europe for three weeks, a week in Alaska, take a few long-distance train trips, write some real nasty nastygrams to some politicians, and streak at a UT football game. Simple goals.
Or the NHL. Yep there’s been rumbling there too.
The news reporting of that incident would be one of the few times where “women and children most affected” would be justified.
Especially the women who would be in awe.
@Ray “Tripod” Thompson
“Especially the women who would be in awe.”
braggart
Biden’s Homeland Security colludes with Facebook to target ‘disinformation’ and CONTROL online discourse on topics including COVID and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, bombshell new report claims
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emphasis added…
b
Only if I can learn to run on my knees. “De Plane, De Plane” with apologies to Fantasy Island, the original.
The problem with that course of action is who determines what is disinformation? I am all for getting to the truth, elimination of incorrect information. Problem is our government lies to people, suppresses what they don’t want us to know. Corporations are also not immune from this practice.
“Disinformation” in the past has proven to be true, or partially true, when all the dust settled.
The process also seems to be one sided where democratic views and statements are left alone. Other political party’s statements are suppressed or challenged.
If Homeland Security really wants to suppress disinformation, they should start by silencing most politicians. Especially when it gets close to election and the lies start flying. Sponge Brain seems to lie a lot about what he has done and his son. Yet none of that information is suppressed.
Uh oh. Wasn’t it the conduit for 50% of the malware in the world at one point?
If the monetary price is free, the product is you.
Facebook will eventually mystify historians on the level of tulip mania.
I love the new TV ads for WhatsApp. Yes, you have no expectation of privacy with SMS, but with WhatsApp, you have no expectation of privacy from Zuckerberg.
I thought Acrobat WAS malware.
Macromedia/Adobe Flash.
PDF is not a proprietary file format at risk for that kind of mischief unless targeting a specific reader AFAIK.
Ah, unimpeachable sources. Pinch’s brood serving up quotes from “a carpenter”, re-reported by Axel Springer (BI parent).
I’m sold.
Trolls gotta troll and I’ve got a hammer.
Amazing, we have had over 100,000 people vote in Fort Bend County out of the 550,000+ registered voters already. I voted at the Baptist Church on the way to my office yesterday. My election judge friend was there as usual, he said that it has been busy but not super busy. The paper said that 3,000 voted there so far.
Other than taking back control from the dumbrocrat crazies, the big voting issue is that our school district has five bond issues for $1.7 billion. A new football stadium, another high school (# 8), two more middle schools, and three more elementaries (36, 37, and 38). I think that we can get back by with a few more portable buildings. If all bonds pass then my school taxes on my house will go up by $94/year and the school taxes on my office property by $200/year.
I have seen some of those football stadiums. Especially in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, basically north Texas. Better facilities than a lot of independent colleges and universities in this area. Even schools like Tennessee Tech cannot match the facilities of some of those high schools. Simply amazing that Texas has that much money to spend on such facilities. May be a matter of pride and rivalry between some of the larger districts.
And speaking of Football. People in TN are all twitter about University of TN being number 1 in the College Football Playoffs. Georgia is number #2. The two will meet this Saturday and that meeting will have a significant role in the outcome. I expect there will be more viewers for that game than there was for Tennessee/Alabama game.
“Experts“ are saying that Major League Baseball has a diversity problem as there are not enough black players. Baseball is racist. Have these clowns ever looked at the NBA or NFL?
You get the best regardless of skin color.
Whoever said that has not looked at the teams. They are at least 50% Latino across the MLB.
Oh wait, Latino’s are white, I forgot.
“Twitter staff have been told to work 84-hour weeks and managers slept at the office over the weekend as they scramble to meet Elon Musk’s tight deadlines, reports say”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/twitter-staff-have-been-told-to-work-84-hour-weeks-and-managers-slept-at-the-office-over-the-weekend-as-they-scramble-to-meet-elon-musk-s-tight-deadlines-reports-say/ar-AA13BP61?cvid=bfa6ce4d7da942e6a8da114f47a915c0
This seems to be a common theme at Musk’s businesses. Or, it is a complete lie from the laid off people.
Of course, it is rumored that Twitter has laid off 25% of the work force already.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
Twitter is going to lose a lot of people. Few of them will be missed. Most of the personnel are in management, marketing and sales. There are a lot of offices in various countries, which doesn’t make a lot of sense for an internet-based company.
As long as a few key technical people are retained, you could probably lose 75% of the personnel and not miss them.
Fixed it for you.
It is really sad that almost every thing is being made a racial issue. People should be judged on their own merits, not the color of their skin. The person with the best capabilities gets the job. Getting a job just because a person of a certain ethnic background really cheapens the accomplishment of others of the same ethnic background who succeeded based on their skills and knowledge.
Going thru my goodwill pickups, sorting for auctions… and sterling silver money clip. 46 grams. ~$30 melt but less at the actual buyer rate. I paid $1.20 per pound so that’s a pretty good score. Too bad it was only the one item. That isn’t going to send the kids to trade school.
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I’m on the market for a retro silver compact for a 25th anniversary gift. Work is beyond crazy so I haven’t had time.
Lately, if I’m awake, my company laptop is open.
Since George Zimmerman, yes.
Well, since the “hispanic” refers to Spain, and Spaniards are Europeans, and therefore white, doesn’t really make sense to call the descendants of spaniards non-white, except that to look at them the are noticeably darker than white…. with all the indio blood mixed in. But they themselves make a distinction for meztizo or ‘mixed’… so on the other hand, it doesn’t make sense any way you slice it.
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Texas property taxes run about double what a similar sized house in Florida would pay. The ISDs (school boards) p*ss away money on nonsense, and the politicians of both parties share responsibility.
Locally, every high school wants to be like Westlake, the high school of Drew Brees, Nick Foles, and Sam Ehlinger, who just had his first pro start on Sunday and did ok despite the Colts losing.
Do t blow it Redumblicans:
Democrats brace for disaster:
Please don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
LOL!
WH deletes tweet after getting busted by citizen fact-checkers (and Elon Musk thinks it’s ‘awesome’)
plugs and his admin should leave Twitter now that PLT BS won’t go unchecked.
Regarding Acrobat, with one exception, I haven’t allowed any Adobe products on my systems for decades. Adobe = evil. I will admit the lack of Flash did prevent me from seeing some web sites.
The exception was on Linux, where I needed something to fill out a form, and the native utility couldn’t do that. Oh, I could fill and print, but I couldn’t send a file with the filled information incorporated. I installed the Linux version of the Adobe Reader, and it worked fine. I later changed distros, and found out that Adobe no longer supported Linux. The lack of a competent form filler was one of the smaller reasons I went back to Windows.
I have used the Foxit PDF Reader for over 20 years, but it was originally only for Windows. I see there is a limited version for Linux now. The free Windows version does everything I need, especially filling and signing forms. It isn’t perfect, but it works well for me. Yes, I know it is from Chinese developers. I am always open to suggestions for something better.
Recently, I took a picture of a 45 year old somewhat poor quality C-size (17×22”) blue line architectural drawing with my phone. I was surprised at the detail the phone captured, but that isn’t the point. When I opened the image file, Microsoft Office (on my phone) offered to convert the image to a PDF. Since I had already copied the original to my computer, I said OK. It seems surprisingly good, with the same detail quality as the original JPG. No surprise. What was surprising was that it automatically de-skewed and cropped it. (It might have asked permission.) I need to explore this further, but don’t have time now. I have always done this manually, but will use the automatic process if it works well enough.
Oh, why do I sometimes put images in PDF format? Some people I deal with can’t seem to handle JPG files. Go figure. I also use PDF for multipage scanned documents because my scanner offers that capability, but not to another format.
Finally, I should honor Jerry by mentioning the FastStone Image Viewer. He recommended it many years ago, and I have used it since. I really missed it on Linux. It has the ability to make multipage TIFF and PDF files from practically any image file. It can also split multipage image files, but not PDFs. It has many other useful features. I used it alongside IrfanView, and both have their strong points. I would like a utility (NOT cloud) that can split multipage PDFs into individual page files. The last time I looked for that, I was on Linux, and I couldn’t find anything that worked for me. Now that I am back on Windows, I should look again. I rarely need this, however.
Where does the time go?!
Pearls Before Swine: Homonym Humor
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/11/02
And yes, homonym humor are dad jokes.
I think LaTeX will do that. Maybe ImageMagick. Both are on Windows, but they have learning curves.
I used LaTeX in grad school to merge separate PDFs into one document. To combat the foreign students’ cheating, one professor collected a bound copy of all programming assignments submitted by each student on the last day of class and kept the source code for several years.
Meth?
“The Maze Runner” by James Dashner
https://www.amazon.com/Maze-Runner-Book-1/dp/0385737955?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a six book young adult science fiction apocalyptic series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Delacorte Press in 2010. I have ordered the other four books in the series from Big River and will read them soon.
I saw the excellent movies made using the first three books in the series a couple of years ago and decided to read the books finally. The first movie is fairly faithful to the first book with Dylan O’Brien (Teen Wolf) playing the part of Thomas.
The basic premise is that the Sun goes wild and scorches the Earth in an event called the Flare, outright killing most of the people on Earth. And then a virus rolls through the remaining population, killing many of them and making most of the survivors crazy. A group of kids wake up in a glade surrounded by a huge maze full of dangerous creatures and learn how to survive in very difficult situations.
Warning: Several of the kids are killed in the book and the movie.
The author has a website at:
https://jamesdashner.com/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (15,710 reviews)
“Elon Musk: $8 Twitter Plan for Blue Checkmark Offers ‘Priority’ Access, Too”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-8-twitter-plan-for-blue-checkmark-offers-priority-access-too
“Paying the $8 monthly fee will elevate a user’s account in searches, mentions, and replies.”
The NSA must have canceled their payments.
10 years ago, when I was a traveling consultant and had to do expense reports, I used pdfsam to wrangle my pdf files. I could split out pages from my pdf scans, and merge pages into one big pdf to submit. It did the job and wasn’t too annoying, and it’s free.
Dadgumit, having to flip the wall calendars again. This year is flying past.
I would like a utility (NOT cloud) that can split multipage PDFs into individual page files.
On Linux, PDF-Arranger let’s you combine and split PDFs. Used to be called PDF-shuffler.
I’ve been using PDFsam for a few years now. It’s free, but I have no idea what it’s pedigree is. Just Works.
“AES Indiana says converting 1,052 MW of coal to gas will be $381M cheaper than renewables and storage”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/aes-indiana-petersburg-coal-plant-gas-resource-plan-irp/635551/
“AES Indiana plans to convert two coal-fired units totaling 1,052 MW at its Petersburg power plant to natural gas in 2025, which the utility estimates would be $381 million less expensive over 20 years compared with replacing the generating station with renewable energy and storage.”
In other words, they need something dependable that is not at the will of the weather or batteries that have several known problems.
Dependable if the wells providing the gas are winterized.
>> Most of the personnel are in management, marketing and sales.
“Marketing?” Exactly how many people haven’t heard of Twitter?
Exactly how many people haven’t heard of Twitter? i
– marketing USER data to bigcorps
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>> At that point I should have everything “recommended” by the VA. Flu, shingles, covid, and pneumonia
@Ray, do they give you both pneumonia vaccines?
“The Case For A Republican Sweep On Election Night”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-case-for-a-republican-sweep-on-election-night/
“Republicans reached a milestone on Tuesday, surpassing a 50 percent chance of a Senate takeover in our Deluxe forecast for the first time since July 25. Still, the race for the Senate is about as close as it gets. So I thought it might be worth engaging in a dialog with my alter egos.”
Nate Silver just threw in the towel.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
>> The person with the best capabilities gets the job.
Many times it’s the person with the best connections that gets it.
Dependable if the wells providing the gas are winterized.
Or if the natural gas is coming from a salt dome or is LNG stored at the plant. I suspect that we are going to see a lot of LNG storage at gas plants in the future.
Of course, what would be good is a conversion from coal to dual fuel, natural gas with diesel seven day backup on site . But the EPA hates diesel with a passion and that complicates getting a permit.
Hi Rick, is the database server getting slow on us again ?
>> I’m on the market for a retro silver compact for a 25th anniversary gift.
@Greg, something like this?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/955116438/handbag-mirror-victorian-style-925
Big River sent an interesting e-mail the other day.
I do? I try to make useful reviews. I’ve never looked (or cared) to see if anyone clicks “useful”. I just babble my BS and post.
A bit more:
I can do this. And “Ooooh! Free stuff!!!!” Ok. I’ll play along. But not get too crazy with it… I have plenty of stuff.
I looked today. Some interesting stuff but not much of what I want. Might score some solar powered flood lights…. which I expect to work for a bit longer than a year (aka 14 months) before the batteries crap out. That’s how long all of the other solar powered stuff I’ve bought lasted. So, why bother? Would be fun though, to see how often the cats turn the lights on.
I did select a sweatshirt hoody. The description read good. It’s that time of year, too. Also an undersink (read that with a German accent) slide out double decker wire drawer thing that looks useful.
Big River didn’t say I had to preface my review with “Ah got this for free” but they did say if I had a problem to not tell the seller I’m on Vine. Seems fair.
I dunno.
I just looked and what the heck is this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YM2ZK9B?tag=ttgnet-20 Hey, I could get it and send to my tatooed up sister. But, nope.
Convert (from ImageMagick) will do a credible job of assembling a list of images into a PDF. There is a trick (setting write permissions in a config file) to get it to work with linux. I’ve used to convert scans of CD notes & covers to PDFs to go with the disc image rips. I think I also had it working with Windows 7.
The ‘Net in general has been up and down all day over here West of Austin.
ImageMagick is one of the packages available with Cygwin.
Yeah, but more 30s/40s. I’ll look around on Etsy.
There are also native windows versions available.
Response time for me today is between 2-3 seconds – last couple of reloads was 2.6 seconds. Slightly slower than normal; usually around 1.5 seconds.
Patience, grasshopper. The discussion here is not that time-sensitive. <heh>
Biden will be on the air live tonight at 7PM ET to talk about “threats to democracy”.
On location — Union Station near the Captol.
Wonder if the Disney folks will be back to do the lighting.
The ‘Net in general has been up and down all day over here West of Austin.
I was watching youtube while folding clothes, and it kept buffering earlier this afternoon. And we had a few minutes of power outage around 1:15.
Reloads are slow everywhere.
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Not at the same time. I have had Prevnar 13 and Prevnar 23. It was about three years ago I had Prevnar 13 and then Prevnar 23 about six months ago. I skipped Prevnar 20.
From nick:
My SIL is 50% Mexican, so he his the darkest in all my family. My two grandchildren are 25% Mexican and 75% Northern European and they would be misidentified as Mexican with there almost white skin and brown hair. However, their last name is a giveaway.
EdH and JimB, if you want to meet them, let’s go here: https://www.yelp.com/biz/original-pizza-ii-newport-beach-2.
Oh yeah, grandson just graduated from USC and granddaughter is in her Junior year there. Can anybody recommend to me a lawyer specializing in bankruptcies.
>> marketing USER data to bigcorps
Oh right, ginormous steaks, single-malt scotch and after-dinner “entertainment”
Scotch? Shots of Pappy Van Winkle Reserve at SxSW.
>> Can anybody recommend to me a lawyer specializing in bankruptcies
@CowboyStu, try here:
https://www.nfcc.org/faqs/
I used ImageMagick on Linux. It was very clunky, and didn’t work very well, but that might have been the source PDFs. No more Linux for my mainstream activities anymore.
THIS looks interesting. I like the web site’s clear descriptions, at least at a glance. If it can live up to their descriptions, it is a winner. I will try it later and report back. Please be patient!
Yeah, that was one of my problems with ImageMagick at first. After a while, I could not get it to work anymore, so I gave up on it.
My conclusion: I will look at PDFsam first. I will note that I don’t have any trouble creating a PDF using FastStone Image Viewer, or other apps that save in that format. It is just un-creating it that gives me trouble. Thanks all. This is what community is for!
Thanks. I would be honored to meet your family. It’s just that my dance card is full, and will probably be through at least the first of the year. I do apologize for all the wave-offs. We will eventually be able to shake hands.
Maybe SteveF is right about that meth: should I try it? Noooooooooo!! I would never try such a dangerous drug. I have even cut off most of my coffee.
Heresy! I don’t think we can be friends anymore.
@JimB
What? It was watching inappropriate things on the interwebz?
Half? That’s all?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/elon-musk-fire-half-twitter-friday
Half is a good start. Maybe they’ll learn to code?
Not really sure what an automated internet service needs much staff for, TPS reports of course, but after that? Counting the flair?
I get the impression that Musk likes to run lean with good people that do a lot of work, per capita. Certainly he must see some expenses that can be cut.
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If that is all it takes I may start drinking coffee just so I could quit. 🙂
I spent 10+ years in the military and never developed a taste for coffee. Mess hall had a couple of those 10 gallon monsters which could be converted to oil refinery in case of war. Each office had their coffee pot and coffee fund. I never participated. I also did not take up smoking, tried for two weeks, ugh. Drinking was stopped after my second time being drunk and almost dying in the Philippines.
@Ray Thompson
“Pick one sin at a time and learn it very, very well.”
“sex, drugs, and rock and roll!”
“Two out of three ain’t bad”
“The funeral business is booming. And not because of Covid”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-funeral-business-is-booming-and/comments
“How bad is the rise in mortality?
So bad funeral companies are starting to worry.
Today Service Corporation International, the largest for-profit funeral operator in North America, had its quarterly earnings call. SCI had another great quarter, you’ll be pleased to hear! So far in 2022 the company has made almost $500 million in profits – and its stock rose more than 10 percent today after its earnings report.”
I should have invested !
And why is everyone dying ?
Ray Thompson:
Brothers! Never smoked. Never drank coffee. After I reported to my first squadron as an E-4, the Chief Petty Officer said “Mitchell, make the coffee.” I said, “But Chief, I don’t drink coffee”.” He said “Mitchell, make the coffee.” I said, ”But Chief, I don’t know HOW to make coffee.” and he said “Mitchell, make the God-damned coffee!!!”
We had one of those enormous percolators probably very much like yours. So I filled it up with water. There was a basket for coffee grounds, so I filled THAT up, and plugged it in.
They never asked me to make coffee again. But the Master Chief of the squadron, who’d spent 20+ years on destroyers, said it was the best Navy coffee he’d had in years. Just a pinch of salt to take down the bitterness….
“Drinking was stopped after my second time being drunk and almost dying in the” Azores, for me. Never drank beer, and for the last 40+ years, haven’t drunk any alcohol except wine. And not much of that, even.
Just a pinch of salt to take down the bitterness….
– that works on grapefruit too, I just salt it, no sugar.
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“CVS, Walmart, Walgreens agree to pay $13.8 bln to settle U.S. opioid claims”
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cvs-walmart-walgreens-reach-tentative-12-bln-opioid-pact-bloomberg-news-2022-11-02/
“Nov 2 (Reuters) – CVS Health Corp (CVS.N), Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O) and Walmart Inc (WMT.N) agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state and local lawsuits accusing the pharmacy chains of mishandling opioid pain drugs, potentially bringing years of litigation close to the finish line.”
This is thievery.
Uh-oh. I never presumed the honor of having @SteveF as my friend, and now I have lost him. Boo-hoo. 🙂
Ho-ho. I never would have thought of that. Good thing I hadn’t taken a sip of… coffee.
Other comments. I liked the one about making coffee by filling up the basket with grounds, but you used too much water. I love coffee, and started drinking it some where around the age of ten or so. Caffeine doesn’t seem to do anything to or for me, but I used to worry about its possible negative effects. I stopped drinking coffee for about four months in my early twenties, just to see what changes there might be. In short, none. I do like a hot beverage to clear my sinuses, so started drinking hot water. Believe it or not, that was pretty good. I actually like it better than some weak restaurant coffee, and much more than tea. Sorry, Brits, I never liked most teas. There are a couple, but no kidding, hot water is good.
I know the salt in coffee trick, but IMO if the coffee is that bad, don’t drink it. Or else man up.
I sometimes drank enough coffee that I got a sour stomach. I heard Paul Harvey advertise Brim, which had the acid neutralized. I tried it, and it was good. Wonder what happened to it. I am currently on my nth time where I have quit coffee for a while, except that I have coffee with Sunday brunch. Trouble is the restaurant we go to has just fair coffee. I might switch to cold water, or maybe not. I recently tried some decaf, and it was actually pretty good. I may explore some of that.
I have no trouble sleeping, even after a couple of cups late in the evening.
I never smoked, ironically because I always seemed to be around someone who wanted to quit and said they couldn’t. I figured starting would be risky. Also, no peer pressure. Go figure.
I never drank to excess, except once; let the jokes begin. I remember Buddy Hackett saying he woke up with a terrible hangover, and he had never been hung over before… or he thought he hadn’t. I knew some pretty heavy drinkers, and that must have had an effect. Most of my friends are light drinkers or not at all. I likes me wine with a meal, and an occasional very heavy dark beer or ale. Just a small draft with a meal. Diet beer is a waste.
I never had any other bad habits. Srsly. Really. Well, maybe a few. Nobody’s perfect! Ya can’t be part Irish without a few quirks, right?
Forgot. When asked if I take anything in my coffee, I sometimes answer, “Uh, more coffee!”
@ray
a week in Alaska
Forfend anything terrible should happen to your health to initiate such a trip. However – if you visit Alaska it would be lovely to meet. Rabbit dinner and barking dogs, fresh eggs for breakfast.