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Here's another painful memory, but it shows my relationship with my parents. My best friend Stan was admitted to dental school, but he didn't have the money. He knew my parents had some money, and he floated the idea of borrowing from them. But I told him that if I had anything to do with asking, th...

Yes, well ... he did still have me arrested by the police twice before I graduated high school. For many years, he and I had a really rough relationship. I couldn't count the number of times we yelled at each other, most recently around 2010 or so. I loved him, and I respected him, but we didn't get...

So like I said, he had dinner and he was talking with the staff, animated and watching the Tee Vee (and saying "the hell with Trump" and I am quoting my sister on that), but when they came back ten minutes later with his ice cream, he was gone. Have I ever told y'all how much he loved ice ...

I'm the only one who can tell that story ... He lived too long. :batting: He outlived everyone in his generation - his wife and only brother passed in 2005, and all his cousins and friends and neighbors and former shipmates are also long gone. He was born in 1928, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. T...

I'm doing okay. I'm super proud of what we did over the last 10 or 15 years to take care of him. My fambly would descend on his apartment and suddenly there were 5 people in the joint, and he loved every minute of it. We'd be cooking for him and fixing anything broken, play board games, watch the Te...

He's gone, between dinner and dessert tonight he simply stopped, which is exactly what he wanted. I'm sad and relieved. Events will become clearer over the next few days. No need to console me, I'm going to focus on being happy for him. I love y'all but I shall be AFK for a little while now. .

I ask myself, could I do drag, or could I have done it in the past? And the answer is no. Not at any point in my life would I have been willing to wear women's clothes, of any kind, for any purpose - and I was a pet store Santa once, for charity. I'm as straight as the shortest distance between two ...

Why was Travis Kelce wearing a yellow bikini?

I support the protesters 100% and I am thrilled that there are protests happening at both my alma maters, Georgetown and USC.

the Obama birth-certificate image presented to the public 13 years ago

I was younger then.

I have returned. Good vacation, even if it did beat the crap out of me. I drove home 5 hours and I needed a bit of rest (and one last cuppa), but I recovered fully, put everything away, did my laundry, reinstalled my main laptop with all the peripherals, and charged up all my tech. Few more vacation...

... you can walk out forever and never get deeper than your chest, so "swimming" is a relative term. I learned to sail a small boat in water like that, we would intentionally dump the boat and have to get it righted and sailing again, but you could stand on the bottom of the sound and be ...

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:42 pm I love Savannah! Try it in the summer. But that doesn't help you now.

I like Savannah, but I really haven't seen any miniature golf courses with dinosaurs or pirate ships.

I'm still a Myrtle Beach kinda guy.

Kinda in my backyard...enjoy the city, but don't venture out in the the rural areas... And by that I mean anywhere where there isn't street lights... Yeah, we're in a massive beachfront place, in a smallish but nice little condo, 4th floor but the elevator works. There are six huge buildings, many ...

There you can see the bag on the lower left, filled with sand. You might even be able to see the string that goes from the bag to the top center of the sail. Makes a nice triangle for a base.

Hay, where'd ol' Wifehorn go?

This is why my preferred gender pronouns are who? and huh?

Very cool, V.

Not a lot to say except I support the protesters and I deplore the actions of USC, where I attended law school.

How long are the poles that stick into the sand? I could see these easily flying away. That's what the bag is for. The bag it comes with is permanently attached to the middle of the sail. When you get both ends of the pole pushed down in the sand, you turn the bag inside out, fill it with sand (ple...

Yeah, you just have to keep it 90° to the wind. If'n the wind shifts, you gotta shift the umbrella. Which takes about 2 seconds. Very easy. If there's no wind ... I don't think we have ever been to the beach with no wind. On the ocean, there's always wind. That would present a problem, though.

Enjoy Savannah! We love it there :lovestruck: I am enjoying it, even though it's not quite warm enough for me. Last year - not knowing that I would never make it to the beach all summer - I bought a Shibumi umbrella mini (fits two people). Ol' Wifehorn and Numbah One Son took it to the beach withou...

The ocean temp around your location is around 65-67 Fahrenheit. Um... oh boo-hoo. The closest large body to me (Lake Michigan) is 47. The air temp is 51 but I'm told it will go up this weekend, and then down. No, I done told you already - I'm a tropical plant. I need heat, and light. If I spent 10 ...

Savannah was founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe and 120 of his homies. We saw all 22 squares yesterday. Ol' Wifehorn always wanted to tour the city. There's a ton of history in those almost 300 years. We went in a gorgeous Catholic basilica. Not quite as big as Duke Chapel, but still very impressiv...