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  1. tvguy

    Disappointing Adult Cruise On The Dream

    Our kids were 12 and 16, so not so little. My son was into Magic tricks when we were on the Magic so we ended up with a crowd of servers and other guests around our table after dinner every night with the servers and my son trying to one up each other with magic tricks.
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    slo’s FRIDAY 5/3 poll - Firefighters 🚒 🧑‍🚒

    Used to deal with firefighters on almost a daily basis before I retired. Physically demanding and dangerous job so many of my current firefighter friends are former firefighters who have retired young enough that they are in second careers.
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    Old School Chat Rooms

    I miss the professional forums on Compuserve and Prodigy. I was on AOL for a free trial but never found anything there I liked. It is amusing how terrified people were of the Internet in the mid 1990's. We only had one computer in the building that could go on the Internet, it was...
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    Work lunches and diabetes

    I dodged a bullet there. I had a huge decline in kidney function caused by an autoimmune condition triggered by a reaction to one of my blood pressure medicines......."drug induced lupus." The low phosphorus diet recommended by my nephrologist is in total conflict with my diabetes diet...
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    Disappointing Adult Cruise On The Dream

    These two, I am afraid, are because Disney cruisers seem to prefer things this way. As others have mentioned, Disney seems to get flamed if the MDR experience takes more than 45 minutes to an hour. We had a great experience, but we had late seating and dinner took 2 hours, what I consider a...
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    Work lunches and diabetes

    This part of your post caught my attention. And underscores how difficult it can be for the people deciding on the food. Fruit is number one on my Doctor's list of food T2 diabetics should not eat. The only exception being apples. So while your Doctor says you can eat fruit (I assume...
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    Question with an electrician visit today

    Absolutely.
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    Question with an electrician visit today

    Put one in my daughter's house last year and it has toggle switches. Made by Liftmaster.
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    Question with an electrician visit today

    Sounds like he changed the toggle switches in the actual garage door opener to match the toggle switches in the remote rather than changing the toggle switches in the remote. I suspect he had no idea you had two other remotes. Easy to fix yourself. The toggle switches on the opener need to...
  10. tvguy

    New Apartment/hunting tips & tricks

    I feel sorry for the folks in apartments below those with ceramic tile.
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    Who's up for it?

    $5,000 a day per person seems a little steep.
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    How many forms of ID do you have?

    Driver's license (Real ID Version) Passport
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    What does “financially stable” mean to you?

    My pension had the option of life time for me, or life time for me and my spouse. However my pension was a joke. $28 a month if I took it for my life time, or $24 a month if I took it so my spouse still got it if outlived me. I cashed it in and invested it. But I know a lot of people...
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    What does “financially stable” mean to you?

    My mom outlived my dad by 46 years so I am very familiar with that. I got Social Security survivors benefits from age 9 to age 21 (benefits were paid until age 21 is you were still in school in those days, it's 18 now). My mom chose for us to live on her salary, she invested those benefits...
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    slo’s THURSDAY 5/2 poll - Tomatoes 🍅

    I buy which ever tomato is cheapest. My wife doesn't like them, so I rarely buy them.
  16. tvguy

    Work lunches and diabetes

    As a diabetic I just adjust my other meals of the day to keep things as close as I can. Our luncheons are once a quarter, so no problem managing that meal.
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    What does “financially stable” mean to you?

    That is why each spouse should have some sort of life insurance policy. We cut our life insurance from $500,000 each to $250,000 each when our kids were out on their own. That is enough to replace almost 10 years social security benefits.
  18. tvguy

    What is your least favorite beverage?

    Sweet tea. Accidentally ordered it three weeks ago when I was in south eastern Illinois. YUCK.
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    What does “financially stable” mean to you?

    Completely different here. They are really pushing starter houses because more houses per acre mean MORE property tax income. They want DENSITY. Which is why a lot of these new houses have a one car garage and tiny bedrooms. Here is an example, 658 to 1471 square feet. And to fit...




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