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Best part when you finally get that toy you’ve been dreaming about is… stress-testing it!
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Probably not the best timing, but just in case, I’m front-paging this comment:
Glidwrith says:
December 17, 2017 at 10:39 pm (Edit)
OT: I am in Louisville KY for the week visiting family. Any Juicers game for a meet-up?
Anyone interested, leave a comment here, or email me at [email protected] and I’ll do my best to hook y’all up.
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Apart from party planning and other year-end hoopla, what’s on the agenda as we start another week?
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Speaking of feeling stressed…
#BREAKING @realDonaldTrump objects to Mueller obtaining video of his obstruction of justice admission to @LesterHoltNBC. Worries his tweets may also be used as evidence.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 17, 2017
“Obtaining?” Trump had NBC broadcast it to 200 million homes? Does he not think f**king TiVo is admissible in court? ? https://t.co/RkjM2fdcQO
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) December 17, 2017
Montanareddog
Looks like President* Egotesticle is going to have to shut down Youtube then
Elizabelle
Good morning. Surprise overnight snowfall in Wiesbaden; soft white out there to begin the countdown to Christmas. Hope your week is off to a good start.
NY Times: British Airways pilot/author Mark Vanhoenacker. At the Solstice, in Praise of Darkness
satby
@Montanareddog:
Well said.
@AL: I don’t like most Christmas music, but that was excellent!
satby
@Elizabelle: Good afternoon to you! That’s a great article. When I was a road warrior for my job, flying on holiday nights gave me some beautiful views of the lights or fireworks below.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
My wife appreciates the light. Everytime she ends up in the dark she finds herself on her face or walking into walls. Seriously, the woman has no night vision whatsoever.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I still say Trump’s best defense is he lies all the time so therefor you can’t take his word as proof of anything.
Elizabelle
@satby: Yes. I love flying at night; seeing the outlines of cities. Or as the sun sets; twilight. Beautiful time of day.
I love looking up at a late fall/winter cold night sky, when the stars look about 5 miles above our heads and it’s dry and chill out there.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Has your wife talked to an opthalmologist? (Preferably one with better-recognised credentials than Rand Paul.) Night blindness is a real thing, as I’m sure you know.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: According to her, she’s always been this way but I’ll mention it to her.
Mustang Bobby
I’m a daylight person; ironic since I get up at 3 a.m. and leave for work at 4:30. But when I lived in northern lower Michigan, just above the 45th parallel, I hated the idea of sunrise at 8:15 a.m. and sunset at 4:59 p.m. At least here in Miami it’s closer to 12 hours of daylight most of the time. I truly believe I have seasonal affective disorder; at least I did up there.
On the upside, summer twilight up in Michigan lasts until almost midnight.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: I have a good friend who definitely has SAD. I’ll stop by his house at 5 PM and he’ll still be in pajamas and bath robe. For his own sanity (and his wife’s) he will head south for a month or more every mid to late January.
NotMax
Hear tell there’s some holiday or other coming up in the near future. Howzabout beginning the week with a moppet named Michael?
rikyrah
Next thing that he will say is that he doesn’t write his tweets
NotMax
@rikyrah
S. H. Sanders: “That was the Donald Trump from the mirror universe. Next question?”
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: don’t know if she’s had, or been checked for cataracts, but that could also cause poor low light sight.
Everyone, get regular eye exams. It’s the worst feeling to deal with people who blew off eye exams and then show up, only to learn that their vision loss is permanent, when earlier treatment might have saved it.
Glidwrith
Hey, Anne Laurie, thanks for plucking the meet-up ask to the front page. I will try to mention on other threads as well. Last night we found an Ethiopian restaurant called Queen of Sheba that was incredible. Hoping to drag other Juicers to it.
satby
@Mustang Bobby: I never had SAD until the last few years, and if we get a few sunny days it still doesn’t affect me that badly. But I also take high levels of vitamin D, and I think that helps a lot. And I love the long summer nights living in the north.
satby
@Glidwrith: Le Comte lives somewhere near Lousiville, and people down near Indianapolis are only an hour away. Hope you can get a meetup together.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: She gets her glasses upgraded with a new prescription every 2-3 years.
Mustang Bobby
@satby: Petoskey is so far north and so far west in the time zone that sunset in June is after 9 p.m. and it barely gets completely dark at night before the sun begins to come up. I loved that. Too bad it only lasts a few weeks.
Glidwrith
@satby: Thanks, satby. Too bad you are too far out-my eldest dragonet is enjoying your vanilla soap a lot and I think he would like to meet you. The younger managed to break her wing last Thursday, but she was so brave!
Anne Laurie
@Glidwrith: The Comte sent me an email that he’s “slammed” this week, but might be able to squeeze in a lunch. Can he reach you at the email in your commenting name?
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
Or that the guy confessing to a crime on TV is not him.
Luthe
@satby: I recommend getting a sun lamp (I’m sitting in front of mine right now). Helps with both SAD and standardizing one’s bedtime (I’m a night owl, so I have to force my body into “office hours” somehow).
Ones that are both cheap and good can be found on Amazon starting around $60.
Cheryl Rofer
The video is disappointing. The music doesn’t coordinate with the visual. I was really looking forward to hearing how all that goes together. I quit about halfway through. Maybe it gets better toward the end.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, bullshit. She’s just been blinded by your brilliance.
And you can tell her I said so, and she should quit whinging.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: should be every year as you get older (for everyone really). A month ago I had a 17 year old kid in to get his contact lens Rx renewed, he had been going to a different doctor, but had been seen about 18 months earlier. Air puff test indicated he needed to be evaluated for glaucoma, unfortunately, his retinal photos showed optic nerve damage already. 17 and permanent optic damage, from something that’s treatable by eye drops.
Most of this stuff doesn’t hurt until it’s already irreversible.
satby
@Glidwrith: aww, I hope she feels better soon! Yeah, wish it was a bit closer, I have driven to Louisville and back in a day, and in winter, but not able to before the holiday. My son will becoming up from Lexington.
MLE
@Cheryl Rofer:
plus, its the piano guys, who played for the trump inauguration. and when called out on that, they put out a statement defending that decision which included the rather squicky line: “You know that we honor our relationships with our spouses more than anything else. You know we believe women are Divinely appointed to not only equality, but also respect and chivalrous deference.”
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@satby: Seriously considering changing eye doctors because my current one has switched from the air puff to a physical impact test. I can’t sit still for them to even get the device close to my eye.