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fuzzybuddy said:
I bet that if I checked around the seats in my car, I could scrounge at least 89 cents in loose change. The reason I say that is I just spent almost an hour trying to get a spot out of an 89 cent Walmart potholder. I have 4. The spot is either ketchup or spaghetti sauce. I've sent all my big gun cleaning stuff into the fight, and the spot won. I just can't let the spot stay, OMG!!!! and tossing the potholder away???? No way. Now, why would I even care about this?
Because at times like this, I realize how weird I really am.
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You are not weird at all, fuzzybuddy. Apply boiling water, Comet (or baking soda or stain remover or any suds), toothbrush, and elbow grease. Blot.
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fuzzybuddy said:
I bet that if I checked around the seats in my car, I could scrounge at least 89 cents in loose change. The reason I say that is I just spent almost an hour trying to get a spot out of an 89 cent Walmart potholder. I have 4. The spot is either ketchup or spaghetti sauce. I've sent all my big gun cleaning stuff into the fight, and the spot won. I just can't let the spot stay, OMG!!!! and tossing the potholder away???? No way. Now, why would I even care about this?
Because at times like this, I realize how weird I really am.
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You're a better man than I am, fuzzy. I just got done pitching 3 potholders out because they needed an oil change and I wasn't gonna go that far laundering/scrubbing/whatever. Just bought 3 more and fully expect to toss those out in about a year.

To the hoarders of the world, I'm incorrigible.
 

AHA. I wasn't crazy. Awhile back I was plagued with fruit flies. I got three trap light things, which got most of them, but even when it's freezing outside, I still get an occasional one bothering me. I was wondering if something crawled up and died under my deck. But at the grocery checkout, last night, somebody mentioned fruit flies, and everybody chimed in that they had bunches of them. A few still had plenty and the temp was 32F ( 0 C).
 
I watched a show about archeologists digging up things from trash dumps in ancient Egypt. I like how they try to figure out what the items were for. I wondered maybe archeologists could be digging up our trash in the 25th Century. They might think our phones were primitive electronic religious devices, by which we were supposed to be in contact with our god, Google. Or that we were a vast army of card carrying numbered serfs owned by Visa.
 
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I watched "Antiques Roadshow". To be labeled an "antique", the item has to be at least 100 years old. On the TV show, they are talking about antiques from 1920. Yeah, things made in 1920 are antiques, but 1920 was only 25 years before I was born. To me, an antique has to be made in the 1800s.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I watched "Antiques Roadshow". To be labeled an "antique", the item has to be at least 100 years old. On the TV show, they are talking about antiques from 1920. Yeah, things made in 1920 are antiques, but 1920 was only 25 years before I was born. To me, an antique has to be made in the 1800s.
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It has been my experience that most people consider the things that they remember from their grandparents homes or from their own childhood be the antiques that they value and collect.

Many quality antiques become too old and lose value simply because people have no connection to them.
 
I'm under a "Red Alert Fire Watch". About 35 years ago, there was a large fire that came up to my neighbor's property. I live on Blue Berry Hill. That's a nice name, and there are lots of wild blueberry bushes. But it got that name because the bushes were always going up in flames. Lying in bed, last night, it dawned on me, I should know what I need to take with me, if there was a fire. I'm so under prepared.
 
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I'm under a "Red Alert Fire Watch". About 35 years ago, there was a large fire that came up to my neighbor's property. I live on Blue Berry Hill. That's a nice name, and there are lots of wild blueberry bushes. But it got that name because the bushes were always going up in flames. Lying in bed, last night, it dawned on me, I should know what I need to take with me, if there was a fire. I'm so under prepared.
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Just take yourself, fuzzy. Unlike most everything else, you can't be replaced.
 
We have a list of things to take if we have a hurricane warning or told to evacuate. Of course we can't take everything but just what we think are the most important. I agree with gruntlabor, just yourself if you cannot grab anything.
 
Still under a "Red Fire Alert", and I'm still in a "red zone". I had no idea, but there are supposedly 462 fires burning in the U.S. Most are small fires that pose no threat. I had no idea anything was burning.
It's getting too cold to do much work outside, so darn, I'll have to wait till next year to do all the outside stuff I was supposed to do in summer. But I could buy the tools I would need to do the job next year. That way I'll be ready when summer comes around again- it's kind of like losing that last 20 lbs. It's an eternal wish.
 
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My neighbor's grandkids were out running around and kicking a ball in the front of the home. I just happened to look out, and on the side of the place were three deer, who were grazing. I don't think the kids, nor the deer could see each other, but the deer could hear the kids. Under a tree , there was movement-a rabbit. Then there was a squirrel jumping from tree to tree. All you needed for it to be perfect was for it to be Thanksgiving.
 
On Friday, we suppose to get 4-6 inches of snow. Tonight, I'm going food shopping. And for some reason, when people hear about snow, they run out and buy bread. Around here, if there's a forecast of snow, the baked goods sections are bare. I hope I get to the store before the bread mania hits.
This is the first snow of winter; it won't be around long. Sat. will be in the 50s (F).
 
Went grocery shopping, and the place was crowded. Pre snow storm shopping. People were buying huge quantities of food. A few were dragging around two carts. I got my bread. It was the only one left. I have to buy a high priced "healthy" bread due to my diabetes. The only other bread was some kind of pumpernickel black bread. They built the Colosseum out of that.
I used the Interstate on the way back home. The speed limit was 65 mph. I was doing about 75+. I passed this Porsche. That was a great feeling. Haa, your ritzy German engineering is in the rear view mirror of a Hyundai.
 
When I bought my lot, I didn't know I lived in "the higher elevations of the Poconos". Each winter I get reminded. The weather people will say, "expect 1-2 inches of snow, but in the higher elevations of the Poconos, expect 6-12". And it happened again. Everybody got 2-4 inches of snow. I have to shovel off 8 inches of higher elevations snow.
About 30 minutes after writing that, my phone vibrated with weather warning,, "Additional snow accumulations of 1-3 inches above 1,200 feet in elevation".
 
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There are all these cooking shows on TV. I got to thinking that people spend a lot of time, money and energy in exactly cooking food; but how long does it stay in your mouth? I decided to become a scientist. I would time myself from bite to swallow. In my lab (kitchen), the data showed from opening my mouth to final sallow was 38.5 seconds on average. I'm not a delicate eater, I use the Neanderthal shovel-it-in technique. So, your times may vary.
One thing I noticed that I never noticed before, is that I swallow little bit by little bit rather than all at once.
Move over Einstein, this science stuff ain't that hard.
 
In bed, last night, I was thinking about AI. I think a lot of the fear about AI & robots is a little over done. I don't think they will ever really replace humans. For instance, having a robot take out the trash? Yeah, a robot won't "forget" and have to go running after the trash truck. But you still need a human to make the trash in the first place.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
In bed, last night, I was thinking about AI. I think a lot of the fear about AI & robots is a little over done. I don't think they will ever really replace humans. For instance, having a robot take out the trash? Yeah, a robot won't "forget" and have to go running after the trash truck. But you still need a human to make the trash in the first place.
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Yes, but as AI matures in its ability to make and do everything for us, we will see them generating plenty of trash. We will probably demand change.
 
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