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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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For one of my reports, the AHJ is LA County. Yuck. Not fun to deal with counties in California.
 
For the other report, it's a county in Florida. Easier to deal with, and they answer their phone!
 
I believe we can reach 7K because it is less than 200 posts away.
 
I didn't even know the Far Side calendar was still around.
I think they went away for awhile and then came back. Don't know if they are available this year. One of my favorite from the calendar:

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I had a Billy Beer can! Of course, my parents sold it (and my other brewerania) at a garage sale when they moved to the suburbs.
I still have one in my collection but do not display.
 
On a serious note - Taliban bans windows in buildings so you can't see them.

“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.”



 
On a serious note - Taliban bans windows in buildings so you can't see them.

“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.”



I believe they have also forbidden women from speaking in public or being heard. link
 
I got 2 Erik Larson books for Christmas.
I gave a Erik Larsen book I had read for Christmas - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Worth the read.
 
I gave a Erik Larsen book I had read for Christmas - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Worth the read.


Thats one of the 2 I got and started reading it. Not too far in yet.
 
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