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

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jumbach said:
I wish all group homes had these:
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Fake bus stop calms Swedish dementia sufferers who want to go home

In a Swedish nursing home, residents wait for a bus that never comes.
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Things I learned from watching Bojack Horseman: When dealing with dementia cases you have to just go with their version of reality when you're interacting with them. Trying to impose your reality on them is not productive. Enjoy your interactions with them as best you can, on their terms.
 
Doohickie said:
Yes, music does that for me as well. I think that's why certain songs are "favorites". It's not so much the musical composition, it's the memories it evokes.
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Yep. Richard Marx "Right Here Waiting" is not a particularly good (nor particularly bad) song, but it was the "theme song" of my first relationship back in the day, when I was 17. So it has a special place for me just for that reason.

Jim
 
michaelskis said:
Selling a house that is 13 hours away is stressful.
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It'll be ok.

In 2021, we sold a house from 6 hours away and it went fine. We also had an great realtor on our side in the house's location and he had great incentive to make it happen...so he could get paid.

Once you get through the hard part, it will be easy.

;)
 
mendelman said:
It'll be ok.

In 2021, we sold a house from 6 hours away and it went fine. We also had an great realtor on our side in the house's location and he had great incentive to make it happen...so he could get paid.

Once you get through the hard part, it will be easy.

;)
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We did the same thing 10 years ago and we have a great realtor now. It is just trying to get over how different the market is right now compared to a year ago when there was bidding wars in our neighborhood.
 
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Grand prize winner of 2024 Florida Python Challenge announced

More than 14,500 pythons have been removed in Florida since 2017 by FWC and hunters. The most pythons removed in a single year was 2,629 in 2020.
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More than 850 people participated in the 2024 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt aimed at raising awareness of the destruction caused by the invasive species in the fragile Florida Everglades.

But there could be just one winner of the $10,000 grand prize, and that was Ronald Kiger of Marion County, who brought in 20 Burmese pythons during the contest.
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jumbach said:
Following is a complete list of productive stuff I did this weekend:

This completes the list.

Jim
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I walked up to the grocery store and to drop something off at the tailor this morning and on my walk I realized that, other than long runs before the sun was up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I hadn't actually left my house since I got home from the gym Thursday morning (I did WFH on Thursday and Friday). I read and watched a lot of TV and took a lot of naps over the weekend. It was nice not having to go anywhere or do anything productive!

FWIW, the wife and kids left the house a bunch and were perfectly happy to leave me home alone. I did use one of those quiet moments in the house to make myself a milkshake with a bunch of Thin Mints for lunch yesterday.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I walked up to the grocery store and to drop something off at the tailor this morning and on my walk I realized that, other than long runs before the sun was up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I hadn't actually left my house since I got home from the gym Thursday morning (I did WFH on Thursday and Friday). I read and watched a lot of TV and took a lot of naps over the weekend. It was nice not having to go anywhere or do anything productive!

FWIW, the wife and kids left the house a bunch and were perfectly happy to leave me home alone. I did use one of those quiet moments in the house to make myself a milkshake with a bunch of Thin Mints for lunch yesterday.
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Well, technically, I did go for a 5K walk along the river near my house. I guess in a way that could be productive, since it's good for mental and physical health.
 
Wife out shopping. Don’t tell her I’m watching football on “the big TV” and not in the bedroom. Shhh!

Commanders 14 Bengals 7
 
I was having a spat of "woe is me" thoughts earlier and whining about first world problems: "why didn't I stay in Canada", "why don't I have a girlfriend", "why cant I afford another Volvo".

Than I saw pictures of incinerated children in Lebanon in my doomstagram feed, and all of a sudden my problems didn't seem that bad anymore.
 
The Terminator said:
I was having a spat of "woe is me" thoughts earlier and whining about first world problems: "why didn't I stay in Canada", "why don't I have a girlfriend", "why cant I afford another Volvo".

Than I saw pictures of incinerated children in Lebanon in my doomstagram feed, and all of a sudden my problems didn't seem that bad anymore.
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Sometimes co-workers or family members ask me how I'm always so laid back and unworried and I remind them that I've worked in refugee camps in Kosovo, helped distribute aide and set up camps in 100º weather in Turkey after an earthquake that killed tens of thousands (the smell of death will be with me forever), and spent time in some truly horrible places in the Horn of Africa. Whatever is going on here in most of our lives is a cakewalk by comparison.

On a lighter note and speaking of "cakewalks"... I remember in elementary school we'd have a small back-to-school carnival and one of the games was always a literal cakewalk. They set up a bunch of squares as a path on the floor in a room and you'd roll a giant die and take that many steps and move along the path and then you'd get to pick some sort of baked good from a table based on where you landed on the path. That was always my favorite part of the carnival.

And still on the subject of carnivals and prizes... I was cleaning up some of the tiny little cheap plastic toys my youngest has accumulated from various carnivals and fairs and then thought about the weird little squishy rubber face puppets that I'd get as prizes from places back in the '80s and I was trying to explain them to my kids. I had to look up some photos and they still had no idea what I was talking about. I was tempted to buy some from eBay but they're like $40! Maybe I'll ask for a set for my birthday from my wife! :rofl:

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I went to a weekly bluegrass jam that has a cake walk. It was fun. I didn't win a cake.
 
Bubba said:
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There's a building at the other end my street that used to be a major S&H Green Stamps distribution and redemption center. Apparently you could take books of stamps there and they would give you your stuff instantly.

The building is still there, but now it's a window factory.

The replacement windows in my house were made there.
 
I remember mom going to the Green Stamp store.

One distinct memory is she gave me the leftovers after she bought what she wanted/needed. There weren't many stamps, but there were just enough to buy a pocketknife. She wasn't happy about that & I don't remember her doing that again.
 
Why does my local weatherman say temper-uh-churrs? I thought it was temper-churrs. It's like Wednesday, right? No one says wed-ness-day. It's wenz-day.
 
This came out when I was 6-years-old and is one of the songs I can remember my oldest brother, who would have been 17 or 18, playing all the time (he was a huge Phil Collins and Genesis fan). I'm sure I hated this song at the time and this very heavily-produced music is so far away from anything I would have ever wanted to listen to as a teen or in my 20s.


It recently popped up on a playlist of songs from 1984 that I was listening to and now I've probably listened to it 40 times in the past few days. :rofl:

The audio-only version posted above is better than the music video version, but the video is fun too:

 
A few random departments here are represented by the UAW and they went on strike today (I haven't been able to figure out why, but I'm thinking maybe they weren't satisfied with the relatively small raises taking effect on 1 October?).

I may need to go 100% WFH until this is resolved... don't want to get labeled as a scab and all! :actually:
 
Bubba said:
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As a kid my grandmother sat me at a kitchen table with a stack of books and a big pile of stamps every time I was dropped off to visit her. My mother used those fat little books to buy my high school graduation present, a clock radio.
 
Forget the ringin' on your party line
I'll be there in person and I'll be right on time
 
Going to a Friday wedding tomorrow. I feel like people are having more and more weddings on days other than the traditional Saturday.
 
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