I’m down to 164 pounds nekkid. I haven’t weighed this little since I was a teenager. It feels great! I’ve lost at least 65 pounds in just over five years, which is a good rate: not too fast not too slow. I started with pickleball, then segued (during COVID) to walking religiously. And my […]
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I find myself feeling freer the closer I get to September. Although this particular act of “freedom” is tinged with some nervousness — pulling up stakes and moving to a foreign country with a different language isn’t a commonplace, “inside the comfort zone” thing to do for most individuals.Especially for someone like me, who
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I need to get my GoFundMe relocation fundraiser off the bench again. Here’s the link: https://gofund.me/e3a967ed Last night I wrote an appeal-for-help letter to former writing clients asking them to send me a belated “bonus” for the thousands/tens of thousands (probably millions by now cumulatively) of dollars that I’ve helped them earn over
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Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate. First thing I did this morning after liberating the chickens from the predator-proof part of their pen was clean the fish tank. It was time and I had the energy. I’d been looking at it for days and thinking, “Yeah, gotta do that …
One great thing about being retired is that afternoon naps are nearly always available. They’re rejuvenating, calming, restorative, cozy, all the good stuff. And when a cat (or cats) join you for them, they’re absolute HEAVEN! Charli and Patches don’t see eye to eye — or, when they do, Patches gives Charli the stink eye
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Tacoma turned out in force for today’s #HandsOff Rally. I took the vast majority of these pictures very early on, more than a half hour before the event even got underway officially. By the time I left at 1:30, so many people had joined that, had they not huddled for speeches and rallying cries, they
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Picked up my new Frigidaire today. It’s a pretty fridge. It’s a bit little shorter than the other one was, but that’s good. It has no visible scratches or dings on the door, and just a little scratch and ding on one side. T’was a great buy for $399! Unscratched/dinged, it would have sold for
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Just one year and two months ago, I got a brand new Whirlpool refrigerator at Lowe’s in Puyallup, model #WRT314TFDW. I didn’t buy an extended warranty because most articles about extended warranties say don’t bother; they’re a ripoff. Well, the thermostat or compressor (don’t know which yet) has just gone belly up and it
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Inelegant, imperfect, but perfectly clear: HANDS OFF OUR STUFF, BILLIONAIRES! Be there — wherever there is closest to you — on April 5th 2025! It’s time they heard from us, loud and clear: RELINQUISH OUR HARD WON GAINS??? NOT ON OUR WATCH!!
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Just scheduled the ultrasound for my “abdominal mass” — what I’m calling my hernia but which could be any number of other things, most benign although they may require surgery, a few of them malignant. It’s sorta weird that I don’t much care which way it turns out. The mass is either fixable, in
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