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I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Walking To School & Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder" Open in new Window.
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Yes, and then finding the doors locked because it was closed do to the weather!
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion Author Icon - Days like these would find us appropriating (breaking into) the jr.high school gym and playing basketball, till about 4:30 then the cops would take our names and run us out. Till the next weeken.
Uphill, both ways!
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Palm Plant & Cream" Open in new Window.
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People always focus on Ginger Baker's drumming and Eric Clapton's guitar playing in Cream, but I think Jack Bruce in this band makes an argument for being up there with John Entwistle as one of the greatest rock bass players ever. Bruce & Entwistle make bass playing amazing.
I've added a new entry to my book, "Where In The World Is Sum1?" Open in new Window.:

         "Our Kitchen" Open in new Window.
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I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Glass Of Wine & The Black Crowes" Open in new Window.
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I like cooking with wine. Sometimes I even add a little to the food.
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion Author Icon - you are supposed to add it to the food???? Ooopsss Hiccup.
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Madagascar & Nick Gilder" Open in new Window.
I've added a new entry to my book, "Where In The World Is Sum1?" Open in new Window.:

         "Sacramento Working With Cal-OES" Open in new Window.
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Ha...Jim, buddy, did I read your link correctly? Are you going to retire at the end of this spring? I urge caution. I officially retired in 2008 (save for two brief 6-month contracts for USAID). My schedule has never been fuller since.

Everyone finds out you're retired and figures there's no reason you can't do a little something for them on the side. I don't mind doing it for my kids and grandchildren, but my best advice is don't tell anyone you're retired; transition slowly into what will become your busiest time in life.

Joey says, congratz.
JACE  Author Icon
Joey says" Happy 2025 Author Icon - Truth!

I retired about a year and half ago with the intention of pursuing two or three of my old hobbies. I'm still "pursuing" getting started on them. I need ME time!
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Lived On A Houseboat & Steel Rhythm Band" Open in new Window.
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*Laugh*
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "A famous quote & The Surfaris" Open in new Window.
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Do you know how many hours I tried to get this song down when I was a drummer? And how dismally I failed? This is just a nice reminder that we all can't be good at everything, but can enjoy the masters...

(I would also like to point out the Ventures released a version of this track... but needed 2 drummers to emulate Wilson! So it's not just me!)
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Holiday Fruitcake & Earth, Wind, & Fire" Open in new Window.
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*Laugh*
It's been awhile since a screaming lady / uppity cat meme has lurked behind the Newsfeed. Thanks, Jim!
Wow! You were at my Christmas!
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Honey Roasted Ham & The J. Geils Band" Open in new Window.
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*Laugh*
That's the best cartoon in a while! Hahaha!
         With these horrible wildfires in the Los Angeles, I would like to check on every WDC member living in that area. I know a couple of people living there, so will mention them specifically. Annette Author IconMail Icon, Jeff Author IconMail Icon & Schnujo's Giving Away GPs Author IconMail Icon, are you safe and alright? Your families & loved ones, are they also safe and alright? Your houses and possessions? You are the three I know that live in the LA area, anyone I didn't mention, please feel free to respond. The only reason you weren't mentioned is that I am not aware of you living in that area....
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I live in West Covina, about 15 miles southeast of Altadena, the starting point of the Eaton Fire. We are doing alright so far, although I think my asthma is acting up a bit. A writing friend of mine was evacuated, but she told me she, her family, and her pets were all together and safe. I hope they stay that way.

Thursday afternoon, when every cellphone in LA County received an evacuation warning text, was discombobulating. Although the text was retracted some 20 minutes after it was sent out, I wondered what might happen if we (my mother, brother, and I) had to evacuate. My mother is completely bedbound and can barely sit up on the edge of the bed: I don't think she can leave the house in a wheelchair, much less use the walker. I suppose my brother and I would have to summon an ambulance so that Mom could go in a gurney. I hope we will not have to evacuate since our part of West Covina is flat and not all that close to the hills.
Gentillylace Author Icon - I got that same alert so I went to the web. Call fire had a site that is updating multiple fires' status and this site:https://protect.genasys.com/zones/US-CA-XLA-MAL-C112-A?z=9.255441269623732&latlon=34.360087944136524%2C-118.63814687154832

is a good one to check as well. My area was normal so after doing my due diligence, I hate to say it, but I didn't take the warning that seriously and then it was retracted. If anything, there were probably good intention behind sending it, but not enough attention to detail. On a personal note, I am appalled that there were no water in the hydrants and reservoirs were emply and inspections were skpped over. There's no excuse for following through on basic safetly checks.

I am proud of all of our first responders - from the firefighters fighting the fires and the police conducting evacutations and CA National Guard working hard to prevent looters.

I think I turned that link above into clickable below.

https://protect.genasys.com/zones/US-CA-XLA-MAL-C112-A?z=9.255441269623732&latlo...
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Carpenter Ants & Steve Perry With His Father Ray" Open in new Window.
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I love this version of the song. Perry is amazing, and his comeback album, Traces was one of the first album reviews I did for Weekend Notes. Still an amazing album.
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Gambling Addiction & The Beatnix" Open in new Window.
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Eyes getting tired I misread that as Beatnik. Like Maynard on old Doby Giles show. *FacePalm*
Although it's the same only different, this brought back memories of my Grandma. She often refereed to people as beatniks, although she never quite understood what beatnik actually was.
*Laugh*
I've added a new entry to my book, "Smile! (Groan?) You Know You Love These!" Open in new Window.:

         "Asked For Coffee & Quiet Riot" Open in new Window.
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My favourite QR song is 'Bang Your Head'. The Metal Health album is a guilty pleasure.
My second son's nickname is Quiet Riot because he's quiet and polite until he explodes - and then everybody know what they did wrong.
They don't call it head banging for nutin... *Rolling*

         I was a little (a lot) upset a while ago. I've been editing a large spreadsheet (to me it is large, there are 42 separate tabs in the sheet with hundreds of cells I don't want the students to modify), and I couldn't locate it in saved files. Excel was no help, recent files in it showed it was last saved at 10:33 am, but I know I had saved it around 2 or so. While I was in the living room, I had an epiphany and knew where I had saved it. I have a 12 port-powered USB Hub (I never use the 120 V power), it was on one of the 5 USB Drives I have connected that the file was on! I knew which one contained it, and voila! There it was.... time to stop being upset, all is well.
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I'm glad you found it. That sounds supper annoying. To me, 42 tabs and 100 cells is ginormous!
I didn't understand anything that involved numbers, but YAY too! Glad you found it.
Jeff  Author Icon
That's a lot of USB drives attached to the computer! *Shock*
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