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2017 - Father died, (cancer) Aunt died (alcoholism), good family friend died (West Nile Encephalitis) , all within 6 months. Moved my Mom in with me. 2019 - Employer changed hands. Mgr left, but recommended that to keep myself and my coworker, the company take part of his abandoned salary and give us raises. I was stunned when I was given a 5 figure raise (that s**t don't happen) but also figured that it could be a problem later. I was caught up in the last downsizing of the year. Got 20 wks. severance. Less important stuff happened too.

Shouldn't "knock knock-knock knock knock" come before that?

Is it "Cats" bad...or "Plan 9 From Outer Space" bad?

Then you probably know that it's a standard gimmick to put station ids after every song and that after the 10,000 songs it will be business as normal.

They'd still have to do at least one Station ID an hour - FCC rule.

zeni's banned

"We are stardust, we are golden..."

Magnetic North or Geographic North?

May mean significant repiping and/or electrical work. I've heard both good & bad. Consumer Reports says you need to know what Gallons per Minute your house will require, since you won't have a storage tank like a standard water heater. "Rather than storing water, tankless water heaters use heating coils to heat the water as you need it. They’re more energy-efficient than a storage tank but provide only a limited flow of hot water per minute—about 3.5 gallons, depending on inlet water temperatures. They’re best for people who typically aren’t drawing water for more than one use at a time—such as running a shower and dishwasher simultaneously.Tankless models are best for homes that use natural gas to heat the water; electric models might require an expensive upgrade of the home’s electrical capacity."

I got it, he was a baseball player for the Orioles - Books Robinson.

I think I got a few hundred, a statuette with my name on it. I've got no complaints.

I've seen better...

When you've won a quarterly award at work because you've saved the company "millions of dollars" and they announce it in front of 800 people, "Winning the day" hardly registers.

What are these "books" of which you speak? The word seems familiar.

Ahh, so that's what that is all about. I got an email some time ago from here saying, "I won the day", and had no idea why.

Video game arcades used to have these "Biorhythm" machines. You enter your birthday & another date for the day you wanted your biorhythms and it would spit out a card with your physical, emotional, & mental biorhythms. I entered a few dates on a lark, including one for my 40th birthday. All the cards came out fine with sine wave like printouts...except the one for my 40th birthday - which was flat-lined across the board. It wasn't until the stories about Y2K broke that I figured out what happened. The years were all 2 digit and my 40th was after 01/01/00.

They're doing that in Illinois too. Vehicle registrations are going up across the board too. Trade-ins over $10K are getting heavily taxed. All the money from lottery ticket sales that was supposed to be earmarked for schools is going to cover public union pensions. Now the FBI is getting involved with Chicago Aldermen & State Politicians...who suddenly decide to retire a few days after the Feds show up.

Didn't bother me. I've never called the cops on anyone.