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The smarter thing is to unpack the toiletries, kitchenware & bedding first. The mysteries will still be there in the morning. Trust me, I've moved 26 times.

Not buying it. There are plenty of comedians that are "rock stars" in their own right. Murray, Ackroyd, Winters, Iglacias, Chappelle, Pryor, Candy, Carlin, Farley, Belushi, Miller, etc. Most made movies but got their start doing either stand-up or improv.

Soooo, the tech comes out...and he's here for a service call on my internet. I didn't need service on the internet, I needed service on my Directv receiver. Apparently, something got screwed up with the online service request. The internet tech tries to assist, but isn't versed in Directv. So he calls a coworker who does and he'll come by after a couple installs he has scheduled. The internet tech says he'll hang around for the other tech and while waiting will look at my internet hookup. I show him to the stuff (circa. 1970s technology, I didn't wire the place) and he replaces everything with current technology, FOR FREE because of the mix up I guess. The Directv tech gets here and determines what I already thought, the main box is toast. So he replaces the box and the fun begins. I think he got transferred 5 times and dropped 4 times on his phone calling the lines the techs use, before getting anyone that actually can help. He was getting really pissed and was very apologetic. Once he finally got the guy who figured out that they couldn't activate the box until there was a new service ticket for the box. Then they figured out that they couldn't create a new service ticket until the original ticket was closed. Then the Directv tech has his call dropped again. He gets another guy on the phone that knows what he's doing & they get the main box running, but he still has to "marry" the box to the remote receivers. The first remote has trouble, but that gets solved when they kill one of the 2 server units (I only have one) that my location is on record as having. That leaves the second remote unit, which will not connect to the server (he called it a "server", but I think it's really a dedicated wifi modem). He even disconnected the remote receiver & put it right next to the server - no go. So I get another new satellite unit that finally works. tl;dr - Tech calls into his own company, identifies himself as working for the company, gets transferred & dropped repeatedly just like any of us. Takes him 3 hours to get everything running.

That was actually a 'Princess', or to be precise - Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, goofing around with fake teeth.

The football & hockey cards my Mom pitched. There's a chance that a card valued today @ $10K was in the batch.

You certain? I'd get a second opinion - on that infection diagnosis. I'm serious.

Sorry to break the chain, but -

Find Monty Hall's grave & try to trade the box for what's behind Door #3.

Bathroom BMI scale acting wonky Saturday. Main Directv receiver became a "box of neutrals" yesterday, taking down the network. Laptop = "Windows has encountered a problem...". What a fun vacation this is going to be.

Oh wait, that was today's Cubs vs Padres score.

Of course I didn't use my birth year, I don't think Florida was populated then.

Nope.

I get nothing for my birthday, story of my life.

Never smoked - watched too many of the previous generation to mine succumb to cancer from smoking, including my Dad.

Buy low, sell high (not you personally, but stocks).

You left out the rate for people that want to watch you work and either ask questions or make suggestions.

Cuban or Peter?

Tide HE Coldwater liquid. Just a few tablespoons per load, nowhere near the indicator on the cap. When we used what the cap indicated, stuff came out soapy & needed another full rinse cycle.

Markie or Wiley?

Malone

My guess is the kitchen sink. Look at last year & the number of E coli warnings about veggies that went out. I'm sure it would be rare, but maybe the kitchen sink didn't have a P-trap? That sewer gas coming up would deposit stuff everywhere. I remember that the people doing the testing were just as perplexed (Mythbusters maybe?) but didn't investigate further.

Some show I watched did a test using toothbrushes. Oddly, the toothbrush in the kitchen wound up with more fecal coliform bacteria than the one in the bathroom.