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Mice and salt

No one likes to hear the telltale scuttle of mice behind walls. They may be small and harmless-looking, but they bring a lot of problems with them. First and foremost, mice can carry disease and parasites into the house, and you don't need to be bit

11 Negative phrases

Here are 11 negative phrases to ditch if you want to think more positively and feel more confident, according to behavioral scientists, researchers and psychologists. 1. “I have to do that.” What to say instead: “I get to do that.” Swapping that o

Blogs

After 10 years, Ive decided to post a blog so I can keep track of my blog comments!

Resident experts...

I have to remind myself that CS has a double handful of resident experts, versed on all subjects regardless of their careers and education. It doesn't matter whether they are retired shoe salesmen, goat herders, philanthropists, or computer gurus. Th

Flux...

I was doing some model aircraft maintenance this weekend, specifically changing the battery connectors. A fully charged battery passes 5 amps to the motor in 5 minutes. it's enough current to make the entire system hot. The motor gets burning hot and

Blogs...

At the top of the blog page you will find a welcome statement: "A Blog is a journal you may enter about your life, thoughts, interesting experiences, or lessons you've learned. Post an opinion, impart words of wisdom, or talk about something interes

Bamboo

Have you ever built anything with Bamboo? I've made a shelf unit with it using long 1/4" threaded rod and 8 to 12 inch long Bamboo tubes as separators between the shelves. It looks great. The shelves are 1X4 foot pieces I bought at Home Despot.

Creating a blog to calm the political storm...

It's been a week since the Moderator swept through and deleted a shitload bunch of political, virus, religious blogs in an attempt to steer blogs (and forums) back to their intended direction... dating. I see a few disguised as something el

Word block...

Most sites I've posted to have some type of filtering. Different names for the same thing, it could be called word filtering, censorship, word block, and sometimes it's called annoying! Profanity blocking tops the list, but all websites are not eq

i need advice on this even construtive criticism i

last xmas myself and a best friend fell out after 35 years of been excellent friends and it was all to with another guy that treated relations of mine badly even though that guy was related to me usually at xmas time we meet for a drink because he ta

My daily quotes ??

My daily inspiration quotes Something to inspire others ???????charooot lang! Never entertain ideas which you know will brings lots of regrets and argument, If you don't like the ending... never dare to start.....padaan lng poh :-)

Well, well, well ---our friends in NEW YORK....

....Whether city, county or state... And in other ridiculous, Democrat future vote pandering, SANCTUARY PLACES. How are those self loathing, success guilt, liberal, open borders policies working for you these days? But mayors, commissioners and gove

I'm too clever for them

The scammers on this site aren't so smart. They try their hardest to get my email address out of me, but without success. Yet I have not the slightest difficulty in getting hold of theirs.

Loneliness

Have been out of a long relationship for almost 3 months and things seem strange sometimes. In general, I deal well with loneliness, but sometimes is not easy. Just wondering how everyone is dealing with loneliness, please feel free to share your tho

Learn to be patient

Learn to be patient We will meet stuborn people around us Then .... learn to be patient We will meet people who will hurt us Then... learn to forgive Soon....we will meet peopl

a kind of magic

Big brand new rented car parked in narrow road. Add Spanish drivers, who are not always wonderful. Mix and stir, and you get a scrape across 2 door panels and the tucked-in wing mirror. Enter the magic - buffed out completely with toothpas

Goofin' off

Not much to see here, folks. Just having some fun. Now that I look at it, I think I should have drawn a larger...um Belly button.

Walls.....

.... It's quaint to hear the claims of privileged, self loathing, white guilt libs. Walls don't really work. And it's true, in part, if by working, one expects 100% efficacy. But they can be partial barriers, allowing more effective patrolling of the

Regarding rules

I recently posted a blog in which I violated blogging rule 13. I didn't realise I was breaking a rule when I posted the blog, but when it was brought to my attention I felt a definite buzz. I now find myself wanting to do it again; 'chasing the dr

Skim Coat...

The house my parents bought had a roof leak where a room addition was connected to the main house. It was patched a few times over the years and by the time I inherited the place, a small section of plaster in the dining room broke through. I didn't

Positive....Rasta man is positive..............

We should all rejoice at each example of many CS folks. Their struggles, and willingness to put these out for us, either directly, or by allegory. Sometimes, with the emphasis on GORY. The pluck to keep trying,---even leaving for a bit, in time to re

Connecting singled

I googled this site but could not figure who started it. I found nothing. Maybe I am missing something.

Swirley is gone...

One of the first things I wanted to replace in my condo remodeling project was an old toilet. I named it Swirley because it used 2-1/2 gallons per flush and took 2 minutes to fill up again. That really wasn't the worst part... The worst part was watc

Plants

I do not drain my pots neither do I put pebbles on the bottom. Once in a while I remove soil because plants become bigger. They need space.

finding a needle in a haystack...

If that sounds like a big task, my suggestion is to start with a magnet!

With the rapid growth of cyborgs, robots and AI,....

...sage job advice for youth. Seek out jobs that put emphasis on ability to work in different and unpredictable situations, that maximise human interactive interpersonal qualities, such as humor, social/emotional intelligence and multisituational cre

Your ancestors

''Your ancestors outnumber your fears Feel their power.'' 000

Happy Hallowe'en Y'all!

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Words

Hello, haven't seen you in ages.. Saying goodbye : " I don't want you to leave now." Words. Maybe not.

The Easy Way to Load a Wheelchair into a Car

Income inequality...the gig economy...

A pair of related downsides of rank free markets. But in the latter case, new depths, apparently. "Micro work". Home based computer contract work, often at less than USD 1.00 per hour, if payment actually ever happens. Busy beavers might very rarely

The MCA.....

...Yet one more accomplishment of our Dazzling, Brilliant, Ivy league graduate President Trump. And not a small one either. And one more campaign promise completed. So he ditches poorly crafted NAFTA, with all the usual democrat warnings of complete

Brexit.....

....No witnesses in fake impeachment---VERY fake. Quick acquittal, then quick dispatch of all looney socialist, or worse, Democrat candidates by the Big Promise keeper-in-chief. More regional judicial appointments. Eight to one SCOTUS for LIFE. Nar

As anyone who has ever taken a course in....

.....academic education knows, don't hold your breath for actually learning anything practical about teaching even a single kid. So it mostly is with instruction on how to do family or couples therapy/counseling. But a few useful sayings do seem to s

I was throwing sparks today...

One of the last things for me to do on my house renovation project is to remove some radio antennas and towers. These things have been up for years and the couplers holding the sections of pipe have rusted to the pipe. One of the guys I know wa

The peace deal with the Taliban....

....sure, we all want to see peace for the people of Afghanistan, and the region. No shortage of rare earth elements in that neighborhood.The altliberals will of course spin it otherwise, but all can see how this occurred largely with support from o

Eta Pravda, Tovarish Bernardovich.....

...many of us watched our Comrade Commissar roll over for the DNC and Criminal H in 2016. Without unethically offering up a diagnosis of creepy slow Joe, sight unseen, the true sources of so much gaffing and confusion, although buried by the biased

As only one who learned under the tutelage of.....

.....the world's most intelligent and educated president, affirmative action Hussein O., who knew that there are 57 US states, and they speak Austrian in Austria, can do. Our tight minded candidate, one Joe Biden, possible next president, now that Mi

Antonio Gutteres, Sec. Gen. of the UN.......

... Now, lemmings, he's a Portuguese, so my druthers are to cut him some slack. But today I watched him on left biased PBS, with prunaceous Judy Woodward tossing the softballs. The topic was Covid 19, and I counted a dozen times when he pushed for

GOLD DIGGERS.....Gottta love 'em.....

....And I do. Perfect mates, for the fellah down the hall. A few times, I fell victim to the siren looks and songs---and come ons. Even paid for air fare to visit us here at the Vierk mansions. And believe me, first class flights from Kazakhstan, Bor

Getting into her....back door. (video)

Proper technique is critical. You don't want to just force your way in causing damage. Here's a helpful video explaining & demonstrating proper procedures.