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.... 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 more vulnerable places. Yet, there are walls, and then there are W A L L S. Still a few East German STASI border guards about for guidance on making serious walls. To do it right, there would be loud warning sounds/lights, berms, moats, mine fields and automated heat sensor guided tower machine gun nests. Really not much more expensive than lesser secure barriers, and may even be more cost effective. After a few bodies, word gets out. No more approaches. Oh sure, folks world wide will piss and moan. But they already hate us. How convenient?

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 toothpaste

In my chequered past I was once a letting agent so have known for years that white toothpaste is the handiest and most effective way of filling nail-holes left in walls (sets harder than concrete) but now I have another reason to carry toothpaste in my DIY arsenal

Put down my first batch yesterday

And one tried making this or any other ?

On March 30, blue did a nothing blog about a fermented drink called Kombucha.
He mentioned the name, said he put down his first batch and asked if anyone tried making some. The drink was unknown to me, so I did some research to see how it was made and decided it was not worth my time to do some experimental brewing.

To my surprise, I found some Kombucha locally on the refrigerated drink display at the grocery store. Some people claim about it's health benefits, so I decided to try it. Nearly $3 a bottle, I only bought 2. It was the 4th of April when I blogged about my findings giving blue full credit for his blog that inspired me to try Kombucha.

As a slap in the face, on April 5th, I was falsely accused of copying his blog.

No... in my blog I 'filled in the blanks' explaining what Kombucha actually was.
(yes, thank you blue for not explaining what Kombucha is, your commenters had to do that)

A week later it's reported that "Kombucha is so old hat Switchel is where it's at" Notice the quotation marks? I didn't say that. The original Kombucha author did. In an attempt to 'sour grapes' the Kombucha blog, he claims that Switchel is the sought after drink.

I won't be outdone with this exotic drink BS and have secured a small amount of nitro-methane that mixed with lemon juice, battery acid, eye of newt and clam shells creates a drink that will 'knock your socks off' but I have to do this at my home in Miami as the condo association rules forbid any volatile compounds on the premises.

... to be continued.

Just got back from an incredible 3 week trip around Ireland. I finished chatting with an old friend on the phone and decided to get back to my exercise routine. 45 min workout left me exhausted but I still had some housework to do. I collected the kids clothes and was bending over loading the washing machine when it happened. I felt my stomach and my thighs flex and contract, quiver and then oooohhhhhh .. it happened!
It had never happened to me like that before.
Why did it happen? and more importantly how can I make it happen again.

I've noticed that some of our bloggers, especially the newer ones, do not use emoticons. Which makes me Emoticon BTW.
Some of these poor souls resort to such lame substitutes as :-) or lol.
Who, I ask, would use :-) if they could use ? Or lol instead of ?

Then it came to me! These oppressed souls do not CHOOSE second class substitutes for emoticons.
NO! They feel this has been forced upon them by a type of caste system!

If their device doesn't allow them access to CS.com, they are forced to use CS mobi. And CS mobi doesn't have EMOTICONS!
It's TRUE!!

I say ENOUGH!!
Downtrodden mobi masses rise up!
Claim the emoticons as YOURS, and not just the exclusive property of the CS.com elite!!
No more sitting in the back of the bus without even a comfort emoticon to keep them company!!

So, my radicalized mobi brothers and sisters, HOW do we redistribute the emoticon wealth?
I'm glad you asked!
We claim our share of the emoticon pie thru...STEALTH!!

Here's how scorned mobi users can liberate the emoticons...
When a .com user clicks on an emoticon such as it appears in the text as wow between two :...:. Something like : wow : - only without the spaces between wow and the two :s . So, if a downtrodden mobi user TYPES IN wow between two colons ( : wow : only leave out the spaces) it appears in his/her blog/comment as
This also works when composing your profile narratives & private mails
Yes! Really!
......

But, sez you, how do I know what word to type in to get the desired emoticon?
I'm glad you asked, sez I!

There are two ways...
Ask one of your CS.com elite friends to send you a list of the words and the emoticons they will create.
However, the downtrodden person may be so looked down upon as to have no CS.com elite friends.
They must resort to...subterfuge!

When you, a downtrodden mobi user, see one of the prized emoticons denied you, simply touch or click on it until the options appear.
Then touch/click 'save image'.
The emoticon will be downloaded as THE WORD!!
VOILA!!
The emoticon has been successfully liberated from the exclusive country club of the CS.com elite!!

MOBI USERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR LAME ;-) AND lol!
YOU HAVE A WORLD OF EMOTICONS TO GAIN!
CLICK ON!!...


Emoticons!!! ...

Yes.
I know what y'all are thinking. A monument should be built to honor a friend of the people...who set the emoticons free for the mobi masses!!


The freedom of the emoticons is reward enough!

Thats what I do.
Because that's who I am.

I think that I first have to post and then include pics using the edit feature? I would have asked but I think it's bad blog etiquette and maybe even against the rules. Testing 1 2 3....

clap your hands...

Is that thunderous applause I hear? I didn't think so.

I see it. I feel it. I know it about myself but I'm seemingly unable to stop it. What I can do though is pause, breathe...and try not to give in to knee-jerk emotional response.

I'm not perfect. Not by a long shot. I want to be a better person. Better than I was a moment ago when I started writing this. Fellow hypocrites, pray with me. I aspire to be less judgmental, more stoic, more understanding, more empathetic, less selfish, more generous. more loving...and if I can't be less hypocritical, I should aspire to keep my f#@*ing mouth shut rather than broadcast to anyone within earshot what an a** I truly am.

Amen

....hopefully, none of us on CS will recall the days of real live Vaudeville shows. A pretty wild, often raucus, and very non-forgiving time to be a stage artist. Rarely, after coming on stage, a new performer, often a waif-like member of the weaker sex, would freeze on seeing the Globe Theater pit style crowd, or merely be so bad, that the catcalls and ripe veggies began to fly. Usually, two alert stagehands, typically of the stronger sex, would then extend a 20 foot long large pole with big hook on the end, sort of like we see in swimming pools where kids are these days---and then tug her back behind stage. It even worked after he fainted. So it often is for many of us here on CS, in a variety of ways. For me, "social smoker" in the profile gets the hook, for many more than health reasons. Or how about when a response begins with "handsome" or "beautiful", both of which are completely appropriate in time? And, let's go to private mail right away. Most helpful for automatic vetting.

I'm thinking of the right tools for the job.
Most of the vacuuming is done in my cleaning project, but the fine dust is more than my shop vac can handle. The whole place needs to be wet swabbed.
Should I get a string mop or a sponge mop with a squeeze handle at a cost of $50 with a bucket.
I ponder...
This is not my area of expertise !
The shop vac does wet or dry but I'm actually thinking to rent a carpet cleaner that sprays water.
A day's rental runs $75 or I can buy my own cleaner and use it as needed.
Hoover has an upright cleaner for $100 and a professional model for $150.
Really designed for carpet it has forced air to dry and I would think it would do the job on tile.
With the hose and upholstery attachment it's possible I could eliminate the need for a mop and bucket.

That said, I could eliminate one bucket off my bucket list!