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I buy Jeans size 36x30 and had that size for years. When my weight goes below 200 pounds, they get too loose and I keep pulling my pants up. I dislike belts and suspenders aren't in this time-zone. Some my my pants with the same size fit differently. Recently, I went through and pulled a few pairs marked the same, but way too tight!

I bought 2 pairs of 36x30 jeans last week and got around to trying them on last night... I could swim in them so they have to be returned and next time, I'll actually try them on in the store to confirm they fit correctly.

Last summer, I wanted to buy some shorts. Real shorts. I've expressed my dislike for the knee length cargo shorts, but sometimes that's all that's available and I go without. I blogged about some worn out white shorts that had holes in them, but that blog disappeared.

Walking by the women's wear, I found shorts that were the length of the tennis shorts I wore years ago. I pulled a size 18, held them to my waist and said, yeah, they should fit, but I was wrong. Too big. Next time back, I bought a size 14 and they were kinda loose. Okay, it's size 12 and that worked, so I went back to buy 2 more shorts in ladies size 12.

I've heard stories where garment manufacturers lie about women's sizes so when a woman who wore size 9 when she got married, is now a size 20, feels 'a whole lot better' about herself if the label is 14 and fits kinda loose. I get that picture.

So forget the number, if the clothes fit, wear 'em...

I like Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Watch this video and I am sure you will like her too! Feel free to leave comments and questions. Oh, Go Blue!

The Governor of Arkansas has signed an executive order banning woke words in State Government. The only humans that give birth are Women. Thank you Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I hope other States follow your lead.

I blame Frank Sinatra for downplaying the most important holiday of the year. Is this a rant? I don't think so... but read on and see MY point of view.

Here are some facts:
It's a one-day Christian holiday that Jews and other religious groups get to partake in. That includes the Santa Claus version for those who aren't religious.

Your holiday preparation starts a month sooner on the day after Thanksgiving where you shop for gifts that will take eight credit card payments to whittle-down the balance.

For this single day event, you will travel thousands of miles to see family on Christmas.
(think about that)

You spend $100 on a tree to hang decorations, put up lights and spray fake snow on your windows in parts of the country where it doesn't really snow.

Your office is decorated with cards mailed to you from your clients and suppliers.

Chestnuts are no longer roasted on an open fire... instead, you conveniently open a sealed pouch where someone at a factory cooked and peeled them for you.

Slaving 3 hours over an oven for the perfect turkey and fixings has been replaced by a phone app where the whole thing was catered from the local grocery store.

Chopping fire wood doesn't happen because the real fireplace was closed off and a faux glowing fireplace was installed years ago... it supports 4 different colors by remote and the real heat comes from your central HVAC system.

On that note... Have yourself a merry LITTLE Christmas!


Seriously Frank. What were you thinking?

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!

My studio / home office is in turmoil. For years, I've been working for companies as a salesman & designer on a commission or sub-contract basis. Sometimes, they provided a workspace, cubby or office of my own. When the workload increased, I stayed longer hours or took work home to complete. Remembering back more than 30 years ago, my design drawings were done at a drafting table in their facility. I had a portable drafting table at home maintained a fully functioning office, complete with phone lines, FAX, scanner & printer.

10-15 years ago, I abandoned the drafting table and started making drawings by computer. I subscribed to a service that allowed me to seamlessly remotely link my home & office computers. They claimed to have a secure connection and all seemed okay. With the approval of the company I'm working for now, the IT guy said there was a 'worm hole' security weakness to their network and redid the connection so all my files are supported by Google products that synchronize to all my devices. I no longer have to pay for the other service.

For the past few months, I've been working on a project that has lots of rooms. Main kitchen, catering kitchen, summer kitchen, 6 bathrooms, his & hers master baths, bar, 3 laundry rooms... it's a big freaking job and lots of drawings. Most of these dealings are digital, but my meeting notes are on printed copies, so I need lots of space to layout all the documents. I'm a paper guy and retain more information if the drawing is printed and not on a screen.

I used to have dual monitors before and downsized to a single 27" monitor for each system. Enough is enough. My eyes aren't getting any better. One monitor is 10 years old and the icons are starting to 'burn into' the screen. I have one 32" monitor for drawing and bought another that's new in the box waiting for me to get out of 'procrastination mode' and change that old monitor.

Year end now and I'm moving things around, archiving stuff and putting folders into plastic stackable bins for future reference. Okay, as long as I'm doing that, it's time to reconfigure the layout to get the added desk space.

Part of the turmoil is mixing and matching. The older monitors have VGA connections. Some have DVI, the newer have HDMI and the newest have Display Port. The VGA doesn't support ultra-high resolution, so I'm only using that on a computer that does email and web surfing. I bought some adapters that change the DVI and HDMI to work with Display Port so I can take advantage of high resolution with the larger monitors.

The showroom will be closed between Christmas and New Year, so I'm not planning to see too much activity next week. If I stay focused (no pun intended) I'll be able to organize 'my everything' that will allow me to put an end to the turmoil I've created.

So today I did a search on gemini compatibility, somewhere down the line was the question: "When will a gemini find their soulmate?" The answer was "With 19 years of age, but they won't know this, until they get older."

That answer "stunned" me, because I think that I did meet my soulmate when I was 19, we got married, and divorced when I was 21 or 22. Over the years, I've wondered what has become of him, wondered if we would still have been married, how many children we would have had. We met again, many, many years ago, after I had moved to Germany (I gave him some important papers from our divorce), he told me that he had remarried and had a child. He's the only man in my life, who I really felt "at home" with, the only man who I know really loved me for who I am, and I loved him just as much.

I found a telephone number online for him, I called it many times over the years, but got no answer, and I didn't want to send a SMS. He doesn't know that I now live in Sweden, so maybe he thought it was a "spam call" that's why he never answered but since Covid, the number no longer works. I have an adress for him, and often think of writing, but also ask myself....."What do I hope to achieve by contacting him again, after all, we've been divorced for more than 35 years:" I still have strong feelings for him, and maybe that's why my other relationships, including my 2nd marriage didn't work out, it was I who wanted and filed for divorce.

He's 10 years older than I, and I guess the age difference at that time, played a big part in our getting a divorce: he wanted to settle down and have a family (I was his 2nd marriage, and no, I wasn't involved with him when he was 1st married. I met him 3 years after his 1st divorce. I was still somewhat of a "party girl", not ready to start a family. One thing we both agreed on when we were asked during the divorce proceedings is that "we married for love, and still loved eachother", but sometimes love isn't enough to keep a marriage together.

Maybe sometime in the new year, I'll have the "guts" to take a pen to paper, and write to him.