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Pickleball is a sport played on a court that is smaller than tennis, with racquets that are like ping-pong paddles, only larger. It can be played as a singles game, but often played as doubles because it's quick action. I've seen a few pickleball courts in my travels and it seems to attract women as it's social and less strenuous than tennis.

Near one of the courts, I found a bumper sticker on the car of an avid player. Although they give warning that they brake for pickleball, it would appear the driver behind them didn't.



Ouch!

I'm working on the final installations for a project that started nearly a year ago.
It's been a struggle as the designer and contractor are working with me for a nice, but difficult client. It's an extreme renovation to a 40 year old mansion located on the coast, but it had severe water damage.
My first visit revealed walls cut open to treat for mildew, machines to dry the moisture between the walls and strong chemicals sprayed in attics, crawl spaces and all the areas affected by the water.

I got the contract for built-in units that include bathroom vanities, laundry, bar, butler's pantry and mud room. That went through. After, I was invited to bid closets and wardrobe units. I got that part added under a separate contract. Closets should be easy... but it turned out to be the hardest part of the project, as the client specified ultra details that took several rounds of drawing changes before she would approve production.

The client/designer ordered the hardware (handles) late delaying the installation. I did a walk through with the client and installer to go over the locations of the handles. It didn't appear that anything unusual would happen, but the client did an inspection after the hardware was installed and made a list of complaints.

Her email was copied to everyone in the team. She's out of town and only comes a few times a month to see the progress. I met the contractor this morning to address the issues stated in her email. No big deal. The installed mis-drilled a hole for a handle in one door, patched it and it's only visible when you look at the back of the door. That needs to be replaced. She and my installer agreed to the placement of the hardware, a specific distance from the edge of all the doors that was centered between the width of the 2-1/2" perimeter moulding. The master bath and guest bath doors have a wider moulding. It's 3" so the installer put the hardware in the middle of the space of those doors and the client complained because it's 1/4" different that the discussion of the other doors. Now she wants us to replace those doors.

The contractor & designer and I agree we installed them in the correct location. To use the dimension for the other doors would be wrong. All the instructions were verbal as we stood there holding hardware on the doors to agree the location. I'm now going to put in writing to explain why we did what we and hopefully, she will accept it.


Speaking of things in writing... There is a comment on a current forum thread asking who invited protesters on January 6th and was it in writing?
The answer is yes. @therealdonaldtrump did so on December 26. It's documented and part of a Twitter archive:
"The ‘Justice’ Department and the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud, the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history, despite overwhelming evidence. They should be ashamed. History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th."












Sometimes, when you put things in writing, it comes back to implicate you in an insurrection. But... that's the topic for another blog!

Hello, my name is Muhammad. I am a Muslim. I want to find a mature and beautiful woman from Europe who is ready to marry me. She comes to my country and I marry her, my future jewel. If you are reading this post, I promise you that I will give you all the love, affection and affection that you deserve.

-25 degrees Celsius last week and the snow just fell, without end, I felt. This week is much better with +2 degrees, the snow starting to melt, not so slippery on the roads and thanks goodness, sunny! Somewhere "lagom" warm would be nice!

How's "your" weather?

Learning a language is a tough and challenging endeavor. In our family, most people can speak three languages, and some of my aunts can even speak four. I remember, during my language studies, encountering a student who could speak 15 languages, and his friend knew even more. I believe the government would greatly value individuals with such linguistic abilities.

While many women may wonder about a guy's earning potential when dating, my focus has always been on how many languages he speaks or how much vocabulary he can teach me. I think understanding the languages someone speaks is crucial to avoid misunderstandings in a relationship.

During my time studying Chinese in Taiwan, I immersed myself in the local culture, haggling like the locals and engaging in gossip . As of now, my proficiency in both German and Korean is at a low level.

The "Lowest Common Denominator" has just gone lower.


The work of very low-grade genetic material, if you ever need to see it. Absolute bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.

A.) He lies. A LOT. Politifact rates 70% of the words he speaks as “Mostly False or worse” Only 14% of the things he says get a “Mostly True” or better rating. That is an absolutely unbelievable number. How he doesn’t speak more truth by mistake is beyond me. To put it in context, Obama’s rating was 26% mostly false or worse, and I had a problem with that. Many of Trump’s former business associates report that he has always been a compulsive liar, but now he’s the President of the United States, and that’s a problem. And this man expects you to believe him when he points at other people and says “They’re lying.”

B.) He’s an authoritarian populist, not a conservative. He advances regressive social policy while proposing to expand federal spending and federalist authority over states, both of which conservatives are supposed to hate.

C.) He pretends at Christianity to court the Religious Right but fails to live anything resembling a Christ-like life. 1 Corinthians 5:11

D.) His nationalist “America First” message effectively alienates us and removes us from our place as leaders in the international community.

E.) His ideas on “keeping us safe” are all thinly veiled ideas to remove our freedoms—he is, after all, an authoritarian first. They also are simply bad ideas.

F.) He couldn’t pass a 3rd-grade civics exam. He doesn't know what he’s doing. He doesn't understand how international relations work, he doesn’t understand how federal state or local governments work, and every time someone tries to “run it like a business” it’s a spectacular failure. See Colorado Springs’ recent history as an example. The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise And that was a businessman with a MUCH better business track record than Trump. We are talking about a man who lost money owning a freaking gambling casino.

G.) He behaves unethically and always has. As a businessman, he constantly left in his wake unpaid contractors and invoices, litigation, broken promises, whatever he could get away with.

H.) He is damaging our relationships with our best international friends while kissing up to nations that do not have our best interests in mind. To his question “Wouldn't it be great to have better relations with Russia?” The answer is Yes. But it is RUSSIA who needs to earn that, who must stop doing the things that are damaging to that relationship, or we are simply weaker for it.

I.) He has never seen a shortcut he didn't like, and you can’t take shortcuts in government. “Nuclear Option, Remove the Filibuster, I’ll change the Constitution by Executive Order…” Don…what happens when you remove the filibuster and the other side retakes the majority in the Senate? Suddenly want that filibuster back? What happens if you manage to change the Constitution by Executive Order and an anti-2A president wins the next election?

J.) He behaves and has always behaved as an unabashed racist. Yes, I’ve seen your favourite meme that claims he was never accused of racism before the Democrats…Absolutely false. Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2019 See the Central Park 5, the lawsuits and fines resulting from his refusal to lease to black tenants, the 1992 lost appeal trying to overturn penalties for removing black dealers from tables, his remarks to the house Native American affairs subcommittee in 1993. The man sees and treats racial groups of people as monoliths.

K.) He is systematically steamrolling regulations specifically designed to keep a disaster like the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis from happening again.

L.) He speaks and acts like a demagogue. He sees the Legislative and Judicial branches of government as inconveniences, blows up at criticism no matter how deserved and actively tries to countermand constitutional processes, not to mention attempts to blackmail and coerce people who are saying negative things about him.

Cont:-

Yeah, it hurt

But I'll do you all a favour, I'll close the comment section.

So a well known welsh oldtimer on here suggested I blogged why DT, the famous one
was a 'victim' of unfair treatment and all that and why I oppose the vilification and basically agree with him that it's all a big witch hunt to try bring him down and out of the way. Rite...

Now- here is the good news-
there is a few brainiacs who is not a typical rightie, deplorable
you-name-it loser from way out of america (me) who is so lost in time and space
he don't know what he is talking about this poor fella (me) -
no instead I am presenting to yous:
Mr. Jimmy Dore!
Guess where he comes from.... drumroll.... da left!
TYT (The Young Turks and all that..ring a bell?).
So now he is not only a stand up comedian but also a youtube personality.
This his full time job now. Yes those two. And he tend to bring in interesting guests as Joe Rogan do, often journalists; the real type I mean. More often he is analyzing and commenting on present day events as they unfold with his small regular studio crew.

So, instead of me telling you how crazy it all is over there- check this video out.
Here Jimmy Dore with his studio friends
lay out some of the main points of why the ones who run after Trump
simply is not trustworthy.
About 20 minutes, not the longest educational video you ever watched.