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If you haven't noticed, the internet is saturated. One place of saturation is the website Pinterest. What seemed like a good idea to 'pin things of interest' has become never-ending pages of repetition that link to other pages of never-ending repetition.

There is no end to it. Twitter is not far behind where you scroll down and down and down and cannot find the end of whatever you started looking for with the same retweeted BS over & over.

Years ago my customers would email links to a website called houzz. In it were beautiful photos of kitchens and furniture settings. That's where they got ideas... the ones they shouldn't be using. The example is their kitchen 9 feet by 8 feet, barely large enough to put all the requirements of a functioning kitchen and they are looking at the 'wish list' kitchen photos probably 15 feet by 12 feet asking me to design a separate refrigerator and freezer combo that requires 6 feet and a hearth style range that needs 5 feet.
I remember telling a client, the kitchen in the photo is much larger than your kitchen. It's not possible to fit both. Either you get the cooking and no refrigeration or the refrigeration and no cooking. You decide.

This week, I went on a sales call. Townhouse with a really small kitchen and she's on a budget. The customer did her research and showed me pictures from Pinterest. One was a pullout gadget that was all expense and little function.

I'm sure that gadget was pinned a gazillion times and every salesman was asked to incorporate them into a design simply because it looked so good.

I'm getting calls, letters and emails from people and companies all reminding me about new COVID-19 changes they have implemented. Enough already. The air conditioning serviceman will arrive with masks, gloves and booties. I know who to call when my a/c breaks, I don't need to be reminded every week.
I haven't purchased from Guitar Center in a year and now they will deliver to my car when I order online. 2 emails a week telling me this.
Time to get out the bug spray because they are crawling out of the woodwork now...

Online, surgical masks in quantity are around $0.75 each. A local vendor has packs of 4 at $12.50 and I doubt they will sell many at those prices. They are cashing in on corona... or at least attempting?
A friend told me Walgreens now has stock and selling a box of 20 masks for $12.
That's the right price.

Tag.) Unfolding [ their ] block chain...
One gold note at a Time....
.....heathens / 21 pilots
The Timing../ jets ...Overhead....
..singing in the wreckage / blk box recorder.
..... Standby...
Gold / interference
...stay gold / 1st aid kit.
Honey / goldsboro.......) gold finger / bassey
I R E / Adekunle gold
Gold Digger / West f. Foxx
G O L D . Mine / take 6....} rev. 3:18...4:4.
... synthesis.} after the gold Rush / young
A R ] .money in the grave / drake
F U L L. COMMUNISM / downtown boys.
....eYe will repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guardhouse than my own..- no.4 ..usmc
F...Final separation / bulldozer
E....dirt./ alice in chains.
D...they threw us all in a trench & stuck a monument on Top./ L I A R S.
...eYe will quit my post only when properly relieved..-5.

There's a rule for salesmen to avoid discussions of politics (and religion) when making a sale so I do my best to follow those guidelines. If possible before our first meeting, I'll research my clients so I know their background. Many have internet history about career, education and political orientation. Some have relocated from the North or want to discuss reasons why they are in Florida. I don't inquire things like that and it's something they would have to mention.

A few years ago, I hit the Facebook page of a prospective client that creeped me out!
She and her husband were active in the Tea Party movement and posted some cosplay images with weapons torturing someone with a rubber mask of the (then) current president.

I took the meeting information, made concept drawings and budget prices. All of this was submitted to the general contractor who connected me with his client.
The job was extensive on his part as he had to add a second floor that required structural changes, so I knew my part of the project was financially small.
After a few weeks of no response, I called the contractor who said they got a lower bid from another company. Phew!

Let's face it, the cost of living is all but prohibitive in our big cities. yet young people flock to these places, to work toward a career, for networking, to explore the chances for romance, and so on. A major expense is space for work and home life. We see these young folks, and ever those in advanced age, living in roommate situations, or at home, if parents are so situated. And there are the homeless.
Lock downs of various sorts have many people working at home, a trend which had already begun over the past decades. There are many spinoffs in terms of real estate that may result from these changes. The costs for renting expensive office space are already dropping. And conversions from workspace, to living space, are already on the increase. Supply and demand rules of economics may benefit many, who could use it most, unlike the owners/corporations, who will lose, but such is business..
While some, especially families and some elderly, may opt for suburbia, where home purchase is still possible for many, for the above reasons, this option is less ideal for younger people.
So one door closes, and others open---perhaps literally. Even the disaster that was democrat ruled Detroit, is returning to a non automobile manufacturing renaissance. Abandoned homes were going for pennies on the dollar. And buyers of diverse backgrounds move in to renovate, and to become homeowners for the first time.
Sure, the important productivity and innovation Jones of the face-to-face may suffer, but ways will be found to substitute, and even to restore the same.
Sometimes brutal illnesses, and Capitalism, can provide hope.

Tag.) Unwarranted Fed. Objective

Ride / 21 pilots
..bird flu / M I A } rest of the story...
Jet Lag / simple plan..} see Y. Shimatsu.
...........*.4 0 signs // sings \ g...sins...*.......
Hate to say I told you so / the Hives
..39.. country grammar../ Nelly
38..fill me in. / David.....} Psalm 9 / trouble.
3 7.. the Time is Now../ moloko...
...36..Lost art of keeping a...../ Q S A...
35..Come On let's GO./ Broadcast
...34..National Anthem / Radiohead....
33..D A N G E R / mystikal...
32.. playground love / A I R.
..31..music is my radar / blur...
XXX...kite / U 2....29..NYC / interpol...
28..Facts of Life / black box recorder
{ kite..kit...steal.. playing...must.....} 911 phonix
...27..NY, NY / Adams....
26..the Leanover / life w/o buildings.
25..what would you do ? / City high.
..24.. pyramid song / Radiohead
23.. Takeover / J z.
2 2. Lights, camera, Action./ Mr.Cheeks
21..Imitation of Life / REM.
X X..We need a resolution / Aaliyah.
...part 2..Cause = Time / broken social scene...
.... pandemic / comethazine
Teen Age Icon / the Vaccines
.. XENOCIDE / Aversions Crown
....b.. Xenocide / O S Card..[ the novel
$ ¥N.} ..FULL COMMUNISM / downtown boys.
P.3....next Edt.....

Continuation of [ their ] bull- Chain....
14.. covert contracts / control Top
X I I I....Friday the 13th / atomic Rooster
12.....50 words for snow / Bush
11...under the pressure / war on drugs
X...... isolation /. Alter bridge.
9...this might ] H U R T / 9 inch nails
8. A T E.( Airborne Toxic Event..../ Sum Time
................... round midnight...
7...reality / lost frequencies.
6..blue lines... / massive attack.
V....work from home / 5th Harmony
4....Four horsemen / Metallica.
3....here to stay / new Order
2....you better think Twice / Poco
1.. Tribulations / L C D. Soundsystem
O..zero / imagine dragons...
..... The my$tery of Iniquity......
Z...zero dark thirty / Aesop rock
...y......blue lines../ MASSIVE ATTACK
X...the Airborne Toxic Event / sum time round midnight.....

Recently, both US & EU airlines ratchet up rhetoric against Qatar Airways, Emirates, Etihad.

Several US and european air carriers have once again accused airlines based in Qatar and the UAE of unfairly competing for passengers, and are asking American and EU politicians to restrict the Gulf carriers’ access to their market.

American and EU airline executives appear to be escalating matters by asking lawmakers to renegotiate the so-called open-skies agreements that the US & EU has with Qatar, the UAE and many other countries.

"THE RESPONSE OF THE QATAR AIRWAYS CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO US AND EU AIRLINES WAS BITING, ACCORDING TO HIM THE GULF STATES WILL NEVER FLY A ROTTEN AIRPLANE THAT IS 35 YEARS OLD"

Directly challenging the average age of planes being flown by USA and EU air carriers.

Sculpted into beautiful pieces of jewelry or as a frame around a picture, gold has just about always had a special kind of hypnotic effect on most men and women.( please note: I said MOST)

Talk about gold and rest assured you will probably have the 'good, bad and ugly' as a tentative audience.
I want to purchase one of these beautiful rings and would appreciate all the expert opinions as to whether the price is reasonable in your country or not, or if you think its really way too cheap?
Ok here they are:

This one is about $70 with 4 diamonds - at your place would you say thats expensive?

At $54 would you say this 4(genuine) ruby ring is too expensive or fairly priced?

How about this beaut for $79? With CZ.

And this stunner with a blue sapphire also at $79 - Cheap or?

They all have a gold content of 375 out of 1000.

By voorbaat dank.