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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.

Ekaterina Duntsova – the next president of RF?



“JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST
A mother of three, 40-year-old Ekaterina Duntsova lives in Rzhev (55,000 inhabitants), the second largest city in the Tver region bordering the Moscow region.
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The biggest news of the last months in Russia and among every one else, who is interested in Russian Federation. She is running for a president of RF. She’s against the war.

Now it’s known, that she’s been denied some procedure to continue here move. Do you watch? Do you care? Do you support? I do.

God,s Mercy is biger than your mistakes, it mean is righteous without mistakes,is Perfect.
He is able to forgive your sins and save you from sin and from evil !
So you who want to be saved,repent of your sins and keep good yourself and so you will go in heaven and be saved.In heaven is real happiness and peace.
Love God with all heart..., and love your neighbours as yourself(love all people).
And so you shall have life and it lead you to salvation.

God is good and is love, anyone who do love and do good:mean he is from God .
nice day.

Never is a strong word. Often there's some bad mojo attached to saying never... when you do something and use the word never, the situation could change making you the fool.
Try to use it sparingly.

Probably the first example I recall, was in high school and my classmate Billy was turned around to me bragging how he never did homework. A few seconds after the words left his lips, the teacher said "Billy, I want you come come up to the blackboard and show us how you solved problem number 3 in last nights assignment."

“Constitutional” refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States.

Merry Christmas everyone! Go Bless you!

IMHO most of these bloviators seem to know little about the USA in any respect. It escapes me that these haters rent so much space in their heads to potus 45? I welcome all comments related to this blog's title.

Merry Christmas everyone! Go Bless you! Peace be with you.

I have long been wanting to travel and to see the world. Most of my life, I haven't had the financial opportunity to pay for my own holidays, but now with me working, I can finally save up and enjoy holidays overseas. It started with the United States back in May. I am still blown away by the fact that it was back in May. I feel like I have just been there last month. Anyway!

Now that I have a stable income, I can now plan ahead for the next three years of holidays. They are as follows:

Italy with a friend next year. We're still debating on where we are going to go. I want to go to Rome, but my friend doesn't know where she wants to go. We'll get there soon.

In 2025, it's back to the USA again, to visit a friend in New York and take part in an American Halloween. Hopefully that'll be a fun time. I need to look at when it's best to book the flight. I might book it this time next year. The last time I went to the US, I went with Lufthansa via Frankfurt. This time I am planning on booking a direct flight from Copenhagen to New York, and luckily there is an airline which offers just that. I am willing to spend more on a direct flight.

In 2026, I'm heading to Southeast Asia, to a country in the western Pacific Ocean: The Philippines. I have always wanted to visit, and now that I have the money and ability to do so, I am definitely taking that trip. The Philippines is a big country, so there are many places to visit. I just need to find the right city to go to.

With all this holiday planning, I am thinking back to where I have been on holidays or layovers. It turns out, that I have been to quite a few places. Sweden, Norway, the UK, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, France, Malta, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, the United States of America and the Netherlands.

One of these countries is one that I never want to visit again. To me, it's extremely overrated and I hate the capitol city. If you want to know, it's Paris. In movies and on promotional videos, Paris looks wonderful. Some might even say magical. But spend a few days there, and you're extremely disappointed with how filthy it is, how crime infested it really is and just how run down things are. Prague, on the other hand, was absolutely fantastic - even if I got drunk on absinthe and passed out..

Anyway - For my next three holidays, I need to save up as much as I can. So far, it's going pretty well.

An absolutely superb documentary film on what happened in the Arizona 2022 mid-term elections. Please watch

I'm surprised no one picked up on this, but the suit that Trump wore in Georgia when he was arrested, booked and posed for the famous mugshot has been cut into pieces and being sold. This is similar to the coffee mugs and T-shirts promotion sold bearing his photo.
Last week, it was reported that Trump is offering 'pieces of Trump' in the way of cuttings of his blue suit, but you have to buy 47 $99 NFT's

That amounts to $4,653 and includes dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trump himself.
It's an online purchase and the fine print states there's no guarantee you will get either.

Appropriate, isn't it?