I had to think about it and a post about sharpening knives brought it to mind.
Back around 82, one night I was a 'little' bit drunk in my apartment and I decided to sharpen some knives (at 1am). Most of that isn't worth mentioning. But along the way, I wondered why butter knives were always so dull. So I picked one and sharpened the Heck out of it. Stopped when it no longer pulled while shaving body hair off my arms. I think I got it sharper than my razor was. Finished and happy, I put the knife back in the drawer with the other butter knives, went to sleep and forgot all about it. For at least 3 days. On day 3 or 4 I accidentally grabbed the same knife and tried to butter some bread with it. Needless to say two pieces of buttered bread and a fair amount of my blood fell onto the kitchen floor. Only then I remembered.
Gess Smartass, I wasn't worried, in fact if I ever get a broadband connection and a camera so I can skype/video chat, feel free to do that when speaking with me. I probably won't complain too much.
I haven't found anyone within 50 miles of me on CS whose profile inspired me enough to contact them. Those were physical future people who sadly, just don't exist. All of those here whose persona (and profile or blogs or forum comments) inspired me enough to reach out to them live too far away for a physical interaction to occur. Sad but true thus far.
That brings me to the reality. All will be pen pals. That is the future of the relationship. With that definition established, those with no future are defined as those whose writings or profile is later found to contain non-truth. Sad, but block and delete, maybe a heads up to CS as well. Happy I am that such pen-pal failures are rare. Two from here actually made it to my FaceBook page and me to theirs. I know the names of their children and whose birthday is coming up, and they know what makes me tick and the names of my cats and we share personal advice about each others current significant other. What greater success can a Pen-Pal have?
I don't mind other men writing stupid. This site like life, is a competitive environment. Only one of us gets the beauty queen/princess. If someone writes something dumb then they are no longer a contender to worry about, assuming the princess sees their comment. That's cool with me.
Jean we would need a picture. Even a picture of an intact web would allow identification as different types of spiders spin different kinds of webs with species specific patterns. For what it is worth, web spiders rarely leave their web. So the odds of it suddenly leaping off the web to eat you are terribly slim.
The cupcakes are gone and jury is in. Jiffy mix is better. 1) less milk required to prepare, 2) browns quicker (because of lower moisture from less milk?), 3) has many more dried blueberries in it. Also tastes just a hair better in my opinion. The winner of the cook and taste comparison is Jiffy.
You want him to be rich enough to travel the world with you? Well that knocks 97% of the male population out before you even meet them. Then you have an age filter too. Goodbye to another 90%. Yeah, you will have to keep searching. Of course you need to understand the young guy with enough money to pay for two to travel the world, he has some stringent requirements too.
Wealthy people tend to hang with other wealthy people, or hire someone who, er for want of better phraseology, meets certain minimum physical and attitude requirements as a paid travel companion. Such companions are often dropped (and stranded too) when a different selection becomes available.
So for best happiness, give thought to dropping the travel the world together scenario and give thought to sharing life together instead.
LoL, in the publishing house I work at these days we have huge stacks of paper rolls 50 feet high. Often the contractor of an upcoming book will specify the exact paper type they wish the book to be published on. However the book may not be released for years down the road, so the paper is purchased early to avoid inflation in cost, then stored. Sometimes years and years till it is time to print the book. Let me say because of the usually open overhead doors at the delivery and shipping bays and shipments from overseas, we have every kind of spider, snake, mouse and rat you can imagine. They used to have cats, but after a beloved mom cat and her kittens got trapped between some rolls of paper and starved and it made the newspaper, per the lawyers, no more cats are allowed. I usually don't kill any of the spiders or snakes. They serve a purpose in God's Universe. Even the Brown Recluse, the Copperhead and the Black Widow. Not sure how I would have handled the Mamba someone encountered a few years ago, but think if it wasn't actually being aggressive the fork lift wheels would not have been my first choice of a solution.
My happy thing for today is home made blueberry cupcakes which I do not have to share with anyone but the cats (they like theirs with butter melted onto it).
We all have dreams. One should pick the business first. One should buy their own plane ticket too. Qualifying for a Visa is also helpful. While here, a true photo is a really good beginning.
I would hope that male was smart enough to not let that female escape without at least setting up a date with her.
A few years ago I set up a wildview camera in a camouflaged hidden location facing the road with a solar box for power and made some videos of what happens on the road. I was somewhat bemused by some of the occasional pedestrian antics it revealed, but nothing that good. :)
I am torn between being a tall thistle with a gentle, beautiful flower hidden behind the thorns, or a Queen Ann's Lace. I will be an exposed pretty Queen Ann's Lace growing tall and serene over the rest of the flowers. Please do not mow me down in your search for the perfect lawn.
@ Raphael He was absolutely correct. There are Earthquakes happening in every industry and hobby. Why go to the local mom and pop's hardware store to have them order a tool or a part with delivery in 3 to 4 weeks when you can go to Lowes or Home Depot and probably find it there, or just go to Amazon or Ebay and have one delivered the next day for a reasonable cost? This situation murdered our local hardware store. A True Value replaced them and even that chain struggles hard to guess what they need to keep in stock.
I know I had an old (1902) pistol someone had taken apart and lost some (many) key parts of. I therefore got it very cheaply in the late 70s. Gun Parts listed all of the parts, but had very few actually in stock. Similar with Jack First and Brownell, and there I was stuck until about 2000 and the growth of the Internet. World wide queries on some blogs where people who like such things lurk offered not only the missing parts, but at a variety of price ranges and some had dozens and wanted me to buy all of them. LoL. By 2001 the gun was restored, tested and gee whilikers, it sure is a nice safe queen (and I may add one of my few really good investments, being worth working over 100 times the $30 purchase price 'cause only a very few were made).
Old coins and stamps are another very good, for instance. Before Inet connectivity, you were either stuck with the local market place, local shows and mail order magazines, or you traveled the country by car seeking what you wanted. So everyone did a little price fixing and some stuff was high in cost. Pre Civil war coins in better than fair condition, fuhgedabout it. You couldn't afford them. Today, with the Net? Buy 10.
Angel, hi. I know about them. I hold membership in several numismatic groups. Auctions can take weeks and months. I wanted to go someplace this weekend. :(
@ Johnny, although 22 karat the value of the gold in a 'common' US pre-Civil War, one dollar ($1) gold piece is less than 30% of the collector value (on paper anyway) of the coin. Likewise with silver at $20 per Troy ounce, a pristine Morgan Dollar minted in Carson City (90% pure) is usually worth over 100 times the silver value or several thousand times the face value. Even a more common 1895 O (New Orleans Mint) is worth usually 300 - 600 times the silver value. Most pre-World War I US silver and gold coins were melted down by the US Treasury to pay war debts or given as bullion shipments to other governments. So the percentage of those surviving is low. And the number of the coins that were already rare because only small numbers were minted at this or that US Mint in a given year is much smaller, while the number of those still in very good or better condition is laughably small. In several instances individuals have the only known specimen of a given year type from a certain mint and such coins trade in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. So would you really want to trade it for $16 based on the silver price or $50 for the gold price?
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