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I haven't taken one but I was in the doctor's office with my dad when he took one. It was interesting. My dad is starting to lose his short term memory but takes care of himself well otherwise. But we have to sometimes remind him of things. I think the reason they think the date question is...

I also just ran across this image of bright colors I wore at Burning Man a couple of years. It was an el-wire outfit I designed and sewed. My wife is the one who soldered the connectors onto the el-wire so it could be powered by battery packs we wore on our boots. The hat had a separate...

I wear a fairly wide range of things from very bland to somewhat noticeable. I'm a very fortunate man. My wife makes most of my short sleeve shirts and I often pick the fabric for the shirts. However this one in the picture below is a fabric she found at a quilt show. She texted me a picture...

I do think about death and hope to avoid it as long as I'm reasonably healthy and active. I do believe that we exist only within our brains carried around by your bodies (which are controlled by the brain.) So therefore I believe when our brain stops working we cease to exist and there is no...

If work acquaintance has rubbed me the wrong way I will be pleasant and say the minimum but won't ask any questions beyond a "how about you?' at the end of answering a question they asked. Sometimes I don't do that. I can't think of anyone who hasn't asked any questions but sometimes my...

Thanks! I'm not a big video watcher, I'd rather read something. The effects generated by the sun and the moon have pretty much been fairly consistent over the last few millennium so although they do affect the climate for me they don't point to the changes we've been seeing over the last dozen...

Do you have any links to articles describing which scientists are saying these things and how they're determining this?

I prefer the 500 piece puzzles with some reasonably different and easily identifiable sections. 750 pieces can be OK but are sometimes frustrating. 1000 piece puzzles are usually frustrating for me. My wife and I like taking one or two puzzles on cruises and we like to do the puzzles on sea...

It was lots of fun but very challenging. I need to get a lot of practice before I can get better results.

My wife and I love cheese but I have to limit my consumption because dairy makes me get congested. We love having cheese and meat plate from time to time. We enjoy having it with fig jam and either a very fruity Zinfandel or a port style wine. We try new cheeses whenever we travel and will...

What I’m doing today.

The bougainvillea in front of our house. It grows up trellises we've put on the front porch.

Found this online when looking it up: Property can be transferred in California without triggering a property tax reassessment (Proposition 13) through specific exclusions, primarily between spouses, registered domestic partners, or via revocable living trusts. Post-Proposition 19 (2021)...

I could be wrong, I didn't hear it from a trust attorney. There was something I heard somewhere that there was a way to pass real estate on to relatives without it being considered sold so the tax base wasn't recalculated. I don't recall where so it might be incorrect information. Thanks for...

One thing that almost no one brings up here in CA is the effect Prop 13 has had on the housing market. It was put in place to help older people get priced out of their houses with taxes so that taxes are only reassessed when a property sells. So folks who have houses put them in trusts and...