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    Housekeeping by Yourself

    The sliders are a wonderful saver of one's body. really useful. housecleaning in general.....i should hire someone to come and do it but relunctant to pay for something i feel i should do myself, no matter how poorly ! takes a lot longer than 10 yrs ago and way longer than 20 years ago
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    Our Natural Resources Are Running Out

    I think what we have done is exhaust the source of easy and cheaply accessed resources that are key to the state of our civilization. Oil and nat gas for example are all there in the ground but at what cost and once extracted at those costs can consumers afford them. Soil over use has been a...
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    Key mental abilities can actually improve during aging

    Finally some benefits to aging studied ! It's long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view...
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    Colonoscopy, thoughts?

    I've had quite a few colonscopies to the point I don't worry about them. Usually have a good chat with the surgeon and procedure nurse about this and that. Prep can be annoying but even that I've been able to get through it ok. Taste is not the greatest but way better than the Inka Cola I...
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    Schedules in retirement.

    For me its the dog's schedule first. Then i fit in reading and chores around that. slow and easy and try to enjoy the day as it comes
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    Drop in Greenhouse Gas Caused Global Cooling 34 Million Years Ago

    from the small bit i've read the wobble on spin of the earth affects sun exposure. as well as i think the sun has its ups and downs. A lot to be learnt. Read the Holocene era after the last ice age has been a rare period of climate stability. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene)...
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    Gold to silver ratio

    With the trillions in debt globally, gov'ts doing what they can to weaken their currency for trade reasons precious metals a very good insurance policy. I tend to view gold and silver as money and the various fiat currencies out there as play money for gov't manipulation. As i believe...
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    Can you smell the smoke in your area? Do you have wildfire fears?

    Northern Ontario wild fires are if the wind is right sending smoke south. Lots of air quality warnings and very hazy. Really noticed with my solar system it takes and extra hour to get to a full charge. When i lived in the Miami area there were often wild fires in the area. Closed the...
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    What do you eat for breakfast?

    Never a usual breakfast except for the coffee. today: hash browns, filet of trout and an orange. tomorrow will be a small steak, hash browns and another orange.
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    Remembering Hiroshima

    It must have been a many nuanced decision with a lot of unknowns at the time. By 1945 most of Japan's navy and airforce were destroyed but whether intelligence gathering knew the extent is difficult to pin point. Army was heavily involved in china since 1937 with the bulk of its forces...
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    Memories from your teen years

    I think first year of high school and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road came out and stuck in my mind since then. Working up the courage to ask a girl to dance to bennie and the jets......
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    Is society collapsing?

    I think societies are always changing. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. It is not always an upward trend. I recall talking to a senior gov't official who worked in the 1970s-1980s. Productivity was way up and the government had a surplus of income to toss at problems to...
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    The wind farm and wheat fields today...

    Wheat looks like its coming along nicely ! Wind farm looks similar to one's here in . Lovely day !
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    The Great Lake States.

    always greener on the other side of the fence. algae blooms again in Lake Erie this year. ontario with all the great lakes around the southern portion have one of the highest rate of tornado incidents after the american mid west and south. Some of the snow squalls off the lakes are amazing...
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