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I try my best to stay out of the faking an Oreo wars. I mean, are they really faking an Oreo or just improving on the whole experience? Is an Oreo by any other name a Hydrox? 
wanders off to find more coffee...

Thank you, Kagome, but no worries. The incident happened on the east coast and I’m on the west coast. And the person who got shot is out of ICU now, recovering in hospital.
He was going berserk with firearms outside a residence, shooting at other houses and at the cops when they arrived, and did not obey orders to put down his weapons. The police up here do not regularly carry firearms and only use handguns as an absolute last ditch measure. And they are trained to shoot to immobilise not to kill.

I know, Desi. I’m lucky to live in a country where the police are not armed on the daily, and we have a relatively low crime rate. 

Well, fortunately the thief was dim enough to give out her real name and number, and it ended well for you. I’m not surprised she didn’t apologize, though. Anyone who’d steal a phone isn’t going to get gold stars for good manners to begin with. But unfortunately, it’s not helping with my plot notion, because I was kind of hoping for dazzling detective work and not self-incrimination by the thief. Ah, well. There’s always “Person of Interest” to stream for inspiration. 
I back up my phone to my desktop monthly, so I don’t lose pictures I might have taken. I also back up my contacts list. That’s really most of what I care about on the phone anyway. As for my mother’s phone, the battery was struggling to hold a charge, and it was one of those inexpensive Jethro phones for seniors, with giant buttons and no ability to use apps. If someone has it, bad cess to them. I’m a believer in karma, and she’s a patient bitch.  

ok so to answer you @BronxWench, the person who had my phone must have given cricket her name and number because that was the only way i got my phone back. Everyone (including me) thinks she was going to try to get the phone restarted or take the sim card out and put it in a new phone when she couldnt access it.  i couldnt trace my phone cuz it was off. When she  tried to turn it on and off again thinking she could somehow get past my passcode to even access my phone. when my phone boots up, it says cricket right there. She didnt even appologize to me for taking my phone. 
Yea i am now very paranoid now cuz this happened. I happen to use it for work to help stupid customers find what they are looking for at the store (ahh the joy of retail), i dont bank on my phone but i play pokemon go and a couple of my apps that i buy coins from are in my phone. but i am getting them off so incase this happens again.

Congrats on getting your phone back!  (Don’t know the odds, but I figure they don’t favor the owner...)

lol I read about the spiders.  I’m not bothered by spiders, so that doesn’t worry me.  Well, as long as the deadly ones stay outside.
Today was a day of sunshine!  Actually sunshine!  Man that feels good.  Some areas got 1 metre of rain in a 7 day period, which is about 3.3 feet.

omg a plague of spiders and mice! remind me never to visit austraila! but be safe Melrick! guess i wont complain about the weather either

omg a plague of spiders and mice! remind me never to visit austraila! but be safe Melrick! guess i wont complain about the weather either

omg a plague of spiders and mice! remind me never to visit austraila! but be safe Melrick! guess i wont complain about the weather either

omg a plague of spiders and mice! remind me never to visit austraila! but be safe Melrick! guess i wont complain about the weather either

Ah yes, the plague of mice, I forgot about them. lol  Not the first time we’ve had massive plagues of mice (check out youtube for older videos if you like lol) and this won’t be the last.  It seems to be something that happens every few years, with the right conditions.  A locust plague is probably next, and then the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse can finally show up.

I think I might stop grumbling about the weather here for a bit…   Well, unless it snows in April, in which case I reserve the right to grumble without restraint.
But mice… :shudders:  I get maybe a dozen at the lake house every winter, and I think that’s awful. What you’re getting is apocalyptic! 

If they get any friskier, it sure does, Desiderius  

Think this love story belongs in the celebrity section, right?

Decide on your preferred age and each time you have a birthday you turn into your favorite age again. There is risk that eventually your chronological age eventually will intrude on reality by giving you physical traits that does not agree...but then it is just to remind yourself that mental age is what counts. A friend has the explicit goal to turn 50 without becoming a grown up...seems to work wonders for her state of mind.

Myself I have decided to stay at the age of 42-ish for quite some while. The COVID year should not count...

Or do what I do: forget how old you are.  I’m 40-something, that’s as much as I remember.

lol no thanks @Desiderius Price!!! 

Do what I do. Only count the decades.  

lol no thanks @Desiderius Price!!! 

Would a higher number help? 

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it

I got 15 people this year. there was a kid dressed up as the ‘stay puft’ from ghostbusters! i froze my butt of but it was worth it