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Let the mutherfuker burn!
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yellojktIt’s okie’s birthday and we’re throwing a party!
Ever wonder what was going on the year you were born?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… it’s 1952. There’s TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There’s The Ed Sullivan Show on now. That’s the world you were born in.
It’s The Bark Side. I wonder how much Volkswagen is paying to air this during the Super Bowl. —KW
Current Events from 1952, even though Okie won’t remember them, having just been born and all.
The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC’s Comet, is put into service.
The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio
In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.
U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).
Great Smog of 1952: A “killer fog” descends on London (“Smog” for “smoke” and “fog” becomes a word).
And because we can…..Here’s to you Okie
lms
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All Things in Moderation 
OMG OMG OMG!!! Thanks, guys. I’m just leaving the office and will check this out in detail in about 30 minutes when I get home and get that bottle of wine open. This just makes my day!
BTW, my coworkers made me wear a frilly pink “My Little Pony” birthday hat all day today. (Yes, I even wore it out to lunch in public today.) It looks remarkably similar to the birthday cake above.
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Happy Birthday! Enjoy your next 60 as much as your last 60.
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It looks remarkably similar to the birthday cake above.
Well that confirms it once and for all……I’m psychic. Happy B’Day Okie. I have to leave but will check in later. BTW, I invited Sue.
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I invited Sue
Good thinking! I invited taroya and quarterback.
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okie!
Happy birthday, darlin! You look fabulous in that hat! I hope it was wonderful!
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*waving*
Hi, Sue! What do you think of the new place?
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Hi Mich,
It looks pretty good from what I have seen. I have to get re-signed up with wordpress. Something is wrong with my old account.
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Happy birthday, okie!
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I’m here, finally. (Got snagged by a faculty member before I got out of the office. Sheesh. She was very understanding when I finally gently reminded her that not only is it Friday, it’s a big birthday for me, and I’m l.e.a.v.i.n.g.)
Thanks, all! I shall be checking the above videos, etc. now. Too bad I didn’t think to take a pic of the My Little Pony hat. It was a good look for me.
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happy birthday-
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Wonderful! Love the videos and time capsule.
Is anybody here old enough and in right geographic location to remember a TV cartoon from the 50’s called “Winky Dink”? It did not air in OK, but my family lived in southern CA at the time.
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Happy Birthday!
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Thanks bsimon and Mr. Troll. You’ve been MIA for a bit, Mr. Troll. Bidness? Anyway, it’s good to “see” you.
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Glad you’re enjoying your party, okie! I got an e-mail from quarterback and he says he’ll be stopping by later–he’s just now leaving work and heading home.
Here’s to birthdays and friends! *clink*
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*clink* back at ya, michi. (Hmmm, wonder how long my comments will be coherent.) This is fun. So glad Sue made it! (Not to say that I don’t sincerely appreciate the birthday wishes from all who have stopped by. 🙂 )
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Happy Birthday, Kid!
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I’ve now had a chance to check out link provided by Mike in a comment on the “Andrew Sullivan” post earlier today. It’s NDAA guide by Ben Wittes.
It looks like good info and I recommend taking time to check it. They take the position that NDAA does not authorize the detention of US citizens as I thought it did. In fact, this post likens current misinformation on detention provisions in NDAA to the talk of “death panels” in the ACA debate. It’s an interesting read.
IMHO, the “Andrew Sullivan” comments are an excellent example of the argument against threaded comments. I contributed my share.
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I am very concerned. Follow my reasoning:
1] The Patriot Act already establishes an “existing authority” that anyone suspected of being involved in terrorist-related activities can be arrested and detained without trial.
2] By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 5, 2011 7:59pm EDT
(Reuters) – American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
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I think the NDAA gives legislative teeth to these practices, which taken together give the POTUS, directly, the power to detain me.
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Couldn’t resist passing this Steven Colbert quote on (from his “campaign” rally today in South Carolina:
“The only difference between Mitt Romney and a statue of Mitt Romney, is that the statue never changes its position.”
Ouch!!
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Okie, I’m going to read that Ben Wittes piece, but not until tomorrow. Right now I’m going to tell y’all of my husband’s latest “crack me up” shenanigans. Of course, it will be funnier if you remember the “wearing swim goggles while grating onions” story.
The other day I found a fleece that my youngest left here over Christmas that ended up in the bottom of my laundry basket. I finally made it down that far this week, and while folding the clothes in our bedroom, I came across it and set it on the handle bars of our exercise bike to mail to her the next day.
The following morning my husband was actually awake before me for a change and when I came out of the bedroom he was sitting in his leather chair reading the paper. We chatted a little and he followed me into the kitchen while I poured myself a cup of coffee. When I turned around and looked at him, I literally almost dropped my cup. He had that darn fleece on, which was about 3 or 4 sizes too small for him, his wrists were poking out about 3 inches, it barely went to his waist and I’ve never seen him wear anything so tight across the middle. I guess the look on my face must have said it all, “this shirt is kinda small for me isn’t it?”
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Also this okie
IMHO, the “Andrew Sullivan” comments are an excellent example of the argument against threaded comments.
I’m going to try, I really am. They’re so damned convenient when you’re replying to someone, but hell to follow. I’m swearing off right now (for the most part).
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LOL on the fleeced hubby visual! Wasn’t it uncomfortable to him, or was he just yanking your chain intentionally?
On threaded comments, I’m not throwing any stones. Just making an observation that going back through the comments, I realized there were substantive comments I had missed earlier because they were threaded to much earlier comments. If a thread gets long, it’s annoying to constantly have to scroll back through the whole thing. Probably would not have been the same problem for me if I had not been just checking in periodically.
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Just work, okie.
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Hope it’s going well and not just being drudgery, George! I enjoyed your commenting today; it was good to see you around.
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Haven’t seen Scott all day. Is he still working on family issues or just busy with other things? I hope the family business went well.
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I think he’s still dealing with the family issues. Other than a brief note I haven’t heard from him in a couple of days or seen him commenting. I hope it’s going well, also.
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Popping back in to give you a birthday hug, okie. I have friends here this evening, so can’t stay, but I’ll be back.
Ims, that story of hubby and the fleece is hysterical. (Good thing he didn’t put on the goggles and swim fins to complete the ensemble!)
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Hugs back, and thanks for taking time to pop in at all. Hope to see you here more often.
Later . . . .
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Okie, he wasn’t yanking my chain this time…..we’ve been cracking up for days. He said it was a little uncomfortable but he just grabbed the first thing he found in the dark. I will admit though that he likes to yank my chain. Not sure I’d have gotten through my life in one piece, especially the last four years, without him so I do appreciate his sense of humor.
I haven’t heard from Scott either. I remember when my Dad got sick and we had that conversation. They had to move from a place they loved to get closer to me and it was pretty tough on them. Just in the nick of time too. He went downhill pretty fast.
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Speaking of Elvis, I never liked him that much when I was young, but I do now. Loved that video michi. I went straight from Jerry Lee Lewis to the Beetles.
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That’s funny, lms. I’m the same re Elvis. But then, I actually was a bit late for Elvis. I think he was more my sister’s age group.
lms, did you grow up in CA? If so, do you remember the Winky Dink TV cartoon?
And kevin, LMAO. The dog video FREAKED my baby boy cat.
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Can I put a picture in a comment? I have a great one.
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I think I read something that said you could. I remember it because I liked that feature, and I don’t think we had it on blogspot. Try it!!!
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I tried but I don’t know the steps. It’s saved in MS word, any program but I know I can’t just copy and paste so I don’t know how to do it otherwise.
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I’m looking for whatever it was I read but haven’t found it yet. If you have MS Word, do you have MS Picture Manager? Maybe you could copy it to that or to Paint so you can save in a different file format, such as jpg.
After you post comment without pic, maybe you can then upload it to the comment via the “Edit Comment” editing page.
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Yeah, no problem to save as jpg in either of those programs, I just don’t know where to go from there.
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I cannot find whatever it was I thought I saw about adding images to comments. I can upload a pic from my computer to the media library here but cannot figure out how to then insert it into a comment.
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Okie, I was born in CA but we left when I was about 2 for several years. My sister was born in TX in 1953 and then we were in Illinois for a couple of years. I don’t remember it, but my husband does. I actually wasn’t much of a cartoon or tv watcher. I think the first shows I remember are Sheriff John (red light, green light) and Captain Kangaroo. I swear from that I went straight to Perry Mason because I pretty much draw a blank except for maybe shows like Art Linkletter and Ed Sullivan.
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Based on threaded comment dislike, I am repeating my suspicions of NDAA:
I am very concerned. Follow my reasoning:
1] The Patriot Act already establishes an “existing authority” that anyone suspected of being involved in terrorist-related activities can be arrested and detained without trial.
2] By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 5, 2011 7:59pm EDT
(Reuters) – American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
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I think the NDAA gives legislative teeth to these practices, which taken together give the POTUS the power to detain me.
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Happy Birthday, Okie! Keep moving so I don’t catch up to you too fast!
1952 was the year one of the three greatest electric guitars was introduced: the Gibson Les Paul. The original 52 was the “Goldtop.” Here’s what it looked like:
http://v.matrixsynth.com/2010/09/1952-gibson-les-paul-gold-top.html
(Still don’t know how to embed photos.) There were later Goldtops, but the 52 is distinctive by its white P90 pickups (soapbars) and, even more so, its “trapeze” tailpiece. Now, its true that the trapeze was a lousy design, and it was soon replaced by a better design. The soapbars were replaced by PAFs (patent applied for humbuckers). But the basic guitar that has rocked for 60 years was born that year.
One of my uncles played in bluegrass bands when he was young, and a few years ago I saw a photo of him with one of his bands. Next to him was a bandmate with a brand, spanking new 1952 Goldtop. Wow.
1952 was also the first full year of production of the second of the three greatest electric guitars: the Fender Telecaster. It’s true that versions of this axe were being sold by 1949 — the Esquire, the Broadcaster, and the “Nocaster,” and that by the summer of 1951 it had become the iconic Telecaster. But 1952 was the first full year, the year the final tweaks that made it an icon fell into place, and the year most people think of as the year the Tele roared (or twanged) onto the scene. What a year it was. The 52s, like all the Teles and predecessors of the early years, were all Blackguards (awesome nickname). They look like this.
Quite a year it was.
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qb: do you play?
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Yes, or so I claim. Actually, I play pretty well by most accounts, but I have no time to keep it up.
I have an LP and once had a Tele, but I had to sell it when the Earth was young to go to law school.
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Ah–I thought I detected the passion of a player!
I haven’t ever played electric. but I have a Goya soft string that I play classical and flamenco on, and a steel string for basic sing-along. I, too, haven’t had time to play for years, but for Christmas my landlord–who had seen the two guitars in the extra room when he came by in November to winterize the house and asked me about them–gave me strings for both. So I’m hoping to get back into the playing mode in 2012.
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Thanks, mark. Appreciate your opinion. I too still have concerns. And they are not all in NDAA.
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I too still have concerns. And they are not all in NDAA.
I think many of us do–hence lms’s (and others’) dilemma about the general election.
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Hey, qb! Thanks for stopping by! Very interesting about the 1952 guitars, and of course it was quite a year, for obvious reasons. 🙂 Are you a guitar buff?
Hope all is going well and you’re not working yourself into oblivion. On a random comment somewhere you recently mentioned a book on typesetting. Can you tell me what that book was? I recently read some excerpts from a typesetting book geared toward attorneys (creating more readable briefs, etc.).
Your thoughts on indefinite detention provisions in (or not) NDAA?
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Hey, okie! Yes, I do love guitars, and right around 1952 is when a lot of awesomeness broke out in electric guitars and basses. I believe the Fender P Bass came out then, too.
I am working into oblivion. No doubt about it. Crazy crazy times.
Yes, the book I might have mentioned is Typography for Lawyers. What a hilarious title, no? I have it right here beside me. I found the author’s website a year or two ago when I was searching for the answer to some formatting issue (probably the one-space/two-space wars). I loved his site and I think the book is great. He didn’t convert me completely from two spaces but did convince me I’m still wrong. Many lawyers are even worse at making their filings look decent than they are at writing them. I use a lot of Butterick’s advice–really as much as I can. What can I say, I am a geek, and all my colleagues confirm it.
And now for a rare confession: I still have not read the details on NDAA. It does sound troublesome. But I’ll have to read before opining.
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Awesome, same book! Which coincidentally was recommended to me some time back by my geeky attorney friend with whom I had lunch today. He has the strangest practice combination I think I have ever encountered. Half his practice is intellectual property law and the other half is federal death penalty defense.
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I love Elvis! Saw him in concert in Phoenixin 1976, and even though he was fat it was a fantastic show. One of my favorite albums of all time is Elvis, Live at Madison Square Garden. It was recorded in ’72 I think and he sounds great.
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WOOHOO! I inserted an image into a comment.
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okie
okay, so do tell how you did it.
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First, upload your image to the media library here. [Go to Dashboard, click on Media, click on “Add New” at top, select and upload file.]
Once the image is in the media library, click on “edit” underneath the file type of the image you want to insert — it will appear when you hold your cursor over the image in the list — scroll down and copy the URL of the image.
You can then insert it in your comment using the URL, either by typing the html code in the comment using the URL as the src or by clicking on Edit Comment on an existing comment and using the image icon on the toolbar.
I’m sure there are some shortcuts so this process isn’t so involved, but haven’t gotten that far.
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Thanks for figuring that out……I was too lazy………..but I’m still older than you. 🙂
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Oh boy, fell asleep while blogging.
Gotta crawl of to bed. Night okie, and all.
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Good night, qb. You must badly need some sleep!
lms, html code to insert image is:
img src=”URL”> adding appropriate carat at left.
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Slight correction on the above….I think. Don’t we need to put the forward slash before right carat?
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Be sure to have “http://” in the URL.
lms, so are you going to upload your photo after all that?
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Michi,
Just saw your reply before signing off.
I used to play a lot of steel string, but I’ve never had a really nice one. I’ve been playing mostly electric for some years now. I do enjoy playing classical, too, but I fake it, and I don’t own one.
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Wow, qb–get some rest, friend!
okie–you’re one smart old lady! (/snark). I think that wins the award for figuring out how to do something new here on WP. I’m going to start work on the FAQ page tomorrow, so your timing is awesome. And now we must see a picture of Mr lms!!!
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Are you snarking about “smart,” “old,” or “lady”?
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Not smart, because I know you are. . . and not lady, because you are a perfect Southern one. . . so that leaves. . .
😀
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Heh. There are those who probably would contest the “lady” part. Not the “smart” part, of course.
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You did it!!!
So what’s the story? Is that an interloper I see?
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Just fyi, you can include sizing in the html code. But I’m not that good at html so it would be easier for me to edit size before I uploaded the image to the media library.
I think it’s fun discovering new stuff like this.
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From internet:
In order to display a size other than the actual size of the image, it is necessary to add width and height attributes to the image tag.
The code below will reduce the display size of the above image by 20%. I have used a calculator to subtract 20% from the original size of image which is 360 x 240.
HTML Image Size Code
img src=”URL” width=”288″ height=”192″> Add left carat.
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Where would you insert the image size code?
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After the end quote following the URL, insert:
[space]width=”nnn”[space]height=”nnn”
followed by the closing carat. nnn=number for size. Look at original size and reduce the numbers proportionately.
Does this make sense?
*Edited for correction.
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That makes sense to me now. I went ahead and tried it after reducing the image size before saving to the media library. You’re awesome. Now I’m going to go delete pics from the library and my comment below.
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Funny when I scrolled through the media library I found 4 copies of a gallup poll I was trying to put into a post earlier this week. It’s a little old now (the poll) so I deleted them. We have go to get busy on the faq page, but who has time?
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It’s old lady bedtime. Thanks all for an AWESOME birthday party! I had a great day.
michi, I’ll send you something tomorrow for FAQ page.
Good night all.
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Nite okie, I’m not far behind. Glad you enjoyed the party. Manana
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‘night okie and lms–this was fun! Who’s going to have a birthday next so we can celebrate??
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Nite Michi
Don’t look at me, now that I’ve applied for SS……I’m not celebrating anymore. 😉
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Mine may be the last one we celebrate if the world ‘ends’ when the Mayan calendar recycles.
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