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That's true. 17 or 18 years ago, I bought a couple of arts & crafts style end tables at Crate & Barrel for $100.00 each. They're still solid; the finish looks nice; the cleaning lady polishes them from time to time. All they have to do is sit there, look nice and hold a lamp.

Rod and Rob. (jk)

The only music group I felt passionate enough about to acquire all their albums was the Moody Blues.

Reminds me of a gay bar I went in a few times in Germany. It was in the city of Zweibruecken, which is very close to the French border. It was called "Chez Madame." And in fact, there was a "Madame," a German woman who pretended to be French. You rang the doorbell. Madame would look out through a peekhole and then let you in, and welcome you in as though you were coming into her home. And she spoke only French. She wore a long hostess gown and the place was sort of fake elegant. The way you met people there was to ask Madame to introduce you. It was the oddest thing I have ever seen. The crowd was really mixed. Lots of Germans and also lots of French guys.

LMAO- that's funny.

But cooking sous vide eliminates the problem of AGEs (advanced glycation endproducts).

I'm thinking about sous vide as a way to perk up the limited fare on the cutting regime I'm starting - e.g. a lean steak, cooked to medium rare with ginger, herbs and garlic and topped with pickled green onion and cucumber.

I don't do reviews very much. But my repeat business to good providers speaks volumes.

I love my office desk. I bought it at an antique store in Santa Rosa. It's teak, designed and manufactured in Denmark in the late 60s. I don't know if I believe her, but the dealer said it was a museum piece because the designer is famous.

I've had furniture reupholstered. Even though it costs nearly as much as replacing, I would still do it for pieces that I liked. All of our furniture is pretty nice quality and I like all of it, so I will get it reupholstered as needed.

Getting upholstered furniture reupholstered costs nearly as much as buying new.

Fabric lampshades have sort of a lifespan. We have a few silk lampshades. One is white, and looks fine. But another is black and long ago faded to gray from sun exposure. But the fabric is still strong and in good condition.

I suppose it's a good rule if you want your furniture to always look brand new.

I think the useful life of a mattress my be about ten years. Homes with children are hard on furniture, but otherwise, how would you wear it out after only ten years?

I was talking with a native guy about this, and he said that false negatives are also a problem. I don't remember how he explained it exactly but it also had to do with the small sample of Native genotypes.

The only applicable box, besides 'Asian' is 'Other.' In text ads, sometimes Indian men self-identify as 'Desi.' I like East Asians and I like Desis. So if I was expecting an East Asian and a Desi showed up, it would be fine with me. What about Pakistanis? South Asians, I guess. Pakistanis, when they speak English, have similar accents to Indians. And then there are Bangladeshis. South Asian again, I guess.

Weekdays I'm out of bed by 5:30A. Weekends I sleep in until 6:30 or so. I think I remember being able to sleep in until 11 or noon, but I'm not sure.

I had mine done. Like Elizabeth Warren's family, there is a story in my family about a native ancestor. Same scenario- no documentation, just stories. The 23andme assay revealed my ancestry to be 100% European. I did the math once and the story didn't make sense to me. My mothers family are supposed to have emigrated to Canada during the French Revolution. My great-grandfather was born in Canada in 1822. So that would leave a time window of 30 years or so in which the native ancestor could have been brought into the family. Not impossible, but less likely when you are not dealing with a long span of history.

Doesn't that go without saying. If one says, "I go for black guys," clearly you don't go for every black guy on the planet. But the whole question of race forces us into these predicaments where we feel we have to go to ridiculous lengths to clarify what we meant. A black guy who I dated was terrified of being objectified because he was black, even though he himself dated only white guys. So if he got any indication that a guy he was dating was into him because of his skin color, he would drop them flat, no explanation, just walk away. I think it was a ridiculous position, because how can you separate someone from their skin color? Even if you're not someone with a fetishistic attraction to a particular skin color, how really can you separate a man's skin color from who he is. It's part of who he is.

I If he was going to kiss you, it was ill-considered of him to surprise you with tongue-in-mouth. But if it had been preceded by a fair amount of erotic contact, I think I would have welcomed it. I've had everything from prissy therapeutic massages from straight guys to erotic massages that turned into full-on sucking, fucking and rimming on the massage table. I guess there's a time and a place.

My gym is packed with handsome Asian muscle boys like him. I think they're all straight though.

He's a different color from day to day.

This isn't the first time you and I have locked horns. We're like oil and water.

Yes, the latest neuroscience is showing that a behavioral change initiates remodeling of the CNS almost immediately, even in the aged.

I like porcelain too, but I like the transparent look of a redhead's skin. And the blood vessels showing through are sort of green.