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Except that I can't stand or walk for more than a minute or two without terrible back and/or leg pain. (Sciatica and lumbar radiculopathy). I spend my life sitting down. And I've been an insomniac my whole life. My parents used to go to bed after the 11PM news & my sister and I would stay up to watch Carson. But thank you.

You must be a fun first date.

Thank you, but I'm thinking of trying the Trump Covid plan... one day my health problems will just disappear. It'll be like a miracle. In fact, I think I'm turning the corner right now.

United Healthcare has been emailing and calling me since June or July, bugging me to schedule an in-home wellness visit. They offered a gift card as a bribe. They started at $15, went to $25, then $50, then a few weeks ago they went to $75 and I caved. She was just here. It took an hour. My blood pressure was normal for years despite my weight, but has been steadily increasing the last few. Today it was 140/90. I've also graduated from pre-diabetic to diabetic. My A1C was 6.7 . I had a slight amount of glucose in my urine, but that was true the last time I had a physical about 3 years ago. (When she called last night she asked me to collect a sample-- thank God I save wonton soup containers.) And she left me a free 'thank you' gift-- a set of 3 square plastic food storage tubs. I have a few million of them already. The gift card is supposed to come in about 3 weeks. Now I need to make an appointment for a physical. She came with a bag that had so many different things in it. She changed her gloves at least 10 times, sanitized her gloved hands just about as often, and set up her own garbage bag to discard any used item... which she took when she left, of course. The timing worked well... I had 3 packages to return to Amazon, but am out of printer ink, so I asked if the UPS driver could bring me the shipping labels. It was from 3 different orders, so three different boxes and labels (they should enjoy the one item in the Walmart box). Anyhoo, I knew I'd have to interact with the driver so the right label went on the right box, so I was hoping he'd come before she did, or just after she left, so I wouldn't have to make her wait and also introduce another factor into the equation. He showed up 10 minutes after she left (while I was typing the second paragraph, in fact). Oh, United Healthcare sent me a well-at-home kit the other day with a thermometer, a dose of Tamiflu, and an at-home covid test (with a warning not to open until directed, as it has to be activated by a doctor). I'm also not supposed to open the Tamiflu until directed. There's a number to call for either if I start feeling symptoms. I was thinking of trying to start a diet after New Year's anyway. I guess the next 10 days will be a pigfest, as I've been stocking up on stuff in the event this covid wave gets totally out of hand here. Actually, given how much junk food I have, it might take until early-mid January to start.

K. Sorry if my answer came off a little snarky; I've just always disliked the whole Olympics dynamic (winter or summer). Besides, tall girls like Biles intimidate me. ?

Maybe not this one... https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/iron-crotch-kung-fu.161992/

In honor of this thread, that song should be sung Soprano or Falsetto.

REJOICE!!! It's the shortest day of the year! Embrace the darkness!!! and it's also the date referred to in the first post in this thread.

DUH! Because a homo was turned on by it. :rolleyes:

DEAR ABBY: I'm a truck driver who is on the road for weeks at a time. My girlfriend got a new job and is working every day. On the weekends she goes out to bars. I feel jealous because I'm working and even when I can get a weekend to be with her, she doesn't want to be intimate. Also she promises to call me but rarely does. Should I just end it? I've been married twice and thought we would be a couple and marry. I don't know what I should do. -- ON THE ROAD DEAR ON THE ROAD: Allow me to steer you in the right direction. You are apart from this woman weeks at a time, and when you do manage to be together, she isn't interested in intimacy. After promising to stay in closer touch with you, she fails to follow through. This should tell you that when you're out of sight, you're not on her mind. Take the hint. End the "romance" -- what little there is of it. Then thank your lucky stars she isn't your wife, and you're not heading to divorce court for a third time. lucky they don't have minimum IQ standards to be a trucker.

They don't tell you the most impressive thing, though. The guy in the teal wound up with a broken foot. ?

This all sounded so much better until I realized I had passed over the word 'on' in this sentence. ???

What about the pastrami?!?!? Just in time for Christmas, a Manny’s Deli superfan is treating 4,000 hungry strangers to corned beef sandwiches When Tom Sondag was growing up in the 1960s, back to school meant a trip to Chernin’s Shoes in the South Loop, where his parents bought the brown Oxfords he wore with his Catholic school uniform. Then, it was on to Manny’s deli for a much-anticipated treat: a steaming bowl of matzo ball soup. “I can remember the first time I tasted it,” Sondag said. “I loved it. I loved it.” Sixty years later, his enthusiasm for Chicago’s iconic Jewish deli hasn’t wavered. So when Sondag, who owns a suburban car dealership, was looking for ways to make Christmas better for his fellow Chicagoans during the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t have to look far. “I’m going to treat ‘em to Manny’s corned beef,” he said. Sondag, 67, ponied up for 1,000 corned beef sandwich kits, each with enough meat, rye bread and Manny’s mayonnaise-mustard to make four sandwiches, according to Manny’s owner Dan Raskin. Raskin, whose family has owned Manny’s for four generations, declined to say how much Sondag donated, but put the retail value of the food at $30,000. “It’s an amazing blessing, and we’re very grateful to have customers who not only want to support us, but want to support the community,” said Raskin. The sandwich kits will be distributed at St. Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side at noon Monday. The event is open to the public. The Rev. Michael Pfleger, senior pastor at St. Sabina, said that so many people are showing up for weekly distributions of 500 boxes of food, that the church consistently runs out. “I’ve never seen a greater need,” said Pfleger. Manny’s has experienced financial ups and downs during the pandemic, but the restaurant, owned by the same family since the 1940s, has benefited from a partnership with World Central Kitchen, which buys restaurant meals and distributes them to people in need. Manny’s has also expanded into suburban delivery. Pfleger said he had been trying to figure out how to get fresh meals for food giveaway recipients and was overjoyed when he learned of Sondag’s donation. “That’s what it’s all about: It’s about partnerships,” Pfleger said. “That’s how we’re going to get through this thing.” Sondag, of Wicker Park, recalled how his Catholic mother delighted in Manny’s authentic Jewish food and said it was great to be part of a “rainbow of people” working together to bring Christmas joy. “Whoever wants a pound of corned beef, c’mon by!” he said.

I know it is terrible of me because I have absolutely no idea who he is and have been bored to tears by anything and anyone Olympic-related for my whole life, other than liking how Mark Spitz looked in his Speedo and how Bruce Jenner looked in his little shorts (and later in his tight CHIPS uniform)... whatever became of him?

OPINION MacKenzie Scott’s donations have shamed the boys of tech — Bezos above all MacKenzie Scott has done it again. Having already donated $1.7 billion to charity by this past July — and announcing that she’s no longer using the last name of her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos — she declared that she has donated another $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in the last four months. While all the tech bros fight over colonizing space and California tax codes, banding together for the only thing they really care about — fending off anti-trust legislators — Scott makes them all look like stingy, greedy incels without a shred of compassion for those ruined by COVID-19. “This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling,” Scott wrote in a Medium post on Dec. 15. “Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.” Billionaires who, with the exception of Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, have been relatively mum on this pandemic. Remember Elon Musk loudly inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue crisis, acting like a real-life Tony Stark? Why so quiet now? And where’s Mark Zuckerberg? He’s signaled political ambitions. Know what helps with that? Acts of generosity, compassion and humanity. That said, no one on the planet has profited more off this pandemic than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (who not that long ago publicly humiliated Scott by carrying on an extramarital affair with his now-fiancée). Amazon has been the biggest beneficiary of the COVID-19 crisis so far and likely will be for some time to come, as brick-and-mortar retail crumbles and even older, tech-averse Americans turn to online shopping. A recent USA Today report ranked Bezos No. 1 among 30 billionaires made even more disgustingly wealthy by a virus that has claimed 1.65 million lives worldwide. By April 2020, just one month in, more Americans were unemployed — 14.7 percent — than had ever been recorded, according to a congressional report. Yet Bezos has remained awfully quiet on the economic devastation suffered by so many Americans. A survey conducted by The Washington Post (also owned by Bezos) in June reported that he, “the wealthiest man in the world with a fortune of $143 billion,” gave just $125 million to charity thus far in 2020. (An Amazon spokesperson told The Post that Bezos has given a total of $900 million to charity in the past year, including funds to fight climate change.) Either way, that’s less than one percent — the equivalent of rooting around in his sofa for loose change. Meanwhile, Bezos purchased David Geffen’s Beverly Hills estate for $165 million in February. The previous summer, he bought several New York apartments for $80 million, and in April it was reported that he bought yet another New York apartment for $16 million. During this pandemic, Bezos’ wealth spiked by $13 billion in just a single day in July. Amazon shares traded at $1,700 pre-lockdown. Now they’re at more than $3,000. All this while employees at Amazon fulfillment centers protested and begged for proper PPE and workplace safety conditions. Some, like New York City protester Christian Smalls, were fired. Amazon exec Tim Bray resigned in May, calling such firings “chickenshit” and writing in a blog post that “remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised.” As The Guardian noted, Bezos is now worth more than Exxon Mobil, McDonald’s or Nike. Yet his ex-wife, who got $38 billion in the divorce, dwarfs him in charitable giving. “She’s responding with urgency to the current moment,” Chuck Collins, director of the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, told The New York Times. “You think of all these tech fortunes, they’re the great disrupters, but she’s disrupting the norms around billionaire philanthropy by moving quickly.” In her Medium post, Scott wrote of average Americans giving what they could — not just financially, but of themselves — to help others in need. “Our hopes are fed by others,” Scott wrote, encouraging those of us lucky enough to have jobs and homes and health to give what we can. “The hope you feed with your gift,” she concludes, “is likely to feed your own.” With her giving, Scott hasn’t just proved her beautiful holiday spirit. She’s proved what Scrooges her billionaire brethren — and especially her ex-husband — truly are.

You know Dexter was married to his sister from 2008-2011, right? I'd been a fan of Yvonne Strahovski's from CHUCK, so I was greatly attuned to her accent when she was on DEXTER, since she'd only dropped it once on CHUCK. She also did it only once on DEXTER, saying 'fort-yune' cookie.

Viola Davis was on THE VIEW Friday and what was said about it (and Ma) was interesting. Davis said she and Boseman had attended several publicity events together and that he never left her and her husband's sides during them; they were that close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51hnCYfAFWo:143

My parents had an unhappy marriage (my sister & I used to wonder why they didn't divorce). They just didn't like each other. Eventually he moved to Florida (while I was in college) and she stayed in NY. At some point after he moved he told me he and my mother hadn't had sex for two years before he'd moved. I was shocked that it had been that recently. I'd have guessed it was a lot longer than that... and I now sleep in that bedroom, so it's not one that sees a lot of action. ?? I don't know if this is true or not, but on DESIGNING WOMEN Charlene once said "Lisa Marie was born 9 months to the day from the day Elvis & Priscilla got married... that's why they called him The King."

I did something a couple of weeks ago, but it turned out to be for the wrong person. I'd gotten the same cashier twice in a row when I went grocery shopping and she was terrific... fast, friendly, great packing skills. I had bought several Lean Cuisines and it turned out only 1 variety was on sale, so three rang up as too much, which I hadn't noticed until I checked the receipt. It was early morning, so customer service wasn't open yet. She went through the long receipt for me to find out which items were affected, then found them in my bags and did a return for me at the register. The receipt lists the cashier's name and the manager's, plus his email. According to the receipt, she was Pia S., and I sent a nice message about her to the manager. The next time I went, my cashier was wearing a name tag... PIA. I doubted there were 2 cashiers with that name, but maybe that's why the first one was Pia S. Anyway, this Pia did everything well (I needed to do a return with her, too), although she was wearing her mask under her nose. When I got home & checked the receipt, the cashier was listed as Jos. I figured they're not always so strict about whose code they enter at the start of their shifts. ANYHOO... tonight I got the first cashier again and I asked her "Your name isn't Pia, is it?" She said no, but pointed Pia out two registers over-- the other cashier (the one that had worn the PIA nametag, and who still had her mask under her nose). So I told her what I'd done and said "I tried to do a nice thing!" She laughed and thanked me for trying.

I'd search under the couch cushions to find $ to hire him.