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That's the one my super gave me, though it doesn't have the bag under the seat. The hand brakes make me laugh... I'd feel like the Lance Armstrong of the walker crowd.

I have a walker from when I had back surgery in 2012. It looks like this without the tennis balls. I have the basket with a little plastic insert that has a cup holder. Once or twice a year my back locks up for a few days to a week and I have to use it to get around my apartment. I keep it next to my bed so in the morning I can step into it, grip it for support, and stretch a bit. Last summer when I was doing laundry one night I saw a sign in the laundry room that the super had a walker he was giving away if anyone wanted it. I figured, why not have a spare (I have plenty of room) since everyone in my life is getting older (as I remain younger than springtime), and maybe somebody will need one. It turns out the one he had was like the one with a seat at the start of this post, only blue, and without a basket. Not bad for free!

A British fisherman has been rescued after fleeing an aggressive colony of about 50 gray seals and their young pups. The angler was plucked from a cliff face by a coast guard team. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said Monday the fisherman was walking on a beach in northern Scotland when he came across the seals, who became agitated and aggressive. He climbed up a cliff face but became trapped before reaching the top and used his phone to call for emergency aid. Rescue teams were able to lower the man into a lifeboat and take him to safety. He is being treated for exposure to the cold. Coast guard officer Jonathan Mustard said people walking along the coast should beware of seals protecting their young.

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Fishing for compliments, are we?

...where I forgot what I went in there for, so I went back to my computer and posted "Was Alexander The Great Gay?" :D;) I hope you get comfortable and secure with having more mobility and that it brings you some contentment.

Sometimes a friendly prank between two football rivals can go too far. That seemed to be the case recently when one of the Air Force Academy’s real-life falcon mascots was seriously hurt during a prank before the annual rivalry football game against Army, in upstate New York, according to an Air Force Academy official. The falcon, a 22-year-old bird named Aurora, suffered unspecified injuries to both wings after being “stolen” by Army cadets, the Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo., reported. The injuries were described as “life-threatening.” Aurora was being flown back to Colorado to see a specialist at the Air Force Academy, according to Troy Garnhart, associate athletic director for strategic communications at the school. “We have specialists at the academy who have the best training and facilities for her care. She is part of our academy family and we are all hoping for her full and speedy recovery,” another Air Force official, academy spokesman Lt. Col. Tracy Bunko told the Gazette. But given Aurora’s advanced age, the bird may have to be euthanized, an Air Force official who requested anonymity told the newspaper. Falcons in captivity tend to live about 25 years, according to the Teton Raptor Center in Wilson, Wyo. According to the Gazette, the Army cadets had taken Aurora from an Army colonel’s house as part of a prank during the week leading up to Saturday’s game at Michie Stadium in West Point. Adding insult to the mascot’s injury, Army’s football team defeated Air Force, 17-14. Ghouls and goblins painted the town last week, but bats were few and far between this Halloween — because a skin-eating fungus has wiped out 90 percent of them in New York state. The state Department of Environmental Conservation revealed the stunning number of dead bats during National Bat Week, and warned people exploring caves and other possible hibernation sites “that even a single, seemingly quiet visit” can kill infected bats. The Little Brown Bat that’s common in New York City is among the species that have been decimated by the disease, according to Fordham University Biological Sciences professor, J. Alan Clark, who has researched the city’s bat population using acoustic monitoring. “The Little Brown Bat was at one time thought to be the most common bat,” he said. “But it took us four or five years to record one.” White-nose syndrome — first discovered in Schoharie County in 2006 — is a highly contagious fungus that appears as a white fuzz around the bats’ noses and mouths, and carves tiny holes in their skin, Clark explained. New York is home to nine bat species, and six live in New York City, according to Clark. Three have been known to hibernate here: the Hoary, Eastern Red and Silver-Haired Bats. “Tree crevices, attics, little holes in bark, those are places they might be,” Clark said. Clark said the worst of the white-nose plague could be over, as about 5 percent of bats “seem to have some natural resistance and are breeding.” And while bats typically get a bad rap as blood-sucking, rabies-carrying menaces, Clark said the resurgence of the world’s only flying mammal will help keep pests under control. “The Little Brown Bat can eat 3,000 insects per night, and one colony can eat 250,000 mosquitoes in a night,” he said. “They have been both revered and reviled throughout history but they are such an important part of our ecosystem.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WplTSTAUEU4

My likes had overtaken my posts. This will even them out at 3231 apiece.

Hector Elizondo helps a young escort spruce up and then his rich client falls in love with him.

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Perhaps that's why Ms. Parton chose her career?

Though many people would happily dig into a lovingly home-cooked meal from their parents, one vegan woman in Italy has been fined $1,170 for threatening to stab her mother for making traditional meat sauce in her presence. Italian newspaper Gazzetta di Modena reported this week that the 48-year-old woman has been ordered by local courts to pay a $520 court fine and $650 to her mother for physically threatening her with a kitchen knife, after the sexagenarian whipped up Bolognese sauce in their newly shared home. According to The Telegraph, the “newly unemployed” daughter had recently moved back into her mother’s small apartment, where she often cooked in the rezdore tradition of chefs in the Emilia Romagna dialect. The vegan daughter told court officials that, prior to moving to live with her mother, she had long been avoiding “sensory” and “olfactory contact” with animal products. Lawyers further told the Gazzetta di Modena that there had been “an escalation of aggressive episodes, always over food,” before things nearly took a turn for the fatal. Furious with the smell of meat sauce simmering on the stove one day in March 2016, the daughter reportedly grabbed a knife and made a grave threat. “If you won’t stop on your own then I’ll make you stop. Quit making ragú, or I’ll stab you in the stomach,” the angry daughter said, as per The Telegraph, inciting her mother to press charges. With the complaint making its way to Modena tribunal court well over two years later, Justice of Peace Nadia Trifilo ultimately ruled in favor of the 69-year-old mother. She smacked the daughter with a $520 court fine and ordered her to pay $650 to her mother as compensation. The identities of the mother and daughter were not disclosed. Naturally, the Twitterverse had a whole lot to say about the wild tale. “The existence of Bolognese sauce is definitely in the top 3 on my list of reasons for why I’m not a vegan,” one said. “Must need a steak,” another clapped. “Someone needs some bacon in their life,” another meat lover agreed. “Had I been the judge, I would have jailed the daughter for attempted murder,” one mused on a more serious note.

A couple who had saved more than $5,000 for their dream honeymoon in Bali ended up being turned away at the border, all because their dog had chewed a bit of the groom’s passport. Daniel and Tia Farthing flew 16 hours from their home in the UK to Bali on October 16 — their first wedding anniversary — only to be told they couldn’t enter Indonesia. Border officials told the couple that Daniel’s passport wasn’t in acceptable condition and they were forced to take the next flight back to the UK, leaving them devastated and well out of pocket. The couple told The Mirror the passport was bitten by their four-year-old labrador collie cross Milo when he was a puppy. UK Border Force staff told Daniel that the passport would not be an issue for their trip to Indonesia, provided all the necessary details were in it. However, Indonesian officials didn’t agree. On their way home to Suffolk, England, the couple had a layover in Singapore where Daniel said he was detained for seven hours. Meanwhile, a panicked Tia ran up a phone bill of more than $280 trying to contact relatives back home. When the couple eventually landed at London’s Heathrow Airport, they said a flight attendant who had been told of their ordeal looked at Daniel’s passport and said: “Is that what all the fuss was about?” With the couple having lost the $5,000 they spent on the trip, Tia’s sister has started a GoFundMe campaign to help them. “This whole experience has been absolutely traumatic for the both of them and they do not deserve this to happen to either of them,” the sister said. “So what we want to do is show Tia and Dan how much we all love and care for them and how much we all want to help.” “So we have started this page to ask our friends and family to help us raise some funds to try and give them some hope that they can and will get the honeymoon that they have always dreamt of and deserve!” The campaign has already surpassed its $950 goal in less than two weeks, raising over $1,400 for the couple. Meanwhile, Milo, whose nibble on Daniel’s passport caused the whole drama, seemed to be trying to make it up to the couple. “He knows he’s done wrong because he’s been constantly coming to us for cuddles,” Tia said. they'd have been better off spending the $ to fix his teeth...

An irate passenger who missed her bus stop triggered a catastrophe in China when she attacked the driver — who lost control of the vehicle, which plunged into the Yangtze River, killing everyone on board. Thirteen bodies were found after the Sunday night crash, and two people remained missing, Chongqing police told China Daily Friday morning. Approximately 15 people were on board, cops said. Bus surveillance video obtained by Chongqing police, as well as other evidence, shows that a 48-year-old female passenger, identified only by her last name, Liu, missed her stop and asked the driver to stop immediately, the outlet reported. When the 43-year-old driver, also identified by his last name, Ran, refused, Liu hit him over the head with her cellphone. The video shows the pair swinging at each other, with the driver still attempting to steer the bus in between blows. Suddenly, the bus swerved onto the wrong side of the road before striking another car, breaking through a guardrail and plunging into the river in Wanzhou, Chongqing. The bus was airlifted out of the water by around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Zhao Hu, a lawyer, told the outlet that the victims’ families have the right to seek compensation from the bus operator as well as Liu’s family.

The husband left the toilet seat up, or the wife used his prized autographed baseball to play fetch with their rottweiler. Too obvious.