Charlie

I put off sending the usual cards to old friends in other countries, because I didn't have the correct postage. Today I discovered that the old friend I usually send a card to in Switzerland has died of CoViD. Now I'm thinking that I should try to find out about others before I send the cards I'm still holding.

OMG! Is that Unicorn?

One wonders what his life will be like in prison.?

Submit a review to Daddy's site.

We got a check in the mail the other day from our insurance company, for a refund on our homeowners insurance premium: $1.24. Is that enough to buy a roll of toilet paper?

I wish it had been there when I lived in New York, because I'm sure I would have enjoyed it. I was a student at the University of Vienna many years ago.

I don't know why I am sexually attracted to some people and not to others, but I am often surprised to find myself attracted to someone who is not what I think of as "my type," and not attracted to someone whom I think is "my type." ("My type" is pretty vague in terms of common physical and demographic descriptors.) What I resist is being told that I should be attracted to someone based on someone else's criteria, like size or race. Social preferences, on the other hand, are something over which I do have conscious control. I would not choose my friends or professional collaborators based on whether I found them sexually attractive, nor would I treat strangers based on whether I would want them as friends, colleagues or neighbors. The criteria I use in evaluating people in all social interactions are things like courtesy, intelligence, competence, reliability, etc. I would tell a friend that he should lose weight or stop smoking or get rid of people who are abusing him; I would not offer advice on such issues to strangers unless they asked for the advice. I would not tell anyone whom he or she should be attracted to sexually. A site like this one is ambiguous: are the other posters friends, strangers, or something in between? Some of them are my personal friends or acquaintances outside the site. Some of them I have interacted with so often on the site, including in private communications, that I think of them as friends or potential friends. Others are basically strangers, but often familiar strangers. If they ask for advice and I think I have some, I give it; otherwise, I may comment on what they have said here, or have linked to, if it interests me. A thread like this one is awkward for me, because it is like watching a fight between strangers, which is egged on by a crowd, and I don't know if I should just walk on by or join in. I guess I just joined in.

Indeed!

The best hotel I stayed at anywhere in Russia was the Pribaltiskaya, but that was when St. Petersburg was still Leningrad, so I don't know if that is even the hotel name now.

I have friends who like to shop at Tar-zhay.

Almost all the art on the walls of my home is original, most of it by artists whom I have known personally. The funny thing is that the only painting by an artist with a substantial reputation (his work hangs in many galleries) is one that our guests almost always pass by without comment, although at an auction for serious collectors it would probably command the highest price.

I know that. I couldn't find another emoji here that reflected my dislike of a similar academy here, which some pedants would love to be members of. (Note my sentence ends in a preposition.)

NOOOOOO!!!

It sounds like for Lindoro, you are not the one but simply a possible choice, so he is doing what seems necessary to keep it available. But then, that also seems to be what he is to you. It sounds like both of you are basically shopping. @sniper may be right that you have been overly conditioned by this site, where buyers are comparing different items in the Deli.

I don't think it is necessary to send cards to people with whom I am in regular email contact. However, there are many people for whom I have no email contact information, especially elderly relations whom I haven't seen in decades, but I don't want to lose contact with them altogether, so I send the annual cards. Each year some are returned marked "undeliverable," which is often the first notice I get that they are deceased.

I wonder what @escortrod did about the car? If I had seen the thread when it first appeared, I would have pointed out the possible disadvantages of buying a used example of those models.

Until this year, I have always sent holiday cards, and enclosed a general summary of what has happened in our lives during the past year, sometimes with a brief individualized message as well, to people whom I don't see often. However, since March I have been sending a weekly report about our life in the pandemic to a dozen recipients who would normally be on the card list, so I see no reason to send anything to them this year. I should probably send cards with a brief message to those who are not on the weekly list; the annual list gets shorter every year as the usual recipients die off (most are elderly friends and relations with whom I have no other contact).

Just to update post #25, this year friends were going to take me out to a restaurant for my birthday, but the day before, the governor shut down all the restaurants for the first time because of the virus. I thought, well, we'll do it next year. Now I am beginning to wonder. My spouse's 85th birthday/our 52nd anniversary passed this summer with no celebration at all.

I was there then, too. Our guides spent more time discussing events among themselves than talking to us. I always seem to be in countries while they are breaking up, e.g., Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, (the USA?).

Relax--you don't have as much control over things as you think you have, and a lot of them aren't as important as you think they are. You won't know what you should have done until it's probably too late to do anything about it. In the long run, taking care of your teeth is more important than worrying about your hair.

With a beautiful vintage Greyhound.

A couple of classics.

My spouse has used all of the four drugs; he didn't react well to the first three, but he has been on memantine for three years. In the early years it did seem to have a positive effect, but like all of the ALZ meds, it eventually ceases to be as effective after longterm use, and his decline in the last six months is noticeable. The vaccine has not been used in humans, only mice, so don't get excited yet.

The prince finds Cinderella?