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Our doctor got the new flu vaccine a couple of weeks ago, so we went to him and got it then. I am waiting to hear from him about if and when he will have the new COVID available, or where he recommends we go to get it.

I wonder why there is an ad on the new RM format when he hasn't logged in for 14 yrs?

Either the height or the weight has to be incorrect. When I was 20 years old I was also 5'8," but even though I was considered very skinny (I had a 27 inch waist), I weighed 130 lbs.

Jason Markus may have been the most handsome man I ever hired.

Does ubiquitous mean he will show up at the PS Weekend?😛

It certainly looks like a Nova, but can't tell the date.

I have Spectrum cable bundled with Internet, and though it's expensive, it really provides all that I ever feel like watching--especially now that they have settled their dispute with Disney. However, my HOA is negotiating with Frontier for a deal that would include all residents of our 55+ community for a lower cost than Spectrum. I am waiting to hear what happens with that before I make any moves. (I have had Frontier for my landline phone for years, and have never been impressed with their service.)

In case anyone cares, the site of the El Mirador Hotel is now the location of Desert Regional Medical Center.

I had an older second cousin Fred, a school teacher in his early 30s, who was very active as a scout master. He suddenly resigned from the scouts in the mid-1950s, and shortly afterwards married a woman teacher friend. Everyone seemed surprised not only at the marriage but also at his split from the BSA. I was surprised at the marriage, because I had suspected that he was gay. Then I overheard my parents talking about a rumor in his family that he had been accused of having some kind of intimate relationship with a teenage scout during one of the national jamborees, which led to his resignation. His marriage lasted forty years and was apparently happy, but it never appeared to be a love match, and they never had children. Late in my life, I became quite friendly with his widow and one of her friends, also a widow, and putting together subtle suggestions, I got the impression that the friend's late husband and my cousin had some sort of special bond. My cousin Fred was known in the community as a World War II hero--he was part of the landing on the beach on D-Day and fought in France--and he eventually became principal of a local high school. Also, one of my mother's brothers had a career as an executive in the BSA. But I never showed any interest in scouting as a child, and my parents never encouraged me to join the scouts. Looking back, I wonder why.

Big guy, big Edsel.

I thought of that, too, but very few airline staff who fly regularly would be based in Virginia Beach/Norfolk, which is not a hub for any commercial airline that I know of. However, it is an important base for the military.

This is a typical full set. I find the larger ones especially useful in places where I have larger gaps between two teeth at the gum line. Floss works better where teeth are tight against one another.

A 22 year old "daddy"?

Does anyone else here use TePe Interdental Brushes? My periodontist strongly recommends them, and I find them more effective than flossing in most cases.

Looks like the "map me" function shows his real location in South Philly and not the standard default to City Hall.

That's what it looks like.

Years ago in NYC I hired a new escort, and went to his place. As I was starting to undress, he suddenly grabbed me by my undershirt and ripped it from my body. Shocked, I said, "What the hell are you doing?!" He stopped, looked at me confused, and said, "Wait! Aren't you the guy who told me he liked to have his underwear ripped off?" Duh--NO!!

This is probably the only reference I have ever seen on this site to "Feathers"! I had forgotten all about it. Does the place still exist?

I don't think I have put on a pair of long pants since May.

One of my high school classmates died in her 40s in a one car crash into a bridge abutment, with no witnesses. It was described as an "accident," but I had had a long conversation with her a month before it happened, and it was clear that she was seriously depressed then, so I have always wondered about the "accident."

By yesterday, New Balance already had new ads on Tennis Channel featuring Coco.

We were made for another!

But I did write about the checkout on the other thread! I don't like to do the self-checkout, but I do prefer to do my own bagging (I so rarely have a bagger who does what I would consider a good job--items logically organized and neatly packed--that I will congratulate a bagger who does it well). As I mentioned in the other thread, older shoppers like myself find the interaction with the check-out clerk more pleasant than the impersonal self-check-out machines. A survey of shoppers found that younger people were more like to use the machines than older people were.

I didn't see the match with Shelton or the meeting at the net, but BSR is pretty sensitive to the dynamic between pro tennis players, and if he says the meeting at the net was "frosty," it probably was.

The handshake is pretty much obligatory in tennis, and Novak is normally very friendly during the meeting at net, whether he has won or lost.