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[Amber]

Lorrea(WhatChaReadin'?) wrote: "Aymen wrote: "since my 33rd birthday, my family and friends are pushing me to meet someone and marry her, this is how it works in my country, pressure to mariage, then to have kids, then to have mo..."

The trick is getting the REST of the family to have patience!

[Aymen]

Amber and Lorrea, you's right :)

[Janet , Moderator]

😎😈😥🤓🤗 GR app has caught up with emojis!

[Aymen]

come on Janet! lol just kiddin keep posting emojis :D

[Janet , Moderator]

Hehe! 😀

[Lynn Renee]

👀

[Kirsten]

What? No steaming piles of poo?

[David]

I think we may be needing this: http://emojipedia.org/

[Kirsten]

In the science fiction book Eon, a future ET civilization communicates via emoji .... exclusively.

[Amber]

Kirsten, ever thought that's what "Weird Al" was thinking of in his song Word Crimes? Re: "In the science fiction book Eon, a future ET civilization communicates via emoji .... exclusively. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H...

[Rebecca]

👍🏻

[Lynn Renee]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "What? No steaming piles of poo?"

lol... I recently received a text from my sister's phone that was a string of poo piles. I knew immediately that my great nephew (her grandson) must have been using her phone. Two days later I get another text apologizing because she had just found the text that Lex had sent. 😊

[Janet , Moderator]

My 13 year old daughter thinks it's hysterical sending me piles of poo!! The minx! 😒

[Sean, Moderator]

As per every year at this time, my uncle and auntie are coming over to Jersey for 5 days...

Hope they like my new garden and kitchen...

We usually go out for some nice pub meals, go to their hotel for Easter Sunday Lunch.

https://www.seymourhotels.com/greenhi...

A lovely country small hotel.

Hope everyone has a lovely Easter holiday

[Kirsten]

A little something for Amber....

This Split Screen Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion is the Most Metal Thing You’ll Hear All Day
http://www.wfmt.com/2017/04/14/split-...

[Amber]

Dammit! Of all days to forget my headphones! I'll watch it Monday, Kirsten.

[Amber]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/... We're fu**ed.

[Lorrea - WhatChaReadin'?]

Well, gang, I've been out of the loop for about a week now. Spending time with the kiddos for their spring break. We spent some time in Pennsylvania visiting Amish Country, Hershey Chocolate Factory and doing some spring shopping at the outlets.
Hubby bought us his and hers watches and overall a good time was had by all.

Now to look over my 100s of notifications and get caught up on my reviews.

[Kirsten]

This is great, Amber! They've remixed Emmanuel Macron (French presidential candidate) losing his voice as a heavy metal song!

https://youtu.be/xeDKyl04G74

[Amber]

Not until I check out the one you posted when I forgot my headphones, Kirsten.

Added the St. John Passion to playlist #2.

[Amy]

OMeff ☺️☺️☺️🙌🏼🙋🏻

[Sean, Moderator]

Hi Everyone

Having massive problem at the moment, computer wise.

In the last week Windows 10 Microsoft updates have changed my whole computer, appearances.

Cannot find my photos(hundreds)my music, I tunes is empty.

My e-mails all disappeared, just everything , no passwords for
any sites, all gone.

So will be quite till all sorted out.

Had listed all my books for Pick It For Me , my votes for everyone.

But must sort out my computer

[David]

Hope you get it sorted, Sean. It should all still be there. Can you not revert to a previously saved point?

[Perri]

Computers!!grrrr

[Amber]

Sean wrote: "Hi Everyone

Having massive problem at the moment, computer wise.

In the last week Windows 10 Microsoft updates have changed my whole computer, appearances.

Cannot find my photos(hundreds)my musi..."

That's why you back everything up on a REMOVEABLE hard drive, Sean!

[Amber]

Me, either, Gail.

[Sean, Moderator]

Yes I had backed everything that I could.

But it crashed the whole computer, could not connect to my e-drives.

Computer technician today spent an hour here, and repaired the problem, which is quite common.

A windows 10 updates, crashed and lost my profile...

He did get my computer back on, get to my three external drives and upload and repair the computer.

Only thing that was not backed up was my e-mails and contacts but went online to google to get e-mails back, and I have to find all my contacts again.

But music and photos were backed up, the most important

[Amber]

Ouch.

[Kirsten]

So far I've avoided the cult of Apple. Update can be nasty. Especially when they do it without telling you....

[L.J.]

My little coffee machine is in the dog-house right now! I went to make my daily hot chocolate, and the pod burst! Spent ages mopping up sticky chocolate. So, lesson 1: always check the pod first! :(

[Amber]

Oops.

[Kirsten]

L.J. wrote: "My little coffee machine is in the dog-house right now! I went to make my daily hot chocolate, and the pod burst! Spent ages mopping up sticky chocolate. So, lesson 1: always check the pod first! :("

I tried the Keurig system. Mainly because you can get the apple cider drink year-round. But the machine died on me. So, I am staying with the French press system. Not as many parts to go wrong. (And I don't feel so bad about all those K-cups littering up the landfill.)

[Lynn Renee]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "L.J. wrote: "My little coffee machine is in the dog-house right now! I went to make my daily hot chocolate, and the pod burst! Spent ages mopping up sticky chocolate. So, lesson 1: always check the..."

I use a Keurig and absolutely love it. I use the reusable pods for my coffee, so I am not filling a landfill. I also order from San Franscisco Bay if i do order coffee cups. Their one cup pods are recyclable allowing you to compost part of it.

One time I had a couple pods burst on me, I think it was caused by temperature differences. The pods has gotten cold while in my van and when I went to use it the dang things exploded. Since then, I have thought more about it and feel the temperature change could have caused it. Living by myself, it is so nice to have a freshly brewed cup of joe whenever I want one. Otherwise the coffee sits and I am drinking reheated coffee which is not the best.

[Janet , Moderator]

I've been doing a tidy up of threads on here for the last couple of days. A late Spring clean ........ though going by current UK weather not sure where Spring has disappeared to and she may have taken Summer with her!! :\ It's freezing!

[Amber]

C**p happens, Janet.

[L.J.]

Talking about the UK weather, I found snow on my car windscreen yesterday morning! In April! Apparently, people call it “lambing snow”. And the snow stopped play at the Headingly cricket ground. Now that’s a first!

[Janet , Moderator]

It is ridiculous weather. It was hailing here earlier. We've got the heating on!

[L.J.]

Janet wrote: "It is ridiculous weather. It was hailing here earlier. We've got the heating on!"

And us! I have my sweater close at hand too. The bank holiday is looming, so the weather is doing its usual thing I suppose...

[Diane S ☔]

Trader Joe's also carries the recyclable pods.

[Kirsten]

Interesting...

'Screen fatigue' sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print
Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

[Sean, Moderator]

I have turned my heating off two weeks ago. Put in back on last weekend, then off , then again back on this week.

So cold in the mornings and evenings, and such a cold wind

[Sean, Moderator]

Blind Side by Jennie Ensor is on a special price now, for our May read. Please do join in.

[Amber]

That's how people like you and I come down with spring colds, Sean. The endless flip flop between the furnace being on and the furnace being off.

[Sean, Moderator]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Beat...


Mark Dawson's new short book is out May 16th.

Beatrix Rose book number 4.

But all the money for this book is going towards helping his niece who is suffering from cancer.

A great female character, a young assassin.

[sonya]

I have a concert Saturday and I'm nervous

[Lynn Renee]

Has anyone else had book numbers disappear from their total books read? I just added my books read for the year to double check and I am missing 12 books since this morning. I added a book finished and a new one started this morning at which time my total was 147 books read. Now it says 135. Somethings wonky. 😕

[Lynn Renee]

Sean wrote: "I have turned my heating off two weeks ago. Put in back on last weekend, then off , then again back on this week.

So cold in the mornings and evenings, and such a cold wind"

It has been the same here Sean. I try to dress for the weather but here in Erie PA we have a lot of wind which can make it very deceiving. The sun can be shining and you think it will be warm in the sun only to find the wind at 25 mph. Brrrrrrr

[Lynn Renee]

Kirsten *Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again!" wrote: "Interesting...

'Screen fatigue' sees UK ebook sales plunge 17% as readers return to print
Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 – when Amazon Kindle sales first..."

I do notice a difference between my Kindle Fire and my Kindle Paperwhite that is made to have no glare.

[Lynn Renee]

Lynn wrote: "Has anyone else had book numbers disappear from their total books read? I just added my books read for the year to double check and I am missing 12 books since this morning. I added a book finished..."

Well I found my lost read books. For some reason the finished dates just up and disappeared, leaving my book total off. A real PIA to have to go through all the read books looking for the ones suddenly missing dates. I always fill in this information so I can only guess that the gremlins have been at work on the Goodreads database today.

[Amber]

Or the Admins of the site have got an "improvement" bug up their collective arse and decided to add a "feature" none of us asked for, Lynn.