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Janet wrote: "Which one? And excuse my ignorance but doesn't that get confusing? Are they very different?"No Janet, not really. It is like Minneapolis and St. Paul. Kansas is a strange place in that almost the entire state is laid out in squares map-wise.
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I don't think it's confusing to them, though I wonder how state taxes work, lol. There is also Memphis, Tennessee and West Memphis, Arkansas, split by the Tennessee-Arkansas border. I was briefly in Kansas City, Kansas, many years ago when I interviewed for a residency program at the big medical center there which was on the Kansas side. The major league baseball team and the NFl football team play on the Missouri side. I 'm not sure of the other differences, Janet, but I think the Missouri side is more built up.
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Kelly wrote: "7:29pm just came home from dinner for hubby's birthday and having a glass of wine while trying to decide which book to read"Hey, Kelly:
How about "20 Ways to Please Your Husband"?
LOL
Could not resist
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Janet, be prepared for really, really Dark Places. I liked the book, not everyone does. It was amazing how deeply dark the writing was. But I found it kinda mesmerizing.
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21:34 Sitting here watching 12 Monkeys on SyFy. Think a cup of tea sounds good.
Janet wrote: "Oh. Potentially stupid question here, but why were the state lines drawn that way, why not one state encompassing the whole city?"21:51 just woke up in time to go to bed. Janet, that is a fine and excellent question. I have no idea why that was done multiple times in our grest country! Anybody here from Kansas City or Memphis?
13.04 in Paris, France. Peeped through the window of the historic 'Cafe De Flore', former HQ of 'the Lost Generation': EM Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, TS Eliot etc, but somehow I didn't feel inclined to enter. Cafe cremes too expensive!
E. It is so dark, it freaked me out, but I will say this, I wonder how Flynn was able to write so intensely about the impoverished and the un-lovable in the States; she truly characterizes beaten down and out folks to a T, nearly a caricature version. However, I did not come away with any good feelings.
Janet wrote: "Oh. Potentially stupid question here, but why were the state lines drawn that way, why not one state encompassing the whole city?"Actually, it isn't stupid, but brilliant; take it from me, I live in NJ, which borders PA, DEL, and NY in the strangest shape; most of the state is a peninsula.
1732 and I am sat in front of tv trying to get warm!!!
12:33 pm , I'm the couch curled up with one of my 3 cats looking out the window at the falling snow. Just being lazy really....
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Hey all! 18:45 pm and just chilling, watching The Italian Job. The Mark Wahlberg one.
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2:05 PM: wading through email, posting at GR and listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0uk...
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Then going to bed to watch Take Me Out
Then looking forward to my last chapter of Taunting The Dead !
3:30 PM and listening to 331Erock's Livin' La Vida Loca Meets Metal ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApgZ... ) and wishing I had more food at my house.
4:40 just finished dinner and listening to classic tunes
Listenning to Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the EDMUND FITZGERALD @ 3:53 PM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8b...
Yeah. I did hate it for a bit when I lived in Phoenix, though. The oldies station played it at LEAST a dozen times a day!
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Is it Edward Norton theme night Janet?
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It's 6:35 pm and we just got home from dinner out. Had to drive home in blinding snow on unplowed roads.
Brenda wrote: "It's 6:35 pm and we just got home from dinner out. Had to drive home in blinding snow on unplowed roads."Glad you made it home safely Brenda. 8:D
Thanks, Sandra. When we left home, the roads were fine and it was just a light snow. What a difference an hour and a half made.
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Janet wrote: "Yes, glad you got home ok, Brenda. Blinking snow!!"Blinding! In the headlights, it looked like we were jumping to warp speed!
That is just plain scary, Brenda. Glad you are home now. I am thinking MN has had an easier winter than the majority of you guys. A lot of super cold days and a fair amount of wind (the wind we have all year long), but average amount of snow at worst and not a lot of ice. No need to shovel the snow off the roof. Snow cover is mild.
9:30pm - Reading 'I am Pilgrim' and can only put it down for a short break to check laundry and kids. I pick it up to read some more and hours have gone by. Kids ended up fending for themselves tonight. Soup, yeah yeah, there we go. Snowing and windy, great day for lots of reading. Stay safe out there my friends. :)
Been on Facebook thanking everyone for the "Happy Birthdays". Getting over a really bad sore throat and cold and getting cabin fever - 10 inches of snow and ice is not good for a healing broken hip!
Christine wrote: "That is just plain scary, Brenda. Glad you are home now. I am thinking MN has had an easier winter than the majority of you guys. A lot of super cold days and a fair amount of wind (the wind we ..."When are these Arctic blasts going to stop? My husband has used the snowblower more this winter than in the previous seven winters combined. (We've been in this house for eight years, so it's easy to think back.) With the frigid sub-zero temps and the deep snow, this winter has been rough. When the winds are from the northwest, we get hit with lake effect snow on top of the regular storms dumping on us. Maybe that won't happen now that Lake Ontario is mostly frozen over!
Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Been on Facebook thanking everyone for the "Happy Birthdays". Getting over a really bad sore throat and cold and getting cabin fever - 10 inches of snow and ice is not good for a healing broken hip!"Happy birthday, Anne!! Hope you feel better and can get outside soon. I feel sorry about the ice that's been coming across such a large area. So much more dangerous than plain snow. Don't fall and break anything!
Janet wrote: "Yes, glad you got home ok, Brenda. Blinking snow!!"It just occurred to me that "blinking" must be a British expression. Here I was thinking I'd made a typo and you were calling me on it. LOL! Blinking blinding snow!!!
Brenda wrote: "Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Been on Facebook thanking everyone for the "Happy Birthdays". Getting over a really bad sore throat and cold and getting cabin fever - 10 inches of snow and ice is not good..."Thank you Brenda =) I've been in bed under the electric blanket with Clyde by my side. My kitty doesn't understand why I brought him to snow country where we've been having snow and ice all week long with temps between -13 to 17 degrees F! Poor baby.
I was under the electric blanket, but insomnia has struck again. I don't know what my brain's problem is.
Brenda wrote: "I was under the electric blanket, but insomnia has struck again. I don't know what my brain's problem is."Do you have cabin fever like I do?
I don't think I do. I'm happy to hibernate.
02:55 I was in bed sleeping really well for a change when a friend stopped by dropping off groceries he had picked up for me. Sounds odd but he works nights and stopped on the way to his second job. Otto needed food and my pantry was down to bare bones, so we were happy to get the delivery. This weather has stopped me from being able to get to the store myself. Nice to have friends who help even in the middle of the night. :)
it is 0900 and I am catching up on stuff off the planner about to start my next book and having a cuppa - starting the day the chillaxing way
it's 10:45 and i'm planning to help my little sister with her Arts tasks :) it's gonna be a lot of fun:)
Just finished watching an exciting cricket match between India and South Africa. Off to sleep now...
it's 11:12 am just came back inside from shoveling what my complex's clean up crew left behind (hey figured it's exercise for me) been checking online a few times already this morning and need to resist coming online until later today so I can get some reading done. oh did I mention we got snow yesterday/during the night and more is expected but sunny now and supposed to go up into the 40s today I'm on the shady side of the street so that doesn't help me) I also hate winter and can't wait until spring is here. first step I keep thinking is get out of february. temps will go down again tonight. yesterday afternoon when I was out in the car the temp was around 19 degrees.
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Yep, Janet, the city is split by the Missouri-Kansas border.