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Leah wrote: "August 14, Monday: What's a common food most seem to like that you can't stand?"Oranges and any citrus, cantaloupe, honeydew, cold tomatoes, shell fish, sushi, german chocolate cake, Mexican food, Doritos, to name a few...
I have a lot of food allergies and aversions <-no kidding
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The time to do what is right is always NOW.
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Leah wrote: "August 17, Thursday: What movie do you think is highly overrated?"I don't watch a lot of movies but the only one I can think of that I saw and actually HATED was one of the Rambo movies, I think the third one. I went with a friend that LOVED Sylvester Stallone so I couldn't leave. Longest 2+ hours of my life.
Leah wrote: "August 18, Friday: When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards and just do what you know is right?"Always.
Book Concierge wrote: "Sunday, Aug 20: Are you planning to watch the Total Eclipse of the Sun?"Yes. We are only suppose to see 90% coverage.
Book Concierge wrote: "Sunday, Aug 20: Are you planning to watch the Total Eclipse of the Sun?"I'll be working, but I plan on trying to get out. I live in Tennessee and we're suppose to have a pretty good view of it. They have even cancelled school for the day.
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Not here. We should have about 89% coverage but I don't trust my almost 3 year old not to take off his glasses and stare at the sun.
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We were supposed to have about an 86% view .... but heavy cloud cover in my neck of the woods pretty much obstructed everything. I never bothered with the glasses ... in 1979 I used the pinhole box device and that worked wonderfully. I would have done the same thing if the weather forecast cooperated.
In any case, I watched obsessively on CNN / MSNBC from about 10a CDT to about 2p CDT. Just never got tired of seeing it.
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It's that childhood fear of being laughed at, I think.
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I'm exercising more ... little steps, to be sure, but a positive change. Also drinking more water.
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Book Concierge wrote: "Sunday, Aug 20: Are you planning to watch the Total Eclipse of the Sun?"The eclipse was a total disappointment for us. The sun was shining an hour before. Just as it was suppose to start the clouds moved in and then it rained pretty much the whole time. It didn't get all that dark. It was difficult to tell if the darkness was because of the sun or the dark clouds.
Leah wrote: "Tuesday, August 22: If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?"I'm a Virgo and we are perfectionists. I think we are embarrassed to have people think we are less than perfect.
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Leah wrote: "August 28, Monday: If you could see any one musician/music group in concert (even if they are no longer together, or dead), who would it be?"I passed up going to a John Denver concert, thinking there would be other chances and a few years later he was killed so I've always regretted that so I would say John Denver.
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The Beatles
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Horowitz .... I WAS lucky enough to see him in concert one Sunday about 40 years ago. He was a marvelous concert pianist.
Roy Orbison! I had a chance to see him once and missed it :/
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Leah wrote: "August 30, Wednesday: On average, how many hours do you read a week?"about 2 books a week. I normally do 2-5 books at once and then finish a bunch all at the same time.
Leah wrote: "August 30, Wednesday: On average, how many hours do you read a week?"I would guess about 3 hours a day, 7 days a week so about 21 hours. Now if I could just make money doing that!
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Somewhere between 7-10 hours a week. It used to be so much more but a toddler quashes the all day read-a-thons.
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I'm actually reading less now that I'm retired. I used to have a couple of hours of commuting time each day, listening to audio books ... not any more. I used to regularly spend an hour reading during my lunch break .... no more "lunch breaks." So, when I was working I'd say I was reading about 20 hours per week (including listening to audiobooks while in the car)
I'm still reading, but I don't seem to get those extended times to read. I'm probably closer to 8-10 hours a week now.
Leah wrote: "August 30, Wednesday: On average, how many hours do you read a week?"Probably about 2 hours per day, so 14 hours per week. Sometimes I get more on my days off.
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Leah wrote: "August 31, Thursday: What book genre do you find out of your element - something you're definitely not likely to pick up?"Romance mainly. I used to not enjoy biographies or historical non-fiction, but lately I have picked up some good ones.
Sports! I know that's a subject, not a genre. Here's a genre I never read: Poetry. While I like writing styles that are influenced by poetry, I don't enjoy reading poetry itself. Other genres I don't like are political or evangelical, bibles, journals, health. Mostly I don't read romance or mysteries but there are exceptions. I generally don't go for sci fi because I don't enjoy description. Self help books are usually boring to me. Anything that lists in alphabetical order is a tedious. That should be reserved for dictionaries.
Leah wrote: "August 31, Thursday: What book genre do you find out of your element - something you're definitely not likely to pick up?"Sci-fi. Read one a few months ago because my cousins daughter wrote it and it was horrible.
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I'll read just about anything with words ...at least once. But there are several genres I'm really not all that interested in:
Paranormal
Self-Help
Erotica
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