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Lady ♥ Belleza, Gif Princesa
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Jun 01, 2023 08:46AM
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I hope you and I aren't the only ones who can find our way in to post! I still have to go in thru the side door...
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Are you having troubles accessing the site still?
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I hope you and I aren't the only ones who can find our way in to post! I still have to go in thru the side door..."Are you having troubles accessing the site still?"
It JUST got fixed 2 days ago. I'm in like Flynn, no side doors needed.
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that's wild. I never had any problems. Weird.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Fishface wrote: "It JUST got fixed 2 days ago. I'm in like Flynn, no side doors needed."that's wild. I never had any problems. Weird."
I wish I knew who to thank for fixing it!
Visiting a friend at the cemetary today. She died at 54 and has been gone for 23 years. Had my phone in my pocket playing some music and You've Got A Friend by Carole King came on. I must say a shed a tear or two.
I thought this was interesting. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter, who played the mother and father on the show Family Ties (the one with Michael J. Fox) were born on the same day, same year, June 21, 1947.
Is anyone but me pondering the curious, echoey quality of the week's submersible disaster? In 1898, Robert Morganstern published a novel called Futility or the Wreck of the Titan, about a great new ship by that name sinking on her maiden voyage.
In 1912, a great new ship called TITANIC sank on her maiden voyage, causing some to comment on the similarity to the novel.
In 2023, a submersible diving on the wreck of the 'Titanic' lost structural integrity and crumpled in like a ball of tinfoil at great depth. The pieces came to rest on the ocean floor right by the hulk of the 'Titanic.' The little ship's name was 'Titan.'
Fishface wrote: "Is anyone but me pondering the curious, echoey quality of the week's submersible disaster? In 1898, Robert Morganstern published a novel called Futility or the Wreck of the Titan, a..."
Interesting! No, I didn't know any of that.
Koren wrote: "Interesting! No, I didn't know any of that."It's truly odd. I keep not getting to Morganstern's book.
I was just doing TC anniversaries and I came across the murder of Kristina Klebbe in my Book of the Dead. It struck me that when I was at the chiropractor's office earlier, I saw that two people named Klebbe had signed in ahead of me.
Reading A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them about the history of the Klu Klux Klan. I came to a chapter called Independance Day 1923. It just so happens that today is the 100th anniversary of a huge Klan rally in Kokomo, Indiana. It was estimated there were at least 100,000 attendees there.
Koren wrote: "Reading A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them about the history of the Klu Klux Klan. I came to a chapter called Ind..."Kind of a small turnout then! At one point one in 4 Indiana citizens was a member.
Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Reading A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them about the history of the Klu Klux Klan. I came to a chap..."Correct! They said 100,000 was a low estimate. It could have been as much as 200,000.
One of the best books of 2023. Egan is my favorite author. Started The Two Dr. Gilmer's this morning and I will finish it after lunch. A real page turner.
Bill wrote: "One of the best books of 2023. Egan is my favorite author. Started The Two Dr. Gilmer's this morning and I will finish it after lunch. A real page turner."I have not heard of that one. Will definitely check it out.
Sorry for wrong title. It is The Other Dr. Gilmer and I just finished it. A five star+ book.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bill wrote: "Sorry for wrong title. It is The Other Dr. Gilmer and I just finished it. A five star+ book.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I agree completely.
I was just at the garden app and someone posted a photo of a plant unfamiliar to me. I took a screen shot and opened the Plant Net app to find the name of it. Before I even uploaded the photo to ask for the ID I saw that the random assortment of photos there, posted by other people, included a picture of the exact plant I was looking for. It turned out to be Giant Ragweed, btw.
The last TC book I finished was The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, which thoroughly debunked a couple of flimflam artists passing themselves off as forensic pathologists. Well, I'm now reading The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption in the Deep South. Well, sir, one of the same flimflam artists was just called to the stand for the prosecution and the attorney representing the Klansman defendant just ripped the guy a new bodily orifice --by just asking him to explain how he determined that a half a skeleton found at the bottom of a river died of freshwater drowning.
Wow! The other day I made an impulse purchase at Etsy of something I had zero use for, but I wanted it because of the great nostalgia value -- it was an item I was obsessed with as a kid and would doodle pictures of all day long. Well, sir, I just got an envelope in the mail and the return address was in the town I grew up in. I looked it up and sure enough, it was a short walk from my childhood home. Guess what was in it...my childhood obsession
I was just reading in Discover magazine about the development of the first hospital air conditioners around the time of the Civil War, intended to keep yellow-fever patients more cool and comfortable. The idea led to the first commercial ice plants.Then I went to the Garden Tags app and the very first photo I saw? Delosperma, also known as "ice plant."
Here's one. I just was watching a LAST WEEK TONIGHT segment about farm workers on YouTube and the crimes found me, as usual. Part of the segment was a video of a farm manager screaming racial slurs at his employees and I thought John Oliver said his name was Travis Schoenborn. He mentioned the name of the farm, EDS, and said they grow apples. Me being me, I immediately wondered if there was a connection with Chris Schoenborn, because a lot of apples are grown here in Michigan -- where Randy Kraft killed Chris Schoenborn after kidnapping him from a farmers' convention -- so I looked up the farm in the video, EDS. It's in Conklin, Michigan. Looked up an article on Chris Schoenborn, and he was from Conklin, Michigan. He is almost certainly a brother or cousin of the murdered man.
Here's one! I just read a psychobiography called Thomas Hardy: Behind the Mask, connecting all of Hardy's poems and novels to his awful marriage. One character based on his problems was Eustacia Vye, the heroine of The Return of the Native. Well, I was just at my garden app and someone had posted a photo of a rose they're growing called "Eustacia Vye."
This was so strange. I was at work today when a man walked in the door and wanted to make an appointment as a new patient. I got his name which is Kurt with a K. Asked what insurance he was using and he said Blue Cross Blue Sheild. Asked his email address and it was his full name at gmail. OK. Just 5 minutes later the phone rings. Another guy that wants to make an appointment as a new patient. Ok, what is your name. It was Kurt with a K. I thought I was talking to the same guy until he said his last name, which was different. Asked him what insurance he would be using. It was Blue Cross Blue Shield. Asked him his email address. It was his full name at gmail. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone!
I got a wild hair and started looking again for photos of Coral Watt's victims. I found where someone named Peter Crean has been collecting Find-A-Grave photos of that group, but there's the thing: He appears to be adding them at the same time I am looking at them. Carrie Mae Jefferson was not on the list when I started looking at it and by the time I was through adding some other photos from his collection to my Anniversary Photo Resources listing, both she and Peggy Pochmara had been added. Incredible coincidence.
Here's another. I was just typing a certain client's appointment into the computer schedule when the mom called to tell me they have to cancel.
OK, I was just here and corrected a typo I found in my review of the biography of Madge Oberholtzer. Then I went to Google to look up the murder of Cher Elder which had just been mentioned in the book I was reading. A lot of photos came up and one looked familiar. Wondering if it was Cher, I tapped on the photo. It turned out to be an unrelated person named Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer...
I'm now reading Fairy Tale and the protagonist mentioned a date: September 26th. Today is September 27th.
Fishface wrote: "I'm now reading Fairy Tale and the protagonist mentioned a date: September 26th. Today is September 27th."Hello Fishface, I am surprised you are reading a Stephen King book. I just thought you wouldn't be interested in this genre. His stories are fascinating and love how his mind works. Have you read his book Firestarter? It's terrific and you must read it. Have you read Christine by Stephen King? It is so exciting!!!
Fishface wrote: "I'm now reading Fairy Tale and the protagonist mentioned a date: September 26th. Today is September 27th."Hi, Fishface,
I haven't read a lot of Stephen King's new stuff, but I loved "Salem's Lot", published in 1975. I read it soon after it was published (I was about 29 years old, recently divorced, living on my own with a young daughter) and it is quite scary. I had to sleep with a lamp on in my bedroom for while after finishing it.
Rita wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I'm now reading Fairy Tale and the protagonist mentioned a date: September 26th. Today is September 27th."Hello Fishface, I am surprised you are reading a Stephen..."
You should not be surprised, Rita! I have loved horror fiction all my life and I adore most of SK's books.
Here's a double decker: three days ago, the first song I heard on the car radio heading to work was "C'est La Vie" by Robbie Nevill, surprising because I hadn't heard it in many years. Hours later, it was also the very last song playing on the radio as I pulled into my parking space.Tonight, heading to my last home visit, the song just ending on the radio was "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" by Elton John. Heading home an hour later, it was the first song I found.
Oct. 3 was the 12th anniversary of my niece's death. My mother died 3 days later and they are buried next to each other. Yesterday I went to visit them and asked them to give me a sign that they were ok. A few minutes later I saw a monarch butterfly. It is late in the season here to see monarchs. My niece has monarch butterflies on her tombstone.
Koren wrote: "Oct. 3 was the 12th anniversary of my niece's death. My mother died 3 days later and they are buried next to each other. Yesterday I went to visit them and asked them to give me a sign that they we..."!!!
I finished Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder by Diane Fanning on Oct. 7. When I went to the book's page I was surprised to see that the book was published on Oct. 7, 2014.
This I found just a second ago. I had a list of crimes in the margin of my appt book to add to my Book of the Dead. At the bottom of the list was what may be a fairly complete list of Joe Ball's murders. One of them was Delores "Buddy" Goodwin; Google searching showed that she was not murdered after all, but had run off to California to drink herself to death after Joe apparently confessed his crimes to her. At the very top of that same list was a woman who may be a Vincent Groves victim; her name is Yvonn "Buddy" Rabb. I did not know until I looked for her photo that I had two women with the unlikely nickname "Buddy" on the same piece of paper.
Here's one! I was reading Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer and Blood Rubies at the same time. It turns out that A) the killer in the 1st book grew up believing his surname was McDowell, and B) the author of the 2nd book turned out to be Michael McDowell writing under a pen name.
Another! I just finished reading Blood Rubies, which in part is about a nun who's been raped over and over. I finished that happy story and started One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story by Bo Dietl. It starts right out with the rape of a nun.
Reading Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul Laroche by Barbara Marshak and halfway watching Yellowstone. I googled the actors in Yellowstone and one of the actors, Moses Brings Plenty is also in the book.
Koren wrote: "Reading Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul Laroche by Barbara Marshak and halfway watching Yellowstone. I googled the actors in Yellowstone and one of the actors, Moses Brings Plenty..."What an interesting name!
Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Reading Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul Laroche by Barbara Marshak and halfway watching Yellowstone. I googled the actors in Yellowstone and one of the actors, Moses..."Yes, for sure when you see that name you know it is the same person. He is American Indian, I believe Lakota, from South Dakota.
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I was watching a show and it was mentioned that in some countries people nod their head (up & down) for no, and shake their head (back and forth) for yes, the opposite of how it is done in the US and UK for example. A little while later I was playing a video game. In this game the player receives letters from other characters in the game. One of the letters mentioned this same fact.
*shakes head back and forth for yes*
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A book one! I'm reading The Plants that is all about people trying to communicate with angry plants so they won't be killed. A little girl in the story is convinced she can hear them talking. Well, Discover magazine came to the house today and there's an article in there about plant communication...
A sad one. Someone at Reddit asked for titles of autobiographies of troubled celebrities. I recommended Matthew Perry's tale of opioid addiction, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. Then I went to X and learned that Perry has been found dead.
This is odd. I just started Reefsong, 2 days after learning that Matthew Perry was found dead, and this book opens with the daring rescue of a man named Chandler (same name as Matthew Perry's best-known role) who's not answering his phone and who at this point in the narrative appears to be dead.
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