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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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figmentfan423 said:
@StarWarsGirl do you have some wine chilling for tomorrow night?
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Won't be home tomorrow night. Funeral. Not anyone in my family, but a friend of my mom's who really helped her out when her parents were making her life difficult in her teens and who was very, very dear, then a gathering afterward. Really tired of all of this. :(

I had an orange crush last night at the O's game, though.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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figmentfan423 said:
I was wondering if your former wife had such a machine because I remember you had mentioned she sewed back in the day and you weren't exactly flush with cash at the time
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We couldn't afford a Singer machine. I got a Brother sewing machine. It worked fine, for my limited talent. Hubby has always carried to much in his pants pockets. That went quick on a machine!
 
betty rose

betty rose

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StarWarsGirl said:
Won't be home tomorrow night. Funeral. Not anyone in my family, but a friend of my mom's who really helped her out when her parents were making her life difficult in her teens and who was very, very dear, then a gathering afterward. Really tired of all of this. :(

I had an orange crush last night at the O's game, though.
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I'm sorry, too . I will say Uncle for all of us, if that would stop poop for everyone!;)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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ajrwdwgirl said:
Send that picture on to the shopping people at Disney and they should replace it. Cute mug!
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Thanks. I did call. That one is part of a gift for my Sis' birthday next week :rolleyes: Said 10 days. If anything I thought Mr. Potato Head would have been the one to break.
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I knew it wouldn't be good before opening. You could here the rattling of broken ceramic. The mugs were each wrapped very well, there were 4 coffee mugs. The problem was they put them in a box without packing material and the box was 14" x 14" so they bounced freely all the way from Florida to here. The only packing beyond what the mugs were wrapped in was a single piece of white tissue paper. Twits. :mad: The box was also caved in likely by UPS stacking boxes in trucks and it was pretty hollow.

This was the second box that made it up here. First one was squished too. I had purchased 2 lithographs from the art section in the
CoOp store in Springs. That box was about 4" high and then maybe 14" x 24, Lithographs and their matting mayb 1/4 inch each tops. Again no packing at all so when it came off the UPS truck it was flat. Fortunately the Lithographs are fine, they could have easily bent or creased.

Obviously there is something up with their packing department. But we did venture offsite to the Character Warehouse this time. Been a long while. We did get to see the machine that wraps mugs and figurines, dishes etc. Pretty cool.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
MinnieM123 said:
Meh, that's lightweight. Can't even compare to the famous Big Dig project in Boston (1991 to 2007). It was estimated to cost 2.8 billion, and ended up closer to $22 billion with cost overruns, etc. Due to some design flaws (to put it mildly), some defective materials, etc., Bechtel Parsons and Brinckerhoff, the consortium that oversaw the Big Dig project, had to pay millions in restitution and some other companies also were fined.

To this day, it remains the most expensive road/tunnel project in U.S. history! :eek:
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Chicago completed Millennium Park and Grant Street Parking Garage in 2004. It was to be built on open green space on the Mag Mile lake front Chicago with no tax dollars spent on project. The park alone cost over $500 Million Dollars and yes bonds were taken out to cover the dream of the then mayor. The park is pretty but Oh My the $$$$

The crown jewel is the bean, its real name is Cloud Gate but nobody would know what you're talking about, it answers only to Bean.
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I love the bean and park. Happy Chicago paid for it not me.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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FutureCEO said:
I live within 5 minutes of 2 Targets within 1 mile from each other. Needless to say retail central is the roads name. During Christmas, your lucky go get from Point A to Point B on the same road within twenty minutes. 2 theaters although they are miles away from each other but on the same road. Something like 4 car dealerships. Best Buy. Anyway....you get the picture.
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Yep, when we first moved back here 41+ years ago, we lived in the middle of nowhere. Now, we live in the middle of everywhere. :cyclops:
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Cesar R M said:
Scary part is.. I used to go every year or more to mexico city to check my implant and guarantee stuff.
I stayed with a friend in an apartment. a ton of the buildings either had severe damage or collapsed in that apartment complex ( they were more than 10 buildings of 4 floors each one). My friend moved this year to another town for work. Yikes!
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So very glad to here your friend was not there anymore. So sad for the others.
 

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