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A story from NOLA.
Friends a decade olde than us.
He was a good friend, his wife was too busy taking care of her Mother. Her Mother had volunteered at a nursing home, hated the place and made her daughter swear NEVER to put her in a nursing home EVER. Regardless of infirmity.
Wife was worn out physically and mentally.

Then Katrina hit, took out their house as well as MIL's.

We lost track of them. Search showed they had left NOLA for a midwestern state where he died soon after the move. No word of his MIL and wife.

What ever happened to bunk beds, a two shelf book case a table and a chair?
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The water losses are so staggering that they have actually been rehydrating the soil and forestalling subsidence. The pipes are leaking so much water into the soil, that they have effectively stopped entire neighborhoods from sinking.



But rehydrating won't stop the leakage. The leaks are going to keep on happening.
When will neighborhoods become marshes, and then swamps? Will trees dying from too much water be a sign of the waterlogged soils becoming water with some soil.
If he had been wearing white rubber shrimp boots, would that be enough rubber to have protected him?
Wonder if those cops would be as on top of it if the vagrant was trying to enter someone middle-aged person's Kia.
Could too well fed dude even fit into a KIA? That might be why he was going for the larger luxury car.

Next thing will be his demand for grease to enable him to slide into any car he chooses.
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Guys start playing in that league, it's must see tv!


We've grown accustomed to the medical tents on the sidelines for football games and a medical doctor or three attending games as if their being needed is anticipated.

Where will they fit the medical tent on the WNBA sidelines if, no when, these fine ballers start playing their game?
An American friend in the UK had to learn to keep her hand at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel, full time. She failed twice because she only used one hand one time and let both hands slip down the other time.

A North American remembrance. I was renewing my drivers license in Houston and a lot of Vietnamese came in: three to take the written test and the rest to translate the tests for them.
I watched, and the discussion of each question was a three or four man thing. It seemed as if the guy taking the test seldom said anything; I left wondering if it was as corrupted as it appeared to be.
It's been called Market Square for over a century. Think about it. Where country folks brought their produce to sell to city folks.
Most cities had one or more similar places. Knoxville just never let theirs become a dump (having TVA there helped).
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I can't wait to see what Kiffin can do in BR.


Well, nobody is calling him Joey Swampwater just yet.
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They will definitely make the playoffs with their pitiful schedule.


Damn if I didn't read this as

They will definitely make the payoff with their pitiful schedule. And their ridiculously rich benefactor.
Go to the library, borrow books.
Things you need to know about
Inflammation and how it affects the aging human body
Autophagy and how your body can recycle parts of cells, remake them and improve your body at a cellular level.

Keto and why a lot of people are changing what they eat and when they eat it.

You might want to join him in some changes,

I've gone through a lot of this when one doctor told me I was prediabetic and the next day a different doctor told me I had Diabetes 2 and prescribed five pills to take every day.
I went to the library and I got books and started reading. I stopped taking the pill cocktail at day 17.

I changed what I ate, I lost pounds, I kept reading. I saw my blood glucose drop. I kept reading and doing. My blood sugar hasn't been prediabetic since December. My A1C has been 4.1, 4.2.5.2 for the most recent three month interval tests.

Also read about fasting. One of the sharpest minded men my husband knows in his car club is 92 years old. My fasting was mentioned by my husband and the old gentleman started telling him how great fasting was and how he's been doing it for decades. That got my DH's attention more than my periodic fasting this year.


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it happens at black funeral homes the most.


It wasn't that long ago that a similar accumulation of rotting corpses happned near ? Chattanooga in a funeral home that served a similar demographic.
Heads up for a presser with John Calipari who has a history with Enis.

Remember? Back when JC tried to get the NCAA to let him play at Kentucky after he had been salaried playing in Turkey.

Calipari might have something to say.
I could waste 50 million dollars and have more to show for it.

How much is that per bum?
Do ND NIL agreements include trips to Roma and personal blessings from the Pope?
Or just a shortened spell in purgatory?
But first, you need to wonder what happened to all the other bones of the millions of dead people.
One answer comes with battles. There was no way to bury thousands of dead. (The locals wouldn't destroy good farm land to bury strangers.)
First, the bodies would be examined: metals and leather and even shoes would be salvaged. Why not? would you just let goods rot because they were on a dead man?
Then let the bodies decompose. Then go out and salvage the bones. At some point, savy farmers leaned that bone meal is an excellent fertilizer. Just as they learned to bury a dead fish under certain semi woody plants.

Now we cremate, often because of expense. In England a friend was buried two years ago without any chemicals added in a woven basket two days after her unexpected death. The internment was on line. It was beautiful. The spring bulbs her family will plant over her will persist long enough.
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STILL got her own rebound. Such an amazing athlete and person.


Which brings up a question about her stats: we know / are told how high her rebound numbers are. OK. So who holds the WNBA record for most rebounds under the basket before the ball crosses MidCourt?

Just a guess, but Angel might have a 3 in there somewhere.
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Does this really bother you that much? I never paid much attention to it


A couple of weeks ago one of the weather bimbos in Knoxville read all the real feel temperatures for the region to us, then she read the predicted real feels for the next couple of days.
Somehow she got away with not mentioning the real temperatures at all.