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Every Vow you Break by Peter Swanson. Not recommended at all. I almost quit at the half way point but saw I only had about a hundred pages to go and soldiered. A mistake, it got worse in the same and new ways. I've moved on to Mark Greaney's Relentless, the 10th novel in the Gray Man series. As usua...

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Try Olukai. You can get them at REI or Nordstroms. They have arches unlike most flip flops so my feet don’t tire as quickly as flat flip flops. I’m female but I know males who own the same flip flop and swear by them. Olukai are my go-to flip flops. Good arch support, comfortable, and they look nic...

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When I send money from Vanguard to Bank of America or the reverse I use electronic bank transfers (ACH). But I've heard wiring money is free and faster. So should I switch to wiring? What do you use? Vanguard wire transfers are free, at least for me. My experience is that BOA charges to receive a w...

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I'm having difficulty understanding the logic of filing the return for gifts over 15K. Since there is an 11,000+ exemption, my filing for a couple of 100K gifts seems ridiculous since I'll never get close to the max. How can IRS possibly track this? What is penalty? The instructions for filing 709 ...

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Watched "Tina" last night, HBO's documentary on Tina Turner. Very nicely done. Saw it on HBO Max. https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/tina Just watched this and loved Tina and her amazing voice, dancing and moves. Disappointingly it's 90+% talking (yes, it's a documentary), a lot not by her...

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Anyone else having problems accessing their Vanguard account? My problem started yesterday when the app wouldn't let me complete a transaction. Today I can't get into my account through the app nor online. Might be the app. I had a continuing problem with the app this week for mobile check deposit....

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Godzilla v. Kong on HBO Max. Also apparently in theaters.

Not recommended. Joe Morgenstern the movie reviewer for the WSJ ends his review "Oh, for the magical days of men in rubber gorilla suits."

P.S. We did not make it anywhere near the end. YMMV.

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I'm seeing the lightning bolt on the 3 credit cards I added to Fidelity BillPay. I'm still seeing the message for eBills not available, but I've heard that may take a billing cycle to be enabled. Here's Fidelity's description of ebills: https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/bill-pay/ebills#:~:te...

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I've looked at the Fidelity site and also googled w/o success. I can EFT funds from my BOA checking to a 3rd party account at a different bank. Can I do the same from Fidelity? With routing and account numbers, can I EFT from my Fidelity account to someone else at BOA? Online, w/o calling? No, you ...

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Yesterday's WSJ had an article on how things may change soon for mild to moderate hearing loss: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hearing-aids-iphone-apps-and-new-tech-mean-more-ways-to-deal-with-hearing-lossbut-same-old-anxiety-11616850000?mod=searchresults_pos8&page=1 In part: "There should be...

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... I should also mention that Book 6 of the Murderbot Diaries, Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells, is still on-track for release on April 27, 2021. Probably too late to reserve it as a library e-book if you haven't already done so. I did a couple of months ago. I'm #10 on 1 copy. I looked again if...

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I'm enjoying working my way through the Slough House series of spy novels by Mick Herron. I'd never heard of him before a month or so ago. Then the latest book in the series, Joe Country, was either recommended somewhere or popped up on a best seller list. I saw that there are eight in the series, ...

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I have no answer for ebay, but for amazon I use camel, camel, camel. It will send you an alert when your item hits a threshold price. For out of stock items I set the threshold high, even 2x the usual price. I then get a notice when it's below that, i.e., back in stock.

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Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon.

It's the 1st (1992) of her now many, many Commissario Guido Brunetti crime novels set in Venice. Wikipedia says 30! The latest just out this month.

I've heard of her for years but never read anything by her. I'm half way into it and finding it surprisingly good!

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It's time to renew my subscription and I am trying to find out if anyone has any "secret discount codes" out there they used recently to obtain a deal better than $114/yr. for a subscription. Last deal I got in Nov. 2018 was 30 months for $199. Looking for something in that neighborhood. ...

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Hi BH's: Does anyone have an accurate indoor thermometer recommendation? I have 2 thermometers but they differ by over 3 degrees so I don't know which one is correct. One is an LL Bean travel alarm clock and the other thermometer is from Amazon (Peakeep brand.) I am not looking for a fancy weather ...

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Hi BH's: Does anyone have an accurate indoor thermometer recommendation? I have 2 thermometers but they differ by over 3 degrees so I don't know which one is correct. One is an LL Bean travel alarm clock and the other thermometer is from Amazon (Peakeep brand.) I am not looking for a fancy weather ...

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WandaVision (Disney+): Only 2 episodes out so far. It's a cross between Marvel and Twin Peaks, so might not be everyone's cup of tea. ... After reading many recommendations for WandaVision I tried it last night. Perhaps as some say, it hooks you after awhile. Definitely not my cup of tea based on p...

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Guess this is a PSA. I got an email from United Airlines today reminding me that I'll need REAL ID starting Oct 1, 2021 if I want to fly, or a passport or a few other IDs. United provides a link to my state REAL ID site that says I can schedule an appointment to bring in my documents (all of which I...

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just tried to schedule an interview. I can get an in person interview on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at the airport. Basically 45 min each way, park, wait, interview, etc. So at least 3 hrs. There are no available Zoom interviews at all, going into 2023, in any time zone I checked. Guess they wa...

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We haven't been in a Costco store since March 2020 because of covid concerns. We have no intention of entering one anytime soon. Today I got an email notifying me that my Costco Citi Visa Annual Reward certificate would be sent with my February statement. On the second sentence I'm a little puzzled...

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eddot98 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:30 pm Son Seals
https://www.alligator.com/artists/Son-Seals/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WROTwLx-aw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgZW4Icm1Rw

Less than 30,000 views each, what a shame. Love his guitar style and voice.

Thank you! I enjoyed that.

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I get almost daily texts with links in them. 99% contain the name Doja. I ignore and block them all. In the last couple of months I'm also getting calls to my landline purporting to be from a Dr's office confirming an appointment, always in someone else's name. They all go to voicemail. We answer no...

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Nate Bargatze The Tennessee Kid on Netflix A stand-up comic I had not heard of. Luckily I gave it more than the first three minutes. One of the more talented guys I've watched in a long time. Funny, clean. Laugh out loud for my wife and me. If you watch it, stay tuned for the closing credits which ...

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Update: I made my first visit to a warehouse in over a year today. Wow, great to be back. No problem getting cash for my Costco Citi Visa annual reward, except, at least in my warehouse, you must go to the checkout cashier. They would not cash it at Customer Service as in past years. I tried to get ...

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Win by Harlan Coben. I finished it it a day or so. The title character is the recurring Win of several of Coben's Myron Bolitar novels. It's darker than the Boiltar books, much more complicated too. Win is super rich. He keeps reminding you of the perqs of wealth, including an app available only if ...

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Nate Bargatze The Tennessee Kid on Netflix A stand-up comic I had not heard of. Luckily I gave it more than the first three minutes. One of the more talented guys I've watched in a long time. Funny, clean. Laugh out loud for my wife and me. If you watch it, stay tuned for the closing credits which h...

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I've got the Braun 7 and a Panasonic. I've tried Norelco and others. I like the Braun much better. I've had Braun both with and w/o the cleaning station. I prefer w/o. I do most of my shaves in the shower so it cleans there. As long as the battery pack is good, consider buying a replacement cutter b...

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I expect to get a discounted pizza later, at a place that was promoting a "Pi day special" ... but a slice of Blueberry Sour Cream Pie, with a cup of coffee would certainly hit the spot ;) A pizza has a radius z and thickness a. Its volume is pizza (or pi*z*z*a) Some other groaners are he...

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I'm a casual watcher. This past year we've had flocks of american robins. up to 30 or even 50 birds. I chuckled after I googled "what do you call a flock of robins" and got several suggestions: around of robins; a worm of robins http://bodysoulandspirit.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-worm-of-robin...

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I quickly finished Klara and the Sun: A novel: Kazuo Ishiguro. Now I have to figure out if I liked it and what it might signify. He's the Remains of the Day and Never Let me Go author. I've moved on to Later by Stephen King. So far about a boy who sees dead people, and more. King seldom disappoints ...

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Just a caution, esp if you plan to use mobile check deposit, here's my experience at Fidelity: I logged onto our joint account via my phone and used mobile deposit on a business check made out to my wife. It showed as accepted, then was reversed the next day. I called and discussed it with Fido. The...

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Scam by text. I am getting these messages periodically. I am not Sue, not clicking those links. Amazon: Congratulations Sue, you came 2nd in February's Amazon Apple Watch raffle! Click this link to set delivery: t1fmt.info/XybVup9XYg Another one Amazon - the planned delivery date of your parcel 1z6...

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Finished "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou today half way through "The Burial Hour" by Jeffrey Deaver What did you think of Bad Blood? would you recommend it? Yes, fascinating detail. I was familiar with the broad scope of the fraud but the story and detail are gripping. Well worth ...

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I logged onto our joint account via my phone and used mobile deposit on a business check made out to my wife. It showed as accepted, then was reversed the next day. I called and discussed it with Fido. They considered the check a rhird-party item since it was in my wife's name and I was logged on a...

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The dialect coach Erik Singer.YouTube ‘Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A episode 1 ~21 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsE_8j5RL3k episode 2 ~14 minutes as the NYT reviewed this 2 episode mini series: "The dialect coach Erik Singer h...

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Looking for some validation. In various places I see alerts that have variations of "dark web alert: compromised email address" or "compromised PW". The first is an example from Capital One Creditwise. If I click on it I get, in part, "What can I do now? You should reset the...

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Not spot on to alerts, but for joint CMA accounts we learned that it depends who has logged on. I logged onto our joint account via my phone and used mobile deposit on a business check made out to my wife. It showed as accepted, then was reversed the next day. I called and discussed it with Fido. Th...

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The Power Couple by Alex Berenson. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BZXSMKD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 He's the author of the John Wells series of books. This one is not part of that series. I'm 20% into it and like it. She's an FBI agent, he seems to be a NSA analyst. On vacation in...

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I finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. I enjoyed it. Some surprises at the end that I should have seen coming, at least in part. I then spent all of 25 minutes reading Buy a Bullet, a short story by Gregg Hurwitz. He writes the Orphan X novels. This short story and another by him that I ...

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just tried to schedule an interview. I can get an in person interview on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) at the airport. Basically 45 min each way, park, wait, interview, etc. So at least 3 hrs. There are no available Zoom interviews at all, going into 2023, in any time zone I checked. Guess they wan...

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We pay for daycare and preschool with Bank of America bill pay checks that are sent through the mail and that's been a hot mess. Those checks are constantly late and so far everyone has been patient about it, but I guess we'll have to start hand delivering them. That's not trivial with COVID since ...

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"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" on Netflix - 5/5 + 1000 I loved it. Just like I loved Jojo Rabbit. Taika Waititi is a wonderful director. Next up is to see his "Boy" and "What We Do In The Shadows". Watched it last night. One of the more enjoyable movies in many months. Wi...

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Has anyone else noted the absence of USPS postmarks on envelopes these days. I see most of the mail I receive these days is what I call presorted and there is no indication of when it was mailed. Therefore I cannot determine how long it takes to reach me. Still waiting on two Valentine cards mailed...

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Another new album out today, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Way Down in the Rust Bucket (Live). A live show recorded in the late 1990s.

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"That's Life", a new album released today by Willie Nelson, a collection of tunes that are Frank Sinatra standards. Willie's still got his voice at 87, but I'll go with Frank's versions. That said it's a good listen.

Here's the title song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEf8NXZEtzQ

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Gabby — Gabby Pahinui — world’s greatest slack-key guitarist I love slack key. Jeff Peterson Pahe'e Slack Key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzt-6disKEY I think it was used in The Descendants. One of my go to playlists at Google Play Music was Hawaiian Folk. When they closed GPM into Youtube Music...

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Not a TV Show but Love Groucho Marx - You Tube - You Bet Your Life! I watch The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show every morning. Remarkable humor. Finding Your Roots on PBS is a favorite So many good shows from years ago. Last winter we watched the Red Skelton Show at our condo. All of them were m...

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A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine. I really enjoyed this book. A dense, intellectual, Sci-Fi political thriller / murder mystery taking place in the capital city of a multi-planet empire in the far future. Well developed characters and some creative world-building. I can see why the book was ...

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As noted above I filed a renewal online on Friday. I got a Conditionally Approved email today, Sunday. I've got 2 years from today to complete. I looked and see that I can schedule a Zoom interview online now. Been having some audio issues with Zoom recently. I'll debug before I schedule. Guess they...

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