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Gather round loyal readers and listen while I bang my AI war drum yet again.
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Ditch the artificial intelligence before it’s too late!
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Are you paying attention?
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I keep warning you…. but you’re not listening.
This is only a small part of that disturbing article but to add insult to injury?
The very next story I saw hit a little too close to home…
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Noooo!
Don’t click.
Don’t do it…
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I’m not a big baker but I do make fruit bread now and then. Banana bread, apple bread… I’ve even made blueberry bread. But up until now I’d never made strawberry bread.
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And while I can’t say it’s my favorite…
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It wasn’t half bad either.
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I used the vanilla extract but next time I think I’d try almond for a touch more flavor.
I also had to add a bit of water to the glaze, it was too pasty their way.
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Things are starting to come together on the flooring project.
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And I’m almost afraid to say this lest something horrible happen….
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But work is progressing smoothly.
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It’s going to take us a while to get used to this type of floor as we’ve had carpet in here since we moved in, but I’m liking it so far.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten’s jury is still out.
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Though he does enjoy the work table when our contractor goes out to the man cave/Barn Mahal for lunch.
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Progress!
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Because there’s always plenty of it.
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If I remember correctly, I got a quarter. My how times have changed…
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I have no words.
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And from the look of those rats, they’re not thrilled to be living in Beantown either.
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A steady rat population is a beautiful thing.
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That may not be the only reason, but okay.
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It’s always the last place you look.
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Every day we’re bombarded with terrible news.
School shootings, plane crashes, natural disasters, war…. but this article I read the other day might be the one to push me over the proverbial edge.
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And it’s more serious than having an uncanny resemblance to our funky window insulation.
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Read on for some truly horrible news.
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Say it isn’t so!
I love Camembert, Brie and Blue….
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This isn’t bad news, it’s catastrophic.
My world will not be the same without the soft ripened loveliness of a creamy Brie or the pungent marbled goodness of blue.
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There were a few men in the closet at Casa River the other day.
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My husband started there with a can of paint.
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And the contractor followed shortly after with the new flooring.
I have to say it’s a bit darker than I expected.
This was the generated image their website showed me.
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And this is what looks like in our house.
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The odd thing is it tends to change color depending on the amount of light in the room.
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Seen here with Lord Dudley in the bright light of day it has a warmer tone.
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And when the shadows shift, it darkens.
Either way, we’ll love it.
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We have to, it’s non returnable.
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I always get a kick out of these computer generated suggestions and wonder what the hell I’ve done to deserve them.
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Do I need to push a snail shell when I want soap?
I do not.
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Why are they still making these things? And does anyone still buy them…
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Again with the pickles.
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Okay, those could actually come in handy.
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Clearly their idea of magic mushrooms and mine differ considerably.
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This first picture is what I call porn for women.
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A man, using a shop vac to clean.
And boy do we need cleaning.
Dust?
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It’s everywhere.
And since my husband is retired again … (did I mention that? He went back to work for 6 months but decided to call it quits for good this time. Or so he says)… our contractor has put him to work with the time consuming annoying jobs.
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Like pulling out all the little pieces of old carpet trapped under the frame of the brickwork.
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So many little pieces.
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Of that horrible dusty rose crap that’s still in our bedroom.
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Its removal will be the next project we tackle after this one.
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If this one is ever finished that is.
And because you know nothing goes smoothly here…
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See the threshold piece wrapped in plastic on the right? See how it matches the flooring? There should have been 3 tubes of that, we got 1.
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The other 2 tubes looked like this.
Not even close… which means another delay and annoyance while we wait for the store to replace it.
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Furry inconvenience?
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We’ve got that too as Lord Dudley Mountcatten has developed a fascination with power tools.
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When I was painting the living rooms walls, I removed all the light and outlet covers. That included the ridiculous switch on the right the previous owner had installed.
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It went to the hot water heater which apparently she shut off every night. We never do that and I was tired of looking at it so I had the contractor remove the annoying red light. This meant rewiring some lines in the basement.
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And the discovery of a corpse.
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Poor little thing.
Trying to keep my husband from talking to the contractor …. while paying him $55 an hour to listen…. I found a project to keep my spouse busy.
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Installing cellular shades on our new bedroom windows. He gave me the look when I told him that meant putting holes in the new trim but before long he was reaching for his hammer for some none too subtle adjustments.
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This job took the better part of an afternoon..
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And didn’t seem to bother His Lordship over much.
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When my husband started chatted up the contractor again, he was asked to help with some laser assisted measurements.
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And after the measuring?
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More talking…
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Because my vacation series is finally over.
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I have to be honest and say this question stumped me. While I know most children cycle through dreams of being a fireman or an astronaut or an actress or a professional sports star… I can’t remember ever wanting to be anything.
I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid… ( still do) but I never dreamt of being a paleontologist.
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I loved taking pictures as a kid… (still do) but never dreamt of being a photographer.
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I loved to read as a kid… (still do) but never dreamt of being an editor.
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I guess I never set myself for up disappointment by dreaming of a career. I’ve had multiple jobs in my life, but I married young and thankfully never had to work.
How about you?
What did your childhood self dream of being…
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