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Post by andydp on Feb 28, 2023 15:17:40 GMT
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
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Post by andydp on Mar 1, 2023 16:09:46 GMT
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Rumi
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Post by andydp on Mar 2, 2023 13:26:26 GMT
Today's entry on the dance card:
When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.
Daniel Handler
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Post by andydp on Mar 3, 2023 13:27:17 GMT
Since we have 5-9 inches predicted:
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And for the prurient minded:
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Maya Angelou
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Post by andydp on Mar 4, 2023 12:36:12 GMT
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean
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Post by andydp on Mar 5, 2023 13:28:24 GMT
Look, I’m not interested to feel intelligent while listening to idiots talking. I’d rather feel stupid listening to a genius speak.
Franco Battiato.
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Post by andydp on Mar 6, 2023 14:04:50 GMT
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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Post by andydp on Mar 7, 2023 12:08:15 GMT
In recognition of the start of Spring Training I decided to quote one of the game's preeminent philosophers:
Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.
Yogi Berra
As I was searching for today's quote, I found this observation nearby. I have to wonder who came up with this concept first.
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr
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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 7, 2023 16:21:05 GMT
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean I had a discussion about this with an acquaintance who lives in Truckee, currently buried under 8-12 ft of snow. I said I regretted that my kids did not know of the joy. She said her kids have been out of school a total of 3 weeks of snow days (not counting the holidays and their ski week in Feb.). No joy there anymore! |
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Post by andydp on Mar 8, 2023 12:53:22 GMT
In recognition of basketball league championship week
They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.
Pete Maravich
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Post by andydp on Mar 9, 2023 13:12:50 GMT
Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Matt Biondi
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Post by andydp on Mar 10, 2023 12:57:28 GMT
Had to take the laptop to Geek Squad since it wasn't charging. (Yes it was plugged in) Turns out, if you use the USB port to charge something it diverts power from the laptop battery charger. Bottom line: it was my fault.
There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.
Georges Pompidou
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Post by andydp on Mar 11, 2023 13:43:49 GMT
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Post by andydp on Mar 12, 2023 15:03:16 GMT
I came across this while searching for the appropriate daily diatribe: Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.
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Post by andydp on Mar 13, 2023 15:45:41 GMT
In "honor" of the coming storm:
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
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Post by andydp on Mar 14, 2023 11:53:39 GMT
In appreciation of Winter Storm Sage
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Post by andydp on Mar 15, 2023 13:12:55 GMT
Sadly, our Seton Hall Pirates fell to the University of Colorado Buffalos by two points in the last second. However, all is not lost: Rutgers #1 Seed, and Villanova both lost. Now we will watch the rest of the NCAA tournament.
... spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.
Craig Ferguson
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Post by andydp on Mar 16, 2023 12:58:34 GMT
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by andydp on Mar 17, 2023 12:20:57 GMT
Faith and begorrah to all !!
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
Conan O'Brien
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Post by andydp on Mar 18, 2023 14:12:16 GMT
Went to my first Weight Watcher's meeting in two months. Lost over 9 pounds. Why ? The meds I was taking made me eliminate a lot of adult beveraging.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
St. Jerome
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Post by andydp on Mar 20, 2023 15:51:12 GMT
This morning, I was volunteered to help clean up as in "Spring Cleaning". As I looked for an appropriate quote I came across this one by Charles Dickens. I think it covers a "guy's" way to look at cleaning.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens
PS Happy first day of Spring !!
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Post by andydp on Mar 21, 2023 12:16:55 GMT
When snow melts, what does it become ?' It becomes water, of course.' Wrong ! It becomes spring!
Natsuki Takaya
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Post by andydp on Mar 22, 2023 18:47:12 GMT
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
Wilton E. Hall
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Post by andydp on Mar 23, 2023 21:30:15 GMT
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
We spent our morning at the Clark Museum in Williamstown MA
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Post by andydp on Mar 25, 2023 11:27:15 GMT
I'll be a bit busy this weekend between home care and boredom. Since baseball season starts soon, a baseball quote from a pitcher.
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.
Dizzy Dean
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