No, I don’t agree with everything. I saw a lot of it with my own eyes, though.

I love cheap stuff that is good quality. There is a lot of it to be found if you look. Even if it isn’t he top of the line being cheap helps me wear it longer.

Nah… you can wear it anytime it is cold and tell everyone who doesn’t like it to F off.

I guess you assumed wrong. I was there about 1.5 years in India, itself. I was also in Nepal, Pakistan and very short time Sikkim. I walked to the four country border near Darjeeling. I went to a Dharmsala and studied Vipassna meditation for a month.

For the time i spent in Japan, I don’t think I ever ate potato chips! I ate all sorts of different sembi, though. My favorite were the ones that looked like a brown turtle.

Just wondering, is this the reason why the Packers will not build an indoor stadium. The cold is one h*ll of an advantage over most teams. Everyone playing inside would have a tough time of it. You know frozen fingers and toes and that kind of thing.

The cold must have picked them off.

Go Packers! Just freeze them to death!!

I enjoy reading science fiction because it presents altered states of people and societies. I mean that we haven’t seen some of these types of societies, sciences or general situations, yet. It is a chance to explore some of the nitty-gritty of social systems without living them in real life. One of the greats at this was Phillip K. Dick who imagined a constellation of different social structures and ways to live in them. Also, personal relationships can be presented in a way that doesn’t offend anyone because science fiction is usually not set in the present times. They also look at different political situations. For instance, A.E. Van Vogt wrote The Weapons Shops of Issher to examine the situation of self-defense in a society that would deny that natural right if it could. Phillip K. Dick examined what could have happened if the Nazis had won WWII. It is possible to examine those situations only through the eyes of science fiction. These are some of the reasons I read science fiction and watch science fiction movies.

Tenshinhan is also one of the names of a character in the Dragon Ball series. There are different kinds of names for each group of characters. I guess this is anime lore.

Yes, that would do it. We have to get more of the population going on BTC. The people playing the blame game are mostly politicians to deflect from what they are doing to make us all (but not them) poor.

Usually the state.

No, we only have what I posted above. I was working on the yard on the “edible landscaping” theory. I also have some really nice hazelnut bushes/trees, but the squirrels generally get to them before they are ripe and annihilate the possible harvest. The squirrels are just insatiable little buggers and they live in our huge maple trees, so it is hard to keep them off the fruit and nuts. In the neighborhood there are also walnut and butternut trees all over.

I hope the review will be decent, but the book is pretty good but from 1993.

I have several apple, pear and one cherry tree. The neighbors have crabapple and cherry trees. We get sour cherries that are great for pies and jams. I have also canned up brandies pears and apples, although it takes a bunch of brandy. I forgot to add, we have a hive of bees and are really hoping they survive this year. About 50% of the hives are dying recently.

I bet that they are warm, though. The trouble is you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in some of the gaudiest designs.

I once volunteered at a thrift shop and wound up checking electronic and electrical goods to see if they still functioned well. I spent several days doing it, because they always put me in the same place. I was a small area with testing tools.

They are doing the same thing the Mafia does in the US. They make the loan and when the borrower cannot pay the vigorish, trouble starts and property is taken. I understand that he inherited a lot of debt from the previous government, perhaps he can find a way out. We need to do the same, here in the good ol’ USA.

I will be adding to the list soon. I am just finishing a sci-fi book and will make a review for it. It is a really interesting book.

Can orange blossom water be made DIY? If you live in a place with oranges, it might work. Do you live in a warm place?

The thrift store is a great place to find vintage stuff; books, clothes, devices and household goods. They are especially good for kids stuff like toys and clothes. The kids stuff is, of course, used but usually in really good shape. I have also looked for games and puzzles in the thrift store and found some really good ones. The best thing about the thrift store, though, is the prices!! Can’t beat the prices.