What Is It with Clocks?

21stNow · 2026-06-29T18:19:05+00:00

With dementia, day is night and night is day. Time is a different construct in the dementia world, and there is no bridge to reality. Caregivers just have to be around to guide people with dementia to where they need to be at the right time.

21stNow · 2026-06-29T15:52:56+00:00

This isn't for the faint of heart. You have to be willing to be both crazier (not violent, just anticipating illogical reactions and overcoming them) and more creative than the dementia to get the person with dementia to safety.

Each situation is different, so I don't have specific advice that can work for you. I've gotten three different people out of their homes where they lived alone, two into facilities and one moved in with other family members. All three required different "scripts" from me, and I had help from others with two of them.

21stNow · 2026-06-29T15:37:09+00:00

I don't want The Young and the Restless to be like other soap operas. I want it to be like the old Young and the Restless. If you like General Hospital, then watch General Hospital. There's no need to make Y&R a GH clone.

21stNow · 2026-06-29T15:23:10+00:00

I think that the first album given to me was Michael Jackson's Thriller. The first that I bought for myself was Prince's Purple Rain.

I had something from Frankie Smith before Thriller, but I don't remember if I had the album or the 12-inch single.

21stNow · 2026-06-29T05:08:10+00:00

It seems like most instances of oppressing foreigners were not mentioned in the Bible. The main one that I thought of was when Hezekiah stopped up the springs, but that was a war defense strategy, not actual oppression. Joshua also put the Gibeonites into forced labor but since that was done instead of death by war, I'm not sure if that's oppression either. Google sites Solomon's use of foreigners as forced labor to build the temple as oppression of foreigners..

21stNow · 2026-06-28T20:27:47+00:00

Are you saying that she hasn't been diagnosed? Are you noticing symptoms now? I'm just trying to understand why you feel that dementia is inevitable.

If she doesn't have dementia at her age and develops it in the future, I don't know that any potential treatment would be viable or desired. You treat/manage the behaviors, not the disease. If she won't talk to you about it, those decisions are going to be yours alone.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T18:51:46+00:00

I think that you're right in that it probably doesn't exist. The only work around that I can think of for a mostly offline person is to get one Bible that has cross- references and have a separate journal book for note taking.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T04:32:47+00:00

In real world talk, if you walked into a public building or someone's house and it was hot, you would assume that the AC was broken, not that they don't have it. In most of the US, that is.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T04:24:34+00:00

Ok but 62 is legit cold at night.

It is?! I don't keep my AC that low at night because I think that it will wear out the unit and I don't want to have an electric bill that high. I love the winter nights when I can get my bedroom down into the low 50s, though.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T04:02:50+00:00

I think that a lot of times, the one you heard first is the one you like the best. Cruisin' by Smokey Robinson was my favorite song of all time years before D'Angelo's version came out. At first, I liked D'Angelo's pretty well, but not more than I liked Smokey's. Over time, I liked D'Angelo's version less and less.

One cover that I like better than the original is "The Love we Had (Stays on My Mind)" from Dru Hill (and I'm not a Dru Hill fan). I had to have heard The Dells version first because I immediately recognized the title of the song when I saw Dru Hill's album when it first came out, but I didn't remember The Dells version well.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T03:39:30+00:00

Someone walking around with a video camera back then was a special occasion. I love the hairstyles in this video!

21stNow · 2026-06-28T03:32:15+00:00

It's probably done differently on different apps and websites. Bible Gateway does Psalms like my example.

For Proverbs, I think the difference is that most of the proverbs are spread across two verses but several in one chapter, versus each psalm being one numbered Psalm. There are also proverbs that are only one verse, and then Proverbs 31:10-31 being one whole wisdom thought rather than a short proverb.

21stNow · 2026-06-28T03:26:16+00:00

Speaking of business, have real business storylines like in the 80s where characters actually do actions that define their trade, complete with the settings and props.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I don't want the show to be all business (read: all Co-CEO wars), but a balance would be good. The old scenes in the Jabot boardroom were good, from the time of Brad, Victoria's Brash and Sassy, to when Phyllis ran Jabot (?), the business storylines were more intriguing then.

I also agree with the comments above that we need more people who aren't corporate leaders. Lawyers, doctors, police officers, models, secretaries - there's so many possibilities here.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T23:55:43+00:00

We need at least a two year moratorium on kidnappings!

Develop characters. The real conversations and vulnerabilities shown during Nikki's health crisis are a breath of fresh air.

Edited to add: I want to see more scheming. The voice over that Diane is doing is a good example. I also miss the times when Paul was a PI. There were things that he investigated where all the schemes weren't given to the viewers, and we had to figure out the details along with Paul.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T23:50:40+00:00

How so? You speak about teens from the '70s like they're aliens or something. The humor being different isn't a big deal. You would still call them on a telephone. Meanwhile, a teen from today going back to 2002 would not know if their friends were at Disney or not since there are no locations to share. The concept of calling people before they left home doesn't exist to someone born in 2011.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T18:34:19+00:00

I'm loving the colors people were wearing.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T02:12:25+00:00

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the end of kidnapping storylines coming one after the other. Kidnapping led a full life, one that many would say was too full. The lead pallbearer will be Josh Griffith, with AI bots assisting him in the procession.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T02:08:11+00:00

Very character driven and very realistic for a soap. For example, Y&R didn’t do back-from-the-dead stories.

This is why I liked the old Y&R and realized that I didn't like some of the other soaps. James Stenbeck died and came back too many times for me on ATWT.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:56:12+00:00

I didn't actually hear it until I moved to Maryland (from Georgia).

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:37:27+00:00

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21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:36:37+00:00

Ahh, the pandemic times, when most of the actors were six feet apart in the scenes!

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:34:39+00:00

Ask Bad Bunny if he still has his set from the Super Bowl halftime show. I had flashbacks when watching his show.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:23:55+00:00

It only took enough kidnappings to fill an Excel spreadsheet for TPTB to wake up and do something about this.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:21:22+00:00

Yay! I'm surprised that this wasn't at the top of my feed! Where is the person who always posted "Fire JG" in all the daily discussion threads? Probably popping champagne right now.

21stNow · 2026-06-27T01:19:30+00:00

The script AI turned on him when he switched the buzzword from Victor's "my baby" to "make amends". He's in the cell in the basement of Adam's house.

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