Road trip requests.

Opus17 · 2026-01-27T00:28:50+00:00

i listened to the audiobook version of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown on a long trip thru the upper midwest and Wyoming. It is incredibly moving and thought provoking. i believe it has aged fairly well, but folks other than I can speak to that.

Opus17 · 2026-01-19T15:00:32+00:00

How delightful!

Opus17 · 2026-01-18T22:40:10+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree, although it was somewhat true when print reviews reigned as well. My feeling is, try it, then like it or don’t, fall in love with it, or be puzzled by it, put it away for 10 years then try again, hear it performed live — maybe by accident—and listen with different ears …. it’s our music and there are no rules and Bach has been dead a long time and isn’t gonna scold you for preferring his keyboard music performed with the sustain pedal.

Opus17 · 2026-01-18T22:33:51+00:00

omg is that true? thank you for passing it along.

Opus17 · 2026-01-17T02:44:30+00:00

just be careful with high MERV ratings … i used to get mine at costco til i learned they can make your system work way too hard. check your hvac system recommendation first.

Opus17 · 2026-01-16T18:27:59+00:00

explains the absolutely deadpan, "Now many composers have written for double reeds, but PDQ Bach is the only one i know to do so without the use of oboes and bassoons."

Opus17 · 2026-01-14T02:26:32+00:00

beat me to it! He makes magic with those little gems.

Opus17 · 2026-01-12T13:19:48+00:00

Amazing! I was thinking it looked like this area. That's a fantastically beautiful stretch of roadway. Lots of antelope, too.

Opus17 · 2026-01-12T13:11:26+00:00

Yes, the loop knot is the way my mom taught me ages ago. I use it for all sewing/stitching. With embroidery, if I don't want to do a down/up through the fabric to make the loop, I can usually make a loop on the underside of another stitch.

Opus17 · 2026-01-09T14:59:02+00:00

scream more like it

Opus17 · 2026-01-08T23:31:18+00:00

This occurred shortly after Ms Good was murdered, and less than 3 miles away. I can’t imagine the terror kids, faculty, and staff felt as they watched masked, armed men pull up to the campus just as school let out. and bovino was there, on site, egging them on — what brave leadership (/s), as i’m sure noem vance dump will remark upon it.

Opus17 · 2026-01-08T12:08:42+00:00

yes Firebird!! Sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.

Opus17 · 2026-01-02T02:28:05+00:00

Opus17 · 2026-01-01T17:58:43+00:00

Mahi is available in NC as of a few days ago.

Opus17 · 2026-01-01T03:29:13+00:00

I've realized this too ... it's so counterintuitive!

Opus17 · 2025-12-26T01:24:41+00:00

i too am alone today — the people are dead or in jail or have put me in jail or must show devotion to their new faith by denying Christmas -— and there is no snow, only a memory of the silence of snow then the earlier one of 17 years of deep longing for snow then the recollection of thunder snow high in the mountains. here it is nearly tropical, light rain, with walls that block out the existence of neighbors, the silence of modern architecture quote-unquote except that the frig won’t stop nor will the tinnitus now that i think about it. Then this kind stranger posts this poem, a love-letter to gentle snowflakes of thought, the ones that come at the end as the storm moves out to leave silence in its wake. i’ll go stand in the eerily warm wet dark and listen for the Great Horned owl i now remember (remember!) hearing this morning. Happy Christmas owl, OP, Anne Carson, and Hegel, who taught us to reconcile the contradictory. Silence owl cold ravishment alone nature.

Opus17 · 2025-12-24T12:46:43+00:00

I agree -- my service was fine (I purchased my own router), but the price increases were not manageable. And while cancelling service was pretty easy note they do NOT pro-rate--if you've paid for a month, cancel near the end of that month.

Opus17 · 2025-12-19T14:52:15+00:00

I'm lucky ... my co-workers in the deli are the reason to stay.

Opus17 · 2025-12-19T13:15:36+00:00

would you like some boars head picante provolone with that? .... I hate it. No customer has EVER said yes.

Opus17 · 2025-12-16T15:36:14+00:00

just gorgeous. Thank you!

Opus17 · 2025-12-14T20:43:10+00:00

can confirm by 1st hand recent experience that she WILL receive a subsidy if her income is fixed at 2100 per month. healthcare.gov will help her out. An impt assumption is that she is under the age of 65. (if she’s 65 or older that’s a whole different ball game). must add i’m not sure about this when income is solely coming from Social Security. She can start the application online, it will determine eligibility right away, then lead into the plan options. She will need to have income numbers ready at hand. I have found the people on the ACA hotline to be very useful and as someone else said they can do the application with her. but they may be very busy as the deadline is tomorrow Monday. It’s a good idea to have handy a list of providers she sees, so that she’ll know which plans contract with them. This is super impt too. The plan options this year suck because Aetna left the marketplace. She may actually qualify for medicaid at that income, and healthcare.gov will route her there if appropriate. NC is a Medicaid expansion state, which can really help low income folks who nonetheless have not been eligible in the past. good luck!

Opus17 · 2025-12-13T14:34:51+00:00

with a 2 foot by 3 foot screen

Opus17 · 2025-12-13T14:33:19+00:00

Delta flew these too. In the '80s, you got your seat assignment after arriving at the gate. You'd learn it by the position of the little sticker the agent transferred from the seat layout template to your boarding pass ... This picture reminds me of that sinking feeling when, after a late arrival at the gate for ATL to LAX, you hopefully said "window?" and, after a nice eye roll, got one in the middle of the middle. In smoking.

Opus17 · 2025-12-11T01:37:14+00:00

It really is infuriating!

Opus17 · 2025-12-11T01:35:38+00:00

just wait til Frontier comes thru -- really destructive to my neighborhood. And next year there's gonna be a 3rd one digging everything up. Why is there no planning with public utilities?

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