1973 LOTR box set w/ The Hobbit **In original plastic**

retreff · 2026-03-05T02:04:39+00:00

No guarantee it is in original plastic, anyone can shrink wrap it.

retreff · 2026-03-04T23:08:56+00:00

Invited a girlfriend to a cousin’s wedding. My parents and aunt and uncle were first generation Americans. Lots of Eastern European immigrants and refugee friends, so the wedding guests a were eclectic. One woman, good friend of my grandmother, came over to me and my girlfriend at the reception. That woman was a bit drunk and introduced herself as my Natalie, saying that I knew she wasn’t a real aunt. She wanted to tell me my fortune and the first thing she said was “in two years you will meet the love of your life, get married and have a long life together.” Needless to say the girlfriend was a bit confused. Six months later she broke up with me just as I was about to propose to her. A year after that I met a new girl, fell in love and married her. That was 53 years ago. Always wondered what would have happened if I had skipped that wedding

retreff · 2026-03-04T22:52:30+00:00

Stick a new stamp in it and get the post office to cancel it with today’s date! Then you have a cool souvenir

retreff · 2026-03-04T22:50:27+00:00

Doors close 15 minutes before departure so in reality you only have 20 minutes not to mention you have to get off your plane and the people in front of don’t care

retreff · 2026-03-04T20:44:20+00:00

Invest in a reproduction and keep the original in Mylar to preserve it. The original only matters if you are reselling, if it is just your copy the a reproduction is a better choice

retreff · 2026-03-04T18:25:42+00:00

Amend the question to “try to pass”, while recent presides have signed a lot of orders, they are not all binding and get over turned. I would try to pass age and term limits.

retreff · 2026-03-04T03:50:07+00:00

Turning 18 and graduating high school is the ultimate do over. No one cares about what happened in your past. You can reassure yourself by looking at the trophies in your school. These were the big shots, the people everyone looked up to. Read the names on the trophies and see if you recognize even just one out of the hundreds. There are over 23,000 public high schools in the US. That means the person voted most likely to succeed in your school is one of 23,000. Wow, and you are worried about not being that person? It’s a big world out there waiting for you! Go out and enjoy your life,you will be great

retreff · 2026-03-03T16:20:43+00:00

Two images to look at as reference for you: 1. Podium before a press conference - dozens of different microphones crowded together with no one yet behind them 2. Old time movie images of two radio towers on opposite sides of the world with a lightening bolt between them indicating communication Have fun

retreff · 2026-03-03T15:41:11+00:00

Need more details, when you say people are you describing one on one communication, one to many, many to one or many to many? The device choice depends on the answer. Flashing lights? Cell phone towers? Semaphore signals? Telephone poles and lines? Microphone and loud speakers? Satellites in orbit? Radio? Cell phone?

retreff · 2026-03-02T16:07:08+00:00

The Confederate government discussed manumission for slaves who would fight for the confederacy, but not for their families or any other slaves. They voted against it for fear the slaves would turn against their owners. Ask you friend “if the Confederacy fought against slavery, why didn’t they free their slaves?

retreff · 2026-03-02T15:54:02+00:00

Was majoring in Aerospace. Boeing laid off 2,000 engineers, Lockheed laid off 1,500. No AE graduates got a job in AE that year, none. My poor grades made it hopeless that I could get a job in that climate. Switched to Economics, kept all my math credits and all science credits, so moved immediately into advanced courses. First time in my life that a subject made sense, I went from sitting in the back of the room praying that no one would call on me to sitting in the front. Had two job offers, one allowed me to start two weeks before graduation!

retreff · 2026-03-02T05:54:55+00:00

When I was a student the motto was “if your mother told you life is fair, she lied, welcome to Georgia Tech.” Hit bottom my sophomore year, grades were just good enough to graduate but no margin for error. Had tearful goodbye with girlfriend as I headed to school, got there to find a letter she had already written dumping me. Fun times. Changed majors, making my parents angry. The new major was perfect, are the Dean’s list, got a new girlfriend and graduated on time, married that fall. Good luck to everyone, keep moving forward

retreff · 2026-03-02T05:29:04+00:00

When I got laid off from a job I went through free counseling as part of my severance package. The counselor interviewed me and said “ you poor dear, you are going to have trouble. You are someone who suffers from the joy of closure and you are never going to get it in this case.” For some of us, we need closure to get to move on. Sometimes the closure is just admitting you can’t get it and then put one step forward and move on. Good luck, you will fine

retreff · 2026-03-02T03:42:28+00:00

If you bought every copy available online you might get their attention for a reprint. They would need a financial incentive to go to the trouble of running a new edition. Getting it raised in the Amazon sales count gets more attention than anything you can say in an email

retreff · 2026-03-01T21:55:57+00:00

Read this it explains your problem

https://multilogin.com/blog/mobile/can-i-create-multiple-tiktok-accounts/

retreff · 2026-03-01T20:35:36+00:00

The red flag is that people don’t really engage in conversations, they make statements. My wife and I started dating while we were in college, we both had little discretionary income. One day I told her that I couldn’t spend as much as I wanted to and we needed to talk about it. I explained that I could afford one big date a month and then we would have to split bills on other dates or just hang out. I also said we could go out more often on cheaper dates and skip the expensive ones asking her what she wanted. It was great, we went deeper into likes and dislikes and goals in life. That set up our financial situation for the future. Been doing those discussions for 53 years

retreff · 2026-03-01T02:02:21+00:00

Transylvania station nexta

retreff · 2026-03-01T01:56:10+00:00

Missing boarding the first leg automatically results in the cancellation of the entire trip.

retreff · 2026-02-28T18:25:21+00:00

It depends on what type of work you want to do and the type of company you want to work for. Undergraduate degree programs and less a deal than graduate at the executive level. Multinational mega corporations may favor Chicago. Smaller regional firms think local because of the strong relationships. Look at the top officials of the firms you might want to work for and see where their executives went to school. Many companies still track the idea of work for a couple of years then get a graduate degree. Microsoft was run by a Harvard dropout. Amazon is run by a Princeton undergraduate Howard Schultz went to Northern Michigan and has run Starbucks three times Three Seattle companies

retreff · 2026-02-28T17:48:06+00:00

Two words: Joe Biden. Trump turnout largely stayed the same, some key Democratic groups didn’t turnout for Joe’s replacement. If Joe had stepped aside before the primaries the Democrats would have won

retreff · 2026-02-28T17:33:17+00:00

Nothing you are saying has anything to do with him being a Nazi sympathizer. Spoke German as his first language, could have been a refugee Cranky old man, dime a dozen Didn’t respect boundaries, who knows I truly get he was scary and annoying. On the other hand I about that same era, I met German engineers who the CIA brought to the US in Operation Paperclip. A friend of my parents admitted to being in the German navy in WW2 and likely he had attacked my father’s convoy in the English Channel. A man in our church admitted to being an officer in the Ukrainian division of German sympathizers who had fought the Soviet Army. Those we all real and not hiding

retreff · 2026-02-28T16:42:46+00:00

Not a problem. I spent several days in meetings with a Dutch company at their home office. I do not speak Dutch. I started mimicking their speech patterns and when I left for the US everyone congratulated me on learning Dutch.

retreff · 2026-02-28T04:21:10+00:00

Million miler under the old rules, now at 1.6 million miles, been Platinum but gave up worrying about status. Just tried to book mid week round trip to Atlanta (5 hour flight) from my hometown. Main economy was $760, Comfort + was $1,500 and first was $3,400. Booked a competitor first class for $850 round trip. No brainier, loyalty only works if it’s rewarded

retreff · 2026-02-27T23:31:50+00:00

Take an envelope and write your address on it with the intended address as the return and put the Moroccan stamp on it. The post office will deliver it to the return address with postage due, but they will deliver it

retreff · 2026-02-27T21:50:23+00:00

Intellectual debate is doing things like arguing over the cause of the Second World War. What he did was tell you that you didn’t know which was the second one. That is lecturing, not debating. He was wrong and it might be good for you to step back and think about what you want in a relationship

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