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  1. RSteve

    If I Weren't So Lazy

    Not counting the 100 or so Dunhill tins I bought when it was rumored that Dunhill was finished with tobacco, I have an embarrassing number of other unopened tobacco tins. I will never, in this lifetime, smoke all the tobacco I've personally blended and pressed. I know I should list all the tins...
  2. RSteve

    Amazon Delivers

    On Easter Sunday and rang the doorbell.
  3. RSteve

    Dentist Billing: What A Disaster

    I was overcharged $183.00 by my regular dentist, Metro Dental. They screwed up the claim to my dental insurer. The oral surgeon doing my implant is associated with another office of Metro Dental. That office tried to overcharge me $2000.00 at my last visit. I have phenomenal dental insurance for...
  4. RSteve

    Thinking About A Trip to Vietnam Next Winter

    Before I'm too old to make that kind of trip, I'd like to retrace my steps. I'll use a guided tour service. I really don't have either the desire or balls to travel extemporaneously anymore. I want things planned with a tour guide. I knew many Vietnamese nationals during my tour in '68-'69, but...
  5. RSteve

    I Felt Sorry for Ruby

    Almost three years ago, my younger daughter got a young female dog. My daughter was pregnant at the time with kids ages 5 and 3.5. The dog was with my daughter's family for about six months and it wasn't a good fit, for both Ruby the dog and the family. Ruby needed a lot of attention. When I was...
  6. RSteve

    Gout

    Ouch. I have attacks usually in my right foot, great toe. It looks like I have a bunion from all the attacks and enlarged joint. This time the attack is in both joints in my left hand thumb. I'm trying to trace what purines I may have consumed to precipitate the attack.
  7. RSteve

    How Many "Genuine" Tobacco Manufacturer/Processors Are There?

    The threads about Mel Feldman's The Smoker, Watch City and The Country Squire and "hand blending" got me to thinking about where their tobacco is sourced. It seems like MacBaren/Sutliff is sourcing most of the processed tobacco for blending by U.S. blenders. Is C & D processing tobacco for their...
  8. RSteve

    My Pipes Will Get A Rest

    I've been in the process of getting a dental implant for months. Today, the threaded metal post was screwed into my upper jaw. Lots of bold letters in the aftercare instructions. NO SMOKING! Smoking will inhibit the healing of the gums surrounding the metal post. Implants are crazy expensive...
  9. RSteve

    Masks Are Disappearing

    Over the weekend, I stopped at both Costco Business Center and Sam's Club. From my perspective fewer people are wearing masks. Employees, for the most part, were masked at both stores. Most mandatory masking has ended in Minneapolis-St. Paul, but the number of Covid hospitalizations hasn't...
  10. RSteve

    Weight Loss

    I'm only 5'7" and shrinking in height. For most of my adult life I weighed about 160 lbs. In my 20s, early 30s, I was able to keep my weight between 145 and 150 lbs. The weight gain started in my 40s and stabilized at 160 lbs. for a couple of decades. At age 60, I began ro gain about a pound...
  11. RSteve

    I Am Done Blending

    As I wrote in another thread, the last of my blends is in the noodle presses. My blends are all very similar and I like them. I've been doing this for a long time. It was fun and interesting, but I have no desire to "tweak" blends I like. I smoked MacBarens Virginia #1 almost exclusively for...
  12. RSteve

    I'll Only Go To Twins Day Games

    I usually take in a few games a year. I'm not beyond sleeping through a couple of innings. No more night games. The Twins stadium is in downtown Minneapolis and it's simply too dangerous to walk to your car after the game at night. It'll be interesting to see how attendance is effected. All the...
  13. RSteve

    PTSD

    When I was discharged from the Army in late September, 1969, ETSing directly out of Vietnam, there was no recognition of post traumatic stress disorder. I think it was in the early 70s, we first heard about PVSD, post Vietnam stress disorder. ETSing right out of Nam was a mistake for me because...
  14. RSteve

    Do You Often Eat In Restaurants?

    One of my friends, divorced for many years, says he eats almost all of his meals in restaurants and during the worst of the pandemic had them delivered. Honestly, since the pandemic began, the only food I've eaten "out", as in a restaurant, has been at the Costco food court.
  15. RSteve

    Chromebook EOL

    Today, I took a good look that the Chromebooks that I usually use. I had not paid much attention to their end of life, which basically means that point where they no longer get security or operating system updates. Much to my surprise, both of them are end of life in June of this year. I am not...
  16. RSteve

    No Photoshop

    Can you identify this actress?
  17. RSteve

    Voice to text has really advanced

    I am on my new under $100 Chromebook tablet. I think it is designated Lenovo model 10e. I just realized that this tablet has speech to print. Instead of keying in this thread and post, I am just speaking it. Only once have I had to make a correction. It really is rather amazing. I could generate...
  18. RSteve

    I should quit reading the obituaries

    Today, I read the obits and I would say at least half of the people who were listed are younger than I am. It really was kind of depressing. I guess the only solution is the just quit reading the obituaries.
  19. RSteve

    Hypothetically, If You Were A Tyrant Who Started A War

    If you were a tyrant who started a war, for the rest of you life, could you ever step outside for a breath of fresh air? "On June 22, 2017 the Globe and Mail reported that two snipers assigned to Joint Task Force 2, Canada’s elite special forces unit, had shot an Islamic State fighter in Iraq...
  20. RSteve

    "At $97, It's More Expensive Not to Buy This Lenovo Chromebook 3"

    Lenovo's 11 inch, 2.2 lb. Chromebook 3 at $ 97.00, $122 Off. Lenovo Chromebook 3 link to Best Buy Reprint of promo, quoted below. Chromebooks are cheap, but they’re rarely this cheap for a decent brand new one. For $97, you’ll get a surprisingly capable machine that relies solely on web apps...
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