In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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BRENDA

Saturday, September 25, 2021 3:20 AM

All chores done for today.

1KIKI

Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:08 AM

YAY!

1KIKI

Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:11 AM

A literally house-shaking helicopter's been going overhead every few minutes. I'm guessing it's a water-dropping one coming to Bonelli Lake to fill up for this fire: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/rosemead-fire-crews-battle-small-brus
h-fire-in-whittier-narrows-area/ Rosemead Fire: Crews battle 20-acre brush fire in Whittier Narrows area

1KIKI

Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:38 AM

I just caught sight of it. Yes, it's a water-dropping helicopter with the snorkel hanging down, but not a Sikorsky 'Sky Crane' like I imagined, just a regular-looking helicopter with a big belly. And not Whittier Narrows - something much closer. I smell smoke - strong, freshly emitted, acrid smoke. It just hasn't made it onto the internet yet.

SIGNYM

Saturday, September 25, 2021 9:15 AM

We've been trying to restore our cell connection to T-Mobile ever since it started crapping out a month or two ago. Used to have so-so signal, not great but enuf for a text, at least. But lately can't get a simple text thru for hours at a time

T-Mobile sent us new pre-acrivated SIM cards which MIGHT solve the problem, but our signal was so crappy that they couldn't connect from our home.
Spent 45 minutes on hold with "customer care" (in the Philippines I think) who spent 15 minutes with us on the phone doing nothing except confirming that the cards were activated at their end

Then she xfered us to "tech support" (in Mumbai, I think) who spent 7 minutes telling us he couldn't hear us -altho we could hear him fine on our landline, the problem was at his end - before dropping our call.

So we drove to T-Mobile where, it turns out, the signal was MUCH better, and confirmed our SIM cards were working. But our phones still don't work at home.

Getting fed up with T-Mobile. I think they swallowed Sprint and have indigestion. Also, they're trying to push everyone to "5G", so they're not supporting LTE or anything lower freq.

In addition, my Fastmail email has developed some weird problem where the contents of some folders have become invisible. Hubby loaded Thunderbird which allows me to see my Fastmail emails. I sent in a tech support request five days ago which they acknowledged but haven't fixed yet.

And finally, our Spectrum (phone/"landline", inet) has been strangely sporadic over the past week - inet off for some minutes, then back. Phone off for a few minutes, then back. Seems to be ok now, but we've had some urgent issues to take care of, so when EVERYTHING is on the blink, it's very frustrating and, frankly, pisses me off.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, September 25, 2021 9:34 AM

My buddy uses US Mobile and loves it. He says it never drops a call, it's month to month and no contract. He also said that he was able to use his phone from Verizon and they provided him with a tool to unlock the phone.

$15/mo for unlimited text and talk with no taxes above that. I can't remember what he said unlimited data would be. I also don't know if there are discounts for multiple lines.

There's no reason to use TMobile or any of the big carriers anymore. You should use this opportunity to make the switch. Back when I got rid of my cell phone around 7 years ago I was paying almost $70 per month for just unlimited calls. What a ripoff.

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1KIKI

Saturday, September 25, 2021 10:45 AM

Maybe pick up a pre-pay. It's a cheap $40 or so troubleshooting move. I also have T-Mobile and they 'fixed' my signal problems in my city - mostly restored back to merely difficult and problematic after recently becoming impossible. But then again just today I got VMs and texts HOURS late, and only accidentally after I turned my phone off and back on because I couldn't get a signal to send out. I've been in your area with a Verizon prepay - and basically had no signal. So I can tell you by experience T-Mobile and Verizon suck in your area.

I THINK the only other backbone carrier in SoCal besides those 2 is AT&T. I THINK everyone else uses either T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T towers. Maybe you should try picking up an AT&T pre-pay?

Or try this?
Find Your Nearest Cell Tower in Five Minutes or Less: 2021 Edition
https://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/blog/finding-cell-tower-locations-the
-complete-guide/

I went to 3 of the linked sites and got this
cell mapper, the only 3 wireless providers in your area appear to be T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T
opensignal which is app-driven and useless
antennasearch.com indicates AT&T 4G LTE coverage (and select 5G areas) in your city.

3RD world cell service at its finest!

SIGNYM

Saturday, September 25, 2021 12:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My buddy uses US Mobile and loves it. He says it never drops a call, it's month to month and no contract. He also said that he was able to use his phone from Verizon and they provided him with a tool to unlock the phone.

$15/mo for unlimited text and talk with no taxes above that. I can't remember what he said unlimited data would be. I also don't know if there are discounts for multiple lines.

There's no reason to use TMobile or any of the big carriers anymore. You should use this opportunity to make the switch. Back when I got rid of my cell phone around 7 years ago I was paying almost $70 per month for just unlimited calls. What a ripoff.

As I understand it, the smaller providers actually use the "big boys'" networks. I doubt that US Mobile has put up its own towers. And the problem seems to be an actual coverage problem: cell tower antenna not aimed in our direction or in a shadow of some sort, or not provided with as much power as before.

Not at all wedded toany particular carrier. Had Verizon before, but dumped them because their coverage was worse than T-Mobile's, and they were dicking with us and telling hubby his phone was "no good" and had been exposed to water when we knew for a fact it hadn't. They even went thru this whole song and dance of applying a voltmeter to some random spot and saying "See?" Worse, hubby was there when they did that to the person in front of him and the person behind him. He made sure, on his way out, to say very loudly to the people in line that Verizon was trying to rip them off to buy a new phone. (WHich is was T-Mobile seems to be doing now.)

Also, "Been there, done that" with using a secondary provider who leases someone else's infrastructure. When we had dial-up, we went thru a company that ran on the Verizon backbone, and every time we were throttled they pointed at each other.

Spectrum is offering wireless, but I need to make sure that NONE of it is on the same infrastructure as our inet/landline service. The whole point of using 2 different carriers is that their systems won't crash at the same time. Or, more prosaically, we don't wind up trying to report a phone fault on the system that is at fault.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Saturday, September 25, 2021 1:33 PM

KIKI thanks for the cell tower mapping. There are more tower owners than I thought possible.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, September 25, 2021 4:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My buddy uses US Mobile and loves it. He says it never drops a call, it's month to month and no contract. He also said that he was able to use his phone from Verizon and they provided him with a tool to unlock the phone.

$15/mo for unlimited text and talk with no taxes above that. I can't remember what he said unlimited data would be. I also don't know if there are discounts for multiple lines.

There's no reason to use TMobile or any of the big carriers anymore. You should use this opportunity to make the switch. Back when I got rid of my cell phone around 7 years ago I was paying almost $70 per month for just unlimited calls. What a ripoff.
As I understand it, the smaller providers actually use the "big boys'" networks. I doubt that US Mobile has put up its own towers. And the problem seems to be an actual coverage problem: cell tower antenna not aimed in our direction or in a shadow of some sort, or not provided with as much power as before.

Not at all wedded toany particular carrier. Had Verizon before, but dumped them because their coverage was worse than T-Mobile's, and they were dicking with us and telling hubby his phone was "no good" and had been exposed to water when we knew for a fact it hadn't. They even went thru this whole song and dance of applying a voltmeter to some random spot and saying "See?" Worse, hubby was there when they did that to the person in front of him and the person behind him. He made sure, on his way out, to say very loudly to the people in line that Verizon was trying to rip them off to buy a new phone. (WHich is was T-Mobile seems to be doing now.)

Also, "Been there, done that" with using a secondary provider who leases someone else's infrastructure. When we had dial-up, we went thru a company that ran on the Verizon backbone, and every time we were throttled they pointed at each other.

Spectrum is offering wireless, but I need to make sure that NONE of it is on the same infrastructure as our inet/landline service. The whole point of using 2 different carriers is that their systems won't crash at the same time. Or, more prosaically, we don't wind up trying to report a phone fault on the system that is at fault.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

Yeah. They piggyback over large provider's networks.

If you're forced to pay for shit though, you might as well pay a lot less for shit, IMO.

It sounds like you're getting ripped off twice in the deal.

Three times, really, if you're splitting carriers and not even maxing out the family discount.

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BRENDA

Saturday, September 25, 2021 11:10 PM

Laundry day for me in a bit then out for a walk. So later peeps.

1KIKI

Sunday, September 26, 2021 12:38 AM

It's interesting Signy. Nowadays, there are companies that build and maintain the physical cell towers, while the cell carriers do the 'network'. What that means is that there can never be more cell towers than physically mapped (as per the one link which shows the cell-tower owner names), and a lot of different carriers share the same towers. Cell tower number and placement is pretty limited.

In terms of signal, it looks like the carrier transceivers are aimed in specific directions, and from the map I saw, generally not yours.

In your area there's' only T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T as far as I can tell that are the carriers, everyone else is renting network from them.

Since by experience I can say that T-Mobile and Verizon have no 4G/ LTE signal in your area, that only leaves AT&T to try.

Also, from my experience - even though signal is the first and most basic thing you need for adequate cell service, there are also capacity limitations. I've had people try to call me and tell me they got a recording indicating there were no lines available. And on my end, even when I've had strong signal, I've spent upwards of 15 minutes trying to get a 5-word SMS text out.

Anyway, I think you're stuck trying AT&T cell service as the last remaining carrier to try, to see if they're any better.

3RD world cell service at its finest!

When it comes to a landline, do you have AT&T in your area? They do copper-wire phone service.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, September 26, 2021 2:23 AM

Speaking of landlines, did I mention that after 10 years I discovered I don't even have service to my house?

I didn't know that until I hooked up the new decorative wall plates in the living room to the CAT5 cables in the wall. Since I wasn't paying for anything, I didn't expect dial tone (I really didn't know what to expect), but I didn't expect dead silence.

When I went down to some sort of "network box" in my basement next to the breaker box, I discovered that even though all of the coax cable on a huge splitter is connected to a line from outside, none of the CAT5 cables taped to them were.

I checked outside about a week or two later and there doesn't seem to be anything going into that box except for the coaxial cable, or anything even resembling phone service ending anywhere near it.

Man... you can tell that times have changed. I remember when I moved into my first apartment, getting my home phone set up was one of the very first things I did.

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SIGNYM

Sunday, September 26, 2021 2:25 AM

Our copper wire service would be Verizon.

Curiously, altho Spectrum (formerly Warner) was our sole cable (fiberoptic) provider, Frontier just installed its own fiberoptic cables and the rumor is that AT&T is dusting off its 15-year delayed FIOS installation as well. So AFA fiberoptic is concerned it looks like we have more choices.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Sunday, September 26, 2021 4:31 AM

Laundry done and walk in. Now we see if they rain arrives like the weather people have been saying.

1KIKI

Sunday, September 26, 2021 3:52 PM

Signy, have you considered 2 landlines? Fiberoptic will go out when the power goes out because its optical/ electric translation depends on the 110V system. At my place the power goes out for no apparent reason on the order of once a month or so (though usually for less than an hour, sometimes just a minute or 2). And in case of a large earthquake, obviously the fiberoptic system will be down for a long time because the power will be down for a long time. But the copper line might survive what the grid won't. That could make it an essential backup. Of course that isn't 'efficient' but it may be more rugged.

3RD world utility service at its finest!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, September 26, 2021 7:33 PM

Remember the good old days when the power would go out and your phone just worked?

How did we get to this point?

Did those new SIM cards help at all, Sigs?

I remember after moving out where I'm at now I had horrible reception until I went to Verizon and they gave me new SIM cards. Apparently I had a 2G SIM that wasn't playing well with the 4G towers out here, even though it wasn't a problem out in the Chicago and Milwaukee suburbs. That fixed my problem immediately.

I don't really have much advice beyond that. I've been out of the telecommunications game so long I don't even really know what's going on anymore. I've paid about $300 max total for phone service over the last 7 or 8 years or so.

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BRENDA

Sunday, September 26, 2021 11:32 PM

The rain has arrived and it is a soggy, soggy Sunday.

1KIKI

Monday, September 27, 2021 12:03 AM

I'm guessing that at this point your fire season is over? YAY! And it seems like it was a short and easy one this year compared to some recent ones.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, September 27, 2021 12:38 AM

Mostly just chores today. Got my gutters cleaned out and mowed the front lawn. Didn't feel like doing the back today.

I washed down the siding I took from behind the garage with some Dawn and a microfiber towel and then hosed it down.

It's still not a match to the stuff that was already up on that wall, but it does look a lot closer. I knew it would look better since there was so much "powder" on it while I was working with it, but I'm a little bummed that it's still lighter from being sun bleached.

Oh well. It blends well enough not to bother me until I get around to painting the whole house, maybe next year.

My neighbor across the street was raving about it to me today. She's had to look at the old bullshit for decades and is so happy how nice it looks now. And because the addition makes my house so much wider from the street, she says that it looks like I live in a mansion now.

I called up my other neighbor to let him know I haven't forgotten about a table he let me borrow and to check if he needs it back yet, and he told me that I probably just raised everybody's property value on the block.

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BRENDA

Monday, September 27, 2021 8:45 AM

Well, guess what I found when I went looking through my recipe book for my eggless, milk less chocolate cake recipe. I found my missing printed copy of chapter 13 of my book. I knew I had been looking at it and some how I managed to put into my recipe book instead of its file. At least I found it.

BRENDA

Monday, September 27, 2021 8:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I'm guessing that at this point your fire season is over? YAY! And it seems like it was a short and easy one this year compared to some recent ones.

I would have to say so. Short and relatively easy one.

BRENDA

Monday, September 27, 2021 11:21 PM

Out for my walk and it is dry right now. Debating about taking an umbrella with me incase. Then when I get home cupcakes to bake.

1KIKI

Monday, September 27, 2021 11:53 PM

After how many weeks(?), over the last few days I cleaned out that corner of the living room and MOSTLY got everything I put there fixed up. I still need to vacuum the area rug I put there, which probably won't happen for a while.

It's slow because of my pain and lack of energy problems, but it's moving forward bit by bit.

THANKS Brenda for being a good example of consistency and persistence.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mostly just chores today. Got my gutters cleaned out and mowed the front lawn. Didn't feel like doing the back today.

I washed down the siding I took from behind the garage with some Dawn and a microfiber towel and then hosed it down.

It's still not a match to the stuff that was already up on that wall, but it does look a lot closer. I knew it would look better since there was so much "powder" on it while I was working with it, but I'm a little bummed that it's still lighter from being sun bleached.

Oh well. It blends well enough not to bother me until I get around to painting the whole house, maybe next year.

My neighbor across the street was raving about it to me today. She's had to look at the old bullshit for decades and is so happy how nice it looks now. And because the addition makes my house so much wider from the street, she says that it looks like I live in a mansion now.

I called up my other neighbor to let him know I haven't forgotten about a table he let me borrow and to check if he needs it back yet, and he told me that I probably just raised everybody's property value on the block.

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So now the improved outside matches the improved inside, and everyone can see what an awesome job you're doing.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, guess what I found when I went looking through my recipe book for my eggless, milk less chocolate cake recipe. I found my missing printed copy of chapter 13 of my book. I knew I had been looking at it and some how I mato,ged to put into my recipe book instead of its file. At least I found it.

I can't tell you the number of times that has happened to me!

Glad you found it!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

After how many weeks(?), over the last few days I cleaned out that corner of the living room and MOSTLY got everything I put there fixed up. I still need to vacuum the area rug I put there, which probably won't happen for a while.

It's slow because of my pain and lack of energy problems, but it's moving forward bit by bit.

THANKS Brenda for being a good example of consistency and persistence.

That's good progress! It sounds like the kind of thing you won't need to redo for a long time.

Congrats!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

After how many weeks(?), over the last few days I cleaned out that corner of the living room and MOSTLY got everything I put there fixed up. I still need to vacuum the area rug I put there, which probably won't happen for a while.

It's slow because of my pain and lack of energy problems, but it's moving forward bit by bit.

THANKS Brenda for being a good example of consistency and persistence.

You're welcome Kiki.

BRENDA

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, guess what I found when I went looking through my recipe book for my eggless, milk less chocolate cake recipe. I found my missing printed copy of chapter 13 of my book. I knew I had been looking at it and some how I managed to put into my recipe book instead of its file. At least I found it.
I can't tell you the number of times that has happened to me!

Glad you found it!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

Not sure if I have ever done something like that before but if I have, I just don't remember. But I am super relieved that I didn't do something stupid like shred it. It will be going back to its file.

BRENDA

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:51 AM

First batch of cupcakes done and out. I have waiting for a taste test. Second batch in.

BRENDA

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 9:08 AM

Baking done and the cupcakes came out really good.

BRENDA

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:20 PM

Out for my walk and need my umbrella today. Also have to get some birthday supper lamb chops.

Got a phone call this morning from the lady who runs the mah jong group. Going out for an early birthday supper.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:00 AM

I won't be here tomorrow, Brenda. So an early Happy Birthday.

I was wondering if you could share your egg-less, milk-less cupcake recipe in the recipe thread?

BRENDA

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I won't be here tomorrow, Brenda. So an early Happy Birthday.

I was wondering if you could share your egg-less, milk-less cupcake recipe in the recipe thread?

Thanks JSF. I can do that. No problem.

1KIKI

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:25 AM

Happy Birthday Brenda!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 6:42 AM

Happy Birthday, Brenda.

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BRENDA

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 9:53 AM

Thanks Kiki.

BRENDA

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 9:53 AM

Thanks Jack.

BRENDA

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:25 PM

Out for a walk on a soggy birthday for me. So happy birthday to me.

SIGNYM

Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:47 AM

Happy birthday. BRENDA!

Hope your lamb chop and chocolate cupcakes (I'm still thinking about those chocolate cupcakes... mmmmmm tasty!) make it festive. I also hope you had a great dinner out!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Thursday, September 30, 2021 5:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Happy birthday. BRENDA!

Hope your lamb chop and chocolate cupcakes (I'm still thinking about those chocolate cupcakes... mmmmmm tasty!) make it festive. I also hope you had a great dinner out!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

The lamb chops should be good and the cupcakes came out good. It's been quite a while since I made them.

Dinner out was good too.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:40 AM

I ended up working all day on my friend's dad's landscaping before their party on my birthday. The day just hasn't really meant anything to me since my 21st B-Day.

They took me out for my first dinner in an actual restaurant in about 10 years though. I forgot how good real Italian food tasted. They ended up putting up the windows in my porch and we'll get the door in soon though, so that's better than pretty much all of my birthday presidents I've ever gotten in my life combined.

Glad you got some good food on your B-Day, Brenda.

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BRENDA

Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:45 AM

Oh, I miss real Italian food Jack. I'm not suppose to eat pasta or cheese, so it very rare that I get that. I'm glad you enjoyed.

Yeah, I did.

BRENDA

Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:47 AM

Just got off the phone a bit ago with friends in Alberta. Had a nice long chat with them. They are all well which is good.

Even got a birthday message from a cousin who lives out there.

So, I am off to mah jong in the morning and I will see everyone tomorrow afternoon.

1KIKI

Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:57 AM

I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Oh, I miss real Italian food Jack. I'm not suppose to eat pasta or cheese, so it very rare that I get that. I'm glad you enjoyed.

Yeah, I did.

No pasta or cheese!!!!

I probably shouldn't eat cheese either, since it doesn't agree with me anymore, but it's one of the few food sins I still indulge in.

I'm pretty much still gluten free, but I've always made exceptions for when I eat with other people. I just don't "cook" it for myself. The spaghetti, ravioli, mac and cheese and frozen pizzas that I'd make for myself was definitely not real Italian food.

But by not eating something much, you REALLY enjoy it on the rare occasions that you indulge.

I don't get the same level of enjoyment out of the rare soda, but every once in a while if I'm down by my brother's with my Dad I'll have one and it does taste about 10 times better than I remember it tasting when it was a staple of my diet.

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1KIKI

Friday, October 1, 2021 12:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just got off the phone a bit ago with friends in Alberta. Had a nice long chat with them. They are all well which is good.

Even got a birthday message from a cousin who lives out there.

So, I am off to mah jong in the morning and I will see everyone tomorrow afternoon.

See ya' then!

BRENDA

Friday, October 1, 2021 3:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Oh, I miss real Italian food Jack. I'm not suppose to eat pasta or cheese, so it very rare that I get that. I'm glad you enjoyed.

Yeah, I did.

No pasta or cheese!!!!

I probably shouldn't eat cheese either, since it doesn't agree with me anymore, but it's one of the few food sins I still indulge in.

I'm pretty much still gluten free, but I've always made exceptions for when I eat with other people. I just don't "cook" it for myself. The spaghetti, ravioli, mac and cheese and frozen pizzas that I'd make for myself was definitely not real Italian food.

But by not eating something much, you REALLY enjoy it on the rare occasions that you indulge.

I don't get the same level of enjoyment out of the rare soda, but every once in a while if I'm down by my brother's with my Dad I'll have one and it does taste about 10 times better than I remember it tasting when it was a staple of my diet.

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Eggs in the pasta. I am allergic to eggs. Cheese it is what it is put into it to make it solid. I am allergic to that.

So, it is very, very rare that I eat egg pasta or real cheese. I indulge once in a while and it is so very good when I do. But it can on occasion backfire on me and I wind up being sorry for doing it.

It happens.

I have no problem with wheat products, so when I buy pasta I make sure that it is eggless which means a lot of label reading. I rarely buy cheese, so I don't worry about it. I'll have it on a sandwich when I am out for lunch once in a while but that's about it.

I keep soda on hand around my place for a quick sugar boost but there again I am very careful in how much of it I drink.

BRENDA

Friday, October 1, 2021 3:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just got off the phone a bit ago with friends in Alberta. Had a nice long chat with them. They are all well which is good.

Even got a birthday message from a cousin who lives out there.

So, I am off to mah jong in the morning and I will see everyone tomorrow afternoon.
See ya' then!

I am back from mah jong and lunch. Terrible morning playing. Couldn't get the tiles to go my way. Happens.

BRENDA

Friday, October 1, 2021 3:38 AM

Dry now after mah jong and lunch. Stopped and did a bit of grocery shopping before coming home.

I gave the lady I went out to supper with on Tuesday one of my cupcakes and I asked her how she liked it. She said it was very good and the next time I make them, I should give her another one.

1KIKI

Friday, October 1, 2021 4:57 AM

Quote:
I am back from mah jong and lunch. Terrible morning playing. Couldn't get the tiles to go my way. Happens.

Yeah. But I guess you like going out and playing anyway.

BRENDA

Friday, October 1, 2021 5:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Quote:
I am back from mah jong and lunch. Terrible morning playing. Couldn't get the tiles to go my way. Happens.
Yeah. But I guess you like going out and playing anyway.

I do enjoy playing the game very much.

BRENDA

Friday, October 1, 2021 9:45 AM

Work for me tomorrow. So I will see everyone tomorrow afternoon.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 2, 2021 5:27 AM

Back from work a while ago. Just enjoying a nice sit down.

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from work a while ago. Just enjoying a nice sit down.

A well-deserved rest.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from work a while ago. Just enjoying a nice sit down.
A well-deserved rest.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

Yup, then my boss took me out for a belated birthday supper. Her husband and oldest son were suppose to join us but they opted out.

It was nice and I didn't have to cook anything.

Eve brought home half a piece of apple pie. We got desert and split it. The pie was good.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:15 AM

Looks like I will only be working once a month unless she decides that she needs extra help or something. Since today is the 1st of October, I probably won't see her until closer to the end of the month or the beginning of November.

I am just guestimating.

1KIKI

Saturday, October 2, 2021 10:24 PM

Just saying hi and ...

... oh, I finally did vacuum off that area rug in the corner of the living room.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 2, 2021 11:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Just saying hi and ...

... oh, I finally did vacuum off that area rug in the corner of the living room.

That's good Kiki.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 2, 2021 11:20 PM

Out in a bit got to get a refill on my seizure meds and do a couple of other things.

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 3, 2021 12:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Brenda:
Back from work a while ago. Just enjoying a nice sit down.

SIGNY: A well-deserved rest.

BRENDA: Yup, then my boss took me out for a belated birthday supper. Her husband and oldest son were suppose to join us but they opted out.

It was nice and I didn't have to cook anything. Eve brought home half a piece of apple pie. We got desert and split it. The pie was good.

It's nice to know that you're getting out again, seeing people and enjoying yourself.

So I read that you're now working once per month?
Must have something to do with your boss retiring, I guess.
How often were you working before?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 3, 2021 12:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Just saying hi and ...

... oh, I finally did vacuum off that area rug in the corner of the living room.

I hope it gives you satisfaction whenever you look at it.

But better belay heavy-duty work for a few days. It's been 90+ for the past couple of days over here, and predicted to be apox 95 for the next two (three) more, so for you that means 100-105+. Take it easy! Stay hydrated!

I hope this is the last surge of Santa Anas this year ... but I doubt it.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 3, 2021 12:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Oh, I miss real Italian food Jack. I'm not suppose to eat pasta or cheese, so it very rare that I get that. I'm glad you enjoyed.

Yeah, I did.

No pasta or cheese!!!!

I probably shouldn't eat cheese either, since it doesn't agree with me anymore, but it's one of the few food sins I still indulge in.

I'm pretty much still gluten free, but I've always made exceptions for when I eat with other people. I just don't "cook" it for myself. The spaghetti, ravioli, mac and cheese and frozen pizzas that I'd make for myself was definitely not real Italian food.

But by not eating something much, you REALLY enjoy it on the rare occasions that you indulge.

I don't get the same level of enjoyment out of the rare soda, but every once in a while if I'm down by my brother's with my Dad I'll have one and it does taste about 10 times better than I remember it tasting when it was a staple of my diet.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

I knew this Italian-American who was allergic to tomatoes, peppers, onions and cheese.

Oh, my!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, October 3, 2021 12:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.

About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.

SIGNYM

Sunday, October 3, 2021 1:28 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.

FALSE

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/re
productive-history-fact-sheet

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Sunday, October 3, 2021 3:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Brenda:
Back from work a while ago. Just enjoying a nice sit down.

SIGNY: A well-deserved rest.

BRENDA: Yup, then my boss took me out for a belated birthday supper. Her husband and oldest son were suppose to join us but they opted out.

It was nice and I didn't have to cook anything. Eve brought home half a piece of apple pie. We got desert and split it. The pie was good.
It's nice to know that you're getting out again, seeing people and enjoying yourself.

So I read that you're now working once per month?
Must have something to do with your boss retiring, I guess.
How often were you working before?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

That's what she said yesterday and it is directly related to her retiring. For a while it was 6 times, so twice a week for a whole month. But that was a good number of years ago. Over the last couple of years it became one day a week, then it went to a day every 2 weeks.

But it could go up again if she decides to get a part time job or volunteer somewhere. She gets bored easily and really has no patience for all the chores that come with managing things around a house.

BRENDA

Sunday, October 3, 2021 3:33 AM

Back from my walk and meds refilled for another month. Also picked up some hot dogs that were on sale and some ice cream. Hot dogs are supper as I am being lazy this weekend.

No rain today so that was good.

BRENDA

Monday, October 4, 2021 12:13 AM

Just a lazy Sunday by me. Might take a look at some publishers today as I have enough retyped to start thinking about that.

1KIKI

Monday, October 4, 2021 12:34 AM

Normally I don't see quite so many birds and butterflies, but today was a bonanza!

So of course I saw the neighborhood bird families: the California Towhees, the Scrub Jays, and the Mockingbirds, the House Finches, the House Sparrows, and the LBJs (little brown jobs). I also saw some western goldfinches. In addition I saw a California trasher. At first I thought it was a towhee, because it was well hidden under the trees, and it was about the same uniform brown, size, and shape. But then it came out to work on a fallen cherry, and it had pretty long legs and an extremely long, narrow, down-curved beak. If I've ever seen one before, I don't remember.

And as well as the monarch butterflies that come to visit the passionfruit vine, and the medium-sized white and yellow butterflies, I saw what may have been a painted lady which looks like a smaller, duller, chunkier monarch, and a HUGE - over 3" across - bright yellow butterfly covered about 50% with deep black margins. I'm guessing it's the anise butterfly.

BRENDA

Monday, October 4, 2021 8:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Normally I don't see quite so many birds and butterflies, but today was a bonanza!

So of course I saw the neighborhood bird families: the California Towhees, the Scrub Jays, and the Mockingbirds, the House Finches, the House Sparrows, and the LBJs (little brown jobs). I also saw some western goldfinches. In addition I saw a California trasher. At first I thought it was a towhee, because it was well hidden under the trees, and it was about the same uniform brown, size, and shape. But then it came out to work on a fallen cherry, and it had pretty long legs and an extremely long, narrow, down-curved beak. If I've ever seen one before, I don't remember.

And as well as the monarch butterflies that come to visit the passionfruit vine, and the medium-sized white and yellow butterflies, I saw what may have been a painted lady which looks like a smaller, duller, chunkier monarch, and a HUGE - over 3" across - bright yellow butterfly covered about 50% with deep black margins. I'm guessing it's the anise butterfly.

Beautiful Kiki. I saw a Blue jay on either Friday or Saturday on my way home.

1KIKI

Monday, October 4, 2021 9:42 AM

And that blue is so very blue on the jays. It almost doesn't seem possible.

BRENDA

Monday, October 4, 2021 11:06 PM

It was a nice surprise for sure.

BRENDA

Monday, October 4, 2021 11:07 PM

Out for my walk soon. Got to check the weather, I missed it last night on the news.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 5:51 AM

Brenda, I am curious.

Among your Mah Jong group, how many are regular attendees? And how many different players are usually the winners? Do most of the same players win most of the time?

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Brenda, I am curious.

Among your Mah Jong group, how many are regular attendees? And how many different players are usually the winners? Do most of the same players win most of the time?

The majority are regulars, that is they come every Thursday.

Anyone one can win on any Thursday if you get good enough hands.

Every week there are winners. There is a 1st prize, 2nd, 3rd then the booby prize.

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:39 AM

Snow heading for the Peace River country.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:46 AM

Lightning!
Thunder!

RAIN! (for 20 seconds)

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 9:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.

FALSE

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/re
productive-history-fact-sheet

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

By now, it should be pretty apparent that neither JSF or I or about 100,000 million other Americans trust anything the medical community has to say about anything.

Throw a ".gov" on the end of that URL and the trust plummets even further.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 11:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Lightning!
Thunder!

RAIN! (for 20 seconds)

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

Saw pictures of the lighting. Wow!

BRENDA

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 11:20 PM

Out for a walk on a wet day.

BRENDA

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 2:55 AM

No rain while I was out.

1KIKI

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 3:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
By now, it should be pretty apparent that neither JSF or I or about 100,000 million other Americans trust anything the medical community has to say about anything.

It matches with my own observations of family and coworkers as well. And you'll find these same statistics in many places, not just at .gov. The message is solid, even if you object to a particular messenger.

1KIKI

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 3:15 AM

So today in the garden - sadly, no rain.

But ... I have a lot of trees and shrubs in my front yard. And today for about 20 minutes they were filled with LBJs (little brown jobs - birds) cheeping and chipping and chirping and hopping and fluttering like some noisy happy get-together.

All the while a mourning dove calmly pecked at the ground near my feet.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 3:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.
FALSE

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/re
productive-history-fact-sheet
By now, it should be pretty apparent that neither JSF or I or about 100,000 million other Americans trust anything the medical community has to say about anything.

Throw a ".gov" on the end of that URL and the trust plummets even further.

Although I finished with the fact that SJWs were denying it, I did not choose to include "cue denial by PC activist in 3...2...1..."
Think I missed the opportunity? But the reply was right on que.
And she even included the PC-scrubbed-of-inconvenient-facts linky which I implied but did not specify.

Back when that correlation was first learned, there was a huge storm of PC funds being thrown at gobs of new "studies" with pre-conclusions to disprove the facts. Overwhelming resources to thwart the reality and facts. But the real world facts have continued to prove out the correlation known long ago. Almost funny, if it wasn't so sad. So much "anti-breast-cancer" money thrown at getting more women breast cancer, it is a shame.

BRENDA

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 9:45 AM

Been raining off and on this evening. Rain for tomorrow. And more snow for the Peace River country.

BRENDA

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 11:10 PM

Out in the rain. Couple of things to do.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 7, 2021 2:25 AM

Managed to mow the lawn before it rained. I can't believe I made it.

Did that after playing Block Daddy again and cutting down all the maple trees growing in between and through the fence right up next to the idiot millennial couple's garage behind me. That's the third time I've done that in 2 years for them.

This time, I cut two of them that have developed 6" diameter stumps completely at the bottom, but they couldn't be removed because they're completely melded with the chain link fence, so it's just a long floppy dead tree that's part of the fence now.

Even saw fat dummy standing there scratching his head, trying to figure out how a bunch of trees cut themselves down from my bathroom window as I as getting ready to take a shower. That was worth a few chuckles.

This time I was at least nice enough to dispose of all of it in my own garbage can and not dump all of it in the driveway so they couldn't park in the garage until after they cleaned it all up.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

BRENDA

Thursday, October 7, 2021 2:45 AM

Back and got myself a sandwich to take to mah jong tomorrow. It tried to rain on me but just a little drizzle is all. Suppose to be nice tomorrow. And tomorrow I have a face to face with a new doc. Hope it goes well.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, October 8, 2021 4:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.
FALSE

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/re
productive-history-fact-sheet
By now, it should be pretty apparent that neither JSF or I or about 100,000 million other Americans trust anything the medical community has to say about anything.

Throw a ".gov" on the end of that URL and the trust plummets even further.
Although I finished with the fact that SJWs were denying it, I did not choose to include "cue denial by PC activist in 3...2...1..."
Think I missed the opportunity? But the reply was right on que.
And she even included the PC-scrubbed-of-inconvenient-facts linky which I implied but did not specify.

Back when that correlation was first learned, there was a huge storm of PC funds being thrown at gobs of new "studies" with pre-conclusions to disprove the facts. Overwhelming resources to thwart the reality and facts. But the real world facts have continued to prove out the correlation known long ago. Almost funny, if it wasn't so sad. So much "anti-breast-cancer" money thrown at getting more women breast cancer, it is a shame.

I ran across some more info. Even Breast Cancer activists are getting sloppy, letting slip some actual facts instead of their PC mantra.

https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/breast-cancer-statistics/
Of the nations with the highest rates of breast cancer, US apparently ranks 22nd.
On that list, curious how you don't see Brazil, Poland, Columbia, Mexico, Spain, Israel. Israel seems, from what I gather, to encourage offspring. The rest of those are highly Catholic nations.

Quote:
In addition, the Panel judged there was strong evidence that lactation protects against breast cancer (unspecified menopausal status).

And from
https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/breast-cancer/
another inconvenient fact:

Quote:
Oral contraceptives containing both oestrogen and progesterone also cause a small increased risk of breast cancer in young women

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-catholic-po
pulation
Of the 10 nations with the greatest Catholic Populations, only USA, France, and Italy are on the top 25 list for breast cancer. And that France entry might not count, not sure of the "metropolitan" notation - perhaps France as a whole does not rank in the top 25. These are the most aggressive abortion nations.

Of the 10 nations with the greatest percentage of Catholics, only Italy ranks in the top 25 of breast cancer nations.

Golly gee whiz, the nations with the lowest abortion rates also have the lowest breast cancer rates? Say it ain't so, Sally.

BRENDA

Friday, October 8, 2021 5:02 AM

Meeting with new doc went good.

Lousy luck at mah jong though.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 8, 2021 6:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was musing on the percent of US women who'll get breast cancer in their lifetime. For some reason I thought the figure was 1 in 10. But nah! I told myself. That's too high. So I looked it up. It's actually more than 1 in 10, it's almost 13% of all women.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/risk-fact-sheet
Based on current incidence rates, 12.9% of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives.
About 16 per 1,000 women in America had abortions in 2018. It was 29.3 per 1,000 in the 80s. So in any 10 year span, more than 15% of women have abortions.
But the breast cancer rate is only 13%.

First pregnancy abortions were already known to be the highest correlation with breast cancer. Sounds like it still is the case, despite the denials from SJWs.
FALSE

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/hormones/re
productive-history-fact-sheet
By now, it should be pretty apparent that neither JSF or I or about 100,000 million other Americans trust anything the medical community has to say about anything.

Throw a ".gov" on the end of that URL and the trust plummets even further.
Although I finished with the fact that SJWs were denying it, I did not choose to include "cue denial by PC activist in 3...2...1..."
Think I missed the opportunity? But the reply was right on que.
And she even included the PC-scrubbed-of-inconvenient-facts linky which I implied but did not specify.

Back when that correlation was first learned, there was a huge storm of PC funds being thrown at gobs of new "studies" with pre-conclusions to disprove the facts. Overwhelming resources to thwart the reality and facts. But the real world facts have continued to prove out the correlation known long ago. Almost funny, if it wasn't so sad. So much "anti-breast-cancer" money thrown at getting more women breast cancer, it is a shame.
I ran across some more info. Even Breast Cancer activists are getting sloppy, letting slip some actual facts instead of their PC mantra.

https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/breast-cancer-statistics/
Of the nations with the highest rates of breast cancer, US apparently ranks 22nd.
On that list, curious how you don't see Brazil, Poland, Columbia, Mexico, Spain, Israel. Israel seems, from what I gather, to encourage offspring. The rest of those are highly Catholic nations.

Quote:
In addition, the Panel judged there was strong evidence that lactation protects against breast cancer (unspecified menopausal status).

And from
https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/breast-cancer/
another inconvenient fact:
Quote:
Oral contraceptives containing both oestrogen and progesterone also cause a small increased risk of breast cancer in young women

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-catholic-po
pulation
Of the 10 nations with the greatest Catholic Populations, only USA, France, and Italy are on the top 25 list for breast cancer. And that France entry might not count, not sure of the "metropolitan" notation - perhaps France as a whole does not rank in the top 25. These are the most aggressive abortion nations.

Of the 10 nations with the greatest percentage of Catholics, only Italy ranks in the top 25 of breast cancer nations.

Golly gee whiz, the nations with the lowest abortion rates also have the lowest breast cancer rates? Say it ain't so, Sally.

I've got 3 aunts and a grandma who have died of breast cancer. I have one aunt who is still fighting against it.

Unless they're all really good at keeping secrets, none of them had abortions. The chances

BRENDA

Friday, October 8, 2021 11:24 PM

Out for a walk on a dry day. Not suppose to last though. Might rain tomorrow.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 9, 2021 12:39 AM

Enjoy it, Brenda. Getting toward that time a year again and we got to take them where we can get them.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 9, 2021 12:49 AM

Finally got around to swapping out all the old nasty door hinges on the doors and jambs I painted with my new oil rubbed bronze ones. I've got enough to hang all the interior doors, but I'll need to buy more when I do the exterior doors. I'll probably spring for higher quality and durability for those anyhow.

The screws they gave you were ridiculously small, so I had to buy new screws. Stupid small. Like only good on virgin wood if the door was being hung for the first time small. Still got a great deal on them though.

Going to go do some shopping now. The new flyer has a lot of great deals again this week. I've kind of been building up cool stuff over the last 4 or 5 months to have some goody bags full of DIY, tools and general purpose house/chores staples for things like Christmas and birthdays and just to give away when I get a hand from somebody doing something.

Took my chances on an all in one computer I found online for dirt cheap. Like stupid cheap, and I even talked down the price a bit too. If it works and I don't have to send it back, it's 2 to 3 times as powerful as that one I went into length here about how I was breathing life back into it. That was around 3 years ago now, and sad to say with all the new online "upgrades" they've been making to websites in 2021 it just can't reasonably keep up anymore and the upgradability was already maxed out. Using that thing for what I need to do is just a constant source of frustration these days.

This thing cost more than 12 times than I just paid for it 5 years ago, so the price is right. I've still got that SSD I couldn't use in my old AIO since it didn't even know what an SSD was, so right there will be a big boost over the HDD, and if I want I can still buy a used 8GB memory stick to put in the 2nd slot for 16GB.

Oh yeah... and the monitor is 4" bigger than my old AIO too.

I've got plans for the old one too, but its days of stumbling around online with Windows 10 is over.

I can't wait to build my own PC again, but the last 2 years have not been the time to do that. Prices are crazy, and unless you're big into gaming on PC (which I'm not), the only way to hit the sweet spot for performance and price on a desktop these days is buying used desktops that were refurbished after a company upgraded to a new fleet of 'em.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 9, 2021 2:45 AM

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I've got 3 aunts and a grandma who have died of breast cancer. I have one aunt who is still fighting against it.

Unless they're all really good at keeping secrets, none of them had abortions. The chances that the 4 aunts all had abortions and nobody knew it are astronomically small. I'll bet my life that my grandma didn't.

Women do die of breast cancer without having an abortion first. You do know this, right?

P.S. Could you start another thread about this or something? I shouldn't have commented on it not once, but twice now.

This is not the place.

Sounds like you have a strong family history of breast cancer. There are two genes that, when mutated, are primarily responsible for breast cancer called ... appropriately... BRCA1 and BRCA2, but there are also 7 other genes associated with breast cancer.

If I were you, I'd suggest that my female relatives get tested at least for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, which bumps up cancer risk from an average of 13pct to a whopping 80pct!

These genes are responsible for DNA repair, so if your DNA gets damaged it doesn't get fixed.

This affects men, too. SIX, if you have a mutated BRCA1 gene, you have an 8pct lifetime risk of getting breast cancer (yes, men have breast tissue too) but if you have an abnormal BRCA2 gene your risk of prostate cancer is SEVEN TIMES normal. And since prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men (except for skin cancers), it could be a significant lifetime risk for you, too!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Saturday, October 9, 2021 3:48 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Enjoy it, Brenda. Getting toward that time a year again and we got to take them where we can get them.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

Very true and I reckon by about 7pm this evening the clouds will really start rolling in and then rain. Trees are already short of their leaves.

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 9, 2021 3:48 AM

So, o just looked it up. The average lifetime risk for prostate cancer for men is 13pct, just like the average lifetime risk for women is 13pct for breast cancer.

If your risk is seven times higher with BRCA+2 mutation, that's a wopping 90+pct risk!

Can be detected with PSA (prostate specific antigen) screening, via blood samples.

The overall risk for men is high lifetime exposure to testosterone. Men who started producing testosterone early (longer lifetime exposure) tend to have shorter legs relative to height, bc once they start puberty the growth plates in arm and bone legs fuse and stop growing bone length.

This is similar to women. What is associated with breast cancers is a high lifetime exposure to estrogen. Early puberty increases the risk, while pregnancy and breastfeeding (stops estrogen production), and chronic under-nutrition reduced the risk. I don't know about men and hormones, but for women being fat also increases the risk, since fat cells also produce estrogen.

And, in general, drinking too much can increase the risk of both breast and prostate cancers.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Saturday, October 9, 2021 3:52 AM

Back from my walk and the thrift shops I went in to had nothing I wanted in the way of jeans. But I got new GP info to my eye doctor and hearing aide. I have to see both of them next year, so they needed the info before I forgot. Next time I go to the pharmacy for meds refill will have to give them the new info.

SIGNYM

Saturday, October 9, 2021 3:56 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Enjoy it, Brenda. Getting toward that time a year again and we got to take them where we can get them.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

Very true and I reckon by about 7pm this evening the clouds will really start rolling in and then rain. Trees are already short of their leaves.

That sounds very autumnal. Too many days of gray skies with nothing to look at except bare leaves is so dreary.

But, I do like those sunny, breezy autumn days. I hope you have many of those!

And I still like snow. Having lived in socal almost since I graduated from university means I never got burned out in the experience of having to get back and forth to work in it and, at my age, shoveling snow was fun. The quiet landscapes and sparkling snow, and especially Xmas lights shining thru and on the snow made up for the blizzards, mush, ice, shoveling and general pain in the *assedness of winter.

At my age, tho, I would probably want to escape.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Saturday, October 9, 2021 9:41 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Enjoy it, Brenda. Getting toward that time a year again and we got to take them where we can get them.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

Very true and I reckon by about 7pm this evening the clouds will really start rolling in and then rain. Trees are already short of their leaves.
That sounds very autumnal. Too many days of gray skies with nothing to look at except bare leaves is so dreary.

But, I do like those sunny, breezy autumn days. I hope you have many of those!

And I still like snow. Having lived in socal almost since I graduated from university means I never got burned out in the experience of having to get back and forth to work in it and, at my age, shoveling snow was fun. The quiet landscapes and sparkling snow, and especially Xmas lights shining thru and on the snow made up for the blizzards, mush, ice, shoveling and general pain in the *assedness of winter.

At my age, tho, I would probably want to escape.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

It is looking pretty autumnal around here. I hope so to. But it is rain being forecasted for tomorrow. So we shall see.

Well, I will have to wait until the end of November into December to see if my area is getting snow. Though there is always a chance it could be early.

Should soon start seeing more fog in my area. It rolls in off the Fraser river and of course Vancouver gets a lot of fog in the fall because it rolls in off the Pacific ocean. I like the fog. When I was a young'un going to elementary school and even into high school, I would just let my mind wander as I walked through it.

I like snow to just not the accompanying cold.

I once asked my dad when I was around 7 years old if he liked the snow and he said, "No." Me being the curious child I was asked him why not. My dad said, "He saw too much of the white stuff while he was growing up."

As I have mentioned my dad was from Southern Alberta and they used to get and can still get a lot of snow out there.

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