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joycets replied to the Ishtar's Gate board. 6:10 PM

Re: Not really a relative

Yeah, facebook is kind of neat about finding relatives. I have found that a daughter of a cousin is teaching in haiti and takes fantastic remarkable photos. and she's beautiful.

jts

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 4:17 PM

Re: An Open Letter

I am still amazed that no one would know or see ANYTHING going on? (or in some reports, some did and the police did not act on it?) and what role exactly did the brothers play ? Silent partners in ownership of house? Brother never let them in to [more]

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 4:15 PM

Re: An Open Letter

Curiously, I sort looked forward to having some kind of retirement party and never did. Some 8 years or so before my retirement, There was a lunch at the long time job I lost (spent too much time on TMF?) and we went to a restaurant I had wanted to [more]

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joycets replied to the Folly in Texas board. 1:26 AM

Re: Tragedy in West, TX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

Just now I noticed that this historical event was April 16. Something in the time of year, rapid temperature and pressure changes [more]

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:21 AM

Re: The things you learn

Hm, the director of our Mandolin Orchestra is a Hobbs. He's also on kickstarter (which funded his compositions).

jts

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:15 AM

Re: Something to ponder

They announced at our church that 9 of the 14 dead in West were from St. Mary's Catholic church in West. Not surprising in a Czech community, but the bishop did promise assistance long after the red cross and media of the moment helpers have [more]

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:12 AM

Re: Something to ponder

and there are other towns that could be in a similar situation to West down here, but I didn't read the whole article just the headline (it wasn't my Sunday Paper and I was too cheap to buy one and too brain dead to look it up).

js

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:04 AM

Re: The envy, it burns

I think it is considerably bigger than my house.

Joycets
(also in TX)

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 12:52 AM

Re: A Judge! With a sense of humor!

I am sure all these guys are most entertained by their search for evidence.

jts

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 12:40 AM

Re: Bad news

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prayers and love to you
{{{{ (((Booa and Boo))) }}}

Tammy
joycets

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joycets replied to the Ishtar's Gate board. 12:37 AM

Re: Online flirting

Thank you for my smile for the night.

jts

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joycets replied to the Ishtar's Gate board. 12:34 AM

Re: Family visit

C could get him to take her to see "the college she has chosen(?)" Or not (that could be good, or bad. not sure).
jts

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 12:17 AM

Re: An Open Letter

While I haven't done this myself (inertia, laziness) I imagine you've tried the LDS (frequently known as Mormons) libraries--they have rather phenomenally useful geneology records, at least according to my Italian group.

jts

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 1:05 AM

Re: An Open Letter

of course where I live there is only one lane on each side for the 10 miles to the grocery and post office (etc.)

Good point, you are pretty much in the middle of nowhere!

LWW
was particularly interesting this morning [more]

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joycets replied to the Windowseat's View board. 12:47 AM

Re: OMG, Bless Her Heart!

As always, looking forward to the next installment.........

jts

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 12:40 AM

Re: An Open Letter

But the rule remains the same: slower traffic keep right. That doesn't mean slower than the speed limit, it means slower than the flow of traffic. If it's unsafe, that nice police officer who didn't pull me over will pull over the vehicle going [more]

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 1:47 AM

Re: An Open Letter

I guess I am glad I did not see the ad, but since I did not, I don't get what their point was they were trying to make. (airtight?)

jts

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joycets posted to the An Open Letter board. 1:29 AM

AnOpen Letter

An open letter to Wikipedia;

Is it you that has suddenly (earlier this week) changed all your text to about 7 point so that the whole article appears on one page in teeny print, or is it some setting that my computer magically created to [more]

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 1:13 AM

Re: An Open Letter

I'm rather surprised that 281 out of Burnet is up to 75,but most of the fast roads and all of the 80 mph are "toll roads" so they are probably somewhat lightly used, at least I'm not going there (unless I have a really really really good [more]

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joycets replied to the An Open Letter board. 5:34 PM

Re: An Open Letter

I got a ticket for going downhill over 60 on a very hilly 1431 in a 72 vw, but that is the only way to make it up the next hill over about 28 mph in some cars.

(I believe it had just switched to 45 around there).


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