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They've seen the reno in progress and decided to move to a better place?

If there is an afterlife then I think we're all headed there, no matter what we believe. If there isn't, then we're all headed there too.

The difference between being alive and not being alive is both subtle and strange. Who really knows what happens. I suspect the lights just go out, which seems a bit disappointing, however I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised one day.

Yes, it’s a well known quote but judging by the photo, I don’t see much evidence to back up the optimism.

Looks young enough to be his grand daughter. Wishful thinking, Nev.

He’s provided plenty of evidence that he doesn’t have an IQ of 150.

On the other hand, he may lose badly.

She is campaigning to contest an election. She is serious about and has spoken about the Middle East and many other topics. Trump is also campaigning but has nothing to say about it except that it wouldn’t have happened if he had been in charge, which is complete nonsense. Updates about the conflict are available practically all day, every day on any news broadcast. There is no reason for people not to be well informed if they are concerned about what’s going on, which we all should be.

There won’t be a civil war but it will be chaotic because both camps expect the other side to cheat and rig the outcome and both sides are already heading for the courts.

Kris Kristofferson has sung his last song, aged 88.

In 2020 I drove from Portland, Vic to Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in a day. The ocean was flat calm all the way out to the horizon for the whole trip. Not a ripple or even a shore break. It looked like a lake. I've never seen anything like it. A very rare day for Bass Strait.

I bought a Maton acoustic in 1982 and the paperwork that came with it said they used a `double cantilever' truss rod design that was unique to Maton. The rod had two kinks in it that was supposed to apply an internal upward pressure on the neck. I wrote to them, said I was a structural engineer and that their elaborate truss rod design was unnecessary and that the theory on which it was based was not optimum for what they wanted to achieve, going on to explain with diagrams how they could quite easily fix it. In due course I received a polite letter signed by Vera May herself, thanking me for my advice, but that they were happy with the design they had. She and her husband Bill established the firm. Vera died in 2022 aged 102.

Need a proper pic of Zoro's houseboat to see where this deck is going.

Yes they used 126 format film cartridges. The image was nominally 26mm square.

How’s he going?

I watched it. I wouldn't say she knocked it out of the park but she did very well. It was notable that she looked at Trump a lot, but he never looked at her, just looked at the moderators. He must have been told not to look at her, because she was grinning at him a lot of the time, and it would probably have set him off even more. He trotted out all the usual lies, but at the same time seemed to do most of the talking. He never answered a direct question, of course. His supporters will say he walked all over her, but I think she did the job she had to and the Democrats should be happy. I just wish she had challenged him to turn and look at her just once.

Claiming that he `weaves' is a pretty desperate attempt to convince his audience of his self-proclaimed brilliance. In fact, the only thing on display is his incompetence.

No. It’s 14 with the driver. The question was ‘how many people’, not ‘how many passengers’.

14

He's now suing the Justice Department with political persecution for bringing charges against him for not giving back the classified documents he tried to keep!

This article lays out some of the back room manipulation that's going on behind the scenes in some key states to tilt the playing field in Trump's favour. I'm not sure how the Democrats are going to counter these efforts to control the voting results. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-overturn-result-presidential-election-vote

They will be installing them in banks next.

Melania will be happy if he loses so she doesn’t have to go back to the White House and pretend she likes being the First Lady. She’s almost as transactional as he is.

And if the thieves ran over your dog on the way out, you'd have a cracker of a song.

It's also great for emergency kits because it's a very compact package of kindling for lighting fires with your survival fire-starter or bow drill. That would also explain why you might keep a few in the boot, just in case.