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    What's Your Current Go-To Coffee Rig?

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    For many years I ran through a couple of these Bunn 10 cup velocity brewers.

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    After the 3rd one bought it, I now use the Bunn model on the far right of the picture in the OP.  However, I still use the pot from the model in my post.  And for a while I used one of these

                                                                                              

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    The Hamilton Beach "Brew Station".   As you can see(or not),  Once the coffee is made, there's no pot.  It's held in a reservoir until you press your cup against a release button and fill it that way.  Cool thing, but after a few years the reservoir cracked and it had to go.

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    Anybody dumped the computer for tablet?

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    I too use a Dell desktop.  Mine is still less than a year old, so not much to worry about.  It replaced my 10 year old HP tower, which was beginning to get contrary.  My younger daughter(an IT) picked it out for me and did all the file transfer stuff and other setting up.  Turning it on, shutting it down, sending e-mails, reading them, looking through You Tube occasionally and spending a couple of hours a day on forums like this one is the extent of my computer usage and working knowledge.  very limited.

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    The Eagles taking wing?

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    4 hours ago, Murph said:

    It's just another cover band that does a never ending "goodbye" tour that goes on for years and years.

    Like Skynyrd.

    Sure, come to think about it.  They have been basically a tribute band for the latter 2/3 of "their" career.  In fact I think it's safe to day the line-up now is basically a tribute band of the tribute band.  [blink]

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    The Eagles taking wing?

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    Long standing American rock group The Eagles recently announced they'll be taking their "final tour" starting Sept. 7 this year.  Don't know how many(if any)original members will be joining the line-up.  And my daughter did  ask a good question.....  "Is this the ONLY farewell tour, or will it be like many of the other "farewell" tours of other bands who had more than one?" 

    They're supposedly coming here to Detroit sometime in October.  But I doubt I'll be rushing to get tickets.  I've seen them twice at the beginning of their tenure in '72, back before they deteriorated into doing pap like "Hotel Catatonia".   But they did provide many years of some very fine music.  And do deserve some kind of "well done!" nod of appreciation

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    Who Lost Their Coke....

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    34 minutes ago, Sheepdog1969 said:

    1. Never met a coke user that ever let their "bag" out of their sight, let alone "leave" it anywhere. 

    2. Coke users somehow seem to become "accountants", always knowing exactly how much they have left and where it is.

    3. Never knew a coke user who stopped "partying" until the bag was empty. (and then they licked it clean!)

    4. If cops come to your house, maybe to break up a loud party, and find a bag of "coke", it is assumed to be the home owners dope, unless someone else claims it.  (the same applies to your car.) Since the White House is "the Peoples House", are we all guilty of possession now?

    The buying and selling of cocaine seemed to be the only time most Americans took any interest in the metric system.   [wink]

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    Anyone's Dog Gonna Hide Under The Bed Tonight

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    13 hours ago, Retired said:

    Yes, and actually, when I got home, I threw up from the chemo they just gave me. Anything Beef, I puked up. Amazing that I could eat a Taco Bell taco in the hospital. For a month, I was lying in bed everyday watching TV. You know how many Taco Bell Commercials they flood the TV with every day? Made me HUNGRY for a Taco. For some reason, I never puked it up. So I said, Tacos was cancer surviver food Lol. I had my mom smuggle in some for me. Another thing,I wasn't allowed any thing in my mouth during Chemo drugs. But one chemo they gave me tasted like a skunk crapped in my mouth. I refused to swallow. I spit in a bowl every time so not to swallow. my mouth was so dry, Life Savors was the answer.  Shu! don't tell them. I had them smuggled in also. Anyway, that worked till they knocked me out. Around Noon they would tell me Good Night and hook up a Chemo bag to me the rest of the day and all night. then I was allowed to go home around noon the next day. Those were every time I had a session. a day and a half after I was released. 

    That sounds rough.  I remember when my Mom was going through chemo.  I told her it was too bad this didn't happen 15 years earlier. I could have given her all the pot she could use.She smiled and said, "Thanks, but no thanks.  I've kinda been enjoying the weight loss."  🙂

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    Who Lost Their Coke....

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    Think what you want(considering the process is among your abilities).  I insist.....

    1. Some bonehead tourist left it behind on purpose so when the news broke out he could"boast" to his powder head friends,    "HEY! (Hyuck hyuck)  I'M the one who left it there!(hyuh) Ain't I BICH-INNNNN?(hyuck hyuck hyuck!)"

    2. Some unimaginative political detractor "flaked" the WH so Biden's political opponents can (try) to make some claim that Biden letting DRUGS! 😱 into the White House is MORE of a threat to national security than Trump mishandling boxfulls of serious classified documents. 

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    3rd Time Hopefully Is The Charm

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    [biggrin]  THREE DOG NIGHT?   REALLY?  HaHaHaHaHa!

    They're still around, eh?  Yeah, they did become a kind of joke to the "serious" rock crowd, but really....

    I saw them on a Sat. night at Detroit's Grande Ballroom in very early March of '69, on the same bill with The James Gang(who have yet to release an album at the time) and The MC5.  Some  would say that's an odd billing, but gotta tell ya...

    Three dog night was still riding high on the success of their cover of Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness"   and they had a nice tight little band behind them.  They also did a cover of The Band's "The Weight" that kicked ***.    And if THAT house of juiced and stoned hippies cheered them on like crazy, then they were the real deal.  Now I can't say I liked every son they did,  But I never really laughed them off.  One thing I liked about them was their dislike of "lip syncing"  for television appearances.  To the point they would often kibitz and never take doing that seriously.   you could often tell they were having fun making fun of it.

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    Anyone's Dog Gonna Hide Under The Bed Tonight

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    13 hours ago, Retired said:

    When I went through that brain tumor cancer, (all what they did to me, as I was an experiment back then in the 70's, not expected to live.) My taste for salt was magnified. Still remember getting out of the hospital and going home. My wife made me chipped beef on toast. I took one bite and spit it out. I said, "What did you do?"  "Dump a whole container of Morton Salt on top?"  No way I could eat that, like licking the salt flats. Then my Chemotherapist told me he did that to me.  The chemo drugs I had were 7 of 8.  Still don't use salt to this day, They put plenty enough in foods. More than what you need. 

    You mean the only thing Deb could think of to feed you when coming home from the hospital was **** on a shingle? [confused]

    I don't have a magnified taste for salt, nor a diminished one. Just my hypertension limits my intake allowance.  That little tale of yours did remind me of something funny that my kid sister (now 58)  did when she was about four or five.  Seated next to me one early evening for dinner,  and she was still small enough that she would kneel on her chair in order to be high enough to eat dinner more comfortably.  On this particular dinnertime after Mom put everything on her plate(I forget all what it was, I only remember Mac'n'cheese was among it all) she picked up the salt shaker and proceeded to turn her dinner into a winter scene.  You could almost feel the brisk Winter breeze and could visualize children sledding down the mounds of heavily white covered macaroni.   When seeing it, Mom told Tina, "You're going to eat all of that you know."  And Tina said she knew it and she would, nodding her head up and down in a matter of fact manner.

    Well, upon taking her first huge forkful  way over salted food,  her head jerked back as if she'd been punched,  her eyes seemed to grow to double their normal size,  And how she managed to get her glass of milk up to her face that fast and start gulping the milk down without spilling a drop  still puzzles me.   I gave my Mom credit because I knew that pained look on her face wasn't because she could see her darling daughter was suffering, but probably due to her straining to hold back the huge laugh that I was allowed to get away with.  [biggrin]  Well, Mom gave Tina enough time to settle down and got her a new plate.  And kept the salt shaker out of reach.  Tina's birthday is coming up in four days, so I think I'll go to her place and remind her of all that.  [wink]

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    Who Lost Their Coke....

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    Remember this bit from Bill Cosby....

    Who asked a friend, "  Just what does cocaine do for you?"  and the friend answered , "It intensifies your personality!"   So then Bill asked, "But...What if you're an AZZ-HOLE?"  [biggrin]

    Whitefang

    Anyone's Dog Gonna Hide Under The Bed Tonight

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    18 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    Since it’s the 4th, Joey did it again stuffing 62 hot dogs, and buns in his gut. He won of course.

    🤢  OOF!

    My brother in law has of late taken to these humongous  hot dogs made by Nathan's.  Just one dog looks as if it contains the amount of "meat" enough for two regular "bun length" dogs.  I'll admit they do taste good, but also taste like each one contains my sodium allowance for two days. 

    Now, if Joey could wolf down 62 of those, buns included, and still be conscious I'll buy a huge chunk of DXL stock.  [biggrin] 

    Whitefang

    After 45 Years I Got Rid of the Old Wench

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    20 hours ago, SteveFord said:

     

    I think Strap On and Matco are US made. 

    [omg]  STRAP ON?

     

    What the Hell kind of home or car repair can you do with one of THOSE??

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