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I like the last one too, Heather. With a judicious choice of font it can be tweaked in directions ranging from desolation to triumph over adversity. This is unrelated, but it reminds me of a cover of The New Yorker that showed forms of the verb To Be on parade through the streets of the city. My parents have it framed in…
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What a shock, Machka! My thoughts and good wishes are with you and your husband. /Penny
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Thanks for congratulating me, Okie. It DOES feel great, but — Heaven help me! — the author's trying to bargain, extending the deadline and asking how much I want. I've got to focus on my health more than I have been doing recently and taking on a 340-page book isn't the way to do it. Oooooh give me strength. Kelly, your…
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Sharon - I can't imagine the pain you're going through. (((Hugs))) Belated happy birthday Lenora :flowerforyou: Glad you're recovering from whatever you ate. Last time I had food poisoning was in Japan. We'd been invited to dinner at the home of the head of the department my husband was visiting, and his wife had prepared…
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CharlieAnn, it's the other way around. You have one hour to edit after posting. When you've hit the gear icon at the top right, you click again on the number of minutes left. Then your post opens up and you can edit it. Being an editor, I edit my posts all the time. Mustn't have too many seplling erorrs in 'em 'cause it…
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Heather, I'm late to the party and (what's worse) I guess I'm a party pooper :s but I'm not particularly enamored of the new title for your book. To me, it feels o-o-overly lo-o-o-ong. (That said, you should probably take that with a grain of salt. In my scientific writing courses, I'm infamous for my preference for short,…
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Oh Margaret, I'm delighted about the *kitten*willow, not so much because of the MFP censorship that changes all of the dirty words like "pu[zz]y" to *kitten*, but rather because of an experience the first winter after I moved to the far north. It was, like, late April, when those of us who grew up in temperate climate…
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Awww, thanks Karen! I'm touched :'( <3 :flowerforyou: /Penny
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I'm glad to hear that Barbie and Becca have made it home with their :star:new-and-improved:star: husbands. :flowerforyou: Snow? Absolutely! In Norway, Easter = cross-country skiing. The whole country shuts down for five full days of public holiday, from Maundy Thursday through Easter Monday. Entire families put on their…
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Easy! My husband is in arctic research. There are few places better for that than Longyearbyen. Here in Svalbard (aka Spitsbergen) we can see climate change with our own eyes. :'( Besices, I LOVE it here in the high north. :heart: When we leave Svalbard we'll move back to northern Norway. I don't think I'll ever live south…
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Quick note again while I relax a bit between grading finals. :/ My problem accessing the thread has disappeared now. Turns out it was caused by (=was thanks to!) my virus protection software. Apparently one of the posts on this thread had some malware in it somewhere, probably either a link or a picture. Now that my…
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Two of my usual browsers (Edge and Firefox) no longer connect to the MFP community. Anybody having similar issues? I'm on Opera just now. That works, but I don't want to have to switch browsers! /Penny at the
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The online course I'm teaching ends tomorrow and boy am I ready for it to be over! I'll still have to go through a bunch of finals, but the end is in sight. Glad to hear about the positive surgery results. :flowerforyou: I hear y'all griping about shifting to daylight saving time and I just have to add my Penny's-worth…
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Yay Heather! Good news on two fronts! I recall you said something about not running a full 5 km in your 30-minute stints. Well jeez! I don't think I've ever been able to sustain 10 km/h for a full half hour. Not even when I was a fit young thing in my 40s. :noway: Nowadays I shamble along at my 8 km/h pace and when people…
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I'm alive but golly-gosh I've been busy. Just sent off the penultimate proofs on the 160-page research mag I've been working on since New Year's. Heading to Stockholm Friday to take care of the grandkids over the weekend while my son and his wife are at her cousin's wedding. After that, the online course I'm teaching lasts…
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Hee-hee! I thought of the possibility that some of our with-it ladies would try Google translate, so I tested it myself. The version I got wasn't quite that far off the name of the choir (mixed choir, not mixed cakes). As a professional word-nerd I do dearly love Google translate and Microsoft's grammar check for all the…
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Still busy-busy-busy. Just popping in to say we performed Mozart's Requiem Saturday evening. The dress rehearsal Friday provided a little tickle of smug enjoyment. There we were, rehearsing, when who should sneak in through the door but Martha Stewart and a couple dozen others in her entourage. She's had some kind of…
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Kelly - When I read your first description I wondered if your knee might have been slightly dislocated. Hurts like a sumbitch but once it's back in its proper place, the pain subsides immediately. Just a thought. And when I go shopping for veggies there is NO ice cream involved :noway: /Penny, now lunched and ready to…
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Terry - When Heather asked how you keep the jewelry clean, I thought not so much about keeping it shiny, but more about how to get lint and dirt out of all those holes and crevices. As a former lab-rat I would suggest using an ultrasonic cleaner. You drop whatever you want to clean into a little chamber full of ordinary…
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Kelly, I love the moon, too. But where I live, it DOESN'T come up every night. It's like the sun: half the year we see it, half the year we don't. And the reason we don't see the moon in the summer isn't that it's light 24/7, but because it never climbs high enough to get above the horizon. Machka - There's a pesky…
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I'm sitting at my desk working. If I turn my head left and look out the window, I can see the full moon/blue moon/super moon, which is due to start turning into an eclipsed "blood moon" in about half an hour. The skies are fairly clear. Lucky me to be able to see this rare phenomenon from the comfort of my chair in the…
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Just a quick note. I'm on the mainland in northern Norway now, in Tromsø. I looked out my window this morning I saw no fewer than SIX white-tailed eagles sitting on the rocky point just below our apartment. :heart: Gotta love it! /Penny, currently 2000 km from the
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Becca - Actually, two of the papers on ERCP that I edited dealt with rendezvous procedures. They totally blew my mind! Joyce, I'm glad to see that Charlie's karaoke evenings have become a regular thing again. Him getting out of the house for something he enjoys is probably beneficial to both of you. :wink: Meg - I agree…
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Barbara, you asked a while ago if we had greenhouses at the North Pole. I didn't answer then because I was frantically busy and just skimming. Now I'm still frantically busy, but so exhausted I'm taking some time off to procrastinate. :laugh: We DO have one greenhouse in our town, and the Russian settlement of Barentsburg…
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People use a lot of abbreviations on this thread. Some of them I understand (like DH) and others I've looked up (like DMV) or figured out (like DWTS). However, having worked for 25 years as an editor of biomedical research articles, I immediately recognized Becca's Endoscopic Retrograde CholangioPancreatography. It's…
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Here, Katla. You're not the only one who likes them. I'm fine but very busy. /Penny at the
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I'm going to keep my head down for a while. I'll probably read, but I probably won't post anything but a report on how my January goals went. Maybe I'll come back in March, when the sunlight has returned and all the magic is gone. Be well and stay strong ladies! /Penny at the
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Kim - That's exactly the suggestion that led me, some years ago, to ADD eating a raw carrot to my daily routine. Once that habit was established, I branched out to other raw vegetables, and it grew into my daily dose of 500 grams (a bit more than a pound). For the same number of calories as about 7 Hershey's Kisses, I get…
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Hugs to you too, Allie. :heart: :heartbreak: :heart: Stay strong!
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Hugs Heather :heart: :heart: Your mother looks a lot like you and together you all DO look like the perfect little family. Appearances deceive. Have you figured out what you will tell your sons, and when? /Penny, sending strengthening thoughts from the
