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Post by tod2 on Jul 14, 2021 8:09:32 GMT
Htmb is right I think. Just needs some silicone. Apply when its totally dry of course. And if not that then there must be a host of other sealants. Maybe Whatagain has the answer.?
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Post by casimira on Jul 17, 2021 15:10:37 GMT
Trying to cook in an unfamiliar kitchen without certain utensils etc. If I thought that our "old" kitchen had limited counter space, I had no idea how limiting a space could be. The area to prep, chopping etc., a flimsy cutting board and other things we just take for granted. We did bring our good knives so we at least have those but, little things like the proper stirring spoon...GRRRRRR!!! The stove works excellently but it's the little things one is simply accustomed to being there, go to reach for them automatically and then, back to reality.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 17, 2021 15:44:26 GMT
Hi Tod, I can tell you how much a truck with 20 000 liters of sealant costs, but other than that ... Glass technology evolves so fast that 18 years old glass is like old Egypt. It had no coating for sure, and the insulation factor must be awful compared to now... But. Still ok.
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Post by lugg on Jul 17, 2021 20:40:02 GMT
Casi - I feel for you as I'm going through it too albeit for me temporarily so not comparable really. I suspect you will adapt and get sorted , despite the painful process.
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Post by questa on Jul 18, 2021 0:16:40 GMT
Almost a year after my short notice, unprepared move I am still looking for things...or finding things I had forgotten I had. I guess it evens out.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 18, 2021 3:41:34 GMT
It's like having new stuff!
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Post by whatagain on Jul 18, 2021 11:53:43 GMT
I keep looking dor tools that i have in France when in Belgium and vice versa. A problem nice to have actually...
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Post by casimira on Jul 18, 2021 14:46:24 GMT
It's just frustrating because there is "stuff" in 3 different locations. And, then the stuff that came with the apartment. One particularly frustrating item is a novel I was in the midst of reading. I put it on a table and in one of the "sweeps" it got picked up and put somewhere that is now in the storage unit. I am not going to go digging in all that stuff. No way. I do have to say that these guys that moved the stuff have utilized every square inch of the space in the most efficient manner.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 18, 2021 18:46:08 GMT
I had no idea how limiting a space could be. Too frustrating. Go to the dollar store & find something like this, the wider the better. The beauty of it is that you only need one nail or screw to hold it, so you can easily cover that when you move. It's a cheap and fast solution to get the most used items off the counter ~ {Spoiler}
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Post by casimira on Jul 18, 2021 18:51:08 GMT
I will check it out!!!! Grazie!!!
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Post by whatagain on Jul 19, 2021 20:22:02 GMT
My petty trauma is the guy next to my rable who chain smokes cigarillos and cigars. 45 min, not one minute without a puff. I hope he dies from throat cancer... Well, sort of.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 19, 2021 21:03:14 GMT
Where are people allowed to smoke like that in 2021?
I have a vivid memory of a bus trip from Cairo to Alexandria with the guy next to me smoking cigars nonstop. I thought I was going to die.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2021 18:13:14 GMT
Here is something really petty -- I dropped an egg on the kitchen floor, and I think it is the first time in my life that I ever did that. It is really a mess! On top of that it was my very last egg, although it turned out that my second to last egg was sufficient for what I was cooking and another egg would actually have been one too many. So maybe this is 'little things that mean a lot'.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 14, 2021 18:22:22 GMT
😆😆
The trauma is not mine but i saw a pic of a nice boat lting underwater in Elba usland. Turned out it is one of our friend's.
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Post by htmb on Aug 14, 2021 20:20:40 GMT
Here is something really petty -- I dropped an egg on the kitchen floor, and I think it is the first time in my life that I ever did that. It is really a mess! On top of that it was my very last egg, although it turned out that my second to last egg was sufficient for what I was cooking and another egg would actually have been one too many. So maybe this is 'little things that mean a lot'. Probably too late now, but I seem tu remember a trick of pouring something like sugar on a dropped egg to help clean up the initial mess.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 15, 2021 12:48:10 GMT
I have cats who do the clean up of broken eggs.
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Post by questa on Aug 15, 2021 13:17:25 GMT
Hey! Throw in a bit of flour and you have pancakes
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Post by lagatta on Aug 15, 2021 13:52:55 GMT
Renzo cleaned up a couple of eggs (I rarely drop them) but Livia seems uninterested. There is a very large, friendly grey tomcat who sometimes wanders in; I suspect he'd hoover up an egg.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2021 15:51:38 GMT
Regular flour is good for absorbing messy wet spills or pet accidents, but flour is messy in itself. The best thing is masa harina, which is furiously absorbent and, because of not being so finely ground, less messy than flour. Keeping some on hand in your kitchen also means you could make chochoyotes.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 15, 2021 18:00:03 GMT
Yes, those look lovely.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2021 18:45:16 GMT
I just used paper towels and liquid cleaner It took 80 seconds.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2021 11:59:23 GMT
Getting tired of going to the doctor, and now I have to get some lab tests, yuck.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 2, 2021 12:18:56 GMT
Best to get it sorted - says she who puts things off because I'm weary of the findings. Silly not to know what is really causing a problem.
As we don't have a family doctor any longer as he retired, I know I should be hunting down a new one but that's not easy.' All the good ones are too busy for new patients.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 2, 2021 12:58:36 GMT
When you get to a certain age, there are many things they just stop testing for.
Part of it is economics: it’s not cost effective to test everyone - unless YOU’RE the one in a hundred that tests positive…
Part of it is the tendency for early-onset cases to be more aggressive forms of a disease.
But I think part of it is a calculation of whether a condition will be able to kill you before your expected expiration date.
Prostate cancer, for example. It’s a well-known truism that most men die WITH prostate cancer, but very few die FROM it. Older women get PAP tests every 5 years, then not at all after a certain age. I’m sure there’s more examples that I’m forgetting about.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2021 14:53:52 GMT
My doctor's latest question today was "Were you bitten by a spider?"
I wish. I would love to shoot threads out of my hands and bounce off buildings.
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Post by htmb on Sept 2, 2021 15:57:10 GMT
Here’s hoping it’s something simple, with an easy solution, Kerouac.
Asking if you were bitten by a spider was probably a good question if you have swelling that is spreading. This happened to my father when he was bitten on his foot by a brown recluse spider. Swelling spread up his leg. It was a major problem for him, but will spare you the rest of the details.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 4, 2021 3:07:58 GMT
I have a sore foot. The injury is called “turf toe” because it’s common in football players who push off hard with their forefoot on artificial turf, but ballet dancers can also get it.
I got mine while riding my bike. Correction: while falling OFF my bike! My front wheel had suddenly turned sideways when I hit a grapefruit-sized rock, and trying to avert the fall I jumped off the pedals, putting my feet down abruptly. But the momentum carried me over and I pulled the bike over on top of me. Amazingly I got no scratches or scrapes or bruises other than the tender foot. The hyperextension strained a bunch of soft tissue and ligaments around the big toe and ball of my foot. It should heal by itself within a week.
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Post by htmb on Sept 4, 2021 3:29:49 GMT
Sounds like you were very lucky to have only injured your toe and surrounding tissue. Could have been much worse!
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Post by lagatta on Sept 5, 2021 1:22:52 GMT
I don't know if this should go here or in the rants. I was phoned by the medical authority here to say I was entitled to a neurology appointment at a small hospital nearby. Turned out the doctor was one working at another hospital where I got a bad diagnosis (and was fortunately transferred elsewhere).He thought I had delerium from being a drug addict or something of the sort. He was very insulting and agressive (not common among medical staff here) and pretty much said I could forget about recovery - although all the other people involved in my case were thrilled by my recovery.
Now I have to write a letter to the hospital where I encountered the little shit to say I refuse any diagnosis or treatment by him or any contact with him. Oy Gevalt!
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Post by tod2 on Sept 5, 2021 8:56:20 GMT
Lagatta - tell them the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. From the sounds of things you are only one among many who have had to deal with him in a negative way. Time he got payback. Your predicament reminds me of an episode of The Golden Girls where Dorothy Sbornak gives a nasty doctor a good dressing down, in front of patrons in a in a restaurant, for dismissing her illness and leaving her suffering,
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