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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 6:43:51 GMT
stoooopid game Wordle 1,039 5/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 rinse retro rower roper rover
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 18:07:05 GMT
Yugoslavia -- formerly a country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, & Slovenia
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 18:03:17 GMT
I finally finished watching all of Friends, doing the last few episodes in a mini-binge the other night. It has given me so much pleasure & so many laughs that I was sorry it was over, even though I have an issue with one of the finale elements. Picking whatever follows after a series that gave total satisfaction is important, as it has to be good but ideally should not be something that invites comparisons to that previous series. Well, Ripley has been waiting in the wings, so I watched the first episode last night. Oh gracious! Everything you've read about the exquisite camera work and about Andrew Scott's perfect depiction is true and then some. I look forward to savoring an episode of this per night. I'm including links below, all of which probably contain spoilers. But the book(s) upon which this series is based are well known: The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who returns in four subsequent novels. (wikipedia)Also, they have been have adapted for tv and movies several times: screenrant.com/tom-ripley-tv-shows-movies-ranked/If you're not convinced yet to watch this truly superb production, keep reading: mashable.com/article/ripley-review-andrew-scott-netflixwww.vanityfair.com/hollywood/ripley-netflix-shot-list-awards-insiderThis link you might want to save for during or after you've viewed the series, as it zeroes in on the Caravaggio paintings referenced throughout: mashable.com/article/ripley-netflix-caravaggio
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 16:38:09 GMT
David Ferrie -- one of the people accused by Jim Garrison (DA of NO) of being involved in a conspiracy to kill JFK
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 15:35:47 GMT
Wordle 1,038 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 sword purse aster laser
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 4:45:30 GMT
Finally getting back into anyport. It's been out for a few hours. I did not do as well as the K contingent. Wordle 1,037 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 trace flush doily jolly
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 21:27:30 GMT
Robert Graves -- English poet, soldier, historical novelist, & critic who produced more than 140 works in his 90-year lifetime
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 19:56:02 GMT
I get double points for this: Baltimore -- historic city & important seaport just northeast of Washington DC
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 19:50:00 GMT
ap-Cray! I haven't done that one yet & now I'm intimidated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:13:42 GMT
Morocco -- country in North Africa
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:12:03 GMT
Vida Blue -- a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1986
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:05:00 GMT
It's very nice here, a pleasant respite from the past few days. The temperature is in the mid to high 70s, it's overcast, & there is a soft breeze.
It's more than pleasant in my house, with all the doors open, the wind chimes gently playing, and a melodious blackbird singing its heart out somewhere in a tree.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 0:20:55 GMT
It's okay. I enjoy being middle-of-the-road. Wordle 1,036 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 table flick logic lucid
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:43:12 GMT
Chandler Bing -- one of the Friends
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:37:30 GMT
Now one branch after another is dying, and there are almost no leaves left. I cut off all of the dead wood, just to make it easier to dispose of it in the coming days. Kerouac, why don't you go ahead & dump it out of the pot so you can see the roots. If they're doing well (unlikely) you can put what remains of the plant into a new, smaller pot & wait to see if if wants to try again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:34:25 GMT
So I have been putting most of the weeds and grass I pull into the compost pile and will use that to cover the beds after they decompose. Unfortunately, there are seeds in there so the weeds will grow back. Bjd, ideally the compost pile will function well enough to either kill those seeds with its heat or rot them out of existence. Fingers crossed!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 2:33:47 GMT
Hot & humid here, with temps in the 80s. Supposedly it will go down to the mid seventies on Monday. In central France, they got down to about -4° last night while overheated Paris only got down to 8°. This makes me remember back to TTR and the early days of anyport. Kerouac would post pictures of Paris in May and I was all shocked by all the people in puffy jackets. Obviously I never came to terms with this facet of Europe. When I went to Italy in May of 2019 I was forced to buy sweaters to insulate my heat-loving bod from the cold wet misery of "sunny Italy". Never having been to France in April or May and since I'm happily unrealistic, France yet remains in my mind as a happy land of sunshine and flowers. Another lousy spring.Roll on September. You just tossed aside all of summer, Mick?!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 2:24:16 GMT
Warren Delano (Jr.)-- maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 2:18:38 GMT
Dang Canadians!
Niaux -- commune in the Ariège dept southwestern France which is the site of the Cave of Niaux, famous for its prehistoric cave paintings of bison and horses from the Magdalenian era
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 17:45:46 GMT
YOW!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 16:33:44 GMT
Falfurrias -- town in south Texas mostly known for its border checkpoint where one wouldn't be expected. So many migrants die trying to hike around the checkpoint that there have been calls for it to be closed or moved.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 16:26:53 GMT
Béla Bartók -- Hungarian composer and pianist
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 16:25:08 GMT
My grandmother would use the meat grinder for stuff like leftover roast beef or ham in order to turn them into roast beef salad or ham salad for sandwiches. I've followed her lead in that -- perfect hot weather food.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 14:51:17 GMT
... carton of chicken broth, a tin of lentils and chucked in was whatever pasta shapes I had to hand. I would eat that. A swirl of olive oil in the bowl & a little grated Romano cheese would turn it into grownup food. ... “bits and pieces”. Basically whatever Nanny could find in the fridge and sling together. A perfect description of what good home cooks do almost on a daily basis. A lunch my mother used to make for us when we were kids was canned tuna and canned mushroom soup heated together & served over buttered toast. I still like it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 6:57:54 GMT
It's 20°c here right now, at almost one in the morning, so not nearly cool enough. Today & yesterday were brutal, but there is a thundershower promised for tomorrow. Let it be so!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 6:52:52 GMT
Was it one of those times where you just crave a certain flavor profile, Mark? My grandfather had a certain supper he wanted every once in a while. As the rest of us at the table enjoyed my grandmother's excellent and generous cooking, Papa would chow down on seashell macaroni and canned Hormel chili.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 6:47:41 GMT
That's very good news/bad news about several of those books, Bjd. I hope the last two you mention pan out better. Right now I'm reading a Commissario Brunetti book by Donna Leon. I'm on the seventh one of this 32-book series of mysteries set in Venice. I usually read one of them when I need a strong contrast with whatever I was reading before it. The book I'd just finished and want to whole-heartedly recommend was The Fall of Light, by Niall Williams. I've read a couple of his books before -- one which I can't really remember and the other about a man who falls in love with an opera singer. As I recall, both were enjoyable reads, but nothing that made me seek out more by the author. As a matter of fact, I didn't exactly snatch up this one, fearing it might be a bunch of precious writing with a smattering of plot. How wrong I was! Honestly, I love this book and can't wait until enough time has gone by for me to read it again. The author's prose is indeed unhurried and poetic, which somehow works perfectly with the sprawling, compelling plot. Some reviewers did not like it at all, but I say it's one of those books that you should just let have its way with you. You'll be taken on quite a ride and be treated to some glorious prose to boot. www.theguardian.com/books/2001/oct/13/fiction.reviews2
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 6:15:17 GMT
Wordle 1,035 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 lunge brace raise
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2024 2:59:00 GMT
Phil Collins -- 2nd richest drummer in the world
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2024 22:50:24 GMT
Rangyai -- tourist-destination island about 5 km off the east coast of Phuket. It is currently for sale for $160,000,000 usd, if anyone here is looking to buy a nice getaway place.
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