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This one is a bit of both pleasing and surly.

Grocery stores here now have compostable bags for fruits and vegetables. I use these in my kitchen for fruit peels, organic waste, so I can dump these directly into my yard waste can (yes they allow kitchen organic stuff). I'm trusting these are better than plastic bags.

OTOH, they are pretty flimsy and you can poke a hole in them fairly easily and don't want a chance against pears, carrots, sweet potatoes and anything slightly pointy.

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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Got frisked by hot security lady at the Tokyo airport

Happened to me in Oslo once. I did not complain. 

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2 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Tell me she looked like Karen 

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or Anna?

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Both.  But colored hair I think.  It was funny at the end I was like “left my watch on my bad” and she said that’s not a factor.  And now I’m wondering why I was frisked.  

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On 2/22/2025 at 4:30 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Sleeping in my own bed

A whole lot of this. Between traveling for work, being sick and sleeping on the couch, and kids being sick wanting to sleep with mommy, I've slept on my bed like twice in the last 30 days. Today I got home from work around 2 and took an hour long nap in the bed. It was fantastic

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On 3/12/2024 at 10:29 AM, Storm the Field said:

Spring Break week at work when you don't have kids. 

Traffic on the way in to work is lighter than usual. Can park just about anywhere you want in the office garage. Office is extremely quiet. Useless weekly meetings cancelled. 

This year I'm experiencing the other side of this. Same perks of no traffic and shit hold true, but I've been insanely busy this week, wrapping up the final parts of a rush project I've been grinding out since mid-January. 10+ hour days all week, getting home no earlier than 8 pm....etc. Meanwhile I'm bombarded in group texts with pics of friends and co-workers spending the week down at the beach or hitting the ski slopes. 

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On 3/14/2025 at 6:29 AM, Iceman said:

Someone waved at me in Philly, after I let them in, in traffic.  All 4 fingers up and everything.

Are you sure that you weren’t so drunk that you had quadruple vision?

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We’re in Taiwan visiting family and checking out the famous ShiLin night market. There are food carts, road side stands and hike in the walk restaurants serving all kinds of food.

One of the carts was selling grilled corn, so I caught my daughter’s attention and started singing

”It’s corn! A big lump with knobs, it’s got the juice!”

A woman walking by sang “It’s got the juice…”

That brought a smile to my face that some in Taiwan knew about this obscure song on YouTube. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about.

 

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Food in Taiwan can be really inexpensive. There’s a little breakfast place by my MIL’s house. 4 drinks, 4 breakfast items for less than $7.

Lunch at a nice restaurant for 13 people. The lazy Susan in the middle of the table completely covered in amazing food for $230. The same meal would have cost easily $350 - $400 in the US.

I could see myself living here for 6 months out of the year to stretch out my retirement dollars. 

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20 hours ago, Superhero said:

Food in Taiwan can be really inexpensive. There’s a little breakfast place by my MIL’s house. 4 drinks, 4 breakfast items for less than $7.

Lunch at a nice restaurant for 13 people. The lazy Susan in the middle of the table completely covered in amazing food for $230. The same meal would have cost easily $350 - $400 in the US.

I could see myself living here for 6 months out of the year to stretch out my retirement dollars. 

Hits close to home, the last time we were in Panama we some time to kill.  So we convinced our cab driver to show us his neighborhood etc.  We went to his favorite place to eat and covered a standard card table for 20 bucks and fed 4.   Every available inch of real estate had something on it.   It was great.

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