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25256. judithathome - 4/7/2009 2:06:56 PM I saw him on a crime show last week...speaking as an expert on something, not as a criminal...ha! 25257. judithathome - 4/7/2009 2:09:40 PM Okay...I looked and didn't see it...where is he on Daily Kos? 25258. wabbit - 4/7/2009 4:26:47 PM Difference isn't a threat 25259. wabbit - 4/7/2009 4:27:22 PM I'll repost that link in Politics. 25260. judithathome - 4/7/2009 5:38:15 PM Thnx! 25261. alistairconnor - 4/18/2009 9:16:32 PM Just back from a week tootling around the Low Countries in the van and on bicycles... have boring photos of canals and tulips to prove it...
This was the first holiday my girlfriend and I have managed together, in nearly two years of tumultuous co-existence. Friends predicted that if we came back together, we would be together for life. Well guess what. We're in love. 25262. judithathome - 4/19/2009 12:53:48 AM Congrats! I can highly recommend that state! Still in it after 27+ years. 25263. arkymalarky - 4/25/2009 5:40:31 PM On free wifi at a great cafe in Hot Springs. Can't wait until Obama gets us decent internet out in the country. I'm disgusted that Starbuck's is charging for wifi now, and so is McDonald's. Now it's back to the only reason for driving to town being WalMart. 25264. alistairConnor - 4/25/2009 8:54:51 PM A wee fee for wifi. The end of the golden age. 25265. Ms. No - 4/25/2009 9:43:21 PM It's not a wee fee at all. It's $9.95 for the day --- but who spends the whole day at Starbucks? It's their deal with T-Mobile. And even if you did spend the whole day there, I get 30 days a month for $35. That's just over a dollar a day.
Yet another reason to avoid Starbucks. I've never been rabidly anti-Starbucks, but I live in a city that still has a lot of independent coffee houses and there's no reason not to go to them instead. AND they provide free wifi were I inclined to use it. 25266. anomie - 4/25/2009 9:43:53 PM Congrats AC. And the van didn't break down or anything? Nice trip. 25267. arkymalarky - 4/25/2009 10:07:44 PM HI'm with No. I like Starbuck's fine, but I prefer the locals as well. And in the town nearest us I get my free wifi from the hospital parking lot if I have to have it and don't want to go to my parents' house. 25268. anomie - 4/25/2009 11:31:43 PM 10 bucks a day! Outrageous! Besides, I think Stabucks changed their coffee a few years ago and it lost taste. I never buy ot for home use anymore. I use Seattle's Best or Costco brand. 25269. alistairConnor - 4/26/2009 11:12:05 AM And the van didn't break down or anything?
Funny you should ask. Big bang and loss of power as we started home through Holland, I thought, hell, I've blown the turbo (it's happened once before). Drove into The Hague and phoned my insurance for help. Didn't even try to lift the lid on the engine.
Turned out it was only the air hose that feeds the turbo. BUT there was none to be had in the Netherlands, we would have had to wait five days... this was Friday. So we taped up the hose and drove on to Belgium, with a light foot (if I had accelerated too hard it would have blown the hose again), where we had friends to visit. There, the small-town Citroen dealer got the part for us within hours.
Since you asked...
The van has been excellent, but it's over five years old and 150 000 km, it's bound to give trouble now and then. 25270. magoseph - 4/26/2009 11:07:29 PM I can't post now because my husband is not well--I'll be back when he recovers. Take care! 25271. arkymalarky - 4/27/2009 1:22:30 AM I hope he's better asap, Mags, and you get time soon to fill us in. 25272. wabbit - 4/27/2009 2:06:58 PM Mags, I'm sorry to her about your husband, I hope he has a speedy recovery. 25273. wabbit - 4/27/2009 2:07:24 PM +a 25274. alistairconnor - 4/27/2009 8:19:27 PM Best wishes for Mr Flexy and a prompt rétablissement. 25275. alistairconnor - 4/27/2009 8:20:04 PM Anybody here? ere? ere?
I'm Home Alone and feeling chatty.
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