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Given the title of this blog, you'd think I'd write more often about my actual wallet. I've been using the same one for most if not all of the time I've been writing this blog. In this post from almost 10 years ago, I talked about my wallet and what was in it. The contents today would be almost identical, except for the Blockbuster video card!
For those who don't click through the link, my daily carry wallet is a small nylon zippered card size pouch that I bought at Muji many years ago. It has a flap pocket on the outside secured with a Velcro tab— I keep my Metrocard in there as it's easy to slide it out when I ride the subway. The zippered part has a little mesh divider to keep my coins separate from my cards and cash. I always have 2-3 credit cards, drivers license, gym card and a few other cards in there, as well as cash. The cash has to be folded in half, which isn't ideal but I usually don't mind. I also stuff receipts in there, so the wallet can get a bit crowded sometimes and I regularly clean it out and reorganize it.
This wallet system has really worked for me— it's lightweight, very pocketable, and unobtrusive. I've gotten so used to it, I rarely have trouble digging around to find anything even though it is small and a bit cramped. And the wallet has been surprisingly durable given that I am using it so much.
But nothing lasts forever— the velcro tab on the outside hasn't really worked for a while, but now, more importantly, the zipper is tearing. In anticipation of this day, I"ve been checking Muji on a regular basis to see if they sell anything like this anymore but they don't. And now that I've been more desperately looking for a replacement, I'm discovering that one one else really has anything like it either! Everything I've seen is too big, too small, lacks pockets, has too many pockets, etc. So I've been trying to open up my mind to the idea of using a different kind of wallet.
I'm trying to remember the other wallets I used earlier in my life. The earliest one I remember is one of those Velcro-closure wallets with contrasting trim, made out of the same sort of woven synthetic fabric as many backpacks. That would have been what I used in junior high, and maybe into high school. Sometime in high school I was given a full size women's wallet, in a faux leather grey and black pattern, made by Liz Claiborne. I think I used that into my college years.
After college, I had a period where I used a pocket size Filofax to carry my cards and bills, and just put coins in my pocket, which was one of the reasons I always hated shopping for clothes, as many women's pants don't have pockets!
At some point, I started preferring a small pouch style wallet, starting with a little card size one made of some kind of Guatemalan or Mexican textile, which I probably received as a gift. It was cute and colorful, and I still have it somewhere. Because that wallet was so small, I supplemented it with a leather card holder from Coach to store things like insurance cards, business cards, and backup credit cards that I don't use as often. The Mexican textile pouch was replaced with the Muji pouch.
I've experimented a little with other wallets. When one of my grandfathers died, I was given a wallet he'd owned— a pretty typical fold-over men's wallet. I tried using that briefly but never really liked it that much. I also tried to used a different style of Filofax that had a full zipper around it and more pockets, as the idea of combining a notebook and wallet into one always seemed appealing, but in practice I found it too bulky.
The other wallet I currently own and use on occasion is a Bellroy passport wallet. Bellroy advertises a lot online, and I was sucked in enough by it to purchase their Travel Wallet. It's actually a brilliant wallet— I love how it can hold boarding passes, all sorts of currencies, a passport, an extra SIM card (even though I haven't had a use for that in years), and even comes with a mini pen. But I only use this wallet for international travel— if I'm not bringing my passport with me, the wallet just seems too big to carry all the time. Despite the size, I did try to carry it as an everyday wallet for a few days, mainly because I just loved it so much I wanted to touch it more often! The leather is really nice, and I wanted to break it in more. But the problem was that it had no space for coins. Most of my pants do have pockets at the moment, but I really don't want to walk around with change jingling in them. And I don't want to have to use a separate change purse. I use my coins as much as possible each day and don't accumulate them but I still need someplace to put them.
In searching around online for a new wallet, of course those Bellroy ads starting popping up again so I took a peek at their website… and lo and behold they have a new wallet that is designed to hold coins: the appropriately named Coin Fold. After much deliberation, I ended up ordering one. It holds flat bills, cards, a SIM card should I ever have a spare again, and there's a clever little coin pocket. I've been mentally enacting how I would use this wallet in my day to day habits. I think it will hold what I need it to hold, but will it be awkward to use? Will there be enough space for the coins? Will I be able to pluck them out efficiently when I'm trying to pay with exact change and there are 10 grumpy people in line behind me at the deli where I get lunch? As of this writing, that remains to be seen… and I know I'll have to adjust to one feature this wallet is missing, which is that there is no separate external pocket where I can stash my Metrocard. Will I be able to whip out my Metrocard fast enough without fumbling in front of the turnstile?
It's funny how nothing is ever perfect in life. If you say you want A, B, C, and D, you'll only find things that have A, B, and C, or A, B, and D, or B, C, and D… plus E, which you never cared about before, but now you are swimming in doubt because maybe E is better than A anyway, or is it??? I have probably looked at a hundred wallets, and all I really want is the one I have, even though I'm lusting over this new thing because it's made of pretty leather.
Don't think it hasn't occurred to me that I could repair the zipper on the Muji wallet… but it pains me to think how much a tailor would probably charge me to replace that 3 inch zipper— less than a new wallet for $100, probably, but I'm sure the price vs. value would still annoy me, and I'd be hearing my mother's voice in my ear, saying "see, I told you you should have learned more about sewing!" Though if I presented her with my Muji wallet and a 3-inch replacement zipper and asked her to fix it, she'd probably be totally annoyed, as she often was when I was a kid and would ask her to sew together fantasy wallets and notebook covers of my own design. Some things just aren't fun to sew, even if you love sewing.
So we'll see if this creature of habit can form a new habit with a new wallet… which will still be an open wallet, of course!
Monday, January 25, 2016
Wallet Woes
Given the title of this blog, you'd think I'd write more often about my actual wallet. I've been using the same one for most if not all of the time I've been writing this blog. In this post from almost 10 years ago, I talked about my wallet and what was in it. The contents today would be almost identical, except for the Blockbuster video card!
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
So, how crazy is it that the Powerball jackpot is $1.3 billion? Sometimes it seems like all anyone is talking about, though David Bowie's unfortunate death has managed to change the subject this week, at least among most of my friends on social media...
Anyway, for all that I try to be a creature of logic when it comes to finances, I had my little moment of madness last weekend when I decided to drop $10 on Powerball, when the jackpot was "only" $900 million. I of course knew I wouldn't win, but it's hard not to fantasize about these things, and while the odds of winning are incredibly tiny, even incredibly tiny odds are better than the absolute certainty of not winning if you don't enter. And since my lottery spending pattern is to spend about $10 every few years when the whim strikes me, I don't feel like I'm throwing away too much money.
It's funny to read some of these articles that try to tell you the best times to play the lottery-- actually, I should say "try to read," as I feel my brain getting numb pretty quickly. I guess the ideas fall into various categories-- since the winning numbers themselves are totally random, the best you can hope for is to strategize about not having to share the prize, or doing some sort of analysis of the cost/benefit of buying a ticket at different jackpot levels. No matter what, you are working with odds of winning that comparable to odds of being hit by lightning while standing on your head while serving as the first democratically elected president of the United Kingdom.
What struck me after I read the back of my Powerball ticket more closely is how relatively worthless the secondary prizes are for getting a few of the numbers right. After the jackpot, it drops to $1,000,000 (5 numbers right), and then $50,000 (4 numbers plus the powerball number), and then $100 (if you get 4 numbers, or 3 numbers plus the powerball number right). $1 million would be amazing and pretty life changing for most people, even if it's only about half that by the time you take out taxes, and even less if you take it all in cash up front. But I'm not sure it would be enough to make me feel comfortable quitting my job and changing careers. $50,000 definitely wouldn't be enough.
The other thing that interests me about lottery fever is how people talk about what they'd do with the money. at this huge a jackpot level, most people can't even get their heads around it. But they usually seem to start with thoughts of giving a lot of money to friends and family, which is nice. It makes you wonder about people who are billionaires already-- there are plenty of extremely expensive luxuries they can spend their riches on, and lots of charitable ventures, but even they must struggle to put a dent in it sometimes. I can only hope I someday have the problem of figuring that out myself!
If you've bought a ticket, good luck!
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015
How to Teach Kids to Save When Interest Rates are Low
I was thinking about how I started learning to save money when I was a kid. At some point, my parents opened a savings account in my name, and I had a nice little bank book. No ATMs back then-- you had to bring your bank book to the teller, who would record your transactions in it. When I got money as a gift, or from my first babysitting jobs, some of it went into that savings account.
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Monday, October 05, 2015
Smartphone Plans and Paying Full Price for an Unlocked iPhone 6S
For a long time, my cell phone bill hasn't been a major part of my personal finance decision making. I've had an iPhone 4S for almost 4 years, on the minimum AT&T phone/data plan, with my contract long over. I was paying something like $0.10 per text message, because I texted so rarely that it seemed like a better deal than the $4.99 a month it would have cost me for unlimited messages. So I thought I was doing the right thing, financially speaking.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Yowza, the Stock Market!
Normally I'm a very hands-off investor. I go for long periods without paying much attention while my various holdings drift up and down in value-- hopefully, mostly up! But in the last year or so, I've been putting more cash into the market, and paying a bit more attention. This is largely because I've had more cash to invest-- my own savings and the proceeds from selling my condo, and more recently, my mother's trusts.
I continue to mostly invest in a mix mutual funds, some just index funds and some with other mixes of assets-- nothing really sector-specialized, just some bond funds and others that are supposed to maximize dividend income. Then I have a few stocks that I've bought a few shares of here and there.
The last couple of days have been one of those times where I can't really sit by and ignore what's going on. I've been checking the S&P 500 multiple times throughout the day. As mentioned in the posts about my mom, I now have to worry that she'll think I'm mis-managing her money if the markets go down, and they've gone down a LOT in the past few days! I can handle seeing my own net worth plunge by $60,000 or more in the space of a few days, but that's nothing compared to dealing with my mother! :)
For my own investments, I'm trying to be strategic and cool-headed, so as Monday's big plunge was happening, I moved $25,000 into my E*Trade account so I'd be ready to act if it seemed like I could take advantage of buying low. At the end of the day, I thought things were down enough that it made sense to do some bargain-hunting, so I invested all the $25k. Tuesday morning, the markets opened higher and I was feeling like a genius! But as the day progressed on Tuesday, I began to wish that I'd waited another day as the markets ended up closing down even further. Oh well! Maybe not so genius after all...
I still try to keep an eye on the long term. I didn't sell off anything after the 2008 crash and my investments mostly recovered. I've had some things do very well in the last few years. But it's a bit depressing to see those gains wiped out again, and I do wonder what's in store for the next few years. A lot of people are saying stocks are generally over-valued, and I'm pretty exposed to that through a lot of my mutual funds. But interestingly, my individual stock picks don't seem particularly over-valued, at least not after Tuesday's close. I have shares in Ford, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kroger, Xerox and KKR. The P/E ratios on these are mostly pretty reasonable-- all under 15 except Kroger at 18 and BMY at 54! BMY is up 113% from when I bought it in 2011, so I'm thinking I may sell it now. Kroger is up 197% from when I bought it so it's tempting to sell that one too. Whenever I've bought individual stocks, I've tried to find things that had a low P/E ratio and projected earnings that would suggest the price could rise-- that approach has worked well for me. Xerox was bought based on advice from a friend, the one time I've ever acted on that sort of stock tip-- that approach definitely did not work for me! Xerox has been down pretty much ever since.
I also like it when stocks pay dividends-- I figured out that I've reinvested almost $30,000 worth of dividends on my main E*Trade portfolio over the years. KKR is something I just purchased this week because the P/E ratio was very low and dividend quite high. I've never invested in a private equity company, or any sort of financial services company-- my other stock picking rule having been that I choose companies whose businesses seem more tangible and familiar to me. My most detailed knowledge of KKR has been from reading Barbarians at the Gate-- a fascinating book which I highly recommend, though it's not exactly flattering to KKR. So this pick goes a little against my grain but these private equity guys always seem to be raking it in like bandits, and I'm willing to try to ride along a bit!
Here's the current holdings in my main E*Trade portfolio if you want to follow along... this doesn't include a smaller Roth IRA portfolio or my 401K.
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Labels: decisions, dividends, economy, investing, investment, net worth, price to earnings ratio, stock market, stocks
Monday, August 24, 2015
More on Being a Trustee
Ok, so we left off with the big package of legal documents arriving for me to sign.
First, there was the irrevocable trust document. This spelled out that my mother was putting $350,000 in this trust and waiving all rights and title to the principal forever. It names me as trustee, and talks about various ways I'm allowed to make decisions about investing the money. It says I have to distribute net income quarterly to my mother, and provide a full accounting of the trust's transactions annually. There's also a lot of stuff about how a the trustee can be changed later if necessary, and what happens if I die, etc. It names my sister and me as the beneficiaries and that the principal will be paid to us equally after my mother's death.
Then there's the revocable trust. This money still belongs to my mother during her lifetime, but I am the trustee managing it. My sister and I are the beneficiaries after she dies. This trust is just to simplify things and avoid probate when my mother dies. But it's also a very good thing to have a trustee in control so that my mother can't just spend all the money without consulting someone else. This may become awkward in the future if my mother wants to spend money and I don't think she should.
The final documents in the package were my mother's last will and testament, and a durable power of attorney authorizing me to act as her agent. The will will cover any property of hers that is not held in the name of the revocable trust. If those assets are less than $25,000, then it goes through a "simple probate" process that is easier than for a larger estate. So we're supposed to keep my mother's assets under her own name at less than $25,000 but of course she had last minute cold feet about putting the full amount she'd intended into the revocable trust, so she actually has more like $40,000 in her own account— or at least she did when this all happened. Who knows how much of it she's spent by now! I keep reminding her that the revocable trust funds can be paid out to her any time but she still doesn't want to transfer her extra cash. I asked a couple of times then decided to let it go for a while as she seemed to be starting to think I was being morbid about it!
The final item in the package was two checks from my mother's account, one for $350,000 made out to the irrevocable trust ("The [Madame X's Mom] Irrevocable Trust of 2015") and one for $100,000 made out to the revocable trust "The [Madame X's Mom] Trust of 2015."
The irrevocable trust has its own tax ID number, which the lawyer also sent to me a few days later. Once I had that, I went to the bank to set up checking accounts for each trust. It took about an hour and a half to do all the set-up paperwork at the bank— they had to fax the documents to their legal department to make sure everything was in order, in addition to all the usual account paperwork. But once that irrevocable trust check was deposited, it started the clock ticking for Medicaid's 5-year look-back period, in the event that my mother ever needs to apply for it.
After the checks cleared and I'd received new checkbooks in the name of each trust, I opened a Vanguard account for each trust. I picked a variety of mutual funds, including some that have the goal of maximizing dividend income. I did put some of the money in funds that seek growth and have higher levels of risk, but I steered away from the riskiest ones, and also put some money into lower-risk bond funds. I do want to make the principal grow, but I also want to make sure the investments generate some income for my mom. I am a little worried about how the first few months will go— it's unfortunate that the stock market has taken some plunges exactly after I invested this money, so my returns are somewhat negative so far. I personally am a pretty calm investor— I always try to look at the long term and not panic during down times, but I'm worried about how this will appear to my mom and anyone else whom she might tell. If I say "ok, mom, I took $450,000 of your money and invested it, and all I have to show is a $5,000 loss after 6 months," she may just think I don't know what I'm doing, regardless of whether I point out that the entire market is down, and that any other financial advisor would have been likely to have similar results. I am kind of wishing I'd weighted the portfolio even more towards the bond funds vs. the others, given that the stock market was at historic highs when I was putting all this money in. Perhaps that is what a professional advisor would have counseled… but perhaps not, and I have to keep reminding myself, and my mom if necessary, that we're still ahead by a percentage point or two just by not having to pay someone else's fees to manage the money.
There will be more to talk about in the coming months, as I figure out whether and when to distribute income to my mother, how to deal with tax issues for the trust, and other questions. I'll keep you posted!
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Labels: bonds, dividends, economy, estate planning, family, investing, investment, stock market
Monday, July 20, 2015
My Mother's Estate Planning: In Madame X She Trusts!
This past week, I've had to learn a few things about trusts. I'm now officially a trustee!
The whole trust issue first came up after my dad had surgery for brain cancer. We'd managed to get him to a lawyer to quickly draw up a will for the first time on an emergency basis just before his surgery. A couple of months later, he and my mom went back to a lawyer to revise the estate planning, along with my sister, and me on a conference call. The lawyer advised them to put most of their assets in a revocable trust and he drew up some documents to that effect. What I later found out, though, was that they had never actually retitled any of their accounts in the name of the trust, so it was essentially a useless exercise.
For those who don't understand what I mean, here's an version of an explanation I found online somewhere that helped me explain it. Think of a trust as an empty box. Your lawyer draws up documents that create that box. But then you have to put things in the box-- by transferring the deed to your house, or by changing the name on your bank accounts, or opening new bank accounts in the name of the trust and transferring money into those accounts.
After my dad died, my mother went back to the lawyer, and I think they set up another trust, this time just in her name. And again, no assets were ever put in the trust! I was kind of hands-off about my mother's dwindling finances at that point, as I just found it too upsetting.
So the latest trip back to the lawyer was after my mother sold her house. She had proceeds from the sale of a little over $500,000, from which some capital gains would be due, since they'd originally bought it for something like $25,000. (This calculation of capital gains exemptions on real estate would be an interesting thing to delve into in another post someday!)
At this point, that money is all my mother has. She has spent all the other money that my father left. But she had gotten it into her head that my father intended for my sister and me to inherit the house, or at least some of the money from its sale. I personally never heard him say anything of the kind-- he always seemed quite aware that he'd barely be able to stay afloat while living in that house, yet he didn't want to move, and somehow I don't think he ever really thought of us as a family where inheritances would be a very relevant issue! And knowing my mother's financial habits, I certainly didn't expect there would ever be much left to inherit once she was gone.
My sister, however, seemed to think an inheritance would be a rather nice thing to have, and I can't really blame her. She thought our dad would have liked to leave something to his grandchildren. And more pressingly, she and her husband always seem to have a little more debt than they'd like. I know they paid off some credit card debt when they refinanced their house. But somehow they still have two mortgages. And then they bought a boat! They want their kids to have a really fun family life that would be very different from how my sister and I grew up, under a cloud of worry that we couldn't afford to do anything. Unfortunately, she and her husband sometimes seem to be under a cloud of worry about debt! My sister does some occasional part-time work but is has mostly been a stay at home mom for years, so they're living on one income.
So my mom decides she wants to give us about $350,000 out of the house proceeds, to be split evenly. Her lawyer said the best way to do that was to put it in an irrevocable trust so she'd have the income from it while she's alive and the principal would go to us after her death. This idea worried me, because if my mother needed to go into a nursing home, there would be a 5-year lookback period before she could qualify for medicare, and my sister and I would have to come up with whatever her income didn't cover. I personally could afford to do that if I had to, especially if I knew I'd be reimbursed for $175,000 of expenses after my mother died. But my sister would not be able to afford it.
So I thought my mom should just keep her money to pay for her own needs, although I did worry that she would just spend it all on ridiculous things-- she seems to be one of these people who see money as a hot potato to be gotten rid of when you have it! If my mom frittered away all her cash, then I'd be stuck paying for her nursing home anyway. It's not that I don't want to care for my mother, but it makes me incredibly angry that I shouldn't have to-- if my mom and dad had both made wiser financial decisions years ago, they could have lived very comfortably and taken care of all their needs without endangering my own ability to fund my retirement. If I end up being broke when I'm older, it will be my niece and nephew feeling guilty and burdened about taking care of me, and I don't want to lay that on them.
My sister's idea for protecting my mom's money was that she should just give it to us as a gift, with the understanding that it would be there for her if she needed it. I was willing to go with that except that I thought it would look really dodgy, as if we were taking advantage of our mother. And again, I could afford to just invest that money and not use it. My sister was thinking she'd use it to pay off their second mortgage, "to help them get on a more stable footing," and that if my mother needed her money, they'd just take out a home equity loan to give it back to her. I value my relationship with my sister-- I don't want to be judgmental with her, knowing that kids are a big expense I don't have, but I thought that whole plan was a REALLY BAD IDEA!
Here's the plan that we ended up with: the lawyer drafted an irrevocable trust with a provision that the principal could be used in the case of a dire medical emergency. $350,000 went into that trust. For the rest of my mother's cash, he set up a revocable trust, and a will to cover whatever isn't in that trust. She's supposed to keep her non-trust assets below $25,000 so it's covered by simple probate, and avoids some of the usual probate process. (Or something like that, I may not be getting the terminology right here.)
The thing with trusts is that you have to have a trustee. That person or institution his responsible for carrying out the terms of the trust and has the fiduciary duty to manage the assets appropriately. My mother's first lawyer insisted that this duty had to be carried out by a financial institution and brought someone in from a local bank to offer her services. I did not like this idea. I did not see why we should have a bank investing our money when it seemed perfectly reasonable to just do it myself with some low cost mutual funds. I did some research online and became even more convinced that the fees a trust company would charge didn't make sense for the amount of money we'd be investing. I also felt that money should be invested in a relatively conservative way to preserve capital, so we'd be trading potentially lower returns in a good year for lesser losses in a bad year-- this meant losing 1-2% in fees really didn't make sense. My mom's first lawyer retired and another partner took over. Maybe he was less old-fashioned about whether a girl could capably handle such things, but he agreed that I could handle being the trustee myself. So a big packet of legal documents arrived for me to sign: the irrevocable trust with my mom as the grantor, me as the trustee and my sister and me as benfeciaries; the revocable trust with my mom as grantor and me as trustee and my sister and me as beneficiaries; and a power of attorney allowing me to act on my mother's behalf.
This is getting to be a long post so I'll follow up soon with a part 2 detailing what else I've learned about my new duties as a trustee... stay tuned!
Her income monthly from Social Security and my father's pension is about $3000.
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How do I create a label with two lines?
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Friday afternoon's meeting at Jebel Ali was a rescheduled fixture from the previous week when called off after the sad death His Highness Sheikh Rashid Bin Ahmad Al Mualla, the ruler of Umm Al Quwain.
The Shadwell organisation of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum again sponsored the afternoon's feature, on this occasion a 1600m handicap which was won impressively by Plavius.
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Not too bad at all...
We stayed at the hotel for a few days in June this year. The hotel is pretty good for the price. We especially like the flat panel tv in the room. The bathroom, like all hotels in Greece it seems, was small, but cleaner than most we had had during our trip.
The neighbourhood surrounding the hotel is not clean and some may find it scary, but we had no problems at all and found some good restaurants and shopping nearby.
The room had no view at all (a cement wall) and was small, but clean and relatively new. Breakfast was pretty standard, too, but there was something for everyone (and we're picky).
We couldn't get the same rate as we got on the internet when we asked about returning to the hotel a few days later, so we switched to another.
Nice little hotel, horrid neighborhood
The other reviewers failed to mention how awful the immediate neighborhood is here. While the hotel itself was perfectly fine to nice (clean, well-maintained, fresh paint, nice tiling), and the desk staff were particularly good (better than some luxury places we've been), you can't overlook the stinking piles of trash on the street corner, the graffiti, and the people hanging around, the boarded up neighbors. We took a cab back at night because we felt unsafe. Zononos is a busy, even lively, but dirty street leading to Omonia Square, with food shops, good for cheap eating. But I would not recommend staying in this area south of Omonia; go north & east, stay closer to Syntagma in the plaka or just north of there. The location is good only in the sense that you could walk to the plaka or hop on the metro at Omonia. The street noise was not completely blocked by closing the windows & drapes, but mostly. The AC worked fine too.
Good Value for Money.
Very good value for money, paid £53/ night through Hotelclub. For once this was a hotel that was exactly as advertised. The rooms were clean and comfortable and the breakfast was sufficient. I found the area ok, so long as you stick to the main roads on an evening when walking around Athens. The staff were pleasant and vey helpful. Only criticism being that it was a bit noisey as the walls are pretty thin.
All in all, a very pleasant stay. I would definatley recomend it to anyone wanting a base to explore Athens and is not planning on spending too much time in the hotel.
Great little place
We had some great time in Athens. The hotel was clean and tidy and the hotel staff was more than helpful. They gave us great advice of how to get around, suggesting restaurants and places to visit.
Very pleasant all the time and willing to give answers to our questions.
As for the hotel location, it is exaclty in the center of the city, close to touristic attractions and all means of transportaions.
Great value overall. Congrats to the owner for making the correct choices on running this nice little hotel.
Good basic hotel
We only stayed in this hotel overnight as a stopover for another flight but it was fine. The room was very nice and modern with very good reception service and good bathroom. At the end of the day it is a best western so you get what you pay for...not the Hilton but clean and well above basic standards. We only paid 80 euros with breakfast.
Bathroom was very small but nice and modern so not really a problem. Actually really liked the hotel and was perfect for a stopover. Do not think I would have wanted to have stayed here for too much longer simply because i like more luxurious hotels and the location of the hotel is not the best. It is fine as you get taxis into town but our two taxi drivers both warned us that we were not in a good part of town. I would not recommend walking around this area at night if you can help it.
Overall Good Hotel
Good Hotel, Good Price, Good Location. Hotel has been fully remolded and rooms look very nice, though they are small. The patio in our room was giant, but it had no patio furniture to be able to enjoy it. Elevators are old and small but work great. Staff was super friendly and helpful. Breakfast was also good. I would recommend it to anyone.
Perfectly fine, budget hotel.
Our 8th floor room was a bit small, but we had a large terrace that was about the same size (or larger than) the room. However, the terrace had no furniture and the air quality in Athens bothered us, so we didn't spend a great deal of time out there. The staff was very helpful in getting us booked for a tour to Delphi and in general guiding us around. The furniture in the room was comfortable, the bathroom of much classier variety than I'm used to at Best Westerns, and the AC worked great. The breakfast is not great, but it's exactly the kind you get at a BW in the States. A good value.
Good for the money
This hotel is a very reasonably priced. We checked out yesterday (5/30) and paid only 62.50 E for 3 people. The room is very small, the air conditioning is an on/off deal and the bathroom is cramped and old, but it's close to the Metro (1.5 blocks, mostly pedestrian zone). The breakfast is very good and the staff at the front desk are extremely friendly and helpful. Won't do if you are looking for high end, but if you are on a tight budget it's a bargain.
No graet style
If you are seeking a bare bones, neat, inexpensive place and do not care about surroundings, this is for you!!!!
As I had seen my wife off by plane that morning and was taking the train the next day, I wanted a place with relatively easy acess to the Larisa station. Therefore I chose the Zinon because of the Best Western connection. It was pragmatic.
I wouldn't suggest this place for someone arriving in Athens after a long voyage as it is quite plain & the immediate neighborhood lacks charm. But I was able to walk to two excellent non touristy restaurants during the rainy day I was there.
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... English text around at least. Street art EVERYWHERE as well as your everyday graffiti. Walk up towards the Acropolis (still don't know what this is, exactly) - basically restaurants and cats.
Can't get any walking tours because they have zero or too many people. Take myself and my internet audio guide to the Acropolis - it was a fort, mosque, temple and gunpowder storage location. Gunpowder due to the Turks' occupation in 17th century which was hit by the Venetians - ...
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This is our only full day in Athens - but instead of rushing around we started with breakfast at the hotel - again overlooking (well, underlooking, if thats even a thing) the Parthenon. Really impressive brekky too - heaps on offer, and happily lots of good greek cheese and greek yoghourt.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 years, equality remains a distant hope.
As she turns 76 next week, the woman who walked the front lines of American feminism in the 1960s and 1970s -- often in a miniskirt, big glasses and buttons with colorful expletives -- celebrates her good health and "huge, huge leaps forward."
But Steinem has plenty of bones to pick with government and society when it comes to women's rights.
American women workers still earn only 70 cents to men's $1, women are barred from combat, women's health care premiums are higher and raising children is not counted as productive work, she says.
While abortion is legal in the United States, Steinem says the reproductive freedom she fought for is under attack, as seen in efforts to include limits on abortion in the health care reform debate now in Congress.
"I thought if we got majority support around issues, that we would succeed, and that is not necessarily the case," Steinem told Reuters on Tuesday before being honored by the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project in Beverly Hills.
For those awaiting a woman president of the United States, Steinem throws more cold water on their hopes, claiming she will likely not see that in her lifetime.
Steinem supported Hillary Clinton in her drive to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008 and credits her with "changing the molecules in the air a little bit" by making millions more men and women imagine a woman president.
Yet, she still maintains that the United States is not ready to elect a woman president because "female authority is still associated with a domestic setting and seems inappropriate in a public setting."
"It will take longer, but when we have someone, she will be more likely to actually represent the majority interests of women," said Steinem, founding co-editor of Ms. magazine.
A vocal critic of possible Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Steinem writes her off as "the Phyllis Schlafly of today," evoking the conservative who vehemently opposed feminism.
At nearly 76, the long-time New York City resident looks youthful and says she is "just as energetic" as she has always been in her travels advocating for women and other causes.
"I look 20 years forward and think I probably won't be here and I find that shocking," said Steinem, who insists that people call her Gloria.
"I am trying my best...to use my time better. Because, the truth is, I think I am immortal and thinking you are immortal causes you to plan poorly."
Many still remember Steinem for her turn nearly 50 years ago as a Playboy Bunny in an expose of the working conditions of the women waitresses at Hugh Hefner's famous clubs.
She still has not forgiven the 83-year-old Hefner, whom she calls "a joke."
"To make amends with him would be like a Jewish person making amends with an anti-Semite. I am not going to do it," Steinem said.
"I am glad we get some reparations," she added, noting that Hefner-backed groups have donated funds to causes like the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project.
She believes the Bunny role almost destroyed her. After the expose came out, she had problems getting serious assignments as a journalist.
"Even now at my advanced age, I am some times introduced as an ex-Bunny with no explanation," Steinem said.
While Steinem very much believes in personal freedom to choose, she worries about young women who enter beauty contests and those rewarded for being scantily clad and overtly sexual.
"If men got rewarded for the amount of nudity and sexuality that women do, men would be nude and sexual too, trust me," Steinem said.
She also wonders if there will be male equivalents for the terms "chick flick" ("prick flick" she suggests) and "cougar," the name used for older women who snag younger men.
"As long as one group requires an adjective and the other is the central definition of humanity, we are in trouble. And that is still true," she said.
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Serious Slow Jams
Few things in art are exactly as they sound, which can prove confusing, especially if you're a little confused by art already. Saturday, that changes as the all-volunteer led program Slow Art Day creeps, ever so cautiously, through our local museums. Yes, on Slow Art Day you'll inch along, staring at five pieces of art for a solid 10 minutes each with the goal of seeing more and making new discoveries inside the works. Then at lunch you sit with your fellow slow-motion groovers and compare notes while talking with sloppily full mouths. It's a global celebration, and in Dallas you can hitch your star to groups at The Crow, the DMA, the Nasher and even the public art of the Arts District. Visit slowartday.com to connect with a group and make some new lunch buddies. You're responsible for museum admission and the cost of what you eat. The art is responsible for holding your interest. Slow Art Day runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Capcom blames "cannibalism" for less than expected Street Fighter x Tekken sales
Capcom has said sales of Street Fighter x Tekken has fallen short of the company's expectations, citing genre cannibalism as the reason why.
It announced last week the fighter had sold 1.4 million units since its release in early March.
"Sales of Street Fighter X Tekken have fallen short of our plan," it said in a Q&A.
"We believe one of [the] causes is cannibalism because of the large number of other games in this genre that were launched within a short time."
Capcom's launched three versions of Street Fighter IV in the past four years: the vanilla version in 2009, Super in 2010 and Arcade Edition in 2011.
The publisher also said the announcement of 2 million copies shipped of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City with Slant Six redeemed its approach in bringing a western studio for development.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has reached shipments of 2 million units). This shows the success of our decision to try the new approach of using an alliance with an overseas development company."
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seasoned, wild caught calamari, breaded, flash fried and served with mesclun greens and seasonal slaw with a wasabi-tomato cocktail sauce
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italian baguette seasoned with garlic butter, fresh herbs and parmigiano - pecorrino romano
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hearts of romaine, garlic croutonso dry aged cheeses and a creamy caesar dressing
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black tiger prawns, olive oil poached fresh ahi, smoked salmon, marinated calamari, pepperoncini marinated vegetables, tomato, cucumber and a selection of mesclun gteens with a lemon confit vinaigrette
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sun dried tomato marinated island chicken breast, grilled and topped w/ provolone cheese, tomato, basil, lettuce, tomato and roasted garlic aioli, served w/ seasoned fries and slaw
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fresh chitarra pasta, handmade big island beef, pork and aromatic vegetable meatballs in at tuscan tomato sauce with truffle oil and italian cheeses
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our in-house made sausage in a tuscan tomato sauce tossed with rigatoni pasta
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Episode List
Season 1
14 Mar. 2007Halfway Narc
Alan smells something suspicious in the middle of the night.
21 Mar. 2007Halfway Impotent
C-Bass suspects that the Bureau of Prisons is responsible for his erectile dysfunction, and Carly goes for a world record in pogo-sticking.
28 Mar. 2007Halfway Hot
When a heat wave hits, the residents battle Kenny for access to air-conditioning.
4 Apr. 2007Halfway Parent's Day
Kenny invites the residents' parents to the house for some family bonding, forcing the residents to struggle to make up for years of dysfunction in a single day.
11 Apr. 2007Halfway Camping
The residents embark on a trip into the wilderness, but when Kenny leaves them on their own as a part of a self-reliance exercise they quickly panic and turn on each other.
18 Apr. 2007Halfway New Guy
The residents fall back on prison rules to haze a new resident.
25 Apr. 2007Halfway Scared
The residents are asked to scare "straight" a mammoth-sized juvenile delinquent.
2 May 2007Halfway High School
When Kenny convinces the residents to take the GED.
9 May 2007Halfway Working
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We've been highlighting some of the work being done by those with the early versions of the Kinect for Windows v2 devices. Last week the Kinect for Windows Team reveal the final hardware and more...
As we continue the march toward the upcoming launch of Kinect for Windows v2, we're excited to share the hardware's final look.
The sensor closely resembles the Kinect for Xbox One, except that it says "Kinect" on the top panel, and the Xbox Nexus—the stylized green "x"—has been changed to a simple, more understated power indicator:
Hub and power supply
The sensor requires a couple other components to work: the hub and the power supply. Tying everything together is the hub (top item pictured below), which accepts three connections: the sensor, USB 3.0 output to PC, and power. The power supply (bottom item pictured below) does just what its name implies: it supplies all the power the sensor requires to operate. The power cables will vary by country or region, but the power supply itself supports voltages from 100–240 volts.
Kinect for Windows v2 hub (top) and power supply (bottom)
As this first look at the Kinect for Windows v2 hardware indicates, we're getting closer and closer to launch. So stay tuned for more updates on the next generation of Kinect for Windows.
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My feelings as well...I look forward to the release.
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Today, after making several comments about how I didn't exactly look thin, my boyfriend said, "Well, at least we know you'll look good pregnant." FML
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Today, my boyfriend got on one knee and started talking about how we met. Knowing what was coming, I started tearing up, absolutely sure he was going to propose. Just as I was about to say yes, he quickly stood up and yelled "HAH, JUST KIDDING". FML
by Anonymous / 11/22/2013 at 7:16pm / Canada (Ontario) / Love
Today, my mom found a new fad, and now styles herself as some kind of modern druid. Normally I'd just roll my eyes and deal with it, except she's forced the entire family to go vegetarian, threatening harsh punishments if we refuse to stop "poisoning" our bodies. FML
by Anonymous / 11/03/2013 at 1:56pm / United States (Texas) / Miscellaneous
Today, I asked a co-worker why he was wearing sandals, as they are not allowed under our strict dress code. He got extremely angry with me and stormed off. Ten minutes later, I got called into our boss' office. Apparently, he told her that I walked up to him and asked to suck his toes. FML
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Today, as my wife and I were getting intimate, I thought I would try a little "dirty talk". I whispered in her ear that I would "dick her down good". She couldn't stop laughing. FML
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Today, I found out that shirt sizes don't get longer, they get wider. Being 6ft4, every shirt I try on makes me look like a cheap stripper. FML
by Pongy / 11/12/2013 at 12:31am / Miscellaneous
Today, I swallowed and nearly choked to death on the ring my boyfriend hid in my wine glass. It's still in me somewhere, and my doctor basically told me that I'll have to "keep an eye on things" if I want to find it. FML
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Today, there was a power outage at my apartment. I ended up deciding that the power wasn't going to come on any time soon, and that I should go to a hotel for the night. Just after I unpacked at the hotel, my neighbor called to say the power had come back. FML
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Sarasota Police considering use of body-mounted cameras
Published: Sunday, August 17, 2014 at 6:48 p.m.
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SARASOTA - The Sarasota Police Department may soon be one of the few police departments across the country using body-mounted video cameras to document arrests and interactions with the public.
In other business the Sarasota City Commission will:
• Consider seven offers on two properties put up for sale earlier this year to develop the State Street Garage project.
The top offer on a condominium and retail parcel to be developed as part of the city parking garage was more than $1.7 million.
Another potential buyer offered more than $680,000 for an adjacent parcel where commercial space and condominiums may be built.
Among those making offers were WMR Consulting, LLC; Michael Saunders and Co.; and Hembree Associates.
The City Commission may vote to accept one of the offers today.
• Reconsider a city streetscaping plan that would involve removing about two dozen palm trees from North Palm Avenue after a concerned citizen raised objections.
Local environmentalist Jono Miller opposes the plan to remove the cabbage palms near the southeast corner of Palm and Cocoanut avenues. They were marked for removal in October 2012 as part of a project to widen the sidewalk and correct drainage problems, but Miller has said removing the trees is contrary to city policy.
The commission will discuss Miller's concerns and may choose to proceed, relocate the trees, or delay the project.
The small cameras, clipped to an officer's hat, glasses, or uniform, are becoming popular among some law enforcement agencies as the next logical step after cameras in patrol cars. Desire for video evidence of arrests has been growing for years, but was highlighted last week with questions surrounding the fatal police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In that case, no video evidence has been available.
In Sarasota, Police Chief Bernadette DiPino is seeking to buy about two dozen body cameras for the department and begin using them later this year. The proposal is unrelated to events in Missouri or any other specific incident, DiPino said, adding she has been researching the cameras since October.
"I've always been an advocate for cameras," DiPino said. "This is the next progression. It's a modern program of law enforcement."
DiPino initially brought the idea to the City Commission earlier this summer, and the commissioners were generally supportive. Today, they will vote on whether to accept a $36,645 U.S. Department of Justice grant to pay for the cameras, which cost about $700 each, with associated equipment.
DiPino said the cameras' benefits will outweigh the costs. The department already operates stationary cameras at several locations in the city that have captured crimes on video, and, like many agencies has dashboard cameras in many patrol vehicles.
The evidence gathered by them is often used in court, or in dealing with complaints against officers. But DiPino subscribes also to the belief that people generally are on their best behavior when they know they are on camera.
"People act a little bit differently," DiPino said. "It will modify behavior. I really believe it will reduce injuries to our police officers."
Beyond the cost, there are also unanswered questions about the cameras, and other local agencies, including the Sarasota and Manatee County Sheriff's Offices have so far not been buyers.
Research on the effects of police body cameras is scant. A study earlier this year by Arizona State University criminologist Michael White concluded that the cameras may provide valuable evidence for court cases or police complaints but, it was unclear what effect they had on the behavior of officers or citizens.
One reason such questions remain unanswered is that the cameras have been used by only a few agencies, including a handful of police departments in Central Florida, and for a relatively short time.
While groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have tentatively supported their use, they also caution that policies are needed to protect citizen privacy and access to the videos as public records.
Michael Barfield, vice president of the ACLU of Florida, said he was still hoping to see details of how Sarasota police would use the cameras before he endorsed them.
"I did meet with the chief and expressed concerns," Barfield said. "I asked to see the written policy before giving a final position. I've yet to see the written policy."
DiPino said she was aware of those concerns, and that the department would provide a policy on the cameras and training to officers before putting them to use. "It's going to be very methodical and very deliberate," DiPino said.
A public information campaign will precede the cameras in Sarasota, DiPino said. If those tasks are accomplished, the cameras may begin filming in Sarasota in October.
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American Sage Kotsenburg Wins Slopestyle Gold
Sage Kotsenburg's incredible Saturday at the Sochi Winter Olympics came alive on his Twitter feed. Early in the morning, the 20-year-old from Park City, Utah, said he was "Stoked to go out and snowboard today!!"
Kotsenburg survived the semifinals of the inaugural event of snowboard slopestyle, in which riders perform tricks on a mountainside course with obstacles and jumps, then tweeted: "Whoa how random is this I made finals at the Olympics!!!"
By early afternoon Russia time, Kotsenburg had big news for the folks back home: "WOW!! I just won the Olympics!!"
Kotsenburg had reason to be surprised. He had won exactly one international competition previously—an Olympic qualifying event last month—and was facing a slate of decorated riders, including 2010 silver medalist Peetu Piiroinen of Finland.
Kotsenburg's score of 93.50 (on a 1-to-100 scale) also beat out Norwegian Staale Sandbech, No. 2 in the ski federation's international rankings for slopestyle, and Canadian Mark McMorris, who landed one of the most difficult tricks of the day. Sandbech and McMorris won silver and bronze, respectively, with scores of 91.75 and 88.75.
"It's sick to be on the podium with them," Kotsenburg said, "sick" meaning "great" in snowboard-ese. "Everyone's stoked for each other, you know?"
Kotsenburg's victory heralds the triumph not only of an underdog, but also an athlete who champions a creative style of snowboarding over one that favors the riskiest jumps. He embellishes tricks with difficult grabs and new poses, and embraces impulses.
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"That's kind of what I'm all about, just kind of being random," Kotsenburg said.
Kotsenburg ended his winning run with a 1620 Japan: 4 ½ rotations while the leading hand grabs the toe edge of the board and the front knee is tucked. He had never before attempted the trick in competition. It was a trick with flair, but is seen as less difficult than tricks in which a rider flips two or three times.
British rider Billy Morgan, who finished 10th, called Kotsenburg's tricks "ridiculously stylish," but others questioned whether the best rider won. Sandbech and McMorris completed tricks that are considered tougher than the ones Kotsenburg did.
Sandbech said he didn't want to comment on whether he should have won the gold. "I'm just super happy for my friend Sage," he said.
Kotsenburg said the result "just ended up working out in my favor today. (The judges) just wanted to see, I guess, just some different grabs and crazy stuff."
Kotsenburg was the only American to reach the final in slopestyle, an event snowboard superstar Shaun White dropped out of Wednesday to concentrate on Tuesday's halfpipe competition. If White wins that, he will become the first American man to three-peat in an event at the Winter Olympics.
The women's snowboard slopestyle finals are Monday. Qualifiers include Americans Jamie Anderson and Karly Shorr, and Australian Torah Bright. Bright won gold four years ago in the halfpipe and is entered in three events here: halfpipe, slopestyle and boardercross.
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After Marvel dropped the ball this week - naughty Marvel, those assets were meant to be for the big Comic-Con reveal! Well, the slightly smaller one *ahem* - on Capcom's surprise character announcement for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Capcom did the very least they could to follow up. And that's release a crapload of Thor and Amaterasu gameplay vids and screens. And by crapload, I mean 3 gameplay vids and 16 new screens.
Thor and Amaterasu are now officially the two latest characters for Capcom's spring 2011 fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and they join the likes of Deadpool, Dante, The Hulk, Morrigan and co. in what is shaping up to be a fighter of epic proportions. How epic? Check out our E3 hands-on preview if you have any doubts, then of course, check out one man and his dog kick ass in the latest batch of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 assets.
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Skip to comments.Planned Parenthood Wishes You a Happy Masturbation Month
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I heard of getting 30 winks, but 30 wanks is ridiculous!
P.S. Link provided by stoat! Sorry!
National Masturbation Month was conveniently scheduled one month before National Barbers Week.
Just sayin'.
Anybody have a picture of Helen Thomas in her Bikini?
Whats next month? National Optometrists month?.........
That explains the afternoon I've had.
Thanks Slings and Arrows.
Carpal Tunnel awarness month.
I will say, though, that these are the people who earnestly assert that high-schoolers need instructions on how to don a condom. You honestly shouldn't encourage them. "Excuse me, Ms. Jones, but what (snicker) are you supposed to do with the (snicker) banana afterward?"
i bet its aimed at kids, too
National Orthopedists' Month.
I very much doubt that there's a high-schooler who doesn't know how to use a condom. Perform elementary arithmetic, OTOH...
Yeah, but then again, it's all you're allowed to do for that month.
Strangely, few are bored by the endless repetition...
Only a month?
I better get started!
I thought the name of that organization was Planned PARENTHOOD?
Ah, sweet irony...
Nothing like having nosey leftist perverts with their noses in everyone's pants.
Only a month?
I better get started!
Yep. Got some lost time to make up for. I wish they would notify us of these things beforehand. Oh well, off we go...
They are obsessed with sex.
They are obsessed with other people's sex and especially teenagers' and college students' sex.
Let's face it, they're obsessed!
Welp...it shouldn't be pulled, so to speak.
This has been going on since the 90s.
It's like tradition, or something.
It chaps me when they pull things.
I'm reasonably certain it's been going on a lot longer than the 90's...
...oh, you mean the month!
Where was this info back when I was 16???
Good God no! Have you no decency at all!!
16 whole posts before a laz ping....
Maybe the new klowns at TBL are right....we are slipping
Type in "Jerk off"...."Larry, the whole point of this game is to stop doing that!" (or something on that line)
On a similar note, type in "F--- You"...."Same to you, buddy!"
Well, at least there's one thing Planned Parenthood supports that involves a happy ending.
At 16 you needed a month?
These people are really sick!
You give them too much credit.
Nope. I bloomed late. At 16, I graduated high school, started college, and started noticing girls...
Dang. Just 10 days left in the month. This is going to conflict with the SPCA's "Love Your Pets" month....
You poor deprived boy.
I remember that game. So many humiliating ways to die...
I doubt kids need a dedicated month...or permission.
Not info exactly...
We need visual aids
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A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan. Three or four residents complained, he said.
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The line was five deep at Mountain Lore Bookstore Saturday morning as parents, their children and anyone else who was lucky enough to have a reserve copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince patiently waited for busy clerks to ring up their prized purchases.
The book about the boy wizard's adventures with his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is the sixth installment in a series by British author J.K. Rowling.
Judging from the brisk business at the Main Street book store, the Harry Potter phenomenon is far from over, said clerk Betty Hansen.
"We opened about an hour earlier today because we had some kids who were pretty anxious," she laughed. The store had 100 copies of the book on reserve with 20 extra copies that were nearly gone by noon.
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Jenna had her own theory as to why the Harry Potter books became and remain so popular.
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