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Does anyone know if PBS cut bits from these final 3 episodes? I have the DVDs on request at my public library but I'll cancel that if I know that there is no need to re-watch to see deleted footage.

I've been at my current job for over 35 years. I feel just fine about it since retirement is just months away! Good golly, I am OLD.

I agree with this. It could be a not so great film, but he was always great. Jack Lemmon was like that too. Alan Arkin was so good in so many movies, but I have a real affection for The In-Laws. I have that on DVD and watch it every few months, because I remember watching it with my dad (Mr. Stoic), who rarely laughed out loud at anything, and he laughed so hard at Alan Arkin together with Peter Falk that he was almost crying. Just seeing a picture of Alan Arkin made me think of my dad, who died almost 20 years ago. If there is a heaven, I hope Peter Falk greeted Alan Arkin with "SERPENTINE!" and that my dad was there watching and roaring with laughter.

There is an article on Garwood's death online at The Washington Post. But it seems nothing (yet) in The NY Times.

This also drives me nuts. The other thing that irks me about online recipes is when you scale it down, say from 6 servings to 3 servings, it usually doesn't doesn't change the amounts in the directions. For example, the original version of the recipe might have something like 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese, divided, and then the directions tell you to add 1/2 cup at step 2, and then sprinkle the other 1/2 cup on top in step 8 before putting in the oven. When you scale the ingredients down to a total of a 1/2 cup, divided, the directions don't change to add 1/4 cup in step 2, but remain add 1/2 cup. My other peeve about online recipes is when someone gives it a really high rating, then list all the changes they made - ingredients left out or substitutions made, different spices/seasonings used. Yeah, the recipe was so great I created an entirely new one.

I finally got a chance to see this (it's available via Amazon Prime) and I agree, this was a delightful film. This was a great cast, from the leads to the people who were in only one scene. Poor Anna Chancellor - does she ever get to play a nice person? And Isabelle Huppert is so beautiful. How do French women manage what seems like effortless grace and elegance? And she's allowing herself to show her age, not mangled her face with fillers, etc. It did make me feel old, since I find myself channeling my mother and saying "Why don't they make more nice films like this?" I'm less inclined each passing day to watch most of the movies made now. If I want despair, death, and violence, I'll watch the news for coverage of the daily mass shooting.

I love cereal! Hot in the cold weather months, almost always oatmeal. Cold in the summer, but nothing with sugar. Plain Cheerios, bran flakes, something like that. And always with fruit - I freeze pounds of blueberries in the summer which I put in my oatmeal all winter long. In the summer, fresh blueberries, raspberries, or strawberries with my cereal, or my absolute favorite: slicing up a peach to add to my bowl of Cheerios. On hot summer days, sometimes a bowl of cereal is my dinner.

I thought it was out of character for Jimmy not to do more to deal with the burn on Knight's hand. I think if anyone on the team is hurt Jimmy would insist on treating them or make sure they got treatment. She was incredibly casual about it - in reality, burns hurt like hell and can easily get infected. Isn't it always the person they interview in the conference room? The concerned family member/friend/co-worker?

I have to laugh at the grades given to these drafts. I don't think you can grade a draft until at least 3 years have passed. Especially when a team is downgraded for taking a player that is perceived to be unnecessary, since the team is well stocked at the position. Players get injured, so depth is always a concern, and more importantly, teams are supposed to take the long view when drafting. It's not just about the guy's rookie season, it's about year 2, 3, 4, and hopefully more. One that sticks out to me - the pick of Jordy Nelson by the Packers in 2008. At the time, a lot of the draft analysis was critical because the WR position was "low need" for the Packers. When Jordy was catching 9 passes for 140 yards two years later in the Super Bowl (after Donald Driver got hurt), nobody was talking about this luxury pick. My favorite commercial during the draft was the one the NFL did with Aaron Jones reading the pre-draft assessments about him as they showed film of him as a Packer doing all the things that the "experts" said he couldn't do. As a Wisconsin Badgers fan, I loved that they took Keeanu Benton and Nick Herbig, especially since they have T.J. Watt. (Will they re-sign Derek Watt?) I was joking with a friend that the Steelers are the only team to scout the Badger defense; the rest of the league just focuses on Wisconsin o-lineman.

You should read the after action report done on this incident. It's available online, I think at the National Policing Institute. It's very good, does not whitewash anything.

Ten episodes and I didn't get the satisfaction of someone blowing away that snake of a VP? That sweaty weasel needed to take a bullet in a knee or his groin. The last straw was taking his injured, limping daughter on what seemed like a 5K walk to the basement room without ever offering a helping hand. I've posted on some of the episode threads about the ridiculous things that made me laugh. Some I didn't mention previously: how Rose could stitch up Peter's wound with the neatness of a 20-year veteran surgeon. The meeting in the Deep Throat Memorial Parking Garage with the VP, Farr and someone else - Wick? And how Peter and Rose had so many conversations about the plot/investigation in public places. The invisible cone of silence they seemed to carry with them from location to location was amazing. They must have loaned it to Maddie and Chelsea when they were on the golf cart at Camp David, when Chelsea (apparently having full trust in the agent driving it and the other one sitting next to the driver) tells Maddie very clearly to tell the president she's in danger. One thing that surprised me is the male assassin didn't die twice - the trope of "he's dead Peter! Stop hitting him!" to seconds later suddenly regaining the ability to fight, and then Rose killing him again, until he was most sincerely dead.

That agent who came to get Maddie & Chelsea must be the worst Secret Service agent ever. First of all, there's no way they would have Maddie still on scene, getting treated by the EMT out of the back of an ambulance. There would have been zillions of agents at the scene within moments. And their first task, not knowing whether all the bad guys had been taken out, would have been getting Maddie the hell out of there and to a secure location. But setting that aside, when he tells Maddie how relieved they are she's safe but they need to get back to the VP's residence, he turns away and starts heading to his car, leaving the wounded young girl to limp to the car with only Chelsea to assist her! She should have been surrounded by agents, all with guns drawn and eyes on a swivel looking for threats. Plus - the Chief of Staff has no security? Peter and Rose just need to get the key to her house from Val?

As soon as he said he had a kid, especially one that he hadn't seen, but he was looking forward to the summer camping trip, I knew he was a goner.

Wisconsin babies are pretty awesome. I'm hoping the next episode (I am posting as I'm watching and I am completely unspoiled) will provide some info on why that woman in Racine was killed and what is recorded on the nanny cam.

For me it's the fact that Peter and Rose are driving around in her aunt and uncle's car. No one thought she might head back to the house to grab their vehicle? Not to mention the fact that the feds would be doing the type of intensive search of that home that would take days. It would not have been deserted like that. And the feds would have found the cabin by searching for property of relatives and known associates both of Rose and her aunt and uncle.

I bought a new washing machine last year. After having it for a few months there came a time when I wanted to do a spin only cycle. I tried the power button and then the setting that said "spin cycle only." You would think that would work, right? Nope! I could't figure it out and there was nothing in the manual that came with the washer. I finally found a video on YouTube about my particular washer, from someone who had spent 45 minutes on the phone with customer service about this issue. The solution - turn on the power button and press "spin cycle only" for at least 5 seconds to get a time display to show up. Easy once you're let into the secret! Why wouldn't they put this in the manual???

The china I inherited also has pink flowers, with pastel blue and gold trim - not at all my style. I should use it occasionally, but it's so fragile and must be hand washed.

I have china which I never use. My dad inherited it from a relative who didn't have children. My mom, who outlived my dad by a decade, decided it should go to me. I absolutely did NOT want this china, but my mom was so happy about the fact I would get the china after she died that I could not tell her I didn't want it. She told me she decided I should get it since I never married and thus never got china as wedding presents. She felt that I was deprived - ha! If I had wanted china, I would have bought it for myself. I have no idea what is going to happen to it; none of my nieces or nephews will want it when I'm dead. I have a friend whose in-laws were both only children and her husband was their only child. My friend and her husband ended up inheriting 3 sets of china - his mother's, his maternal grandmother's, and his paternal grandmother's. Plus she has her own china, since her mother-in-law believed all woman must have a full set of china and gave them 6 place settings for their wedding, and then an additional 6 place settings, plus platters, serving bowls, etc. as Christmas presents for the first few years of their marriage. My friend and her husband have 3 children, but none of them want any of this china and have not been reluctant to say so. What do you do with 4 complete sets of china?? Bastet, like you, I always use cloth napkins. And I have a good collection of those. That's a reasonably priced way to spruce up my table.

Can they use it this year to test it out? In games when C.B. Bucknor is behind home plate?

I don’t understand why these players are not getting technical fouls for taunting when this is happening during the game. Is it that the officials don’t know what the gesture means so don’t realize it is a taunt? Maybe they need to have a 14-year-old kid train the officials on gestures on an annual basis.

I am seriously considering retirement within the next year and I told a friend a couple days ago that I will finally be able to watch all the sporting events I've missed because they end so late at night. NCAA championship game, World Series games, NBA finals, Sunday Night Football, and the rest. If one of my teams is involved, of course I stay up, paying the price for the late night(s), but it is really difficult to be a casual sports fan when the alarm goes at 5:00 a.m.

Speaking of one’s writing being altered, there’s a sentence in that post of mine quoted above by pennybotello7 that was not originally in my post. The sentence beginning “Besides all that…” is not mine.

I watched the Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team win the national championship today and they had the pile up on the ice to celebrate. Goalie Cami Kronish was at the bottom of the pile and emerged with a bloody nose. It's unclear whether her nose was broken. In that moment i don't think she cared though!

Reminds me of a non-work situation from my childhood when this girl in my 6th grade class stood up and said loudly, "MRS. SMITH! MRS. SMITH! AMY IS EATING CANDY!! Amy was not eating candy; she was taking medication because she had epilepsy. The teacher shut that shit down immediately. I knew because Amy was a neighbor and we had learned early on that while we were playing, if she started "acting funny," we should get Amy's mom. As a young child I didn't know that meant she was having a seizure. At some point I asked my mom if Amy had high blood pressure, because my grandma had high blood pressure and she had to take pills every day too. My mom explained it to me in very basic terms, but also impressed upon me that one does not ask personal questions and I shouldn't bring it up to Amy unless she said something to me first. You never know what is happening with someone else. The only time I questioned when a co-worker was out was when a person in my office would spend a day talking about the big night out she planned, and then the next day she wouldn't come in because she was "sick." This started happening almost every week. The supervisor called her in and expressed concern. She left our office because of how "stifling" management was.

This Packers fan despises Favre. His actions in NY, sending unsolicited pictures of his genitals to that woman, were despicable. He's a pig. I've written to the Packers saying it is my wish they never let him into Lambeau again. I was a Aaron Rodgers fan until a few years ago when he started with all his nonsense, and especially after lying about his vaccination status. I had to laugh yesterday when he said that when he emerged from his darkness retreat he was shocked to discover that the Packers were talking to other teams. How could he have been shocked about that? Sports reporters and fans, both locally and nationally, have talked about the possibility of a trade since the Packers finished the 2022 season. Even more hilarious was when he said he was disappointed they didn't speak to him about it, because he's all about direct communication. Really Aaron? The guy who has spent much of the past few years making cryptic statements and then getting upset when he is "misinterpreted" is all about direct communication? The guy who said yeah, I'm immunized and after weeks of being lambasted for lying finally said perhaps he misled people? I don't care how Love plays this season, I just want the Packers to move on. Stop with the drama already.