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  1. Paisley

    What Are You Reading

    I'm reading Safe Uses of Cortisol, whose author graduated from medical school in 1940. Where has this advice been all my life?
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    How do you keep your house neat?

    It's been four years since I decluttered, and I'm happy to say the house is still decluttered. They say there's no zealot like a reformed zealot, and I'm a reformed slob. One important strategy: no recreational shopping. Period.
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    Sears might be going belly up

    The last time I went to Sears, they rang up my order wrong: I wanted to buy a washer, but they sold me a dryer. I had to go back to the store and wait on a manager to straighten it out. They were still using the old DOS-based system they had in the 90s when I worked at Sears warehouse in Denver...
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    Anyone use vintage soap?

    I use Urban Utopia, made here in Indianapolis. The only thing I don't like about it is that it tends to clog the drain a bit. The Sweater Weather kind seems to clog less than the Black is the New Clean.
  5. Paisley

    How does a girl keep warm?

    If all else fails, I can put the kerosene heater in the kitchen. I don't miss the roasting hot summers of Denver. It was nowhere near as hot as Las Vegas, but I felt like I was roasting.
  7. Paisley

    How does a girl keep warm?

    Bean boots! Not very pretty, but in -40F wind chill, my feet are...well...not freezing.
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    if a non white person tried to order a meal back in 1850 would they serve him?

    I might be the envy of some hyper-Aryan type: I'm mostly northwestern European, with a smidgen of broadly southern European, broadly Eastern European and Scandinavian. 2.8% Neanderthal. Running the data through Promethease yielded more interesting results: lots of genes for diabetes and mental...
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    Pickling

    I just pickled cherry tomatoes and onions with vinegar, salt, a little sugar, rosemary and peppercorns. The recipe, along with lots of other good ones, is in The Better Homes and Gardens Complete Canning Guide. Mostly, I use their recipe for drying cherry tomatoes in the oven.
  10. Paisley

    Japanese Beetles => Chicken Feed

    Here's a new way of giving chickens bugs, which is part of their traditional diet. Get a tanglefoot Japanese beetle trap. Empty it daily into a bag and put the bag in the freezer. Serve to chickens. I've trapped over a pound of Japanese beetles a week and given them to a neighbor who raises...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I read in the book Triumph of the City that NYC added 45,000 more police officers in the 90s. Here in Indianapolis, the air smells like a shooting range on the Fourth of July.
  13. Paisley

    Thoughs on tile floor

    I love your current stove--it's just like the one I had at my last house.
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    My new life story and a word of warning

    "Excess doses" apply to anything you ingest. I'm talking about normal doses. One recent study found a 50% higher risk of death among long-term PPI users compared to people taking H2 blockers. This is in addition to associations with increased risk of kidney damage and other health problems...
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    My new life story and a word of warning

    What vitamins have killed people?
  16. Paisley

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    You have your health and...um...hmm.
  17. Paisley

    Sears might be going belly up

    I used to work at Sears Warehouse. Last year I tried to buy a washer at Sears, but they sent a dryer. I had to go all the way back to the store to change the order, and it took so long to change it (we had to wait for the manager) that I canceled it. The computer system and receipt looked the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You need an internet connection to apply for most jobs and a bank account to get your paycheck via direct deposit. A lot of public service announcements are now via nextdoor.com or twitter.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I buy my groceries at such a place. Three aisles with a lot of local food. As a health food store in a bad neighborhood, they're struggling. With Whole Foods in downtown Indianapolis now and the nearby Coca-Cola bottling plant being turned into a food hall, it may go under--or the neighborhood...
  21. Paisley

    A Vintage Christmas..

    I held a Christmas dinner meetup at a hamburger restaurant, since my nearest family is a day's drive away, and I rarely hear from them. I watched Rick Steve's European Christmas special showing traditions in various part of Europe, and got roped into buying Christmas gifts for coworkers the...
  22. Paisley

    Most overrated movies?

    I like bathroom humor and railing against one's parents as much as any 12-year-old. Loved The Interview and the scene in The Green Hornet where they cut the head off the statue of the guy's dad.
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    Most overrated movies?

    I enjoyed Raiders of the Lost Ark as a kid. But as an adult, I kept thinking, "Why don't they just...?" I guess I'm trying to say some of the adventure and difficulty seemed contrived.

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