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Originally Posted by Patricia
Good luck to the Loved One in whatever he does next, Marc.
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Aside from alphabetising the herbs & spices, he has thus far done much of what I do. Very little. Learning how to relax.
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I too have just bought a new computer: a Lenovo Thinkpad. It is quite possibly the ugliest computer I've ever owned, but is much more powerful than my current ageing laptop.
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The Land Rover Defender of laptops?
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Sounds like good news!
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Early termination of contract, which places us both hand-in-hand-in-retirement. A good thing, in financial and lifestyle terms, but his leaving was made about as pleasant as they made mine. That is, not very.
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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared
The relief from stress sounds fantastic for both of you. Hopefully some of that wasted energy can go into dealing with the '"culture shock"-like symptoms' during the transition period to whatever choices the two of you have made in how to go forward with your lives. Sounds like good news to me too.
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It is good. It was just very, very bad for the last few months, and, as above, the leaving brought things to a crescendo of crappiness. Past now though.
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I wish we had a small bit of lawn. The dog won't "go" on anything but grass.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Good deal! I should replace my lawn with astroturf!
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I have also replaced barren areas of lawn with "decorative" pine bark chips and edging - the soil is so poor I gave up trying to get new grass to grow.
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That's what we did, with hoop pine mulch. It's not that we couldn't get grass to grow though, it's that the only place where grass was growing was the nature strip, and I was buggered if I was going to buy a lawnmower to keep the local council's property maintained. Besides, it looks a lot better now.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
All of a sudden a green monster is sitting in my chair. The IPS displays on those look awesome.
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It does...and such a pleasure to use for photography post-processing. Now I just have to update to Aperture 3 (the Places idea tickles me pink, as it's a driving motivation behind my photography: time & place).
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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
Right now I am nursing a developing bruise on the outside of my right thigh 
Getting out of the bath last night with left foot firmly out and on the mat, I lost my balance as my right leg came over the edge (bluddy deep bath).
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The simple solution for that in future is to not get out of the bath.
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Hochelaga is Montreal's Bronx...
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Gympie is Queensland's Wagga Wagga.
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 Oh brother, there she goes again!
Freud says that every problem comes from the mother. Are you happy now? 
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Freud "says" that? I don't know who you're speaking to, but it's not Freud. Look for signs of serious ZCD-inebriation, and a llama-on-a-leash - I suspect you've been visiting pshrynk-in-disguise.
Cheers,
Marc