Sad thoughts

Yeah, I was going to mention obesity, sedentary lifestyles, processed foods and all the crap that’s going into the air and water … all of which are mentioned in that article. It’s not surprising. I mean we’re basically doing everything wrong, so how could we not expect this outcome?

When I was a kid I probably had fast food 3-4 meals a year and processed food almost never. I’m sure a lot of today’s kids have fast food 3-4 meals a week and processed food in many of the remaining meals.

Mini Me doesn’t get fast food 3-4 meals a week, but a heckuva lot more than I did, and she’s probably doing better than a lot of kids on that score.

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My sister had to put her sweet dog down last night.

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I think it is likely selection bias. I went through a phase when I was in my 30’s of knowing 3 men in their 30’s who had brain tumors and died. Then I went through a phase where I had nobody die in their 30’s, though my social circle had changed/decreased.

Regardless, sorry for the loss.

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Oh no!!

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Very sad.

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Fortunately, my backup machine does 95% of what my expensive machine does, and 100% of what I NEED it to do, but it’s not quite as smooth and doesn’t have some of the bells and whistles, like stitch regulating and auto-tie off and decorative/fancy stitches.

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:slightly_frowning_face:

Meh.

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We went to see our friend in the LTC home yesterday. She can move her left arm a bit, but still no movement in her fingers; she can move her left leg a little more too.

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Could be. Its just a bit surprising/terrifying.

Another person I work with (late 30s and kids) also has cancer.

Red Lobster is no more.

Makes me so sad as we had so many sports dinners there.

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It took a while for the article to say, “private equity bought it and bled it dry”, but it looks like that’s the story.

Much too common a story.

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“And one day I vowed to be rich enough never to step foot in one ever again!!!”

Their rolls were pretty good, though.

upscale_restuarant = upscale_restuarant - 1

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Does that mean our box of Cheddar Bay Biscuit Mix will fetch hundreds of dollars on eBay?

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Subtitle of the article says, “Endless Shrimp didn’t sink the seafood chain. Wall Street did.”

Did you need to go further than that, really?

well maybe there would be a twist just this one time

… except not

Yeah we went there recently and…
”disappointing” was the nicest thing I could think to say about it.

I mean it’s not that hard to duplicate with bisquick. Just add cheese and garlic.

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Food & service levels must have really deteriorated in the last decade then.

We went as College students, and they were usually pretty solid.