When I had DSL troubles back in February, I was astonished at how dependent I am on the Internet. I don’t regret it but it’s an eye opener.

Now I’ve discovered I am out of potting soil. So *poof* for realz!

Still here (for a moment, then poof). Rode 20 miles twice this week. Got lotsa annual flowers to get into my various pots, hoping to get in another ride today, maybe.

Hi peeps, just a drive by and wave this morning! Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!

Because I charge nearly everything (including groceries) I HAVE to be diligent. I don’t store my card number with very many vendors, either, but my online prescription orders, my car/home insurance, and any “one click” Amazon charges use the stored number. I also use PayPal when it’s offered, since you can still use a credit card but the seller never sees it.

All of this, of course, assumes honesty from those to whom you entrust the card number, but it’s a gamble I’ve taken that hasn’t backfired so far.

I charge nearly everything I buy (rewards points!), only have a single credit card, and pay it off in full every month. I keep track of every charge and balance it every month just like a checking account. But I might not have noticed charges until the end of the month when I balanced the account, since I rarely look at the charges online until then.

In this case it was an attempted charge by phone from elsewhere in the state, and the perps didn’t have the CVV or needed ID, and the card company stopped it and then called me. I was very happy with them!

I haven’t seen that, and I buy everything online! I did have my credit card number “hijacked” a few months ago. It was caught by the credit card company, they blocked the charge (after they called me to verify that it was not my charge), FedExed me a new card overnight, and transferred everything over. The biggest inconvenience was changing my card number all of the places I had it stored for automatic charges like Amazon, my prescriptions, etc.

Hi Ruth! Wishing Mom a speedy recovery!

Do you mean “show up” as in charged to your credit card? Yikes!

We sang this during the concert. The composer was the soloist and she had written choral parts. It is very moving.

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LOL. No, it was a great trip. The host choir went out of their way to make it memorable. And the concert on Sunday with 4 choirs (probably about 100 people) plus small orchestra was inspiring and wonderful.

Thanks! Busy busy since I returned, not much time to hang out online.

You should be able to open YouTube files on your iPad. I can even open and play them on the iPhone.

Good morning, pups!

Sounds like he can help if anyone can! I don’t know if there’s a difference between Chinese acupuncture and “medical acupuncture” other than that the latter is integrated into traditional medicine.

My back pain went away within 24 hours (although I wound up having four treatments) and has never come back. Only drawback is that it is not covered by insurance or Medicare and is frightfully expensive – $240 per session in my case. Worth it, but oh my!

Acupuncture is amazing. My acupuncture doc is a Mayo Clinic-trained M.D. who studied medical acupuncture at Helms Medical Institute in California.

Is your Chinese MD doing acupuncture? I would think that would help with something like blood flow.

My mother had the same unpleasant reaction to crab. She kept trying, blaming each reaction on stuff like “not fresh enough” but finally gave up. It took me only a couple of those reactions before I knew. I can (and do) eat any other kind of seafood, just not crab. I loooove shrimp, oysters, mussels, clams, etc.

Sounds bad, GW. Healing thoughts coming your way.

How’s Mom doing, Ruth?

(Gotta change the subject from eating crab — I’m allergic to it. Makes me fwow up.)

Good morning, Firepups!

My cats used to catch voles, mice, etc. in the field behind the house, bring them to the front door, where they would consume the body and leave the head as a little surprise gift for whomever walked onto the door mat!