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Just thinking about that no car payment stuff. I too am driving a 2000 that is just damned fine mechanically as well as the interior. The only thing is I think it needs a paint job. Where's the 59.95 Earl Schibe add when you need it, I ask?
 
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Ewwwwwwww. I've always thought Cleveland to be a rather sooty city. I don't care for overtly dirty places.


http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45ilmk/19-cleveland-oh/

Number 19 of the 20 Top Dirtiest Cities in America? Cleveland.... Sigh.

Nah, not gonna go to see Earl there. Closer please, closer.
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Not sure when that rating took place, but as the picture shows, the air is pretty clean and Lake Erie is cleaner than it has ever been, with an excellent fishery for walleye, yellow perch and smallmouth bass. Thanks to democrat control of Cleveland and over-regulation of industry by the EPA, most manufacturing has been decimated, so pollution is all but eliminated along with the manufacturing jobs that used to be ubiquitous. When Dennis Kucinich was mayor, the Cuyahoga River would frequently catch fire from all the pollution. That's not the case any longer, but the democrats are still in control of the city, and population continues to decline.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Census 2010 numbers released Wednesday show Cleveland's population has fallen to a 100-year low of 396,815. But the eight-county Cleveland-Akron metro area has experienced little change over the last 50 years.

Cleveland, which numbered more than 900,000 people in 1950, had slipped below the 500,000 threshold with census 2000 when it dropped to 478,403.
The new census numbers show Cleveland lost another 81,588 people, or 17.1 percent, since 2000.

Regionally, there has been little change over the last half-century as people move from one county to another, and new residents haven't made up for the loss of others.

The latest numbers show the eight-county Cleveland-Akron metro area has 2,881,937 people. This is a 2.2 percent drop from 2000.
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More at: http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2011/03/2010_census_figures_for_ohio_s.html
 
It was 2012 and you had to expand to the top 20 to find it. I can still 'see' it in my mind's eye, as I first arrived in Cleveland. That would have been in the late 70's and at that time, the city was nothing but grime. A terrible place. I've never seen the need, other than the politically obvious reasons one would visit Cleveland, to go there again if not forced to.

Not one of my fav's, that's a guaranteed fact.
 
Forgive me if I overlooked your location in one of your posts, but where do you hail from?
 
i have an appointment. i think i'm cancelling. too early fer me. sick of my home nurses dictating when i can see my doctors.
 
Jev - where I'm from is the west coast; where I am now is the east coast, and I've hit all points in between on the way. Currently though, I find myself in the middle of a sand bar that someone thinks is a state. All in all I've found that where ever you are, well, there you are. Everything is relative.

Oh, and today - I took the kitchen cabinets off in preparation for the kitchen upgrade. I've also removed the old grout of the back splash and will be replacing it. Which really makes me giddy, really. You know that little thing that came out years ago that allowed people to use this jig to lay different profiles of grout lines? Well, I have one and I can't wait to play with it. I like experimentation and I've had the thing for like five years and it's only now that the time comes around that I get to use it. YaY !!
 
getting rid of a stink-bug via a can of barbasol, (mid-February; dammit!). then a nap & a few drinks.
 
Been out bidding work today so I have something to do after my followup with the surgeon at the VA tomorrow. I'm bored to death just sitting around waiting for my work release.

Just unpacked my new mixer to replace the KitchenAid Pro600 that stripped its pot metal gears for the second time in 4 years. No more KA machines for me. I'll be putting it through its paces tonight after dinner to see how it handles the dough.

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Jev - you just saved me a good 300 bucks, buddy. I was seriously considering the KA.

Perhaps I'll just buck for the 50 dollar sunbeam and not bother with the high dollar item. After all, I just mix batters and eggs and stuff. I don't do the dough. LOL

I'd of gone with the Oster though instead of the Bosch. Just sayin'...
 
I'm about to go mark up some cabinet doors that I'm changing the knob placement on. Tomorrow I'll be playing with a drill press for a few hours. Best to be ready to go.

Until then, I'm hanging wallpaper.
 
shopped & went to get a few drinks, then made dinner & hopped online. could not snooze- my phone began ringing & beeping @ 8:30-ish & 3 ppl knocked. finally said fuk that, gave in on snooze & got ready. a few hours snooze is okay once in awhile- not incessantly. sheesh.
 
Helped out a neighbor by pushing some snow away from the house and driveway . Kinda a lazy day . Layin low tonight :smile:
 
We bought a whole new computer system and of course it has Windows 8. I'm having all kinds of fun trying to figure it out.
 
I thought about you guys a little bit ago. I finished the copper back splash and am starting to put together the 'photo wall' for my study. Yesterday was window linens of all kinds and the beginning of the bookshelves redo. Things are really coming together. I'm really very surprised that all of the items I bought over time are all coming together perfectly. It seems my vision was more in tune than I had hoped for which more than surprises me.

This will sound odd to all of you but: The cardinals look great over the fireplace and the new fireplace screen simply shouts as opposed to the fireplace whimper that has been bothering me for a good five plus years now.

Yeah, I'm chuffed. :) But today? Today I stop and do laundry ---- yuck!
 
Last day of work tomorrow. I'm off friday and all of March break. I had a week of vacation left to take otherwise I'd lose it come april 1st.
 
i attended mass, got groceries, & cleaned, then went to get pierogies. they were gone before dinnertime. i figured as much.
 
Propagation is pretty good, so I'll probably play ham radio for awhile today since I don't have any work scheduled. Just had leftover pizza for breakfast. Got some leftover chili in the fridge since Tuesday, so that will probably be lunch.
 
Leni said:
We bought a whole new computer system and of course it has Windows 8. I'm having all kinds of fun trying to figure it out.
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Windows 8. Surely it is a powerful tool, but the "adjustment" is oh so painful. Especially if one doesn't know WTF a cloud is, and how to remand "stuff" to a cloud and then how to have it retrieved. Or finding all of the "secret" things in the corners. And eprint for chrissakes. What was wrong with just clicking one button to print a document? Better is not always better.

Old age and its implied experience normally offers an advantage, but with Windows 8? ... not so much.
 
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I'm getting nowhere with this new computer. Then my laptop decided to die.
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I do hope you gave it a proper funeral. Tossing out a window sort of proper, that is. Maybe that doesn't happen in the winter, though.

Hmmmm....:ermm:
 
Grocery shopping for me today - not much else. The redux on the dock is stalled due to wet weather today and probably tomorrow and then yet another day to dry out.

Until then, I shall remain cabinet face-less as well. One must have the right weather to ensure oil paint dries completely. Yeah, I'm rather finished with this year's 'winter' already.
 
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