Neonred

But I will tell you much more is needed. Oh, I forgot to mention the family from Hell brought their petting zoo with them. A tortoise and a rabbit, or as I call them the tortoise and the hare.

Honestly I don't remember if it was beer or bourbon.

Yup, sure do! After the super hectic Thanksgiving we had, thanks to my wife's daughter and son in law and two awful boys deciding to spend the week with us (they only live an hour and a half away) we decided to spend from the 23rd till Jan 4th in the Keys and NOT INVITE ANYONE! Before coming down my wife did invite my daughter and son in law and 2 year old twins down for New Years, but they are easy and well behaved and the parents go out of their way to make life easy and clean up after themselves. Still waiting to see if they come down because it looks like a cold front will arrive then and it will be cold...temps in the 60's only. Well yesterday, Christmas day, I was sitting on the couch looking at the computer and dosing off when the front door opened... I thought my wife was in the bedroom?? Who appears at the door but the two awful boys followed by the parents. Unannounced and never invited. Oh ###! I still have no idea how long they are staying. Now there is yelling and screaming and running and "stuff" all over the floor. Even our playful little dog has had enough and wanted up in my arms to get away from them. We need to find a new place to hide.

We did that the day before Christmas. Well actually it was 2+2 5gal cans for the boat. Drove up to Marathon to go to Home Depot and while there got gas since gas there is 50 cents a gallon cheaper than on our island. Traffic was horrible. Too many snowbirds and visitors here now. We used to call that Barfaroni. Don't you worry when she doesn't yell? While my mother isn't a yeller she does complain nonstop. I always say the day I visit her (or even talk to her on the phone) and she doesn't complain I'll be worried.

For me National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is mandatory.

With a 38 trillion debt, is borrowing more money to subsidize health insurance premiums any way to address actual healthcare costs?

It's a shame you couldn't go with them Bottles? Plural? Men only need one bottle. Just counted the bottles in our shower here in the Keys. One for me, 10+ for Mrs Neon (bottles, pump containers, and tubes of I don't know what).

Haven't there been several similar cases, mostly in California, where people were scooped up by ICE when they arrived for their green card interview?

I am watching this too, but not so worried as I think it's going no where but with these politician you never know. I'm wondering how this might affect my wife. Around the time she got her US citizenship she needed to renew her Russian passport. Sent off to the Russian embassy in DC to have them renew it for the second time. Unfortunately her internal passport was also expired and not renewable in the US. After several months the embassy let us know they could not renew her Russian passport without extra money and a special search of her history and work background from Russia. We sent the money and waited. Again after a few months they said they could not renew her passport even though they had renewed it 5 years prior, saying they could not determine she was a Russian citizen! I was concerned how this would interfere with her ability to visit her family and friends in Russia and if she would even be able to obtain a visa to Russia in her US passport. While she was on the phone discussing this with someone at the embassy I had her ask them since they cannot determine she is a Russian citizen can they say that she is NOT a Russian citizen (opening up the possibility that she CAN get the visa to Russia) and their reply was "oh, if you want to renounce your Russian citizenship you need to fill out XYZ form and send us X$ and your CURRENT VALID Russian passport". We just gave up. So the question is, is she actually a dual citizen? She never renounced her Russian citizenship. I assume if this bill succeeded it might just require a form and attestation here in the US.

Glad to hear he is feeling a bit better. OK, OK. I understand as I hate cilantro too, BUT don't let that ruin what could be. I'm still rooting for you.

I'm shocked you would put a TBone likeness at the top of your tree!

I'll admit I'm an ice cream junkie. And while I'll consume almost any ####### ice cream as long as it's cold and creamy, lately I've been trying to watch my sugar intake. I'm also now controlling the portion size.

Oh wow. I started reading that and I remembered a lot of it. Then I saw my posts. Didn't remember them! Can't believe it was 14 years ago. And @TBoneTX, that had some of your best work...like TWENTY TYPES OF GUYS WHOM YOU MIGHT MEET IN THE MEN'S ROOM. LOL Then I realized it was 59 pages so I gave up. Yeah, my Russian wife was rather controlling when she got here, but with time I corrected that.

Five-eyes countries. Honestly I've never heard that before. Had to look it up. Where have I been?

I'm not sure about the fee as my wife is the front desk/financial person, but as I say if they don't complain about the price we're not charging enough! For a H/S guard (which is what I prefer)I send the models and bite to the lab. Usually takes them a week but I reschedule the patient for about two weeks out. Sounds like she was a he...🤣