Well our televison has a mute button so I amuse myself by pushing it and then saying what i think the commercials should say. e.g. "See all these policemen they are coming to arrest me but since I have all these law books I will just throw the book at them." Or "this is the star wars missile defence system, I was playing with it and hit the wrong button and wiped out my opponent." But for phone calls i just hang up.

I have a question about Gertrude Jekyll. I pruned mine after its last flush to about 2-2.5ft and it looked pretty tidy for about two weeks It's since put out a couple of basals and new growth that has to be 5ft at least at this point. Gertrude Jekyll on 8/2/16 Gertrude Jekyll 8 days later As you can see, my GT is looking kind of gangly - Clearly I didn't prune it hard enough! My question is is it necessary to wait until after the cane blooms to cut it down? This is sitting out in front of a window at my apartment, and is kind of an eye sore to look at, plus, I don't want to draw unwanted attention. If it helps to know, I'm in NC zone 7b. AKA humid and hot!

zone_8grandma wrote: dreamgarden, I wasn't singleing out the OP when I said that. I've gone back and re-read all of the posts and a number of them simply display a lack of knowledge about debit cards. I understand. My point was that the OP's bank is making it difficult for the OP to get an ATM card. She specifically stated that she did NOT want a debit card and that is what they gave her anyway. I stated the reasons why they might do this. Frankly, I would prefer to lose what cash I have in my wallet then lose a debit card. This is why. "Consumers should understand, however, that while their credit card fraud liability is low by law, their debit card liability can be much higher, according to law, despite the bank's revocable promises of zero liability. Plus, it is your own money, stolen from your own checking account, that you're fighting with the bank to get back. Our best advice-- never use debit cards-- either online or in person, at big merchants or small. While many of these breaches may occur at small merchants, just one breach at a big merchant, TJX Marshalls, resulted in the loss of 45 million debit and credit card numbers. It isn't worth the risk." Posted by Ed Mierzwinski/U.S. PIRG at September 22, 2007 Links that may be useful: ATM/Debit Cards: What consumers need to know about greater fraud risk, card blocking, and debit card fees www.pirg.org/consumer/banks/debit/debitcards1.htm Electronic Fund Transfers www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/consumerhdbk/electronic.htm#loss

That's how I roll, probably about 80% anyway. I've often thoughts it's odd that I care so much more about how my house looks than myself when so few people see my house. Illogical. Mind you my moment of true freedom will be when I wear caftans 24/7--haven't gotten that liberated yet. something I enjoy and think is pretty and comfortable physically but is a little too far out out of the norm to be truly comfortable psyche-cally. I will say that many tattoos and piercings aren't meant to be seen, or not by many. I guess I wanted to point out that amongst the many varied motivations for body mods, among which certainly is outward appearance (whether aiming for beauty, personal expression, signalling conformity to a group or supposed nonconformity to 'the man'), I think there really are other true motivations that are more inward. And of course one might say one wants to look good to or for oneself rather than to or for those around one - not sure if that's truly achievable or not. Among the people I know personally these days with tons of visible tattoos, well of course I met them through my own social circle so they have similarities - but I wouldn't call them boring or bland. they're typically musicians, artists, longtime alt music fans or otherwise a little less staid, they're still getting tattoos well past the first blush of youth, they seem to enjoy getting more, and I think they know by now that tattoos are common enough not to signal nonconformity but they seem to plan out and enjoy the artistic and self-expression aspects. The people I know seem to pick the artists carefully. I find the art interesting to look at and the people tend to lead kinda fun lives, or at least it seems to me. You know, road trips, scooters, punk rock, bluegrass, drag, deep end dining, geekdom, film, burlesque - they seem to have pretty neat interests and are fun to talk to at dinner parties. Maybe a common thread among the people I know is that they tend to be a little intense, like REALLY into their interests. But then again it seems everybody gets intense around here in the winter, it's just way too drab not to.