Congrats (and regards, of course) to the Shodan family!
Thanks (didn’t see this until this morning).
In further news, my mother called me up yesterday all bent out of shape because someone claiming to be my son called her, saying that he was in jail and needed to be bailed out, but not to tell his parents. “It didn’t sound like him, but I thought I would call you and make sure.” So I attempted to reassure her, and tell her that her grandson was NOT in jail, but was at work and doing well, and so on, and so on. So then she spent the next ten minutes telling me about my father’s physical therapist who yells at him (I don’t wonder at that - he is as deaf as a post), and somebody or other’s prostate operation, and how she found somebody’s wallet with two driver’s licenses, a card from the public defender’s office, and $100 and she was afraid that if she turned it into the police they would keep the money, and obviously if he had a public defender he needed the money, etc., etc.
So finally I got her calmed down, and she went off to see if my father had the batteries in his hearing aids, and I hung up. And I was 99.9% positive that my son was not in jail. But not 100%.
So I called his cell, and left a message. No answer, and my son was way late coming home from work. Way late. So, of course, my wife goes into a tizzy of worry and begins to panic and starts asking what jail would he be in?
Me: “He’s not in jail, for heaven’s sake.”
Her: “But what if he is?”
Me: “HE’S NOT IN JAIL. HE WOULD CALL US IF HE WAS IN JAIL.”
Her: “What if he’s dead?”
Regards,
Shodan
PS - He’s not dead, and he’s not in jail. He was out shopping for a new car, because his old one is dying fast. He bought a nice used Mazda with all wheel drive for snow, and got a good bargain on it.
Thanks to a message from Johnnyh L.A. I realized how long it has been since I’ve been on the Dope. He congraatulated me for reaching my 90th birthday last month.
All kinds of changes kept me even browsing. We decided it would be wise to move close to our kids in the Denver area, so had to sell our house in AZ, find a mover, move up here, rent an apartment while house hunting, finally buying one and doing a major remodel
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Such simple things as change-of-address to 40 places took a huge amount of time, then finding doctors’ and so forth.
As can’t get out much, do a great deal of shopping on Amazon and what with one thing and another, just seem to be busier than I should at this stage of my life.
Also, of course, little need to General Questions as can find out anything in the world by searching online. Some f it is even true. However that takes time. No more excuses.
My wife is only 88, but in December we will celebrate our 66th wedding anniversary.
OK, folks, I’ll come back and post again when I reach 100. If I don’t, you will know I went to the Happy Hunting Ground.
Klondike Geoff, you have always been one of my favourite posters over many years and I do worry when you don’t post for a while (not that I am a regular to check any longer). Congrats on your move and I’m sure you and your sprightly wife have another 20 years left in the creaking bones (I just wish I could be guaranteed the same!)
Cradle robber! 
Happy Anniversary.
Happy anniversary and welcome back! You didn’t miss much. Oh, the Drones took over (I am writing this under their wise tutelage), bitcoins are now allowed to marry in some states, a bunch of us came out and had a fabulous party, the Martians invaded, and US currency now has fine print in Chinese, but other than that, not much.
Hey… It’s you!
Who, me? 
Happy 66th Anniversary, KlondikeGeoff! And Happy belated 90th Birthday!
Perfect place to state that as of October 2017, Ambivalid asked me to marry him and we’ve been engaged ever since. 
Woo hoo! Congrats, **tvaetbjorn **and Ambivalid!! 
Why thank you.
My youngest turns 20 today.
I no longer have teenagers.
Happy and sad at the same time.
Congrats, tvaetbjorn and Ambivalid!
Thumbs up!
My baby girl BloodyL and her fiance got their license today and will be married on March 19th!
A day late but my daughter BloodyL was married today!
Certainly not a happy milestone, but a milestone nonetheless. My last close blood relative died this week, my 97-year-old uncle in California. Not unexpected, he’d been sick for a little while and in a coma for a week. He has children and grandchildren, but I’ve met only a couple, and that was last century, and I would not recognize them if they walked up to me on the street, so I don’t consider them close. A passel of other cousins too, across the West Coast but mostly in California, but don’t know them either. I had kept in touch with my uncle, although we had not met in person since 1999. I have two aunts by marriage left – my uncle’s wife, also unseen since 1999, and another one I last saw in person in 1966.
My uncle had a good run, active almost to the end. He took his family to the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 2015 – I was still in Thailand than – and at the age of 95 went ziplining. The ziplining place said he was their oldest customer and had a special T-shirt made up for him. He turned 90 during a three-day Danube River cruise, and the captain hosted a party for him. Another WWII vet gone.
Rhiannon8404 and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary today.
Day late but yesterday was my 24th anniversary. Where has the time gone?