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TBoneTX
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Worried. About 25 years from now, our country will be ruled by people who were home-schooled by day drinkers.

NikLR
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People drive me batty when they're doing 45 in a 65.  Just stay on the side roads if you're not comfortable!  

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Okay, I am officially not allowed to be accused of derailment. I am, I think, now a voice for staying on the rails!   (most of the time)   Where are we as we transition back? I me

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4 minutes ago, Randyandyuni said:

Why?

Exactly.  That's like eating potato chips with no salt -- what's the point?

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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4 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

nothing here since order lifted. Only a small number of restaurants have opened for dine in, but you can get a haircut now, which was absurd.

 

On a side note I have either walked a min of 6 miles or done 1 hour on elliptical ever. I love this life style 

I agree.  Been working half days and I'm really enjoying it.  Never knew what it was like to get home before dinner time and not feel exhausted.

 

Funny thing is that my daughter and son in law are moving back here in the next two months.  They are both dentists, although my daughter is a specialist in pediatric dentistry (don't ask me why, it's the LAST thing I would ever do) and my son in law has spent the last 7 or so years as a dentist in the military.  He doesn't know how lucky he is.  Since this whole virus thing has limited my work schedule I am now ready to take him into my practice so I can cut back and enjoy my life a little more. 

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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3 hours ago, Randyandyuni said:

Why?

I know right.

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10 hours ago, Neonred said:

my daughter is a specialist in pediatric dentistry (don't ask me why, it's the LAST thing I would ever do)

Well, your mistakes fall out after just a few years.  Sounds like a brilliant career choice, actually.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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11 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Well, your mistakes fall out after just a few years.  Sounds like a brilliant career choice, actually.

A veterinarian friend once asked me what I did with my "mistakes" because he told me he buries his.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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25 minutes ago, Neonred said:

A veterinarian friend once asked me what I did with my "mistakes" because he told me he buries his.

root canal for $1000........

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I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

 

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36 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

root canal for $1000........

Molar root canal by an endodontist  (specialist) in our area is $1400 or a little more. 

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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38 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

root canal for $1000........

Alex, what is "the worst pain in my life"?

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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1 hour ago, Neonred said:

Molar root canal by an endodontist  (specialist) in our area is $1400 or a little more. 

Sounds cheap. Does that include the crown.

My dentist does root canals, implants and gen dentistry.  Makes it easy for me but sometimes i wonder.

 

Call me a weirdo but root canals are not that bad. I like the part when you can smell the hypochlorite 

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1 hour ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Sounds cheap. Does that include the crown.  Nope

My dentist does root canals, implants and gen dentistry.  Makes it easy for me but sometimes i wonder.

 

Call me a weirdo but root canals are not that bad. I like the part when you can smell the hypochlorite 

Add about another $1100 or $1200 at least for the crown.  

I did a grad specialty in prosthodontics, but really I am doing general dentistry.  I'll do root canals, but NOT molars.  I HATE doing those.  I do some implants, but just easy ones.  No sinus lifts, etc.

 

Even I had a root canal (my first) two years ago.  Had a crack in my tooth, but it was savable.  After my endodontist friend finished he told me "you know you'll need a crown on that tooth".  I agreed.  Then he asked me "are you going to try and do it yourself?" 

I had my daughter do it for me.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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3 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Sounds cheap. Does that include the crown.

My dentist does root canals, implants and gen dentistry.  Makes it easy for me but sometimes i wonder.

 

Call me a weirdo but root canals are not that bad. I like the part when you can smell the hypochlorite 

Never had one and honestly wouldn't want to, but some people think I'm crazy enough for getting fillings done without numbing 

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Never had one and honestly wouldn't want to, but some people think I'm crazy enough for getting fillings done without numbing 

Some people ? Why would you do that ?  Thats got to ouch 

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Some people ? Why would you do that ?  Thats got to ouch 

My father was a dentist, and growing up I had just a few cavities that were not too deep.  When he filled them he would never numb me even when I begged him to.  He always told me "it will be over in just a few minutes".    The most excruciating few minutes of my life.

 

Later in life I had to do a crown for him on a live tooth.  Went to numb him and he said he didn't need it.  I realized he had a high tolerance for pain, and probably figured everyone else did, or should.

If at first you don't succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Someone stole my dictionary. Now I am at a loss for words.

If Apple made a car, would it have windows?

Ban shredded cheese. Make America Grate Again .

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Deport him and you never have to feed him again.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

I went bald but I kept my comb.  I just couldn't part with it.

My name is not Richard Edward but my friends still call me DickEd

If your pet has a bladder infection, urine trouble.

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

I fired myself from cleaning the house. I didn't like my attitude and I got caught drinking on the job.

My kid has A.D.D... and a couple of F's

Carrots improve your vision.  Alcohol doubles it.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks " Is this stool taken?"

Breaking news.  They're not making yardsticks any longer.

Hemorrhoids?  Shouldn't they be called Assteroids?

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

If you suck at playing the trumpet, that may be why.

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