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Ah, thanks :) - Pete

Happy Anniversary Pete & Helen - MoTO Bott

Thanks, Bee :) - Pete

{hugs} to y'all - Helensleydale

Oops! ;) - Cristal Blue Persuasion from FFHound(roid)!

;) - Jyl Bit

♥ ;-) - John (bird whisperer)

Mucho love, Helen! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android

<3 Happy Valentine's Day, Rachel! - Kelli H.

Cool! - Stephen Mack from iPhone

I hope you posted this pic to G+! - Spidra Webster

Happy Valentine's Day, Rachel! That looks wonderful! - Anne Bouey

That is awesome! - AJ Batac :)

LOL Spidra. No I didn't. I have too many friends who work there and I don't want to start a fight. They know I don't love G+. There is no strong community there so I'm rarely there. - Rachel Lea Fox

Aw, dammit. G+ could use some taking down a peg or two. :-p - Spidra Webster

Happy Valentine's Day, Laura! <3 - Kelli H.

Intense day at work with two big conference calls. Grabbed some little boxes of chocolate and some cards on my way home from work. Greeted by many balloons, cards, and chocolate. Early dinner out at the best hole in the wall Italian joint I've ever been to. Now watching Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You. - Laura Norvig from iPhone

Happy heart day my little LB. - aden {Chickadee}

Ditto! Just not "happy VD", as MoTO put it... - Uli- #10

Is it just me, or does "love muffin" sound a little naughty? Anyway, Happy <3 Day to you, too, Laura. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

And to you! *hugs and sweetness* - Shannon - GlassMistress

Backatcha, LB! <3 - Kelli H. from Android

<3 - AJ Batac :)

<3 - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Happy love day to the biggest heart on this here Feed. You feed us all so magnificently, Dahlin. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

BUSTED! - caj needs a haircut

But you had to walk to the door to get it - see it's working already - SteVe C

haha, and in my defense I haven't really eaten a whole lot since coming down with this cold. :) - Derrick

Giver yourself retroactive credit for getting off the couch to get the package. - Your Neighbor Steve

I'll give you props for ordering it in the first place. - Rah-PM 2012

I might open the box, but I feel a nap coming on... - Derrick

Ooh open the box so you can track your sleep! - Your Neighbor Steve

Open the box so you can charge it #practical - Katy S

LMAO - Rah-PM 2012

What Anika said. - CW✔

!...........................:-) - Nispell

((Mandy)) - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Wish I was closer so I could help you out. - Corinne L

Also what Anika said. - Spidra Webster

:o( xoxox - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

*hug* - LoisMarketing

Thinking about you, boo. - Derrick

{{{{Mandy}}}} - Nakachi

*hugs* - Anne Bouey

(((Mandy))) - Tiddy Bott

What? Oh, sweetie. *hugs* - vicster

So I have cellulitis, a raging infection. I've had morphine, broad-spectrum antibiotics, nasty ass contrast & a CT scan. I'm being admitted so they can continue the antibiotics & a surgeon's gonna drain it tomorrow. Thank you for the love & support, y'all. It only gets better from here. - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Oh, yikes! How awful. Hope the drugs kick in asap and you start feeling better really soon! xoxoxox - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

Oh dear! Please heal without any incident! So glad you talked to your PC!! - Janet-The Bottley Crue

Oh man, I hope they can get you on the mend quickly. How's your little man? - Anika from FFHound!

*hugs* hope things get better soon - Uli- #10

*hugs* well wishes and prayers coming from the desert. - Bubba Botts

{{{Mandy}}} I'm glad you're in good hands and getting the attention you need. Hope you have a quick recovery. - Anne Bouey

Hope you are feeling better soon. - Jyl Bit

No fun. Hope you feel better soon! - Shannon - GlassMistress

Hope you get better soon. - Rodfather

:( Hope you're on the mend! - LB shining

in my prayers - just ZONED

I hope you are feeling better soon, Mandy! - Tamara J.

*more gentle hugs* - vicster

I hope you're feeling better! And I hope you can be discharged soon! - Victor Ganata

Oh no. I'm so sorry. I hope you recover quickly. - joey

good that you went to the ER. All my wishes for a quick recovery. - Iphigenie

Tamara wins as the first to wish me a Happy V-Day! +10 :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I hope that ya'll have a great day with your significant others. I am thinking that I will get a nice steak to cook for myself and a juicy bone from the butcher for Jackson, the Ridgeback. #BeingSingle - Mathew A. Koeneker

Happy Vday to you too! - Auntie Buttinsky Botts from iPhone

Happy Valentine's, Mathew. :) - Kelli H.

Happy Vday! - <3Heather<3

And to you. Much love! - joey

All of you pretty ladies are making me blush. Thank you! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Thanks. *hugs* - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Oh, honey! *hug* - Spidra Webster

*hugs* - Tamara J.

The flies will go where the light is. So turn off the lights and close the shades in all parts of the apartment you want clear and turn on the light in an area where it's okay for them to be until you can take time in the day to let them out or swat them. They'll go where the light is. Then shut the door and be in the now fly-free room. If that doesn't work, I recommend earplugs and putting the covers over your head. - Spidra Webster

:( - Joe The Sausage

The orthopedic surgeon told me a year ago osteomyelitis was nothing to mess around with. Point taken. - teleken from BuddyFeed

in my prayers my friend - just ZONED

Hey Val! Thought of you last night when I was checking out Rob Dickinson's (Catherine Wheel) solo work on Spotify. - teleken from BuddyFeed

I do miss Catherine Wheel. Rob does good work but I miss the whole group. - just ZONED

I'm so happy that I got to see CW in person twice. One of the two times it was a 'preview show' where they were working kinks out of their Wishville tour. There's not a day that goes by where I hear Catherine Wheel and I wasn't blown away. Adam & Eve? Crap, I'm putting them on right now. - Akiva

How are you doing now? - WoH: Minding her Steves

:-( - John (bird whisperer)

Not in a lot of pain - I've kept off my feet today. That said, I don't want to take chances. My plan is to call the doctor's office first thing tomorrow morning and take it from there. - teleken from BuddyFeed

take care -- - bob in SimCity

Thanks Bob. I really have to watch this. Being old and sore is no biggie, but I want to make sure if this is the infection again, there's a chance to use antibiotics before we go back to slicing and dicing me. - teleken

Confession - I look at the grey and giggle a little bit. :) - teleken

I plucked some of mine out last night. They were short and crimpy and sticking straight up! - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

where's the damned guitars? oh, hey. :D - Joe The Sausage

I only have a few grey hairs on my head - the beard has a lot more. :) - teleken

I'm sure if I had a beard that'd be grey too ;o) - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

I like the grey, i think it looks nice on you :) - Georgia

Good to see you, teleken. - Derrick

What version of OS X are you running - Lion or older? You can fix this, but the how-to varies a little depending on whether Lion or no. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Either way, I'm annoyed at whatever techs fixed your machine. They couldn't have cleaned up your system and repaired your damn permissions? Which I'm now going to suggest you do, Lion or no. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

I'm on 10.5.8. - chrisofspades

Except more politely. The damn was for them. So, to rephrase: one thing you should probably do is launch Disk Utility and repair permissions, then restart. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Okay doing it now. Slowly. - chrisofspades

Good. Then after the restart you want to get into your Library. In Lion they've hidden it, which is why I asked if you're on it. Imma take pills and head upstairs but I'll check on you in about ten mins. Say something so I know you saw this. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Ah. Just saw your OS. We can actually get to your library the old-fashioned way. (now reporting in from PLEP Mac support HQ, btw ... ;-) i.e., upstairs) - it's in your home folder. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Okay reboot complete. What am I doing in the Library? - chrisofspades

In the Library, you want to do two things: first, open the Caches folder and look for any cache files connected to Mail. I'm pretty sure the follow the syntax com.apple.mail ... ; there might also be an Apple Mail folder. Take a look to make sure they're really just cache files - I'm pretty sure your mailboxes are in Application Support, which we're not touching, (and which prolly don't... more... - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Are you seeing the thing about the cache files? I'm checking in because I'm using the iPhone version and it doesn't automatically refresh, and I was still posting when you asked - so I want to make sure we're still together. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

There's a folder ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail, with a Cache.db inside. Delete the whole folder? - chrisofspades

(And yes, I had removed all my accounts from Mail hoping that would stop the chaos. It did not.) - chrisofspades

After you do the cache files, we're gonna trash some .plist files in the Preferences folder. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

I just trashed Cache.db - chrisofspades

They'll have very similar names to the cache files, except for the extension, which is - surprise! - .plist. So: com.apple.mail.plist, com.apple.mail.settings.plist (maybe) ans so on. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Since you're not using Apple Mail I think that's smart. You may need to restart before you can actually empty the trash. The system might claim the cache.db is still in use. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Okay .plist files have been trashed. - chrisofspades

Excellent. This should solve it, though we are dealing with software so I'll hedge and say I hope we've solved it. But this process is what I generally do anytime an app goes nuts on me. I also use it when're an Adobe Creative Suite app crashes, on the theory that I don't want whatever took photoshop or whatever down once to do it a second time. ;-) - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Let me know how it goes and what else I can do. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Mail hasn't opened automatically since I restarted. Thanks so much. - chrisofspades

Congrats! How has the increase in physical fitness felt? Are you stronger and more energetic? - Spidra Webster

Having better fitness is great. Used to get winded climbing stairs, not anymore! Unfortunately, my weight loss hasn't helped my bad back issues - been fighting back pain for 5 months. Hard to exercise when you're in pain! - Ken Gidley

Excellent - Rodfather

That's too bad. I'm pretty sure losing weight off my gut would help my back issues. Do you do hamstring stretches? My chiro told me (and my experience bears out) that tight hamstrings can pull on things in a way that causes low back pain. Of course, if your back pain is due to disc issues, that's another kettle of fish. - Spidra Webster

Has this all been due to bike riding or have you had a program involving diet regimen and other exercises? I'm curious because I have chronic pain from disability. As you say, it's hard to exercise when you're in pain. I'm trying to change my eating regimen again as well as exercise even more. I'm curious what worked for you. - Spidra Webster

I don't stretch enough, but I do have disc issues. Had surgery 15 years back, looking like I may need another go of it. :( - Ken Gidley

Spidra - the biggest thing for me was changing my diet. I've used LoseIt.com and the companion iPhone app to help me set a daily calorie budget (based on my current weight and the rate I wanted to lose weight - 1.5 lbs / per week), and track all my calorie intake. I log every bite I eat, every day now. I can eat anything I want, so long as I have the room in my calorie budget for the... more... - Ken Gidley

"calorie budget" - what an awesome concept :) - Brent from iPhone

The biking has helped with the fitness aspect, plus I found I really enjoy it, so it gives me something to do besides sit on the couch and eat. - Ken Gidley

Wow! Also, I love the crazy lighting on your cheeks in the third picture, due to your glasses. Either that or it was face-painting day at work again. :-) - Brian Johns

Brent, it's a simple idea too, and very powerful. It has taken a year to get where I am, but I really haven't felt at all deprived during that time. I still eat the foods I love, just less off them. I had a Philly Cheesesteak and fries at lunch today - well, half a sandwich, and half the fries! Had the other half of the sandwich for dinner. - Ken Gidley

Brian - I didn't want to wait until the afternoon to replicate the lighting conditions of the middle picture - my photographer (wife) had other things to do... :) - Ken Gidley

:) - Brent from iPhone

Kick Ass! - Johnny

Ken: thanks so much for this. I've signed up. - Brent from iPhone

WOW. - AJ Batac :)

Congrats! - Tamara J.

Awesome work, sir! - SAM

Whoa. Way inspiring, Ken. Congrats on your hard work! - Derrick

You lost a whole person! Wow, that's impressive. - The original Kevin

Excellent work! - Mo Kargas

#fitelephant :) - Oğuz Demirkapı ☮

great job - SteVe C

Wow, that's awesome! - Kelli H. from Android

Go Ken Go!!! - Georgia from iPhone

Fascinating. Do you have a cite? I'd like to read more - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Niether, it is to build conformists and consumers and docile asembly line workers - WarLord

It's in a book, "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries" (http://www.amazon.com/Little-...). Highly recommend it so far for any entrepreneurs or people who need to solve creative/idea challenges. - Dan Hsiao

I sure hope I can keep sending my kids to Montessori. It's a much less passive learning system. - Bruce Lewis

My friend is a Montessori teacher and from what she has described, I sure wish my parents had sent me to Montessori. - Spidra Webster

The main purpose of a formal education is to teach you how to sit down, shut up, and do what you are told. Those that learn this lesson well will have a job where they get to sit down, shut up, and do what they are told. Those that don't, will have jobs where they get to stand up and talk. (would you like fries with that?) - April

I think school is an opportunity to observe the machine and learn its values and weaknesses up close. It's everything you need to learn about how organizations work and how you can co-exist with one and still do what you want. And they give that education away free! - Your Neighbor Steve

Maybe they stop asking questions because most of they've already learned most of the answers. - Gabe

Gabe, Rob and I were just talking about how Spencer no longer is interested in the drawers in our kitchen. Meg is just mobile enough that she can play with the pots and pans, check out the tupperware, etc. Spencer will do it a little to play with her, but generally doesn't do it himself anymore. We've concluded that he knows what is in the drawers now and would prefer to play with his... more... - Clare Dibble

Lawson, I love your optimistic slant. But sometimes it's impossible to co-exist with the system and still do what you want. That's a (hard) lesson you can learn in public school also. - Laura Norvig