Since I had President's day off, today feels like a Monday as far as returning to work goes.

At least the work week is shorter this week.

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I had a cup of English Breakfast Tea (name on package) this morning.

While drinking the tea, it dawned on me that I don't remember ever having seen other types of tea sold as either English lunch or dinner tea.

I did an internet search and could find no other types of specific English 'meal' teas.

I have thus concluded that English Breakfast Tea is a marketing ploy.

How ingenious... like promoting southern cornbread or New England clam chowder.

Kudos to the person who thought up the idea.

I hope they received a bonus for tricking us consumers.

BTW - the tea tasted like tea. Nothing special about it.

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Whenever I hear someone say something detrimental about someone, I think of the old Groucho Marx line from one of the Marx Brothers movies:

"I resemble that remark."

Conway Twitty back in the '50s, before he switched from rock to country:


Sounds very much like Elvis, but still a good song.

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Edison. Westinghouse. Tesla.

What's (pun intended) not to like?

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A friend of mine, who is an accomplished writer, just had an article published in one of the psychology magazines about change.

Nice article and I wrote her a message telling her that.

My only other opinion I conveyed to her was the old saying:

The only thing in life that doesn't change is change.

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Lately, I've seen a number of my friends have given up caffeine.

At age 19 I had to give up caffeine.

Why?

Because after living on Cokes and coffee to save money all through high school and my first two years afterward, I started having an adverse reaction to caffeine.

I was getting heartburn so bad that I thought I might be developing heart problems.

On the advice of a friend, I stopped drinking coffee & Cokes. The problem disappeared.

I will say that once every few years I would try one of the two to see if my body changes might now accept them.

Nope. Withing half a cup or half a Coke, the pain would return.

So I have learned to live vicariously by drinking Decaf coffee and caffeine free Coke.

One thing I have learned in these past few years:

I can drink all the tea I want and not suffer like I did with coffee and Coke.

BUT

Tea contains more caffeine than coffee.

I have come to the conclusion that there's something else in those two former favorites that cause my adverse reaction.

Maybe I'll dig into this oddity sometime in the near future.

Until then I will maintain the status quo.

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Before you judge:

There is a gray area between black and white.

Don't judge a book by its' cover.

There are two sides to every story.

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Being unattached on valentine's Day, I like to go around and say to people "Happy VD!"

Boy, the looks I get from some of them.

Anyway, I hope yours is a good one and to quote the Stephen Stills old song:

"If you can't be with the one you love, honey,

Love the one you're with."

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Taxes filed... in 35 minutes, online.

Oh, happy day!

Car insurance paid.

Good!

Time to grocery shop for dinner before watching the Stuper Bowl this evening.

Nice!

Bills paid and getting ready to relax -

Priceless!