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That"s the other reason for getting the shot at Safeway. My doctor's office didn't have availability for a few weeks. Fortunately for me, the insurance my company offers provides excellent coverage (Anthem BCBS) and both the pneumonia and shingles vaccines will be no or low copay.

Got my flu shot at Safeway last weekend. I was there, the pharmacy had the shots, and I didn't want to wait any longer. They use the little room they built when they thought about installing in-store clinics. The pharmacist sanitized the room and prepared the vaccination while I watched. Was really happy with the set-up. Next week is pneumonia and then shingles. Plus, I get a 10% off groceries coupon with each vaccination!

I use the same standard we use for work attire. If you have to ask "is this appropriate for the office," well...

When I was looking at places to live I mentioned Scottsdale to a colleague. She looked at me and said "Are you nuts?" I moved to downtown Phoenix and love it. Good for you! I have so little in common with Boomers it isn't funny. My employer still does not allow in-person meetings, even with clients. Client-facing staff at branches (I work for a bank) either have plexiglass shields in front of their desks, wear a face shield, or work behind the teller line bandit barriers, which we installed at almost every branch several years ago during a robbery wave in California.

The little girl was eating watermelon and her mother noticed that she was swallowing the seeds. “If you swallow watermelon seeds”, her mother warned, “a watermelon plant can start to grow inside you and your belly can get so big that you will need an operation.” The girl stopped swallowing the seeds. Later in the day, her mother’s friend, who was 7 months pregnant stopped for a visit. The little girl patted the woman’s belly, smiled at her and said, “I’ll bet I know what you’ve been doing.”

I was born in '64 and consider myself to be a Gen-Xer. Douglas Coupland, who wrote the book, re-defined the upper threshold to start in the early 1960's. I think he didn't want to be labeled a Boomer. Back to the topic, where do you live? Here in Phoenix it is the Millennials who consistently wear masks covering their mouths and noses and the college students wear them out on the street when they don't have to. In fact, in Downtown, where I live, almost everyone wears one. By contrast, in Scottsdale I've seen people of all age groups try to slide by without covering their noses, but Millennials stand out as the ones who consistently don't want to social distance or wear masks. Scottsdale, by the way, borders Phoenix. It's weird.

Somehow, when I think "Priapus" I don't see images of a cock ring strangling a semi-erect penis and/or of the mark left after removing it.

It is difficult to answer this question without using profanity or terms that could be described as pejorative. To my knowledge, I've never dealt with an escort's personal agent or assistant nor have I seriously considered hiring someone whose ad said they did. One escort I've hired (and had a great time with) started using a service but stopped doing so because it turned clients off. On the other hand, an agency that advertises escorts is completely different. Although I never hired any of his guys, Dave at Man For Man was great. I came close to hiring a guy once and then Dave called regarding negative feedback he heard from a couple of clients about the guy. He wouldn't send the guy on any more appointments until he clarified what had happened. Dave told me he was dropping the guy and that was that.

My company offered me two packages, relocation or severance, and I took the transfer. The severance package was enticing, but there are really no jobs in San Diego that equate to what I do and/or use the experience I have. In fact, had my current employer not hired me in 2002 I would have left San Diego back then. It was never a good fit, but a condo and job anchored me. When one of the anchors was gone, it was much easier to leave.

Agree on being cleaner. If you compare "like for like" (i.e. Manhattan for an equivalent area of Chicago, such as McCormick Place/the South Loop on the south to the Evanston city limits on the north and 2 - 3 miles in from the lakefront on the west) the area is about the same (22.9 square miles vs 24.5 square miles). If you look at total area within city limits, then New York City is about 30% larger (303 square miles vs 234 square miles). You can easily live without owning a car if you live along the Lakefront, but with more suburbanites moving to the city, car ownership has increased. The Orange Line goes to Midway. The ride provides stunning views of he city. Midway is a much more tolerable airport than O'Hare. Friends don't let friends drive to O'hare. They give them a Ventra card and directions to the nearest Blue Line station. Since @bashful mentioned suburbs, Oak Park and Evanston are both lovely places to live. Having lived in both places, I'd give Evanston a slight edge due to it being on the Lakefront and the availability of shopping. Oak Park, on the other hand, has a lot to do and is more accessible to O'Hare, and Midway. The neighboring city of Berwyn has a burgeoning LGBT community, thanks to elderly residents drying and their families selling their well-maintained, albeit dated, bungalows. Oak Park and Evanston are both very LGBT friendly. The two communities try to out-liberal one another. If memory serves, Oak Park was the first to have a domestic partner registry. Not to be outdone, Evanston responded by creating a registry AND included protections for trans people into its Human Rights ordinance. Were I to move back right now, I'd live on The Gold Coast. Always wanted to live there, but relocated to San Diego instead.

Agree, although for me it is more odd than disappointing.

The crime rate in the City of Chicago is higher than New York's. The current post-protest crimes notwithstanding, most of it occurs in poverty-stricken areas of the South and West sides. That's not to say it makes the high crime rate OK, but my guess is you don't intend to live in Englewood or North Lawndale, two of the most notorious areas for crime. After living in San Diego and now Phoenix since 2000 I feel perfectly safe walking around in Chicago (as I do in New York). In terms of things to do, as @Benjamin_Nicholas pointed out the sheer number of high-quality museums is really outstanding. In large part that's the result of Chicago society wanting to demonstrate Chicago was every bit as good as New York. (Think of the old Avis commercial - "we're number two, we try harder") The theater scene in Chicago skews away from the mainstream toward the experimental. In addition to the neighborhoods listed above, I've always been fond of Streeterville, The Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Old Town, Bowmanville (just west of Andersonville), Lincoln Square, and Ravenswood. Logan Square also has nice places, although I'd suggest living someplace else when you first arrive and see visit to see if it is someplace you would like to live. I'd stay clear of Bucktown. It is an expensive, trendy place to live and is simply not safe. Margate Park is another one I'd avoid.

In the US, Federal and State disasters are called for cataclysmic events such as hurricanes, floods, fires, explosions, and other events where something bad happens and the destruction is readily apparent. The heat wave was different. It took several days for authorities and the public to realize how badly the heat wave affected people. It was definitely a teachable event, as the city started declaring heat emergencies more quickly and began measuring "ozone action days" and "pollution days." No. Tropical storms are different. There are multiple storms each year, they affect a wider area, and there is a definition of what one is. Chicago is not built to deal with 106 degree heat. 106 degrees is an average summer day in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs. I read several accounts of that heat wave today and it appears Chicago reacted the same way until the people started showing up at ERs and the coroner started getting calls.

So has Chicago and no one cared until the heat wave of 1995, when nearly 750 people died. At the time, very few older residential buildings had air conditioning. Most of the deaths occurred in poverty-stricken areas where residents can't afford their utilities, let alone the cost of window air conditioners. Even if air conditioning was prevalent, the strain on the electrical grid would have caused it to fail, as occurred in 1999 when an underground transformer exploded and caused an outage. Power was out for more than a week, trapping hundreds of elderly residents in high-rise buildings along the north side lakefront because they could not walk up and down 10, 20, and 30 flights of stairs. To put it into perspective, the entire city of Atlanta has 2/3 the population of Chicago's south side (498K vs 750K, respectively). That said, I don't think naming heat waves is necessary.

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Couldn't find his RM ad, so my guess is "yes."

That's what I was thinking.

LOVE IT!! It could be a series like "The Other Side of Aspen" Parts 1, 2... Then there's the "Ken More and His Big Appliance" series. ?

Depending on the nature of the surprise, maybe you WANT to be too late!

Or that pair of shoes at Nordstrom that chased me around the internet for three days. But seriously, I've never received a warning message when using rentmasseur.

As of a few minutes ago (10:30 PM Pacific Time, 9/11/20) the bit about requiring a photo is gone from the ad. I guess iMessenger wasn't on overdrive so a modification was made.

Apparently, the renovation is near completion and it will open soon as "Cara." According to the description on Trip Advisor: Opening September 16, 2020. Resting below the foothills of Griffith Park, Cara is a hidden oasis away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Cara not only surrounds you in luxury and style, it centrally places you to enjoy all that Los Angeles has to offer. Cara’s stucco exterior belies the beautiful serene experience awaiting you on the inside. Step through our doors, and a tranquil sense of texture awakens the imagination. The courtyard and patios invite you to linger, creating the perfect environment for your days adventure. The Cara rooms, elegant and discreet, evoke the spirit of Southern California where the days are warm, sunny and breezy. Restful areas, private balconies, textured furnishings thoughtfully designed to offer all the comforts one needs. Relax and let your stay take you to a place beyond the ordinary. All that for a mere $309/night.

One of the funniest and most clever things I've heard in a decade.

"Bronc Dallas" totally sounds like something Colt would have come up with back in the day. Perhaps when they wanted to be creative. That said, "Stallion" has a nicer ring than "Bronc." Oh, gosh, you have to excuse me now. My fantasy boyfriend, Harry Diggerssohn, just came back from his third workout today at the complex's gym. Someone forgot to change his jockstrap after several days of cardio and now he wants to "cuddle." Oh, the sacrifices we make for our men!