E. Writer Artists are rarely acknowledged in their lifetime. Their work has more value when they are gone. I agree, it's about the completion and amassing the volume of work for me, with the mind that this is my created art, made from my mind and hands.

Alex Morton I've spent my life around people in the arts. ... painters, musicians, writers, dancers and sculptors. My wife is a potter., whose work is entirely unique. We all do it because we love actually doing it. I'm a writer and musician. I have to be doing something creative or I get bored to death. When I was in the tech industry, I survived emotionally because I turned my creativity toward inventing things. And when I got out of the industry, I turned around and wrote a book of short stories about it.

E. Writer Awww that's wonderful that you and your wife are creative. She probably has a deep understanding of your passion as an artist. The both of you towards each other.

E. Writer I am always so upset losing daytime hours.

E. Writer Happy Saturday!

Andrew Morgan If I live to be 104, I hope to spend the $ 256 million long beforehand.

Supreme Overlord Same, but I did create a will, so all of that went to her husband (108) and their children. So at least her descendants are set.

E. Writer You'd lose most of your money so fast at a real casino you wouldn't want to gamble for long. When I was 21 I went to a casino and won $2,000. So I went bavk the next day to play again and lost the entire $2,000, plus everything in my little bank account lol. Yeah, that put an end to it for me. Winning the first time is the worst thing that can happen lol.

E. Writer Did you know we have a "Casino Night" game on Neighbahood? It's actually meant to teach people discipline when gambling. This game has been here since the end of last year. The more you spin slot machine, the more your chances of losing your points increase. So do you check your points out or keep going and try to go for the big points https://neighbahood.com/games/casinonightparty.html

Supreme Overlord I'll give it a try!

E. Writer Pretty cool stuff he's making

E. Writer I hope it turns out in your favor. Sometimes people think they're stealing from a big company, so its no big deal in their minds. They don't realize its the small business delivering their products who gets hurt.

bb santx Does hitori count? Also Zelda, though I'm frustrated to the point of toying with the idea of paying some kid to get me beyond my current obstacle! Anyone remember Kings Quest? ...

Alex Morton I like actual board games, played on a physical board. Mina and I play Scrabble often, as well as backgammon. I play GO when I can find an opponent ... which is nearly never.

E. Writer I'm all about monopoly. I loved the infinity board because it allowed me to play people in scrabble, monopoly and other board games all over the U.S.

Alex Morton I know nothing about the infinity board.

E. Writer It just hundreds of board games on ot. It looks like a TV screen table.

E. Writer Happy Valentine's 💝

E. Writer I read about the Blue Zone diet many years ago and actually bought a Mediterranean recipe book. I stayed on a vegetable diet of just vegetables on a corn taco shells for about two years and lost about 50 lbs. Something happened where I started having bad reactions to the foods, I think because my body was rejecting it. Some allergists say you shouldn't eat the same food more than 3 days in a row or your body may misinterpret the proteins for an invader and you can become allergic. I ate the same thing for a few years. Suddenly, bad reactions to everything. So I could eat potatoes, beef (unfortunately), chicken, broccoli. I couldn't even eat fruit or corn shells anymore. That was all I could eat for a long time. After having to add those meats to my diet, i gained weight and i am the most unhealthiest I have been. I even had to go back on Insulin. I am just now able to resume eating vegetables again but it took years. I actually hate meat foods because of that.

Alex Morton Food is just always such an individual thing. Despite all the years I spent sailing, I'm highly allergic to seafood, and I always say that if a party is dull, they throw me a fish. I found out just how bad the allergy was when we'd sailed up to Princess Luisa Inlet ... forty-two nautical miles up the coast of British Columbia, and then another forty two through fjords, then waiting for slack tide at Malibu Rapids to slip into the giant bowl that is Princess Luisa. We dropped the hook behind Macdonald Island, in the middle of the bowl. It was low tide and we jumped into the dinghy and rowed to shore. The low tide had uncovered oysters and I used my pocket knife to pop a few open for us to eat on the spot. The next thing I knew, I was back in the boat, lying in a bunk, in really rough shape and we were too far away from everything to get help. There wasn't even cell service. So Mina made me tea, Rosie (border collie) licked my face and Julia, eight or nine years old told me everything would be all right. I was okay after a couple of hours, but have been ultra-cautious ever since.

E. Writer That was a super dangerous situation for you. Are you allergic to fish, shellfish, or both? Be very careful, because a lady at my old job was allergic to shellfish and while at a restaurant, almost died because someone walked past her with a plate of shrimp. There's also that news story out of New York about the 9 year old who was allergic to fish. He was visiting his grandmother and left her house with his dad. They forgot something and went back inside and she was cooking fish. The child inhaled the vapors, went into anaphylactic shock and died. So just smelling or inhaling seafood can be harmful or deadly if you are severely allergic.

I take allergies very seriously. I spent almost two years dealing with severe allergic reactions back in 2018-19, and it messed up my health. I was allergic to black dyes and something in my iron pill (which used a very dark dye). I would take an iron pill and end up convulsing on the floor. But I never associated it for the iron pill because it didn't happen immediately. It took at least thirty or so minutes. I made 18 hospital ER visits in one year. That was when I left my job because the convulsions were so horrific, I used to convulse on the floor at work. My coworkers would call an ambulance.

Doctors were telling me that I was having anxiety attacks but turns out, I was allergic to a dye in my iron pills. I finally figured it out after I had an iron transfusion at Mayo Clinic and did not have an attack again (we also thought it was low blood iron causing the reactions). About 4 months after the iron transfusion, I took an iron pill and went into instant anaphylactic shock twenty or thirty minutes later that was so bad, I was telling my family what to do if I died. I felt like I was having a seizure because the muscles in my neck would lock. I took a Benadryl and it stopped ten minutes later. It was the only thing I had that day along with water (happened early in the morning) and that's how I figured it out. After that, I never took another iron pill, and never had one of those convulsing episodes again. I now take liquid iron every day. But no pills, because of the dyes.

Doctors should have known that it was a severe allergic reaction because we had previously figured out that the only thing that made me feel better was Benadryl. Doctors told me that Benadryl was helping because it is very similar and in the same family as a medicine that's used to treat anxiety, so that's why they thought it was helping me. Insane how allergies can really mess you up.

M. C. Ryder What they don't tell you about dieting is, it's the processed foods we eat that is what makes us unhealthy. Specifically, the preservatives. Yes, it makes food last longer for convenience, but that comes with a cost. All the health issues, including cancer. The best diets are the ones where you eat fruits and vegetables. When you actually measure your food, it's sad to see just how little we should be eating versus how much we do eat. America is into big portions. Oversize portions. And the amount of sodium that is added is off the rails. I started cooking my own food with less salt. I like my food bland. So, when I go to restaurants and have what they are cooking, I can tell a huge difference in the sodium content. I don't feel as guilty when I load my plate up with vegetables. If I don't like a particular vegetable, I mix it into a dish with others to disguise it.It's sad how there are so many food allergies that are life alternating. I learned that local honey is a good way to help with seasonal allergies. Not sure if that is also a way to help with food allergies. And I've gone through that too E. Writer. Eating the same meal over and over again until just looking at the food makes me sick. It's always good to change it things up so your body doesn't get used to it and view it as an intruder. Same goes with medicine

E. Writer MC, you are absolutely right. Unfortunately, I learned that first hand. I was a packaged food girl throughout my 20s and early 30s because I worked a lot. If it wasn't packaged it was fast food. Then I became very sick and would have all of these allergic reactions to foods and other products. We used the process of elimination, me and my husband, to figure out what was wrong and what was triggering these reactions. Those preservatives, which I ate a lot of, messed up my body chemistry. To this date, and since maybe 2014, I don't eat any foods with any preservatives. If a food has more than 3 ingredients I don't eat it and I make everything from scratch. I don't eat a single packaged food and had to learn that the hard way.