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    Driving in Days Gone By

    Ours come through the car as do most these days!
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    The VW plant in Wolfsburg is a pretty nice plant. I visited there a few times.
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    We start at Thanksgiving the third week in November. Our favorite time, no gifts to exchange just a celebration for ALL! Although now the stores are already with their Thanksgiving stuff and I’m sure some are already with Christmas. I have not been out and about much these days to see.
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    Then you hav3 a great excuse to start celebrating early. Come to think about it, and excuse is a good one t9 start celebrating early!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Or you had to attempt to reload the disc & it had to be in order!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Gag!!!
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    Driving in Days Gone By

    We do love the back up cameras in our cars and the Apple car play which comes on as the appropriate phone nears the car!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Setting up MS Office circa 1997 was about sixty of those babies and took forever!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Now that is beyond any reasonable epectations!
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    Dunlop

    Add to some of that the rapid decline of the UK car industry, eliminating “first fit” opportunities which in those days 5 tires. Also the same with motorcycles. Cars being managed by the government, there should be a “lessons learned” there, it didn’t work! Those industries went from decline to...
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    Computer help please 2025

    You are excused :)!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Mine is more frustration because the solution is usually not as I expected!
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    Computer help please 2025

    I don’t like them but MS is pushing you that way!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Been there almost done that! Every time I have a computer problem, my personality changes for a few days!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Amen to that!
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    Brickworks

    Just now reading this, what a very interesting article this is. I always wondered where are of the bricks came from. Now I know part of it.
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    Brickworks

    What a wonderful atmospheric photo that is!
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    Computer help please 2025

    Microsoft is trying to get you to use their search engine Bing which leads to their shopping etc. I use Microsoft mainly for Outlook although they are changing the look of that which is scary to me. It also seems that updates are becoming mor3 and more frequent. Been on Microsoft since about...
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    Computer help please 2025

    Good point! If you are not an avid user or use for business most would never miss any updates at least for a couple of yours. I would not sweat it.
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    Computer help please 2025

    Great advise!
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