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NYT Games for 23 June 2025

Wordle was good.

CONNECTIONS, bleagh

Puzzle #743

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Skill 65/99

Uniqueness 1 in a Million

I am giving myself 3 points, because I guessed the ACTUAL CATEGORY, I just could not figure out the exact ones they had in the category...

BELL 🔵 bottoms, Similar to FLARE🟨 jeans, I think.

OLD MAN 🔵pants (aka Hi Rise pants) are the style that sit between waist and Diaphragm.. often showing several inches of the wearers socks.

SKINNY 🟨 jeans, ones that are almost skin tight, or ones you wear when you are on the low side of your weight range...

So what are MOM jeans and BOYFRIEND jeans?

(Other categories I thought it might be...)

People...

MOM, BOYFRIEND, OLD MAN, BELL

I have heard of *OLD MAN and the sea*, and a *FAREWELL to arms.*

I am going to have to see what the other 2 Hemingway titles are...

SUN? no idea off hand... BELL, from *Bell, Book and Candle*?

Current Location: Hazelwood, MO

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The Saint Louis Pen Show is this coming weekend.
27-29 June 2025, with Thursday 26 June being dealer day.
I will be volunteering during most of the show. (Need to find out if I can use my 8 hours of Volunteer Time work gives us for it... Or I may just save that for later, and use vacation time for Friday. I have been with CBS Outdoor / OUTFRONT Media long enough (It will be 18 years this year.) I usually struggle to take all my PTO. We can carry 1 week over into the following year, which I have done for the past few years,

I've had fun with stationery type stuff since grade school.
My Dad was with the Illinois State Police. He was in the US Navy during the Vietnam Era, but his ship was in the Mediterranean. When he got out, he joined the state police.
He was first stationed in Vermillion County, Illinois, along the East border of IL. Just east of Champaign County IL.
I do have fond memories of that time in my life. We lived there during most of the early 1970s.
In the summer between 4th and 5th grades, we moved to Union County, Cobden IL to be exact...

How did I get onto family moves from stationery?
oh yeah, when we were in Oakwood, Vermillion County, I remember using some of his extra paperwork.
I remember in Cobden, I would prefer the Green Ink pens. Bic I think.

(forgot to hit entere this morning)

Current Mood: good
Current Location: Hazelwood, MO

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LJ Idol (2025 Wheel of Chaos) Week 1 prompt: QUALITY

(EEK. and even shorter time to get this hammered out than I wa thinking... About 90 minutes...)
So, most of us prefer QUALITY of QUANTITY when we can only have one...

With my last name being Rose, I used to get asked fairly regularly if I was related to Pete Rose.

I had always said, "Not that I know of." because I really didn't know or care.
I've never been a big baseball fan. I will sometimes go to a St Louis Cardinals game with work. But I can very much take or leave the game, and don't watch it on TV...

Banana Ball on the other hand (an offshoot of Baseball) is quite fun! I would love to go see it in person, and while I have not watched a full game yet, I have watched significant portions of several games.. It has been described as "Harlem Globetrotters, in baseball form, but not scripted." There are several rule differences between the two games. One of the biggest is, the players HAVE FUN!
There are currently 4 teams in the league, expanding to 6 next year.

But back to Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose Sr 1941-2024), it turns out I am related to him, distantly. Using the WikiTree information, we are 19C1R (19th cousins once removed.) One of my sets of 19th Great-Grandparents, are his 18th GGPs.) They lived in the late 1300s, and I have no idea without examining the research how high quality that information is.
One of the fun things about WikiTree, is that they also provide a Connection Finder. It looks at the siblings and spouses of the various relations that have been entered.
I am 22° away from Pete Rose.
WikiTree Connections chart

And I am not connected to him through my Dad's side. but through my Mom's family. Not counting Pete Rose and myself, the only other 2 with Surname of Rose are his father and grandfather.)
The connection between us is 2 brothers who lived in the 1600s. William and John Thorne.

I very much enjoy WikiTree! It is a true community with various modes and means of interaction.

When it started, (before I joined) you were able to upload a GEDCOM file to WikiTree. The translation of the GEDCOM files to the WikiTree format was not good. And some of the people who uploaded their GEDCOMs don' seem to have stuck around to stay in the community.

They dropped off their family, and ran... 

(sort of a Dad Joke, a low quality one.)

Current Location: Hazelwood
Current Music: Life! Live is LIFE! Opus, 1994

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Life! Live is LIFE! Opus, 1994

What have I been up to lately? Since Mr. Trump won the USA presidential election?
We've been getting by.

Seph has been doing mostly courior work, and we are a 2 Volt household. :)

I'm not sure if I mentioned here that my work (OUTFONT Media) moved their office back to the City of Saint Louis (Had been in City of Berkeley MO for past 50ish years or so.)

I am planning on doing the new round of LJ Idol again. hopefully I last longer than 2 rounds this time (and 1 Home Game round...)

I was voted off after the 2nd round last year. (easy enough to go through to see my entries last year.)

And sorry I did not reply to most of the comments last year...)

Current Location: Hazelwood

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lj idol

Shall we (LJ) Idol?

we shall try.

Hard to believe that this year is the 19th year of LJ Idol...

NYT Games for 23 June 2025

St Louis Pen Show!

LJ Idol (2025 Wheel of Chaos) Week 1 prompt: QUALITY

Life! Live is LIFE! Opus, 1994

Shall we (LJ) Idol?