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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's a habit now, like rejecting the AI summary and the first several Google search results past that, usually. To get past the sponsored results. When I'm too lazy to use an alternative search engine.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ah, so. I have difficulty with direct and indirect quotes, and the proper use of quotation marks, etc., around those.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Got the new Covid just before we left the US, which was 2 days before the new flu shot was available, so now debating whether to get the Euro flu shot now or wait for the mRna US version later in the year.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I also want to know. Maybe I've been doing it wrong for 70+ years!

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She was so amazing in that show. So incredibly brave as an actor.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I read it before becoming a parent and, as much as I recall loving it, there is no way I could face it now. Sigh.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes, and for me, it's nearly always that the thing is undercooked. Just cannot do with food that doesn't chew back a bit.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sunset from Nea Chora, Chania, about 30 minutes start to finish

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

See this all the time here on Crete, but the Greek gents doing it are strolling SO slowlyx you'd probaby not call it sports mode here.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I briefly wanted that sort of lock, but am now glad to have a wifi-free one with a code I can change when physically present only. And changing the batteries wasn't bad.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cue the great Robert Earl song: But I reached into my pocket, found three twenties and a ten- It feels so good, feelin' good again

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th gen Texan here, voted by mail from Crete, but I will *not* be Charlie Brown to Lucy with her football. Ever Again.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Speechless. Good thing we didn't have to be someplace right on time, though.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Plausible, but I took the photo and I have never been there. My husband thinks it's from Lato, near Kritsa.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Done and dusted- only a sore shoulder, per usual.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whether true or not, our friends on Crete told us that the curb cutouts on sidewalks only passed after a plea for young mothers with babies in strollers. Folks in wheelchairs? Not so much.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, my Nest just gave me this as a memory, and I have *no* clue where I was when I took it. Sigh. (A big % of my photos are of Minoan sites, and maybe the floor/steps going up and between could be, but the walls are wrong.)

Narrow passage of steps/stairs between sheer rock walls

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you for sharing this. I'm in my mid-70s and get a mammogram every summer, whether the system thinks I still need it or not. Love to your mother.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They may all assume their service was just fine, unless it was not, in which case I presume they would prefer I let them know that offline.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's a thing I learned: when your phine shuts off from a dead battery and you charge it and turn it back on, it may not automatically know the day/date. And then it says there is no signal to your perfectly good home internet. So, pro tip, I guess! Here's an unrelated sunset in Crete.

Sunset over a small harbor, a small crane visible (of the boat lifting sort, not bird)

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly full moon over Nea Chora, Chania

Nearly full moon over seaside buildings on a small port with boats

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Probably at the same time I stop reaching to the wrong wall for the light switch in the bathroom in the place where I have lived for >4 years now.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am old enough to be confident that I will die before my current hygienist retires. At least, I hope so!

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love the life I have right now, but if I were the jealous type (mostly not), I would envy yours. Some parts, anyhow. (4 kids, all grown and happy, 2 grandkids, also great)

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would think seriously about a smartphone or laptop which had a nice user interface and would guarantee me that it would somehow block all AI at the root. (Note: I am not willing to run Linux, etc.)

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You'd think, after 50+ years of voting in Texas, that I would no longer be in danger of being Charlie Brown with Lucy offers the football, wouldn't you? Sigh.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wish I could remember which plane I was on within the last year which smartly just had a diagram, where you couldn't miss it. (Spoiler: some folks will still miss it.)

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where is it streaming, 8f anyone knows?

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good evening you got there, Chania

White puffy clouds lit up pinkly, over a city with a bay

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now I am wondering how they should describe the right orientation. "On their sides, wheels out"? (If it's that sort of bin.)

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah, that sunset is especially nice.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is why we stick to Southwest. Austin to sort-of DC/BWI.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My invisible tri-focals require me to look straight down at my feet. While clutching the rail, of course.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back at you from Chania, Crete

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Still a lot of dogs on Crete, not strays, clearly well-cared for, who just go out on their daily doggie rounds in the neighborhood, no owners required. They ignore people and cats, but sometimes have things to say to other dogs.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ah, good to know. We are abroad for the autumn, so will get ours when we return.

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dberger43 @dberger43.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Got mine a week ago. Wish the new flu site had been out.

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