At the start of my date yesterday afternoon, a waitress from another table came by and told my date she thought she was beautiful. She did it in a very nice way and my date took the comment well. I was hoping the date would turn into something but we both agreed there wasn’t a spark, but we may hang out as friends.
I rented a book about getting over divorce from the library. It provided the following stats which I question: Within two years of divorce, 80% of men remarried. Within five years of divorce, 75% of women have remarried. Within only one year of divorce, 50% of men have remarried.
More than 2,500 US adults said they would need to earn, on average, $233,000 a year to feel financially secure and $483,000 annually to feel rich or to attain financial freedom, according to a new survey from Bankrate. Just for comparison’s sake, the median earnings for a full-time, year-round worker in 2021 was $56,473, according to the US Census Bureau.
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So, there have been talks about Elon Musk fighting Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match, possibly at the Colosseum in Rome. But today, Zuckerberg’s company will be launching a competitor to Twitter, which is owned by Musk. I’m starting to suspect all of this is related and one big marketing ploy. I predict that Zuckerberg’s company will buy Elon’s Twitter (or some type of merger) and everyone will be migrated to the new social media app. Who knows, maybe they will even wager the social media company. We like bits, right? 🤔 It will be a win/win for both of them. Zuckerberg gets all the data (which he’ll use to make more money) and Musk will get the capital to fund his projects.
People used to type phone numbers with a dash or a hyphen, 555-867-5309. But now, I see the period being used more and more, 555.867.5309.
The chain’s roughly 20,000 US locations will freshly slice their deli meat beginning Wednesday, marking Subway’s biggest change since two years ago, when it began refreshing its menu offerings, ingredients and restaurant appearances to boost once-sagging sales and make itself an attractive acquisition target.
The film contains a scene that depicts a map with the “nine dash line,” a representation of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, which Vietnam says violates its sovereignty.
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