DCMerkle

@DCMerkle (1281)

United States • Age 64

Joined myLot 16 years ago

A wiseman will make more oppurtunities than he finds- Francis Bacon

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i am definitely not mommy!!!

alaskanray @alaskanray (4636) • United States 15 Aug 11

My sister took me to Utah on Wednesday for my niece's wedding. We stayed there until Saturday morning, the wedding being on Friday. Friday night we stayed in my niece's home and I got her bed. My niece has a cat that is beautiful,...

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DCMerkle I've been a cat person all of my life. Cats can be very territorial. I thought that meant just areas that were theirs, but as I got older and really got into the habits of cats, I found that their owners were part of their territory as well. I've never had a...

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books,audiobooks or ebooks??which do you prefer?

Anirban @anitoton (389) • Kolkata, India 14 Aug 11

now-a-days the audiobook is becoming very famous.So what do you prefer now-a-days?books or audio bookS?as they are available in internet for free.do you get the same pleasure for by hearing the audiobooks as by reading the...

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books

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DCMerkle I had a friend that was blind and he listened to audio books. I use to listen to them with him when I was visiting him. To me audio books aren't all that new, at least for me. Do I like the ebooks? No! I'd rather read the hard copy of a book. The publishing...

15 Aug 11

Feeling blue and what to do?

missybear @missybear (11391) • United States 14 Aug 11

I'm pretty much always happy go lucky but every once in a while I get the blues, mostly when I think about home. All my family is in Germany and sometimes I get really homesick. I could go visit anytime but I'm...

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DCMerkle I get that way sometimes. I get to feeling a little down in the dumps. The more I fought it the worse I felt. I had a friend tell me that what I was really looking for was a pity party and just to have one and get it out of my system. You know what? It works....

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I switched to Google Chrome

Charlene Sally C. @PointlessQuestions (15397) • United States 10 Jul 11

I've been using Firefox for a long time, but lately since I upgraded to the last Mozilla upgrade my computer always seems to freeze. It will say "unresponsive" ... so when I went to Google Chrome it works perfectly. It never goes...

computer

firefox not working good

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DCMerkle I used Firefox since the beginning. I really don't like I.E., but about 6 weeks ago I had upgraded to the latest Firefox and all my bookmarks disappeared. It wouldn't fully load either. So, I went to my favorite PC forum and explained what had happened. I was...

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Do parents get biased when they distribute wealth to their chilldren in old age

comfort55 @comfort55 (1574) • India 28 Feb 11

Well, we are 5 siblings, 4 sisters and one brother....undoubtedly brother, being a son, got major portion of the wealth my parents acquired, that is tolerable.My parents are in their 80s now and sold one of their commercial land...

biased parents

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DCMerkle Money, no matter how much or how well off one relative is than the other, can always cause trouble. I agree with the other posters that maybe you should make an attempt at paying the money back, even if it's in small amounts. My ex husband had a father that...

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My son is constipated again...

mermaidivy @mermaidivy (15394) • United States 22 Feb 11

Two weeks ago, my son was constipated for 5 days then I finally took him to the pediatrican, he siad it is very normal for a breastfed baby to be constipated and I introduced him some rice cereal since he has turned 4 months old...

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DCMerkle My daughter had the same problem. It got worse as she got older and I was potty training her. The Dr. had me dive her prune juice, change her diet, give her enema's, and at one point I was giving her Fletcher's Castoria. It was a child's laxative. I...

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I feel awesome right now.

mentalward @mentalward (14690) • United States 16 Dec 10

I do, really! Some of you know that I am on Social Security disability because of fibromyalgia and some other disabling things but I am allowed to earn a certain amount of money each month and still keep my benefits. I never...

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DCMerkle I was glad to hear that you found a job, especially so close to the holidays. As a heads up though, my mother was on SSI and she was working just as a fill in baby sister for a friend until their baby sitter could come back to work for them. She made over...

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Cheap and Easy - just my style

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 6 Nov 10

I am usually a home made kind of cook. I like to cook things from scratch. Last night we were out of time and out of money. But we have all been so busy we havent eaten dinner as a family in a while so we wanted something...

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DCMerkle My hubby is the gourmet of canned goods. I'm amazed at what he comes up with sometimes. He'll take 1 can of mixed veggies, one can of a cream of soup, mix those together, add some blanched green peppers, onions, and mix it all together. He thins out the cream...

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Men taking there daughters in the mens bathroom to change there diaper.

smokinchic69 @smokinchic69 (46) • United States 6 Nov 10

hey ladies and gental men i need your opinions..my boyfriend and i have been going at this for a while.. would you men take you 5 month old daughter in the mens public bathroom to change her diaper? ladies would you allow your men...

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DCMerkle Do they have much of a choice? The problem stems from the design of public bathrooms not adapting to the change in what is normal for society now. Bathrooms now have changing stations, but for the men that have no place else to change their female babies they...

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Is Academic Education necessary or is it the person's capacity makes him suceed

kiran8 @kiran8 (15348) • Mangalore, India 29 Aug 10

[b] We see that many of the most successful individuals across the world are either school drop outs with no degrees or any intellectual pursuits of an academic nature.Just to name a few Bill Gates( Microsoft ) , Larry Ellison (...

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DCMerkle kiran8, I can add one more example to what you offered and that would be Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was self taught though and did have the motivation to continue to self educate himself. Then again, if we were to compare the recognized needs of Lincoln's time...

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PTCs: What do you think?

blindmoongoddess @blindmoongoddess (426) • Philippines 24 Aug 10

I have stopped joining PTCs because of the following reasons: I think it's not the wisest use of my time. The hours I used to spend clicking advertisements did not amount to much. I would have made a lot more money by writing...

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DCMerkle blindmoongoddess, I have to agree with you in all your above reasons. I spent too much time clicking and I really haven't seen any profit. There's a glut of PTC's on the net and how can you get referrals if the members themselves are trying to get...

25 Aug 10

Husband now in bed permanently

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 4 Aug 10

A couple of weeks ago, my husband had to get his power wheelchair fixed because one of the speeds was very jerky and it was also on the day he had to see the als doctor at the hospital. Well the doctor noticed that my husband was...

estimating the end

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DCMerkle I'm so sorry to hear about all that is going on for you. The last bit of time that you have left with your husband shouldn't be so stress filled, but do what you can so you can spend the time with him. With my family, my mother in particular, we all knew that...

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Saying Goodbye To My Little One...

candyfairy21 @candyfairy21 (2039) • Philippines 30 Jul 10

I just lost my 3 month old male malshih Munchkin Kirby to parvo yesterday afternoon.I could not understand how he would get parvo when he was vaccinated 3x with the 5 in 1 vaccine. Both of the twins contracted parvo. Ginger...

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DCMerkle I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. Parvo is an insidious disease. It has a mortality rate of over 91%. Cats get a form of parvo themselves. I had a litter of kittens and it went through that liter like wildfire. There's really nothing that can be done for...

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Groupism On Mylot ???

K.Rajib G. @krajibg (11922) • Guwahati, India 21 Jul 10

Groupism on mylot? Yes, just the other day one of my friends told me that if I were on mylot I should be careful of this. On query he told me that people over here are divided as American group, Canadian group, Philippine group,...

groupism and mylot

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DCMerkle krajibg, I wouldn't let that effect how you join in on discussions here on MyLot. What I have noticed is there are a lot of people that are trying to learn English, so if there are groups in that form, again I wouldn't let that worry you. I join in in any...

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When it comes to online earning, why do we think it should be free..

skkalra @skkalra (966) • India 15 Jul 10

Hello friends, A lot of people are working online to get some extra cash ( and I think..there are many other people too, who almost depend on online money )...and most of us think ..this online money should be free...No...

free money

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DCMerkle Hi skkalra, For me the whole idea of trying to make a little extra cash online is because we need the extra cash to help with expenses. If we had extra cash we wouldn't be online trying to do so. There are the easier of sites like PTC that you can click...

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SeaWorld Orlando Killer Whale Dies While Giving Birth

skysuccess @skysuccess (8858) • Singapore 7 Jun 10

Seaworld Orlando officials have reported that one of their orca, Taima has died from complications while giving birth. It is learned from the park officials that Taima's foetus was in an unusual position during the delivery. Park...

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DCMerkle skysuccess, Even though I believe in karma I don't think that animals are part of the karmic cycle. What I do believe in is that animals of any kind do go to heaven and that is where I hope that Taima and her calf have gone. DCMerkle

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Could you manage without a musical environment?

smiley83 @smiley83 (1534) • Malaysia 26 May 10

Well guys,,, I'm just wondering if you could manage without music? personally, it is totally difficult if it is impossible for me to go on without music! in which, 1. I can't study without some music 2. I can't drive...

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DCMerkle Music is heard in so many different ways. It's all in what we are drawn to. It can be music that is directly created or just the music of the world around you in sound. If I don't feel like listening to commercial music and want something that is more...

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