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I am not confident enough with this answer to leave the next puzzle until the answer is confirmed. It seems too obvious to be correct! LOL "Music to the ears?"

I like it Antlerman! For me, I will be Nike. "Just do it." And I am. :)

A nice steak - hopefully done to a perfect medium rare, squash from my garden, and ah, well, I am cooking fries instead of the baked potato that I should be having. All along with the football game. :)

Have a great day on your birthday arejayell. :)

Alright! GREAT idea!!!!! I can start a Cerb friendly retirement home. I already have resources and research ongoing. My nursing home will be more lenient than the one written about below. Katherine and Lee, ready to sign on the dotted line?

Well I'll tell ya. When I was 30, I thought that 60 was ancient. But now that I am 60 I am thinking hey, its not so bad. :) I don't feel a whole lot different from when I was 30! The saying of "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," has no basis in reality, thank God. I have experienced a few new tricks in the last couple of years and I still have a few yet to experience. Love it. I will be done when I am done and I don't think that it will be based on a number either.

I have been around long enough to have seen the many conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. I tuned in regularly over the last week to observe the latest threats and each time shook my head with the futility of the military action from both sides. There surely must come a time when reality actually sinks in and for Israel to understand that a Palestinian state is a must and at the same time for the Palestinians to accept the existence of Israel as a neighboring state. Does that not sound simple? In the aftermath of the Arab spring and with new powers and leaders in the middle east perhaps a new initiative is in the works. One can only hope so. The ceasefire that is now in place is hopefully only the starting point. If there were a Christmas gift that I would ask for it would be for these two sides to sit and to talk and to negotiate in good faith in order to make that region a viable and peaceful area. Is it truly possible?

Congrats Cato on four years!

Happy birthday Kianna. I recall meeting you briefly at a social and well remember your happy smile and fun attitude. Best wishes for a great day and year ahead.

I choose naughty. In your coffee - cream, cream and sugar or black?

This might sound a little on the corny side or the maudlin side but for me it is neither. Today I put a small Christmas tree up beside my wife's grave. I will put a few decorations on it tomorrow and the solar lights to begin on December 1st. She loved Christmas even more than I and last year when I thought about doing this it was an SP friend that told me to do it if that's what I wanted to do, so I did. It made me smile every single time I went by or went over to visit and I was smiling today. :)

Bacon!!! The smell of fresh baked bread or the smell of a nice spaghetti sauce simmering?

Well it looks as if my words from my earlier post have come back to bite me. I am thinking that the two teams in the big game are both surprise teams, and I think I will go with the Argos as a sentimental pick. I have been lucky enough to go to one Gray Cup game in the past and it was a great experience so if I were anywhere near Toronto I'd be trying to get a ticket. Go Argos!!!! :)

Oh Oh, that did not go well! I have promised many people samplers of my Christmas cookies. Three kinds are done and came out just the way they were supposed to. However, today was Florentines day. Lets just say that during the baking process they spread out too much and the first tray looks more like a crepe with Christmas ingredients. The second tray looked like cookies until I tried to take them off of the tray. How about cookie balls? The last tray was a combination of the first two. However, they do taste good. Any ladies care to come over and we can melt the chocolate and use our fingers to dip them and just eat them like that. :) Where is mistert when I need him. Next stop - youtube! I shall persevere!!!

Short hair Crossword puzzles or sudoku's?

I know this is true Erin. "There is life after 40" :) Next: STANDS 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Fishing. Red wine, white wine or bubbly wine?

I like MightyFinn because he is upbeat and fun on here. As well, without MF realizing it when we spoke in chat not long ago he gave me an idea for a little mini-business that I could do from my own home as a little something to do.

I generally find it rare to come across something that causes me frustration to the point that I am angry, but this article is very close to bringing me to that point. The frustration is there, with certainty! Where do I start? 1. "Real men don't buy girls." Never once in my foray into the world of Cerb have I felt that I was buying a person. The idea of buying a person is abhorrent to me. What I have done is enter into very unique transactions that probably two years ago I would have questioned, but now, after having met so many incredible people on here, I find my participation to be one side of a mutually beneficial agreement. So what did I purchase? I know I did not purchase a woman. I purchased the opportunity to meet someone that intrigued me. I purchased the opportunity to communicate with someone in a way that I never would be able to do otherwise. I purchased the opportunity to engage in an intimate physical encounter, but each and every time should that not happen because either of us were uncomfortable, then that activity was not taken by me as a guarantee. Most of the women that I have met would never consider selling themselves, the person who is an SP. 2. "People recognize that absent in all our work around prostitution is an analysis of men who buy sex under exploited conditions." This quote alone sends me into debate mode. First there is the presumption that the women involved are being exploited. I am not naive enough to think that there are not women in this industry who are being exploited. The women that I see here on Cerb do not give me that opinion. An independent service provider is her own boss and she makes her own decisions. She can choose to work, or not. She can choose to meet any particular client, or not. She can choose to meet many clients, or few. She can choose to work seven days a week, or none. That sounds to me more like a successful business plan opportunity. Who are these men who buy sex? I am one and I have met several others through Cerb. None of us are the stereotypical John. Some are married, some are single, some are widowed. We each have our own personal and unique reason to be involved here. For many of us it is not solely sex that we seek but personal companionship, fantasy or otherwise. 3. "Crime stoppers runs a local program to reform men ......" Reform men????? Reform according to one dictionary is defined as "to cause (a person) to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct." To be reformed therefore I must be doing something that is wrong or evil. It may turn out that for me on a personal level that this is wrong, never evil, and time will tell, but on a societal level from what I have seen there is nothing wrong or evil about it. As with any story there are two sides to it. If the issue is street level prostitution, hanging out on corners, unwarranted street traffic in suburbia, noise, the leaving behind of debris, refuse, condoms and the like then there is something to be said. Study and raising discussion about prostitution is ultimately a good thing, but to open a dialogue with the basic premise and conclusion that prostitution is wrong and evil is not a discussion at all.

A belated but on going highlight. Two of my kids were home last weekend and will not be back until just before Christmas. They asked if they could put up my Christmas decorations since they have not done it for years. So, my house is fully decorated except for the real tree that we will get when they come for Christmas. Looks kind of nice in here. :) My outside lights are ready to turn on for December 1st.

There is to be a new bus service for the three maritime provinces called the Tri-Maritime Bus Network and it is scheduled to begin on December 1st. You may Google it or look at this news story. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/10/26/pei-maritime-bus-train-plane-584.html At present I cannot find a company website or link to schedules and fares but I presume that these will be out shortly. I do hope that this service does get up and running.

5-1 Air Canada or Westjet?

Neebletons answer is uproar, but I am stumped on Tallguys, so I shall leave that as the next one to be solved.

The ingredients for my Christmas cookies - peanut butter balls, cherry surprises, florentines and my favorite, shortbread cookies.

Congratulations Spud on # 2000. Well done!