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It is Thanksgiving 2022. The family had an early Thanksgiving lunch. We had roasted turkey, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and corn bread stuffing.  Because of the high cost of food this year, the turkey we cooked was smaller. Even still, it was mighty tasty.  I hope that you and your family are having a good Thanksgiving.  Until next time.

 It is November 23, 2022. The day before Thanksgiving. Today, I discovered that my old blogs have been terminated by Blogspot/Google. I made this discovery while updating my Linktree page and saw that my blog no longer loaded when I clicked on the link. As much as I lament losing 18 years of content, I am actually fine with it. This gives me a chance to start over. Fresh and clean.  The reason why I was updating my LinkTree page was that I wanted to add a link to my new HIVE Social profile. I signed up for the service as a precautionary move in the off chance that Twitter implodes after the company fired many of their engineers. I'm not leaving Twitter completely though. I've been on that platform since November 2007. That's 15 years of tweeting nonesense with the Blue Bird. Hive Social is a very young social media platform and while it does seem to be the perfect blend of Instagram and Twitter, their Android app is slow compared to their iOS app. Plus, Hive doesn't hav...