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Quebec

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Just like you were ready to be the first to wish him a Happy Birthday...and probably set your alarm to do it!

That's pretty good for Portland if not living in Lake O, the West Hills or West Linn. Aren't you in property management?

It's the first of October and I was surprised to see a smidgeon of color in the tree leaves. I'm definitely a warm weather animal, liking warm places such as CA and FL. However, I would have to say that fall is the most picturesque. I mean, a lot of places look like Thomas Kincaid paintings and, in this cooler weather, you can putz around in a sweatshirt or sweater, do the coffehouse thing and walk on forested paths. Beautiful. I will be going to Montreal and Quebec in exactly 2 and 1/2 weeks to take a week of vacation. I hope there's enough color when I get there. Every year, the peak time is slightly different. So, I voted "fall" for the beauty, though summer is more convenient, mainly for the beach weather. What is your opinion?

Yeah, we know.

Oh, yeah, the poll. God, dsuupr, what an invasion of privacy! Just kidding. I do ok, but for all the education, it's not THAT great and I'm exhausted all the time.

I saw nice all-brick newer homes in Woodbridge for $ 400k to $ 500k CDN (that would be about $ 320k to $ 400k US) for a really nice house, but you probably wouldn't want to live there. I'd fit right in from all the Italians I saw! Why the heck is auto insurance so high? Driving there was WAY easier than in any major Northeastern U.S. city.

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Don (Knotts)

OK...a year off....but, damn, it is BROWN for a good chunk of the year. Nothing like driving through the coastal range in late March and early April when all the oak-studded hills are GREEN!

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I feel good about GM. I think it will do well. I don't think it will do "rip-roaringly" well, though. The 60s are gone. In marketing classes I have taken, it is strongly indicated that, if a company can manage costs fairly well across volume changes, then market share can readily be tied to percentage changes in profits. That being said, GM needs to up its market share. Though I personally dislike Escalades, I am ecstatic to see that most people driving them are under 50 (or so it seems). Once we see scads of people that are fairly young (a relative term, I guess) getting into an Aura, a CTS, a new RWD Impy, a Solstice or a Cobalt...and they LIKE it...they will come back for that next GM purchase. This is absolutely critical. We (God, I don't even work for GM, but I am that loyal) cannot disenfranchise current purchasers of GM products. The survival of their portfolio of brands, and the company, depends on NOT (re)making the mistakes of the Roger Smith era.

Agreed. That would harmonize the brand as well as make it appropriately more contemporary (it might even fetch a few younger buyers).

Yes. Yes. Absolutely. That's the pimped-up sports version you show. Hopefully, a watered down version of that shape will be available for the CX and CXL. I was going to do another review. I had one over Labor Day weekend that I took to Canada and really got to know the car. Essentially, the boring and archaic front grille is the only thing wrong with the car. At over 800 miles (Portland to Vancouver and back), I learned that this is a wonderful car to take on a long trip. That being said, it would make a great daily driver as well. Bring on the new sloped grille! And good, that means I can grab a 3800 for the last time! That makes me

True and not true. What put Cali on the map? The Gold Rush of 1849. Statehood followed soon thereafter. And, since we're talking state nicknames, California was sought out for its gold and Nevada, "The Silver State," has a substantial mining industry and there have been numerous silver mines.

Yep, Lake Mead is the damming up of the Colorado and it does provide irrigation. Southern Nevada is very dry (and, look, Las Vegas is full of country clubs) and Northern Nevada has substantial amounts of farmland on the downward slope from Lake Tahoe and all along the backside of the Sierra Nevada which runs up and down the Cal-Neva border.

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I'm with Flybry on this one. We need to discipline ourselves. Why not ban soft drinks? Don't these have corrosive properties which, per documentaries, are alarming? I, for one, have 1 to 2 carbonated sugary soft drinks a day (AAAHHHH...love it) and, to date, I haven't had any health problems save an infection in my ankle stemming from a laceration.Butt out, government. But, like PB said, disclosure would suit me just fine. I'm glad to be told in MickeyD's lobby that the Big Mac has 560 calories...at that point, I can decide....Big Mac or Grilled Chicken Sandwich.

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Colour? You mean color, right? I love this kind of stuff, having set foot in your country nearing some 100 different times! Wait...you like those colors? Seriously? Which one was the one that was too flamboyant? One would feel like you're living inside a jar of Grey Poupon in one room. The other room would be what was left after Jack Nicholson got done with his axe-work in "The Shining." Man, I am so conservative when it comes to colors. My rule: if it works in the Eddie Bauer catalog, then it will fly. What does this mean? Tans - Navy Blue Tans - Burgundy Tans - Forest Green Various shades of tan together Sometimes, clients don't have a budget for interior design when their building shell gets done. So I have to do some color selections. I always pick colors based on earth tones with some of those combos listed above thrown in. Most of the time it's real simple and tasteful for general purpose offices and the clients like it. Sometimes, when they find some budget and they get an interior designer, they get real weird with colors (poop brown, olives, etc. etc., sometimes on different walls). I would NOT want to work in a space like that. I like real neutral and simple colors. Their $h! will go out of style in a hurry compared to the selections I make. The last project I worked on was a real nice beige exterior with dark metallic blue metal accents and a lighter shade of blue tinted glass. It came out real nice. TYD: go the understated route!

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Wait...you're at SC...and you're a Democrat?! I'm completely non-partisan and fairly apolitical. The barf icon was for Hillary but I don't like him much either. One of the things that you, young man, as a student of commerce ought to glean (I'm being comical, ignore me) is that Bill came in at the end of a recession and left before the beginning of another one...he couldn't have picked a better spot in the business cycle, which graphically undulates with predictable spikes and troughs. I think the moniker "Slick Willie" for Clinton is appropriate...I don't trust the smooth talking BS and he swept a lot under the rug that needed attention later. I am not a big fan of Bush either, but no other modern day Pres has had to deal with an attack on our soil of such magnitude. He can be a "bull in a china shop" from certain vantage points and there is certainly some validity to the special interests aspects of the war and his policies that people are upset about...including some of my staunchly Republican college friends. Good points and bad points for both of them, I guess. Back to the lighter side of the 90s, please...