Great. Trump's lawyers will have jurors' names

How long will those take to be delivered to the cult? Obviously they are under orders to not copy or share those, but...these are folks who are choosing to defend Donald. How much integrity could they possibly have?

What book are you reading now?

And do you recommend it?

Secret Service oath

Doesn't Donnie have secret service agents protecting him? The secret service agents' oath, as I found it, is

“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

So...how are they defending our constitution against all enemies while defending Donnie from harm? He has threatened our constitution numerous times. Maybe it's just me, but that is puzzling. Do they take some secret MAGA oath that overrides it?

Book is done; new speed bump

The book is done, many edits after readings by me and helpful friends. I'm happy with it. I am on the fence about publishing, but that's moot for right now. When I started it, as a hobby, I just started writing. I put in page numbers and chapter numbers and so on. No title page, no dedication page. I would like to add those. It is in .docx format. I have 3 different word processing programs. I cannot seem to add a title page and dedication page without them being pages 1 and 2. In the old Word, which I used a lot a long time ago, this was simple--insert page numbers, and start here with page 1. Not these. I also need a header on book pages with my name on the left pages, book title on right.

I put a post in Next Door for some local person to help with word processing. By now I am sure that is buried and will not get a response. I discovered "Upwork" online, where you can hire people to do such things for a reasonable cost. Registered, logged in later, and then when they wanted to "verify" me, my login no longer was valid. Huh? Yeah, sorry, buh bye.

So I am stuck unless I can find someone to do this bit of formatting for me. Anyone know of a reliable online place to find an editor for something as simple and basic as this? Or where else to look?

ETA: I have watched many YouTube tutorials for the different programs I have. Clearly the programs have updated and of course changed since the videos were made. I do not get the screens that they do. So I need a different path to get there, and I have no idea how.

ETA: It's not the program. I'm sure it is doable in all of these. But apparently not by me. I need to find someone who can do this. Perfectly happy to pay a freelancer, but Upwork is the only online place I can find such a person, and that did not work out.

Need help with car info

Me again. I've tried to Google this so as to not bother you guys, but my lack of knowledge is too total for that to work. I get an answer and... I don't know if it will work since I don't know if it's a minor enough part....

Ok, nutshell: I need something annoying but not vital to go wrong with MC's car so that she has to take it to a repair place (so it is removed from the premises). Something like it stalls at stop lights, is leaking oil, anything like that. It's drivable but needs to be fixed. It is an old (2014-ish) Honda Civic. I need something that would require the shop in this small town to order a part, meaning they would have it for four days or so. Any thoughts on a basic, but not always available, car part for some kind of minor issue? TIA

Where would you hide it?

I am writing a fiction book. A character, now dead, was a reporter. He was solving a cold case in another state and did not put the info on the computer because he did not want it there. He has it in a somewhat-thin file folder. I need it to be hidden in his desk so someone looking for it might miss it. It will be labeled something non-descriptive, but it will contain the info.

Where can he put it? Do desks still have blotters now to hide things under? Is it easy to create a false bottom to a drawer? His replacement reporter at the desk has to find it, so it has to be findable, but not obvious. Any thoughts on where he can put a folder? TIA

Just having my dinner...

..watching a little TV...

I can relate to this....

Advice on potential new friend?

I live in Trumpistan. The vast majority of people in this town are GOP trumpers, blaming Biden for everything. I lost several friends back in 2017-2018 because I could not be around people whose values and morals differed so much from mine. I've missed having friends. I have connected with someone local (not a person from here, been here about a year) regarding something I was selling, and via online chat we got along well. We are meeting to browse an antique shop next week. I know she is religious, which I am not, but I have no problem with that as long as it is not pushed on me. I have no idea how to handle it if she spouts some anti-Biden trumper crap. I will not be friends with one of them, period. But what do I do if she does that? Claim to have a headache and leave? Sound like an intolerant human and say "Ok, this will not work out" and leave? Or let it go, leave as soon as possible and what? Ghost her? I have lived for years with no local friends and while I would love to have one again, I will not just overlook a GOP perspective, it's repugnant to me. Any thoughts on what to do if she "comes out" as a MAGAt when we get together for a fun and simple shopping trip?

Music question...

Does anyone here remember an album that was put out by a British group (or possibly single artist, but I think group) some time between about 1968 and 1971 (at the latest) that began with a deep-voiced man asking "Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin"? This memory of mine has been driving me crazy as I listen to all Moody Blues albums in that period, Chad and Jeremy, and similar groups that may have started with that (I was so sure it was going to be Cabbages and Kings, but no), hoping to find the album. IMPORTANTLY: I do not mean the Moody Blues *song* called "Are you sitting comfortably." I do not mean an old British radio program that started with that phrase. And it is that exact phrase, not one paraphrasing it, which can be found on a Humble Pie album (or was it the Faces?). If anyone knows what album it was, let me know!