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Check out some of his novellas like The Langoliers, If It Bleeds, Elevation, etc. They are shorter reads (for King at least, usually only a couple hundred pages) and generally get straight to the point (instead of spending a chapter describing a scene).

That and his short stories are some of his best work. It might make you want to jump into some of his more iconic stuff or allow you to realize you don't love his writing style and save you a couple thousand pages.

The Boogeyman is my favorite short story from him. Jerusalem's Lot is also the short story that Salem's Lot comes from. Another great read.

The gunslinger is definitely a hard one to get going (but it does get going) because he was super young when he wrote it (I think he was like 19 or something like that) but overall the Dark Tower series is one of the best pieces of fiction I've ever read. Especially if you're familiar with his world building (lots of books live within the Dark Tower universe like The Stand, Salem's Lot, even The Shining to an extent). It also has one of the most memorable open lines of any book series "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gun slinger followed".

It was more than just the phone books. Back before smart phones, if you needed to look up a phone number you'd call information (411) and they'd look it up for you. For instance, if you were stuck on the side of the road and needed a tow truck.

Information would be able to look up businesses close to where you were using the NPA/NXX of the phone number you were calling from (the first six digits of the number including the area code) and then give you a couple options in alphabetical order.

I had a client who had a phone number in every exchange in NYC and had a name like "AAA Towing" so no matter where in NYC you called information for a tow truck from, they'd usually be the first option given to you.

They're not hurting the people they need to be hurting.

All of the English teachers agree with him.

Wouldn't reverse deportation be sending American citizens to a different country? TBH, there's definitely cases I would at least entertain that argument.

We do the same, but opposite. We have a minivan and a smaller EV. The minivan is technically hers and the EV is mine, but it's really more what it's used for. If one of us is taking the kids somewhere (school, birthday parties, fun) we take the van. If we're running to the store, normal errands or just taking a single kid we'll use the EV.

It doesn't make sense for her to take the minivan to run to the store to pick up something small and it doesn't make sense for me to take the smaller car to bring the kids somewhere.

These aren't regular people, these are navy soldiers on a high tech warship, I have to imagine their IT would know how to find rogue wifi APs.

You could easily scan for hidden SSIDs. It might not show up in your phone's wifi list, but that's by design. The traffic is still there and discoverable. Even with an app like WiFiman (made by Ubiquiti).

Yea, they eventually did the tour and honored the tickets. I guess $250 isn't terrrrrrible, when I was looking it was like $250 for essentially nosebleed seats.

True or not this is now a fact in my mind.