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As usual, The tee hee hees got to me. Its the ghosts of gonads past... Happy Har Har New Year by Jar Jar Binks, the New Star Wars Movie from Hollyweird.

The engagement ring I got was a 1.4 ct Radiant that was a VVS 2 for having a faint carbon fog around the girdle. No halo tho. I resold it to the son of a Sedona Jeweler for the next owner to love.

Thanks for sharing. You seemed to have that "physicians" philosophy about you. It's sad the shops have to put the disclaimer down on the bottom of the page for the scientists & as people would think it was guaranteed to heal them and sue if it did not. 4 or 5 folks wanted their admissi...

Found a real interesting article from the GIA on a very rare diamond formation.
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/fall- ... 0EFv_r0TWM

Happy New Year.

Thats cool looking. You did good for your first effort.

Found some cute old shorts. Lightning Ridge in 1962 &
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gem- ... query/opal
Mining sapphires around Oberon
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/gem- ... query/opal

Mind is the maker so you need to make something matter for later that accommodates likely scenarios. Food and shelter is always in fashion. edit: be nice to have 20% or more of your investments in gold or silver at hand but thats more immediate LOL. The best guess for any disaster is in the next sol...

I laughed at the curmudgeon cat right off the bat. Nice to always start the week with a chuckle.

"Johnson said De Beers’ struggles are not the result of losing market share to lab-grown diamonds. "The lab-grown diamond market remains very small compared with the natural diamond market (around 1-2 percent of the size of the natural diamond market), and all our research shows that consu...