Call to mind how many vacant lots and crap houses (you know, "how are they still standing and why on earth do people live like that?"

The only ones that are successful their first year are the ones that work long, hard hours pressing palms, kissing babies, driving all over God's green earth, answering phone calls at 11:30pm, writing emails at 4am, and generally working like their life depended on it.

After the seller seemingly fell off the face of the earth I happened to run across the wholesaler who scooped it up.

I wish there were more people like you on earth.

Just like the bubonic plague--when the earth was flat. 

In Wuhan alone they have one of the largest meat markets in existence, where every disease carrying animal that walks, swims or crawls the face of the earth is butchered, sold and eaten in tight rows of vendors.

Why on earth would you want to use credit cards?

I can agree to payment plans with all my tenants except those that drive diesel cars, believe the earth is flat, or think dark chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

Although it did affect my "full immersion" into the culture I was within, it was really neat knowing that I could conduct business on the home-front from one of the most remote places on Earth.

This was summer in central CA so I don't know why on earth she would offer such a thing, It was 100 degrees outside, but that was HER idea so I said they could stay as long as the birds never, ever, EVER go back inside my house.To their credit, they left the place spotless, but now Lucas has revived the latent horror of wondering how much those birds peed and crapped on my furniture.