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  • Antiquing

    I’m usually pretty happy with snow days as I love the peace and quiet it brings and am home most of the time anyway—but goddamn, it’s really pushing into my ability to go antiquing on the weekends and that’s sorta killing me. It’s actually worse because I’ve found half a dozen things on FB marketplace…

  • License Plates

    Did it ever occur to you why cars have license plates? If it weren’t for hit and runs or the use of vehicles to carry out crimes we probably wouldn’t need license plates. Everyone would have a plateless vehicle and the only time anyone would care who owned what was when someone had lost their…

  • Back to reading

    It’s been awhile since I’ve sat down on the weekends to read. My rule was, “Read at least 50 pages, more if you’re in the right headspace.” Today I read around a hundred pages, finishing Russel Brand’s book Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped. I started last weekend but couldn’t quite get in to…

  • Social Contracts and Fake News

    One of my personal social contracts relates to truth and facts, or more specifically news. When I was a kid, back in the 70’s and 80’s, the news was the news. It was truthful, factual, and accurate. There were three stations: ABC, CBS, and NBC. The nightly news had real actual fucking reporters like Dan…

  • Social Contracts Parts Deux

    I’m really not feeling like blogging so bear with me. Early on, there were no social contracts for blogging. In fact, nobody knew what it was. It was the Wild West. The internet was unknown. Porn and a few sites here and there. I started blogging very early on. Around 2000. Had a bit on…

  • Social Contracts

    I started listening to Lenny Bruce’s autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People tonight at the gym. I have to honestly say I payed attention to very little of it. A huge part of that is because of what’s happening health wise to me: I can barely (and sometimes never) multitask anymore. I realized…

  • Never Forget Goodwill

    Don’t go to Goodwill that much anymore. I definitely did a lot when I was poor and then when budgets were tight. Thought I’d check them out to see if they had only VHS players so I could throw one in the bedroom. Instead, ended up finding a 22 inch HP monitor for $20. I…

  • Private Online Sales or “Why so difficult?”

    My wife and I are frustrated. We’re frustrated with people who sell things online, say on sites like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. Let me tell you a personal story. I saw something I really wanted to purchase on FB Marketplace last night. I messaged the seller and we negotiated the asking price from $100 down…

  • Listening

    I knew a long time ago, you know, back in the 1980’s, that people, in general, aren’t good listeners. I think about it most days so it wasn’t unusual that it came up for me today at the gym while I was on the treadmill. So let me talk about that. The worst listener of…

  • Last day to relax

    Today’s my last day of R&R. Tomorrow I start in again with work, or more accurately, trying to work with symptoms most people wouldn’t be able to tolerate, much less work while experiencing. Of course it’s been call after call to doctor’s trying to get the one medication that’s been of any help since July,…