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  1. tonyb

    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

    Picked up 36 pieces of Homer Laughlin Fiesta ware — dinner plates, salad plates, soup bowls, a dozen of each — for 50 bucks. Found on Facebook Marketplace. It’s of fairly recent manufacture, so not of much value to Fiesta collectors. But at a buck thirty-nine per piece, I did good.
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    The degree to which people disregard the role of biology — you know, the birds and the bees — in all this can leave me gobsmacked. It’s as if they missed that day in health class when they went over human reproduction. It’s as if they forgot the biological basis of the sexual imperative. The...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ I believe it was on the occasion of one of his later birthdays when Gore Vidal observed that among the benefits of advancing age was freedom from what he called “the tyranny of the male libido.” I wish the Gore Vidal of 40 or 50 years ago, when he was at the height of his powers (by my...
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you ain’t a kid anymore when many a 60-year-old woman catches your eye, and not just the sirens of the silver screen, either. I was left numb, speechless, absolutely unmoored, by the news that an old girlfriend had died at age 71. We hadn’t been involved with each other for nearly a...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ The oft-told story is that Paul McCartney, always one with an ear for a catchy melody, came up with that tune at age 14. I hesitate to call anything “timeless,” but McCartney’s songs, many of them, transcend the rock ‘n’ roll era. He has a tremendous gift, and we’re fortunate to have him...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I had a similar experience just this day. It pains me to recount the details, so I’ll spare myself. But know that you aren’t the only one frustrated by this stuff. It’s truly all for the convenience of the business and not the customer.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Dissatisfaction is at the heart of almost all innovation. Sure, there’s always “good enough” or “it’ll do,” but those are acknowledgements that it could be better.
  9. tonyb

    What's cooking?

    I’ll be right over.
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Several days into Standard Time and just this morning I tackled resetting the digital clock on the microwave oven. I found online instructions far clearer than what the manufacturer’s pamphlet provides.
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’ve been seeing a podiatrist every three months for the past couple years, to keep the nail fungus in check and to carve out the calluses that form on the balls of my feet and can make walking painful when that hardened skin presses against nerves. The podiatrist trims my nails and then takes a...
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    And you come to appreciate a little spandex in your blue jeans and ads for “step-in” shoes get your attention.
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    What's cooking?

  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Being on friendly terms with a few people in the old-stuff (vintage, antique, etc.) enterprise I can be only so critical of the practices of the thrift stores and the pickers who resell the stuff they find there. The thrifts wouldn’t be charging the prices they do if there weren’t people...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ For several years my Dear Old Ma ran her small-town senior center’s thrift store. They sold housewares for next to nothing, often to the itinerant farm laborers who would be in that agricultural Mecca for a few months before moving on. When the next year‘s work brought them back, they’d...
  17. tonyb

    What's cooking?

    The weather is turning. There’s been frost on the rooftops in the morning. Smoked ham hocks and pinto beans in the slow cooker. Onion, garlic, celery, carrots, chicken broth, water. We’ll be subsisting mostly on that for the next couple days.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s been a point of annoyance for me as well. It’s understandable that the mission of the thrift stores is to make money for their sponsoring not-for-profits. That being the case, their marketing of the donated swag in ways that make the most money is certainly defensible. Still, though, what...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’d have gone with the black. All kidding aside, pink and black is a killer combination. It’s often combined with a third color, most frequently white, it seems. I see it everywhere.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I lived in the same little house (since demolished; a McMansion now occupies its site) from 1979 to 1999. Since then I’ve moved five times, most recently nine years ago. I hope never to move again, but should circumstances compel me to, I know I will be doing little of the actual moving myself...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m a fan of modernist architecture, but I agree that this is a crime scene. It’s that person’s right to do with the house whatever s/he wishes (provided it isn’t “landmarked” or otherwise restricted), but yeah, if you really want to live in a minimalist white box, there are far less expensive...
  23. tonyb

    What’s to like about where you live?

    I’m just now reminded of the Roger Miller song “Kansas City Star.” It’s an ode to liking where one lives. And it’s humorous, of course, seeing how it’s a Roger Miller song.

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