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  1. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^ I was looking into the authorship (Too much time on his hands? Me?) and came upon this …
  2. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    “He Had the Right of Way” would make one helluva epitaph.
  3. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^^ Red traffic signals and white lines on pavement have proven incapable of physically stopping a motor vehicle. But I can envision technologies that would. I hesitate to predict when (or even if) that might happen.
  4. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^^ There will come a day that none of us will live to see when people will just shake their heads at how people of our time had pedestrians and bicyclists sharing the same pavement as automobiles and large trucks. There have been some safety improvements in recent years, but unless and...
  5. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^ Motorcycles were my primary mode of transport for several years. I commuted on ‘em; I’ve motorcycled coast to coast, and back again. I maintain the motorcycle endorsement on my license but it’s unlikely I’ll ever buy another bike, mostly because I am no longer bulletproof. But if I were...
  7. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    It appears that Harley-Davidson is largely dependent on the nostalgic impulses of its customer base. Its most popular models — the large displacement air-cooled big twins — may have undergone numerous technical changes over the years (they’re actually pretty solid machines these days, or so...
  8. tonyb

    The Calendar Is Ticking

    ^^^^^^^^ My late friend told of visiting his mother as she sank further and further into dementia. When she seemed uncertain who this visitor was he would say, “It’s Dennis, Mom,” to which she typically replied, “Oh, isn’t that nice! I have a son named Dennis.”
  9. tonyb

    The Calendar Is Ticking

    I was on Lisinopril for a good decade or more until I developed a cough. Turns out that’s not uncommon. I’m on so many meds now that I take a U-Haul to the pharmacy.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ The lovely missus and I speculate when watching a whodunit if someone will get fatally murdered to death before the first commercial break.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Unique *AND* one-of-a-kind! (Let’s just acknowledge the battle is lost and surrender.)
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I dunno (if I did I’d be far richer), but I’ve long argued that the effects of accessory dwelling units and short-term rentals on their communities hinges on how well they are regulated. An acquaintance made a fortune in the short-term rental business (she started an agency in her...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And should that crash occur those people likely won’t be the ones with their pockets turned inside out. I’ve heard it referred to as “the greater fool theory,” but the difference between a genius real estate investor and that fool is mostly a matter of timing, which is itself mostly a matter of...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^^ Remember the 2008 crash? A friend bought a house shortly thereafter for half what the previous “owner” paid a couple years previously. Prices have more than “recovered” since then. But it’s been 16 years, even if it doesn’t seem it.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Housing costs have escalated at a rate far exceeding that of the overall inflation rate. And yes, I find myself wondering just who is making the kind of scratch it takes to buy even a modest house these days. Young people are forgiven for thinking I’m being less than honest when I tell them...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ I hesitate to say what I think of such architecture. Somebody thought it was a good idea, though, and, if it sells for what they’re hoping to get for it, I suppose that’s good for them. (And really, for that kinda money the staging could be considerably more inspired.) It pains me to...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It doesn’t tick me off but it does have me scratching my head … The newly built suburban subdivisions with 4,000-square-foot houses — four bedrooms, four bathrooms — on 4,800-square-foot lots. I found myself at such a place this afternoon. Each two-story house has a two-car garage and a...
  20. tonyb

    Parcels wrapped & tied with string.

    ^^^^^^ Good point. Perhaps the “brown paper packages tied up with strings” could be put in other boxes for shipping?
  21. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I’m “half adopted” myself. My biological father died when I was four months old. I was the youngest of my 21-year-old mother’s three boys. When mom remarried we were all legally adopted and birth certificates were reissued to reflect our new parentage. Those documents may reflect a legal...
  22. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^ Lest we get misty-eyed about “the good old days,” eh?
  23. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ Ordnance left over from WWII? The young couple across the street from our former residence occupied the house inherited from his late father, who had more than a dozen inoperable cars (he was partial to Pontiacs) behind a tall fence, among numerous other collections of what might fairly...

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