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  1. tonyb

    Essentials for the kitchen

    I’ve mentioned in other threads the remo-lite I did on our generic suburban rambler’s kitchen a few years ago. This was prompted in large part by my disdain for the amateur remo inflicted on it by the previous owner. I just couldn’t continue looking at it anymore, had I the choice, which I did...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I’ve still getting slammed with voicemails from outfits telling me I’m leaving employee retention funds on the table (I’m not) and that I likely qualify for “free” rooftop solar (I don’t, and neither does anyone else). As to the retirement seminars and funeral home solicitations … I...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s increasingly becoming my habit as well. Indeed, my outgoing voicemail message says just that. Our resorting to this, in our response to junk calls, inconveniences both ourselves and the “legitimate” callers — we, by having to listen to their messages and calling them back; and they, by...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another phone etiquette peeve … Phone rings. I answer. Me: Hello Caller: Who’s this? Me: click
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Speakerphones I have Bluetooth-enabled “sound system” in the car paired with my iPhone (who doesn’t these days?, besides Lizzie, I mean) on which I can take calls hands free. The sound quality is pretty good on both ends. But it annoys me, and always has, when a person talks with me over a...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Yes
  8. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    As to difficult terrain … In the Seattle area, where Himalayan blackberry is a terribly invasive species and the land is quite steep in places, goats have proven a better way of addressing the problem. They eat just about anything, they can scale nearly vertical terrain, and they leave a good...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Any speculation as to what that might be attributed? Back 50-plus years ago the cattle ranch I occasionally worked for kept a pair of Clydesdales to pull the buckboards on skis because they handled the snow-covered ground as well or better than mechanical contraptions. But the rancher just...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Home vegetable gardens. They certainly didn’t go away entirely, but I’m seeing more and more springing up around here, where gardening of any type short of xeriscaping is a challenge. The stay-at-home years contributed to it, I’d imagine. All sorts of domestic activities — baking, sewing...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It seems that the pandemic added fuel to a trend already well in motion. Digital technologies are having profound effects, many of which we’ve already witnessed, some are within our vision, and others we’re bound to be blindsided by. In recent months I’ve read some scary predictions of what...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don’t you just love that personal attention?
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    Ghost signs

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    You know you are getting old when:

    These are far from mutually exclusive options.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A somewhat younger friend was by this afternoon. I put on the Harry Belafonte album recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1959. He said, “My grandmother had this album.”
  19. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Branch banks, and physical banking locations in general. They haven’t disappeared entirely, and it’s unlikely they will in my lifetime, but there are many more closing than opening. Today, for the first time in a long time, I had reason to stop in at a branch bank. There was one teller at a...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^ I question if that date is correct. I believe that Belafonte’s guest hosting week was in February of 1968. RFK and MLK were among his guests that week, but MLK was killed on April 4 of that year. So unless Belafonte guest hosted again in April, and again hosted RFK, this date would be...
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Today’s sad news of the death of Harry Belafonte came with a reminder that he guest hosted the Tonight Show for a week in 1968. Among his guests that week were Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both of whom would be assassinated in the coming months. That was 55 years ago. It‘s good...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Irony is wasted, eh?
  23. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

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