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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If being married presents a significant obstacle to getting out of a chronically unhappy relationship, as it certainly can, then I pity those so burdened. My other brother, the good one, who died in 2007, married the woman he met in high school, but not until they had been a couple for more...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve known couples who met in their teen years and even prior to that who got married and stayed married — more or less happily, judging from all outward appearances. But, like most of us, I presume, I’ve known more people who married young and divorced. And married again. And again. And … I...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Women were considered something akin to property even within our lifetimes. It was still common for Sally Anderson to become Mrs. Robert Jones when she married Bob. It was only recently that offspring weren’t automatically given their father’s surname, and it’s still the most prevalent practice...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Those sexual mores are from a time of generally shorter lifespans, less reliable contraception, greater infant mortality, a much smaller population, and far fewer years of education and not being in the “productive” workforce, The very idea of a “teenager” is a fairly recent phenomenon. My...
  5. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    A buck apiece for those Henckels knives is almost criminal. I dig the lid, too. If it were mine I’d make a “new” hat from it, provided the felt is as solid as it appears in the photos.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I gotta wonder that if in generations past sexual relations outside the bounds of holy matrimony were so scandalous that people married with little concern for compatibility beyond those carnal attractions. People, especially young people, really wanna get laid, and not everyone was into...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I wonder if it’s akin to, say, living near a busy airport. It’s not that you stop hearing the airplane noise, but you come to disregard it. Or, perhaps a better analogy is living near a dairy farm, or even just visiting one. It doesn’t take long NOT to notice the aroma.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I haven’t taken so much as a puff off a cigarette in nearly 17 years, and I still occasionally smoke in my dreams. I feel a mixture of guilt and shame, and it wakes me up (which I suppose is why I remember it).
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can smell cigarette smoke from the next door neighbor smoking on his deck, probably a hundred feet away. (He’s a friend, and by the time the smoke drifts over my way it‘s so diluted as not to pose any real hazard.) Our societal approach to tobacco smoking could be a model for dealing with...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ You are exceptional in that regard. I’ve known of tobacco smokers who only occasionally partook of the killer weed, but for every one of them there are at least several hundred who smoke daily, usually several times daily. I wish it weren’t so harmful. I loved smoking. There’s much to be...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I was a heavy smoker for 30-some years. Thought I’d never quit. But giving it up became remarkably easy when it appeared that the choice was quitting or dying. I lost a friend, the closest friend I’ve ever had, to lung cancer. That was six years ago. He had quit smoking a few years prior...
  14. tonyb

    Doing Dishes

    Unlike so many of the efforts so many of us expend in our daily lives, these “menial” tasks leave us with little doubt that we actually accomplished something.
  15. tonyb

    Doing Dishes

    I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer a single sink over a double sink. We have two kitchens here, both with stainless steel double sinks. During the remo-lite we did in the upstairs kitchen a few years back we replaced a tacky faux-stone fiberglass sink with a new stainless double sink, which...
  16. tonyb

    Doing Dishes

    I’ll never win any Good Housekeeping awards, but I can’t abide piles of dirty dishes left for any length of time in the sink and on the counters and table or anywhere except where dishes belong, which is clean and in the cupboards and drawers. I recoil at the sight of dried-on food on dishes...
  17. tonyb

    Good Eats-Show Us Your Vintage Diners

    I just now looked up what has become of the free diner in Wichita. No updates since early February.
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My stepdad’s stepdad, a nice fellow who went by “Bud,” and Bud’s brother-in-law (my stepdad’s uncle), a wiry, craggy, rawboned man we all called Uncle Arch, moonlighted a few nights per week cleaning a medical office building. Both Bud and Uncle Arch were actively alcoholic when I lived under...
  20. tonyb

    Building a bookcase by hand.

    I can‘t think of a reason it shouldn’t last centuries, provided it isn’t left exposed to the elements or otherwise subjected to treatment it wasn’t made for. If it’s used as a place to shelve books, it‘s hard to see how it would suffer much from that.
  21. tonyb

    Building a bookcase by hand.

    Besides the occasional indigestion, the only lasting reminder of a girlfriend of 40-plus years ago is a bookcase she fashioned by hand that now occupies a spot in my library, a space a real estate agent would call a bedroom. If I’m remembering correctly, the bookcase has moved half a dozen...
  22. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ^^^^ How’d you score the plates, Bob?
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ It will never stop entirely, but a would-be abuser’s knowledge that he stands a good chance of being called to account might curb his impulses some. This is assuming he is a generally rational actor. In too many cases, that may be assuming too much. I am too well acquainted with a fellow...

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