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  1. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ah the season of holiday shopping is upon us. A brief outing with my family reminded me of the process of shopping for presents: I tell/show wife what I would like then she proceeds to argue with me as to how that isn't what I want and then tells me what I really should want. I hate gift giving...
  2. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I am amused by some of the tight jeans people wear these days. I can only wonder how the get them off when so often their feet seem considerably larger than the cuff.
  3. Hercule

    I love the Fed IV!!

    How much did you trim off the brim? The proportions look great.
  4. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Turkey Hill seems to be one of the leading store brands here in the midwest, though there are a few boutique brands popping up. A popular local ice cream that isn't in stores is Mitchel's. They've got some great flavors (and some odd ones- sweet corn, and a couple beer-based seasonals), but my...
  5. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That's exactly how my father in law was killed several months ago. He had Alzheimer's and in a belligerent mood stormed out of the house at dusk wearing dark sweatpants and sweatshirt. Mother in law went after him in the car but couldn't get him in. He was walking down the middle of the road...
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just got back from taking my wife to the doctor this morning. We arrive and they ask for ID and insurance card. My wife says that nothing has changed since she was there last week, to which the receptionist replies "we've changed, we have a new software system." I kid you not!
  8. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Why is it that every time I see the Dr. or have business with the medical profession, long waits and bad service is always excused because they're dealing with a "new system." Its getting to be a tiresome excuse.
  9. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Working as a librarian and being an inveterate coffee drinker, I can both sympathize and take issue with your assessment of "coffee joints in libraries." Once upon a time libraries were august and venerated institutions of research, study, and learning and certainly not the place for food and...
  10. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Son started at a new school for high school, thus my commute to work this morning was 90 minutes / 60 miles door to door! Heaven help me it's only the 2nd week of freshman year.
  11. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Thank you so much, it is appreciated. He had pretty severe Alzheimer's and had stormed out of the house. My mother-in-law was following him and trying to get him in the car when it happened. She saw the whole thing! (They're in rural Pennsylvania so it wasn't a busy road) He had become abusive...
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes indeed. About three weeks back my wife's father was struck by a car and killed, and as we were gathering up information for some of the paperwork and we came across his twin brother's 1941 certified German copy of his Austrian birth certificate. That was a complicated time and place for...
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Possessing a PhD in music myself (my masters is in musicology) I might be inclined to take umbrage at that assessment. But I certainly don't as I could elaborate on it at great length. It describes perfectly those old fuddy-duddies back in grad school (may they all rot in hell, but I digress...)...
  15. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What you describe is not just the internet. It applies quite well to our own mainstream media. As I caution my 13 year old son who has recently begun of his own accord to monitor news stories, our media outlets not only decides what news is presented, but how it is presented. One must be...
  16. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    +1 on that for sure. I really appreciate the search-ability of electronic media when it comes to tracking down an article. Though I certainly can agree to preferring actual print media when it comes to general reading. What I DON'T miss with newspapers is them taking several paragraphs to get...
  17. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    [deleted] Sorry about that, I just realized how old the post was that I was replying to. Sorry for the unnecessary detour. Carry on.
  19. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think it all comes down to a lack of maturity (some might say intellect) to know when to exercise discretion. Power does indeed corrupt.
  20. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sounds like a TSA guy we encountered a while back. Cops can be scary people, and sadly many of them lack mental maturity and shouldn't be cops in the first place. My wife went to a baby shower where the mom to be had married into a family with many cops. Good god the stories my wife said she...
  21. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Went to the orchestra on Saturday. A nice program of a relatively obscure Mussorgski prelude, a Prokofiev piano concerto and Tchaikovski's 4th Symphony (which was obscenely loud, but to be fair there was a time when I would have loved it that way, but I digress). The annoying part, sad actually...
  22. Hercule

    irascibly stoic

    irascibly stoic
  23. Hercule

    Experimenting on foods.

    My inlaws (German) would always serve waffles with chicken gravy. I grew up with such gravies on toast, usually for breakfast, so it wasn't very much of a stretch. For me its either sweet or savory not a combination of the two. Bob Evans restaurants serve waffles and chicken but that has syrup...

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