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  1. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    This is Otis, in a photo taken five or six winters ago. He’s now 12, more of less. We’ve had him since he was six months old, more or less. He and a littermate were abandoned in a park in Wenatchee, Washington. My Dear Old Ma and my wife had been conspiring to get me a dog when she came upon...
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    That’s pretty. Was it in that fine a cosmetic condition when it came your way?
  3. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    The dewy-eyed bride wants not just a video doorbell but also cameras trained on all sides of the house. I had thought that rather extreme but I have gradually come over to her way of thinking. She is unusually vulnerable physically and advancing years have me getting that way. And it certainly...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    The lovely missus bought an Alexa a couple-three years ago. I hated it. She gave it to a friend.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ It’s an unfortunate human tendency, especially among the young, not to recognize our indebtedness to others. Some never outgrow it.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    This is just a little before my time, seeing how I moved to Seattle in 1968. Hydroplane racing was still a BFD out that way when I landed there. Not so much anymore. It’s a whole lot safer now, though, what with the jet fighter canopies and onboard oxygen and escape hatches (those things have...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    ^^^^^ Something like that, although I read that the overall inflation rate is fueled (groan) in large part by dramatically higher gasoline prices, from which we’ve gotten substantial relief in recent weeks. I have had the great good fortune of not having to drive much (I go days on end without...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    My palate is sensitive enough to appreciate the difference between arabica and robusta or a dark roast versus a light roast. But beyond that it’s all pretty much the same to me. So I typically buy the two-pound bags of dark-roasted whole-bean store-brand arabica at Safeway. A year or so ago it...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Unopened. Yours?
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    I’m thinking it’s the heat generated by the friction of that spinning blade as it reduces the beans into a finer and finer grind, whereas the burr grinds the individual beans in a single pass and doesn’t subject the beans to such repeated friction? Maybe that’s hooie. Our current setup is a...
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    It’s reheatable!
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    You know you are getting old when:

    … you call an old friend, a guy you worked with years and years ago and with whom you stay in touch every now and then, and get a recording that says the number is no longer in service. And then you consider who you might call who would know what became of this old mutual friend and you remember...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    ^^^^ Where was (is?) it?
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    This would seem the place to share the sad news that Torrans Manufacturing Co., an outfit that produced stamped steel “motel chairs,” is calling it quits. Their website says they’re selling out what remains of their inventory, which ain’t much. I bought two chairs from them in recent years and...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Sounds like it has found a good home.
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ Our Ms. Maine is knowledgeable on such matters, as is a fellow who goes by decojoe67, whose extensive radio collection can be viewed in the vintage radio thread. I have four old radios myself, only two of which actually work, not that they ever see much use. There’s very little on the AM...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Except to say I concur, I shall reserve comment lest I stir up a hornet’s nest.
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    How little understanding we have of the origins of common expressions and the degree to which they influence our world view. I was well into my adult years, for instance, before I realized how often I had been quoting Shakespeare. It’s unconscious, the natural order, as granted as the summer...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Yeah, I recall the grownups talking about how fortunate we were to be free of that terrifying prospect.
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    And then there’s polio. How soon we forget.

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