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  1. tonyb

    Old Cars

    Here, where it’s sunny most every day, rooftop solar is a common sight. The lovely missus and I are considering going that route ourselves. But those electric cars? They’ll never replace the horse.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    They are oblivious because from their third decade of the 21st Century perspective it is neither uncouth nor rude. If they thought it was, they wouldn’t do it. And I’d wager that their take on it is far more prevalent these days than yours. Or mine.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s my good fortune to have very few food aversions, let alone allergies. I can’t say that liver and onions was ever my first choice, but I did eat it and I would again. It was only after I was grown that my Dear Old Ma confided to me that we never had liver for dinner when the Old Man (who...
  4. tonyb

    Old Cars

    On a few occasions I’ve rented cars for long road trips, most recently in late March/early April of this year — a nearly new Camry, for $34 per day plus a couple add-ons that brought it up to 40 bucks a day. The savings in gas over what I would have spent fueling our...
  5. tonyb

    Old Cars

    ^^^^^ I’m guessing that the relatively late-model cars (insurance totals, mostly) that come in get stripped of what the operators believe they can sell in fairly short order and what’s left gets scrapped. And I’m guessing such enterprises are operating under far stricter environmental...
  7. tonyb

    Old Cars

    I, too, was once a wrecking yard (not “junk yard,” as I was admonished by a high school classmate whose dad operated such an establishment) prowler in search for what I could get on the cheap to keep my various well-worn cars on the road for maybe a few months longer. Auto mechanics is not...
  8. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Benjamin Franklin said, “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” He also said, “I am in the prime of my senility.”
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    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    ^^^^^ Our covered deck is on the west side of the house. In the warmer months it’s among the most used “rooms” here. A couple years ago I put in a faux-cobblestone (they’re actually somewhat irregular and textured concrete pavers) patio on the south side of the attached garage where there had...
  10. tonyb

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    How’s the summer weather over your way? Here, in this semi-arid, high-altitude zone, where it’s sunny most every day and gets RFH during the summer, an uncovered deck/patio/etc. on the south or west side of a structure is pretty much unusable. It’s not just the heat. UV radiation is something...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m kinda welcoming the push-back against the push-back for “fat shaming,” as I’ve heard it called. I’ve been overweight to one degree or another most of my life. I know what it is to be the butt of fat jokes. But noting that excess poundage isn’t healthy is just plainly stating a fact, and...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m guessing that’ll stop about the time the novelty of it wears off. It’s been suggested that I get an Apple Watch, as another measure toward continuing my earthly existence. Its heart monitoring features are impressive indeed. I’ve noted that many front-line healthcare providers (lovely...
  14. tonyb

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    There’s more than a handful of old mining towns out here in the West that would be ghost towns if not for tourism. Skiing, which took off after WWII, was the salvation of many such settlements up in the mountains. I haven’t skied in decades (I break more readily than I bend these days), yet I...
  15. tonyb

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    And then they’ll form virtual communities wherein they’ll romanticize the days of Apple II and MS-DOS.
  16. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ An old gal I knew (since deceased) made that very observation a quarter century ago. She bought her house in the early 1950s and it was long paid for when we had that discussion in the late 1990s. We were talking dollars unadjusted for inflation, which we readily acknowledged. We also...
  17. tonyb

    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

    Found this bottle opener on FB Marketplace (as I recall, might’ve been eBay). It’s functional, but I admit it’s mostly decorative.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just love it when you guys talk dirty. It’s semi-arid here. If you don’t water a lawn, you don’t have a lawn. The lovely missus and I are looking to xeriscape the front yard, where now there is some grass and some other things that might be considered weeds. At least it’s all green, if...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Very little of that here, thank the god of your choice, seeing how it’s pushing 100 degrees Fahrenheit today.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s not that this is a mutual admiration society. I avoid certain characters here, and I have every confidence the reverse is true as well. I’m not privy to whatever criteria the operators have for 86ing a person, but it appears it happens from time to time. It seems more common that others...
  22. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    It’s all contrived, of course, but it’s easy to make the case that such contrivances are born of a social necessity. Normative values, and all that, be they ever so artificial and arbitrary.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ve always struggled with “foreign” languages. It might be related to my profound lack of musical ability. It’s an auditory processing deficiency, I think, seeing how I can diagram sentences in the Romance languages but unless that sentence is in very basic Spanish I can’t tell you what...

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