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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My Dear Old Ma survived a more rigorous academic program in getting her high school diploma than many people these days see in obtaining a bachelor’s degree. She studied physics AND chemistry AND biology in high school, as well as Latin. But that’s been a long time ago. I don’t recall studying...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’m not “uptight” about it. People are free to identify any way they wish, but they aren’t free to tell other people how they are to perceive them. Perhaps what’s needed is a gender-neutral singular pronoun. But, as I already mentioned, the war is likely already lost. I accept it, but it...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I share your sentiments on this matter, but I fear it may be an already lost cause. Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist for whom I have great deal of respect, insists on being referred to as “they.”’ I wish “they” wouldn’t do that. Masha is a biological woman whose gender is, to my eye...
  4. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    As to being house poor … A relative, a fellow a generation behind me, is being dissuaded by his elders from buying a house priced something in excess of a million dollars. His monthly nut would be such that he would have little left over for anything but that house payment. And if he were to...
  5. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Wish I could say the same. I’ve not only looked at the wrong end of a handgun on a few occasions, I’ve been fired at and tore up my palms trying to wrest away a gun about to be used against a friend. In all those cases I just happened to find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time. I...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … it occurs to you that the Saturday night programming on PBS (you know, the oldies music shows) is aimed at people like you.
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Is there such a thing as an aftermarket, under the dash A/C unit anymore? The Old Man had one installed in his ’59 Impala just ahead of a summertime family road trip to the Southwest in 1965.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ My wife and I also come from similar social and economic backgrounds — working class families with grandiose heads of household whose entrepreneurial chops were entirely in their own minds. Bankruptcies. Instability. Day late, dollar short. Etc. She doesn’t have quite the instinct for...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As I’ve said before, the reason I can afford impractical things such as a sports car is because I don’t buy impractical things such as a sports car. If it were just me in this household, I might be more profligate. A sports car would suit my purposes alone about as well as any car. But that’s...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I find that I treat most matters with less urgency. I can now much more easily defer gratification for a greater gratification down the road.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was long an anti-snob — none of that espresso coffee or craft beer or microbrews or whatever they were calling that high-priced swill that week. But that can become its own kind of snobbery, another sort of looking down one’s nose. I discovered (in the years before I gave up drinking) that...
  14. tonyb

    Chores That You Really Hate(d)

    ^^^^^^ Among the few advantages of decrepitude is that it makes for a dandy excuse for hiring out that kind of chore.
  15. tonyb

    Commentary

    There once was a man from Nantucket …
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ll eat brie, but it’s generally so mild as to be somewhat less than satisfying. The lovely missus has a friend who craves Camembert. So we know what to bring whenever we pay a visit.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Used to be that the terms blue (or bleu, if one prefers) cheese and Roquefort salad dressing were pretty much interchangeable. But then the public overall became more knowledgeable on such matters (compare the food varieties available to us today to what they were 60 years ago) and learned that...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I don’t think she had rye. But you’d be free to bring your own.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I was once a regular customer at a breakfast-and-lunch joint called Debbie’s Cafe on East Jefferson Street in Seattle. Debbie (yes, there was a Debbie; she had a gold tooth, right there in front) operated what was the best sort of greasy spoon. She knew her clientele, mostly men, and she...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I have yet to meet a blue cheese I didn’t like. As a native Wisconsinite, born into a family of dairymen, cheese is a staple food, pretty much. But even I acknowledge that there’s something irretrievably wrong with Limburger. That stuff smells like it was aged in an outhouse — a...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That would annoy the hell out of me, too I can’t say it had happened to me often, but I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a buyer who tried to change the terms after the deal was “finalized.” It was a car, a ‘67 Triumph Spitfire, along with extra stuff, including a spare...
  23. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I trust you have by now received medical attention? Let us know how it goes, man. That sounds serious.

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