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  1. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    ^^^^^^ For how long do the radium markings glow? I ask because my old Westclox Spur alarm clock (millions, probably, were made, so they aren’t hard to find, or expensive) has glow-in-the-dark markings, but after all these years (70-plus) the glow fades away to nothing in just a few minutes.
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    Loungers' Pets

    Otis, 12 years old (or so), on the left, in the red coat. Vernon, 16 months (or so), on the right, in the formal attire. I drove Vern to his new home out in Washington state. He’s fitting in quite well there, where he has a dog a little bigger and just a little older than him to romp around...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I was greatly relieved to be rid of a property ahead of its needing a new roof. It was a duplex with a 3,000-square-foot footprint, with a complicated roof with several valleys. I’m guessing the roof itself was at least 5,000 square feet. I shudder to think what that would’ve cost.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    My lovely missus and I once bought a house with three layers of asphalt shingle roofing. A windstorm sent much of that top layer hither and yon. The lesson is that a third layer calls for longer nails. We shortly thereafter had a complete tear-off and all new roofing. Took the crew less than a...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    All that and a self-taught horn blower, too.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Ms. Maine, I wouldn’t be the first to suggest that postponing roof replacement is usually false economy. The late Sam Israel owned a LOT of commercial real estate in Seattle, older, rundown buildings, mostly, many of which are now “landmarked.” He charged relatively low rents, so the tenants...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    ^^^^^^ I’m not much for sucking up. In my experience, people who maintain their “superior” status by being sucked up to are themselves a drain on the operation. In the jobs I’ve held for any length of time, I’ve proven myself hard to be rid of. I show up on time, I know why I’m there. And I try...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Almost but not quite all of my extended family one generation ahead of me are gone now, as are too many of my generation. Get those conversations in now, while you still can.
  10. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    Coulee City, Washington
  11. tonyb

    When Travel was Romantic

    ^^^^^ For travel outside the U.S., true enough. Among my people, a family vacation by automobile to the Black Hills or the Grand Canyon was a BFD. It was the sort of thing that happened maybe once every several years. Otherwise, vacations were camping trips somewhere within a couple-three...
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    When Travel was Romantic

    I’m no slave to ambition, which is not to say that I haven’t worked from too early an age. I’ve been paying into Social Security since age 13, and did the lawn mowing and paper route kinds of work for years prior to that. My stepfather compelled my brothers and me to work at a time when our...
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    When Travel was Romantic

    I assume you are a person of some means. Or is it that you’ve forgone most of the more common property acquisitions (a house on dry land, for instance) in favor of things like a Stevens 47? Me, I get seasick in a bathtub. Whatever romantic notions I might once have had for living aboard a boat...
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    When Travel was Romantic

    Yesterday evening I returned from a 2,600-mike, five-day road trip from greater Denver to North Central Washington state and back again, to deliver a dog and visit with my Dear Old Ma for a day and a half. I’ve covered that territory many times and I’ve never tired of it. As I’ve observed here...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If it don’t rhyme with Nantucket, it ain’t poetry.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ A perusal of my address book confirms it. I lost two more just last week.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Are you telling us you don’t have staff to tend to such matters? Over here in the free-market West, even welfare recipients have domestic help, who themselves have domestic help.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Bite your tongue, Tony.
  21. tonyb

    Just joined Fedora Lounge

    Run for your life!
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    Show us your Vintage Office Supplies.

    Any idea when this one was made? I’ve had it for quite a while, long enough that I’ve forgotten where and when.
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I don’t make every trip down the basement stairs and back up again count for something each way, besides just transporting my decrepit self, but I typically do. Or at least give the matter some thought.

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