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  1. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … it’s well into the month of March and you find yourself doing a mental double-check to confirm not only the month but also the year.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yup. I have the flag of a certain beleaguered Eastern European country on order, expected to arrive in the next day or two (there’s been a run on such items of late). My only hesitancy in flying the thing out front of the house is that, while such gestures may indicate to decision-makers where...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    He just can’t help himself.
  4. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    Ten thousand comedians out of work and we get this guy?
  5. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    Another poached image. Wish I could tell you where and when it was taken. EDIT: The fellow I stole it from provided more info.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Poached from a FB page devoted to old roadside lodgings. No info as to time or place. Note the Star of David on the Coca-Cola sign.
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I wouldn’t last an hour. In my experience, such meetings were called mostly to remind us underlings of just who was in charge. I count among my blessings that I haven’t been in such a “workplace culture” in decades, and that I can’t imagine any circumstances under which I would ever again find...
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    ^^^^^ Quite the find.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I readily confess to a crush on Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post columnist, not because she’s such a raving beauty (although she’s certainly cute enough), but because I bet she’d keep the conversation going in the right direction for as long as a person might wish.
  11. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    And the schools, many of them, have all too eagerly bought into this model of making academic credentials the key to reasonably remunerative employment. Education itself is a commodity. In that regard, they’re all trade schools now, even if the trades don’t involve getting one’s hands dirty...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yup. Talk is cheap. I was too well acquainted with a person who, in his own simple mind, wished to be helpful, but only in the ways that put the spotlight on him. He rarely bothered asking the ways he might advance the interests of anyone or anything other than his own need for approval. It was...
  14. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    I thought Seattle real estate was nuts, but it’s a bargain compared to Vancouver and environs. Just about every homeowner I know says they couldn’t afford to live where they do if they hadn’t bought in decades ago.
  15. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    I hesitate to tell young people what I paid for rent when I was their age, lest they think I’m lying or, worse yet, trying to make them feel bad about how much larger a share of their income goes to keeping a roof over their heads.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There’s something to be said for an optimistic outlook, but if it’s not grounded in reality it’s little more than magical thinking. And at worst it can be tantamount to blaming a person for, say, a terminal illness because his or her disposition wasn’t sufficiently sunny. Saying “you got this”...
  17. tonyb

    Vintage Appliances

    ^^^^^ We’re on our second Breville espresso machine. The first one gave us 11 years of service and is probably repairable, which is why it occupies a spot on a basement shelf rather than the landfill. On the shelf next to the old espresso machine is a Sunbeam T9 toaster, ‘40s-vintage, I think...
  19. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    During the “energy crisis” (if that’s an accurate characterization) of the early- to mid-1970s it was recommended that households close off unused rooms and cut off the heat to them. Many of us then residing in the cool and damp Maritime Pacific Northwest can tell of mildew proliferating in...
  20. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    ^^^^^ Gas furnace and water heater here, electric everything else. Xcel Energy bill runs something around a buck seventy-five a month on average, I’d guess — more gas consumption in the winter, of course, and more electricity in the summer, what with running that A/C all day and half the night...
  21. tonyb

    Proper thermostat usage

    We had to replace our programmable thermostat just a few weeks ago. (Glad it was only that and not a costlier problem.) The new one is the same model as the one it replaced — a $30 unit. The HVAC tech ran through the various options, including models your smartphone can talk to, so you don’t...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s a lovely story.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    “You can achieve anything you set your mind to,” or words to that effect, which as a youngster I heard far too frequently from people whose own achievements never amounted to much. The achievements of even the more accomplished among us don’t amount to much in the grander scheme of things. And...

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