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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's even funnier when some deadbeat "friend" keeps asking you if they know a lawyer colleague who will take their case on, investing hundreds of hours, for free. One I knew who kept pulling this stunt happened to be married to a guy who's a truck mechanic. She always had a wide array of legal...
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    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    Something like this?
  3. ChiTownScion

    What is the "right" age to retire?

    There were a few assignments over the years where it was common for some of my co- workers to take a "mental health day" off. Some of the judges who sat in the courtrooms where assistants were regularly assigned could bring on burnout- as could the crushing case loads. I tried to rack up the...
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    What is the "right" age to retire?

    I can certainly appreciate that up to a point. When we adopted the youngest kid from Russia, I took eight weeks of accumulated paid sick days* to take a paternity leave. Essentially, the kid spoke no English, and so I'd take him to & from school every day. After a week or so of that, I was dying...
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    What is the "right" age to retire?

    Retired after over 3 decades with the same employer at age 58. With payroll deductions and other costs no longer a factor, it had gotten to the point where it would have been a financial loss to keep working and not collect my pension. My wife still works and plans on doing do for about 3 more...
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    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    Never enter a plea of guilty unless you have an agreed to disposition with the prosecutor, and a judge who will go along with a reasonable agreement. And ten days on a simple disorderly? In my state, a cop's "peace" cannot be breached. And as to those Brooklyn women.... if they came to court...
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    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    That brings to mind an observation not so much as to smells, but images. My wife is a pediatric nurse practitioner: a primary care giver with a fairly large suburban practice of docs and other NPs. Until the regs were changed to prevent this sort of thing, she and the other members of her...
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    Free Range Parenting?

    I didn't "get" algebra until college. And there were two things that flipped on that light switch: 1. I had taken a course that dealt with a lot of Aristotelian logic. Syllogisms. I got to where I could recite them in my sleep, and it really helped me in a course that I took in Algebra- the...
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    Thurston Italian Vicenza Horsehide Full Grain Veg.-Tanned Horsehide for Aero Jackets

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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Saw that one, believe it or not.
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    Free Range Parenting?

    I am constantly reminded by my wife that what we accepted as "normal" in our respective childhoods, really is not. I was always told that, "ALL parents argue," but what transpired between mine went above and beyond. After 29 years, they finally divorced, and I suppose the sane alternative to...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Free Range Parenting?

    My first thought is that you and her should collaborate and write a book about her life. You certainly have the literary and investigative skills to pull off something really remarkable, in either a non-fiction or fictionalized incarnation. Pat Conrad and Tobias Wolff are two authors who come to...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    Reminds me of the stepfather in Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. Robert DeNiro's character in the film (which also featured Leonardo DiCaprio's breakout role as Jack/ Tobias) renders an even darker image of the guy than the book. But I read that when the film version premiered, Wolff's step-...
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    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    My dear, sweet, late and much missed mom had the annoying habit of wanting to keep our Christmas tree up way into January. It was a hideous artificial flocked thing that she's decorate in small white lights and one color (red) of ball ornaments. It was a very 1950'd style, and it looked more...
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    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    Someday, the nuclear option...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Not quite a shutout yet. I'm too old for October Optimism and feeding unrealistic expectations of a comeback.. but coming off of a World Series win, I think that you're right. It's been a surprisingly good year no matter what happens.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Use of the term actually predates the Late Unpleasantness (1861-1865) and Maj. Gen. "Fightin' Joe," but my favorite Civil War term for those ladies is "soiled doves."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    First thing that popped into my mind: hookers have become "sexual industry workers"...:):):)
  22. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    Well, technically, Munich.... but not there, either.
  23. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Particularly in light of the fact that the oath taken upon entering the armed forces of the US is to defend and protect the Constitution. Not a piece of cloth. What I love about the Greatest Generation is that they seemed to be of all political persuasions. People could take different sides of...

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