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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And of course they paid it immediately, sent along with a letter offering their deepest apologies for the inconvenience. A neighbor out Seattle way (nice guy; I regret losing touch with him) told of riding shotgun in his car, with his lovely (truly) missus at the wheel. They got pulled over...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The car ahead of me at a drive-thru today. Note that the temporary plate expired almost a year ago. What do you suppose the odds are that the vehicle is uninsured? I see very little traffic code enforcement around here, leastwise as compared to how it is out in the Seattle area, where a...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ Isn’t it that most mail destined for other-than-local delivery goes by air anyway? I believe that’s been the case for decades now.
  4. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I gave up the sauce the same time I quit smoking, 15 years ago next month. (The news the doctor delivered was indeed sobering.) When I hear what it costs to go out for a night of alcohol-fueled debauchery these days, I can attribute a goodly percentage of my current financial assets to NOT...
  5. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Charlie Watts dead at age 80. Another reminder of my own mortality.
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It took no great insight to foresee plastic and “virtual” currency supplanting cash. Just as it took no soothsayer to predict the demise of news and information delivered via print on paper. (I knew people in the business preparing for this 30 years ago, and I knew people who dismissed it —...
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^ Yeah, that’s sobering, seeing how 1980 was, like, last week.
  9. tonyb

    Rechargeable, Emergency Light Bulbs

    I trust they are LEDs, then? I may well get some. Yeah, they ain’t cheap, but if they last as long as the LEDs I’ve already bought, it’s easy to justify the expenditure.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, I’m sometimes taken aback by how people make things more difficult for themselves by not expending what little effort it would take the learn a system and not have to give it much thought anymore. I have on occasion been one of those people, as have most of us, I’m sure. In my own case, I...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve been separated from my turnip truck.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The big box stores’ garden departments often have very good prices on plants but little if any expertise. I’ve found they carry a wide variety of gardening tools and lawn furniture and sprinklers and tomato cages and barbecues and lawnmowers and all that, but only in season. It’s now mid-August...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ “ … they just want to be right” is right, all right.
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you get solicitations for “free” hearing evaluations in the mail. These guys either know I’m old, or they’ve heard me sing.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ In an era of every person being entitled to his or her “own truth,” and is “empowered” to “speak it,” it ought not be surprising that such “personal empowerment” would extend to arithmetic. Just tell the traffic cop that based on your “lived experience” (what other kind of experience is...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What keeps me returning to the big-box stores (Blowe’s, for instance) is that they have more variety than the Ace and True Value stores. It’s just a bigger store with more stuff. That’s what had me there night before last. I wanted spray paint in colors and finishes (satin, not glossy) which I...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ There’s really nothing for boosting one’s sense of worth that beats being really good at one’s occupation. And being good means caring to be good, caring enough to focus and figure out better ways to do whatever it is one does. Cuz, you know, you can always be better.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve found very little expertise among the staff at the big box stores. The person working in appliances today was selling paint yesterday and got hired the day before that. Ace and True Value market themselves as stores where customers might actually get reliable advice on whatever little...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    An exceptionally articulate, insightful, and politically savvy person of my acquaintance can’t do math beyond simple arithmetic and sometimes struggles with that. Had this person been denied a high school diploma on account of that want of mathematics skills, there would have been no bachelor’s...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At Lowe’s last night not a one of the “regular” checkout stands was open, while three store employees were chatting among themselves by the self checkout.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It is not to defend the developments in Oregon to note that there were no proficiency testing requirements for a high school diploma when I was a kid. None whatsoever. As I recall, graduates had to have passing grades in core classes and some minimal overall grade-point average. “D” stands for...

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