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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    He’s here all week!
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Shower wands — which can be had cheap and which any knucklehead can install himself — are among the things that have a guy slapping his forehead and saying, “What took us so long to come up with this?” Wheels on suitcases is another.
  3. tonyb

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Of the personal choices I’ve come to regret, the overwhelming majority were made impulsively. I’m hard-pressed to recall any situation in which panic proved helpful.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I don’t know who first observed that 90 percent of success is showing up on time (or something to that effect), but I’ve found that in many endeavors it’s true. It’s not the punctuality alone, of course. But those conscientious enough to reliably show up on time are generally reliable in...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve had jewelers tell me that watches that stopped working weren’t worth the cost of repairs. So I tossed ’em (the watches, not the jewelers) in a desk drawer. Some day they’ll be worth the trouble. I may not live to see that day, but I suspect someone will be happy I saved those things.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ve taken to wearing vintage watches, which are, with the exception of a couple-three high-end “name” brands, quite affordable. But then, I wear “proper” hats, too. For some reason I’ve never thought to examine at any depth, I like being perhaps hyper-aware of the hour. We have five...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ An old office of mine was next to a business called Horological Services, owned and operated by a chain-smoking, heavily accented fellow named George Kajanov (sp?), who had a loupe affixed to his spectacles. George and I got along fine. His trade was dying off, as he readily acknowledged...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ And in English, too!
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Are you suggesting I’m not the first to have said that?
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ If it was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    1966 ...
  14. tonyb

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    ^^^^^ It’s kinda like Charles Eames’s banana leaf parable. A car that gets you where you wish to go is a wonderful thing if that is all it actually does — no ego gratification, no impressing a would-be mate.
  15. tonyb

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    It’s to the folks’s credit that I had little idea of how poor we were in my childhood until I was mostly grown. We were fed, and housed, and clothed. But then, until I was 12 or so we lived almost entirely among people in similar straits. I didn’t sense any stigma attached to poverty until I...
  16. tonyb

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Worry can be a healthy thing, provided it prompts meaningful action. But I’ve invested waaay too much worry in developments that 1), never came to pass, or 2), I had no control over anyway.
  17. tonyb

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    I’ve had cancellations. So yeah, I’m out some scratch. The dewy-eyed bride and I aren’t inoculated against whatever economic hazards lie ahead, but we know how better positioned we are, for now, than many equally if not more deserving people. Our major revenue streams are still flowing. Maybe...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Basic literacy in this country is about 99 percent among people age 15 and older. I know people a generation and two younger than me who, during their high school years, were doing the sorts of coursework I didn’t see until college. At my high school, way back in the mists of time, you got a...
  20. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    True story ... Checker at the local supermarket last night, the store with all those empty shelves — “Did you find everything okay?”
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And then there’s Albertsons, the supermarket chain, which dropped the apostrophe a few years back. It was Albertson’s, possessive, prior to then. Marketing research is to blame, I suspect.
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ Seriously, though, I have never “kept up” with fashion, not even when I was of an age when people are likelier to concern themselves with such things. It might have been that I had some items of attire that were currently in vogue, but that would probably have been because it was marked...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Sheeit! I was wearin’ that just yesterday,
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