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Category Archives: Life
Twenty-eight
One memory from my youth that I’ve been kicking around is the day after my first date with this one girl in college. We had kinda-sorta met the previous weekend, and then I asked her out on an official date. … Continue reading
The bathroom quiz!
Well, why not! Roger did it, after all. 1. Do you shampoo once or lather, rinse and repeat? Once. The “Repeat” business was inserted to get people to use more shampoo, and thus need to buy new shampoo more frequently. … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Occasional Quizzes
Tagged Daily Life Stuff, Quiz-Things
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“What’s the meanings of this?!” –Squirrely Dan, LETTERKENNY
A startling development from yesterday morning: Yes, that is the Sun, rising in the east like it is maintained is still the protocol for this sort of thing, behind Casa Jaquandor, and its rising is visible and not obscured by … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Life Stuff
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A few notes….
Here are some Notes from some recent goings-on in my world! Note the First: We are in the midst of a typically awful WNY spring. Longtime readers or followers on social media will know that spring is my least favorite season … Continue reading
Everything depends on a ceramic bunny
When I was very young, my mother gave me a ceramic bunny. It looked just like this one. In my memory, it looked exactly like this one…only for some reason I really think the one I had was a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Life, On Memories
Tagged Personal Memories
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A new jug
We recently made a trek to our favorite antique mall, and as has happened quite a few times when I’ve left that place, it was with a new addition to my collection of Toby jugs. Guess who the new fellow … Continue reading
The Saxhole of Chestnut Ridge (a repost)
This is a repost of a piece I wrote in 2015. I dig it up now because there’s been some discussion in social media lately of what appropriate punishment should be meted out against people who play their music, headphoneless, … Continue reading
Scenes from a Winter’s Week
It was a very cold and somewhat snowy week here. Nothing we couldn’t handle on either front–the lake effect produced probably 18 inches or so, maybe a little more, over several days–but nevertheless, I’m seeing reports that the first week … Continue reading
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An observation, for no particular reason
It shouldn’t be as easy as it is to really damage the bejeezus out of one’s side-view mirror. Moving on….