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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Don't worry, about a thing. Just avoid the bad hand sanitizers.

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It's hard now to recall the exact timeline for the end of before time.  When did we start panicking about hand sanitizer? When did we st...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

That schwein is a real lausbube

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Let's ignore for a sec all the dead, the dying, and the really, really sick. And their loved ones. Because, of course, what people who...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

Oh How Well the Mighty Have Fallen

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In my much, much younger days, I was a close observer of the rise of the televangelist. Jimmy Swaggart. Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakker (rhymes ...
Friday, August 07, 2020

There's a pandemic on, so I thought I'd do a bit of my bit

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I just hopped off of Etsy, where I ordered a few more facemasks for myself. I figure the wearin' o' the mask will continue well into...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

75 Years Later

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Sometimes I just don't get why atom bombs - and later nuclear weapons - were considered worse than conventional means of warfare. Yes, t...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Don't let no pandemic stop ya! As planned, The Wild Ones are coming to Sturgis, SD. (And Laconia, NH.)

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If you're not doing anything, this weekend, it's not too late for you to hop on your bike and gun down I-90 for 30 hours or so - a s...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

I, for one, am looking forward to hearing his side of the story

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On my daily walks, I'm seeing regular signs that there are plenty of small, local businesses that are going out of. The nice little cand...
Monday, August 03, 2020

Workin' in a coal mine. Goin' down, down, down.

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Between song and film, there's always been a ton - make that 16 tons - of romanticism around coal mining. Sure, plenty of the content is...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Kellogg's Rice Krispies: Snap, Crackle and Gag

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It's not as if I don't like Rice Krispies.  I do. There's not a box in my cupboard, mind you, but once in a while, when ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Now THAT's a kitchen!

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I have a reasonably nice kitchen. Nothing too elaborate. No chef's dream. No 6-burner gas stove. No double ovens. No eat-in (unless I...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Good news for digital nomads

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I'm mostly retired now, but for the last 15+ years of my actual career, I was a freelancer. During my freelancing prime, I was a stay-at...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Cherry ice cream? I believe you mean Cherry Garcia.

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Last Sunday, July 19th, was National Ice Cream Day. I missed it. But as July is National Ice Cream Month, I can get in under the line and ce...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Maybe it's just me, but I thought ego and vision are what founders get to have?

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Tatte Bakery is a nice little local chain. There's one just around the corner, and I'm probably in there every month or two for some...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Take me in to the ball game

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Well, Tuesday I got to do what I haven't done in a while, which is watch a baseball game from Fenway Park. It was pre-season, but base...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Well, there's no tunnel, but maybe there's a light at end of the bridge

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A couple of months ago, I zoomed with a former colleague. When we spoke - in the throes of the Massachusetts lockdown, when things appeared ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Unzipped

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I became car-free in the fall of 2007. I was pretty fond of my little buggy, a bright-blue New Beetle, but I've never for one second reg...