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Thursday, April 04, 2024

When it comes to Christmas-tree-tossing contests, sometimes when you win, you lose

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I'm always amazed for the ability of all sorts of folks - myself included, in a minor-league kinda-sorta way - to sabotage themselves. L...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Here's a WFH downside I hadn't thought of

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Everyone has terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days at work, even when they're working from home. You lose power. Your Internet conn...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Congratulations, graduates

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I'm a long time volunteer in a homeless shelter, and many of our guests have cycled in and out of jail and/or prison. Sometimes, when we...
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Loner introvert passenger overboard!

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I know, I know, whenever  I promise myself that I'm not going to do yet another post about cruises, and another post about how I can...
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Thursday, March 28, 2024

In Your Easter Bonnet

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Well, Sunday is Easter, making today Holy Thursday, when the Last Supper is commemorated. If you went to parochial school back in the day, y...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Explain to me again how the NRA is a non-profit?

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In January, Wayne LaPierre, who built the NRA into a lobbying juggernaut and got himself pretty wealthy in the process, resigned from the NR...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The LawOffices of Scrooge, Scrooge, & Scrooge

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Who among us hasn't cadged leftover meeting food? Drop into the kitchen for an innocent cup of tea and end up with a cookie, a brownie, ...
Monday, March 25, 2024

MLB transparency - just not what they intended

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Despite the high likelihood that the Red Sox aren't going to be any good this year - would it be indelicate to say that they're goin...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

What a brand, what a brand, what a brand, what a mighty bad brand

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I've been in a couple of Trump-branded properties. A billion years ago, my husband and I were staying at a hotel near the UN and we wand...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Crowdfunding healthcare

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My husband died 10 years ago, and I can still quite vividly recall how we would sit there, laughing, while going through the Medicare/Blue C...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Go for the gold, cornholers!

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I heard recently that breakdancing will be introduced as a medal sport in this summer's Paris Olympics. B-boys and b-girls will be on th...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Pond skating - mostly gone, but not forgotten!

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It's March now, so even back in the day when winter was actually winter , the pond skating season would be over. The dirt road leading t...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Today is NOT St. Patrick's Day

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  Today is NOT St. Patrick's Day. It's the day before the Ides of March, and three days before St. Patrick's Day, which is Sunda...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Shop like a billionaire? I'll get right on that, Temu.

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Until I blocked them, for a while there I'd been seeing ads for what looked like really crappy junk (junk that I neither want nor need) ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Swagbaggery 2024

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Having managed - quite amazingly - to see all ten of the films nominated for Best Picture this year, I had more of a vested interest in this...