What really sucks about this age is having to limit my intake of “adult beverages” as my friend Wild Bill likes to call them.
I wasn’t a power drinker before I got put on drugs for high blood pressure and other ailments. But I liked to have a couple beers after golf, or one after mowing the [...]
Earlier I wrote about our decision to drop VoIP and go back to landline. We wanted to keep our same phone number naturally.
Yeah, right. First, we thought we might give Vonage a shot with the VoIP. Not available in our area (the middle of a city of 50,000.)
For simplicity’s sake (that’s always [...]
I’m seriously envious of people who have this kind of talent. link and link.
As I watched, the artist (Nico Di Mattia ) was changing and adding and subtracting lines and colors and details where I wouldn’t even think of. I thought it was a fascinating five minutes.
Carole Adams, a flight attendant on Southwest Airlines, gives her first person account.
A passenger approached her and said she didn’t feel well, was weak and had pain in her midchest under her arms.
Everyone knows flight attendants are trained to do much more than serve drinks and fetch pillows. This reassuring blog explains the controlled [...]
Posted by: goinglikesixty in Family
I remember JFK is blogging about game shows in the sixties. People are always freaked when I tell them we didn’t own a TV until the early sixties. I never asked my folks why. We could afford it, we had a nice house, and drove decent cars, and I we had nice clothes.
But [...]
I’m taking a sick day, well actually I left work at 10:30, because my wife had a tooth pulled. Since they put her under, she couldn’t be left home alone, so here I sit.
As her grandmother used to say, it’s a gor-jesus day. Mid seventies, sun shining and my doped up wife is sound asleep [...]
Lauren Young of Business Week interprets investing in what you know as a strategy of investing in local companies. She writes about a study done that:
…investigated whether investors who buy stocks of local companies have superior information.
She concludes that individual investors don’t do well with this strategy.
Investing in what you know doesn’t mean buying stocks [...]
My wife and her Boomer Bunco Buddies were near the end of their night of rolling the bones and one of the players who enjoys the exuberance of prescription drugs said she wanted to get paid her winnings quickly because she had to get home.
“I have issues with XXXX (her husband.)” Not missing an opportunity for [...]
