October 2019 – Never Jet Hot

Minesweeper!

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October 22, 2019January 24, 2020

Back in My Day, Puzzles and games

MINESWEEPER - Literally a blast from the past... if it had sound. Hey, remember this! I remember playing this on earlier windows computers, ...

Alternative to WAZE

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October 16, 2019April 20, 2024

Highways and Byways

History, newspapers

Since cellphones with the WAZE app installed did not yet exist in 1906, motorists of the day resorted to using confetti flung across the roadway to...

Grandpa’s Crossword June 27 1956

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October 12, 2019February 13, 2020

Puzzles and games

We cancelled our newspaper subscription, the plastic bags were a nuisance and not recyclable. But I missed doing the crossword puzzles at the...

Vintage paystubs

Overtime at the Lumber Mill

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October 11, 2019February 14, 2020

I was rooting around for something and found these old paystubs, and an electric bill, from 1943. Looks like they took out about 14% for...

Don’t sniffle yet, this isn’t the morgue…

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October 10, 2019February 14, 2020

Typically, I will take a postcard and add some wiseacre or snarky comment or caption to make it more “honest”. This one, however, is plain and...

Alaska Air Wiki excerpt

‘Taint funny, Mcgee.

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October 9, 2019March 9, 2023

I was shopping for discount plane fares, and noticed that Alaska Airlines used to be McGee Airways.

Cartoon WWII Army Bugle postcard

A Rude Awakening

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October 8, 2019April 11, 2020

When I was in boot camp, they usually just yelled and banged garbage cans. It didn’t matter to me, I was usually awake, hearing people that got up...

■ 7/4 Teresa says some dude blew his thumb off, but I don't know where. That dude will never hitchhike again!
■ A "Life hacks" email I get says to relieve headaches, eat a teaspoon of mustard! Can you imagine? Maybe Grey Poupon will do something for constipation? ("poupon")
■ I cleared the bathroom sink drain with Liquid Plumber. It was very effective, but now the bathroom smells like a poorly run municipal swimming pool.
■ HOW DO DOGS TELL TIME- Our dog has a huge appetite, the vet advised us to give him a mid-day treat of frozen vegetables, which we do at 2:30- Now the dog pokes me with his nose PRECISELY at 2:30 every day. It makes me wonder what other things he can perceive that I cannot.?
■ Sept. 11 2023 ANACORTES WA • Anonymous party called stating that an elderly female neighbor was beating several carbon monoxide detectors with a hammer. Officers located smoke detectors in the garage smashed next to a frying pan with bacon in it. The homeowner stated she was cooking bacon and all the alarms started going off. (Don't they have reset buttons?)
■ More warped prose in this old Stephen King book; "Opal! Diamond! Sapphire! Jade! I smell Gary's Lemonade!" I wonder what his parent-teacher conferences were like?
■ I WAS on YT and ran across an outfit called "TypingDNA" - Serious big brother stuff here! Here is what it does. "By continuously authenticating your workers’ identities by the way they type on their devices, ActiveLock mitigates threats that arise with remote work such as fraud, device sharing, and unattended devices — giving you peace of mind that only trusted users are accessing your company’s computers."
GEEZE LOUISE I am SO GLAD that I am retired, discarded from the rat race back when rats stood a chance of winning.
■ I have half a mind to make some Jello, but put grapes, carrot peels, and other kitchen castoffs in it. Like they do at the juvenile detention facility.