September 2020 – Never Jet Hot

Cleaning up the elephant and donkey poop after the election.

Vote for Bubbles!

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September 30, 2020October 17, 2021

There is a sign down the road that exhorts people to vote for ANYBODY BUT INSLEE (Jay Inslee, our governor here in Washington, is running for...

Golden Cock Inn Matchbook

I’ll have the soup!

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September 22, 2020October 17, 2021

I found this in my matchbook collection, I was laughing but my wife told me to grow up. Not sure why they chose this name, it would probably...

Pac Man Fever? Try lockdown madness.

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September 20, 2020October 17, 2021

I was digging up some rockery and found this decrepit old video game token. Wouldn't it be creepy if there was an abandoned arcade in one of...

Kingdome being destroyed for no good reason

The Kingdome fiasco; 25 years ago today

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September 19, 2020March 6, 2023

On September 19, 1995, King County voters defeated a ballot measure that would have funded the construction of a new baseball-only stadium for the...

Red Dog metal saloon dollar token

I give up on this

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September 16, 2020November 15, 2021

I have lost interest in my coin and token collection, Except for the silver dollar with the president Nixon case, that my dad gave me. I...

Desert Storm Trading Card: Oil

Operation Desert Storm: This time it’s personal

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September 14, 2020November 15, 2021

I acquired a pack of these "Desert Storm Trading Cards" - I don't know if there are "rare" and "common" cards ("I'll trade these two SCUD...

Zenith TV with Space Command

Space Command!

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September 13, 2020November 15, 2021

The Advertising

It must have been a golden time for independent Television and Radio stores like Jack Bartlett's. Remote Control of your television, being able...

The sordid tale of the Silver Slipper

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September 5, 2020November 15, 2021

Back in the day, specifically 1950 to 1988, the Silver Slipper Casino sat next to the Frontier, spinning a giant slipper on the roof. In 1964,...

Crackerjack toy policeman.

Man in blue doing a crackerjack job

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September 2, 2020October 17, 2021

Back in My Day, Flotsam

The reason I think this guy came out of a box of Crackerjacks, is I think I got one in like 1966 or so. He is about 1 7/8" tall, and somewhat...

■ 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.