Spider looked like a deadly Turantula on my dash (Harmless on the camera)
Month: August 2022
It was scary in 1995?
We gat this game (On SEVEN cds!) in about 1995 for I think forty bucks! Today I found it at steam on sale for less than seven dollars! I...
The case for a new mower blade
Lowe's sells a replacement mower blade that fits my mower for about $18 with tax. Apparently my old blade wasn't mulching well anymore, the back...
Biloxi Chow: Worth the wait?
Here's a postcard from a young man training at Biloxi to (I presume) his girlfriend back home. Or maybe his girl friend. Back then I think a guy...
Sarsaparilla anyone?
Here's an old fair picture of Teresa in her "Saloon Girl" days I guess. She is still cute. I don't think serving beer in a smoky cardroom would...
Just ASKING for a “Dear John” letter
My name is John, so I know a thing or two about Dear John letters. One time my wife wrote me a John Deere letter, and ran off with a tractor...
Repurposed
Here's Frank making a bed out of Daphne's new wagon, and Daphne is doing that thing where you flip a tricycle over, work the pedals by hand,...
There is less droll whimsy in the world today.
I just read that French cartoon illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé passed away. The photo shown in the New York Times showed the joy he derived from...
A big bag of shhhh
Having two people with insomnia* makes it worse. Last night, about 2:30, my wife pulls out her favorite Austin Powers quote, saying, “I’ve got a...
I thought they would work because they are nerdy
Ordered these glasses online, the ad implied that I could fine tune my vision, that would be perfect for doing crossword puzzles of various print...