The stuff local bureaucrats will worry about is mind boggling. A friend of mine was going to build a house on a lot that sat empty for 50+ years. When he went to get the building permits, they stopped him cold. Why? Because his house, in a neighborhood that ranged from 2 bedroom crackerboxes, to mini-mansions, his…

My last dogs used to get them almost daily when they were pups and I only got hurt once from their insanity. They decided to make me one of the things they bounced off of. They would run up and hit my leg with their feet and ricochet off me, over and over again. When they were 10 pounds, who cared? When they were…

My dad survived a wreck in his ‘69 Sedan De Ville that makes me think the GM big cars of that era (I don’t think there is much difference between a ‘69 and ‘73, is there?) were about as safe as it got for that time period. We had relatives who were in an Olds 98 that got into a head on with a Caddy and my dad’s cousin…

I’ve had my two cats since the beginning of ‘13. One is totally peaceful, he won’t even bite me when I scruff him to keep him from going out the front door. The other one, well, that’s a different thing. Maybe because she was found with a bad eye that had to be removed, maybe she was feral, who knows? But whatever…

A friend of mine had just paid off his 392 Durango when an idiot 50 year old, driving his 80+ year old dad’s ‘73 Coupe De Ville ran a stop sign at over twice the 25 MPH speed limit and totalled both. No insurance on the Caddy, “I didn’t think I would need it!”, said the dad. My friend was kind of forced into looking…

I bought the “Golden Throats” CD just for that alone. A classic.

We used to go to a Chinese place in Chicago(or close to it) every year when we made one of our normally two a year trips there. The place was huge, and had Koi ponds all through it and you walked over them on creaky bridges. The food wasn’t great, we lived within a couple of miles of three places that had better food…

I’ve been in the shortwave hobby about 55 years and sadly, I have a bunch of old radios one IC failure away from being a paperweight, or stuck on a shelf to fondly remember. One of them with, as always, a vacuum flourescent display, actually works, if you turn it on and let it sit for a couple of days, you can see it…

It would take very ripe cataracts to make a Prius not bad looking. 

I don’t really get upset when a dog I don’t know passes, but there have been several friend’s dogs that I got upset about, especially the ones that went really early. My one friend’s fantastic Doberman was only 3 and had a siezure and when they got him to the vet, he had another one and they couldn’t bring him out of…

My S-10 Blazer was solid as a block of steel. It had only a couple of minor issues, both covered under warranty while I had it, and it ended up having a 20+ year and over 500,000 mile lifespan. A friend of mine bought it from me with 48K on it, and loved it. All three of his kids learned to drive in it. It was stolen…

It’s hard when they get elderly and begin to get frail. You know something is coming to end their life, but you can’t do anything about it. It still is terrible when it happens, even if they make it to a really old age. I’m unable to walk a dog now, after a series of horrible falls and a bad back, so I have cats. It’s…

I have a $1200 (In 1986)radio sitting on my desk with a dead display. It works fine, but the only way you can tell what frequency it’s on is to hook it up to a PC. It takes a special cable, and I sold mine like 10 years ago, so the radio is a paperweight due to the company not making any parts at all anymore. I could…

Thanks. He lived a good life, just 10 days short of 14, and was the doggy day care terror until just a few weeks before he checked out. I named him King before I even saw him and I couldn’t have picked a better one for him. He seriously believed he was above all other dogs, no matter how much bigger or younger than he…

I like bananas, as long as they still have a little green on the edges, but I hate anything made with them, even those (IMHO) awful banana chips. My late dog King hated them his entire life, then had a serious illness (Cushing’s Disease) and once we got his treatment going and his symptoms disappeared, he not only…

I really was shocked when I learned they were banana flavored. I’m guessing, like most artificial flavorings, they taste little like the real thing. 

Hunks of sorta rubbery stuff that is supposedly banana flavored. Not like any damn bananas I have ever had. I was like 50 when I found out they were supposed to be banana flavored. 

I agree, it is better than the rest of them, unless the Culver’s Walleye kills it, and Walleye has always been my favorite fish of all. But I will take a couple of Arby’s when they have them, and once in a while, a BK Big Fish. Captain D’s is a 40 minute drive, so it’s out of the picture, but all in all, I like…

I want nothing but the standard Reese’s cups. The minis aren’t right at all, the ratio is off. They aren’t bad by any means, but the “real” cups tower over all other candy, IMHO.

A friend of mine moved down to an area where Sonic is, about 10 years ago. He raved about it, and then I was heading to South Carolina to see my sister, so I stopped to visit him and we ate in my car at Sonic. To say I was disappointed was putting it mildly. I gave it another shot when they arrived locally, and…