Being born and raised in the Midwest U.S., I speak basically Standard American Newscaster. :) There are still some obvious things about a Midwest accent, though. I tend to drop the g in -ing words, unless I consciously try not to: “I’m goin’ fishin’.” While I have never done this, a know a lot of people who pronounce W…

I remember Pizza Hut being one of the first places I ever had pizza as a kid in the early 1970s. Our local Pizza Huts closed over the past few years (pre-pandemic). It wasn’t a huge surprise, because the pizza wasn’t good. It’s more than 20 miles now to the nearest one that’s still open.

At work we have a mesh strainer over the drain, and that catches most of the grounds from the French press. Then I just dump them out of the strainer into the trash.

“cheese”

>I am a supervisor.

I’m even in a technically blue state! Red part of it, though. I don’t understand my county at all. It used to be very purple. Voted 49% for Obama, but somehow also voted 72% for Trump? That makes no sense to me at all.

Sure. They don’t do testing for free here. You can pay for a test at the pharmacies. Walgreens only has free testing at “select locations,” none of which are in my county. The county health department is useless. And seems to be run by COVID deniers. A while back they announced they would no longer be doing contact…

There are no free testing sites anywhere in my county.

Why list the Fossil Gen 5 instead of the Gen 6? The Gen 6 looks and feels even nicer, and is slated to be updated to Wear OS 3.

Why list the Fossil Gen 5 instead of the Gen 6? The Gen 6 looks and feels even nicer, and is slated to be updated to…

The dozen of us in my area at work have all become coffee snobs. We have a Keurig, but it basically never gets used anymore. A couple of us use a French press, and several others are doing pour over. I experimented with brew times, and I found 4-1/2 minutes best for my coffee. I do use a fairly fine grind, but I try…

I was kidding of course, but I do like a few good pork rinds occasionally.

Can I get the same effect from just eating pork rinds?

Unfortunately, if you’re actually on ice it doesn’t matter much what you do. You’re not going to stop until you’re not on ice, or until you hit something that stops you. On snow, gravel, wet pavement, etc., ABS can maybe help you out. Ice is terrible.

Our middle daughter loved The Cosby Show, and for her 16th birthday we took her to see one of his stand-up shows. That’s such a weird memory for all of us now all these years later. :-/

Automatic seat belts, in that brief period around 1987-88 between when active restraint was mandated, but airbags weren’t ubiquitous yet. The seat belt either was attached to the rear edge of the door and you had to kind of slide in under it as you got in, or it was motorized in a track around the door frame and prone…

Whew! I had a Chevette in college in the 80s. One day on the way to school, I was coming to a stoplight and went to downshift...and the shifter came off in my hand. Not just the knob, the entire shift lever. Luckily it was in second gear, and I was able to make my way home. The metal cup that held the lever in place ha…

Isn’t it Ketanji instead of Kentaji?

My dad has an ‘82 LTD wagon with less than 30K on it. He wasn’t planning to buy it, but it came up on the block at an auction he was at, and it wasn’t getting any bids. It was literally one of those “old lady only drove it to church on Sunday” cars. This isn’t it, but it looks just like this:

Yep, for a long time my morning routine has been: take medicine, floss, then brush and don’t rinse the toothpaste out. 30 minutes or so later I’ll have coffee. I haven’t had a cavity in years.

I graduated from high school in ‘84. I think many of us have some sense of nostalgia for things from our teen years, before life became...real. Our favorite music and our favorite pizza are what we listened to and what we ate when we were in high school.