Meghan, I’m glad you’re writing these.  But I saw the headline and instantly said “I bet I’m not.”  I won the bet.

My blender has a base that unscrews, exposing the seal, hard plastic where the threads are and metal blades attached through a metal base, and leaving just the glass jar. It seems pretty easy to get clean, and mine goes in the dishwasher, in parts.  I thought all blenders did this.

I’m a fan, have been since childhood (Harmon Killebrew was my boyhood hero) but I’m greatly bothered by the fundamental unfairness of the fact that the Dodgers and Yankees can spend two or three times as much money as my team can. In other words, I’d very much like to see a salary cap like in some other sports, to…

It’s probably safer to back in.  A certain large delivery company with brown trucks trains its drivers to do this.

How about cans?  I’ve come to appreciate a good beer in a can, can good tonic come in one too?

Recession coming?  Probably.  But if you’re young you should hope that the market goes down, then you can buy stocks/mutual funds when they’re on sale.

The bad news is, you have to fly on Frontier. But for a $15 flight you can probably suffer their bad airline for a short trip, just be prepared to pay extra for anything and everything.

As in “I Can’t Ski Babe”?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kHdi7jsak

I sometimes refer to “my lovely wife”.  I then add “I make the ugly one stay at home.”

What? You missed the Spam museum in Austin, MN? It’s actually pretty interesting, and in the gift shop you can buy Spam coffee cups and Teriyaki Spam.

In Boulder, Colorado, near where I live (and I understand in LA too) many “homeless” people live in RV’s which they park wherever they can. Some of these are travel trailers and some are motor homes. In Boulder one place they tend to congregate is in a city-owned parking lot near one of the softball complexes,…

I recall when I jokingly asked my young son (around 2-3, maybe?) to go get me a beer, and lo and behold he returned a minute later with a beer!

As my old friend Michael says, “Better gray than gone”.

You wouldn’t write “her’s” when something belongs to her, why would you write “it’s” when something belongs to it?  But you need an apostrophe in a contraction such as “it’s” for it is.  That’s why there are the two forms.

I have a stepdaughter who usually gets the I-me thing wrong. When she was younger I used to correct her all the time. When she became an adult I stopped, but when she became an elementary school teacher I started again.

When I worked a nice union job (think brown truck) I was given full pay for time served on jury duty. I therefore wanted to be called - it beat actual work! I was called once in 32 years, and excused by lunchtime. The judge called us in and told us they had had 4 trials scheduled for the day and they had all settled…

Once when I was called, during questioning of prospective jurors a man got up and gave a 3-minute speech about his mother and a house she bought that turned out to have been a meth house, and the courts wouldn’t help her, and he concluded by saying “So I now just have no faith in the judicial system.” He was promptly…

Your last sentence is a gross generalization and I doubt there’s data to back it up. It certainly doesn’t apply to me, though I understand the invalidity of anecdotal evidence.

My questions: 1) Can the nag things be turned off? They would be a deal-breaker for me. 2) In the past, Subarus have had shorter warranties than some other cars. Is this still true?

The solution is simple, if perhaps expensive (or perhaps not): Quit buying Samsung and Motorola phones (and the others) until they start doing updates as promptly as Google does! My Pixel XL (a “Pixel 1", I guess) gets all the updates timely. I recently searched Amazon to see how much it would cost to replace it with…