You can stay at home and drink and overeat and gamble away your money much cheaper and with fewer senior citizens and less Covid and Norwalk vomiting virus than on a cruise.

but my wife absolutely refused to even consider a minivan.

Wife got her first minivan in 2000, and the second in 2008. In 2017 a deer destroyed the latter, so we were in the market. Kids were grown, so we looked at, ugh, crossovers. None had the room and usefulness of a minivan. So she’s on her third one now, and it hauls all our stuff.

California’s trying to become our nation’s second Third-World state, behind Mississippi. How can you ban gasoline cars in 10 years if you can’t fuel EVs? It’s like the state is living in a fantasy realm.

So glad that PA doesn’t allow municipal police to use radar or lidar. Only state to do so. (Only the state police can.)

Phase 1: Make the cheapest beer possible, remove all the flavor, add back some inexpensive sweet flavors, charge $20 a twelve pack, target the young and/or stupid.

And don’t you dare cook them in anything but a deep fryer or air fryer (set at highest temp and wings turned halfway through).

Didn’t we go through this several years ago when some actual McDonalds person made it on a video or something? I think we did, because I remember making it at home. 

This is my go-to bolognese. Kudos to the author. It makes a good amount, so have it if you’re having a few people over:

Who has wood siding anymore?

If you find yourself driving north or south on I-99 in Pennsylvania for some odd reason this month, get off at the exit for DelGrosso Amusement Park. Admission is free. Walk to Murf’s Kitchen food stand and order the potato salad. That’s the winner right there.

Grew up on Seltzer’s sweet Lebanon bologna on Martin’s potato rolls.

Don’t forget potato chips. PA and Ohio are the chip belt. Tray some PA chips cooked in lard (Gibbles, Kay and Ray’s).

What, didn’t China steal SpaceX’s booster reentry blueprints?

When I got my first one way back, the standard prep was a gallon of yucky fluid (plus the gag-inducing bottle of magnesium citrate). Now it’s two quarts of Gatorade with miralax, which is much better (but still that magnesium citrate).

Me, neither, because as a Pennsylvanian, our default deli meat was always that Lebanon bologna the writer couldn’t find. Seltzer’s sweet is my preference.

Coming from a restaurant family, we wanted maximum fun for our guests. So we had heavy apps, nothing sit down. Just eat, drink and dance, with a pause to cut the cake.

Hey—o Aspen wagon had a V-8, and 16-year-old me got that sucker up to 100 mph. So there is that.

1952 MG TD, all original parts.

No chips from the chip capital of the US, Pennsylvania? Regular or Grandma Utz? Gibble’s or Kay and Ray or other lard chips? Martin’s?