It was pretty comfy at 85 MPH last heading south from Hartford (VERY early this morning) on 91. But comfort levels vary.

Yeah, I think the first time I heard that was 50 years ago. In this case, the care worked. It just didn’t work well.

A few years ago, we needed a car, and my son refused to learn to drive stick. We ended up with a 2005 (IIRC) Ford Taurus Wagon. This thing was done up to the nines—fancy stereo, leather seats, the works.

I have MacBook Envy. That is, I sit in a coffee shop working, and every table around me has that gorgeous silver notebook. They’re a uniform. Then sitting on mine is an ugly black Thinkpad.

Or--if you’re the home-owning type—you could buy or build a house with a fireplace. Having lived in the NE USA and the UMW USA, there are good reasons to have a wood-burning fireplace.

Or--if you’re the home-owning type—you could buy or build a house with a fireplace. Having lived in the NE USA and…

You have to take into account that from the mid-’70s until the early ‘80s, people could actually be seen in leisure suits. And before that...well, we don’t have to go there.

Honestly, Sno Seal comment aside, they are the only boots I’ve ever owned that let me step into deep slush in Chicago without worrying about leaks. I think those were 10" boots (as opposed to the 8" version I have now) and, though I never sealed them, they kept me desert-dry. I haven’t encountered quite as much slush…

Honestly, Sno Seal comment aside, they are the only boots I’ve ever owned that let me step into deep slush in…

And I will quarter-agree with you. I’ve had other boots, but the soft soles did squat on ice of any kind. YMMV, but mine didn’t...

And I will quarter-agree with you. I’ve had other boots, but the soft soles did squat on ice of any kind. YMMV,…

fair. But for ice, no rubber or plastic sole will save you. You need metallic cleats! And yes to Sno Seal.

fair. But for ice, no rubber or plastic sole will save you. You need metallic cleats! And yes to Sno Seal.

L.L. Bean Boots. I have owned two pair—the first I bought in Chicago in 1982, and they lasted about 20 years. The second I bought in Connecticut a couple of years ago. They will stand up to snow, slush, you name it, and come in so many variants it’s hard t keep track. Color, height, lined/unlined. But they’re all…

L.L. Bean Boots. I have owned two pair—the first I bought in Chicago in 1982, and they lasted about 20 years. The…

I disagree with your position on bells as “dorky” and have written a fair bit on the topic.

Bingo!

Agreed. I’d spent some years carless when a friend told me, in the ‘90s, that he’d bought a Mustang. I took one look at that thing and shook my head. That was not a Mustang.

I haven’t seen that in the MSOffice suite, but I know that the XOffice stuff (Open, Libre, etc.) do this. There’s a long startup, for example, with Libre Writer the first time you use it. MSWord, on the other hand, seems to start up consistently. Doesn’t mean that they don’t have a lot of stuff preloaded (hey, this…

Many years ago we had kids and a minitower. One of the beige Dell ones that had intentional gaps between the disk drive blanking plates. The older kids would check games and movies out of our local library. Then, the disks started disappearing. Not the cases, just the disks. We ended up with something like 10 of these…

This has been a constant problem in my office. Margins go awry, and that means pagination is not consistent.

The point is that you can’t write the same piece about black people. This piece is talking about a relationship that depends on the existence of a white power structure. Consider:

Gotcha. When I was in grad school, I sort of retrained my hand to write very small characters, and so became enamored of extra fine (EF or XF) nibs. My “permanent” Pilot (a Metropolitan):

You and I were twins in another life. St. Paul Book and Stationery, how I miss you!

Thicker or broader? Lots of stuff with broad nibs, but if it’s thick (read “stiff”) you want, Pilot makes a refillable or two with steel nibs, and they work very nicely. I keep blue ink in one of those.