The Los Angeles Public Library system has pretty much everything you might want along with pretty much any book, periodical, video or audiobook you might want. You can take language classes online and check out e-books through Overdrive or direct from the Amazon web site for Kindle. I’ve never managed to get their…

We had full size mechanical office typewriters with blank keys.

I took a “secretarial” typing class in high school 1967-68. So we learned all kinds of extra stuff like how to fold a letter correctly, how to work with carbon paper and how to use eraser shields. I was typing about 65wpm at the end of the class.

And “The man who never was,” a dead body landed in Spain with a case full of phony documents to convince the Germans the landing would be in Sardinia.

I saw this movie when it first came out and haven’t seen it again. I guess it’s time to fix that.

I hear ya on that. We did get some small measure of revenge on our neighbors when we had the concrete in our front yard jackhammered up starting at 7am.

When we bought this house (“as is”) in 1994 the front yard was one solid slab of concrete, apparently put in by someone who wanted to park a dead car on the lawn (we could still see the tire tracks). We had absolutely no money to have the concrete replaced, so it stayed a barren slab for over 20 years.

I’m glad you like the smell. I don’t. And that “upscale launrdy detergemt”
aroma sticks around forever.

I’m glad you like the smell. I don’t. And that “upscale launrdy detergemt”
aroma sticks around forever.

People who have been vegetarians for a long time lose the enzymes that allow them to digest meat, so this kind of switching could literally make them sick.

Why not go back farther? Richard Burton, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Arthur Hill......

I read the average sized book in a day. Easy peasy.  :)

The only thing that stopped my skin from breaking out was vitamin B6.

The only thing that stopped my skin from breaking out was vitamin B6.

My dad LOVED buttermilk. He kept telling us we’d love it too if we’d just give it a try.

That nuclear orange Kraft stuff doesn’t taste as cheesy as it did when I ate it as a kid (my mom would only make mac & cheese from a box).

In our household a large means we get at least two lunches and one supper.

Swamp coolers need to be cleaned religiously. Get algae or mold growing on the fiber mats and you’re cooked in more ways than one. I once worked in a business that had a swamp cooler that nobody took care of it and it smelled like dead fish every time the owner turned it on.

I’m 68, and have only had air conditioning for maybe 10 of those years, and not all at once. Including only one class, one semester, in an air conditioned classroom.

We bought some Beyond bratwursts but haven’t tried them yet. Boca used to make them and we often ate them, but haven’t seen them in years.

My vegetarian daughter-in-law and granddaughter came to visit us yesterday. I served Beyond Burgers (purchased at a Ralphs grocery store) and everyone was satisfied. Well, my granddaughter tanked up on fries, but she’s 5.

I bought myself an iPod Touch to celebrate my 65th birthday. It’s not just for children any more. :)