My kitty (the Golden Goddess) had both inner and outer ear infections that required surgery to clear up. She does not have seizures but she will begin to shake when she looks at me. It is so scary to see. I am sorry to have to say this (not to denigrate your kitty in any way) but she is the beautifulest kitty in the…

Summer heat is seriously killing me - and yet i still boil me some corn on the cob. It is not even the least bit fair that cotc is only available during the hottest time of the year. I am going to start boiling now and hide in my bedroom with the A/C. My ex explained how to cook perfect cotc - throw into boiling water…

Um, when I was growing up in Montana we used to play war with fireworks. Seriously. We would fire bottle rockets at each other and occasionally bring out the big guns - Roman Candles; it was, like, smoulder, smoulder fire off a ball of flaming (something?); then more smoulder and another fireball. I think there were 5…

Definitely an ‘or’ - it was an ad from a pretty small town (my favorite joke from the 60s/70s was: “I met the entire population of Sapington, MT but I forget her name”). IIRC, Sapington was just a post office and she was the post-mistress. but I digress - the ad was in the Billings Gazette classified section.

I melt glass in one of my microwave ovens (using a special kiln). Essentially nuke it for 6:66 to warm up the kiln then another 6:66 to melt the glass. There are other tricks but this is the one that allows me to cast 7 objects in an evening rather than using a ‘real’ kiln that takes 4+ hours to ramp up, drop below…

Some of my glass-working friends use old sink grinders to make frit (glass chipped small). Watching/listening to them do this discourages worry about my sink grinder.

I sleep on my stomach with one knee lifted to 90 deg from body; this kind of puts me into side-sleeping stomach sleeper. One advantage is that I do not have to have my toes hanging over the edge of the bed (and it makes comfortable spot for my cat to sleep - draped over my bent knee).

Do not forget vitamin B deficiency! I spent a summer eating hamburgers and ended up waking up with my arms numb from elbow down. A co-worker complained of numbness and worried about MS - we suggested he eat some leafy greens first; cleared it right up.

Back in the early ‘70s there was an ad for a rural police man that read, in part, ‘must be over 6' or have college degree’. I snickered back then - no more.

Actually, I think that college-age adults seem to suffer from B-12 deficiency b/c all hamburgers all the time is nutritionally unsound. One co-worker thought he was getting Parkinsons due to neurological issues - all he had to do was put lettuce and tomatoes on his burger and it went away.

That’s why I take V-B+ at night - it’s out of my system before I get to work.

It is all starbuck’s fault; adding that cigarette butt from the ashtray for ‘flavor’ and/or over-roasting their coffee has made that the standard.

WOW! What a fun and disturbing (seeing myself) 3 hours.

But if they are screwing you they have probably screwed another human and therefore....

A radio station in Billings, MT played American Pie for 24 straight hours then switched from rock to country format. This happened in the early 70s - some of us tried to listen for more than a couple loops but no acid was strong enough.

I remember back in the olden days (C=64) we were told not to turn the machines off and on because the on/off switch was the most likely part to fail.

One place I worked at used to announce when a meeting/conference was over and where so we could vulture.

It was always home-made mayo

They have vinegar BBQ - baby jeebus weeps.

The food poisoning from mayo is ALWAYS from home-made mayo. Okay, if you mix crab juice with the mayo and leave it out in the sun all day, maybe....