The IRS does not allow you to record a phone call with them; if you say you are recording, the IRS CSR will hang up. All calls are monitored and a there is a random chance that the call will be QCed.

I remember the olden days when stoves all came with a soup pot that lived on the upper left - it was sunken and seldom worked so we stored all our extra grease in old milk bottles that lived in that hole - that was just an old memory fart, no other reason,

Penn of “Penn and Teller” fame wanted to know what it was like to get a tattoo so he had a tattoo done w/o ink - that dude is somewhat strange

Um, I do not use candles but I do have a Oxy/propane torch for glass bead-making and a kiln for casting glass. I am glad it is me that has this stuff ‘cuz I would not trust anyone else to have it in their apt.

I went in for a pedicure and the tech simply cut away the infected nail - the nail grew back and I no longer have the fungus.

“That hash was so good I had visions of sugarplums dancing in my head”

A heads up for hiking/x-skiing on the east side of mountains - the sun sets an hour early! Really caught us off-guard, way up the mountain cross-country skiing on the dryer snow on the east side of the Cascades - it got dark around 3:30 in the afternoon and was deep forest dark by 4:00. Getting down was a slow,…

I worked in a restaurant where I had to open cans of snails and insert them into their shells with all the garlic crap. No matter how much I washed, I could not get the snail stink off my fingers. I was never tempted to even taste them. I grew up in very rural Montana and had never seen nor contemplated such a thing;…

I read The Importance of Being Earnest for a college lit class and brought up the fact that they were first cousins and my instructor replied that his parents were first cousins - genetics are not an issue the first time cousins marry, genetics becomes an issue if it happens too often in the same family

Some posters are saying that wearing a mask outside is useless and point to an epidemiologist who says so but when I go looking for research - all the research says that wearing a mask outside protects both the wearer and other people (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590097820300124).

I have been saving those plastic coated metal wires that come with every electronic device I have ever bought to see if those work - they don’t with style of cloth mask I use b/c they are not strong enough to overcome the stretch from the ear-loops.

A couple things of note: Obama was only allowed a BB for security reasons (think of everyone who has hacked the Orange Gibbon’s iphone; it was often referred to as CrackBerry due to the amount of time people spent on it (this is the funniest part).

Is this the beginning of “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons”? (this is a callback to my childhood reading).

I once told my family that my ex and I bought some masks while we were in Mexico - I now have 14 masks on my walls b/c they found that to be something easy to get us (and my ex didn’t want them) - careful what you tell your family since they are desperate to figure out what to get for Xmas

Does anyone remember that 7/11 was named for the hours they were open? Most stores closed at 5:30 or 6:00pm leaving workers with nowhere to shop since most businesses were open the same hours.

I had heard schmuck defined as too low to kick and too squishy to step on

I got fooled by a Twitter - I’m a twit. Sigh! A letter purportedly signed by Emily Murphy appeared and I fell for it.

Good News! She generated the letter (or at least there is a reasonable facsimile on Twitter). There was a bunch of blowback from a lot of sources and many big names regarding her refusal to issue the letter but it is out now.

I am working my way through S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (something of Chernobyl) - I like it and listening to everyone speak Russian and playing guitars around a campfire right after a horrendous firefight is...unnerving. I am rushing through the Zones until I get a decent sniper rifle, then I will slow down and wander around…

Do not clean your ears; they are self-cleaning and they provide a very important service. All the bug and dirt and crap gets in there it is removed by the wax. It is sticky and attaches to everything and slowly brings it out. The American doctors who went to SA to help in the clinic noticed that the kids ears down…