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That’s good, and once again, I appreciate your honesty.

Well, here’s where there’s a conflict. The most famous case (when was that? April?) The woman gave fish tank cleaner, then ingested it herself. Her husband died, she needed her stomach pumped. Before we say Trump is to blame, we have to get past this first. The woman was a registered Democrat...

That’s another thing. Stick with a brand you recognize. Once I had a tv by Daewoo . I got it because it was cheap. But it almost blew up on me. It started humming and smoke poured out of it. Did I buy a tv or a bomb?

It saddens me a little. At. Patrick’s Day is to commemorate when St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland. But a lot of people use the day as an excuse to get drunk. Same with Cinco de Mayo. It has nothing to do with Mexico’s independence, but let’s get blitzed on Margaritas.

I never recorded anything in SP. You get higher resolution, but it eats up more tape. But old tapes you got from Blockbuster were always taped in SP. That’s why they took so long to rewind. And in SP, I could never get a decent freeze frame.

And one so-so pitcher named Reggie Jackson.

Same thing with the NY Yankees. Some love them, some hate them. But they were one of the greatest baseball teams ever (ldecades-long rivalry wi the Boston Red Sox). They won more World Series than all other teams put together. For me, though, the late 70s lineup defined baseball for me (more so...

I taped a number of early 90s Super Bowls. Not for the commercials (as good as some are)or the halftime shows, but for the actual games. I didn’t care for the actual coin toss, or seeing retired players. Terry Bradshaw was one of the greatest quarterbacks ever He was a beast back in his days...

Climate change doesn’t seem to be a problem to people in Florida. Imagine that. Once you l get past Georgia, climate change gets left behind as well. Or move up to my sister’s old house in Petoskey, Michigan. She sold it in 1995, she thinks it’s still vacant. It’s on the shore of Lake...

I’ve gone through vcr tapes like they were water. In the 80s and 90s I had a few hundred tapes.. Now I ‘m down to three. Many got chewed up, others I replaced with dvds. Others you can find on YouTube. I don’t miss the fact tapes used to take up a lot of space.

I’m partial to the Steelers. They were 11-0 at one point, then completely fell apart. This will be a Super Bowl first, playing with no crowds in the stands. Any other year, people pay stupid money just to be in the stadium. And to have a seat on the 50 yard line... phew! Some years the game...

I have one of those combo deals going on 15 years now. I can’t even remember the last time I used the vcr side. I got this as a Walmart special, and I’m surprised it lasted this long.

Alchohol ruined my dad’s life. As long as my kidneys held up, I enjoyed having a drink. But I knew all too well the pit my dad fell into. Some people can be happy drunk. Some can be falling down drunk. My dad was the angry violent drunk. It turned him into a monster. I used to worry the same...

Do you know what else sucks about the pandemic? Before, it used to be easy to go out in public and talk to people. Even at the store, it was relatively easy to walk up to people and smile, and say hello. And even in places like Noo Joisey and Noo Yawk, you could start a conversation with total...

Another thing that sucks about Zoom calls. The more people you’re on with, the worse it sounds. Try talking with ten people at once it’s a s#|t show. The only way to hear one person is to mute everyone else.

That’s really cool when they encourage you like that. It will be nice to talk to people in person again. Zoom calls are horrendous. The echo and delay sometimes keeps you from hearing properly, but for now it’s the best we got.

A lot of Macaroni Grills closed. If you’ve eaten at Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill is a disappointment. They did have a barbecue chicken pizza on the menu, which wouldn’t be my first thought at an Italian place, but hey. One thing I did like. They had these big sheets of paper for your...

I didn’t talk to my dad for two years because of his drinking. In his drunken stupor he said a few things about my wife and me. I came back with a few choice words of my own, and that was the last I talked to him for two years. Holding a grudge against him didn’t do me any favors. It also hurt...

Olive Garden was a million times better than Macaroni Grill.

Yes, the Draize testing. All it took to move me was a poster I saw of a lab technician saying “I never heard a rabbit scream like that before”. The trouble was, what action do we take? At the time, 1989/90, one big culprit was Mary Kay cosmetics. They got some blowback, but as of 2020 are still...