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Whirlpool has come out with these new air conditioners that are lighter than older models, and more energy efficient. This can make a big difference in electric bills, since the two appliances that eat up electricity are air conditioners and washer/dryers. If you don't want to suffer from the...

Do you know suicide was a criminal offense? In less civilized days, they would've hung you for it. 8)

Even around here, there are a number of lakes with the same problem. Good for boaters, bad for swimmers. There's a lake a few hundred feet from my house. Looks nice, but you can't go in. Otherwise I'd take my inner tube and float off into the sunset.

Not with me. You can believe sticks and stones till the cows come home, but in my experience, the only way to stop a bully was to stand up to them. Show them you mean business.Let them know you don't appreciate the name calling. It's rough, and I didn't like confronting bullies, and sometimes it...

See, this is the difference between now and forty years ago. I was bullied at that age, but it didn't make me want to go hang myself. You want to get people to stop bullying you? You have to STAND UP TO THE BULLY AND DEFEND YOURSELF. And you have every right to. It's conquering fear, otherwise...

I'm sorry, Jerry. The reply was for Snowthy. My bad.

I know it's an overwhelming responsibility to look after your folks, and it can feel like a burden. But they have you and that is a huge blessing. Last year during my frequent hospital stays, I saw elderly people who have nobody. No family, no friends, nobody who cares, and that is a shame. As...

I got married at 32 (which for my generation was late. 3/4 of my class was already settled down with families when I tied the knot). But there is no magic number of when to be married, when to have kids, it's all perception. One college classmate of mine thought if you're not married by 30...

No, I'm comfortable discussing it. Basically, I thought, I'm in my 30s now, and what have I done with my life? At that point a business venture fell apart, my drunken father saying I was a failure, I haven't become a Christian yet, and I really thought if I went away, nobody would notice. Almost...

On this day in 1999 was my botched suicide attempt. (I tried jumping out of a basement window, ha ha). Seriously, I had a bottle of whiskey and sleeping pills, and was going to end it all, but I couldn't. And so glad I didn't. I never would have married my wife, never would have found this site...

Run for the hills.

Having fish and chips. Quintessential English dinner. Just like here there's a McDonald's on every corner, in England and Ireland there's a fish and chip shop everywhere. Beer battered fried haddock, chips that are like the steak fries you find at Red Robin. In Ireland, like they've been doing...

What rhymes with orange?

Moved into my new house a few weeks back, but even happier I'm getting a ton of crap out of storage and getting rid of it. It's unbelievable how much stuff piles up over the years, and how liberating it is to let it go.

Wouldn't Randall have to come back through the same door?If the door gets smashed into splinters, wouldn't he have to put the pieces back together to return? BTW, Monsters Inc. is great. Back in early 2001 on our honeymoon, we got to see a few sneak peeks of what Disney was coming up with next...

Plus a starving actor namedJoe Pesci.

Just giving a shout out to Rodney Dangerfield. The comic who made a career out of getting no respect, his act never got old. In the 80s Rodney ruled with his trilogy "Caddyshack", "Back to School", and his masterpiece "Easy Money". Two of his biggest gifts as a comic, on1)e knew how to handle...

Personally I don't give two craps about Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, or much else on the radio these days. Maybe because I'm so old and out of the loop. I'm fine just ignoring her, she can ignore me for all I care, and we'd both be happy with that arrangement. I've got enough albums in my...

Cats was once filmed and released as a movie. But nothing will ever beat seeing it live on Broadway. Back in 1984, one of our high school teachers took us on the staff of the literary magazine to see a Broadway show. I really had my heart set on Little Shop of Horrors, but we couldn't get...

Do you know what's funny? Metal bands denying their metalLed Zeppelin and Deep Purple were loud, but not metal. K.K. Downing once said JudasPriest wasn't metal. But the biggest eyebrow raiser was Ozzy saying Black Sabbath wasn't metal. If you had to pick five criteria to be metal, what would...