One great thing about being retired is that afternoon naps are nearly always available. They’re rejuvenating, calming, restorative, cozy, all the good stuff. And when a cat (or cats) join you for them, they’re absolute HEAVEN! Charli and Patches don’t see eye to eye — or, when they do, Patches gives Charli the stink eye […]
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Tacoma turned out in force for today’s #HandsOff Rally. I took the vast majority of these pictures very early on, more than a half hour before the event even got underway officially. By the time I left at 1:30, so many people had joined that, had they not huddled for speeches and rallying cries, they
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Picked up my new Frigidaire today. It’s a pretty fridge. It’s a bit little shorter than the other one was, but that’s good. It has no visible scratches or dings on the door, and just a little scratch and ding on one side. T’was a great buy for $399! Unscratched/dinged, it would have sold for
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Just one year and two months ago, I got a brand new Whirlpool refrigerator at Lowe’s in Puyallup, model #WRT314TFDW. I didn’t buy an extended warranty because most articles about extended warranties say don’t bother; they’re a ripoff. Well, the thermostat or compressor (don’t know which yet) has just gone belly up and it
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Inelegant, imperfect, but perfectly clear: HANDS OFF OUR STUFF, BILLIONAIRES! Be there — wherever there is closest to you — on April 5th 2025! It’s time they heard from us, loud and clear: RELINQUISH OUR HARD WON GAINS??? NOT ON OUR WATCH!!
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Just scheduled the ultrasound for my “abdominal mass” — what I’m calling my hernia but which could be any number of other things, most benign although they may require surgery, a few of them malignant. It’s sorta weird that I don’t much care which way it turns out. The mass is either fixable, in
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“God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it a shape.” – Barry Taylor, road manager for AC/DC Mic drop! Eggs-ack-ly!
On a Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Elon Musk proclaimed that America is in imminent danger of losing its culture. Really?!! Define American Culture, South African Apartheid Spawn! If by American culture Musk means government by, of and for rich, cisgender, Protestant, white male supremacists — which is pretty close to how I
I’m going to the doctor today. (Alas, not that one!) I’ve been developing a hernia (or something!) for the past several months, so I finally made an appointment to have it looked at. The problem is, sometimes it’s almost undetectable while at other times it’s a two or three finger length
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Doctor McCoy has beamed in from China, compliments of Tanjin Tam. Tanjim promised me a couple years ago that I’d be receiving one as soon as they were available as a thank you gift for helping him flesh out Dr. McCoy’s between-Starfleet-services background (De regaled Trek convention audiences with the idea that McCoy was a
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