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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I grew up a poor farm boy, so we never had a VCR when I was a kid. And they really weren’t a thing anyway when I was young. And according to my Father, us kids were the remote!

    Did you ever peer into the back of the TV when a tube would burn out and your Dad would pull the cabinet out, then remove the back and try to see which tube didn’t light up when the set was powered up? It was a marvelous sight! It often took us a few days before we would get to town before we could stop into the local drug store that had a tube tester and had a selection of the common tubes to buy.


  • That’s what I love about mine. Automatic lid raise and lower as you walk in, heated ring and water, (both adjustable temp), air dry, (again heated), and charcoal filtered air filtration to minimize the stench from that drive through burrito.

    It’s the posh life. Very nearly the equal to having your own chamberlain.



  • I was thinking of even older things.

    The feel of the keys and staccato sounds of a mechanical typewriter.

    The sound of a wringer/washer machine

    The muffled sound of my am band 9 transistor pocket radio “hiding” under my pillow late at night for as long as the 9V battery would last (I loved the Mystery Radio Theater show that started at 10pm)

    The soft crackling sound of a tube black and white TV as all the tubes warmed up. (And the time it took to do so)

    The sound and smell of the percolator coffee pot in the morning

    The sound of a wooden screen slamming shut

    The smell and sound of a mimeograph machine printing copies in the school/church office (And the slight buzz you could get from copy fluid-- Petroleum aromatics Yum!)

    Doing my math homework with a slide rule.

    The smell of a fresh fired paper hull shotgun shell on a cold crisp late fall morning

    And so much more that no longer exists.












  • Most guns shows have FFL dealers on site. Those guys are definitely running the federally and state required background checks in a little room in the back somewhere. And if the sale happens inside the building, it’s even highly likely private sales get run through also, (you will pay for it-- someone has to make money off of it). The Paperwork Gods must be appeased no matter what.

    But depending on the state/county/city often you can do a private sale in the parking lot with someone that doesn’t get the check. This is not universal across all 50 states. Some states, like California require all firearms transfers to go through a licensed FFL.

    YMMV




  • That’s the cool thing about medicine, you don’t “do” medicine-- you practice medicine.

    And anytime you prescribe a drug, you are starting a trial. Because you really don’t know how it will do to that one patient. Experience may tell you that it should do what you expect it to do, (because it almost always does). But it could only partially work or do nothing, or have varying side affects, or even kill you patient.

    As an ER director of a hospital once told me, “Despite all we think we know and all we think we can do for a patient. It still mostly boils down to keeping the patient amused and letting nature take it’s course.”


  • Think of it as a way to say you have no clue how to communicate correctly through the written word. By the time I’m forced to wade through your lack of punctuation, misspellings and the autocorrect blunders and the stupid emojis to decipher what you REALLY meant, I already have equated your IQ to be around the range of my old orange tabby cat.

    If you send me a text, I will consider it of such low priority that I might get back to you in a week or so.