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In 2020, my wife and I met right before my 55th birthday in May. After knowing each other for about ten days, my son said he needed to come home for...

TESTED!!!! Velocio Men's Signature Softshell Riding conditions: 42-45 overcast with wet roads. The jacket is fantastic, it effectively blocks...

Sorry to hear that Greg. I hope 2024 is a good year for you and your daughter.

Seems like a common theme this week. I finalized my divorce one year ago. My ex always faced emotional health challenges, but COVID and our current...

Had a better week after a few bad weeks. Provided a little help to good people who lost their jobs for reasons that were not theirs to control....

Like Jay, I went through a divorce in 2018 and basically started my life over in Arizona as an empty-nester as my son left for Annapolis. After the...

Well well well, if these guys are storing a basketball in the corner maybe I can (sucker) talk them into a game of chance. I'm finding that...

Forty degrees this morning and fog clouds the view of the forest around, so I lay about instead of heading out with my field mower and saw- shotgun...

It's a Friday and a fun football game was played in Las Vegas. I have a good buddy in Oregon that was rooting against my Washington team. Either...

Another Irish legend gone this year.

Nice article about Little Miss Dynamite...Brenda Lee...in the NYT today. The article includes Spotify links to 11 of her greatest hits, not including...

Stopped in my LCS the other day and they were keeping the roaster busy.

Today, in North Yorkshire.

"light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul." English has gone downhill since Nabokov.

Published last week in a local rag and the author is a long-time "style" reporter.

Costa Rica: La Minita Estate, Tarrazu Costa Rica: La Magnolia, Tres Rios Both are inbound from Coffee bean Corral. I've had good luck with CBC...

Yesterday was Day 4 of middle school substitute teaching. I had 6-8 grades in a small K-8 school with 90 students. My classroom had 22 students in...

When I was stationed in Hawaii, I used the Pearl Harbor bike path for my daily bike commute. I got to see bizarre stuff on almost a daily basis....

Not sure when that was written but I'm seeing a lot of editorial errors in recently written publications. Drive me insane too, Mr. Bob. Reminds me...

Why I bother to read anymore…

Final walk of the day with the dog around 9pm last night and we had to move off the bike path because a car was driving down it like a regular...

Read Pavel's book "Enter the Kettlebell" some off the best condition I've ever been in was when I was doing swings and presses on a regular basis....

I get the "do you do a lot of work in the area?" question a couple of times a year when I'm out mulching the beds or blowing leaves. I always respond...

Thanks, if I'm going to do it I want it to be a space I'd actually use. With the current garage setup it might not be possible without moving a car...

Olympic barbells are about 86" long (just over 7 feet). I've seen 6 foot bars on Amazon. I'm sure there's shorter ones too. I think that would feel...

I figure there was a good reason, but had no clue what it might be. Thanks for the clarification on that issue. (Obviously they weren't the first...

Because of the proximity to mountains, the instrument approach procedures at Kaneohe are only for runway 22. Due to the combination of cloud height...

If this was the case, I wonder why didn't they land in the other direction.

At a minimum, you could go for the pompadour. The rest, well, that requires actual work.

This reminds me of my grandfather's house in the '70-80s...he was a former Olympic weightlifter (Berlin 1936) and professional wrestler (it was fake...

I’ll put in my annual plug for the sleigh shovel, forever thankful to my Canadian neighbors for showing me the light. Yes, I know it might not be...

Sweat equity is where it's at.

Same neighbor walked by 6 years later, and asked who does our landscaping and yard. I said, "You probably can't afford it." No joke - neighbor...

Keep us updated, yeah? Very interested to know how this works out for you.

Sold off a few "builds" already but these remain (for now). If anyone is interested I would sell any of them but not the SKX011 because it was the...