Saturday, January 16, 2016

Van Recall

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     Had to take my van in on Thursday for a recall. Actually the recall was for last July, it took this long to get the part. There was a...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

The Earth is Round.

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     When I was at the ruins of Ephesus a few years ago, I saw what was left of a Roman statue. It was an emperor's foot on a globe. T...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Pineapple

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For breakfast the other day, I had a slice of pineapple. Not from a can, but an actual pineapple where I cut off a slice. It just so happe...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Old Boats

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On one of my trips to the Caribbean, a WW 2 landing craft was used to ferry passengers from the ship to an island. It would bump on the sand...

It's Customary

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They have a custom in Spain on New Year's Eve to eat 12 grapes in the last 12 seconds before midnight. It's called the 12 grapes of ...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Does anyone remember Sen-Sen?

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Harrison Ford - Hans Duo

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Friday, December 18, 2015

I read this in "Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)"

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 " If you take political candidates as a population example, then the United States is a third world country. Everyone grows up poor, ...

A friend told me that when she was young she sang soprano. I told her I just sang loud.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

This is how it all began….

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      Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to go fishing. He called the royal weather forecaster a...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Did you know that chocolate bars get raptured?

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Friday, August 14, 2015

Obituary column was the usual. Only nice people died.

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In the winter, my mother used to hang clothes on the line. They became frozen solid. Easy to dance with, as long as you stayed outside.

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

You Can’t Write What You Wouldn’t Read for Pleasure

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The most important thing is you can’t write what you wouldn’t read for pleasure. It’s a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can wri...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Scientists make a robot that can have babies

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Everyone who thinks robots are going to take over the world might be about to get a lot more frightened: Scientists have created a machine t...

Shingles Medicine...

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...Saw an ad for that on TV. It said shingles can last as long as thirty days. I don't know where they got that idea. I got shingles bac...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Books and Friends

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Greenwood military family centre fraudster facing tax investigation

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/greenwood-military-family-centre-fraudster-facing-tax-investigation-1.3185883
Monday, August 10, 2015

Penguins have an organ which removes salt from water, allowing them to drink salt water.

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Aluminum can be recycled over and over again without any loss to quality, and a recycled beer can could be back on the shelf in 60 days.

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