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The somewhat strange title of this piece has its origin, oddly, in an email sent to be long ago by Dr. Dennis, who, besides being a Ph.D. in something or other is also a Buddhist Monk, and it’s in that latter capacity that he wrote, saying that, in his tiny basement apartment sublet from someone [...]
Today I tried to answer two intriguing emails from friends. Both men are…after unplanned layoffs….working, although in Mitch’s case he is nearing retirement and in Raoul’s case he is not yet 30. I consider both guys good friends. Otherwise I suspect Mitch and Raoul don’t have much in common, except that they both admit to [...]
This summer we have been in a larger-than-normal number of pet hospitals, which begs the question, “Is there a normal number?”. Irene and I think that, if you have multiple animals, (we had four at the beginning of the summer), you will be in a veterinary hospital at least once a year. Keeping in mind [...]
Being, (I can scarcely say this), a near-elderly person , (gag me with my false teeth), if I were speaking to another geezer, and if that person were here in the Allegro Campground in Red Bay, in Alabama, I would have to do two things.
First, I would have to talk VERY LOUD because in this [...]
Compared to these guys, I have no work ethic at all.
In fact, I’m sitting pretty today, typing away in an amazingly tasteful and even more comfortable customer lounge, (and, hey, you wanna look? Check it ooouuutttt….), Irene and I just waiting (and OH how we love waiting!) for six things to simultaneously get done on [...]
June 10, 2009 in Eating, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, Poker, RVing and Motorhomes
There’s life, there’s death and, hopefully, in between, there’s a bit of renewal. And there are parallels, it seems, between updating a no-long-spanking-new motor home and revitalizing an ever-so-slightly-aging body.
Forgive me if I’ve said this before…seems I may have, but with my geezer memory I can’t swear to it….but in the RV World updating RVs [...]
It may sound extreme, but I believe some people SHOULD die violent, ugly deaths, and, if possible, should then be temporarily resurrected so they can to die the same way again, if possible over and over again, like they were living out their own malevolent Groundhog Day movie. These people include the folks next door [...]
Albert and I left the Tiffin accounts-payable office at the same time the other morning, each of us with our paid receipt in hand. “How’d ya do?” he asked jovially…a warning sign that he had “done” better than I in an unspoken contest consistently played between us Tiffin owners and the Tiffin service center, where [...]
I suppose like most people, there are times when I wish I was somebody else. Maybe more often than with most people ‘cuz with me I can add in the depths-of-depression times…”God, I wish I was anybody else!” But those are not the times I’m talking about here; here I mean those times when I [...]
My apologies to whomever wrote the above-mentioned book; I’m stealing title only, not content, as we were neither near a Rascal Faire, whatever that might be, nor dancing. However, we were at a town fair, at Vernon, which is maybe 7 miles out of Red Bay, primarily because a guy came into the customer lounge [...]