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===========================================Benjamin Franklin
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Tag Archives: Life
Things I don’t Need, but Want, #1056
Race fans get presented with an array of appealing products, the latest of which is pictured here. That there is a grill, a 1:1 scale version of a racing engine. Saw the ad on SpeedTV, and checked out the website, … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Ericka!
My eldest granddaughter turns 18 on Feb 29th. There not being a Feb 29 this year, we observe her b-day near the end of the month. This is no longer the little girl I took for her first ride on … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day Love (Almost)
Does giving up watching the NASCAR Truck Race so one’s spouse can watch the Olympic opening ceremony count?1 If so, then I am truly a great catch. I suppose I still have to get a card and flowers. As though … Continue reading
I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB … Continue reading
Two Hours, Cold Wet Feet, and 15 Bucks/Hour
I’m cold, wet, and tired. Two hours on the handle of a snow shovel is not my idea of fun. The dig, traipse across the street, dump, repeat ritual behind the aught-one Saturn, combined with some Midwest-learned knowledge of “rocking” … Continue reading
Still and Clear
As in still snowing, and clear up to your ass. Lucky me, I get to scoop a path across the deck seen in the picture a few posts back. The satellite dish is atop the shed; we’ve lost the signal. … Continue reading
I Think There’s a Saturn in There
Your forbearance is humbly requested, while I post yet another snow photo. This is a view out tbbs WorldHQ’s front door, which reveals my covered ’01 Saturn. We think MLB’s ’08 is under the pile mid-photo, and our neighbor’s VW … Continue reading
And the Radio still works..
When life sends you snow, you blog about it. With pictures. This one reveals our outside Sirius Satellite Radio antenna. This is needed to get any kind of reliable signal at all; here in the underbelly of our three-level townhouse, … Continue reading
White Brinkmanns and Webers
The view of the deck, taken just a few minutes ago. That white conical device is our Brinkmann Smoker, under a fresh blanket of the white stuff. To the right is the black Weber Kettle grill, sporting the latest in … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving!
The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement. –Les Nessman Maybe that’s what happens in Cincinnati; here in NoVA, our turkey is atop a bunch of charcoal and hickory chunks; the smoke wafts upward towards the cold, … Continue reading
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