Month: March 2025
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Crappy Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you ever noticed that service in a restaurant is really lousy when the restaurant isn’t very busy? Randy and I think this is almost universally true. It’s interesting to us because it’s counterintuitive. You’d think that when servers aren’t busy they’d give you more, not less, of their attention. But… Read more
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Grandkids Rule…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNow here’s a topic we don’t talk about much in this blog. Randy and I don’t have kids, so it follows, logically, that we’re completely devoid of and inexperienced with grandkids. My mom once had a T-shirt that said, “If I’d known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them… Read more
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A Swelling of Pride
Reading Time: 2 minutesLee Greenwood’s iconic song Proud to Be an America always brings a lump to my throat, especially this version, linked here. Even watching it again now raised goose bumps on my arms. As a citizen and veteran of what is still the greatest country on earth, there hasn’t been, for the last… Read more
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It’s a REALLY Small World, After All!
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I drove down to Naples last Friday to attend the weekly Happy Hour at my sister Lisa’s condo complex. There are only 82 units, about half are full-time residents, but it’s “season” in Florida so Happy Hour included a lot of snowbirds. We wouldn’t normally drive down to Naples for… Read more
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A Crafty Triumph
Reading Time: 2 minutesExcept for knitting and crocheting, I don’t enjoy crafting anymore. But when Kristine showed up with this little box, made out of the bottom of a 2-liter coke bottle, I was immediately enamored. It is so cute, so functional, so versatile. She paid something like 20 bucks for it. Next time I… Read more
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Oh, What a Night
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 1975 song by the Four Seasons starts out… Oh, what a nightLate December back in sixty threeWhat a very special time for meI remember, what a night My night was in mid-March back in sixty-five, but oh my, the memory of that night is vivid. And the night was, for me,… Read more
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Like An Old Friend
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago, during the era of VCR tapes, we recorded a comedy skit from Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy club. The comedian, named Bob Nelson, had a schtick about a college football team introducing themselves. We must have watched that short bit about 100 times back then, laughing (which is really good for… Read more
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A Year From Now
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had lunch last week with my Airplane Girls. As is true with any group of friends, each of us is going through something in our lives that upends the status quo and forces change that we aren’t particularly comfortable with. One woman just passed the year anniversary of losing her beloved… Read more