Found a fun little factoid … seems that back in 1912, the Astors were the wealthiest family in America, and John Jacob Astor was the richiest rich of the lot. But he died on the Titanic. Guess money don’t float. Isidor Straus(s?) and his wife Ida, owners of Macy’s … apparently, he refused to leave …
The Center Does Not Hold
Need a new fridge. Well, not really, ‘coz the old one still works, just with problems. See, one feature of the fridge is an alert — a “ding … ding … ding” — if the door sits open too long. Well this delightful little feature now ding … ding … dings even when the fridge …
Breeding for Bonzo
When you don’t have kids, you’re incredibly self-centered. And when you do, you become even more so. Methinks: how could you not? There a little half version of you walking about in the world. If anyone has had a child after, say, 2010, methinks the decision stems more from hubris than the notion that the …
Cut ‘Em Off, On Their Knees
Methinks me wonders at times the amount of a child’s potential lost because the adults don’t know how to adult. Mentioned (several times) before that theKid is involved in sports, like heavily, like more than one team/sport/activity. Anyhoo … There are some kids on some of those teams who only play intermittently because – get …
The Great & The Horrible
Know what’s equal parts horrible and great? Not knowing the prices of things, and buying them anyway. Not talking cars, or houses, or dunno, jewelry, nothing like that. Just the everyday stuff that winds up in the cart and then on the card and then on home. Instance: theKid has a thing for naan bread. …
Bloated ‘n Swole, the Sequel / AKA – More Fat
One aspect of the Great Debt Escape that methinks is discussed too oft-little is the cost of actually trying to live while getting out of debt. Yeh yeh yeh I know … reduce expenses, direct those savings to debt satisfaction, stop using cards … yadda-yadda, yadadadadada whatevs And I noticed that many of the debt-free …
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Debt Check
Meguess to start the newly yeared with a debt check, see how/what my monkeys are doing. Progress is admittedly slow, but it isn’t as if life stops whilst one tries to get one’s turds in order … those chimps just keep on flinging poo … So, without further ado (more ado, always ado) … the …
Boss Cost
Methinks perhaps we are entering the realm of diminishing retur— nah, forget that. Just fix the darn thing. {Luke 6:42} Handle one’s own business, as it t’were. See, Truk now has an oil leak, fairly significant, but oil levels remain … level. Likely a rear main seal. Gah. Good thing, tho’ ‘cuz there is sort …
Intolerance for Everyone!
Just read a news blurb re a restaurant’s denial of service to a Christian group. Said the restaurant was committed to inclusivity and the waitstaff would feel uncomfortable, based on the group’s views. Is not that not what that is? Hmmm … Heard a radio confession where a woman thought she and her husband had …
Getting Closer, and Closer
Well here’s some good news, and right in time for that global (well, in the West at least) heathenistic annual celebration of consumption and excess expenditure. Apparently, there have been some recent archaeological discoveries that further support the Bible. Well who knew? GOD apparently, but people just get uncomfortable around HIM … that whole sin …