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Norway #2 + Coldplay
I no longer go on vacations, I go on adventures. Chapter 1: Where, Why, How “Where could I go where there is a potential to have an epic adventure!?” When I go on holiday for weeks, that is my main thought when choosing where I will travel. I do an ungodly amount of research before…
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I no longer go on vacations, I go on adventures. Chapter 1: Where, Why, How “Where could I go where there is a potential to have an epic adventure!?” When I go on holiday for weeks, that is my main thought when choosing where I will travel. I do an ungodly amount of research before…
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SAYING HI TO THE GUY IN AISLE 10
So you’re pushing your shopping cart down the frozen vegetable aisle at Kroger’s, and coming from the other direction is a young employee pulling a cart with stacks of boxes. What do you do, if anything? Options: Stare straight ahead at the brussels sprouts in the freezer case and ignore (or pretend to ignore) the…
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The Black Hole of Lost TSA Checkpoint Items
Before getting to your departure gate, have you ever accidentally left any items at the TSA checkpoint? I have once. One Friday, while being distracted at the checkpoint before being patted down, I left a belt and a small red travel bag. I didn’t realize the items were left until the morning after I arrived…
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Let’s build a wall of love
Just a quick note to y’all conservatives who favor the Trump border wall and are generally—come on, admit it—you really just don’t like Mexicans: You know those so-called “illegal immigrants” who you claim are raping our women and stealing jobs from the rest of us? Ummm… now that y’all’s homes have been damaged by Harvey,…
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RECEIVING GIFTS: A ROCKY PATH WITH MANY HAZARDS
So here we are in late August, and the holiday season is creeping up on us. Every year, the retailers start the creeping a couple of weeks earlier. Wanna take bets on when we’ll see the first Christmas displays in our local big-box retailers? Do you think they’ll even wait until after Halloween? After just…
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The Generation Gap Isn’t All Bad
OK, I’m 66 now and when I was a few decades younger, it used to drive me nuts to hear seniors constantly talking about Medicare, pensions, retirement, Social Security, and hip replacements. I was thinking, “Man, these folks need to get a life and find less boring things to talk about!” Well, now I’m the…
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HOW MANY CRAYONS ARE IN YOUR BOX?
My friend, Don and I were talking about personalities and my friend used an analogy of colors to describe the people we know. Do you remember how when you were a kid, you probably had quite a few of the standard Crayola crayons that came in a box of eight colors? And how if you were…
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