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Post by andydp on Feb 22, 2024 11:12:29 GMT
Since we’re in San Juan Puerto Rico a travel
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
Ray Bradbury
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Post by andydp on Feb 23, 2024 10:48:47 GMT
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
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Post by andydp on Feb 24, 2024 17:53:16 GMT
Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become “better organized”.
Lydia Davis
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Post by andydp on Feb 25, 2024 13:16:22 GMT
And so it ends.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson
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Post by andydp on Feb 26, 2024 19:18:21 GMT
On the way home right now. Layover in Orlando.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James A. Baldwin
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Post by andydp on Feb 27, 2024 13:14:57 GMT
We're back from San Juan !! laundry ensues !
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by andydp on Feb 28, 2024 12:28:48 GMT
Yesterday: record breaking warm at 65. Today: starting in the 50's. By 1600 the 30's with winds, rain and maybe snow.
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Mark Twain
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Post by andydp on Feb 29, 2024 11:41:57 GMT
Doing a diner lunch with the Corvette club:
Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.
Peter the Great
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Post by andydp on Mar 1, 2024 13:59:28 GMT
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
Tyra Banks
For a few of us its also payday so:
Payday came and with it beer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by andydp on Mar 4, 2024 15:18:59 GMT
Did an “easier” job this time: reversed the door hinges on the bar fridge. Two hours no jackhammer involved.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard
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Post by andydp on Mar 7, 2024 12:51:08 GMT
Back from Denver. Flights were uneventful and on time.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike
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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 7, 2024 19:51:46 GMT
Glad you had an uneventful trip.
And yes we spend so much time in cars, complain about the condition of the roads, traffic, and other drivers yet fight mass transit projects tooth and nail.
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Post by andydp on Mar 8, 2024 0:11:04 GMT
Glad you had an uneventful trip. And yes we spend so much time in cars, complain about the condition of the roads, traffic, and other drivers yet fight mass transit projects tooth and nail. As I keep telling Americans who complain about this: if you want those nice German roads and fantastic 200 MPH French trains, get ready to start paying $9 a gal for gas. |
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Post by andydp on Mar 8, 2024 14:35:15 GMT
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
Henry David Thoreau
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Post by andydp on Mar 9, 2024 15:46:56 GMT
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
Bob Devaney
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Post by andydp on Mar 10, 2024 12:15:21 GMT
Rainy, cold and miserable: perfect day to practice "lazy":
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
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Post by andydp on Mar 11, 2024 11:49:50 GMT
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
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Post by andydp on Mar 12, 2024 12:37:25 GMT
With Baseball starting soon, this sounded right as a prepping/packing quote.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Bob Feller
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Post by andydp on Mar 13, 2024 11:19:16 GMT
Tomorrow evening we got to a local purveyor of happiness for their exclusive Bourbon, Bacon, Brown Sugar vanilla ice cream. With that in mind, a flashback to my dating history:
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Post by andydp on Mar 14, 2024 9:55:06 GMT
Ice cream after the Seton Hall game** tonight !
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
Tom Robbins
** Big East Tournament Quarter Final: Seton Hall v St John's 1430 (Eastern) on FS 1
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Post by andydp on Mar 15, 2024 11:13:10 GMT
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Post by andydp on Mar 15, 2024 11:45:39 GMT
A great (Canadian) way of getting through life:
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
Clive James
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Post by andydp on Mar 16, 2024 10:41:44 GMT
Going to be rainy for a few days:
In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.
Yosa Buson
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Post by andydp on Mar 17, 2024 12:14:13 GMT
A wish for all on St Patrick's Day:
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
P.B. Kerr
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Post by andydp on Mar 18, 2024 11:42:28 GMT
Seton Hall men and women are in the NIT Tournament. Coincidentally, they are both playing St Joseph's of Philadelphia in the first round. Men will play at Seton Hall, the Ladies will play at St Joseph's. GO PIRATES !!!!
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
Bill Russell
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