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Post by andydp on May 10, 2024 11:32:38 GMT
Car show this Saturday.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
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Post by goldenvalley on May 10, 2024 20:05:00 GMT
Car show this Saturday. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck LOL. My son assured me he was an "excellent driver" ala Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. |
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Post by andydp on May 11, 2024 18:51:29 GMT
Seems like failures to pre or prior planning are nothing new:
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
W. S. Gilbert
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Post by andydp on May 12, 2024 12:08:45 GMT
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms !!
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Post by andydp on May 13, 2024 11:52:44 GMT
Mowing the lawn again today. We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
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Post by andydp on May 14, 2024 11:35:08 GMT
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
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Post by andydp on May 15, 2024 12:15:14 GMT
Without getting into details, we're both waiting for a magical e mail with details on how to sign up for an event.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
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Post by andydp on May 16, 2024 11:19:51 GMT
After all the rain we had and the prospect of rain Saturday, I will stop commenting after this quote:
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Heading to the Finger Lakes of NY for wine, beer, booze and food. See you all Monday !!
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Post by andydp on May 20, 2024 11:34:29 GMT
Back from the Finger Lakes. Good wines, good liquors, good beer; what's not to like ? Coming back, Mrs Andy drove BB2 for the first time.
she did very well. (No screaming in terror on my part.) An appropriate car related Henny Youngman joke is in order:
A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."
Henny Youngman
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Post by andydp on May 21, 2024 10:54:23 GMT
After mowing comes ice cream.
There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.
Amal El-Mohtar
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Post by andydp on May 23, 2024 14:51:53 GMT
In Denver readying the celebration of someone’s 2nd Birthday ! Meantime there are things to assemble.
I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Adam Savage
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Post by andydp on May 24, 2024 16:15:54 GMT
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by andydp on May 30, 2024 13:08:46 GMT
We have returned home. Nothing has changed. Did not win the Power Ball, BUT... we have wine and beer
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
John Milton
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Post by andydp on May 31, 2024 11:21:33 GMT
Today's payday appropriate quote:
Life is just high school all over again, only with bigger bills to pay.
Linda Palmer
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Post by andydp on Jun 2, 2024 10:43:13 GMT
I missed a couple of days postings so here's a two fer:
Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.
Keri Arthur
The next subject was NOT covered in Command and General Staff College, but it bears adopting:
When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.
Anthony Bourdain
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Post by andydp on Jun 4, 2024 9:44:31 GMT
Since we're in South Jersey home of the humidity factory, aka Delaware River...
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Post by andydp on Jun 5, 2024 9:43:21 GMT
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
Harry S. Truman
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Post by andydp on Jun 6, 2024 16:35:47 GMT
I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
Steven Wright
Our travel day so far:
Get up at 0400 to stop the sweating. Finished packing the car and headed out of Pennsville by 0445 after a stop at the Wawa for coffee.
Arrived home at 0930 after a stop at the market to return deposit bottles and visit the car wash. Karen napping, I napped on couch and here I am.
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Post by andydp on Jun 7, 2024 10:51:18 GMT
Seems the humidity has "broken" a bit.
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Neil Gaiman
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Post by andydp on Jun 8, 2024 9:52:28 GMT
Visiting Hyde Park and the Roosevelt home today. A quote about Eleanor Roosevelt:
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Post by andydp on Jun 9, 2024 10:20:47 GMT
Because of our dead washer/dryer, I wanted to find a laundromat quote. No luck, so I opted for this one...
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"
Mike Birbiglia
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Post by andydp on Jun 10, 2024 10:32:09 GMT
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
Martin Luther
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Post by andydp on Jun 11, 2024 11:46:33 GMT
In appreciation of the woodpecker pecking our deck:
All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.
Leo Kottke
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Post by andydp on Jun 12, 2024 11:14:57 GMT
Yesterday we partook of a slice of the NJ "diner sized" carrot cake my wife got for her birthday. My gratitude to the "Thin Man":
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
William Powell
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Post by andydp on Jun 16, 2024 17:17:26 GMT
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
PS: Happy Father's day to everyone !!
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