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This is a bit of a follow up to my trip to the bank with my dog, Marshal.  I thought my dog deserved his day on the blog. My wife picked up Marshal for me for Christmas several years ago. We were [...]

I need a new bank. I’ve needed a new bank for a while. I haven’t switched because my bank bought all of the companies that had given me credit cards. Now they own all my debt and [...]

On the way out the door to head in to work.  

I swear this guy was a bozo. I have no clue who he is, but I know he was a bozo. I also know that he was someone’s bozo. See, at the bottom of the picture someone wrote in pen, “My [...]

So, I recently bought a safety razor instead of a disposable one. I have to stress that I made the decision to buy one before seeing the ad on TV with the guy from Pawn Stars hawking safety [...]

    I once, long ago, had a neighbor who gave me a single shoot of an Elephant Ear plant. It quickly grew several more plants and has been fairly hardy; making it through several [...]

My grandfather was born in Chicago in 1894. Perhaps he was a World’s Fair Baby, because, that was one big to do happening 119 years ago. Seems like it would have been a good time to get [...]