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I am at a bar that I can walk to, and where I met Longjohn and super-fun future wife. I had a poker chip they gave me a couple of years ago that entitled me to a free beer, she asked what size I wanted, so I said ‘big’. 25 ouncer, very respectable. It is Tuesday, wings for $10, sweet hot chili, simply magnificent with another pint. the end.

So, Santa brought me a nice little stocking stuffer. Another Lee Valley Hardware item. I have used it on all my course knives and scissors and even Exacto blades. I have not tried it on garden shears. The carbide bit hones the edge of any blade with 1-3 swipes on each side. Perfect for pocket knives. https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/sharpening/files-and-hones/66738-universal-sharpener?item=09A0332

By asking for a sticker! Whew I survived! 😁

Hopefully my new Trek will be ready when I get back

Paar just came back on. Jax is barking a the printer.

I have been needing new riding glasses. My old Tifosi glasses are 15 years old and the photochromic elements stopped working and they are scratched up. I bought some new Tifosi Crit with their new photochromic treatment. Anxious to use them this weekend!

To finish my coffee before the flight boards. I bought a medium Caribou coffee at the airport

....but she loved running on the beach. She ignored the waves & ocean as much as possible, and gave some horses a wide berth, but she ran ran ran like a youngster.

You've never owned a business, have you? You've never spent several sleepless nights trying to figure out how to make payroll. You've never put aside real productive work so you could spend days getting records for ineffective tax audits. You've never woken up on a holiday morning and calculated how much the true cost of downtime is. After you have, come back and we can have a conversation...

Just by reciting this.. She offered her honour, He honoured her offer, All night long, it was honour and offer.

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Too lazy to go dig out the percolated and the camp stove. If the paar didn’t come back on by noon I would prolly get it out.

It was good, Judie went overboard buying gifts for the grandkids but they really liked everything they got.

Time to brew some coffee.

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Good things? I am long past having Good Things other than some nice shirts, clean jeans, and wool vests or coats. Normally I am in work clothes, even when traveling.

A penis, Steve

I started growing my beard some time this summer. I have seen him at mom's, at Thanksgiving, at his daughters wedding repeatedly and a few more times I am sure. Yesterday he asked me when I started growing a beard.

We had the LP album Mom always liked you best. That record got a lot of play. It was hilarious.

Real rainy today and 2nd rainy day in a row. At least the highs are in the 50's. The forecast has been revised from highs in the low 40's and upper 30's for the two weeks after tomorrow (Thursday) to mostly in the low 50's and upper 40's. My nat. gas and electric bills have been benefiting from the Fall and early Winter weather, so far. Tomorrow's supposed to be a high of 61°, sunny with a mild breeze, so I'll walk Jake wearing no coat over a flannel shirt in a park a few miles from my vacationing sister's house after I feed her pets. She has a doggie door to the fenced backyard so the 2 dogs and 2 cats can get outside/inside when they want. Jake and I are going to do the hilly, 2.5 mile loop trail around Kinder Farm Park in Severna Park, MD, though we'll have to watch the lowest parts of the trail that often look like this after rainy days and, if I don't grab Jake's 6' leash up close to him to guide him out of the mud, I'll have to clean Jake's paws before taking him inside my car for the ride home. I'll bring extra towels and water just in case.

My scissors and shears would love this.

Domane SL6 Gen 4, SRAM electronic

Working. Someone has to pay the taxes...

I can't keep up with where everyone is and where they are going. I barely know where I am most of the time.

He has a set at his house that he used for oven mitts that were rejects.

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Days like this it's almost no fun. I don't know why DAISY popped into my head right away, but it did, and I was done in about 15 seconds.

Both, really. Mood thing, mostly. If I feel like it, I use/wear the nicer things.

I tried them all.

Ha, dive bar called “Fat Little Buddies” for some reason. Really Ohio, lots of folks “of the earth”. I am amused.

I figured you to have a clean flannel & jeans you could break out to a wedding. Wipe the mud off your hiking shoes & call it good!

I have good things? I guess if I'm going to a wedding or a funeral I'll wear the T-shirt without holes.

I recently seen "the mango" episode and just noticed the Cannondale. I remember the Klein, but I never recalled Cannondale

Back to drearyness in the SE mitten. Will bike some, then getting the earl changed in the maliboo

Lee Valley has some really great stuff. I don’t think you want to get too aggressive with that tool though or you could whittle your blades down to nothing.

I have. I paid more than my competitors, more than amazon. I never had an employee quit. It was tough through the recession but I adapted and survived. I made a decent salary and sold the business for a nice profit.

I got my Wild Sister a sharpener shaped like a rhino. This one looks much more effective, but it doesn't really resemble any wildlife.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't – Robert Benchley I’m the second type...

Good point. I have a new unwrinkled flannel. #formalflannel

I tend to use and wear everything though special items a bit more sparingly. WoW finally broke out her great aunt’s fine China yesterday. She inherited it and has only used a couple times. She finally realized it’s ours to enjoy.

My good things are consumable goods so I use them. We don’t have fancy china nor house goods we break out for special occasions. The one exception are my oldest brothers fly rods & reels he gifted me while facing his end. If I’m going to be hopping rocks on a breakwater or be in a situation where I could damage myself and thus his rods I use my rods and not his.

https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/national-parks/worst-national-parks-reviews/ “It’s bad enough every time I turn around the government is bending me over, but having to pay a $2 timed entry to a national park is ridiculous even if we have a yearly pass. Government sucks balls. I hate every last one of you.”—Yelp “I was excited before I got there, but it wasn’t at all what I expected…I saw a picture of it, but it was taken by a drone and when I looked at Yellowstone from up close I had no idea what was there at all with the steam and angles. —Google “The whole place smelled like farts.” —Google

I saw my brother over the weekend. He has worn a goatee for decades but recently let the cheeks grow out to a beard. Now he’s like me in that our cheeks don’t fill in very well so I keep mine cropped short. Well he’s let his grow out long but only in the cheek, he shaves his neck which will fill in. It’s not a good look but whatever, I don’t have to look at him…