Ernest T. Bass

I used to enjoy watching it every week, even though I wasn't good at math.

I've often wondered about the guy from Ohio who used to go by the name Fred Taylor. I think his real name may have been Brian. Also wondered about Meat Puppet, Gemelk, Wolfpack, and a few others but their names escape me at the moment.

That was a great day!

Happy Birthday. I hope you've had a great day.

I agree, too.

Happy Birthday. I hope it was a good one.

Happy Birthday. I hope you've had a great day.

Best of luck to you whatever you decide to do.

Dublin is nice, but it pales in comparison to the rest of the country (IMHO). It is a beautiful drive around the Ring of Kerry and the Ring of Dingle (Slea Head Drive). Conor Pass is a must see in my opinion. We stayed in Tralee and used it as a base for a couple of days. We were fortunate to have a clear day at The Cliffs of Moher. Durty Nelly's in Bunratty is a good place to have a beer and a good meal. It is right beside Bunratty Castle. In the North, the Giant's Causeway and the Carrick-a-Rede bridge were good stops. My wife and I have strong ancestral ties to Scotland. Edinburgh is a good base to use. Inside Dunfermline Abbey is the burial place of Robert the Bruce. Nearby is Sterlin Castle, Bannockburn, and the Wallace Monument. Our favorite part was visiting the "castle" that adorned the cover of my wife's paternal family tree book. It was where her 14th great grandparents lived (Barr Castle). (I tried to insert a photo of it here but I'm having trouble doing that.) Melrose is a beautiful small town. The Melrose Abbey is where Robert the Bruce's heart is buried. I could go on and on, but rest assured that Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland are all beautiful and well worth the time and expense to visit.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Yeah - don't mess with the "flow". Morning sounds better (to an expert songwriter, I guess), so that's what you get. True. I understand "artistic license".

I've always liked it, even though it says "early morning, April 4" when it actually happened in the evening. Other than that, it's a great song.

You guys are making me cold. It is a breezy 45 degrees here in my part of NC. It's supposed to go all the way down to 18 tonight. Brrr. Y'all stay safe.

Happy Birthday. Have a great day.

Thanks for the interesting story. I often look at the Miles City live webcam (thanks sheep_herder for originally posting the link) to watch it when it snows there. Watching snowfall seems to relax me a lot.

Eighteen years ago my friend stopped by a bar on the way home from work, drank too much, and then made the unwise decision to drive home. He plowed into a car coming the opposite direction on a two lane winding road and killed a twenty-one year old girl and severely injured her fiance. My friend's parents always referred to it as an "accident". I kept my mouth shut but it wasn't an accident. It was absolutely avoidable. Since he was in a company car, his company had to pay millions and millions of dollars to the families of the victims. I think of an accident as being hit by a falling bolder while driving through the mountains, or as mentioned earlier, a tree falling on your car (that happened not long ago close to where I live and the family was killed). Drunk driving is avoidable and all too often overlooked. /rant

Happy New Year.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Merry Christmas

My dad had a bunch of pictures of various siblings, cousins, etc. A few years ago I sorted them by the appropriate cousin and gave them away at the family reunion. It was great watching people looking at pictures they'd never seen before.

Happy Birthday. Have a great day.

That was precious. I miss the days when my son would talk like that.

Same here. I'm not an aggressive driver and I usually have plenty of time to get to wherever I'm going, so there's not much fast start and fast stop type of stuff going on.

I have a 2016 Toyota Corolla with 91k miles and the brake pads have never been changed and are still doing just fine.