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Reply to Marking 50 Years On Planet Earth in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="notronaj" reply="2" id="3014894"]Well, ok, I am glad you posted where you were! Enjoy your movies andy your libation and what about a good steak dinner? Another day, another town? Any chance you are headed to ABQ? If we are going to share a beer you better hurry up as my #72 is this week and I don't think I will live forever. Seriously, have a nice evening and a good week. Be safe so I don't get more grey hair. ....

Reply to Marking 50 Years On Planet Earth in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Bunnahabhain" reply="1" id="3014872"]Happy Birthday Mason! Sounds to me like you made a very wise choice with how to enjoy your birthday by relaxing in comfort. Enjoy your day. You deserve it![/quote] Thanks. It was a pleasant enough day.

Reply to Everyday Stupidity in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="notronaj" reply="4" id="3014641"]As an off topic and I hope you read this: HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY WHEREVER YOU ARE MASON. Hope you have a great dinner and some relaxing down time. judy[/quote] Thanks, Judy. Am spending this weekend in a motel in Conroe, TX.

Marking 50 Years On Planet Earth in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I am spending today, my birthday, in a motel room in Conroe, Texas. No special plans for the 50th anniversary of my arrival on this little speck of dust in a huge universe. Well, I'll go and get a haircut at some point, but no real plans otherwise. Just a nice, quiet day of relaxing. I had considered taking a cab to one of the local taverns this evening but Conroe has a city smoking ban and I don't feel like having to go outside to enjoy a pipe, and certainly can't afford

Reply to Everyday Stupidity in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Guy; you have a point there. Judy; Moving certainly is a pain. Hopefully things will settle down for you soon.

Reply to Another Fine Example of 'Neutral' Reporting in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Big media complicity in the news blackout is a heavy indictment against modern journalism in America today.[/quote] Like anyone with an IQ higher than a turnip takes those people seriously these days. The so-called MSM is a sad, pathetic joke in terms of what was once called journalism.

Everyday Stupidity in Blogging JoeUser Forums

For a good while now I have been considering starting an everyday stupidity thread. Just the obviously stupid shit one runs across every day. I'll start it with this one: Moist towelettes: I ate some very good chicken wings at Coaches Corner in Fond Du Lac, WI tonight. They provide a few packets of moist towelettes with the wings. I was reading the back of the towelette package and saw they actually have directions for how to use them. After r

Reply to Pain In The Neck in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Thanks, Ellie. I am indeed back in Wisconsin, enjoying a few cold ones and watching football.

Reply to A Conversation With A Mean Person in Blogging JoeUser Forums

LOL Thanks, Judy. Frankly, I am just tired of them.

Pain In The Neck in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Thursday morning I delivered a military truck to the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, GA. That all went without any hitches, as expected. Those loads are rarely any sort of problem. After unloading I was told that the driver, a new guy, who was supposed to pick up in Knoxville, TN had quit and left us hanging. I had to dead-head almost 400 miles to get the load picked up on Friday. It was at a closed down grocery store and was the coolers and freezers from the store. They had al

Reply to A Sad Week in Misc JoeUser Forums

Come on, Steve was only 56, that's a young age to drop dead by most anyone's schedule. This was posted from an iPad.

Reply to Rampant Racism on the Left in Politics JoeUser Forums

Oh yeah, Adbusters, the radically anti-semetic bunch of very sensible people. That's a sane bunch to take your marching orders from.

Reply to A Conversation With A Mean Person in Blogging JoeUser Forums

:LOL:

Reply to A Conversation With A Mean Person in Blogging JoeUser Forums

It can be :LOL:

Reply to Rampant Racism on the Left in Politics JoeUser Forums

I have been thoroughly enjoying these protests and the press interviews with the protesters. I love comedy and humor and these folks have been providing a wealth of both. (Note for the stupid: yes there is a difference between humor and comedy, look it up). I firmly believe that this is all a huge scam staged by the democrats, but it has been a real hoot to watch and listen to the interviews with the morons who are participating. I actually got to meet one of the idiots one his way to

A Conversation With A Mean Person in Blogging JoeUser Forums

This is the sort of conversation one can have when spending a lot of time behind the wheel. I was on my way from New York state to Wisconsin. Me: I can probably make it to Roseland by five or six o'clock. I can get a room and then bobtail over to Tinder Box to look at pipes. Me too: No. Me: No? Why not? Me too: No more pipes. Me: Huh? Why not? Me too: What is that in your hand? Me: The steering whee

Reply to A Sad Week in Misc JoeUser Forums

I know exactly how you feel. Steve Jobs was and is one of my personal heroes and I was saddened, if not surprised, to read of his passing so young.

Reply to In the Desert After Midnight in Misc JoeUser Forums

As an aside, when I was 16 I was pulled over on US41 after tearing through Sarasota, FL on my bike. I managed to hit 130 before the cop spotted me and gave chase. The first words out of his mouth when he climbed out of the cruiser were "Damn, I hate driving that fast!" :LOL: I wasn't so lucky as you.

Reply to In the Desert After Midnight in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sounds like he was a decent sort. Nice memory.

Reply to New England in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="YarnmomKS" reply="4" id="3000559"]Mason, I have been following your blog for about a year now. Great blog. Love to hear about other places in the country. I wanted to let you know that if you ever stop in Wichita KS that you could shop for both yarn and yarn products then go next door and shop for your styling hats. Just let me know if you want the address for the shops. Linda[/quote] Glad you're reading

Reply to New England in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="3" id="3000255"]I have never been north of New York, so you are in uncharted territory for me! Hope your load went well from there.[/quote] You really should go check out Maine. Pretty country and decent people. Thanks.

Reply to New England in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="notronaj" reply="2" id="2999700"]You sure get around Mason and that is a compliment. Nice gesture with the tickets. You are a decent chap. Stay safe out there. judy [/quote] Thank, Judy. Such is the nature of my work; getting around. The tickets thing wasn't that big a deal, I just didn't have any use for them.

Reply to New England in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Bunnahabhain" reply="1" id="2999180"]I had an interesting time in Rhode Island once, back around the year 2000. Town of Westerly. Right on the ocean. Nice folks out there. Another fine read Mason![/quote] Thanks. The folks up that way do seem to be nice people.

Reply to What Is It About A Pipe? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I think boats and pipes just go together. Long tradition and all that...

Reply to Being Smart and Getting Smarter in Misc JoeUser Forums

Yeah, it would be nice to think there was a sensible person in academia. While I did have a few moon bats as professors in college, I was lucky enough to have had far more who were sensible, sane sorts.