or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's con...
One type of source – household accounts – does provide useful clues not only about how much (admittedly middling and elite) men paid for a shave, but how often they went to their barber. Even here, though, matters are complicated by the terminology used surrounding the practices of the ba...
I guess I should go over to North Main and drain the water out of the cellar again. Then I can go to Jester's for the last hour of the karaoke show. Normally my awesome wife does NOT work there on Sat nights, but she agreed to fill in for the Sat DJ. There are a lot of peo...
It does conflict with the false mainstream belief that retirement means doing ‘nothing’. It’s impossible for healthy humans to do nothing. And I’m fine with being paid to do something I want to do. The key difference between the next phase of my life and the last is I won’t ...
Their agenda does not even touch on the fact that their mass transit system is a major source of the spike in COVID-19 infections in these parts.Mask mandate? What mask mandate? Push it and you're fired! So let the five elected commissioners know what you think of the job they are ...
I began intensely craving the smell of foam last year, out of nowhere. Not just any kind of foam either, but a very specific sort of packing foam I had encountered at some point in my youth. I looked everywhere to fulfill this confounding need. Thoughts of foam occupied my mind; I tal...
5. Dove, Pantene and John Freida shampoo (not toxic lol..yes..poison control does know me on a first name basis LOL ) 6. pieces of some very unfortunate cricket 7. her brother’s poop while we were potty training him..this she managed to do on several occasions..much to EVERYONE’...
I am a vegetarian and have been suffering prostate problems. My PSA was high and the Dr. wants to do a biopsy. A good friend of mine said that the brother of a friend of hers had a high PSA and it turned out Gluten was the culprit. Is this true? Can this happen?
“Does itreallydeliver all the nutrients the human body needs?” “Is it safe?” “Why hasn’t anyone tried this before?” [Hint: they have] And most often: “What do you think of Soylent?” Serendipitously, four or so weeks ago, I received an e-mail fromShane Snow, a frequent con...
That excuse won’t ever go away. When does a victim or a more junior person ever feel like they have power? Why did I ever think that “not that bad” was the standard we were trying to achieve? “Not that bad” is a bar set too low folks. We can do better, we must do bette...