Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
Fifty years ago today, Fayetteville and Fort Bragg would be shocked to their core by the murders of Jeffrey MacDonald's pregnant wife Colette and their daughters Kimberley and Kristen in their home on Castle Drive. Not surprisingly given the notoriety of this case, the Fayetteville Observer ran a retrospective story (linked below) and one picture in particular took my breath away. The officer standing behind Jeff MacDonald as he's getting into the car is my…
Back in the day, the laundromat in the old hood was THE place to hang out and socialise. Lots of good memories and this one even has the obligatory billiards table! :) Especially when there are towels full o’ sewage from the latest main line clean out I’d rather wreck their machines with rather than mine. One heavy bleach cycle and one hot rinse cycle later…I think we should be good to return these utility…
No, that isn’t a scorpion but rather the head of a plumbing snake my neighbour and I lost in my main sewer clean out last April when we tried to clear a clog that a professional plumber didn’t completely clear. The plumbers who came today to clear yet another nasty clog (after having the hot water heater die a couple of weeks ago…plumbing curse!) saw the snake head on the video scope and managed to…
Today started out somewhat gloomy and overcast and not just because of the weather here in the Raleigh area. Today would have been my father's 75th birthday and there's no getting round the fact that ever since he passed away four years ago, words just cannot properly express just how terribly I miss him. Sometimes it's something really stupid that takes my breath away. When I would ring him up on his birthday to wish…
Over the years, I've been learning a bit here and there about Puerto Rican culture from my wonderful neighbours Miguel and Jessica. A couple of days ago, a small tub of homemade sofrito came my way and last night it came together with some Polska kielbasa and olive oil. Wow. Seriously…WOW! Combined with a bit of "káposzta és tészta" (cabbage and noodles) which was done with the hot Hungarian paprika…dinner was not for the faint…
No matter what one might think of the President, or his administration’s policies…you’ve got to admit that getting his signature on the legislation raising the purchasing age to 21 for tobacco and e-cigarette products can’t reasonably be seen as anything other than a GOOD THING. Would I prefer an outright ban? Yes…even knowing it would likely suffer the same fate Prohibition did…bootlegging and the black market will get round the government ban. But the difference…
