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For the past couple of weeks as the petrol prices have been spiking, I'd been hearing of this trend where some wiseacres were attaching "I Did That!" stickers featuring President Biden to the pumps. Tonight as I was topping up the Traverse's cavernous petrol tanks, I finally saw one in the field! I'll admit, I did laugh a bit when I saw it. Sadly, the people who had the wit to poke fun at President…

It's certainly been a heck of a birthday and even as tempest-tossed as it felt at various points, I'm thoroughly happy to be able to finally relax and let the day end far more peacefully than it had started. Mind you, the first part of the day was truly lovely...it was quite the treat to have all three of the kids stay over last night and be here in the morning to give me the…

On 06 Jan 2022, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt what memory was going to be at the heart of the birthday message I'd be writing today. Like many things in this world we live in that dredge up memories we'd thought long forgotten, the inspiration for this story comes from something that would lead to an unspeakable tragedy for a friend who has seen and endured so much these past few years…

Today's bit of misfortune isn't quite to the level of Hamster binning a Rimac Concept One off the side of the mountain during a hill climb competition but given where this Ford Explorer ended up, one has to imagine that the wreck was still rather impressive. They appeared to go straight into the crossing light pole from the opposite side of the intersection of New Hope Road and Rogers Lane. My guess was that someone…

I was going to start off today's writing session with the latest Chick Fil-Audit but this story goes straight to the head of the queue. It looks like the hoary old NIH scam is making the rounds again, this time with a twist of COVID-19 and exploiting Facebook's lovely cross-app messaging feature with a fake Instagram profile. Mind you, that profile looked pretty convincing with the image as long as you didn't actually click on…

In this era of horrible inflation (*cough* PRICE GOUGING *cough*) when it comes to petrol prices, I have to say it was kind of neat seeing these classic beauties rolling down the road when prices weren't quite so insane. Mind you, 1973 was no picnic with the OPEC oil embargo and the resulting queues at the petrol stations and rationing of available fuel but those seem idyllic times compared to today's insanity at the pumps!…

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt fear myself more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."Nelson Mandela from "Long Walk to Freedom" (1994) During last night's Carolina Hurricanes game, the broadcast lineup had a very noticeable change with Shane Willis…

YouTube recently served up a channel that I'm truly obsessed with when I want something on the TV that is relaxing hearing the air traffic control chatter and occasional sounds of jet engines spooling up whilst I'm surfing or just chilling out in the chair. I've been a plane spotter about as long as I can remember and there's nothing quite like the hint of JET-A in the air but when it's late at night…

It's always a pleasant surprise when you find someone you've not seen in a while on the TV! Today it is my sister's former boss when she was Artistic Director at the Gilbert Theater in Fayetteville and generally all-round awesome human being...Robyne Parrish! :) She's not on screen for long but she was there long enough for me to do a double-take and Zapruder the credits to ensure my eyes weren't deceiving me. You might…

You ever go walkabout and find your mind wandering to far off and imaginary places as you're driving along early in the morning before the sunrise? As I'm driving along the motorway toward Clayton to collect Katie and Alex for school, I noticed that Venus was exceptionally bright as usual but the hellish planet named for the goddess of beauty had a couple of friends nearby. The red colour of her nearest neighbour was unmistakably…

Anyone who has spent any appreciable amount of time on Twitter will know that particular social media outlet is particularly well-named, even if they didn't intend to do so. After all, what would Twitter be without the massive legions of twits? ;) In this particular case, I couldn't help but suggest to one of the bigger twits that he might well have had what passed for a decent idea when he suggested that his father…