This A&J strip from 2015 is about as close as I come to office humor these days. Actually, I did a lot of office humor starting out, when the dysfunctions and inanities of the communal workplace still were fresh to me and those around me. I was doing office humor when Scott Adams worked for the phone company. I will admit, though, many of the experiences upon which I drew have been exorcised by time, and today I feel neither inclined nor qualified to comment on “the office.” Besides, working or not, I think most of us the age of Arlo and Janis find our lives centering more around relationships and home and less around career. Remember careers? When I started in 1985, there were no “jobs,” only “careers,” and I think it’s safe to say Arlo and Janis both considered themselves on a career track. Well, that little fad went off the rails long ago, and many of us count ourselves lucky to have any kind of “job.” So, do Arlo and Janis still have jobs? Are they retired? To be continued.
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Recently did a crossword puzzle from a respected source in which the food chili was spelled “chile” – the spelling for the country name. Is there any case in which the food is correctly spelled with a final “e”? I don’t really know and am not interested enough to seek out that tidbit…but the crossword spelling did not help at all to do that puzzle.
The past 2 weeks I’ve been placing 2 or 3 stamps on each of about 1500 envelopes for my church. It helps me get rid of the huge amount of postage which has accumulated during my 70 years of philately. I had my church bid on, and win, bunches of 33-cent and 34-cent stamps at about 1/4 less than face value, and I supplied either two 8-cent or one 15-cent stamp from my stock. In effect, the church is getting 49 cents’ worth of postal service for an outlay of 25 or 26 cents. We still have enough of the 34-cent for almost 600 more envelopes but I ran the office out of envelopes for the nonce! I still have more than a thousand each of the 8-cent and 15-cent stamps.
I looked you up, Debbe, on various sites I often use to try to find old classmates. You are indeed there, and not just on Classmates.com . Familytreenow.com was a help in making the identification sure.
Using Mozilla Firefox seems to avoid all those reminders about ad blockers from gocomics.com. I had not understood why my son wanted to install Firefox a few years back, but it sometimes works wonders that IE does not do. Give it a shot, eMb.
Ian has taken my place tonight…heard this for the first time today cruising with Ian while Dad was over at the Eagles club with a friend…OMC,
Jackie…this is for you and whomever…………………
https://youtu.be/lp-EO5I60KA
😉
oh, I how love Ian’s (wait…I think I really own this headset..cause I’ve got the statements 🙂 )
When I first heard this Ed Sheeran’s song… at first I thought it was a young Van Morrison, especially toward the end when he does a ‘la, la, ala.a”…when it first started playing…Jeep has a great sound system too 🙂 🙂 🙂
gotta, gettta my CD’s..manna!!!
Another one of Ian’s list…good….Passenger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
“only know your lover when you let her go….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
sorry..had to get rid of a double copy…hey, it’s almost time for…..”and they’re off”….
…and another, look at the number of hits…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg
actually, I really like it…I give it a 4 out of 5…
now to find the race…….
Mark, I know you listen to a lot of music…have you heard of these groups?
I was reminded today, that I have many pieces of music that I enjoy covering a wide range, and Ed Sheeran is in there too. But if I hear America’s ‘Ventura Highway’, I will without fail, mentally pause. I may actually stop what I am doing, close eyes, lift hands from whatever task, and float for a moment or two.
If busy with a critical task, the process may be metaphorical and pass in a fraction of a second, but it is still there. Sort of a centering or grounding event, that ends with a sigh. The fact that I relate Ventura closer to mezcal than moonshine doesn’t bother me at all.
Debbe, I belong to Classmates but totally never use it. Not sentimental at all.
Whomever and I tried to look you up. We couldn’t find you. Where the heck are you all finding this stuff?
Here’s where I spent part of my day. Man, this place is Huge! I was there over 2 hours and bet I didn’t see half of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Davis_Arms_and_Historical_Museum
Found a used bookstore close to me called the Frugal Bookworm. They both sell and buy used books, paperback and hardcover both. Maybe Jackie needs to take some of her overflow there.
I have donated about a thousand boating books to a nonprofit boat museum and workshop as Mike wanted
I am keeping my own books and not thinning them out. I know that bookstore. Good place for books.
Davis museum is awesome. My mama loved it.
Awww..Jackie, last name is Martin..graduated in 1971…oh, and Ian does carry my maiden name…
….wait one minute there darling…didn’t you say you could find any body when you worked in HA….just consider that a ‘give me’…what pisses me off the most is that in every year book, my long hair had a white ‘cloud’ over the right shoulder of my long, blonde hair.
Jackie, I used the search box at the right side, near the top, on an orange backdrop. Put in Loogootee and “visit” that HS. As it happened, I found a 1971 listing, got to the yearbook via that listing, and just paged through seeking seniors named “Debbe”. There were more than one, so I went elsewhere to check and find her surname.
Third worst example of Spanish cultural appropriation: A novel inspired by Cervantes written by a Canadian.
Second worst example of Spanish cultural appropriation: The egg dish I had the last time I ate at IHOP was a Spanish omelet.
Worst example of Spanish cultural appropriation, evah: An Anglo rock band called Spanish Fly.
ex-professor and emb:
Firefox is good. Stay away from IE and Edge.
Chrome is great, and I like it better than Firefox. Try Chrome with Ghostery, Adblock Plus, and Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on (by Google).
emb:
Good one and true.
I remember my own grad days well.
Philippe:
Sorry, but I don’t understand “RAN SEQ NO.”
What does that mean?
JACKQULINE MONIES:
You’re right. I remember hearing that, now that you made think of it.
But I must apologize for my lack of clarity. I wasn’t trying to say that Mexicans celebrated. I was only trying to say that it’s part of their history, not ours.
Late-evening Three:
Dr. John Phillip Seussa: The Forgotten Composer of Children’s Marches.
(The last two are variations on a theme and were inspired by “A Separate Peace.”)
I have decided to declare myself illegally insane; I grew tired of waiting for the doctors and the courts to come to the same conclusion.
I have decided to declare myself illegally insane; I figured that I might as well think what others already think about me.
Rick, I think it was “random sequence number.” Your number to be called up from your county or whatever.
Good night Village. Here in a warm comfortable and secure place. Wishing you the same.
Good morning Villagers……
The morning star was brilliant in the early morning sky. Going to be a beautiful day, and I already know what I’ll be doing some of the day…take Dad cruising. Still not hitting the county gravel roads.
Dad is stirring now….
later, gators 🙂
Good morning everyone. I hope you have a lovely Sunday.