Class Is as Class Does
A friend, whom I’ll call Tony from Texas, DM’d me about yesterday’s post, Expensive Hobby Update, asking about my watch collection.
Expensive Hobby Update
Now, at last, my collection of automatic self-winding wristwatches, four Seikos and a Breitling, is complete (meaning it fills all five slots in the display box* I bought for them, obsessive watch nerd that I’ve become).
Feelin’ All Jabby
I feel it’s my duty to point out that as a military veteran I’ve had a hell of a lot of shots and can remember only one time I ever had a reaction of any kind, and that was a bit of achiness and a slight fever after an anthrax vaccination, lasting less than a day.
Oh Great, Now I’m Writing Commercials
We plan to buy another American car before long. It may well be the last one we’ll ever buy. For that reason, it has to be a good one.
Resting From My Labors
Thinking about Labor Day, which we observed yesterday with company, dinner, and a movie. Company was our friend Mary Anne and her dog Anthony; dinner was hickory-smoked ribs, potato salad, grilled veggies, and corn on the cob (plus deviled eggs and mango gelato from Mary Anne); the movie back-to-back episodes of Justified on Hulu. Here […]
Strapology (Plus the Return of YCRT!)
By the way, that disparaging stereotype about fighter pilots — big Seiko, little dick? — please don’t ask Donna. She’s likely to blurt out the truth.
A Place to Hang My Hat
We’re so consumed by the awfulness of the Trump era, a known known, we forget the colossal badness of the George W. Bush administration and how much damage it did here at home and around the world.
Air-Minded: These Boots Are Made for Flyin’
I don’t doubt the bad guys knew who we were and where we lived. Whether they planned to take us out on the eve of World War Three is another thing.