December is upon us ladies and gentlemen, and that means one thing. It’s my month to buy lottery tickets. I should probably offer up the following warning for you before you continue...
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Stuff
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” Steven Wright said that sometime in the 80’s. I have the cassette. All things being equal, I’ve just about come to the inevitable...
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The Flat Tire
Editor’s note – With the publishing of today’s blog, there are now 42 blogs left in the Letters From The Past Series. Many years ago when I had no more than a year...
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Browsing Incompetence
At which point did things go horribly awry? Honestly, I could flip a quarter to determine which mistake was more tragic. The mistakes, of course, were using Bing and using Internet Explorer....
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See Ya, Kid
A little over twenty years ago when I first arrived in the Alamo city, I had access to a couple of different grocery stores which possessed a national reputation. The two which come to...
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Worlds Collide And Hearts Will Be Broken
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just a matter of time before we all need to pack our shit and get the hell out of Chrysler. Why doesn’t that sound right? ...
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Delivering Expectations
“I need you guys to tell me if this sounds too flippant.” Not since the first time I saw the crawl at the beginning of Star Wars in the summer of 1977 at...
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Waiting
There’s a relatively dirty movie out there called Waiting featuring the actor-like stylings of Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long, that guy whose name I can’t remember right now, and a host of others. A...
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In Comes The Cold
Well ladies and gentlemen, when it comes down to it, living by the river is dying by the river. Yeah that’s a poker reference, but I can’t help but to suspect there may...
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The Principle Of The Matter
The principle of the matter is that the principle of the matter doesn’t seem to matter. Go back and read that again out loud. I’ll wait. *Pause for effect* Isn’t that brilliant? The principle...
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