We sometimes have some for lunch. At about 20¢ per package, the cost of water, and heating on the stove, it can't be beat. I'm 79 and it hasn't harmed me.

I go to a few baseball games down here, a few Minnesota Twins spring games in March and Fort Myers Miracle (class A) in the summer. A lot of folks leave early in the spring game once the starters have been replaced by sub, usually in the 5th. Traffic is not an issue in the minor league games, and I usually stay to the last out.

"Haircut" money reminds me of my barber as a kid in Syracuse. Every once in a while some guy would come in and hand him an envelope that he stuck in a drawer. I suspected they were running numbers, but I wasn't talking.

"Democratic Socialism" at work. Nice.

Amen. I miss being able to buy say one screw or metal fixture and not a whole box/bag of them. Small hardware stores provided that service.

F-Troop: the Heckawis had a horse wash. Funny stuff.

Nothing worse than a bland diet in a hospital. After my heart surgery all food tasted like cardboard and in spite of the regular food being decent, I couldn't eat it. One thing I loved was cantaloupe cubes. Oddly enough I could taste them and their flavor and coolness soothed my sore throat from all the tubes that had been in it.

I served in the US Army Signal Corps in the early 1960's. Even though the MOS of Pigeoneer and the use of carrier pigeons was gone by then, we still had "pigeon paper" in the back of our message books.

Like Zulu Time (GMT) in the Army. Places like Calais Maine and St. Stephen New Brunswick are two times zones (Atlantic and Eastern) across the river and border from each other. That was odd.

I liked "fingermarks" like on Murdoch Mysteries. The "lap board" was cool too.

Reminds me of going to see the Liston-Patterson fight on closed circuit TV. I drove a couple of hours to a theater in Syracuse. Sat down, the fight began and it was over in less than 2 minutes with a Liston KO. Went back home and vowed never to waste my time and money on something like that again. As "free" boxing on TV waned, so did my interest in it.

Hey. It could have been Vespucciland ?

[sarcasm]We can't have "gender inequality" can we? You ladies better get going and increase your stats.[/sarcasm]

Living in SW FL since 2001. My only complaint about summer is that it is so long. AC and swimming pools help, but it gets to be a drag. Still beats winter blizzards, etc. back in CNY.

I'm not a fan. That horse will never get back in the barn.