While walking to work yesterday morning, I saw a sign reading "pedestrian detour."
Now, that seemed unnecessary. Where's the need for anything flashy? Really, these things should just be safe and functional, especially in a busy city. "No frills" suits me just fine, as it should everyone.
You can't be aloof until you advertise.
I AM DEVASTATED... I missed out on my Whelan piece. SO MAD right now....
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Whilst testing an emulator out on my Raspberry Pi, just discovered "The Body" is mentioned in the Gameboy Pokemon games. - such a weird reference...
Spoiler:
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Just browsing DVDs at Walmart.....wish it was winter and I had on a long coat so I could steal it...
Yesterday it occurred to me that I haven't written a check in probably 10 years. I have no earthly idea where my checkbook went. Does anyone still write checks?
My wife does for a few of our bills. Not sure why because she pays most of them online. But there are certain ones that she writes a check out for and we physically drop it off at the bank or place of business. Water, mortgage, car insurance and car payment.
She's the one that takes care of the bills. If it were me, I'd do it all electronically.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Wrote two today. One to a business that doesn't accept any form of electronic payment (a Luddite). I also write checks for medical visit co-pays. It's easier to look up the check image and who was the patient (me or my wife) than a charge. I probably go through 50 checks a year.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I canvassed a lot of my friends and the predominant trend among them was that mostly people over 50 write checks.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Writing checks, stopping at a Stop sign, having a landline (I dropped mine 7 years ago), chewing with your mouth closed, proper usage of utensils (including grip), cursive writing, parallel parking skills, coins for parking meters, the list goes on and on. All people over 50.
Yep! But got rid of my landline about the time I quit using checks and both my cars have manual transmissions.
Most of that applies to me and I'm not even 40 yet. Except cursive writing. I still write things down with paper and pencil but I have to print it if I want to be able to read it again later. I also have to have a mechanical pencil. Can't stand using regular wooden ones.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
I still use a checkbook that has the address I lived at 10 years ago. I probably average 2 checks a year, so I have at least 10-15 years to go before needing new checks.