Author Archives: Jimmy

Today is National Pretzel Day. Why? Well, when you think of all the things that have their special day, the question should be why not?  Most everybody likes pretzels — almost every little kid likes pretzels, they go good with … Continue reading →

This is one of those blogs where you’re gonna go, “oh, man, here he goes again.” But that’s just one of the things we curmudgeons do, so if you don’t want to waste your time, maybe check back later…. Yesterday, … Continue reading →

I just heard on the news that the crazy/unusual weather patterns we’ve been seeing lately are the new normal — weather events are expected to be more violent from here on…. I guess those “lazy, hazy days of summer’ are … Continue reading →

A few days ago, we went to Costco and we picked up some toilet paper for our friend Anne. Like just about everything you buy at Costco, there was a lot of toilet paper. I don’t know how many rolls, … Continue reading →

Back in the 1960s I was in Monrovia, Liberia and found myself waiting for equipment to arrive from the United States to finish a project I was working on. Since I had a few days of slack time, I visited … Continue reading →

248 years ago today, a respectable Boston silversmith made a fateful ride….Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and … Continue reading →

I think I’ve mentioned before that our niece and nephew, Sue and Mike, have taken up Archery. I thought of them when I recently noticed a documentary on the longbow — I think it was maybe on PBS. I didn’t … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I mentioned some people think that if a full Moon falls on certain days of the week, it’s lucky — or maybe unlucky.I know I’ve blogged about this before, but since ancient times, moons and full … Continue reading →

Today, we’re going to talk about art…. Pained expressionist? Embarrassing failure? All of the above? On December 24, 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cut off the lower part of his left hear with a razor … Continue reading →

There seems to have been a lot of talk about navigation lately — Tesla’s self-driving cars are getting a lot of publicity, and not the kind they’d like and then there was the Chinese Balloon’s path; the news media sometimes … Continue reading →