The following is a post from a Model Railroading group, BUT is generic enough for ALL hobbyists, whether the hobby is quilt-making, woodworking, crocheting, whatever. [for every model railroad jargon word below, insert a jargon word from your particular hobby.] ==== THE SUNDAY EVENING POST (Dave Pye) THE CASUAL MODELER Not every modeler has to […]
Archives for September 2018
Great quote from Charlton Heston
A great quote. Charlton Heston wrote in his autobiography, In the Arena, that The Omega Man (the 1971 movie) was Rosalind Cash’s first leading role in a film, and that she was understandably “a little edgy” about doing a love scene with him. Heston explained, “It was in the seventies that I realized a generation […]
VP Pence interview
From a CNN article, dated this morning. ==== “I mean the truth of the matter is over the last eight years despite what we heard from President Obama on Friday, I mean this country was struggling … it was the weakest economy since the Great Depression,” Pence said. [BSW: Shaking my head. Yes, the Great […]
Random thoughts
[don’t read this – it’s just totally random and miscellaneous thoughts] It’s really been a strange week for me (for a variety of reasons) – I’m off on vacation all week, and have been doing a lot of physical hard labor (over a period of a few days), and I’m just exhausted from it – […]
eBay account “hacked” – huh
Wow, oh, wow. I don’t check my personal email more than once a day, and only usually check it at lunch time or in the evening. So, I was just checking my email an hour ago, and i saw an email from 6:30am, from eBay indicating I had just changed my eBay email address to […]
