Recent content by Bajabob

I think we use the dollars-and-cents system as the role model for lots of uses. That means two digits to the right of the decimal. Mostly, that is no great problem. I remember years ago, on the job, when a unit head had the computer programmers change his print-outs to carry three to the right...

A while back, I donated to 2 charitable organizations. Since then, I have been deluged by requests for money from all sorts of outfits, some I had never heard of. Among the misguided ideas these organizations have is that if they use my name as frequently as possible in the mailings they send...

Years ago, I got fed up with shirts that had very short tails. So I lengthened a lot of them, so that they came down to mid-thigh or even below. This was especially important for my winter shirts. This effort was a big success !

I guess I'm in the word lover category. At least I seem to fall into a correspondence too easily with women. Sometimes they are bored with the exchange of letters, but strangely they only rarely just discontinue writing. No apologies no explanations, that would be the way to do it. One of them...

I had suffered from the bitter cold in a hospital for hours. Not as a patient, but for another reason. When I emerged and waited for the bus, it was like paradise found ! The warm sun and perfect temperatures got me pretty well thawed out. But then the bus arrived, and it was as if I had been...

it's most always the same. Any pasta dish seems to require 2 to 3 times the cooking time specified in the instructions. I've about given up on all forms of pasta, except for angel hair. I'm glad that at least that one works out well. Have others experienced the same thing ?

Better book marks? I can just hear people saying "but that's too trivial to even spend time thinking about !" But I don't think so. Marking your place where you temporarily stopped reading is very useful, and so much of it is not done well at all. A lot of people fold down the corner of a page...

A while back, I foolishly donated to 2 or 3 charities. Since then I've been bombarded with solicitations, many of which organizations I had never heard of. It's apparent that the charities sell each other lists of the names and addresses of donators. The problem with that is that in the...

As DeGaulle commented, "old age is a shipwreck." Our job is to mitigate the negatives attendant to that "wreck".