Recent content by raybar

Yes, we have it. That is, she has it among her approximately 8 million cookbooks clogging up the pantry along with her mother's, and her aunt's, and her own, file boxes and binders of hand-written recipes. The other cookbook nearly everyone I ever knew had was Joy of Cooking, and we have two of...

Papa Ray

Zero. No coffee. No tea. No cola. No caffeine at all, except the occasional bite of chocolate.

I resolve to see 2027.

Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, 10:35 AM Rain started about midnight. Never very heavy, but more or less continuous. So far, there's about two inches of water in a bucket I left on the patio.

" ... how to interpret anomalies when the data are sparse ... " Speculation is fine, but when data is sparse, the proper way to interpret anomalies is to say "We don't know."

We get solicitations in the mail every day, all year long. Some days we get all advertising and no actual mail. A great deal of it is from the same 8 or 10 organizations, begging for money over and over and over again. And sometimes with "free gifts" included - note pads, greeting cards, gift...

If you want fires near your home, you could come to Hollywood. Luckily, last year's big fires were - for the most part - not very near us. But we did evacuate one night when the next canyon to the west burst into flames, less than a mile away. ALWAYS have an escape plan. Mother Nature, as...

Visiting pets are welcome here. We have had dogs and cats, a parrot with her own perch, and a garter snake with its own aquarium.

While there may be some frightening or startling moments in a movie, I was never actually scared. After all, it's just a movie, and temporary "suspension of disbelief" while watching it doesn't make me think it's real.

Nothing is free. The buses or trains have to be bought and maintained. Drivers, maintenance people, and office staff have be trained and paid. And so on. How much tax are you willing to pay in order to provide "free" products and services to people?

My first full time work was summer jobs: 1962 - junior counselor at a local YMCA summer camp - - just a glorified camper really, but got paid a little. And for the first time, I was treated like I had some real authority. 1963 - janitor at local YMCA - - painted the whole gym with three...

I ignor all calls from numbers not in the "contacts" list on my phone. If the call is legit, the caller can leave a message. If they don't leave a message, then I know that they know I don't want to talk to them.

We do not save prescription bottles because they're ugly and covered with labeling. Lots of nicer small bottles and jars pass through our kitchen - spice bottles for example - and we have quite enough of those for our needs.

I am extremely neat in the sense of cool or hip or trendy. But I am the opposite of neat in the sense of organization or cleaning.:cool: