I’m a month late with this, but I noticed I was a month late last year and I thought I’d go with it. I read 52 novels this past year. A lot of Janet Evanovich, some David Baldacci, Jim what’s-his-name… he writes the Dresden Files stuff. I think this is the year I read the [...]
Diane and I were at Rogers, which is a Canadian company that seems to do a bit of everything except make hockey sticks. We were in one of the video stores picking out a movie for the evening. Diane and one of the girls were near the counter where all the snacks-to-go were, and I [...]
There was a time, this past October, when Diane and I started every morning for a week by going through the McDonald’s near her home. We did the same thing three days in November. We’d pull into the drive-thru and up to a window behind which there sat an efficient and pleasant Canadian lady who [...]
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The other day I made a run to a Wendy’s in Canada. I needed to pick up two junior cheeseburgers, a side salad and three chocolate milks. That conversation, in Ohio, would go like this: Wendy’s Speaker: Thank you for stopping at Wendy’s. You may place your order whenever you are ready. Me: I’d like [...]
Diane and I were scheduled to work the 8 to 11 a.m. concession-stand shift during a basketball tournament at the local Catholic High School. I know what you’re thinking, My God, Delmer! You could not have rolled into Canada much before 2 a.m last night, which your body would have thought was 5 a.m. How [...]
The first flight I took to Seattle cost $200. On the nose. It was in December before this last and I couldn’t believe a person could fly most of the way across the country (and a man-sized country at that… we’re not talking San Marino here). The $200 flight was on Southwest and, as I’d [...]
When I walked into work this morning one of the VPs was standing in the reception area. “So, you’re not answering his pages?” he said, using an English accent — not because he was trying to be funny but because he is English. (He is from the part of England that is the more Beatley [...]
When we left off last time, Samson and I were putting some new parts on his bicycle. We got to the final part – a new rear wheel – and the bolts were too big to the slots they go into. While I was pretty sure there wasn’t much we could do, aside from order [...]
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