Merry Christmas 1968

Two years ago, I bought a box of kitchen trash bags. I believe it had something like 200 bags in two rolls of 100. Today I finally used the last one of the first roll. I think this is the first time that buying in bulk  [more...]

I hadn’t even noticed, but in the last day the odometer on the blog turned over to a million hits! that’s an average of 143,216 hits per month — a vast increase over last year, when I averaged 85,910  [more...]

Today’s Style Invitational in the Washington Post features the results of a contest where entrants were asked to submit interesting but unimportant facts. This is not the funniest contest to have graced page 2 of  [more...]