Where I live, public officials are using reverse 911 way too much. That’s the computer program that allows you to feed recorded information by telephone to people within a geographic area. Where I live, they’re using it beyond information dissemination to the point of self-promotion and dissemination of conflicting and even wrong information.
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I predict a significant increase in the birth of girls named Irene on the east coast of the United States in late May of 2012.
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As far as I know, this is serious as opposed to being a joke.
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Don’t make kissing your spouse or significant other routine. Kiss them frequently of course, but put some passion into it at least once in a while.
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I was in Queens, having lunch with an old friend from college when the earthquake hit on Tuesday. We didn’t feel a thing and we weren’t even drinking.
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I’m pretty sure that someone could make a resealable package for bacon if they set their mind to it.
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If you coat steel with zinc, you make the steel rust resistant. However, if you leave a galvanized garbage can sitting in your compost pile for twenty years, the bottom of the garbage can will compost too.
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In case you’ve wondered how you can throw away a garbage can, I solved that one by taking it to the dump myself.
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A hurricane is coming, so go to the store and stock up on milk and bread so you can pass the time making the traditional cream of bread soup. That recipe isn’t original with me. I got it from the late and very much missed Newsday columnist Ed Lowe.
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I really believe a hurricane is coming. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been up on the corrugated metal roof of my garage adding screws to keep it in place after my wife got home from work Friday. I don’t like to crawl around on the garage roof when nobody else is around. I’d much rather have someone available to call 911 in case while falling off the roof I break enough bones that I can’t call 911 myself.
What’s the point of having a resealable bacon package?
I want a resealable package for bacon because if I ate a whole pound of bacon at one sitting, even if I didn’t have a heart attack, my cardiologist most certainly would.