What did restaurant work teach you? 2
I'll go first. I worked as a bus boy while in high school. That taught me a lesson I try to live by even to this day. Never lend ten dollars to a dish washer.
The Slice archive for Nov. 17, 2014
MONDAY, NOV. 17, 2014
One of America's newspaper names 1
http://commons.wikipedia.org Got to thinking about this Texas newspaper this morning while exchanging emails with Spokane's Doug Heiskell, a nice guy who attended Texas Tech. He noted that you don't see a lot of avalanches in Lubbock. Granted. But do you know why Lubbock is important…
Is it too early?
To respond to any or all casual invitations with the counter-offer, "Why don't we get together after the holidays."
Comparing the Jeff Daniels characters 1
What is the essential difference between the character he plays in "Dumb and Dumber To" and the character he plays in HBO's "Newsroom"? http://screenrant.com www.annarbor.com
Getting exercise in the winter 3
I will keep riding my bike to work as long as the streets are not icy. (Yes, it was brisk this morning.) But eventually I am going to need to find another form of exercise until early spring. (Tomorrow's Slice column is about one possibility.)…
Two kinds of Monday mornings
My bedtime is usually about like a third-grader's. But because I was off last week, I stayed up last Sunday night and watched a couple of TV shows I normally don't see until the following day. So when Monday morning arrived, I would have been…
Close encounters of the neighbor kind
I suspect that one of our next-door neighbors probably believes that I all I ever do is attend to the garbage and recycling barrels. That's because 90 percent of the times we see one another I am doing exactly that. Of course, 90 percent of…
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