by Kevin Burton Please know up front this is not one of my angry product/company boycott posts….but I hate Lowes. Please know that Lowes is our go-to store for all things home improvement. Just about all the problems we’ve ever had at Lowes were our own fault, because we bought the wrong thing. …
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A Moment With Mom And Sweet Victory
by Kevin Burton My mother doesn’t know anything about fantasy football, but she knows a lot about perseverance. Both truths were evident Monday night. I was watching Monday Night Football when she called, and she was still on the line with me when the game ended. To set the scene: …
It’s Black Coffee Or No Coffee At All
by Kevin Burton Let’s get a few things straight right up front. We’re all friends here, yes? The various sugars, sugar substitutes, creams, potions, spices, flavors, elixirs – chief among them pumpkin of any kind – these things that otherwise upstanding people put into coffee, these things individually and collectively are an abomination. …
48 Hours The Movie, Starring Our New Cat
by Kevin Burton This is a happy cat story – thank God. I wasn’t so happy around mid-day yesterday though. Sunday after church we ran a special errand, to pick up Lakin, our new 6-year-old cat. The cat rescue place told us Saturday that she had just had her shots and we …
Coast To Coast: Billy Joel’s “Stop In Nevada”
by Kevin Burton On the Billy Joel portion of our rock and roll road trip you could have reasonably expected “New York State of Mind” or even “Allentown.” Instead we swing west to look at “Stop In Nevada.” This song fits very well into our road-trip theme. Today’s tale includes one of …
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How Many Fantasy Teams Are Too Many?
by Kevin Burton If having one fantasy football team is great fun (which it is), wouldn’t having more than one team be even more fun? That is the question I asked last year, in my second year as a fantasy manager. I answered it in the affirmative. Yes indeed, great big ridiculous fun! …
Noisy Cauliflower, A Growing Concern?
by Kevin Burton Certain food just calls out my name. Pizza comes to mind. Know what I mean? And it doesn’t have to shout either. I am listening for its call on Friday nights, really most nights. I haven’t heard too much from cauliflower though. But last week I learned I should …
Childfree By Choice: No Kids, No Regrets
by Kevin Burton When Mrs. Groves went around the room asking us fifth graders how many children we wanted to have when we grew up, my answer was two, three or at the most four. This was part of sex education class. Well, you really shouldn’t hold a person to anything they say …
Dr. Pepper Is The Choice At My House
by Kevin Burton Finally I am on the right side of the great consumer steamroller. Usually the foods and other products I like exist in the financial fringes. Marginal sales, minimal customer appeal, and a tenuous position in the marketplace; that is usually where my go-to stuff is, always in danger of being …
Mom’s Birthday ‘Celebration’ In The Hospital
by Kevin Burton My mother spent her 89th birthday last month in a hospital ER room. Yeah, she really knows how to celebrate. I had a post about her 89th birthday 89 percent finished. That was about a month ago. Had to scrap it. On her birthday she fell. It was her …
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