Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So when you make mac & cheese with hotdog, what is the proper ratio? How long do you cut the hotdog pieces? Need to know.

I don't remember that far back when I had to eat that stuff -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I like her technique -


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I like her technique -

I figured you would.

[Tcoat]

I hate it when things are taken out of context. This is the shit that makes millennials think the boomers had it so easy.



Sure a meal was $2 but the internet tells me that the average blue collar (the majority) wage was $3.50 an hour and minimum wage was $1.60. Calculating inflation that $2 had the same buying power as $12 today. Since a 1/4 pounder, large fries, drink and apple pie (roughly $2 as stated) would not cost you $12 today (I looked it up it is around $7) that meal was actually way more expensive in 1972.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I figured you would.

She reminds me of this Japanese girl I knew back in San Jose. She had long, black, shiny hair and ….. oh, never mind -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

She reminds me of this Japanese girl I knew back in San Jose. She had long, black, shiny hair and ….. oh, never mind -


humfrz

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaQ26vSe9dg[/ame]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I hate it when things are taken out of context. This is the shit that makes millennials think the boomers had it so easy.

Sure a meal was $2 but the internet tells me that the average blue collar (the majority) wage was $3.50 an hour and minimum wage was $1.60. Calculating inflation that $2 had the same buying power as $12 today. Since a 1/4 pounder, large fries, drink and apple pie (roughly $2 as stated) would not cost you $12 today (I looked it up it is around $7) that meal was actually way more expensive in 1972.

Yep, the same for the "silent generation". Back in 1955 one could work an hour and buy 7 basic McDonalds burgers (1.00 per hour/$.15 per burger).

Today (in this area) one who works an hour can buy 13 basic McDonalds burgers ($15.00 per hour and $1.17 per burger).

Plus back then, to make that $1.00 a kid had to slave behind a dust belching, hay baler, in the broiling hot sun, dragging/lifting 70 pound hay bales, while walking back and forth on a rickety hay wagon, with steel wheels, across a bumpy field.

At the same time, glancing at the 1 mile straight stretch of road in front of our farm, watching my older, spoiled, cousin (son of the owner of a Chevrolet dealership), driving a brand new 1955 Chevy Bel Air with a 265 cu in V-8 with a power pack (4 bbl carb and dual exhaust) wax all stock cars in the county in a 1/4 mile drag race.


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[humfrz]

Well, this week is wound down. After 6 trips a day to deliver and pick up granddaughters, today I even missed my nap time because mrs humfrz had a hair appointment for 2.5 hours and left the 3 year old with me this afternoon. I tried to catch a snooze while watching cartoons but the 3 year old woke me up by tossing a frozen box of bagel bites, that she got out of the freezer, on my lap and asking me to mic up some for her lunch.

After collecting the last one from school, I took them all down to the dollar store on a shopping binge. However, I did save some money by finding a huge (14") chicken pot pie at Costco this week, for $18.00, which fed all of them for supper tonight, since we keep them on Friday nights till 11:00 PM to give their parents a "date night".

Of course, I had to tell the girls that the giant pot pie came from Safeway, since they won't eat anything I buy at Costco. Just wait till they start buying the groceries!

OK - NOW, it's party time- , but we are too fucking tired to do anything- but, it's a good tired -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, this week is wound down. After 6 trips a day to deliver and pick up granddaughters, today I even missed my nap time because mrs humfrz had a hair appointment for 2.5 hours and left the 3 year old with me this afternoon. I tried to catch a snooze while watching cartoons but the 3 year old woke me up by tossing a frozen box of bagel bites, that she got out of the freezer, on my lap and asking me to mic up some for her lunch.

After collecting the last one from school, I took them all down to the dollar store on a shopping binge. However, I did save some money by finding a huge (14") chicken pot pie at Costco this week, for $18.00, which fed all of them for supper tonight, since we keep them on Friday nights till 11:00 PM to give their parents a "date night".

Of course, I had to tell the girls that the giant pot pie came from Safeway, since they won't eat anything I buy at Costco. Just wait till they start buying the groceries!

OK - NOW, it's party time- , but we are too fucking tired to do anything- but, it's a good tired -


humfrz

I love my grandsons but it is this stuff that makes me very glad they live an hour away.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I love my grandsons but it is this stuff that makes me very glad they live an hour away.

Yep, an hour away would usually confine most visits to the weekends -

Hmmm..... Sequim, over on the Olympic Peninsula, is a nice retirement area and it's about an hours drive away …… hmmmmm. Just kidding, mrs humfrz would say - fine - YOU move over there, I'll see you on the weekends!


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[korhun]

Because I look like this



My wife got me an appointment from someone like this



I was hoping to see this



And hoping not to see something like this



A few hours ago, I went and sat in front of him like this



And get ready for this



Then we got into this



I guess I've turned into this



When the session is over, I felt like this



I thought this might make me think about something else but this



Yes it was very successful. Because, at the moment, I cannot think about anything but this



And this



And trying my best to not to do this



So I'm planning learn how to do this

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

CONGRATULATIONS on your improved photography -

Are you going to wash your cars in that spare bedroom?




humfrz

That's the dining room.

[Boomerang]

FIFY

Originally Posted by korhun

FIFY

I guess I've turned into this

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by soundman98

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a cow, now that's a difficult one. i might lose a car, but i'd gain a fridge full of meat!

True story, the wife, while working for the local Chrysler/Jeep Dealer got a brand new Wagoner Limited for her demo. Driving it home that first night in the dark she struck a deer. Called the O.P.P who contacted the local game warden. He happened to be visiting a family we knew just one road over and they got to the scene before the police. He gave the wife a tag and the OK to take the deer. Our friend loaded it into his pick-up and delivered it to our house. In the mean time I'd called the father-in-law who loaded up his little Lada and drove over. We were ready with spot lights, rope, buckets and all the tools needed. We hoisted that thing up in the tree in front of the house and he bleed, skinned, butchered and back it all up before midnight. We got some steaks and a roast out of the deal. He and the mother-in-law ate everything else over the winter. Our new neighbours, (we'd only been in the house a few months) must have wondered about us. Things went down hill from there.