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Cheap Thrills

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Mike Slickster

Was sitting on that bank of sand, watching the Delaware River and full Snow Moon flow this evening. Thought for sure the clouds would be obscuring the view, as a couple of storms are passing through this weekend. It cleared … Continue reading →

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Happy Imbolc and Candlemas in Advance

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Mike Slickster

Groundhog Day is this coming Tuesday, which is supposed to be cloudy in Punxsutawny, Pa., where the official prognosticating rodent lives; so a good chance for not seeing his shadow is on tap. I could go for an early spring, … Continue reading →

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So How Did Your Day Go?

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Mike Slickster

I should have known it was going to be a bad day when: I broke the yokes while cracking eggs open to fry for breakfast, preferring them to be sunny-side up. While attempting to make my morning cup of Joe, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged AAA, air, apartment, apartment complex, arrangements, ashtray, attendant, automobile, bad day, bald eagle, bed, blasted, brake lights, breakfast, broken egg yolks, burnt toast, business, camera, card reader, catalog, cekebrate, check oil, citation, coffee, compressor, computer, convenience store, cop, credentials, cup of Joe, curious, dark ages, died, digitally capture, dizzy, doctor, doo-ddo, downstairs neighbor, e-mail, egg yolk, expiration date, filling station, flat, fly open, forgot, fortunately, free, gas station, head off, hiking, Home, hoofing, hot chocolate, hot water, idiot light, ignition, illuminated, inflating, insurance card, issuing, Ivy League, keys, killing you, license, link, locked doors, locksmith, lollygagged, loose change, low inflation, memory card, milk, mind's eye, morning, nail, neglect, neighborhood dogs, nightmare, nightstand, opting, over sixty, pandemic, parking lot, partying, pay phone, persuading, petrol, photographs, photography, photos, pledge, police officer, present, pulled over, R.E.M., recited, redemption, registration, rubbing it in, run-flats, running out, S&H Green Stamps, sex, sex habit, sex life, shocking, shower, smartphone, sorry, sour, spam, species, street corner, sunny-side up, tale, thankfully, tires, toaster, train station, utilized, walking, wallet, warning, wildlife, windshiled, wise, woe | Leave a comment

Nothing’s Easy Anymore

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Mike Slickster

When Pop died I inherited his gold ring, set with his mother’s wedding diamond along with an array of smaller ones, which is quite a memento for me. I’ve been wearing it ever since. During the warm weather, it fits … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 'puter, adhesive strip, Amazon, bit the dust, bluetooth, Comcast, Comcast store, connectivity, dilemma, e-mail, easy, ethernet, ethernet port, Feramox invisible ring size adjuster, firewall, heirloom, hold ring, hotspot, hunky-dory, inherited, interference, It Don't Come Easy, memento, middle finger, network, novel product, operating system, piano fingers, pinky rings, pop, problem, properties, quest, queue, radical diet, report, request, resolved, review, rigmarole, ring finger, ring-size adjuster, Ringo Starr, roaming sensitivity, router, seller, smartphone camera, system restore, troubleshooter, USB cable, Vicky, virus protection, wedding diamond, weight, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi adapter | Leave a comment

Pandemic Isolation: Week Six

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Mike Slickster

The cloth masks arrived from Amazon last Wednesday. It’s a good thing they did. Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Department of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, signed an order on that day, requiring all workers and customers at essential businesses that are … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged aisles, Amazon, apartment complex, Bald Eagles, binge, bird-watcher, birds of prey, boundary, cloth masks, commonwealth, COVID-19, crazy people, Delaware River, destroyer, died, disease, Dr. Rachel Levine, e-mail, eaglets, enforcement, essential businesses, excuse, fair, fine-feathered friends, flat, food-shopping, Frank, groceries, gummy bears, hype, isolation, jerk, joking, Kinks, liberals, life, MAGA hat, management, media, mixed nuts, needed supplies, nesting pair, NJ, online, order, ospreys, pandemic, panicking, paranoia, Pat, Pennsylvania, Pennypack Park, philadelphia, political leanings, politics, potentially infected people, pound, reasoning, requirement to wear masks, Riverton, scope, Secretary of the Department of Health, social distancing, stranger, supermarket, tenants, tirade, toilet paper, treats, tripod, Trumpers, week six, weight gain, workers | 2 Comments

Virus Alert

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Today’s catchphrase is “Coronavirus,” scaring the bejeebies out of everybody. Makes me want to have a Corona Beer; yet I’d rather just a bottle though, than a case of it. Here’s an oldie but a goody. Remember this one? It … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged active verbs, antifreeze, antivirus softwear, autodial, backup files, Bad Times Virus, bathtub, beef tongue, belly-button fuzz, belly-button lint, buzzy lint, calamity, CDs, coffee table, connecting, coolness settings, Corona Beer, Coronavirus, crash and burn, credit cards, curdles, dangerous, dial-up, dill pickles, disclaimers, Dutch Elm Disease, e-mail, early days, erase everything, Ernie K. Doe, fake news, far left, far right, fish tank, get a life, gibberish, goody, hair dryer, hard drive, ice cream, infection, Information Superhighway, ISP, key sentences, lighten up, Mac environment, malarkey, milk, misspellings, molecularly, mother-in-law, Nair, nasty, Net, oldie, passive tense, political bloggers, refrigerator, rewritten, rule of thumb, scissors, shampoo, Snopes.com, social media, subspace-field harmonics, telltale sign, terrifying, throwback, tinea, toe jam, toilet seat, VCR, virus, virus alert, Visa card, Web, Weird Al Yankovic, whatever, Windows environment, wireless Internet | Leave a comment

Is It Fall Back Or Fall Flat On Your Face?

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Mike Slickster

As an addendum to recent entries, I’d like to mention that early this morning, the growing season in Andalusia, Pa., and surrounding areas ended for another year. Temps reached below freezing for the first time since last spring, thereby halting … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged AARP, AARP Bulletin, addendum, Andalusia, anonymously, backslid, baseball season, bathroom scale, chicken, communication, correspondence, defensive, Delaware River, Democratic Party, diet, Dodgers, dump, e-mail, Election Day, euphemistically, facebook, fall back, fall flat on your face, fallen off the wagon, frost, frost on the pumpkin, frost warnings, goal, goodies, gross, growing season, Houston Astros, Humor, in-box, internet, Internet devices, interview, John Cleese, junk mail, maiden aunt, monty python, morning constitution, Mudslinging, National Weather Service, offended, PA, politically correct, pumpkin, Republican Party, responce, salt line, social media, Social Media platforms, Social Media Police, succinctly, tirade, trolls, twitter, virtual, Washington Nationals, weight, world champions, World Series, Yanks | Leave a comment

How Much Do I Love the Internet? Let Me Count the Ways!

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Sixty-one days remain until Thanksgiving, eighty-eight ’til Christmas. Ninety-four days are left to 2019, three hundred and ninety-five before the U.S. presidential election. Yikes, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. Autumn just started last week. We need to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged actor, Autumn, baseball, baseball team, brag, celebrity wannabees, cell phone, cell-phone camera, censor, christmas, Cledus T. Judd, climate change, Colonel Potter, comic strip, complain, cooler weather, developing, e-mail, egotistical, face to face, facebook, film, First Redneck On The Internet, global warming, habit, Harry Morgan, holidays, hoodies, inspiration, instagram, internet, Internet service, M*A*S*H, Nadia Comaneci, National Weather Service, Net, network censors, offend, Pearls Before Swine, pet peeve, polite company, politically correct, pontifical, poppycock, puns, rat, real world, save money, self-important, selfies, Smartphone Zombies, social media, Stephan Pastis, sweaters, talking heads, teed-off, texts, Thanksgiving, the Nationals, tirade, town crier, U.S. presidential election, vanity, verbally, Web, World Wide Web, youtube | Leave a comment

Miscellaneous Drivel

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Mike Slickster

The yearly state-inspection ritual for pushing the dastardly deed off for another month has been accomplished. Last year, the Cooper went through the paces and was awarded new windshield stickers valid until August 31, 2018, as seen on the left. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged All I Need is a Miracle, Alzheimer's Disease, August 2018, boast, calculator, charitable organization, charities, cooper, dastardly deed, Delaware River Basin Commission, drivel, e-mail, garbage, governmental organization, guilt, guilty, inspection station, inspection stickers, Labor Day Weekend, mailman, Mike and the Mechanics, Mike the mechanic, mini cooper, pen, personal computer, photography, photography contest, planner, Post Office, press release, Riverfront North, September 2018, September 2019, simple arithmetic, smartphone, social media, state inspection, trinkets, windshield-wiper blade | Leave a comment

My, How Time Does Fly

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Mike Slickster

Getting in this week’s entry a bit early this morning. ‘Twas purging the inboxes of my various e-mail accounts, which had loaded up with messages left over from the past few years since I bought my latest laptop. The last … Continue reading →

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