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Tonight is a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Raleigh, arriving about 5:30AM Friday. The direct flights make the unpleasantness a little easier to endure, barely. Airlines in the U.S. are jus...

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So much in the news lately about Indiana and other states with their religious freedom laws. Perhaps these people are lashing out because they feel forced to approve of something? No one has to ...

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This is one of the best I’ve heard so far: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie (who was his own father) can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him ...

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Let’s start with the main fact, which is the city is filthy. It’s obvious the minute you deplane at LAX, and only gets worse. (LAX has got to be the dirtiest airport in the US.) As a general r...

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On November 18, 2014, Lady Wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. (It was actually 32 years together, as we have been a couple 7 years prior.) We celebrated in our favorite restaur...

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To be honest, I had totally forgotten about this site. OD was somehow more memorable, and I found myself there almost daily. Here I walk away and totally forget about it. Alive, well, working, ...

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My go-to source for nightwear and the like is Derek Rose. The quality of their products justifies the $275 price tag for men's pajamas, or $185 for a robe. I draw the line at spending over four...

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I've been remiss in logging in here. There is less activity on here than we saw in the old OD days, and it just slips my mind to check in. So what has happened of late? Well, let's see... My ...

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Our two oldest dogs are Dingo (15), a brindle terrier mix, and Sophia (14) a Mini Schnauzer. Both are generally healthy, but have the usual age-related conditions - loss of vision and hearing, a...

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For the last few days, I've been thinking of sitting in one of my favorite cafés in France, enjoying the sun and listening to the music. Perhaps a pastis (or absinthe) in front of me as I bask i...

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On April 12th, Lady Wife and I attended the annual Titanic Dinner held at The Angus Barn in Raleigh. Their chef re-creates the first class menu from the voyage, and the guests dress in period ou...

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Venice by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) There is a glorious city in the sea. The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her p...

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Read a rather dim-witted article in Esquire today What Does the Word "Chef" Even Mean Anymore?, and it left me once again shaking my head in bewilderment. Someone with a degree from an accredite...

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The security system at home has been upgraded, with the addition of surveillance cameras. I love the fact that we can check in on the animals when we are out, and the pet-sitter knows they are b...

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I received a bottle of Octomore 5.1/169 ppm Single Malt, purportedly the smokiest whiskey in Scotland. By comparison, for those of you who are aficionados of smokey whiskey, Laphroaig is about 6...

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Much speculation and conjecture continues about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. For what it's worth, my theory on the sequence of events and the future is this: The pilot, co-pilot and/o...

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One of the (only) things I like about Republican presidents is that they rarely show their faces in Manhattan. One or two appearances a year is the most you'd see. The current occupant of the W...

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I had one of those moments when I was sitting having my coffee the other morning, and gazing over the kitchen decided that I no longer liked the cabinet knobs. There are 60 knobs on all the draw...

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Leaving my hotel this morning, it was concurrently snowing, sleeting and raining. Ankle deep slush puddles at every corner, and flooding in the subways at the bottom of the stairs. At times lik...

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Just to put it in perspective - a bunch of grown men played with a ball yesterday. Basically played a child's game. They didn't cure a fatal disease, master cold fusion, or bring peace to the M...

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On Thursday, Lady Wife and I went to the old Diamond Horseshoe in the Paramount Hotel for Queen of the Night. Think Cirque du Soleil + burlesque + a tasteful orgy, add gourmet food and premium b...

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It's no shock that OD has finally decided to fold. However, it clarifies that the Lifetime Member status applies not to me, but the site. And quite literally, the decision has been made to pul...

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