Recent content by DesertRat

I am my neighborhood's USPS sorting facility.

Had a handyman by the name of Tommy Gunn.

My parents, in the 1940s and 1950s, gave me and my 5 siblings a shot of Peppermint Schnapps to clear the sinuses. I guess nowadays that would be child abuse.

God!! I'm glad I'm 85 years old.

Shit! I'm glad I'm 85 years old.

I've only seen one business with a sign that said CASH ONLY. Maybe it's more wide spread than I thought.

Our favorite family owned Mexican restaurant has a sign as you walk in that states CASH ONLY.

This doesn't feel like AI to me. It seems to me that it is just a super fast database parser. I too can search for shit like that on the internet. It just takes me a hell of lot longer in time to do it. That along with a very advanced grammar checker and boom! You have AI for the stupid ass masses.

When I was 10 years old, there were no TVs.

Holy Crap Tigerwillow. I guess I accidentally got lucky. My bank (Chase) cashed my EE bonds for me in the first week of December. If they wouldn't have, I'd have been in the same boat as you. Please keep was informed how this turns out for you.

Sorry. That was a typo. They were of the 30 year variety.

Here's another one. I have some 20 year EE bonds that mature this month (12/22). My plan was to redeem half this month and the other half in January 2023, to avoid the 85% thingy on my social security income. Well, I just discovered that you must pay taxes on the date of maturity, whether you...

I can no longer tell the difference between a Babylon Bee article and the real thing. Of course i'm 84. There's that.

Recording 24/7/365, 4 years and 7 months with no issues.

A COPY AND PASTE FROM "MY LIFE JOURNAL" In 1957 the “Asian Flu” epidemic hit the United States. The “Powers That Be” decided that our small and isolated Naval Base would be the ideal place to test a new vaccine for the Asian Flu. Shortly after the inoculations were given, people started...