Mick Jagger’s love letters to the mother of his first child, Marsha Hunt, and the inspiration for the song Brown Sugar are set to go on Sotheby’s auction block early next month and are expected to fetch about £100k (approx $160,000.)
50 years from now, just how much do you think the tweets of Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez will be worth?
I may have started saying it partially tongue in cheek, but I actually did put a check mark next to Gary Johnson’s name. I was not the only one (well maybe the only one in my precinct) as the Libertarian candidate garnered over a 1.1 million votes and a solid 1% of the total votes cast.
One reason I felt I needed to vote for Gary Johnson was his stance on decriminalizing marijuana. That didn’t happen on a national level, but now Donna and I have another reason to move to Washington state besides her brother, his wife, a nephew and two nieces, Initiative Measure No. 502.
The 10 year old leaf blower is getting awfully hard to start, half dozen pulls minimum and my gas line repair is now spouting fuel around the tank hole when I press the little bulb thing. Its noise level is an assault on the ears, so much so that I wear ear plugs and Donna has to be in the opposite yard from me when I use it. Time to replace it.
Earlier this year we bought a battery operated Black & Decker string trimmer & hedge trimmer. They work pretty well, so I thought maybe we could get the B&D leaf blower that uses the same 18v batteries. It would be quiet and light with no dripping flammable fluids. I read the reviews online and the biggest negatives about the unit were it was kind of weak and used up batteries.
Weak might be OK because all I would be using it for would be blowing off leaves and grass clippings from the back deck, the front sidewalk and the driveway. Batteries shouldn’t be an issue as I already have 3, one came with the string trimmer and one plus a bonus came with the hedge trimmer. Home Depot had some in stock and at $75 worth a trip right after work.
Boy was the box small. It fit in the Miata trunk along with both our lunch boxes and Donna’s purse. When I got home I snapped on the the two tubes and plugged up one of my already charged batteries. I started with the back deck and it seemed like I was cruising along blowing leaves everywhere, but it was having trouble moving the acorns around. The battery was drained by the time I was done with the deck. Hooked up battery number two and headed to the driveway. The small scattering of leaves danced out of the way, the acorns not so much. On the smoother deck it did get them rolling, but on the rougher concrete surface it was like they were super glued down.
Came inside, disassembled the thing and packed it back in its box. After dinner we went back to Home Depot and spent $150 bucks on a new gas powered leaf blower.
Back in May we stumbled onto the Google Street View Car on our bike ride home from work. The updated views are now online. If you click on the photo above, you will be taken to the street view in question. Feel free to move the little man along the block of Park Ave between Marlboro and Williamsburg.
To witness an anomaly in the fabric of space and time, start at Williamsburg and work your way east (to the right) and at one point Donna and I, along with the person walking along the street, flash out of the picture for an instant and then pop right back. Where did we go?
Gwyneth Paltrow, William Conrad, Arthur Penn and Samuel Adams.
Well, it’s my birthday too.
Those wild and crazy folks in our Shipping Department decided after their surprise birthday “party” for Donna, that they would have to do likewise for me. And I was totally got. I had no clue.
The idea for the shape of the cupcake cake and color scheme were the suggestion of my wife’s and I have to admit that that shade of purple is not the most visually appealing, but they sure tasted great. There was even ice cream and they sung the Happy Birthday song to me too. Thanks for the party folks, I had a whale of a time.
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A couple of decades ago at a Miatas At The Gap event someone handed out a Mix CD that included a bunch of driving songs. It included The Cardigans tune My Favourite Game and while it is a cool song I could never really figure out the driving connection, until this morning. Thanks Jalopnik.