It's not as funny as it seems.....yet I laughed hysterically this morning with hot coffee in one hand, a dried out and cheap hand rolled cigarette in the other. Sitting on the front porch, enjoying my morning, I had my usual thoughts except one.

Usually, I would plan out my day. Sometimes I had left over procrastinates (procrastinates...sounds legit...) to thread into my routine. Sometimes I would flick out the regular weekly chores with each ash of my cigarette.

Not...

[QUOTE=Mainer61;31008238]My boss would say, "My only ask of you is..."" UGH Also, "what's your take away?" Also, it seems that every speaker starts every sentence (practically) with So..[/QUOTE]

where are you in Maine? we are from the way, way north and the way south...some in middle...Bangor, etc... miss it!

It's been a month since I've been in one. And next Friday, I'm going to be in another one. When it comes to hotel elevators, it seems like they were purposefully designed to make a guest wait an eternity to get to the third floor from the main lobby.

That was the experience I had in Lubbock on my recent trip, but it's not just that stop. I've had this type of thing at other places (and different chains, too) in the years I've traveled. Now, I don't have an easy...

TALK ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO CALL HOME! ROXBOROUGH PARK IS NESTLED IN THE SW SUBURBS OF DENVER. JUST LIKE BACKCOUNTY IN HIGHLANDS RANCH AND KEN CARYL VALLEY IN SW LITTLETON, THERE ARE NO GAS STATIONS, STORES, BILLBOARDS, ETC., ALTHOUGH THEY ARE BUT A FEW MILES AWAY.
YOU COME HOME TO NATURE, SOME WILDLIFE, BEAUTIFUL ARROWHEAD GOLF COURSE, AMAZING RED ROCK OUTCROPPINGS, BEAUTIFUL VIEWS AND HOMES PLUS CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE ACTUAL ROXBOROUGH STATE PARK.
THERE ARE A VARIETY OF HOME...

I graduated in 1988. We still had projectors projecting onto screens that rolled down in front of a chalk board. Don't know what a chalk board was? It was a board where the teacher wrote stuff for the class in chalk. The really cool teachers used different colors of chalk. When we wanted to watch a movie or something on video, the teacher had to request one of the very few TVs in the school be rolled down to her class for her.

And I say her because in my hometown, the vast majority...