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Posted on March 30, 2024 by Doug

If you are anything like me, you notice things. I’m sure I notice the same things most people do, but in a different way. Or, I have the ability to not see the forest or the trees while walking through them, but can draw a bead on an odd-shaped pinecone along the trail. Most often, these insignificant observations set in…

Smart Water

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Doug

If I had to choose a different path to make my many millions, I think I’d like to try a career in advertising. Sure, it could be a fairly stressful gig, but I would be entertained by the challenge of convincing people to buy stuff that they didn’t know they needed until they saw, watched, or heard my marketing pitch….

I Can Only Imagine

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Doug

This headline probably evokes different thoughts from different people. If you’ve spent even a nanosecond listening to Christian radio, you’ve heard the song that bears the same title a couple dozen, if not multiple trillions of times. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a delightful song with a wonderful message. And if you tell anybody I used “delightful” and “wonderful” in…

Beware!

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Doug

Have you ever seen an American Bison in person? To put it mildly, it is an impressive beast. Or I could ask, “Have you ever seen American Bison in person?”, because the plural of bison is bison, at least according to the websites that confirmed what I thought was correct. And not to matriculate too far off topic, don’t you…

The Next Level

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Doug

If you’ve heard anybody selling or hyping something lately, I’m betting they said something about “taking it to the next level”. As often happens, this phrase gives me pause for reflection. Like most catchy sounding phrases, this one has been overused to the point of high dudgeon, at least to this unknown blogger. It necessarily makes a few baseless assumptions….

Fly Fishing

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Doug

I’m not sure why, but it seems to me that a surprisingly large segment of the population likes to make things more difficult for themselves for no apparent or particular reason. Maybe it’s because we have run out of actual problems, and feel the need to create our own. That isn’t to say that the struggle isn’t real, as my…

Thrift Store Theology

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Doug

There are better than fifty-fifty odds, or “fiddy-fiddy” for my many hip-hop enthusiast readers, that you live near a thrift store. At the very least, you know of someone in your town that has a perpetual garage/yard sale, a sort of thrift store without the permits, taxes, fees, and regulations IMPOSED BY THE MAN! Admittedly, not everyone is a fan…

Fram Oil Filters

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Doug

There was once a commercial on broadcast television. Let me translate for whatever gen you younger people call yourselves. You know those brief, annoying videos that interrupt the free content streaming on your smart device, because you are too cheap to upgrade to the premium service? Anyhoo, this ad featured a grease stained mechanic (seen above) lamenting the consequences of…

Egypt Sucked

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Doug

You might be thinking, “Well, obscure blogger, I can’t wait to see where this goes.” Quite frankly, I can’t either. In any case, we’ll get their together, if you can hang with me. Personally, I’ve never been to Egypt. Notice I didn’t say “Me personally”. That’s redundant and unnecessarily repetitive. I’ve never been to New Egypt Speedway either, but if…

$30 Part

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Doug

Let me start by making an assumption, one that is reasonably informed, I’d argue. More than occasionally you get from point A to point B by means other than walking. Nothing wrong with walking. It’s gotten some pretty decent reviews on Yelp recently. I’m going to go out on a limb by declaring that it is probably the most common mode…