October 5, 2025
The Post-Dispatch will no longer be printing papers on Mondays. We’ll have to get the news online. (I guess I was right to be concerned in my earlier post, asking if it was worth their while to deliver 4 papers to the neighborhood.)
They’ve been taking holidays off for several months now, but they’ve been including puzzles and comics in the previous day’s paper.
So, the important question here is, Will they keep doing that?
October 6, 2025
I got an ad addressed to me from a fence company. I thought it was pretty nervy, considering that when I called them for an estimate a few years ago, the person who answered the phone assured me that someone would call me back. After a few days I made a follow-up call—because they really are supposed to be very good—but nobody got back to me.
So, I was tempted to mail the ad back and say, “You didn’t have time for me before, don’t bother me now.”
But why waste the stamp?
September 30, 2025
On a recent road trip to Chicago, I ran into a former co-worker at a rest stop. We hadn’t seen each other in 5 years, so we did a quick catch-up, and went on our ways. I enjoyed chatting with her.
At the same rest stop, I saw a woman in a blue nun’s habit going in as I was coming out. We smiled at each other and moved on.
At the next rest stop I saw her again. We gave each other that pleased, “Oh, it’s you!" look and, without speaking, went on our ways. I kind of wished I’d talked to her, but it might have spoiled the magic.
On the way home, I stopped for gas and went inside the store. “Bus Stop” was playing over the speaker, so I started singing along. A woman said, “Who sings that?” “The Hollies,” I replied, and we smiled at each other and moved on.
I like making those little connections. They just make me feel good.
