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The place before Don's was Two Jacks! Great unusual menu options in one restaurant at the time. You could get a really good pizza there as well as some of the best egg rolls, for example.
Hawk's Nest. -- Best Shrimp Remoulade
Toddle House -- Great banana pie

re: Washington DC trip

Posted by swampgrizzly on 9/13/26 at 5:05 pm to
Mt. Vernon, George Washington's home
Korean War Memorial-Most sobering war memorial reflecting how cold and miserable conditions were.

re: Milk Expiration Dates

Posted by swampgrizzly on 8/29/26 at 10:00 pm to
From my experience the spoilage issue directly relates to the type of container it's in. Plastic containerized milk usually have a week to 10 days expiration dates. Paper/ cardboard containers usually have expedition dates a month to 6 weeks out. I've nearly always had milk in plastic containers spoil before it's expiration date. I don't have that issue anymore buying milk in paper cartons.

As an old timer I can recall the times when dairy creameries ran their own refrigerated truck home delivery routes. Milk was delivered in glass bottles in those times. I don't recall having spoilage issues back then.

Plastics can be wonderful products in many instances, but they don't work well for my milk consumption patterns.
The Pentagon in Washington D C.-exterior and interior. Even has a shopping mall type area in the inner most ring.
Witnessing the live fire $1,000,000 Fire Power show at Fort Sill, Oklahoma at the end of my training there in the summer of 1968. This was in the midst of the Vietnam War. It envolved the firing of all types of artillery and rocket systems. In addition to the U. S. Military service men there for the show there were a large number of Congressmen in attendance. It was truly impressive and made everyone in attendance proud to be from the USA!
The invention of commercial grade toilet paper by Joseph Gayetty.
Saturday morning cartoon shows on regular TV networks
Flat top hair cuts
Pitchers of Cool Aid
Games like Marbles, Spinning Tops,, Simon Says

LieMax vs. DOLBY CINEMA

Posted by swampgrizzly on 3/24/26 at 6:39 pm
If one doesn't have a true IMAX theater nearby, which type screening would provide the most immersive viewing experience, a LieMax Cinema or Dolby Cinema?
It would make sense as you stated to have performed in B. R. I had recently gotten out of military service and wasn't very familiar with John Prine but for only a few years myself at that time.

I was able to see John 2 more times in later years in larger venues. Neither of those larger venues provided the overall fun we experienced in the bar at the base of the Sunshine Bridge.
He was just getting started and beginning to gain popularity. There are many musical/singing artists who got their start in bars. Bruce Springsteen started at a small venue called The Stone Pony in New Jersey for example.
John Prine in a bar at the foot of the Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsonville, LA. in 1977 or 1978. It was a small capacity place, but packed that evening with everyone totally engrossed with the performance and definitely in the same head space as John!

I attended 2 more John Prine concerts in larger venues over his career, but none matched the magical bliss experienced in that bar!
With a whole lot of stabs in reaching 79 years, I'm reasonably sure there had to have been improvements in the sharpness of the needles. For my 1st 30 yesrs (late 1940's to 1970's) years of blood draws 90 % or greater hurt lke hell and left large black and blue marks every time. The ratio of minimum pain and bruising vs. bad painful sticks has gradually improved in my middle age years. In my Senior years I've experienced more of a 80% good sticks / 20 % bad sticks. I haven't experienced seeing the same phebotomiist or nurse for draws since I was a child.

Considering the frequency of turn over of phebotomiists with less total experience in recent times, I feel that without a technical improvement in the sharpness of needles used today I would be experiencing 100% Total Butchering of my arms!!!!!

re: 1st hog

Posted by swampgrizzly on 2/8/26 at 7:36 pm to
Congrats. Just make sure any parts of this or any size wild hog is very thoroughly cooked! They commonly carry brucellosis, trichinellosis, salmonella, E. Coli and other diseases/bacteria! I would also take precautions in field dressing and handling of the hog such as wearing protective gloves and eye protection from the hogs body fluids.
I've had Directv satellite TV service since 2008. Other than frequent price increases the service has been great. To my surprise, AT&T ran fiber optic cable in front of my rural home in mid-Nov. It took 9 weeks since the FO cable was buried before home installation was made available. I have had the FO service for a week now. It is super fast and cheaper than my old copper wired Uverse service.

I am waiting a while on deciding to switch my tv service to steaming Direct TV service or a competitor streaming TV service. I want to make sure of the FO service reliability mainly. I have also heard reports that DirectTV no longer sells service via satellite dishes. If you live where internet streaming services are already available, regardless of internet provider company, they won't sell you service via a satellite dish. You can only subscribe to DirectTV Streaming.

I would hate to switch to a streaming TV service, find that I'm not satisfied with it, and then have DirectTV refuse to reconnect me via my old satellite dish. My current DirectTV service automatically switches to streaming when occasional weather issues affect the dish reception.
I fully agree that the tip expectations have become unreasonable. What smarts me even more is the lack of a simple "thank you" by wait staff when it's obvious I'm tipping 20% or more in cash when I tell the waiter to keep the change. Or at a Waffle House using a debit/credit card where they see how much I tipped as I enter the smount or even displayed on their side of the monitor with no simple thank you expressed by them.
Though some heavy users may find that cannabis use increases the likelihood of contributing to E D, others have found it's use can actually increase blood flow as well as reducing anxiety.

It provided a pleasant surprise for this 79 yr. old guy. YMMV!
A sound bar for my large flat screen tv. TV audio speakers were blown. Every other aspect of the tv still functioned exceptionally well. Avoided having to replace the tv. Now have better audio than when the tv was new.

re: Nostalgic Junk Food

Posted by swampgrizzly on 12/19/25 at 11:20 pm to
Old fashioned jaw breakers.
Instead if scrolling through a smart phone while on The Throne, I typically average reading 8-10 books a year on my home Throne.