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1. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Just as important — DO NOT PAY UNTIL ALL THE WORK IS DONE AND YOU HAVE INSPECTED IT. Pay no attention when the boss tells you he has a cash flow problem and needs money to finish up — he’s lying.

   Also applies to checking that all the boxes have been removed from the mover’s truck. Lost my best kitchenware and some good tools that way.

2. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Add three to six zeros for the price and switch weeks to years for the time. If it is ships for the navy, be aware that they will be unusable but you must buy the contracted number even though they are being delivered straight to the scrapyard.

3. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I discovered that on my birthday when the 16 year old girl across the street, who had been treating me as a contemporary, suddenly realized I could not wait for her to catch up.

4. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   When exactly do you grow old?

   Everyone gets this wrong, thinking it happens sometime fairly late in life. Here is the true answer:

   When you are 26, you are in your mid-twenties, barely out of your teens. Relax, kid, your whole life is ahead of you.

   On your 27th birthday you are nearly 30. Grow up! It is high time you were married and raising a family!

5. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   My sleep apnea is so bad it is shocking. Every few minutes I stop breathing entirely and my blood oxygen plunges far below the level designated as dangerous.

   That’s what they told me when I was tested. Made me get one of those silly machines that are supposed to help me sleep. I found myself quite unable to sleep while wearing it so, since they would not allow me t return it, I stuck it in my closet for years and years. Finally gave it to my much younger brother when he broke his.

   That was twenty years ago. Everyone in my family has similar levels of sleep apnea. My father died at 93, mother at 96. Grandfather 96, uncle 93.

   I am now 76 and sleep quite well, thank you. My sister is now 78. I think this sleep testing for apnea is a money-grabbing fraud.

6. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Very nice with a little mustard.

7. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I really, really hope she knows what she is doing!

8. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   In the 1970s I rode a motorcycle from Toronto to the Pacific coast using paper maps. Okay, so what? I bought my first map in Calgary.

9. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   ‘I’ before ‘E’ with certain weird exceptions.

10. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    The ones they used to play every Friday night!