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If you go to the paint dept in a place like Lowes, there will be a lot of small fold-out pamphlets filled with pictures of rooms and exteriors all in color coordinated themes. They'll have titles like "Coastal" and that one will have pictures of rooms and houses painted in colors evoking the...

My bride made sourdough English muffins. Fucking Yum.

Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan, dead at 80

It’s for hanging earrings. My wife has three of those racks in that bathroom, not all of them full. It’s just sitting there in that picture waiting for me to hang it on the wall.

Towel warmer. Put a towel in it, push a button and when you step out of the shower you have toasty towel.

Thanks. Truthfully, I don’t get it either. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of baths I took in that old corner tub but it was installed so poorly, it had to go and I got that $850 freestanding unit for $350. I will probably never use it but it looks sexy.

Old shower. Notice old crooked tile. New tiled shower with thermostatically controlled valve.

Master bath needed remodeling. Some parts I didn’t want to tackle (shower) so I called for a price on just replacing the one-piece fiberglass shower with a unit made of large panels like cultured marble or fancier stuff. The low bid was $7500 for ugly CM and the bid from Kohler for their...

Brigitte Bardot

When I owned my business, you could buy a BBB rating.

Saw this today. Good movie with an original story. Haven’t enjoyed a movie this much in a long time.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae legend, dead at 81

Final resting place of Dennis the Cat.

When we were first married many years ago, a 65 MG Midget was our only car and daily transportation. It was reliable and not very fussy except for the occasional carb sync, for which I owned the tool. Not mine, very almost exactly the same.

I don't know how anybody thinks they're going to pay a contactor to remodel a bathroom for 10K. I'm in the middle of a MB remodel that I'm doing myself because paying a contractor for just a 3x4 shower made of some sort of engineered panels was $10k (local cultured marble) to $17k (Kohler...