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A few months back I started noticing the caller ID on my cell phone would display a red background, the number that was supposedly calling in, and the massage "Suspected Spam Caller". I was able to grab a quick photo of the display this morning. Most of the time the call disconnects without...

I am considering buying a basic KME knife sharpening system with the base. My current favorite knife sharpening tool is a Spyderco Sharpmaker with optional rods. I also have two DMT and one Norton bench stones, a strop, a ceramic hone, and a steel hone. My knives are sharp and I understand the...

Tactical guns, tactical knives, tactical flashlights, tactical visors, tactical sunglasses, tactical flip-up sunglasses, tactical hearing aides (amplifiers), tactical ball point pens... can we all simply agree that all swords are tactical? It's not like you have a tomato slicing sword that has...

Earlier this week I was informed of a coupon code for 35% off the normal $69 street price of this funky little China Made out of USA steel Knife. At $45 total out of pocket, I decided I needed to check it out. Kizer is a Chinese knife company which works with knife designers world wide...

I purchased a tube of Loctite Threadlocker Blue 242 to use on screws used to attach pocket clips on several of my knives. The instructions state... Locktite Threadlocker is designed for metal parts only. It is not designed to be used on plastic parts. My intent was to use the product on...

(This is an email I just sent to my older brother. I thought it might make a good thread) I walked down to Walmart this morning, about 7:30 or so. The sidewalk down Westheimer is five feet wide. By Raising Caine Chicken Fingers there appeared to be a water leak and water was being splashed...

They are back at it. Cassowary kills Florida man, officials say - CNN Use 12 Gauge #3 steel and aim for the neck.

Early Saturday morning I walked down to my local Walmart Super-center to buy a can of WD-40 and a roll of Duck Brand duct tape needed for weekend projects. I went to a new self-checkout area and scanned the WD-40. Even though the machine had a green light on, it would not work. The attendant...

I will usually jump in to any thread about pocket knives. I'm not a great expert on the subject, but over decades of fascination with and use of these tools, I speak my mind. Spyderco and Buck are my go to folders for getting work done. Case makes beautiful knives which I appreciate as...

To honor the Irish on St. Patrick's Day, I walked to my neighborhood CVS and bought a 12-pack of beer. I got a four foot receipt. I guess I should have bought a 6-pack and saved a tree? :D

One of my local grocers had boneless skinless chicken breasts on sale for 99 cents per pound today. I use boneless skinless breast regularly in my cooking, so I bought a bit over six pounds to vacuum seal and freeze. Back in the latter part of the 20th century when I learned to cook chicken...

I like reasonably priced utilitarian knives. My latest knife purchase was an Ontario Knife Company RAT (Randall's Adventure Technology) Model 1 with a D2 Steel blade. It is a well built modern folding knife. Thumb stud opening, liner lock, left/right pocket tip up/down pocket clip...

I thought my duck hunting buddy and I can taken care of the feral emu problem here about back in the 1990s, and this morning I read two were loose on Galveston Island. Police capture pair of runaway emus in coastal Texas - Houston Chronicle I guess I need to take the 00 Buck out of my home...

Last week when I was out walking I noticed that a sign had been painted over in a mega strip shopping center close to me. There's an Academy Sports, REI, DSW, Dollar Tree, many fast food and table service restaurants, a Petco, my barbershop, and much more in what I consider a giant strip...

It's a ten minute video that I found quite entertaining. It's better than the bait car vs car theives in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo&t=35s

Last year, when my father and step-mother's home sold, I hoped to snag his old Navy issued knife. It ended up that my sister had already laid claim to it. Yesterday after hours of receptions and services for my late father, I was at my brother's house with 15 or so close family members. My 11...

When I woke up this morning my first thought was my father. He had been unresponsive in hospice for close to a week. He passed peacefully this afternoon. Every time I turned on TV today there was coverage of the passing of Bush41, another man I held in high respect. My eyes would well up...

I started this morning with a Dell Inspiron 530 on my desk. It sported an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 four core processor, 4 GB RAM, a discrete NVIDIA Graphics cards with 500 MB video memory, a TV tuner card, and dual 20" monitors. It dated to 4/20/2008. The only upgrades I did on it were...

I was searching through some storage boxes and bags for a close to obsolete computer cable and came across a never used Wyoming Knife. It was a gift to me in the prior millennium. Wyoming Knife Corporation The guys on the website do slick stuff with this device. To me it was a foreign...

I thought rage and idiocy were American attributes. Sadly it seems to be global. If you have not seen this, it was caused because the bus failed to make a stop to let the woman off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGU3ws2lKM I feel sorrow for the folks involved.