Last Friday, after dropping my wife off at LaGuardia Airport I decided to sample a tamale restaurant in nearby Corona, Queens. The restaurant was Evelia's Tamale's, 96-09 Northern Blvd, Queens, NY 11368. This is a heavily Hispanic area but I love that and other spicy, exotic foods. After placing my breakfast order, I heard the cashier whisper, in Spanish "he's American." I interjected that I want the food made "their way." They asked "do you like it spicy" and I said...

On my last trip to Houston not very long ago, one of the priorities for me was to take a look at the progress of numerous construction projects converting U.S. Highway 59 to Interstate 69. A specific stretch just southwest of Rosenberg was spotted with new signage and completion of grade separation in a three-mile segment since I last visited the area thirteen months prior to it.

And to the southwest of Spur 10, a recently-constructed stretch from there to the middle of Kendleton...

Ask almost any consumer, and you'll see that people must sometimes deal with B.S. every time one wants honesty. I took my Toyota in today to my dealer and their service area just loves playing musical chairs from one visit to the next. No two service advisors will ever be the same.

And this afternoon's visit (as I write this chickenscratch, of course) saw me needing to get only two air filters replaced. That's all I requested. Well, my advisor for today's visit...

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Perhaps I don't know why, but every now and then, I meet people at church or some other place in the sphere of life and then I never see them again.

Such happens to be the case with one lady who I once knew about fifteen years ago at a nearby church in our community. Sometimes, we did social things, too. That's where we got to know one another. She is actually a year older than I, and also someone who knew an ex-classmate of mine. She even dated him for a time....