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Saturday, March 30, 2019

This Week

Going back to the swamp I had a hot date with my wife a few years ago (yes we have had a bunch since then, that wasn't the last one). We still had $50 left on a gift certificate for a restaurant downtown. The first time we went to this place everything was bad, well not really bad, just not very good. Maybe it was just a bad night, Maybe the real chef wasn't there??? Who knows? But this time the food was really good, the waiter was really good, desert was really good. I guess it wa... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, March 30, 2019

Saturday, March 23, 2019

This Week

Breaking in… I was walking in to the office one day and I heard a guy tell somebody on the phone that his keys were locked in his truck, then he went outside and sat on the steps with his head in his hands. It's raining really hard, I didn't want to get all wet ….. OK,OK I thought, I'll go break in to his car. I went out to him. "locked your keys in the car?" .."yep" .. "want me to break in to it for you?" … "That would ... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, March 23, 2019

Saturday, March 16, 2019

This Week

Ham Jello Saturday night, a few years ago, 8pm, daylight saving time changes at 2am and I'm in bed trying to go to sleep. I normally get up at 3:30am on Sunday to get to church by 4:30a and start getting ready, cones go out at 6:00am, coffee starts being made, volunteers start showing up ..etc. But with Daylight Saving Time starting I'm getting up at 2:30am … So there I am wide awake trying to go to sleep. PK (my wife) has the final 4 Basketball game on, that helps some, I c... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, March 16, 2019

Saturday, March 9, 2019

This Week

The Can Crusher My wife used to be convinced that our garage door was haunted. When you closed it sometimes it would go all the way, sometimes it would go half way then open back up, and sometimes it would go about a foot and open back up. I assumed that it was getting resistance from the rails and was going back up as a safety thing. I read the manual. It had a dial that you could set that sets the amount of resistance it would take before it went back up. So I had it set so high that we ... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, March 9, 2019