**Warning, vulgar language in video.** Jade O'Connell is just one of many that suffer from Tourette Syndrome and posts videos to YouTube, Tik Tok, Instagram, and the like. I learned of this young lady from my daughter. Jade often posts videos of her baking with her family members and they are funny videos. She even has a few that show her doing makeup on herself and others, which is also...

There are sayings / phrases, hyperbole, and expressions that often make me scratch my head. One example is when someone says that so and so has no balls or "grow a pair" when someone is either afraid of doing something or somehow indicates that the person is otherwise "acting in a girlish manner." Along the same lines, calling someone a pussy, indicating similar as the aforementioned. Now,...

I just wanted to say thank you to all those who've served in our military.  Any chance I get to thank veterans, I do. If I see a license plate that indicates the driver has served, I thank them. If I see someone with a VFW hat on, I thank them. If I see a young man with a military uniform on, I thank them.  I used to work for AM General some time ago and I built prototype HMMWVs in various...

Most people don’t understand the art of massage and every individual is unique in preferences of massage type and tissue depth. There’s a reason that professional masseuses [generally speaking] have the customer fill out a questionnaire prior to their massage. The first massage I ever received was when I was going through physical therapy (PT) for my knees at 14 years old. I was the only...

Rocky got a new toy today; a little stuffed monkey made by Kong. I knew it would happen. I knew it wouldn't last a day. However, it lasted longer than I thought with how he murders toys. My Rocky ate monkey butt today. He began with the tag with the washing instructions, figured out there was a squeaker, got the squeaker out and tossed that aside, and proceeded to pull at the "Kong" sewn...

If you were in politics, would the public learn something dirty about you or your past? I can most certainly say that I have things in my past that would shock some. While I won't divulge everything, because I have no plans to go into politics, I will say that I smoked a LOT of weed in high school, long before it was legal here. No other drugs, but I associated with people that did a whole...

What are some of the things you loved to do when you were younger that you can't do now... or haven't done in a really long time? Baseball. I always loved playing baseball [not softball] with other kids in the neighborhood. I'd have loved to play baseball in high school, but because there was a girls softball team, they wouldn't let me play baseball with the boys. They are different....

Are we going to start seeing movie theaters fade away like the drive-in theater? While yes, there are drive-in theaters sprinkled throughout the country, they're scarce, far fewer than decades ago. They've made a slight comeback with COVID and sit in movie theaters closing for a while. However, many companies have altered the release platform considerably. I watched a brand new movie on...

If you could and would time travel, what era would you travel to and why? My answer to that would be I’d like to check out the early 1700s through the early 1900s in Southeast Michigan to meet my mom’s side of the family and then the same era but the UP of MI to meet my dad’s side of the family... mainly my dad’s great grandma, Alphonsine LeBeau. I suppose it would be kind of neat to meet my...

For several years, I had an ancestry.com account; well, I suppose I still have the account, but after spending a better part of a decade and paying $150-$200 per year for access to global documentation, I decided to halt my research. I can still contact people and I can still view family trees / make other family trees if I choose. I simply cannot view government documents anymore. I had my...

We all have some sort of skillset that we were pretty much born with and then there's skills that we've worked on to perfect, or at least get as close to perfection as possible. I think I was born with the skill of research. I also was born with the ability to swim and ice skate; no one taught me either of those, I just did those things as a toddler / small child. Maybe it was as simple as...

What are your favorite Halloween traditions? For those with kids and grandkids, what were the costumes they wore that were your favorite? Do you like "scary" movies? I quote scary because I've never particularly found horror movies scary; not even as a little kid. I was 3 when I would watch Friday the 13th movies with my babysitter. I was 5 when I saw A Nightmare on Elm St. I've always loved...