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Phone Insurance

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My eldest daughter is telephonically challenged.  It’s not that she has trouble using a cell phone – she’s got that part mastered.  No, she has issues keeping her cellular lifeline in one piece, out of “liquid”, and in her possession.  I guess this offsets her many wonderful qualities!

When it came time to buy her the latest replacement phone, she opted for a Blackberry.  Bigger, harder to lose, more functional, but way more expensive.  So we opted to pay AT&T the $5 a month to insure the thing in case anything ever happened.  Well, it did and what a revelation. Continue reading

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Bacon Overdone

I know it’s not Friday but I’m going to let food set the theme to day as well. The Mrs. and I were watching TV last night when on came a story about Tony’s Restaurant in Birch Run Michigan. Tony’s is renowned for selling enormous portions of food at fair prices and, in particular, for their BLT sandwich which contains over a pound of bacon.  Obviously, not eating anything bigger than your head doesn’t apply here. Continue reading

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Food Brothers

It’s Fun Food Friday and today’s screed comes out of my recent trip.  Over the years, our group figured out that the cost/value equation for the roster of restaurants in Myrtle Beach was way out of whack and we’d be far better off cooking for ourselves a few nights.  The condos where we stay have grills and we take full advantage of them. Continue reading

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