Somewhere over West Virginia
I think it’s dumb and weird when announcers, usually in sports, say, “will this happen? Will that happen? We will see.“
Duh.
It’s all in the set up. If instead, they said, “it will be interesting to see if this happens or that happens.” Then they wouldn’t feel the need to respond to their own questions without answering them.
I watch too much sports and have too many opinions about their commentary.
I used to think that people would use apostrophe + s less incorrectly if the apostrophe/single quote key was harder to access, but that seems to not be the case if they’re posting from their mobile devices.
(Just saw “movie won Oscar’s” for instance)
I still say “en cee double a”
People like to talk about themselves being old and thus not being able to do things, aches and pains, etc. I refuse. I just do what I want and if I have difficulty, I work on it. I see many people older than I am doing great and looking great and don’t see why I can’t do the same
Texas is 268,596 sq mi, 29,145,505 people as of 2020, El Paso is 743 miles from here (Houston) while San Diego is 725 miles from El Paso, yet people describe us as a monolith, as if we all agree on everything. I guess it’s easy to make us “the other” that way, but it’s incorrect.
“Not only is the goliath grouper as big as a Volkswagen Bug, they can swim just as fast!”
Volkswagen Bugs can swim?
I hate ads with the word “melty.”
I’m not even sure that’s a real word.
The deed is done.
No, I mean that literally. The house in which I grew up, that was in our family for many years (no one knows how long for sure. Allegedly my great grandfather saw the guy putting the For Sale sign in the yard for it, asked him how much he wanted, and paid $3000 cash), where many of my friends came over and we played in the yard or inside, where I learned to shoot in the basement(!), where my sister Kathy taught me math and more, where my dad took out his anger at my grandmother (his mother) for bringing a rum cake to my birthday party when I was a little kid by splitting logs with an ax in the January cold and snow, where he passed away in 1998, and so, so many more things happened, good and bad, has been sold. The house gave me a chance to grow up in a great neighborhood, meet so many of my friends, and who knows what else. I think we were lucky to have it.
I wish we could have kept it but I can’t say I’m going to move back up there (too cold, too expensive, but I love to visit, it’s a great area). I wish I could have kept a lot of the things that were still in the house before we sold it but I don’t have any place for most of that and reality is, if I haven’t touched it in 30 years, why do I need it now? I have my memories, and I have my life, and it’s a great life. 
Thanks, house.
I sincerely wish all the best for the new owners.
Americans (people in general?) complain about targeted advertising, data harvesting, seeing ads for things they only spoke about or bought but didn’t do online, but reflexively “Google it” and use Google Maps. ????????????