Recent content by Hemiram

Gus, in my avatar, was a good boy. King was, well, he was "a trip". I couldn't have named him better if I would have waited until we brought him home before picking out the name. No dog outranked him. No matter how big, or young, he was boss dog. Did he love me? Oh yeah, but did he care about...

Our cat Orville would actually play with mice very gently. Until he got to be about 10 years old, and he for some reason decided they needed to go, and would rip them apart. I remember one night my mother started screaming when he gifted her a mouse head while she was in bed. But the real...

You will obey Norma! Norma was my mom's cat from 2006 until 2012 when mom passed. I would have kept her, but my dog King would have tormented her endlessly, so I gave her to one of the aids at the assisted living place. Besides, she was Norma's favorite person, period. I lost her number and...

I've noticed NHRA drag racing cars that have signs like "Women for Trump Pence" and it amuses me when I see their teammate sitting there next to them without one. They kind of line up with drivers I liked and followed not having them, and ones I didn't care for having them. A lot of people are...

I forgot to mention that going back to 1977, I've never had a Yamaha made component have any problem more severe than a loose knob on my old R-700 receiver. Over thirty years after I bought it, some guy in Australia bought it from me and paid $100 to ship it over there. It took literally over 2...

Of course. The last one's 372 wasn't enough!

A couple come to mind as I'm about to hit the bed.. How anyone can drink coffee. My sister and I grew up with parents who chugged the stuff like it was the greatest thing ever. "You'll like it when you get older!" we were told. At 64 and 70, I don't think so..it's just gross. And we both hate...

My experience with non-Yamaha receivers over the last 20 years or so has not been a good one. My first "high end" surround receiver was a Marantz SR8000? that cost a ton of money and died once under warranty, and then again right after it expired. Off to the boneyard it went, as it cost too much...

For some reason, most of my high school friends smoked and consumed a lot of pot. My now former best friend has smoked and consumed it daily since about the age of 16. His use of it is partially the cause I'm not friends with him anymore, but there are other reasons. I don't know if it's all the...

Sorry, but I really hate any and all STD's. I had to say it. I tried, but wow, it's like the opposite of entertaining.

Sushi, as I expected it to be, a nightmare I won't repeat. Even the most "mainstream" of it repulsed me to at least some degree, and any of the intense ones left me looking for someplace to spit it out. I was in NYC with a friend who assured me I would like it at some ridiculously expensive...

Weird, we weren't a Pepto house, my parents never bought it, but I had it a couple of times over the years and never connected the "taste" with Wintergreen, which I definitely do not like. My mother did buy those horrible Wintergreen Life Savers, which I constantly complained about and often...

My grandmother was a huge source of tension in our house. My main issue was the food nonsense. My sister got endless complaints about "dressing trampy". My dad had problems with her spending too much money and my mother covering her bills and/or mortgage. My dad was one of a very small number of...

There could have been some RR in him, his coloring kind of fit, and he had a very thick stripe of fur going down his back, but his mom was a Pit Bull, and we have no idea what dad was. Mom, him, and his sister were dumped at the vet's office and mom looked like a tan and white Pit, sis was an...

My dad loved liver, to the point he would risk getting a Gout attack to eat it a couple of times a year. It was 50/50 if he was going to get it. My mother would nag the hell out of him to not eat it, but he would anyway. I can't stand even the smell of it. It's one of the few meat products the...