Sunday News

 

The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 14

Man Returns Cabinet Drawer To Working Order

Joe McDonnell, 79 and a resident of Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently fixed a kitchen cabinet drawer that had been sagging. "I'm presuming the drawer and cabinet had once been in someone's kitchen, but they have been in our garage since we bought our place 52 years ago. The cabinet is great for storing stuff in the garage, but a year ago one of the drawers half-collapsed and was hard to open and would not close fully. On inspection I discovered one of the rails on the side of the drawer had come off. I drilled holes through the rail and the side of the drawer and fastened them together with rivets. Riveting is simple and easy but it has a satisfying high tech feel for me." McDonnell notes that had the drawer been in a cabinet in their kitchen, he would have fixed it promptly. "Storage space is at a premium in our kitchen," he says.

Man Finds Fine Dining Away From Home

Joe McDonnell, 79 and a reviewer on Yelp, recently found an excellent restaurant in an unlikely location. "We had gone to an afternoon concert in a city two hours from home," McDonnell tells reporters, "and we wanted to have a nice dinner afterwards. The concert was on the side of the city closest to our home and while researching restaurants I discovered we'd have to drive away from home and deeper into the city to find a good place to eat. My wife suggested I look for a restaurant in the mid-sized city that's half way between the big city and home. The only place that fit the bill in the smaller city was called Forum & Bistro. I set the GPS, but when we arrived at our destination there was no Forum & Bisto - Just houses on one side and a big hockey arena on the other. I used a different GPS which sent us around the arena. Finally my wife noticed the words Forum & Bistro on the side of the arena." McDonnell takes responsibility for the confusion. "If I had read the reviews, surely one of them would have mentioned that the restaurant was uniquely located  in a hockey arena," he says.

Squib Cellar

Elegance is doing a deep dive without getting in over your head. 

I hit the space bar and predictive text lobs back the next word. It’s like playing tennis, though sometimes I get the racket thrown at me.

People riding e-bikes can’t be losing much weight, but at least they’re out in the fresh air and not sitting at home eating ice cream. 

The new Isaiah Project: Put a faux sun into the night sky to drive away the dark. 

And bulldoze the mountains to let the ocean mists water the desert. 

We can't afford a private doctor, but we can afford a trainer able to tell us when we should see a doctor.

We try to see ourselves reflected in others while the only true reflection available is in ourselves 

In old age it’s too late to fill or repair the fault lines in our personality. 

But it’s never too late to build a bridge across them. 

Some people struggling with alcohol take up smoking as a substitute, which is no better for their health. On the positive side, smokers are not notorious for killing people with their cars.