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  1. Paisley

    Essentials for the kitchen

    I learned about kitchen triangles when I studied drafting in high school. Now it's "work areas," probably because modern kitchens look like they have a 30' triangle. Anyone who thinks a large kitchen is a necessity should look at the galley on a luxury train--I wrote about the subject a few...
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    What Happened....

    Both the hair and the makeup in Dr. Zhivago were straight out of the sixties. Same on the TV show The Untouchables.
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    What Happened....

    There's a Van Buren Street in Colorado Springs. I wonder if it was named in their honor.
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    What Happened....

    Re: Rusty Brace (charity embezzler), the audit committee of the charity should have known something was up, too. The 2015 audit was done by what looks like a one-person CPA firm; a charity with over $1,000,000 in revenue and over $2,000,000 in assets should be audited by at least a mid-sized CPA...
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    What Happened....

    I wonder if his lifestyle was what tipped off the authorities. He should have pulled a Charlie Munger* or Gus Fring**, who drove a dented yellow Pontiac and an eleven-year-old Volvo, respectively. (Or, better yet, he shouldn't have stolen money.) *By all accounts, Munger has always been an...
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    What Happened....

    I wonder if the first women who got their hair bobbed or wore trousers felt the same way about the masses who later followed the style. It depends on whether they adopted those styles for comfort and convenience or as a political manifesto.
  8. Paisley

    What Happened....

    I worked with a manager at an engineering firm who'd go to Sturgis, and another who dressed like a biker at work. Now that kindergarten teachers have tattoos, CEOs ride Harleys, moms dress up like strippers for Halloween and ACDC's music is well-recognized, none of this is shocking or even edgy...
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    What Happened....

    They didn't hire people with prominent tattoos or odd piercings at the CPA firm where I worked in Denver. There was a girl who came in to interview to be a receptionist, and they told her she couldn't wear her nose ring. She came in for a second interview wearing it, and they told her to go home.
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    What Happened....

    She went into truck driving.
  11. Paisley

    What Happened....

    Even after my sister left, she kept wearing jeans, black t-shirts, sheathed hunting knife, a chain belt and either a denim vest (for spring) or a black leather jacket (for fall) *everywhere.* It didn't matter how wildly inappropriate it was for the time and place. You couldn't take her anyplace...
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    What Happened....

    I worked at Raytheon in the late 90s and the CEO was photographed in a leather jacket in front of his Harley. It just seemed unmanagerial to me. Maybe it's because I had a sister in the Hell's Angels. A picture of him in his office wearing a suit would have inspired more confidence.
  14. Paisley

    What Happened....

    On the subject of pants, the supervisors on the factory floor where I work will zip-tie your belt loops if your pants won't stay up.
  15. Paisley

    What Happened....

    My father said he broke in his jeans riding horseback. He always got a weekly haircut. To him, long hair (that is, not closely trimmed) was a symbol of poverty.
  16. Paisley

    What Happened....

    Almost everyone, adults included, wore jeans or a suit/dress when I was a kid. My dad (b. 1930) wore jeans his whole life; so have I. If we're talking about jeans that are in good condition and fit well, and being worn to casual places, I've never understood people adopting a snooty attitude...
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    Indianapolis: A Vintagey Place to Live

    Life's no fun without a good scare. Kidding aside, I was selling in a hot market (Denver) and moving to an undervalued one, and had a lot of cash and good credit. I also had a good resume as an admin and I was willing to temp doing about anything; with a 5% unemployment rate here, I was sure...
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    Indianapolis: A Vintagey Place to Live

    Chef Dan in Irvington makes some mean meatloaf and catfish and other food of Louisiana and Mississippi. We have a pretty mean cook in the lunchroom where I work, too. He said we were having roadkill for dinner. Gotta save money.
  20. Paisley

    What Happened....

    My brother was in marble and granite installation and restoration; he worked on the Denver Mint, the D&F Tower, East High School, Tom Shane's house, and many other places. My brother had laminate countertops at his own house. Good enough for me, too.
  21. Paisley

    Indianapolis: A Vintagey Place to Live

    Thanks, FF! Yes, that was one of the most stressful things I ever went through: my job being up in the air (I didn't know whether my employer would keep me on in the Indy office), plus buying a house from a thousand miles away before selling the old one. Doing research on the front end of that...
  22. Paisley

    What Happened....

    I totally agree with your definition of luxury. It's like being rich: your money works for you, not the other way around. A fancy car or kitchen shows good taste (maybe); a look-at-me washer and dryer with matching pedestals is taste run amok. Eat-in kitchens and breakfast nooks were popular...
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    Indianapolis: A Vintagey Place to Live

    It took a few months, but I just got a job offer that matches what I was making at my old firm, with half the commuting time.

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