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Breaking News: Hands-Free Driving Law in Iowa!
Sena saw a news headline about the new hands-free driving law in Iowa that’s going to be enforced in 2026 (passed in July of this year). Guilty drivers are going to get socked with a $100 fine if they’re caught messing with their cell phones with their hands off the wheel because they might think…
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Big Mo Pod Show: “Garage Blues”
I heard the Big Mo Blues Show last night and the Big Mo Pod Show today. I can say that the Garage Show title refers to a get together during the Covid pandemic that Big Mo threw and held in his garage and featured local Blues artists including Bryce Janey, who is number 5 on…
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Pennies from Heaven to Coin Rolls
We recently found out that pennies are being take out of circulation. In fact, the last day they stopped minting them was on our 48th wedding Anniversary this month, November 12, 2025! There may be a reason to save the 2025 pennies, according to some folks. We have a piggy bank and I rolled up…
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Big Mo Pod Show: “Tribute”
I’m writing about the Big Mo Pod Show from Big Mo’s blues show that was aired on November 7, 2025. I’m a little late, but it doesn’t matter that much because Big Mo will be recorded tonight (Friday, November 14, 2025). He’ll be at the Beaker Street Live show instead. I think I might have…
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This is World Kindness Day 2025!
Sena saw something on the web about World Kindness Day this morning and alerted me to it right away. World Kindness Day is an international movement which started in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement. It’s observed on November 13th annually. This made me look through my blog posts and I found a short announcement…
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More BoardGameGeek and Even AI Links to Our Chicago Cribbage Game Antics
I just discovered that I owe a big thanks to a guy called EndersGame who has posted both our YouTube videos about Chicago Cribbage on BoardGameGeek. Moreover, AI gives a direct link to my blog about Chicago Zombie Cribbage—which was not a demo about it but a joke about combining Chicago Cribbage and Zombie Cribbage…
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Autumn is the Time to Slow Down
We visited the Terry Trueblood Trail and relaxed. The temperature was in the 60s, just a little on the breezy side. Everything seemed to move slower, except for the lady bugs which tried to keep warm by landing on us everywhere they could. I thought they would get into my rolled up blue jean cuffs,…
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Thoughts on Retirement, MIB Style
Sena alerted me to an article about the 28th anniversary of when the first Men in Black movie hit the theaters in 1997. The author praises it and says it’s still pretty good. I can’t remember the first time I saw it, but it was probably not in 1997. I was in my second year…
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Big Mo Pod Show: “Cheers to Kevin”
I’m a little slow getting to the Big Mo Pod Show after his blues show this last Saturday night. I guess that’s just the way things go. The title of the pod show “Cheers to Kevin” is a shout out to somebody important in Big Mo’s life. It turns out Kevin was really supportive of…
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Big Mo Pod Show: “The Dark Side of Legacy”
This was a fascinating episode of the pod show for more than one reason. The title is interesting if only in the sense that it might a reference to B.B. King—who wasn’t on the playlist either last night or the song selection for today’s podcast. Briefly, what we learned was that B.B. King had a…
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