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What is your passion? What interests you? Find something you love and you won't feel like it is work (most of the time). Does the new occupation require training, whether trade or degree? It may take time.

The extra hours are allocated to those who are born after the hour removal. Overall, the government may be underwriting it with more births than deaths.

Same farmer different day... Man in field looking at a bull pawing the ground. The man shouts to the farmer "Is this bull safe?" Farmer yells back "Yes" (pause) "Can't say the same about you, though."

If you give a jump to someone's car, or receive one, here's a useful tip. If the car doesn't start, turn on the headlights. If they don't come on, you don't have a good connection. Adjust the cables and it should work. (Assumes it is indeed the battery...) It was also helpful with a car with...

No collection; just an accumulation. I purchase the ones I like, in the price range I consider reasonable. Some makers have caught my eye more than others. Sometimes, the purchases are made in a weak moment - those pipes aren't favorites, but they get smoked.

That's called 'blowing a kiss'.

Always use a sharp tool. It cuts readily without the force needed for a dull tool. (If the worst still happens, at least the wound should heal better.) Keep all parts of you behind the cutting edge. (Be glad you weren't working in your lap!) Use a jig or jig of some kind to hold the...

Sounds like the same problem Sherlock Holmes had.  Please, do not apply the needle with the 7% solution. May I recommend some chess puzzles?  There are lots of books of those.  Some are short and sweet; others will (as the are designed) twist your brain. I also enjoy cryptic crossword puzzles...

http://site.alamedabees.org/2012/04/19/schmidt-sting-pain-index/ No way in hell I would try that....

And just what is the distinction between curmuring and borborygmos?

I had a professor years ago that said to never send a man named "Lunt" to India. Such a man would not be well received.

{takes a bow}

So why aren't California pipe smokers a protected species? Should be a Proposition 965 or some such.

The brain attic was indeed in the Five Orange Pips, but it was a reminiscence of the passage in A Study in Scarlet.

"I have another set of vices when I am well, but those are the principal ones at present." Watson, when considering sharing rooms with Holmes in A Study in Scarlet.

Dune Ringworld Mote in God's Eye Demolished Man The Stainless Steel Rat books were good, too I am also a fan of Heinlein. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

http://www.uptontea.com/shopcart/information/INFObrewing.asp They have some terrific teas. I also recommend a Chatsford pot. A pot of tea with a pipe is wonderful.

Thanks for the link

"Can you name one cool male clarinet player? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Fountain

"Although I gotta say I'm pretty sure that you are mentally unstable and have multiple personality disorder " You say that like it's a bad thing....