Pickles by Brian Crane for July 14, 2023

Good call, Earl. Maybe you can talk, Opal into the fifty inch flat screen later. The other two probably not.

Pool sounds like a good hobby for a retired person. One of my aunts was good at pool.

Wait, a ‘new’ boat?! I didn’t know they had an old one!

I went out and bought a very nice LARGE computer monitor several years ago because my eyes were getting bad. I know that’s not the same sort of thing at all, but hear me: I couldn’t use it comfortably: It was TOO big, and I had to hold my head in uncomfortable positions to see the various windows. You might be able to reasonably use a 50" TV because you CAN get far enough away. But some of the larger ones are simply too big to let people enjoy them in a normal room.

She read his mind and changed it!

You’re learning, Earl!

Practically the same thing.

Is Earl finally learning to think before he answers Opal?

Earl is me. I have been working on that grouting job for a few days. Should have taken one. But, then, I have never been one to rush a job.

H-m-m-m-m. Come to think of it, maybe I should wash our cars. Been about a decade since the last time. Yep. I’ll add that to the plan today?

“read my mind”…and found it to be a work of fiction!

This made me laugh today.

Spackle isn’t bad stuff to work with, but if you’re talking grout do yourself a favor and hire a pro before you waste a lot of your own time — and then need to hire the pro to fix both the original problem and your attempts to fix it.

Well played, Earl!

A 50" flat screen TV? Why so small Earl? Mine’s 55" OLED and the only reason why it’s not a 65" is that the cable drop is in the wrong place.

It’s like it … except you see and read what you want to see and read while I’m seeing something else.

Yeeeeeeah………… sure……………

I think Earl is a tad self centered.

Currently using a 55 incher cause, at the time of purchase, a 75 incher would have cost three times as much. I spent most of the savings on beer and liquor. The rest I just wasted.

Or even better steer away of it altogether.

Having just spent the last two weeks cleaning and polishing the hard water spots off the tile in the master bath, etching the floor, resealing the floor, caulking the floor/wall joint and resealing all the grout in the four walls, uuuuhhhh…Thanks, but NO!

They have a boat?!?

Spackle, Grout and Fixit sounds like a law firm…

If you could read my mind, love…

A short story…. abridged.

Wrong again………

Hardly! Now get to work, Earl!

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Nice save, Earl. Happy Wife, Happy Life, eh?

This was a pleasant change of tone ;-

Earl, by now you know what they say about buying and selling a boat. Wise up old boy.

50"? Lame. The TV I play Fortnite on is a 60". 82 in the living room, 75 in the bedroom, waiting on 90 or 100 before any updates.

Love a big screen!

I need a longer lasting battery for my Jetson-Pro e Bike so I can visit my son among other things

There he goes again, smooth talking Earl…

Love baseball and football on the big screen, the colors, the backgrounds of movies (old movies show old LA, NY in the background). But…..the faces can be a problem. Lovely actresses with eyes the size of golf balls. Giant Pores in the skin of news announcers. Action sequences that fill up the screen and are unwatchable except for segments on parts of the screen. Still, overall its nice compared to our 14" screen in 1962.

About two years ago we bought a Samsung 65" 4K tv which is awesome. I replaced our home theater system and it is actually better than the theater. The only problem is that my wife doesn’t like the home theatre set up because it makes her vibrate! ;-p

Same planet, different worlds.