It's expensive to throw stuff away.

Today we disposed of a mattress, a box spring, a futon mattress and a small dormitory style refrigerator. It cost me almost as much to get rid of the items as it did to buy them.

Seems a bit excessive to me.

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No flying today, just housekeeping.

I've taken to cleaning the house and while I'm not really good at it, I do manage to make a dent in the mess, which seems to make my wife happy.

It's always a good idea to make your wife happy.

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My brother seems to be doing quite nicely after his recent heart surgery. His recovery is going along well and he says the pain seems to be gone.

The down side is that he isn't allowed to drive until late July.

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The Red Sox are not doing all that great lately and everyone keeps blaming it on the pitchers. I gotta be honest with you, it's not the pitchers fault, it's the batters fault.

No one wins baseball games without stepping on home plate, plain and simple.

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Here are today's links:

• Key phrase in this story: "...had been drinking heavily and had been on medication at the time."



• Key phrase in this story: "...began to run toward the woods with a large beer can in his hands."



• His prison name will be "Chihuahua Boy".



• Speaking of chihuahuas, the key entry in our favorite police log is: "5:29 p.m. A woman claimed that her ex-husband dropped three chihuahuas in her yard and, at the time of the call, they were out of the yard and at large in the neighborhood. Of the three, the one with the longest snout is reported to be the meanest."



• Only in Florida.



• Only in New York. (Caution, autoplay)