Shaken, Not Stirred.

#ShakenNotStirred #MasonCountyPress Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. Cell phones. Oh, you knew I’d get to this one… Symbiosis, according to dictionary.com: [sim-bee-oh-sis]  2. psychiatry. a relationship between two people in which each person is dependent upon and receives reinforcement, whether beneficial or detrimental, from the other. OK, so why did I use the second definition, dealing with psychiatry to illustrate my point? Because cell phones are driving some of us CRAZY! My first episode of insanity and…

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#ShakenNotStirred #MasonCountyPress Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. “Jim, you’re going to kill yourself!” “Yeah, maybe, but I’ll die knowing that I have a Cadillac that gets 99 miles per gallon” The above conversation actually took place, maybe 20 years ago, after I had related an incident to my small children’s mother. I had just purchased one of…

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Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. A few years ago I replaced my beloved supercharged Buick with a brand I’d never had before. It was not an intellectual decision, rather one based on emotion. It has a ‘Hemi’ V8 engine with rumbling twin exhausts, massive chrome wheels and a design reminiscent of…well, I’m not sure what. ”Male Compensation”,…

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Shaken, Not Stirred, a blog by Jim Bond. The postman is meticulous about bunching my mail together; larger items at the back, so there is a tidy stack to slide through the slot in my door. When I retrieve it, it’s splayed all over the floor, mostly face down, making all of his orderly preparation a moot point. Nonetheless, I…

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Shaken, Not Stirred, a blog by Jim Bond. Just arriving at a nice restaurant with my grown children, we’re seated, the server arrives with water as we’re all chattering away, the mundane conversation continues as all of us utter a thank you to the server who responds: “No problem.” The table goes quiet as all eyes go to me to…

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