Trashy Tuesday 9/3/21013

“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers

GOOD Morning Drivelholics!!

Wow, it's Tuesday already. Did you all have a great weekend? I have mixed emotions about the Labor Day holiday. On the one hand I love 3 day weekends of any kind. On the other hand, Labor Day signifies to me the last hurrah’s of summer and descent into winter. Ugh! We had a gaggle of people here on Sunday. It was “Blood is Thicker Than Water” Fantasy Football Draft Day. We had people all the way from Denver, North Liberty and Northeast Cedar Rapids right here on Hysteria Lane. What a time.

Doctor Football was here with his usual photographic memory of everything football. Sven is no slouch at football stats and trivia either. It was awesome to listen to the banter between them. My feeling that I should be in a Fantasy tidly winks league was continually reinforced by these guys. An exclamation point on that feeling was when I attempted to draft a wide receiver that was on injured reserve. The room erupted and I quickly changed my pick. A really low moment. It was set up pretty neat actually. I was stationed at the grill to grill burgers into hockey pucks. That didn't take very long actually. Sven and Jenny, the elder, connected a laptop to our big screen TV. Our picks were entered in real time which was pretty darn cool. The philosopher from Denver was continually on the phone with his “buddy” during the draft. It became very annoying plus we all felt he was getting an advantage so we confiscated the phone. After 17 rounds it was over and nobody left feeling satisfied so it must have been a good draft. All I heard was a lot of moaning. Let's play ball.

Speaking of Hysteria Lane, the Hotties book club which usually meets on Wednesday afternoons is being forced to alter their schedule. The afternoon club will become and evening club. It seems that H, the educator, is working a few months for a teacher on maternity leave. Hence, she isn't available during the day. I, personally am a little worried about letting the Hotties loose at night. They may forget about the book and break open a nice red wine and gossip. H, the educator has another trip planned but I forgot to where. Probably someplace I don't want to be. 
 
Are you like me? Do you find it amazing that you can do brilliant things and make exceptional decisions at one moment and then do or say the stupidest things the next moment? Happens to me all the time. For instance, like most of you we have had the AC going non-stop for quite a while. I eventually developed a sore throat and stuffy head. I was coughing my head off. Night before last, I went to bed, cough and hacking. I did this all night until about 4:00 am. Now this was the first night we turned the AC off; all the windows were wide open. At 4:00 am I finally got up and said to myself, let's see if I have some cough syrup. I didn't realize that I had kept the neighborhood awake for 6 hours with my hacking, including the current wife. Just how stupid is that? Well, I found some Dayquil and NyQuil liquid. Being nearly morning, I figure the Dayquil was the best choice. Wrong – I couldn't get the lid off. Most likely because the expiration date was Feb. 2012. I tossed it. The NyQuil was the same and I tossed it also. I did find some NyQuil tablets and took 2. That did help the hacking and sore throat despite the expiration date being July 2012. Slept like a baby. When I got up and realized the error of my ways, I felt awful, so I went back to bed. Why it didn't occur to me to take something much earlier in the sleep cycle I will never know.

It has been very dry here. We had.. .11 of an inch of rain for August. We should have had over 4 inches. Like a lot of the neighbors, we have been watering the yard. When we are watering the front and back we have little left over water pressure. I just washed my hands in a trickle of water. Why is that? It didn't use to be that way. Years ago we had pressure to spare. You stand in the shower and it takes a minute or two to get wet. 
 
I was visiting my daughter, Jenny the elder, last night. I asked her if I could borrow a newspaper. Dad, "This is the 21st century," she said. "We don't waste money on newspapers. Here, use my  iPad ." I can tell you this. That fly never knew what hit him. Will probably have to buy her a new iPad.

Our friend Carol shared this witty ditty with us the other day. It is about some folks in a senior citizens home. Here goes:
The Hypnotist at a Senior Home
It was entertainment night at the senior citizens' center. After the community sing along led by Alice at the piano, it was time for the star of the show- Claude the Hypnotist! Claude explained that he was going to put the whole audience into a trance. "Yes, each and every one of you and all at the same time." said Claude. The excited chatter dropped to silence as Claude carefully withdrew from his waistcoat pocket; a beautiful antique gold pocket watch and chain. "I want you to keep your eyes on this watch" said Claude, holding the watch high for all to see. "It is a very special and valuable watch that has been in my family for six generations" said Claude. He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting "Watch the watch --- Watch the watch ----Watch the watch" The audience became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth. The lights were twinkling as they were reflected from its gleaming surfaces. A hundred and fifty pairs of eyes followed the movements of the gently swaying watch. They were hypnotized. And then, suddenly, the chain broke!!! The beautiful watch fell to the stage and burst apart on impact". "SHIT" said Claude.
It took them three days to clean the Senior Citizens ' Center and Claude was never invited there again. Sorry Claude.

My friend Carl Hoffman in Texas is a devout 60's type as I am. What he doesn't know about the 60's is not worth knowing anyway. Carl maintains a website devoted to 60's music, He has a newsletter you can subscribe to also. Here is his link.  http://www.the60sofficialsite.com/Newsletter_2013-XXXV.html
Check him out. Very cool sight for reflection on the 60's.

My current wife has an appointment so I must wrap this up before she leaves. Until we meet again, keep your head up and keep the '60's alive. TA!