“I think....therefore I don't have much in common with a lot of people...”
Hope you all had a dry 4th. It was pretty nice here. Our gynormous fireworks had an issue which prolonged them. The show was halted by some blown firing component but the workers got them going again. Unfortunately, a minute and a half after they started, two jerks jumped a barricade in the firing zone. The fireworks were halted once again until they could be arrested and transported. It is yet to be determined if they were stupid or idiots. They most assuredly were jerks.
On another note, our neighbors behind us decided to go somewhere over the weekend. That left the college age son to PARTY. And party they did starting Thursday by periodically firing these enormous boomers. They were somewhere north of M80's. They fired them in the air and when they detonated, the walls of the house shook. One of our other neighbors secured a promise from them to not do those anymore. The boys promise wasn't worth much since they started exploding them again about 2 hours later. They started them up again Friday night. My PTSD could not handle it any longer. The sound was too close and sounded too much like mortars for my liking. My current wife, armed with her best “Kissinger” impression negotiated a satisfactory peace agreement. All was calm thereafter. Whew!
I looked up the weather forecast for tonight. You will be pleased to learn that the forecast for tonight is DARK. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. Now back to your regular programming. This reminds me of the poor weather people. Our stations have a policy of continuous coverage if a tornado warning is in the viewing area. They have taken a lot of flak I think because the other night every other sentence contained some sort of apology for the policy. You could tell they couldn't get off the air fast enough.
I went to the VA Hospital in Iowa City today for an appointment. I just needed to get my new hearing aids adjusted a bit. I was waiting for my name to be called in the waiting room when I was struck by an itch on the side of my leg. No biggie, I scratched it but that led me to speculate as to just what causes an itch. Obviously, a bug bite, pimple, and old wound can cause itching. But I am talking about these random itches that crop up in an instant and then go away. I have no idea to the cause but will do some research. Once I completed that subject, I asked myself, “What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread? The fork? Fire? The Wheel? Maybe there wasn't anything before sliced bread. At that moment my name was called and was snapped back to reality.
Well I got the hearing aid taken care of. Next, I went up to the 8th floor – the GI Clinic. I had an appointment with them on Thursday which needed to be rescheduled. I noted when getting off the elevator that this floor was not as bright and peppy as others. I turned the corner to the clinic's receptionist area. It struck me as very dimly lit – very dreary. My mind interpreted the aura of this clinic to be in keeping with its specialty. Not too certain if I really want to return but I guess I will have too.
A great man once observed that “One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired”. I have added this to my list of excuses that I use. “What's that? What made this man so great?” “Well, he came up with that excuse. Makes him pretty great in my book.
A dog friend of mine told me that “Meow” means “woof” in cat. Thanks a lot for that. I was wondering.
I have an idea to toss out to you. I am getting swamped with mail from people running for an elected office of one kind or another. Day after day this stuff floods in. I don't need 500 pieces of mail from one candidate. How about if a bio is written for each candidate and sent out once. Isn't that all we need? Just the facts. No spin, no bias. We are adults after all, at least we are grown up. It would be so much better.
Remember that great man I cited above? I think he or his brother stated “I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.” I then countered with “I feel I can't, ergo, I can't I feel”. So what does this have to do the annual running of the bulls in Spain? Absolutely nothing, I just needed some filler.
For those who thought they knew everything, here's a refresher course. Yes, this is mostly for my information.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. (So, watch your Ass).
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, no one knows why.
Turtles can breathe through their butts. (I know some people like that, don't you?)
Now on a more serious vein, daughter Debby, the younger elder, will be entering the University Of Iowa Hospital on Thursday this week for an operation. It has been determined that some vision problems in her left eye are being caused by a tumor between the eye and on her brain. It is expected she will be hospitalized between 4 and 7 days. After which she will be recuperating at home. Surgery will not remove all of it so when cleared by her surgeons, she will begin radiation to remove the remainder of the tumor. Although a serious operation, the prognosis of a successful outcome is very positive. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service. – TA!
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