Swimming

Yup. That’s right. Moved to the wrong part of the country. Can’t even think about swimming in the Mississippi River. People have tried it. Not many have lived to tell about it. The closest decent lake is Sardis and it takes over an hour to get there.

I’m not all that great at it anyway. The neat part is, when I do swim, it’s a real workout. It takes 3 or 4 times the energy for me to go as far as others to travel the same distance.

My younger son had swimming lessons and he makes it look effortless. Now, I ask you. Can a person get any real exercise that way?

The best part about swimming for a workout, it’s usually real cool.

Daily writing prompt
What’s the most fun way to exercise?

Just Use a Drill

Are you tired of pulling on lawn mower chords to start them. I am. I solved my problem by going electric. Most folks don’t like that approach. I don’t know why. Mine works good and requires very little maintenance. For an old man, that’s kind of important.

I knew a man that had a little different approach. He took the cover off top of the mower, which exposed a large nut. When he needed to start the mower, he used a drill, that’s right, an electric hand drill.

I can’t say anything for the safety, but it worked for him. He had the adapter and a socket on the drill and the mower came to life every time for him. As soon as it did, he took the drill away and proceeded mowing.

As I think back over it, it makes me wonder, are we over engineering the self starting mower. Maybe all that is needed is a way to safely use a drill.

It sure would be handy for us 76-year-olds. We kinda get tired of pulling chords on those easy-to-start mowers, which are not so easy to start.

Can Our Society Afford Lawyers

When we first moved into Desoto County, there was a nice pool in Southaven we went to regularly. It closed. The cost of insurance made it prohibitive to remain open.

There was a nice spring that was converted to a lake over near Olive Branch. They even shipped in some nice white sand. For some the spring water was a bit cold, but for us it couldn’t be beat on a hot summer day. It closed. The cost of insurance was to high.

I guess after a while they will need to close the lakes and streams. Those insurance bills, you know. Then too, there are those pools they have at hotels for their guests. They have to pay insurance companies too.

I have singled out but a small segment of a very wide industry. Trucking companies, railroads, airlines all must carry insurance. Retailers, doctors and even private motorists must carry insurance.

Every time someone makes a claim it cost the insurance company. When the claims become too high or to frequent, the insurance company must raise the rates, cancel customers or go out of business.

I hear ads every day, effectively saying, let’s go after the insurance companies. They have endless supplies of money. If that attitude continues, insurance companies will go bankrupt and businesses will have to shut down. Then, of course, we will have to give up driving. We won’t be able to buy insurance at any price.

Besides, auto manufacturers will go out of business. They won’t be able operate their factories, or ship their cars if they could build them.

The grocery stores would have to close down and the druggists will have to lock everything up. Retailers cannot operate without insurance. The first big lawsuit would take ever penny from them.

It does beg the question, can our nation afford the money hungry lawyers? Or maybe I should ask the question, how long can we afford them before our society collapses?

Useless Information

I don’t even remember what I was watching but I heard a word I hadn’t heard in ages, nixie tubes. When I was in junior high and high school, it was a common term to me. Now, a person would have to search high and low to find a person who knows the word, let alone what it is.

Of course, I knew the word and I actually know, conceptually, how they work. However, they were all but well on the way to being replaced by the LED by 1980. Yet, had we not had Nixie tubes in the 50s and 60s, it would have made the computer revolution much more difficult.

I’m not going to tell you about it. It is useless information today. Yet, here I am, carrying this useless info around in my memory for no reason whatsoever. It isn’t lingering there by itself. You might find this odd, but I can build circuits using vacuum tubes, though it will do me no good. Easier, faster, cheaper and better circuits can be purchased.

So, here I am, wondering around with all this wonderful useless information in my mind taking up precious space.

It makes me wonder, would I be better off if I could rid my mind of the useless information and push more current more useful info into it. Guess that’s not up to me. Here I am, carrying around all this useless info. Then, when I want to use a very useful word, I search my mind without success, and I stand there at the counter, looking like an idiot, trying to order mashed potatoes.

Worse, when I want a tuna sandwich, I say turkey, and visa-versa. I will say one person’s name when I mean the other and know it immediately.

If you see the wrong word now and then in one of my posts, it’s likely not because I don’t know better. Sometimes, it just is my mind gets cross wired. If you think I’m bad when I write, it is far worse when I speak.

Just Words

The dems call it hush money. In the beginning Republicans fought the improper terminology but had very little luck. Today, on Fox News Sunday, they called it hush money.

Wrong though it might be, the deception is about 80 to 90 percent, which proves Lincoln was right. You can fool some of the people all of the time. I am sure that Shannon Bream knows it’s not hush money. She is a smart woman. I am sure she knows the difference between hush money and a Non-disclosure agreement, a legal term involving a legal and binding contract.

Now, it brings to mind, just why did she say, “hush money?” Most professionals call the agreements NDAs. It’s short for Non-disclosure Agreements.

I’m not a fan of people who twist words to deceive countless millions. It is disobedience of the Commandment in whole sale. It is done in greed of power.

Bream should know better. she was a lawyer. She might have even arranged NDAs.

So why did she use hush money. Was it because she was told to. Maybe, in her heart, she considers it hush money. I don’t know and likely never will. Regardless, she just told me, and everyone, she is not above aiding the real criminals. Moreover, she has made it clear that she just might be voting Democrat this November.

It is just another reason I am losing faith in Fox News, as well as Bream.

I know they are just words. However, misused words, abused words can help the cause of wrong and hurt the cause of the right.

Why Is There Air?

When I was a boy and people still knew how write humor, I saw a movie in which a college woman was going around the house asking why is there air, apparently something she picked up in college.

Her younger brother had the right idea. He said everyone knows what air is for, filling footballs and basketballs.

Okay, maybe he didn’t have it quite right but he was maybe a little more practical. Obviously, the Lord provided air for us, the animals and plants. Filling balls and incidentally tires seems a side benefit.

The characteristics of air is really very critical. Now, I am wondering just how that came about by accident, like the big bang theory would suggest.

When God created the earth He knew what He was doing. He made it before plants and animals, and man. Moreover, He made it with just the right mix of gases and the atmosphere had just the right thickness, just enough to provide the right air pressure for us.

We, as humans, survive on planet earth primarily because there is air. It also works out well that we can use it for planes too. Isn’t that nice. I guess that does sort of explain why there’s air.

FEAR in the Ranks

Joy Behar said with all the authority she could muster, “There’s already one clown in the race. Do we need two of them.” In essence, she was calling RFK, Jr. a clown.

Seems to me, he was a dem in good standing a few weeks ago. Oh. let’s look at the rest of the quote. It seems she, as well as many other dems are afraid of RFK is handing the election to President Trump.

Now let’s see. Just what might the dems do now?

  1. bring the entire dem machine down on him, this without ruining JFK’s image.
  2. Offer stacks of cash. Don’t think that will work. They are already rich. It is difficult to bribe the rich.
  3. Have someone in the party talk to him. You know the “You don’t really want to do that…” speach. “People that do that sort of thing do disappear, you know.”

I don’t know, but we might want to keep a close eye on him. He just might end up on a park bench with a gun in his hand and a hole in his head. No, no. Of course that sort of thing would never happen, as long as we watch over him close.

Math Hurts!

I used to do complex math problems problems using a slide rule. Not only that, I could do them quickly.

The other day, I wanted to do a very simple problem in my head. It was something of a wishful problem. I was trying to figure what a hundred acres would cost at a thousand dollars an acre.

I suddenly got a mental block and couldn’t figure it. Worse, as I tried to force it, it began to make my head hurt. I said to myself, “Self, you can do it. you don’t need a calculator. You don’t need a computer. It is simple.”

Finally, I gave up. I was getting a head ache. It did sort of give me a little understanding for Old Joe when he said he cut the national debt in half. You must not be so judgemental, you see. When you get past 75, doing math does begin to hurt the brain, especially that complex national debt math.

By the way, I did finally figure out the problem I was working on. Now all I need is someone willing to sell 1000 acres at a hundred dollars an acre. Or wait. I think that was the other way around. Actually, it does not matter one iota. I can’t afford the taxes anyway. Old Joe and his friends will see to it.

Women Will Talk, and Talk, and Talk

I am somewhat of an expert. It really isn’t new, nor was it ever. You have a large room full of men and women and another couple enters and the tongues start wagging. The more attractive the couple, the faster the tongues wag. This is especially true when the woman is especially attractive and wearing especially nice clothes.

It is prompted by jealousy, you know, because of the long blonde flowing hair and the perfect figure. The more perfect the figure, the greater the jealousy. Then of course, the more the tongues wag and the faster they wag, the greater the jealousy. In truth, they would all prefer to be the target of the discourse.

Why do I know this? Because I keep my mouth closed and observe. If others observed as much as me, they would be experts too.

Now! Why in the world did I decide to write on something that everyone knows? Well, it seems the last few days, people, especially those on TV and radio, have been talking…about a well known couple. It has filled the news. 1 out of 5 minutes of the news is about a famous couple, him a football player, her a singer.

I will settle it all in but a few words. It’s just a heap of green demons rising their ugly heads and we’d all be better off ignoring it all. And by the way, I am the self proclaimed expert on the subject.