I speak from experience. I know. Just don’t try it. Even if you know the secrets of driving on ice, others don’t and if you must drive, you will likely meet one of them.

The wife and I stepped out a little to eat and get a few groceries. Did I mention it was already cold and, according to the weatherman, the cold has not really arrived yet.

Just don’t like cold. In a way, it’s odd, cold is not a form of energy. It is rather the lack of heat.

So that’s the problem. It is not the cold moving into the Midsouth, but the fact that so much heat will be leaving.

Somehow, that don’t help the chills in my old bones.

A while ago, there was a writing prompt about long life. I was flippant. I said it sounds like a good idea to me.

I thought it over. Those children who are aborted, killed, don’t live long. It has made me wonder, “Does anybody care?”

For those who don’t understand, that means she hates Jews. That means when others try to remove all jews from the earth, they would like to assist those doing the killing. Mitchell and others like her will answer, not from me. God doesn’t need any help from me.

I can’t remember for sure, but it seems to me that we have had no general officers since Vietnam who had more than 4 stars. On the other hand, the Memphis chief of police has 5. How does she rate? Sounds like an ego trip to me.

The weatherman says he’s not sure that it will snow but he said it will be cold. I wonder jf he realizes that is no way to make friends and influence enemies.

Well, one good thing. My almost new electric car has electric seats and steering wheel.

Sometimes, I repeat myself. Sometimes, I consider it important. When asked why I joined the Marines, I frequently say, because when I share a foxhole, I want that other guy to be the best trained man possible. That means he needs to be a marine. Army, Navy, Air Force won’t do. I want that man to know how to use a rifle. It just might help my chances of survival.

To take it a few steps further, it won’t help me if he is Black, Purple, Red or Blue. My only concern is, is he able and willing to fire his weapon when the enemy starts trying to overrun our position.

All the rules of equality, as far as I am concerned mean nothing to me when that other man’s skill with an M16 just might keep me alive.

When talking foxholes, it’s easy to remember the importance of excellence. However, it does become easy to overlook excellence when building houses, cars, or planes. I mean, when you are at 35 thousand feet, just how important is that mechanics abilities with that plane you’re comfortably traveling at 400 mph. Does equality really matter so much when your plane starts falling apart?

Excllence suddenly gets important when that pilot needs to land that plane in a storm at 150 mph. Most anyone can land that thing in good weather when everything on the plane is working right.