Once upon a time, television viewers would rush to the bathroom or the kitchen during a television commercial, the point being to get back to the boob tube before the entertainment resumed. Ha! Talk about days gone by. Today, it’s possible to build that set of bookshelves you’ve always wanted and still get back for the last of the network promos. All right, all right! Perhaps I exaggerate. It might be necessary to sand and finish your shelves during the next commercial break.
Remember a few weeks ago, I hinted at news from the comic world. I haven’t forgotten. I simply haven’t heard anything yet. I caution you: it’s inside stuff that won’t directly affect you, although it might me. Within a historical context, however, it will be interesting to readers of newspaper comics. I’ll let you know!
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I really like Janis’s LBD, with its short skirt, and her high heels. (3-15-17) She should wear that more often.
So, yes, I’m feeling better. 🙂
Oh, no you say…not another cat loving piano…personally I think he just likes the ‘free ride’ on her arm 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9KPJMpbMI
Yeah, too much free time on my hands….think I’ll go clean something here…..again!!!! Love my Swiffer…..
Glad you’re feeling better, GR 😉
Charlotte, this snowstorm that hit you hard was supposed to dump a lot on my area. Fortunately, I ended up with only about 2″ of light and fluffy to shovel.
I just want to note that Malvina Reynolds wrote “Little Boxes”; she was quite an interesting person. http://www.sisterschoice.com/
A little more about Malvina Reynolds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina_Reynolds
Still 3 eggs. Peace,
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I just had a very boring teleconference call, so I went through the archives of A&J as sometimes this place acts like a diary. Sure enough, it confirmed what I had thought at the time. (Story is too long and boring here).
However I did go through about 2-3 months of posts. Most of the regulars are still here. Some of my posts were (and still are) off the wall. I do enjoy the peacefulness that we have developed here. Let’s keep it up!
Oh yeah the other thing was that Jimmy talked about a revamp of the website. Well I know how these things take a long time, but have you made any progress?
QOTD from the InterWebNet: “Remember when we were young and naive and thought the Internet would make us all smarter?”
People, decades after Congress decided that all vets suffering the side effects of Agent Orange were to have their conditions considered preemptively Service Connected, there are still button counters at the VA dragging their heels. Please sign the petition to have the White House deal with this properly: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/compel-va-give-blue-water-navy-veterans-their-presumptive-agent-orange-rights
@Old Bear,
Interesting way my Fargone home town “drives” isn’t it? Amazing how they cut corners, roll through stops and caution lights, tailgate, communicate and still get where they are going with only one of the worst accident rates in the nation.
@Ghost,
Interesting channel for CCR you found, Symply kind of like it myself.
Worcester is an interesting place; A town that wants to be a city and a city that wishes it were still a town. Conundrum place should be a Square downtown. A HS class mate of mine, now a journalist coined a term in the early 70s for Woos stuh as we call it: “Wormtown” forever trying to get off its’ belly.
SF, I’d heard the nickname “Wormtown” for your fair city; wondered as to its origin.
Signed, Sideburns. My Dad was in the Navy for eight years, an atomic vet, part of Operation Crossroads.
Ditto, Sideburns. I had a friend, an Army Huey pilot in Vietnam, whose death in the 1980s was undoubtedly related to AO exposure. You didn’t have to be a ground pounder to be exposed.
Took the US government almost four decades to acknowledge the harm of residual AO to the Vietnamese people. While cleanup has begun, the damage is long-term. We have visited and assisted at some of the clinics and workshops the Vietnamese government established to help the victims, many were born long after the conflict ended.
I too have a copter pilot friend who is severely disabled due to Agent Orange. He had continued flying copiers until recently when illness forced him to stop. He too had to fight for benefits.
Interesting fortune at PF Chang just now.
“Prepare yourself for a change of events in your personal life.”
That is what I am trying to do to get ready for knee surgery.
Sideburns…signed, will forward on to others too. I’m praying this administration lives up to its promise about our Veterans getting the long overdue help they deserve…..Amen
Jackie, interesting fortune cookies you’ve been getting lately….good luck…. prayers will be with you. Go see Nancy….you sound like you could use a little road trip.
Watching ”Deal or No Deal” here with Dad…..old Howie Mandell….anyone here remember the cartoon named “Bobby’s World”…he was the voice. Right now, I’d take the $71,000 that’s being offered…seen too much greed and they walk away with less than $4,000 like the last one, and she was offered $52,000….but nooooo, she had 4 cases and was wanting that $300,000.
Later…..
Rick is right. And there are those who say “Look out for what h ?”
Thank you, one and all. My diabetes was finally judged to be Agent Orange related about a year ago, probably caused by steaming through dust clouds from B 52 raids in ’72 while I was in Tonkin Gulf. Now, I’m doing what little I can to help others in the same fix get the help they need.
Debbe:
I don’t sleep much, but I was not typing at 3:41 AM. It was actually 5:41 AM.
I’m usually in my office by 6:10 or 6:15.
As for the soothsayer, we should all remember to beware the ides of March.
Strange days have found us, as Jim said fifty years ago.
We could have simply built a wall between North and South Viet Nam. It’s a crime that it took all of that time to approve your claim.
The problem with the VA is it seems to have become a job corps for middle and upper level management, most of whom never served in the military, but have certainly learned how to suck at the public teat in perpetuity.
It could have been worse, Jerry. As my claim had been rejected the first time, when it was finally approved, I received a check for several years of compensation, dating back to when my first claim was rejected, five figures west of the decimal point. I’ve used most of it up on car and home repairs, but at least I had it when I needed it the most.
Don’t worry. I’m sure that the budget ax will take its share. Less service, but hey. There’s a wall to build.