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Stating the Oblivious

By Jimmy Johnson


It’s been a fun week. Thank you. I’m sitting here musing about “social media” and this unprecedented age of interaction and how it relates to me and my work. (OK! I have a self-centered side!) I’m thinking of how different the environment is from when I began, and how it isn’t. But it’s Friday, and I don’t want to get into all that now. Maybe next week. Maybe not. I’ll try to put up a quick post over the weekend, but I intend to relax a bit. I highly recommend it, if you can.

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52 responses to “Stating the Oblivious”

  1. TruckerRon Avatar

    I think Janis knows perfectly well, more than Arlo, what’s going on in his head. The final smile gives it away.

  2. Steve from Royal Oak Mi Avatar

    Hey my wife and I resemble those remarks!

  3. Blinky the Wonder Wombat Avatar
    Blinky the Wonder Wombat

    The wife always asks: “Do love me because I’m beautiful or am I beautiful becsuse you love me?”
    I slwaus answer “Yes “.

  4. emb Avatar
    emb

    Don’t recall Elaine asking that, but ‘yes’. TIP blogspot is better than most.

    http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/

    Peace,

  5. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Nowadays Ghost does nothing to impede my dressing. It is hard to get me out of house and to Tulsa on time.

    I bet he never thought he’d hear himself say “Baby, put your clothes on! Get out of bed!”

  6. Symply Fargone Avatar
    Symply Fargone

    JJ’s Symply peekin’ through our windows again! Glad we can help with the strip; jk, I know life does that!

    A note on the car thing from a few days ago…I must be one of the only people in the world who hates buying a new car. Just do not want to deal with all the BS that comes with it….I know what I want exactly, I know what I should be paying, got a deal for $5k less and a good trade in and I just am putting it off and putting it off…..Oh well, some Fargone things need to be dealt with…

    Saw a post on the other day on which cars have you owned, bigger list than I thought!

    Peugeot
    Renault
    Dodge
    Chevy
    Chrysler
    Plymouth
    Ford
    Subaru
    Audi
    Infiniti

    Symply add up over the years!

  7. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Thank you to all the veterans for the time you gave to a larger cause.

    Loon notes. Stitches are now out. Physical therapy is progressing. She is still adapting to the antibiotic cocktail.

    House note. Windows are being replaced as I text.

  8. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Car list:
    Ford
    Chevrolet
    Plymouth
    Toyota
    Acura
    Honda
    Lamborghini

  9. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Where do Lamborghini fall in progression? Is it last or current car? Or first?

    Ok, I lost a post somehow, what surgery for Loon? I remember arm I think but is it related to the tuberculosis?

    Did they find t.b. during surgical treatment and tests? I bet she is more than antsy being convalescent.

  10. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Jackie,
    Surgery was tendon release on right ring finger. The tumor, which was diagnosed as tuburculian was encasing aforementioned tendon.

    Lamborghini was a gift for services rendered. 😉

  11. Symply Fargone Avatar
    Symply Fargone

    @sandcastler™,

    Some Fargone service rendered my friend….can you see the green in my post…have Symply dreamed of them since the early 60s. Was on the Champs Elysee once at their showroom and they gave me a tshirt, I was around 8, think I wore it as a midi shirt in the late 70s early 80s before it gave up the ghost(apologies to those capitalized for any confusion).

  12. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    I am impressed. I am hard to impress.

  13. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    Renault
    Nissan
    Ford
    Toyota
    Mitsubishi
    Honda

    The Ford was an experience I don’t want to repeat. The Mitsubishi burned up a starter a year, almost always away from home.

  14. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    Whoops, and a Volvo and Dodge Caravan in between the Toyota and Mitsubishi.

  15. JACKQULINE MONIES Avatar
    JACKQULINE MONIES

    Sand, I have two “trigger fingers”, one on each ring finger.

    Acquired during delivery of #2 daughter on left and #1 daughter on right from gripping steel rails during labor.

    Have declined tendon surgery for over forty years for good reason.

    Encapsulated tuberculosis tumor was what they thought my late husband had, not cancer that was final diagnosis.

    Sending Loon much positive strength and true grit. She is a woman and we are strong.

  16. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    Jackie, Rib Crib is having a Veterans Day special tomorrow.

    Rib Crib, Nov. 11, 2017. Free meal from Menu of Honor, which includes choice of two meats and two sides, and your choice of a non-alcoholic beverage.
    https://www.ribcrib.com/menu-of-honor/

  17. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    Here’s a long list of places nationwide offering free or reduced meals on Veteran’s Day for veterans.

    https://themilitarywallet.com/veterans-day-free-meals-and-discounts/

  18. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Is it me or has the format of this webpage changed? I’m now seeing both today’s and yesterday’s posts from JJ on the same page.

  19. TruckerRon Avatar

    I don’t know, but I do know that big cats aren’t the king of the forest in Alberta:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=140&v=qDGO1MTJIUE

  20. Dennis Ewing Avatar
    Dennis Ewing

    My list

    Chevy.
    Mercury
    Pontiac
    Oldsmobile
    Toyota
    Opal
    Datsun
    Fiat
    Mazda
    Ford
    Kia

    Many of them have duplicates and the Mazda was really a rebadged Ford Ranger. I am on my second F150 in a row. Sort of amazing how many cars you can own in a lifetime. I figure the Truck and van I own now will probably be the last vehicles I will own. My health is bad enough that I don’t expect to last another 10 years and I got that out of my last truck.

  21. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Mercury, Ford, Chevrolet, Opal, Cadillac, Dodge, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Suburu,
    GMAC, Chrysler.

    No particular order but multiple ownership of Mercury, Ford, Chevrolet, Cadillac.

  22. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Nothing exotic in the way of vehicles, but over the years I have owned one or more autos built by each of the Big Four…Ford, GM, Chrysler, and Toyota.

  23. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Yesterday, following a medical appointment, we had lunch in Tulsa. As I had several times before, I ordered the same thing…an Ahi Poke Bowl. That dish seems to have some mysterious allure for me. I wish I could figure out what it is.

  24. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Something seems to be out of whack with this post.

  25. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    Give it another whack… Maybe that’ll fix it.