It’s one thing to miss a target you are aiming at by as much as fifty feet and your mission is still considered to be a success; but when you miss by a whole country and bomb yourselves, you must wonder, at some point, about the quality of leadership.
So I suppose I have to lend some credence to the study of bad habits seniors do that do not help their (our) cognitive functions. I do all of them, but you know what?
I am approaching seventy, have endured amputation and twenty-three major surgeries including a massive heart attack requiring eight stents to keep the blood flowing in my body, so EVERY DAY is another gift from God and that is how I treat them.
I do all the listed bad habits, but in my own defense, I also am doing nine out of The Ten Things the Queen Did Daily to Live To 96 Years Old, so I am figuring somewhere in the low eighties, which is only a little over a decade away, so I (my generation) is truly nearing the end of the last sand in the hourglass for us. Our heroes are changing, our contemporaries are slowly, steadily dying off, and we struggle to recognize our country as it stands today.
But we are getting ready to audition a drummer tomorrow to (hopefully) complete the blues-rock band we call Sedona. Once we complete our roster, we will start a new band page and we will start playing out at different venues; there are a lot here in the Miami Valley.
Like War Operational Plan Response (WOPR) in War Games, we are learning. A 55-unit condo building in south Florida did not collapse into a pile of rubble because someone perfunctorily checked the wrong box.
Don’t laugh.
It’s happened before.
Who was the idiot that thought Alabama would be the right place to try and pass a bill to allow such crazy concepts as inclusion, gender identity, and sexual orientation to be taught to the state’s children?
Alabama.
Another reason not to rinse your sinuses out daily with tap water.
Brain-eating amoeba.
I was sorry to hear that Burger King is falling on hard times and are flirting with the idea of bankruptcy. I remember when they first came out, their flame-broiled burgers with just a hint of char kicked McDonalds’ asses all over the place. I liked their recent promotion as they flirted with the Holy Grail of fast food—McDonald’s French fries. But alas and alack, their new fries are no match for freshly fried, hot, and lightly salted McDonald’s fries.
Truth.
A British scientist was beaten, stabbed, and strangled along with her husband before being fed to crocodiles. I was wondering just how fucked up do you have to be to do something like this?
They haven’t been in the news as much lately, and when they are it is usually for all the wrong reasons, but this is on our old friends ISIS.
Stay well.
