TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
So, ZEN in the dental chair...Novel concept Bro.
ON this date in 1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog.
The firm later became Montgomery Ward.
Bun, Purple and I would wile away the hours paging thru the catalog in our youth.
Finally, me mum took it away when the women's bra and panties pages got more tattered than the rest of the book--WHO FIGURED?
(Secretly, the Boyz and I always wondered why panties had the days of the week on 'em)
ALTERING
Ken-Dogger: Morning Fabio, what you got there?
Fabio: Uh…A Box…I’m playin’ in it.
KD: Oh, but I mean, what came in it?
F: Not sure, it said LT-Meter on the side…
KD: Oh, that’s my new Lie-Truth Meter, I was looking for that.
F: Cool, so you can tell what is true and what is a lie?
KD: Naw, sold exclusively in America, the meter doesn’t sort anything, half believe it’s a lie, half believe it’s the truth, it’s altering the toy world.
F: And it’s altering the real world too.
ON THIS DATE IN 2021
Quote: “It was a nice break from everything.”
Livae Nanjikana was feeling refreshed after he and another man from the Solomon Islands spent 29 days lost at sea.
You know the world’s going through a rough patch when being stranded by a storm off the coast of Papua New Guinea sounds like a yoga retreat in Joshua Tree.
There ARE times when Corporations get it right...
From the Annals of the Hall of Fame of Great Firing Parting Shots...
It's best to lay blame on the Feds to assuage voters from thinking Staties are responsible.
ON this date in 1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA.
The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple grabbed their gear and headed home to DE after fighting for 4 long years.
When Bun got home, he said "I am the Boss of my Home!" Mrs. Bun quickly retorted "When I'm not here and the Dog's asleep you are..."
Bun spent a lot of days at the Veterans Home after that.
Morning Peeps,
Gonna change things up a bit this morning, going to do a bike ride today.
Since I played golf Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, it is a well-deserved break.
Then some coffee and fika at Beans & Brew with the Mikster.
The only difference between men and boys is the size of their sandbox.
Gotta run peeps, got a teetime this AM...
Doing MY part to kick up dust in the West
Peace Love Dove GOLF Peeps
It's just like doing a housing reassessment for tax purposes
EVERYBODY KICKS THE CAN UNTIL YOU CAN'T
SPOOKTOBER QUIZ
(It ain't all about storms and hurricanes this month)
Halloween candy trivia
Here’s a sweet treat for today’s trivia question: Can you name the 10 most popular Halloween candies this year, according to candystore.com sales?
No extra points for the correct order—just see how many of the 10 candy brands you can identify.
Trump would add more to the national debt than Harris, study finds. Crunching the numbers for both candidates’ policy proposals, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that they’d increase the national debt—but that Donald Trump’s plans would balloon the deficit twice as much as Kamala Harris’s.
S: Morning Brew
Zoom out: Prospective buyers are getting priced out. Home and flood insurance rates in Florida have skyrocketed as much as 400% over the past five years, and those premiums will likely only get worse after this year’s hurricane season. Disaster models are projecting an average of $35 billion in damages from Hurricane Milton, according to Enki Research.—ML
Zoom in: One homeowner told the Wall Street Journal he’s been trying to sell his ~$580,000 suburban Tampa house for eight months, but he hasn’t even received open house visitors.
STORMS BRING COMPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
The housing market is hurting
Milton and Helene are compounding another problem: People aren’t migrating to Florida like they used to.
With Tampa’s housing supply up 58% and demand down 10% in August, half of the area’s for-sale listings had gotten price cuts as of a month ago, according to the analytics firm Parcl Labs.
S: Morning Brew
ON this date in 2001 - Rush Limbaugh, the consummate asshole, announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear.
The condition had happened in a three-month period.
Bun Man just turned to me and said "What's the problem, he never used his ears for listening anyway..."
Amen, little buddy, Amen...
On the debates, the campaign and life...
Theater is Theater...
We live our lives now to receive faves and likes, not to solve anything.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017