Just A Thought

  I never knew anything about coal sizes or the names for those sizes.  I was surprised to learn that some coal sizes share names with grains, legumes, and nuts.  Who knew?   It’s amazing what a person can learn from doing crossword puzzles. 😂

 I never thought that in my lifetime I would see the United States of America fall into such a dark state as this.  I thought the worst parts of American history were in the past and would remain there.  I am compelled to keep up with the news because I need to know what is taking place in the country that I am a citizen of and live in.  We all have to go about life as usual, but there is a lot of terrible shit taking place. 😔 https://youtu.be/P5PjSg7cpWQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/C4rVBkJ5p-Q?feature=shared

 I partially watched a 60 Minutes program on YouTube today.  Part of the program included stories about people from other countries being exploited for their labor by big American businesses.  I believe some of the people interviewed said they were being paid around $2 an hour on top of having unrealistic and stressful expectations placed upon them. The companies actually needing the labor outsourced the recruiting and hiring of the people to other businesses.  In one story, the company needing the labor had budgeted for a salary of between $12 to $13 an hour for the laborers hired.  They of course, were paid far less by the company who handled their actual hiring and labor and payment.  Middle man businesses obviously should have ethical and moral responsibility to the people they recruit and hire, but the original contracting businesses should also have an equal responsibility for ensuring that people hired for them are not mistreated and exploited by the...

 I guess I like to entertain myself.  Ha ha ha ha.  This is my silly idea.  I would like for Lester Holt to appear at the opening of his evening news one night and say, “It is now official.  Our president Donald Trump has gone insane.” Come on Lester.  Why complicate a story.  Mr. Donald Trump is not acting as a responsible or reasonable president and leader of the democracy of the United States of America.  He is acting like a self-absorbed, narcissistic, greedy aspiring dictator who wants to rule America and acquire whatever other parts of the world he would like.  Ok, well thank you my thoughts.  Ha ha ha ha.  He and Mr. Musk need to be removed from the office.  Our country isn’t supposed to be governed under the authority of a dictatorship. The law needs to assert its authority.   Thank you patriot ancestors of the United States of America.  Your spirit and strength is very much needed in America right now.  ...

 The news at this time is unreal.  Is this where our country is really at, at this time?!  We just have to wait and see what will happen when a president and one branch of the government attempts to defy and ignore the authority of another?!   Why did so many Americans fail to see the huge red flags that were broadcast by the actions and behavior of Mr. Trump for so many years?????????????????? Why did they think that electing him as president was a good idea??????????????????

 I don’t know what has come over me in the most recent months.  I normally can’t comprehend how others here in the Rio Grande Valley can be dressed warmly and not feel too hot.  Well lately I have had this, I’m having a chill, thing going on.  Then I feel like I need some warmer clothes or a blanket.  Does this mean that I am turning into some typical old person?  In that case, I think I quite like being old because having a sensation of wanting to get warmer, is quite amazing while living in a subtropical climate.  It’s a seldom occurring thing compared with feeling a desire to be cooler.  Cheers to being old!!  

 Hooray for Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams!!! 🙌 I know that they handled their situation very well because being astronauts is who they are, but I would imagine that today they still must have felt like they died and went to heaven! 🌳🌻💦🌈😄🎉🥂  #backonearth

 Oh, I’m sorry I have neglected you my Justin‘s Honey Peanut Butter.  Perhaps I should have a couple spoons full tonight.  🥜 🧈 🍯 🧁

 Hiding behind curtains.  That thought just popped into my head.  That sounds quite Wizard of Oz.  I think I would prefer a fairytale story of good wizards behind the curtains.  It could be called “The Adventures of Dorothy and the Wizards Behind the Cutains”.  With technicolor technology, of course.  And for anyone who thinks that’s a laughably outdated idea, maybe there is room for a new 21st century edition. 👵🏾 📕 

 Is this Donald Trump?  Ignorance is bliss.  It’s good to be a moron. 

  If anyone asks me, I would say that Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance are just a couple of bullies who in no way deserve their power or authority.  I am by no means a person who understands a great deal about politics and I know I can never know all the details, but it seems to me that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk’s treatment of Ukrainian President Zelensky was a performance by a couple of bullies who feel entitled to take advantage of others to get what they want and feel should be theirs.  Did I understand correctly?  They want to be given 5 billion dollars worth of rights to minerals in the Ukraine but they are not willing to make any promises as to what they will offer in the exchange.  And then to add insult to injury, they go on the attack against Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and accuse him of being disrespectful and ungrateful for feeling that he has a right to not be ok with accepting that deal.  Yes, he does have a right to not be ok with accepting this deal re...

 The younger people of today will never understand an experience that is now relegated to an era of the past.  They will never comprehend the glorious anticipation of receiving your envelope of developed and printed photos.  Even when some photos turned out to be crummy and disappointing, there was usually something worth treasuring.  Old school film camera photos, even when not perfect, captured memories of things that we valued and wanted to be able to look at and see again.  They were treasured in a different way back then because there was no instant availability of an unlimited quantity.  It was something you had to wait for with anticipation.  First, you had to finish up using all the exposures on your role of film.  A typical number of exposures was 24 or 36 depending on which film you decided to purchase.  Then when you had finished using all your exposures, without wasting them of course because there costs involved, you had to have ...

American’s should watch this and reflect on it.     https://youtu.be/bym6MLs5HJ8?feature=shared

 I guess I just had a tonight thought.  Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk cannot take away the normalcy of the American people.  There is normalcy beneath the chaos taking place at the top level of our Nation.  For example, a Valentine’s Day party for veterans who are living in a veterans home.  This includes many who literally sacrificed limbs in defending our country.  Those veterans who Mr. Trump wouldn’t want to be seen with because he feels that it wouldn’t be a good look for him.  Well, thank goodness there are veterans homes where these veterans are remembered and valued by all those who manage and operate their homes.  I still believe in the American people.  Now the American people all just need to be sure to spend some time each day paying attention to the news.  They should just pay attention and listen and then they can decide what they think is fake or real.  It can’t hurt anyone to just listen and think before casting an opinion ...

 Overthinking is definitely not something that afflicts our current president.  I just deleted something that I saw online and added here because I don’t want to sound like a broken record. There will be no end to the bad stuff in the news for the next four years. 🥺 I don’t want to hear any bad news. 

 Knock knock. Who’s there? Your old lady.  Your old lady who? I didn’t know that you could yodel. 

 So this year we have entered the second quarter of the 21st century.  That is, of course, if we consider the year 2000 to have been the first year of the 21st-century.  This is of course how we have come to view our decades, centuries and millenniums, so I will also choose to accept this as being how we define these time periods.  I only mention this because I am a crazy stickler for details.  Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I think that people at this time are under a lot of stress.  We all have personal stress along with stress about the state of our country and the wider world.  It seems that at this time in human history, it is impossible to be disconnected from a much larger picture that extends beyond our own personal bubbles in life.  We are now five years past the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and while the worst of that is behind us, life has continued to deliver plenty of new challenges.  Perhaps it is all connected. This is ...

 Thank goodness.  It is very good news today to hear that Trump’s claim that the United States is going to take over the Gaza Strip isn’t really going to happen.   I am thinking that maybe I should start a little paper journal with the daily crazy news coming from Donald Trump because it will probably be like 5000 pages long by the end of this year and it will be one of the craziest chapters and stories in American history.  On second thought, maybe I will save the trees and just dedicate an entry to this here.   Actually it’s a dumb idea.  I have better things to do and think about.  Update:  Oh dear.  It didn’t take long to grasp the fact that while others comprehend the sheer impracticality and immorality of Mr. Trump’s idea of owning and rebuilding the Gaza Strip, he himself has by no means given up on it. 

 I found out yesterday that the CDC has lowered the recommended age for getting the pneumonia vaccination from 65 to 50 so now everyone aged 50 and over is eligible to get the vaccine.  I got this vaccination yesterday along with the flu and the newest Covid vaccines.  I guess I have sort of redeemed myself from being a dumb shit this year. 😊 This is just based on my own personal choice, of course.   I don’t think anyone else is a dumb shit.  Except if they never got any Covid vaccinations and then, well, I sort of do think they are dumb shits. 🫨