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01/03/2026

The old old man in 1973.

It was in the hardware store. A customer was complaining about his crazy ass employee with an attitude. Something about capitalism. The kid was maybe 17 but knew the way of the world and informed his employer that he was a capitalist pig.

Someone in the little crowd said "What's wrong with people these days?"

The old, old, and I mean old man at the edge of the crowd spoke up and said "Power tools."

The guys looked at him like he was crazy.

"Yes," he said, "power tools. Takes half the time now to build things. That leaves more idle time. That's when people, not only young whippersnappers but grown-ups too, have more time to think but nothing really important to think about. And then they start going crazy thinking up all sorts of stuff!"

I think about that when I hear talk about going to a four-day work week, 6-hour days, 3-month pregnancy leaves for men. No frigging wonder there are people who believe that Spanish is sexist, that there are several genders, that next year we will run out of oxygen in the atmosphere, that the Holy See is allegedly ready to roll out the red carpet to space alien visitors, and that people are so easily hypnotized into believing that they were sexually abused as a child.

Yep, it's that Milwaukee sander, that Rockwell circular saw, and that Black & Decker impact drill.

01/03/2026

German, anyone?

I have noticed that the apostrophe in the last FEW MONTHS has all but disappeared. If you want to apply for a federal ID number and your LLC's name is Gary Goof's Harmonic Plants LLC, nope, it's going to be Gary Goofs Harmonic Plants LLC. I keep coming across this here lately again and again. "At least one upper case, one lower case, one numeral, and a special symbol" but for your special symbol, try using an apostrophe. I wanted to use the password "Don'tLoseDon't4get." Nope. No apostrophe. I guess we're going to have to start doing the possessive the German way--NO APOSTROPHE.

11/17/2025

I think my grandcat is OCD.
Comes into my office with me.
I open the cat door.
In and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, each time coming over to meow to me "I'm back!"

11/16/2025

Wow did I ever have a cool dream last night!
I was minding my own business in my office and a neighbor comes over and asks if I am listening to TV. I said, no, the radio, why? He said because space aliens are landing all over the earth. We turned on TV and there it was: reports of space alien crafts parading down main streets in Germany, France, China, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and, since it was my dream, Podunk, Louisiana!
And then we heard that they are in OUR city. So we got in somebody's car and sped downtown. Dreams are weird because it was not Florida St or Girod St in Mandeville, but, oh well, dreams are dreams. It was a street as wide as Canal Street and we were looking down from about ten stories up. Grey space alien ships about the size of passenger cars up to the size of 18-wheelers, drifting in a line about 100 feet from the ground, a long line miles long.
I took an elective in astronomy [not astrology] and realize that outside Earth's atmosphere it's nothing but a soup of atrophy. I don't happen to believe that life other than ours exists. It it does, I don't mind, I just don't think so. And I always thought that, even before the astronomy course. Yeah, I know the mantra "there's a zillion stars with x planets each so there's got to be at least some that have life like ours." I also know the mantra "if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of word processors, one of them is going to type out War and Peace." Same difference to me.
So, if I most assuredly do not believe that there is life on other planets, it would be strange that I dream about it. Maybe, just maybe, possibly it is because every time I go from one online website to another passing through Google, I see "scientists" saying that some object approaching earth has to be intelligent life, that some "scientists" are telling their governments to get ready because "they are coming" over and over and over again, it still sinks in opposing my core belief.
And that explains why what I consider to be people from perfectly normal and sane backgrounds go more than all-in with intense, extreme political positions. It's Goebbelesque propaganda. Very damn effective. It even caused me to dream about something I don't happen to believe.

04/15/2025

Conversation with grandcat

Ever have a conversation with a cat? Takes about an hour or two or more.

G'cat: Hey, my cat door is opened again after forever! Why did you close it permanently for a while?

Me: Remember how you used to bring in rodents, both dead and alive?

G'cat: Yeah, those were the days!

Me: Well, we don't want rodents in the house.

G'cat: Not what the mistress of the house says! She shreiks in joy and anticipation when she sees one I brought in. She is especially exhilarated when a live one runs up the curtain. Can't control her emotional joy! Oh and the time one got inside the dining room table pedestal, she took the whole table apart to see it! Very excited!

Me: OK, you can get in as far as my office and if you bring anything in, I'll put your kill box [paper box from Office Depot] right here under my staging table. The office-kitchen door shall remain closed at all times. We have to visually inspect your transit from office to rest of house.

G'cat: Deal! Now let me go find you a big one to celebrate these revised accords! I heard one in the wood pile yesterday!

01/25/2025

Proof that we have been visited by ancient aliens:

Know how in the Ali Baba stories that the cave door opens when Ali says "open sesame"?

There you go! A computer password! Voice recognition. It's all there.

07/06/2024

What would we do without PSA’s (Public Service Announcements)?

Listening to a Corpus Christi TV station I heard something about hurricanes that, well, I’m just so darn glad I heard.

After a hurricane there is usually a lot of debris in the yard around the house.

06/15/2024

A couple of women outside in front of Rouses, where a guy was cooking crawfish talking about how hot it is. The old guy cooking the crawfish said “yeah, it’s almost like it’s summertime or something.“

I like that guy!

04/26/2024

Donder and Blitzen,
German “thunder and lightning,”
Dancer and Prancer, rhymes,
Cupid and Stupid,
I can’t remember the rest.

04/25/2024

Just as Louis Carroll was first and foremost a mathematician, the Grimm Brothers were first and foremost linguists. They figured out the Germanic sound shifts and, if I remember right, postulated that French got started when farm animals tried to speak German.

04/24/2024

I got this strong magnet on a 36“ telescoping handle from Anaton today. Can’t wait to get up in the attic and pick up that gross of brass screws I spilled yesterday!

01/27/2024

“Think Covid was bad? Wait til the Chinese bring back triffids they are growing on the back side of the moon!”

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