Today's Tids Issue 6,171
The Squeeze:
Remember when it was so much fun creating your own Halloween Costume? Now it is spending gobs of money to look like everybody else, Actually, my self-made costumes weren’t great, but they were me.
How many battles are going on in the world right now? And not just those with weapons. And how about the irrationality of it all. Will they all cease after the US elections?
Sorry the Tids appeared a little messier than usual in the Typo department last week.
This is Festival time all over New England. Probably across the country. Sea Food festivals draw enormous crowds in coastal towns. Newport was a mad house but the laughter and scrumptiousness got everybody through it all. The peepers are everywhere, mainly in the northern regions now, though I noticed tinges of orange this morning as the sun moved in across the bay from the East. It made me smile. Fall is quite the season. You can smell the comfort.
Home buyers are walking away from deals at record levels. Having second thoughts as mortgage rates rise seems to be driving rational thinking. Will sellers begin to reduce prices? Nationally in September 14.7% of buyers waked away from deal according to data provided by Redfin)
People can control inflation if they want to,
The Question:
I’m reaching back even before my time. But Cole Porter's hit songs are timeless. What are considered his top 5.
The Headlines:
--Dow Meh, Nas Opens Stronger; Awaiting SpaceX Earnings Report.
--Zelensky Launches Heaviest Ever Drone Attack into Russia.
--France Imposes Curfews to Crack Down on Thugs and Thieves taking Advantage Riots.
--Speaker Johnson Warns White House of Unintended Consequences from Russia Sanctions Waiver.
--Musk Say He will Give Share of A SpaceX Srockto evry Child in America; Value at Today's Price is $$10.66 Billion.
--Olive Garden Jumps over Texas Riadhouse and Applebees to BecoemGen Xer;s Favoriete Chains Casual Restaurant.
--NBC POll Says 72% of Americans Say Countryis on Wrong Track;
New Fox News Poll Gives Trump Its Lowest Approveal Ever, 36%; Only 22% Approve Handling of Inflation; 50% Approve Handling of Immigration,
You know, if you look a little closer to home, you find that Canada is a leading supplier of Deisel. You learn that it would not take much for this Country to increase production to supplement shortages. Yet this longtime friend is treated like crap while we give big friendly deals to a notorious nation and known enemy of the US. Remember earlier I was talking about irrationality.
It must be all about elections. Right?
Whata weekend of NFL games. Cleveland, repeat that, Cleaveland vaulted into first place in the AFC North. And the Giant jump into first in the NFC East after losing to NO. What are the LA Ram apologists going to say this week as the expert pick for the Superbowl lost to Arizona. Winnless Tenn beat Indy and Indy immediately fired the GM, which is probably not the problem. The equally winless Chargers got wiped out again, and that is becoming very surprising.
And it was equally weird in college where the top five teams all lost! The new Top Five in the AP Poll are Miami, BYU, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Georgia. The case for a multi-team playdown to the championship is being made stronger.
Sorry about all the sports this morning. I won't even get into the Guardians .It hurts the hearts of my gCleveland friends.
I shouldn't have to apologize for writing about sports, since it is consuming most of TV these days. It’s content that can be romanticized, and it fills gigantic blocks of time. Saturday I’m watching channel after channel showing all of these giant bowls chock full of fans in brightly colored TShirts, constantly roaring. I'm thinking that all the games on the seem to display a distinct similarity k varying hues and tints. So, I figure that once I determine which is the home team I can close my eyes and determine the balance of the game, the good plays and bad plays by the modulations in the roar.
So, I hear there is a swirling storm off the coast for the next few days. So the advice is not to try to sail to Portugal in a small boat. Or maybe take a ferry to Block.
Every year I see four or five stories about where to travel around the Northeast for Autumn wonderlands. I use it as a guide for where not to drive.
After sports, the current major topics of discussions are politics and dying leaves. And what it means most is that when it is over we have to clean up both of them.
I’m honestly concerned about the calamity that Trump could create if the Repubs lose the Congress. Transition, Smooth transition. That's who we are.
The Answer:
#1 is Le’s do It (Let’s Fall in Love). Next are What is this Thing Called Love, You do Something to Me, Love for Sale, Night and Day, You're the Top. I Get a Kick out of You, Don't Fence Me In and Begin the Beguine. Maybe you’ve heard one or two of them.
Yes my friends, Night and Day I'm thinking of you... I hope they missed that typo.
