He's out of the country.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,927

Floating around:

 

There is something in the air today,

That may affect these words I say.

If it’s something about romance,

This issue doesn’t have a chance.

 

Never trust a train. their motives are loco.

 

President Biden told our military yesterday that our biggest threat to the security of the USA is Climate. How do our brave andwell trained fighting team beat back the marauding climate… Outflank the carbon? Choke off smog. Blitzkrieg gas engineplants. How ror tw crate air superiority with chemical speewing palens? Does gtehNavy build windmills and the infantry create vast solat rpanel fidls aafetr takengteitotry form fisherman, sailorsnad farmes?

 

The Question:

Here’s several Questions for you. 1. How many ridges around the edge of a dime? 2. A “Jiffy” is an actual unit of time. How long is it? 3. Gangster Al Capone had a business card. What did he list as his occupation? 4. What is the only word in the English language that ends in “MT”?

 

The Headiness:

--Stocks Waiting To React To Jobless Claims And CPI (Consumer Price Index) Inflation data; Analysts Looking For 4.7% CPI Increase over Last year.

--Biden In England; Meets With UK’s Boris On Way To G7.

--Total Eclipse Of The Sun Swept Over Northern Hemisphere This Morning.

--Number Of Migrants At US P Border Hits New High.

--Owner Of Keystone Pipeline Gives Up.

--U EU Leaders Urging “Unfettered” Probe In To Cause Of Covid 19.

--Citizens Of Portland Oreg Increasingly Scared As Gang Violence Continues To Spread.

--Massive Gang In California Swarms Over Louis Vuitton Store Stealing $100,000 In Handbags.

 

Tech Jobs that could disappear with the advances in automation could be many. The biggest danger to a large segment of tech wizards now based on some rapidly developing trends, is the ascendancy of “No Code” software. The newest entry, “Bubble” enables building web sites through vision with no coding necessary, Another in the Manpower market is Goodgigs, which has made a serious dent there. Technology eats itself. And now it is gorging even faster.

 

And Uber and Lyft and many Gig based apps are fighting retain tehari highly profitable “independent” contractor status. Unions what to organize all of them. Biz advantages fade fast, and so do the stock prices. Remember Blockbuster.

 

I have been reading lately of moms murdering their children. That is terribly disturbing, and in fact almost impossible to believe. When a little hand reaches up to grasp the only love that it has ever known, it doesn’t realize that is now something that it never was before. I shudder at what my mind is seeing.

 

I’m reading that the new fashion trend for men may be dresses. I’m thinking I will pass.

 

I have read that fashion designers throw out whimsical ideas just to see how the public will bite even if it appears irrational on the surface In the deep recesses of their minds though, designers know that Americans will buy anything if properly promoted.

 

A headline in a major US media outlet read: “Summit with a 'killer': What to expect out of Biden's meeting with Putin.” I don’t think that is creating an  environment for the kind of positive discussion we may be hoping for.

 

A particularly painful new fashion entry to me are Spiked heeled Crocs. Frankly I don’t like spiked heels in general.

 

The Answer:

Ok, ready for some answers: 1.A die has 118 ridges. Go ahead, count them, I dare you. 2. A “Jiffy” is 1/100th of a second. Is a “Jif” shorter? 3. Al Capone was a “Used Furniture Salesman”. All bullet holes carefully mended like new. 4. The only “MT” word is Dreamt.

 

It is a cool off day today around here. That means no sweat on the keyboard and less chance of electrocution. So, I’m good.