Cycles.

 

 

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,377 

Complex is waste: 

 

 

Many days are wistful to me 

Remembering things that used to be. 

Those simple things, not complex. 

Before the days of ubiquitous texts, 

Leading to emotional, automobile wrecks. 

In those days knowing less than anything. 

When on Sundays you hear church bells ring. 

And families talked round the dinner table 

For laughs and fun, instead of cable. 

Yes, I loved being a silent man, 

Before being exposed to a digital scan, 

Living with simple pleasures again, 

Like a mourning dove, a soft summer rain.   

 

I just learned that appropriately my blood is typo.  

 

Getting the inflation rate down to 2% is not going to lower the 7-12% increases in prices we are faced with today.  

 

When I’m in one of those hotels with the free breakfasts, I always feel intimidated by the waffle making machine. I’ve figured out the toaster.  

 

Listening to a Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto will make even reading your tax returns pleasant.  

 

I wanted my kids to watch the orchestra, but there was too much sax and violins. 

 

The Question: 

What extraordinary culinary achievement took place 111 years ago today? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Stock Markets Higher at Mid-Morning; Investors Looking At Week with New Jobs Report and Wage Growth Analysis. 

--1 Killed, 9 Injured in Stampede at Rap Concert in Rochester NY; Crowd Mistakenly Reacted to What Sounded Like Gun Shots. 

--Wagner Forces Chief Complaining to Russia That they Don’t have Enough Ammo to Retain Hold on Bakhmut Perimeter. 

--Over 1000 School Girls in Iran Have Been Apparently Poisoned; Perpetrator Could Be Clerics Against Education for girls or Gov Against Girls who Protest. 

--4 Americans Driving into Mexico Assaulted and Kidnapped by Armed Thugs.  

 

I read over the weekend that Japan using digital mapping found 7,000 more islands in their nation. Think about that. People have been living there for, what10,000 years, and this week they found 7,000 islands they never knew existed.  

 

If you commit 1st degree murder in Canada, it’s 34-degree murder in the US. 

 

I think the media went a little berserk with the Basel Cell news and analysis. And wife jill was dramatically maudlin over his survival. 

 

One of the great soda pop frauds occurs when Coke in ads misrepresents its 67 oz sized bottle with a 42 oz. They look remarkably the same in mini pic, tiny type Supermarket weekly ads. 

 

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. 

 

One of my favorite all-time movies was the Stepford w Wives. This is not a social statement about gender or life’s inequities, it’s just about a movie I enjoyed watching 

 

Wall Street mavens are beginning to admit they are as confused as you and I, and increasingly subject to the effects of analysis paralysis. Thay seem to be reacting daily to opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. It's kind of comforting to know that the despair is shared.  

 

If I had a bucket list, driving through Mexico would not be on it. 

 

If prisoners could take their own mugshots… they'd be called cellfies. 

 

The Answer:  

111 years ago today, a master baker gave us the Oreo Cookie! How iconic has that morsel of divine goodness become? Interestingly, 4 years earlier a guy named Jacob Loose brought us Hydrox. Yes, the Oreo is the pretender, but went on to great success because it tasted better. Sorry Hydrox lovers. Actually, Loose started the Sunshine Biscuit Company in1892. He named the first sandwich cookie Hydrox because that name felt like the fresh, sunny out of doors – Hydrogen and Oxygen. Unfortunately, there was a Hydrox company that made chemicals, one of them being Hydrogen Peroxide, not terribly safe or tasteful. But through it all Hydrox was Kosher, and it stayed on the grocery shelves. (Oreo went Kosher in1998) 

 

People get mad at just about anything these days. I just hate that. 

 

A bundle of hay in a church is a Christian Bale. 

 

Keep it simple folks. Take that from somebody who makes it hard.