A week.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,668 

Over the...:

 

I try to wake every day to a smiley faced emoji. It just sems like something to always shoot for regardless of clouds that may be hovering. 

 

I decided to investigate Crypto Currency a little deeper and was surprised to learn that more people own that funny money than I could have ever imagined, and I still don't know what they do with it. 

 

In Beethoven's Fifth you hear won of the most iconic of symphonic openings. Dada-dada! Yet as you wade into you find the feelings of a poet weighed against the bombast of a warrior.  

 

Butterflies just aren’t what they used to be. 

 

The Question: 

Which countries have the largest percent of the population owning Crypto? Bonus: What US city has the oldest continuous Thanksgiving Day parade, 

 

 

 

The Headlines: 

--Wall Street likes Trump’s Treasury Chief Choice. Stocks Open Strong.  

--TDay Parade or No TDay Parade, Macy Holds Off Q3 Report Due to Employee Covering Up $132-154 Million in Expenses. 

--Weather Systems Could Hamper TDay Travel.  

--Wall Street Analysts Warn that Tesla’s Huge Upsurge Due Mainly to Exuberance over Trump Win than “Actual Improvement of Fundamentals of Its Business.” 

--Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford Dies at 90. 

-- “Wicked” Initial Box Office hits $114 Million; Gladiator Comes in Lower at $54M.  

--Red Sea R Tourist Boat Sinks’ 17 Missing. 

 

We seem to have created a society where you need two versions of everything. People just seem to have this burning desire to take sides. How about we create one version in the middle and people sensibly added to or subtracted from it. At least we’d be working on the same basic premise. That is, if everybody could agree on what was the middle.  

 

Mac n Cheese has become the ubiquitous comfort food side that people, its popularity soaring from dives to gourmet establishments.  A return to the good old days they say. And now I’m wondering, did I really like Mac n Cheese as a kid or am I just romanticizing a necessary food of yore, because it doesn't seem to excite me. Oh wait, I remember, nobody today makes Mac n Cheese as good as my mom's.  

 

Sometimes I write inane stuff that sounds good but means little, just because it is there. 

 

I read a lot of news reports, hopefully the most neutral sources and what I find is that there are myriad tragedies the world over every day, The masses really only see the news that looks good on TV or that can be reported in a few seconds.  

 

Maize puns are corny. But eye puns are cornea. 

 

I have seen a couple of Wicked promotional interviews featuring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo and they don't look like two people I’d ever want to know. They appear to be a little too aloof for a typo guy. 

 

Speaking of new Entertainment venture's, the writer of blockbuster Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan, seems to be after a quick buck with his lazy writing effort for the copycat “Landman”. Bit people will flock to it, because celebrity works in America, and it is salacious enough for voyeur satisfaction..  

 

Maybe the San Fran Niners aren’t very good after all.  

 

The Answer.  

Number one is The United Arab Emirates. The UAE is followed by Viet Nam, The USA, Iran, The Philippines, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ukraine and Venezuela. Bonus: It appears that Mr. Gimbel beat Mr., Macy ot the punch in Philadelphia which still celebrates the oldest continuous parade. 

 

There are many stories coming out this week trying to recreate the typical Thanksgiving Day story of the first one ion Plymouth. So, that's a nice pastime young people with new history degrees. But what they can’t change is the importance of a day where thanks is what is given and not presents. When laughter is what heard and not the ripping apart packages, where people hug and in a way that seems to say love a little differently than usual.. That's what makes Thanksgiving Day more inportant than all of the rest. Its only about people.  

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