Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,881

The new plague:

 

How many old guys are sitting around these days wondering why they or their parents never saved the 1938 Superman Action Comics #1? One of the estimated 100 copies that are left just sold for $3.2 Million. Think of all the decisions we have made at various crossroads of life.

 

The grandchildren who were the beneficiaries of their grandparent’s fortune in gold bars were instant Bullion-heirs.

 

Did you know you can go on line and find meditation music specific to various debiases like cancer, kidney disease pulmonary diseases et.al. Better than a scalpel or worse.

 

I still have a lot of CD’s I bought at Lechmere. Remember Lechmere? It was a great New England discount store brought down by being sold too many times to too many companies, the last being Montgomery Ward which went entirely bankrupt taking Lechmere with it overnight. One owner was Dayton Hudson which is now Target. When I think of it, Target has many of the qualities that I liked about Lechmere. Oh well, It isn’t coming back. If it did, Amazon would buy it.

 

Hypocrisy abounds in America today. But you definitely get the feeling the general national tenor is, “Yeah, but that’s my hypocrisy.” So, that makes it ok. Except for millions of people with logical, rational minds who are ready to jump off high cliffs.

 

The Question:

Name words with three sets of double letters. Bus: Name the Five French Mother sauces?

 

The Headlines:

--Sluggish Euro Markets Affect US Stocks At Opening; WS Waiting For A Peek At Earnings; Ali Baba Looks Ready For Round After Getting Huge Fine Behind them.

--Israel Said To Be Behind Attack And Destruction Of Iran Nuclear Centrifuge; Iran Vows Retaliation.

--Minneapolis Erupts As After Young Black Man Is Killed By Police After Commotion During Traffic Stop; 26 Stores Looted I Riots.

--China Announces Snitch Line For Citizens To Report Critics Of Central Government.

--US And Philippine Officials In Talks About China’s Aggressive Positioning Of Navel Warships.

--Volcanic Explosions Expected To Last For Weeks In Tiny Caribbean Island Saint Vincent; Isle Covered With White Ash.

--Hideki Matsuyama Wins Masters; Japan Goes Berserk.

 

A good friend of mine pointed out that all planes have a left wing and a right wing. But all the people who count are in the middle. The wings are always o the outside looking in, but have enormous sway of the decisions of the people who always thought they were safely tucked away in the middle.

 

I used to think the perfect lunch was two White Castle cheeseburgers and several handfuls of Cape Cod original Potato chips. But in order to get healthier, I’m replacing Cape Cod chips with Utz Ripples.

 

I watched the Masters intently yesterday and last night I was equally rapt with the Food Networks’ “Tournament of Champions” cooking competition. . I like competition in sport and other TV programming. This Food Championship is exciting and very tough on participant. Most are thoroughly exhausted after each round. They are down to the quartet finals now, and the competition has been tough every step of the way. A highlight last night was an incredible tie after a grueling battle between the popular Antonia Lofaso and Jet Tila. Now these two chefs will have a playoff off to open next Sunday’s 2-hour multi match count down show to the champion. Wil be a fun night. I think it is good TV and you may learn a little about cooking along the way.  

 

The first line of today’s newspaper report on the Masters tournament was, “Hideki Matsuyama could be the first Asian to ever win the Masters”. If you want unity, forget about the identity separations. Hideki has been a great player here for and has won tournaments for years. For a series of 7 holes yesterday he was a pure magician. And rightfully applauded for his golf wizardry.  How about Jorden Spieth, for instance – “First white man with ancient ties to many princes and many tribal conflicts in Bavaria comes back to win Masters after spending 3 years in the psychological dumpster.”.

 

Let’s get back to sports.

 

Does anybody have more energy than Guy Fieri?

 

George Walker a black American classical composer has a beautiful piece called “Lyric for Strings”. He won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Music. It’s amazing what is stowed away on all those CDs I have.

 

Joe B has begun the court packing process. Or maybe by his action Friday establishing a new government committee to look at revising the Supreme court, he is just going through the motions to appease the spoiled child left wing. He says it will be bipartisan which is quite odd to hear considering his record so far. Now here’s what I don’t get: The SC, President and Congress are three co-equal and separate branches of the government. And now because the Dems have experienced a few constitutional legitimate changes they don’t like, the USA all of a sudden has terrible court system. Remember that the Repubs had to wait all these years from the eye-opening moment in 1973 when lawmaking by the Dem controlled SC ran amok.

 

It is looking like entertainment reorganizations which are morphing into things like the paid Discovery Channel for future revenue streams is over time going to leave free TV high and dry. It appears that the big names may now be exclusive to this mega streamer amalgamation. Will this be making Regular free TV the farm system, minor developmental leagues? Looks like it. [Discovery Channel is the combination of TV channels HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN, A&E, Lifetime, History, Travel, SciFy, DIY, and the Dodo (Whatever that is.) Channels]

 

To me, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi taste much better in plastic glasses than in glass s glasses. Or is that glass plastics.

 

Tucker Carlson for President. A last He would have interesting Press Conferences.

 

In 1983 while speaking on the Senate floor, Joe Biden said about FDRs’ court Packing attempt, “It’s a bonehead idea.”

 

The Answer:

A lot of “ness” words have triple doubles. Like Stubbornness, Heedlessness, Woodenness or Possessiveness. Others are Committee, Mississippi, Successfully, Tallahassee, Tennessee and Whippoorwill. Bonus: The 5 “mother sauces” upon which all other sauces are built are Hollandaise (Eggs, Butter, Lemon Juice), Bechamel (White sauce of Butter, Flour and Milk), Velouté (Butter, Flour, Chicken or Fish Stock), Espagnole (Beef or Veal stock, tomato puree and mirepoix; thickened with dark brown roux- Most known as Bourguignonne) and Sauce Tomat (Tomato sauce).

 

I have learned that as you recede into later life, you can’t take life off. The world doesn’t stop because you decide to slow down.

 

 

What ever happened to earning?

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,880

Be Thankful:

 

I think this afternoon I’ll walk around and see which flowers are beginning to pop. I noticed that in the last couple of days the trees on hillsides running down to the sea are red budded again. All this means in addition to the breathtaking feelings of rebirth, is that the budding of tourists is not far behind. I like this time of year. For a while.

 

We are assuming that everything is back to normal, but there are still unknowns about the vaccines. The 2-shotters are feeling invulnerable, but can they still be carriers if they begin to disregard sound anti-germification principles. And how long to do vaccinations last? It’s good to feel normal, actually great! But it is also good to be wise.

 

I always liked Prince Phillip, until I saw The Crown. I hate it when movies affect my opinions. It’s too bad he couldn’t hold on for another couple of months until he hit 100. Actually, I still like him despite the Crown. Hail to the good Prince, the cool Duke of Edenborough.

 

The no- shotters aren’t even trying to understand the ramifications. Not getting a shot for political reasons is nuts.

 

I miss a lot of phone calls because I turn off the sound on my phone so I won’t hear those commercials I mistakenly click on.

 

The Question:

Quick… Name the original 7 astronauts!

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Mixed

--Unionization Of Alabama Amazon Warehouse Headed For 2 to 1 Defeat.

--Southwest Pulling Some Boeing 737 Max Jets Off Schedules.

--England’s Prince Phillip Dies At 99 Years And 10 Months; Queen Elizabeth Mourns Husband of 73 Years.

--Biden’s First Budget Request Asks For Huge Funding Increases In Education, Health Care And Environmental Protection.

 

Have you noticed lately that every person elevated to a position of important is always introduced as the first in their race, ethnic group, gender, sexual persuasion, age and any other identity classification term… except in terms of capability ad competence?

 

The big question among the culturally inquisitive is whether or not Harry will become and responsible adult and do the right thing to honor his grandfather and comfort his grandmother.

 

Hey Joe, didn’t anybody ever tell you that more money doesn’t improve education. Only talking to union chiefs will never give you the whole story but it will help you get votes. BTW, did you notice that all of the money the Prez is seeking in his first budget request was pretty much a part of the $3 trillion just passed into law. Double dipping?

 

The ten most competitive housing markets in America are San Jose, San Francisco, Raleigh NC, Portland Or, San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston, Kansas City, NYC, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. The Competences rating is based on average credit scores of buyers, average down payments and amount of mortgage shopping.

 

If you are an unlawful immigrant and can’t collect unemployment because you broke the law to get here and aren’t even recognized within the system, you are in luck by god. Move to New York City! The progresses there are going to give every illegal immigrant $15 K to help them survive in the society they crashed. The largess is expected to slide through with little opposition because it is felt that Andrew Cuomo has lost the juice to stop it.

 

In case you haven’t noticed, progressives seem to be slipping into local government positions on a new geometric progression. That’s where grass roots are attacked by grubs.

 

The Solar Winds security Brach may be the scariest of all world events. The fear of the WH National Security Council cyber experts is that Russia in a nano second could turn it from simple spying operation into destruction of USA networks. Talk about hostage taking.

 

The Answer:

They were known as “The Mercury 7”. those gallant men reaching for the stars. At that time, they were about was well known as anybody in America. They were real celebrities with substance. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn come first to mind for me. Then I remember Deke Slayton and Garden Cooper. It took a minute to recall Wally Schirra and Scott Carpenter. But, these were the brave heroes of the day who would venture into the unknown vacuum without previous knowledge of experience but the words of Russian Cosmonauts. And of  course the confidence of the brains of engineers.

 

Do you realize how much stuff people take for granted that only exist because of the brilliance of human engineers?

 

Have a great and happy weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!

 

Remember an engineer over the weekend. Drive across a great bridge and don’t worry about it falling down.