2425 Days since retiring July 1, 2005!

"There's always a catch."

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My Shakespeare reading group is now reading “A Midsummer’s night Dream”. Fascinating. Lucille Ball and Superman owe a lot to Shakespeare for the concept of not disguise to hid identity. One of the things that makes Willie so wonderful is his vocabulary. Just consider the word Oppugnancy. It certainly, in its very formulation, conveys a degree of unpleasantness. Thank you Willie. No you have to look up the word for yourself. Go ahead! You will love it.

I have listened and watched with a horrified fascination all the political lying and wrangling about the economy and financial deficits looming in the USA. No where have I heard anyone say a single word of truth about the huge elephant about to eat all our money. I am talking about the aging of the human population. The four graphs below show that over time the percentage of old people in almost all countries is growing. It is clear to me that as long as we arbitrarily define a certain age as time to quit gainful employment and at the same time people are living longer and fewer people are being born there comes a time when all the earnings of the gainfully employed cannot pay for the needs of the non working. I insist that the crisis is not far away unless we wipe the world of the current groups of lying conniving stuffed shirts and big brains found in every country.



A whole wealth of data can be found athttp://populationpyramid.net/ and associated web sites. Facts do not lie but politicians can make them confess to anything. Do me a favor. Take one of your favorite politicians out to lunch tomorrow. While it is distracted throw a gunny sack over it and treat it like the old folks did one of my dog’s litters. Or if you are so inclined just vote the self-serving crumb out of office. We would not be worse off if Congress were dissolved for a year. A year without a burglar is always better than a year with a burglar.

Ken Lee, son of one of the most wonderful women I ever met, posted in Facebook about indexing old hand written record for Ancestry Research. The organization if set for the release of the 1940 census. The only way huge amounts of records can be accessed on line is for an army of workers to read each record and type the data into an electronic database. I started at beginner level and probably will stay there because of the difficulty of reading the old hand writing. In future I am sure going to take more care with my writing. Sometimes I cannot tell the difference between oo and m. I started in the death records for Texas but the entries for the babies deaths just tore me apart. In each one I imagined I could see the anguish in the handwriting of the “informant”. Also I was flabbergasted by how many times women’s names were lost. Too many time the entry for mother was “unknown”. God we are tough of the “weaker” sex. So I switched to draft registrations and am making good progress. If interested copy and paste https://familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing into your browser. Be aware this is a project of the Mormon Church. I was stunned when I discovered the amount of raw hostility towards Mormans.

Tomorrow:
1 I have got to start dipping leaves out of the swimming pool and also cleaning and soaking the pool filters in Super Phosphate solution.
clean filter for front room ac.
direct grandsons to blow leave off drive and walkways.
Replace spring on wife’s recliner.
haul newspapers to recycle center.
move new work stool to shed, gonna start bowls again.

2/10: Dear Lord, help us to remember that you have chosen us to be holy and to serve you with joy. May others recognize us as your holy people and find in us your loving presence for themselves. Amen. 2/11: Dear God, make our lives an encouragement to others in word and deed. Give us generous hearts faithful to share what you have given us. Amen. 2/12: Dear Lord, help us to do what is right and to honor you. Bless our actions that they may reflect your goodness. Amen. 2/13: Dear Father, thank you for assuring us that even in our old age you will provide living water and produce fruit through us. Amen. 2/14: : Forgive us, God, for our unbelief. Help us to understand that you are a God of miracles and to bear thankful witness to the miracles of love that you perform daily in our lives. Amen. 2/15: Dear Lord, thank you for providing what we need. Teach us to give generously and to care for your creation. Amen. 2/16: Thank you, God, for your steadfast love and unwavering friendship. Amen. 2/17: Dear Lord, help us to cast our anxieties on you that we may know your presence and your peace. Amen. 2/18: Dear Savior, help us today to guide others to the salvation you offer. Amen. 2/19: Dear God, help us to know when to speak out for change and when to be silent as an act of love. Amen. The prayers are from the Upper Room. For your own free E-Mail Devotional visit : http://upperroom.org/devotional/email/ and click on the link “Other Ways to Receive the Daily Devotional”

There comes a time when a woman just has to trust her husband...

A wife comes home late at night and quietly opens the door to her bedroom. From under the blanket she sees four legs instead of two. A man and a woman. She reaches for a baseball bat and starts hitting the blanket as hard as she can. Once she's done, she goes to the kitchen to have a drink.

As she enters, she sees her husband there, reading a magazine. "Hi Darling", he says, "Your parents have come to visit us, so l let them stay in our bedroom.

Did you say hello"?

”Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. ”
John Stuart Mill

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