Under a month to go until we can be free of all of this election garbage.

Until something new comes along.

2020 - what a year!

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If you look closely, pretty much every Beatles song is mentioned visually in the video:


Coolness

But not really.

We are creatures of our upbringing.

Many of my friends growing up in the '50s and '60s did the same thing:

We grew our hair long & preached peace & love. We demonstrated. We smoked (cigarettes & pot), drank like fishes and fornicated like there was no tomorrow.

Jump ahead 40 years.

Those of us who ate, drank, smoked (both) and fornicated too much have paid the price.

Eventually we turn into our parents...

I chuckle at my old friends (those still with us) when they talk politics.

They act as though they were practically virgins growing up.

Deny, deny, deny.

They don't see how they have turned into their parents, who wouldn't admit all of the anti-social things THEY did growing up.

Life is indeed a cycle.

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... that nerve wracking continual 'beep-beep-beep' of construction vehicles first thing on a Monday morning.

This is what we used to call an album side song:


Music to help put you in the mood.

Bob Gibson, Hall of Fame pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, has passed away from cancer at age 84.

As a kid (and not a Cardinal fan) I was fascinated by his competitive style.

In 1968, he set the all time low e.r.a. for a season (post Dead Ball era) at 1.12 and in the World Series that year he set a single game record by striking out 17 Detroit Tigers (and beating baseball's last 30 game winner that year). In two other World Series, 1964 & 1967, he was World Series MVP by winning three of his teams four games.

Thank you for the memories, Bob. R.I.P.

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The president and his wife have both tested positive for the Corona virus.

After all of this time of downplaying a world-wide pandemic, I believe karma just stepped in.

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I will never understand how our electric company sets their dates on their bills. One month it's for 28 days, the next it could be for 32 or 33 days. Other utilities are generally for a 30 or 31 day month every month.

Several years ago I worked two years for them, through a temp service as a meter reader.

I could tell you dog stories all day. Some were over enthusiastic, playful furry friends, but most were trying to rip your throat out. Every customer was sent a schedule of when we would be coming, but few adhered to our request to either tie up or put these dogs inside. So I spent time being bitten, scratched and cornered by 'man's best friend'.

Don't get me wrong, I love dogs. It's just that they are protecting their master's home from strangers. I get it. The best defense I learned was to never turn your back on an aggressive animal... that's when they attack.

Oh, and one time I had to drive like a bat outta Hell because a farmer's bull had broken out of it's pen and was bucking like he was in a rodeo and heading right for my company truck.

And once I had to walk past penned wolves. Another time past a caged lion.

So after I've gone 'above and beyond' to make sure these 'forgetful' customers had their meter read accurately, the customers would whine or yell that the meter wasn't read properly and their bill was too high. Or that they couldn't have used so much electricity because they were on vacation for two weeks. Yeah, maybe they forgot to turn off all the lamps, outdoor lights, the refrigerator, microwave, clocks and sometimes the AC.

I averaged about three mistakes per month. This is after reading from 500 to 1,000 meters a day. Not bad, eh?

Well, after two years of being part time, making three dollars less on the hour than full time, and being next in line to be hired full time, I was told that the company was no longer going to hire full time from the temp service - the last two temps to be hired were both fired, so that was ending.

I know I went off on a little rant, so I'll get back to what I was originally griping about.

No one knows why the company (or they won't tell) varies their billing periods. I asked a lot of people while I worked there, from the bottom to the top and no one seemed to know.

Funny the things that pop into your head while paying your current (pun intended) bill today.

I suppose I'll never find out the answer.

And so it goes.

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After seeing highlights (rather lowlights) of 'The Great Cat Fight of 2020, Part I', I am embarrassed for my whole country.

SMH? No - it makes me want to hide my head.

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... that no one reads my blog.

It's cool, I rather like being anonymous.