• Today’s post … “Where is Mrs. Putin?”
• New video! This is me talking about the Tin Lizzy to the Plum Chamber of Commerce. Also how did the Last Baby Boomer become a TINARA Award winner? Watch here.
• Note: Sorry, I haven’t been as regular as usual. In the polishing stage on “Evan & Elle in Heaven & Hell.” I’m elated by the reaction the book is getting from test readers/editors.
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Today’s theme: “Totally randoms”
• An elaborate beard is one of the few traits that can grow on you even as it grows on me.
• Families are God's way of proving we can't help the ones we love the very most.
• You don't have to be a raging environmentalist to agree that any country that seeks prosperity through intensive mining is an in-dig nation.
• You’d have to think being a nymphomaniac with a willing harem would take a lot out of you even as you put a lot into them.
• Which unnecessary innovation will come first: A toaster that can make phone calls or a phone that can make toast?
• Am becoming nervous about upcoming toe surgery. Told podiatrist I was getting cold feet. He said, "I can fix that," and billed me another $1,500.
• Being a thoughtful dermatologist is inherent with cruel frustrations. No matter how careful one is, he or she must still make rash decisions.
• The stores we used to call "convenience" marts are now built with drive-thru windows to spare us the inconvenience of having to leave our vehicles to enter the convenience mart. Should we still be calling them convenience marts or has that become anachronistic?
• I was stuck in such a long bank line today I actually began twiddling my thumbs. It was a good long twiddle, a fine twiddle. And while in mid-twiddle, it occurred to me my thumbs are the only things I've ever twiddled. Seems a waste. Any suggestions for something else that'd be fun to twiddle? And I mean while I'm in line at the bank.
• The word "astute" means shrewd or mentally sharp. Had the people who coined a word that's pronounced ass-TOOT been shrewd or mentally sharp then astute would mean something entirely different.
• I know so few people who sleep, I propose we stop calling sleep sleep and instead call it, "(Mostly) stationary time where we recline in darkened rooms and ignore one another but the television/devices are (mostly) NOT on." Too cumbersome? I can do better. Let me sleep on it ….
Praying for Ukraine …