My car died. My TV picture died.
It's an opportunity disguised as a nuisance.
How will I take advantage of it?

On another note:
Congratulations to the Giants. Ticker tape parade today.

And may the best candidates win the primaries this Super Tuesday.

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jezzie

Ah, look at all the lonely people

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Thinking about the hundreds of people, including me,
who spent Sunday afternoon at a Bulletin Board.

The disconnect generation?

jezzie

Keeping things in perspective .....

Yesterday morning my TV picture went to the old TV dump in the sky.
It happened exactly two weeks after my car decided it was too old to start.

For just a moment I got quite annoyed at the TV. Then my trigger kicked in.
I have trained my self to ask ... ''Think about it. How important is this?''

I thought about the 29 yo woman and her seven year old son who were killed
in a car accident several miles from me. I thought about her two year old son,
in the hospital, growing up without...

jezzie

YOU: Pass the Blame Game

Childhood Obesity: Blame the low fat people. Blame the low carb people.
Both had their origins in the '70's so just toss a coin.

Blame the sugar industry, dairy, corn farmers, Kelloggs, McDonalds.
And of course the favorite target of all. - Blame 'the big bad government'.
(If people can make a connection they will blame Pharmaceuticals.)

Individual accountability? It's not my fault.
Parents learning to say the word no? Too much effort.
Getting kids off their behinds so they can move something...

jezzie

I love reading Judith Warner in the New York Times.
The subject today: Coffee. Here is an excerpt:

I’d had a feeling for some time that there was something worth writing about coffee. My attachment to it. My desire to draw my children into it.

My repugnance for a world where, when people stop by your house, on the way from there to there with never a moment for here, they stand in the doorway, cell phone in one hand, water bottle in the other, too peripatetic to even entertain the notion of sitting down for a warm drink.

jezzie