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I’m not catching up with the Times, the Times is catching up with me. The NY Times recently reported that blister packs or clam-shell packaging is going out of favor because it wastes oil. I suggested this should happen in this very blog almost three years ago.
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Yes, there is someone who enjoys the 90+ weather we’ve had the last two days: me! I have arthritis and I don’t ache as much in warm weather. I call this warm rather than hot because I have been to the central valley of California.
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I took advantage of the weather and went to the beach. The water was cold and full of seaweed. Several kinds of gulls were on hand, but the rest of the sea birds haven’t turned up yet. Or maybe they haven’t terned up yet.
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“When I throw rocks at sea birds, I leave no tern unstoned.” Ogden Nash.
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If I were in charge of the beach I go to, I’d build a bench or two where the boardwalk meets the sand, so you could sit down and brush the sand off your feet before donning your sandals. That way, the combination of sand and sandal straps wouldn’t irritate your feet and you wouldn’t risk splinters by going barefoot on the boardwalk.
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To me, the taller and thinner a young woman is the more flattering a bikini looks on her. That surprises me a little since all other things being equal I find petite women the prettiest.
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I don’t care for tattoos at all, but judging from today’s sample at the beach a lot of young women do. In fact, I believe I saw more tattoos on women than I did on men this afternoon.
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I don’t want to rush from here to August, but I did plant tomatoes in my garden.
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I never want to rush past June because of fresh strawberries. I bought three pounds yesterday.
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I hereby declare my pea crop for this year a failure. I sowed 36 plants. Three came up and bugs got them.
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Twenty people in a workplace pool recently won over $200 million in the Powerball lottery. If you take the cash instead of the annuity and pay all the taxes, you net about a quarter of what the lottery says the jackpot is. Therefore 20 people won $50 million or so, net after taxes. In other words, they won $2.5 million apiece. If some of the winners are relatively young, they can’t stop working. At today’s interest rates, the younger ones shouldn’t even do anything extravagant.
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So you won $2.5-million and people think you won $200-million. Still, if it happened to me, I wouldn’t let it ruin my day.
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This does demonstrate that you should join any office lottery pool. In the extremely unlikely event that your coworkers win, you don’t want to be the only one left on the job.
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Sixteen-year-old Eduardo Vanegas-Fuentes fell into a cesspool in Farmingville NY recently. His friend, Edgar Calderon-Castro, 19, bravely, futilely and fatally jumped in to try to save him. You probably can’t rescue someone from a cesspool without special equipment. Here’s why. In addition to being filled with exactly what you think it’s filled with, a cesspool almost certainly contains a high level of methane gas. You can’t breathe methane. So, even if you can swim and think you can save your friend, tragedy for two is a likely result as it was in this case.
