- America is celebrating the Fourth of July with the traditional Twilight Zone marathon. In case youve been away since the middle of the last century, “To Serve Man” is a cookbook.
- It was 118 degrees in Phoenix AZ on Saturday, a record-breaking temperature for July 2. I’ve never been too hot, but I’ve never been THAT hot either and THAT hot might do it for me. However, it is a dry heat!
- I saw an episode of “Animal Cops Houston” where they were sedating a full-grown tiger. The announcer said they wanted to make sure the tiger wasn’t playing possum. Uh, no. You wanted to make sure the tiger wasn’t playing tiger! Possums aren’t entirely harmless, but playing possum would be a lot less dangerous than playing tiger.
- State Farm Insurance Company’s Parsippany Auto Claims Central has a mailing address in Ballston Spa NY. Why does this amuse me? Ballston Spa NY and Parsippany NJ are about 150 miles apart. Lots of companies name businesses or offices for the place they’re located. This doesn’t work out really well after the business or office moves.
- I make one exception to this principle. If I had a business, I’d like to open an office in the Village of The Branch, NY (its east of Smithtown), for obvious reasons. There’s no post office for Branch NY, but you could still call it your Branch office, even if it was your only office.
- There was a heart-warming story on the news about a special welcome home ceremony at Islip’s MacArthur Airport for a soldier returning from Afghanistan or Iraq. It reminded me of when I returned home, not from a war zone, but from basic training. I lost something like forty pounds in basic, so when I got off the train in Hicksville, in uniform, my girlfriend of nearly two years (now my wife for many times that long) didn’t recognize me, and walked right past me.
