Spring urge

  I was stopped at a traffic light yesterday. I was a passenger and we were next to a really pretty truck. I looked at the truck and then at the guy driving and he smiled back at me. I thought to myself that wow..he could see in our whole car way up there. For one moment...an urge came over me. I had the strangest urge to flash him and show a boob. Never in my life had I ever done that and never would..but it just made me smile to think of doing it. Could he have read my mind?  Must of been an attack of "Spring Fever" huh?

Snopes vs Wikipedia

I got an email this morning that had to deal with Wikipedia and Snopes. Both are written by ordinary people. The only difference I can see is that one...Snopes is by a couple of people with their opinions and that Wikipedia is written by anyone and everyone and their opinions. 

Yes..Wiki is editable by anyone and anyone can put their two cents in. I think a handful of people might police the writings but mostly it is words.....written words and any words are subject to interpretation and biased opinions.

Which brings to mind "statistics" which again is only words and subject to interpretation and very biases to as what they want to find.

My point? Words can be made to say whatever one wants and twisted to whatever view  you want. I personally don't think that anything written is ever the full truth. I have long since known that even history books which are supposed to tell us true history is in fact NOT true at all but only  biased opinions written for a select group of people slanted to what they want  to hear. Our own government has been caught lying to us many times.

I myself have had several dealing with the media..aka - newspapers. In those instances I was interviewed and most of the details that got printed were WRONG! The events were minor and it was not important that the details were right but gosh darn it..why bother interviewing when you cant get a few simple facts straight. I mean one was so mundane as to why I started carving and was in an article on my club and it's show. GEEZZZZZ.

But that leads me to wonder how much MAJOR stuff that it written is true or plain wrong.

And back to Snopes and Wikipedia. I use Wiki for general information which I find useful. Snopes...well...I have found it to be helpful in trying to get people to realize that not all we read and pass on...is truthful and while they might not have researched everything...at least they try to get people to think about that basic fact. Myths and Legends get embellished and we may never get to the bottom of their origin or why they even got started.

People love fairy tales and gossip. In the end..I really don't care weather a guy was found in a bathtub with note saying his kidneys were stolen was true or not. I don't care if a computer virus is true or not. I just know that I should read and expose myself to MANY opinions and not take any of them seriously. 

What works for one person does not work for another anyway. There is a fine line between computer problems and plain operating system problems.  And it is like cars or the human body....difficult to diagnose.

I know...I am rambling all over with this topic but I have lots of my own opinions on it too.

But my point is that words are words are words and you cannot believe them all. That is what advertisers get money for..to make you believe them all.

Life is tough and not fair...deal with it.  Keep an open mind and keep reading.....that way you can form better opinions for yourself.

Green Beer...YUCK!

I do not like green beer...

I do not like beer period!

I might have an Irish name but that is as
close to Irish as my heritage gets me.
Now if they made cheap green margaritas,,,,
I might be enticed to a bar.
Happy St. Pat's Day yall.

Government insanity

With so many ads on tv and in magazines and newspapers, I am sure that very few people DON'T know about the census this year. I got a letter a few days ago from the government telling me that soon to follow would be the census letter and be sure to fill it out. I think that letter was a total waste of money. Geezz..they could of just put it in big letters on the outside of the census saying...CENSUS.... FILL OUT!!! Saving all that postage on a pre-letter was nuts and could of bought a lot of something else like oh say...toilet paper for the poor instead of more paper for the landfill.

Costco Mocha lattes

I was able to get out of Costco today without buying of of those delicious drinks.. frozen mocha latte with chocolate....yummy but about a zillion calories. Not often can I resist.

Jazzy toes

   I can't look at this picture and not think of my BFF who loves pedicures and manicures. This would look snazzy on her feet in sandals.

Also this makes me smile when I remember a time when we took a bunch of pics together when digital cameras were new.

Me..never had one,,,,probably never will.

Potty training

This is the first time I have heard this. Babies are born potty trained. Gee...I read this article cuz it interested me and I feel a small ring of truth to it.

Born potty trained 

It brings to mind all those native tribes and their naked babies.

But more so it brings to mind something of a few years ago. A friend of mine went with their daughter to pick up an adopted baby in China. She described the outfit that the baby had on when they picked her up and that was all that came with the baby btw. It was cold so a snowsuit and very bundled baby but..the whole butt area was not there....exposed..open. They did not use diapers. Now I wonder if they used this method of learning nature call times. Sorta like the mom being trained and not the baby. But I must admit that it is natural for animals to not pee or pooh in their sleep place. And we did not have diapers for that long so something must of been used. Makes one wonder.

Ugly wall cords?

While scrounging around in my "Stuff" file, I came across this. I thought it a great idea.  Seems they could of done something creative with the floor though; or is that dirt?
AYUP...I do have a file named "stuff". 
It is where I put odd stuff I find on the web. 

Time I shared some of it huh?

Could not resist these inspirational posters

No explanation needed.

BTW..I am safe from kidnappers. See? me not so stupid.

53 Billion

$53.5 Billion. That is what the wealthiest man in the world is worth. #2 man is worth only $53 billion. My mind cannot even wrap around that figure. Just how many millions is that? How many millions in a billion? 10,000? I am not good with those numbers cuz anything past 6 figures is foreign to me. I can get to a million but am lost after that. All I know is that no one could possible spend that much money and instead of buying another football team...maybe they could raise the wages of teachers.

Heck..take a billion of that..it wont be missed and will probably be earned back in interest in a few weeks, and rebuild Haiti. Or take a couple million an drill water wells for 3rd-4th world countries. With their economy,,,I think it would drill a lot of them. have American farmers actually GROW food instead of paying them not to...buy that food and send to starving countries. The to few billionaires could feed the world easily with interest alone. I mean just how many rooms of a 20,000 square foot mansion can one use?

And now that I am on this bandwagon, just why  is what they do worth so much more than what others do? I mean, yeah..they had the wisdom to invest wisely, work long hours but they have the money to do that.. Money begets money. Heck..they can afford to take chances and we have no idea how many companies they bought but they failed cuz they could afford to take the chance.And then it took only one to make up for all the losses. 

Better yet, loan a few million to a few people, then they earn a million and then they can loan to others and they get a million and so on and so on...then we all share the wealth. See..pretty easy huh? AND..we ALL win!!

Note to self

No more cucumbers and radishes washed down with Diet squirt at bedtime.
Makes me get up to pee too much. But the cuke salad was so yummy...just not at bedtime.

Cancelled prom

I just read an article on Yahoo this morning about a canceled prom in Jackson, Mississippi. It was canceled because a lesbian wanted to take her "date" to the prom in a tuxedo. Being in the  Bible belt, the school board wanted to not make others uncomfortable so they didn't want to step on the gals rights soooo..they just canceled the prom.

HOORAY for them for sticking to their guns and not blowing the issue up further.

I do not believe the girls rights were violated at all although I am sure they will try to make it that way.  Communities of people do have the right to make rules of what they want or don't want. Communities can say if they want movie theaters, malls or adult bookstores in their city. That is NOT violating anyone's rights in my book. This is not about my opinion towards lesbians and gays. Nope..it is about a communities rights to govern their own community.

Heck...we have speed limits and driving rules too and I am sure some will say that violates their right to drive however they want. WRONG! Civilization needs limits and guidelines as to how any group of people live and interact with another. Come on people...we are not living in the wild west where everyone can have a gun.

If you don't like laws and rules..MOVE! I am sure there is a deserted island out there where you can make your own country and own rules.

Just in case you want to read the article....but if this is a very old post it might not be there.

Prom in Mississippi

Nifty Site

Here is another of my go-to blogs that I like. I don't hit these daily but once a week or so is fun. Sometimes I forget them for a few weeks even. This site has interesting stuff now and then. This morning it was 284 ways to use Spam.

Both Gary and I love that stuff but I rarely by it cuz of the salt. But the low sodium one is just not the same. I might try the turkey one I saw though. But still...Spam is spam and nothing is like the good ole tasty original.  I think it is the national Hawaiian dish..lol.

Now That's Nifty

Bike E

Here is the bike that has been in the garage for a few years.

OH..I just checked the info on the pic and it is from 1999, so lots of years. Gary took it in for a new chain and replacing some gears that have rusted. I rode it for a while but tipped it over in mud and hurt my knee really bad and ended up walking it home for over a mile.  I never rode it again.

Hair 1999

Hey Twinsy, I bet this is the way you loved my hair the best. I was browsing some pics and wanted to post one of you and I back then but I know how you hate pics of yourself and I would never post one without you permission....even if I did think it a great one.
Of course I was much thinner than too. I just might try it like this for this summer. Time will tell.

Where but I should ask why

I was watching my favorite show again last night..a new episode too.."House" and once again I heard an expression I am beginning to hate. It is way overused and sounds idiotic.

It is "my bad" and used when someone does something wrong. Not long ago I heard it  as "me bad" but now it has evolved again into "my bad" and it is beginning to irritate me to no end.

Oh..and finally a graphic that stayed small. I guess I will try playing with resizing tiny...this one is pretty small pixel wise. Still bigger than I wanted which would be about 1/4 the size it is.

How do these expressions get started and why? Just to be different and annoy adults?

Things I cant do on this blog

When I started this blog, it was all I wanted...just a little text and a pic now and then.

But I wanted to spice it up a bit and use an animation now and then, of which I have collected many over the years. I read allt he help files and it mentioned nothing and then found some blogger forum and sigh..... blogger will not let anyone use animations. We are limited to jpgs or pngs...in other words..plane ole pictures. Well...then.....

I decided to use small icons here and there to spice up some postings and will blogger let me? Naw. pictues yes but no matter what size I upload..it seems to have only a couple size range sit will post any pics. The hour glass in the previous post was a small picture and it still showed up very big. In fact.it was one of my icons from my collection. I thought it would be small but got fooled...way bigger than I wished it to  be. I was aiming for the little emoticons that Yahoo email has. nope..no can do.

sigh.......

I guess unless I am willing to get another blog site, I am very limited.

But then...what can I expect for free and the very easy way to do this. I am lazy and don't wish to put in more time studying how to do more. I used to have another web page and in fact did my own html but now I am out of practice and needless to say out of date and hve forgotten most of what I used to do. I remember some basics but not sure what I can add here.

At least I can change the font...although limited, and the size and the color. Unless it interests me more,,,I will just be satisfied within the limits I get with blogger. It does get the job done and I can keep in touch with friends and post pics of my world for them to see.

Hi friends...stay tuned for more of mundane Patville.

I can feel spring coming.

Winter......move over......

              Your time is running out...

                             and SPRING

is coming!!!              I can feel it.

Smiles in a jiffy

Billions of people store photos in online albums and these are public access. Some people have time to browse thru them and cull out the interesting ones. Here is a site that posts them in their "Daily PicDump". They have other things they find like videos and unusual stuff. Great site for a quickie morning smile.

Izismile

Woodcarving demo

 

Our local Woodworker's Guild has a show and is giving our woodcarving club, Livonia WoodCarvers,  a table to promote our club. 

I volunteered to work a few hours.