58 Years

Mom and Dad celebrated 58 years of marriage yesterday. We will be celebrating as a family at the ranch this evening. The Galbavys will be coming over after work and we have a order in at Lydia’s for dinner. I will go pick it up and bring it home.

Hopefully the weather will not get nasty until after the celebration. There is snow and wind in the forecast tonight.

I am praying for the poor folks in California who have been impacted by the fires. The photos of the devastation look like the firebombing fires from World War II. The economic cost of these fires is going to be numbing and is going to tax the insurance industry to the max. We will be lucky to have insurance after this is all over. As I understand it, a lot of these folks had lost their insurance because many companies had pulled out of California over fear of a incident of this magnitude.

I watched some of the Jimmy Carter’s funeral yesterday, it was a nice ceremony for a true humanitarian and was interesting seeing the interactions between the former presidents and vice presidents. The Bush/Obama belly bump was cute.

God Bless Mike Pence for taking the high ground and shaking the Chettolini’s hand, I would have likely spit in his face and given him a knuckle sandwhich. Funeral or no funeral, if a son of a bitch did what Trump did to him to me I would not have a damn thing to do with him and sure as hell would not shake his hand.

I wonder how Chettolini felt when all of the eulogies talked about how honest of a person President Carter was and how he truly cared about his fellow man. I am sure he is such a narcissist that it went right over his head. He was probably trying to come up with next item to sell to his base as he sat in the ceremony. I mean he has to be getting close to the bottom of the barrel. He has picked all the low hanging fruit in Bibles, Tennis Shoes, Watches, and Guns.

The smoke and mirrors he is already putting up, is signaling how crazy the next four years are truly going to be. This Gulf of America BS, making Canada the 51st State, taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal are just assassine. Especially the Gulf of America bullshit, what the hell does that accomplish other than spending untold sums of money to change the name of a body of water. There are some many dominoes with doing that would result in needed changes it is not even funny. Again smoke and mirrors to deflect the lack of progresss or work on truly important issues like economy, health care, education, disaster preparedness. Oh well buckle up buttercup the shit is just getting started.

This morning he got a punishment free sentence for his 34 felony charges in NY. Well at least the term “felon” will always be attached to his name. A very sad commentary on the direction of our country. We buried a true humanitarian yesterday and in 10 days we will inaugurate a convicted felon to lead what was the greatest country in the world. Key word is “was”. If this is what you think is Making America Great Again, we are very much opposed.

I know mental illness is a very serious issue in this country and world, but in some ways I think we are taking things way to far. This morning the folks on CBS had a short discussion on people who have anxiety attacks when they have to read or order from a menu. They get paralyzed by the choices.

Any of you that know me, obviously can tell I don’t have that problem. I did not get my figure by being a picky eater. You put food in front of me I am likely going to eat it (Liver and onions and black licorice excluded). To be honest if those were the only choices, I would still probably suck it up and eat it. Growing up my folks did not pander to likes/dislikes. You ate what was in front of you or you went hungry, your choice. There was no eating/snacking after that. Today I see so many parents/grandparents that pander to their kids likes/dislikes it is (in my opinion)crazy. Please keep in mind, I would have been the best parent ever, but alas the world will never know of those talents, since I chose not to have any children.

I did see a funny post on Facebook yesterday. It was a response when somebody asks where you come from. The response was: from my Dads nuts, and it was probably the left one, because I am not right.

Thank god I was not drinking anything when I read that one, otherwise it would have likely been coming out my nose and ears.

Well I better get my “not right” ass moving, I got several things to do before I start my Uber Eats shift.