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'Interesting' change of events! History in the making! Will miss this little birdie >>> 🐦. Not an avid user of Twitter, however.  Elon Musk is killing all birds with one "X" shaped stone (Mashable Article)  Twitter's bird logo is dead, replaced by X (Mashable Article)  Twitter's blue bird to be replaced with new black and white X logo (YouTube Video)  I can only imagine how long AARP maintenance will be for the changeover. Ugh. 😉  Credit: twitter.com (soon-to-be X.com)Credit: mashable.comCredit: youtube.comCredit: aarp.org

Moths are butterflies, too, don't cha know! 🦋 And, not just food for the bats! 🦇 It's National Moth Week, 12th Annual: July 22nd-30th, 2023!  Please keep in mind to have only a short light display upon observation of different moths, as suggested when identifying moths. I'm able to go into the garage (with the light on), and find a few moths myself. Once you have a decent number of moths visible, take pictures, and just turn off the light(s). You should only observe the moths for no more than 2 hours. Submit your pictures to help identify the moths in your region. Anyway, I think it's interesting. https://nationalmothweek.org/https://nationalmothweek.org/finding-moths-2/https://www.insectidentification.org/  

  'This is a corn protest. We're not gonna pop no more!'

  'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright.'

 'Buddy, I think we should let it drop and see what happens.' 🎉

'Totally Rad...Totally (Grand) Dad.'

FROM ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!! King of Deadpan Comedy Bob Newhart Dies at 94. With his trademark satirical humor and stammer, ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ and ‘Elf’ star was one of the most-revered comedians of the last 60 years. By Alanna Nash, AARP. Published July 18, 2024. It started with a bit of office ennui, when he worked as an accountant for a construction materials company and dabbled in acting in his native Chicago. He found a kindred spirit in another part-time thespian named Ed Gallagher, whose day job was advertising. “I would get so bored at the end of the day with accounting that I would call Ed up and we would improvise routines,” Bob Newhart remembered in PBS’ 2005 documentary American Masters.  Gallagher was the straight man in the duo Newhart would later call “a poor man’s Bob and Ray,” and they turned their pastime — with bits like a fire in the yeast factory — into a self-syndicated radio show. (“We’d just start the tape machine,” Ne

What in the world is going on here with this cat and snowman?  'The Cat On The Hat Comes Back!'   

Beans are awesome! They are loaded with protein, fiber, have a long shelf life, and are great for crop dusting. 😮‍💨 National Eat Your Beans Day is a "live healthy" holiday falls on July 3rd and celebrates the bean vegetable in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Beans (legumes) date back to the early seventh millennium BCE, making them one of the longest-cultivated plants. Beans are a significant source of protein. If you're looking for complex carbohydrates, folate, fiber, and iron, eat some beans. They are excellent sources for each of those. A very healthy choice for any meal or snack, they are also an excellent source of fiber, low in fat and high in complex carbohydrates, folate, and iron. There are approximately 40,000 bean varieties in the world.Only a fraction of these varieties are mass-produced for regular consumption. Let's Snack! That's a lot of beans! How do we know which ones to choose? Snacking on chickpeas provides us with one of the best choi

Nothing like a good Dad joke! Always told in the car, in front of your friends, and to total strangers. Goal: Embarrassment. Laugh riot. Super dry. Unforgettable (because they're so bad). 😉  [Happy Daddy's/Father's/Pops'/Papa's/Step Dads' (too) Day]   |   [Dad Jokes I] 

It's great that AARP offers healthy recipes, but it would be very helpful to add nutritional information, especially carb content as many members need to watch their carb intake.

Write a review of any new movie seen in theaters, streaming site, DVD, etc. I have a trio:  1 - News Of The World - 2020 With Tom Hanks set in old Texas after the Civil War, Hanks trying to return a young girl who was taken in by the Kiowa, and raised as one of them, to her last remaining European family. With adversities to overcome it becomes apparent, to persevere - we need to rely on each other. 👫    Seen on HBO Max during free trial. ---> News of the World (film) - Wikipedia My Rate - Thumbs Up 👍______________________________________ 2 - The Matrix Resurrections - 2021 This would be the 4th Matrix movie. If you loved the Matrix Trilogy this one is un-like the rest; it's just disappointing😞   Seen on HBO Max during free trial. ---> The Matrix Resurrections - Wikipedia My Rate - Thumbs Down  👎----------------------------------------------------------3 - Ghostbuster

a physiological thriller of a impossible journey in life it held my interest and I found it was hard to put down I just wanted to read to the end to find out what happened! It is definitely worth sharing here the author is unknown for now but I feel given enough of time she will make it to the best selling authors list in the near future for sure!

 The FolliesWhile traveling on TheBus the other day, I was seated across from a couple of giggly, sleek young ladies. Just as the bus stopped at a light, these cutesy twenty-somethings began to simultaneously push at the rear exit door. It didn’t budge. But that did not deter them. They struggled even harder, laughing all the time at their plight in trying to get off the bus. No one told them that the doors can’t be opened for people to get off at a red light. I was tempted to reveal the truth, but I was mesmerized at the young ladies’ unflappable persistence. The bus driver, finally aware of the uproarious situation, cautioned them that the doors can be opened only when the bus stops at its designated spots. The young ladies, apparently wanting nothing more to do with the recalcitrant rear door, moved to the front of the bus and good-naturedly exited at the next stop when the door opened automatically.I observed someone else that day being clueless—this time at a grocery store ch

What a Horror ShowThe other day in my condo’s parking lot, I was ready to wipe up some of the filth that had adhered to my Mazda (mostly grunge deposited by birds). At the same time, I was startled to hear a young man nearby grappling with his friends. They tried to restrain him from going after a woman whom he cursed with a garden-variety heap of expletives. I didn’t discover what just what the woman had done to him; but considering the verbal violence he threatened in a flurry of F-bombs, the woman (whether his current or former girlfriend, his boss or co-worker or even his mother or sister) was depicted as a harpy who delighted in having a monstrous hold on him. For at least five-minutes, he continued his tirade, never mentioning exactly what his grievance was. The young man was unhinged—his face was flushed, his voice was increasingly menacing, and he was obsessed with his pursuit of vengeance against a formidable abusive foe who has somehow wronged him.Sometimes, I’d like to be a

I wrote to some veteran organizations to see if they could buy some psychic shops dand have them turned into veteran run restaurants and trucking companies.  The reason why I did that is because I saw several psychic operations close to schools and in areas where population is high and I feared for the children for if one of them walks into a shop thinking it's a snack shop and discovers it's a psychic shop and ends up being frightened.  Psychic shops should be located way out in the country where they are away from churches and schools so that children would feel safe.  After hearing the Miss Cleo saga on the news back in 2001, I soon realized that after I chose to steer clear of psychic shops, that I made the right choice.  I rather spend my money on groceries.  

 It’s the Little Things That Count Soon after I situated myself on the downtown bus that would take me to a doctor’s appointment, I saw a middle-aged disabled woman enter the bus and pay a dollar for the ride. When the bus driver told her that the new fare was $1.25 for people showing their Medicare ID, the woman balked at retrieving hers from her voluminous purse. Instead, she slid a quarter into the tray and began to precariously push her walker down the aisle. The bus driver, however, was not deterred. He demanded that the overwrought woman come back to him and show him her Medicare ID. Otherwise, she would have to pay $3.00. The woman was not to be intimidated. She scrounged through her purse until she found a crumpled-up valid Medicare card. The bus driver, satisfied with her discovery, drove on. The woman eventually sat down next to me. Her hands were shaking while she vainly tried to zip up her purse. I felt sorry that she had so much trouble with t

 I have had the most fun in my recent life by playing with a free program called "Stable Diffusion." It converts text to images or changes an image assisted by text. What it can do is amazing! I took a photo of a famous painting, The Street, by Balthus, and randomly changed it in progressively increasing amounts. Amazingly, the AI retained the artist's style without me even asking it to! This is the original (first), followed by increasingly different results: OriginalSlightly differentFairly differentDifferentMore differentMost different but retains artist's style     

Two HeroesAt one point while I was on the bus headed to another one of my routine doctor’s visits, a brigade of wheelchairs, walkers, and wagons slid up the lowered ramp and vainly tried to maneuver along the narrow bus aisle. A muscular father who was seated in the front row soon began to assist the newcomers. At the same time, with painstaking assurances, he was able to calm down his baby and his stressed-out partner.  With the flair of a maestro, he orchestrated viable seating arrangements so that everyone and their perambulating aids were comfortably and securely seated.But I bet that the Good Samaritan was not anticipating what happened next. A young man who must have been at least 300 pounds entered the bus. Despite the relatively uncluttered aisle, his torso was hemmed in between two oversized walkers filled with slightly leaking hefty bags. Confronted with this dilemma, the husband squeezed the bags with its detritus onto the empty ledge at the bus entrance. Now that the p

 

 

A Teachable MomentToday, the Hawaii Symphony Associates, a quasi-PR organization that my wife and I joined a few years ago, conducted its monthly Q and A.Mid-way in the meeting, I noticed a very large unfamiliar woman who was seated opposite me at a good distance.Suddenly, the big lady blasted out a decibel-bending cough that reverberated in my ears for a few moments. The noise was appalling, but what disturbed me the most was the possibility that my fellow volunteer might have been a spreader of the newest Covid-19 variant.The middle-aged lady soon put on her mask, perhaps intending to make amends for her unhealthy outburst.At the same time, I noticed that an elderly woman who sat to the left of the cougher was frantically trying to pry something out of her uncooperative purse. I was convinced that she was looking for her mask because while sitting next to me last week at a chamber concert, she had worn her mask throughout the performance.Whether I was right or wrong about her motive,

 'National Goof-Off Day' is a day when one can just let loose and have some fun. It is an opportunity to take a break from the daily grind of work or school and indulge in some playful antics. Simply doing something silly without any concern for the consequences, 'National Goof-Off Day' allows us to be a little carefree and lighthearted. The day is also known as, 'International Goof-Off Day.' Goof Off FAQ Q. Can anyone celebrate the day?A. Yes. Everyone can benefit from a little goofiness. Q. What's the opposite of being goofy?A. Being serious is the opposite of goofy. [source: National Day Calendar.com & National Day Calendar (YouTube)] __________________________________________________________So, the choice is yours. Today, you can be... a slacker, an underachiever, a lounge-about, a lazy bum, one chill dude (or dudette), a loafer, a sofa spud, a (good-for-nothing) slouch, a dawdler, a slowpoke, beachcomber, lazybones, etc... Whatever you'd defi

  'I never thought it would amount to this! For I am just a leprechaun.'

In the Corridors of My MindFor the past year, I have a new challenging hobby: factoring out as many words (similar or not) as I can from a given word I have randomly chosen. For at least a week, I keep finding extra entries. Some of them I conjure up on my own; others I retrieve from dictionary websites.Yesterday, I was walking in my condo corridor in order to pamper my injured big toe. Within a minute, I thought of finding more items (at least four-letters long with no plurals ending in “s”) to the word redactions. My chart was so crowded with hundreds of notations that I doubted I could come up with any more material.But suddenly I triumphed. Two more words flashed in my mind: erotica and caries. I had already listed erotic; adding an “a” to the end of the word was a bonus. Just at that moment, I contemplated my next dental visit. Eureka! I have been cavity free for years: no more “caries” for me. The word caries, although ending in an “s,” is singular. There is no plural alternative