My deadlines are going better than I thought. Still blogging. (But don’t be surprised if I miss a few days. The hardest part hasn’t hit yet. I’m working up my nerve to be Brilliant. You can only imagine what an effort that requires.)
- Hm. We knew “our representatives” were corrupt, hypocritical, and a lot of other things. But crazy? I mean, crazier than you’d have to be to want to run other people’s lives in the first place.
- LOL! Here’s the tale of a man who foreclosed on Wells Fargo. Seriously. The sheriff was going to auction off the local Wells Fargo office, even.
- They haven’t paid their mortgage in months. By their own description, they’re “one paycheck away from a homeless shelter.” Yet they still spend $275 a month on “beauty products” and celebrate their anniversary at a four-star hotel. Huh. Too bad the article doesn’t give more insight into these folks’ minds. Somebody could win a Nobel Prize in abnormal psychology. Or maybe it’s all-too-normal psychology. These days, who knows?
- We already know blueberries and strawberries are a sort of superfood against Alzheimers. Check. Gobbling those berries daily for that among other reasons. Booze, too. That’s nice. Now comes interesting word that being bilingual protects remarkably against the effects of the disease. Doesn’t prevent it. Just keeps the brain functioning better despite Alzheimers. The article doesn’t say so, but it appears you actually have to speak the language, juggling back and forth between two tongues for this to work.
- Okay, then. Time to buff up the beautiful old Italian I learned in community college. Gorgeous language. But the only use I ever got from it was using my dim memory of it to mangle Spanish down in Panama. So, if you were going to take up a language online, where would you go? Here? Here? Here? Abbandonate ogni speranza voi che entrate!
Coconut oil is very good for Alzheimer’s. Here’s an article: http://www.coconutdiet.com/blog/post.cfm/is-the-misguided-low-fat-dietary-philosophy-primarily-responsible-for-alzheimer-s-disease
If I was not paying my mortgage for the last six months I would have had a lot more money on hand than I do now. But I guess when you go instead to a 4 star hotel that kind of eats up what you would have paid for your mortgage.
I know that many people have studied the disconnect people have about money, spending more than they make, etc. Mr. Ramsey refers to it as “that feeling you deserver the good things in life before you earn them.”
I personally don’t like seeing these kind of articles about the extreme ends. Mostly because people with $30k in credit card debt will say “i’m not that bad, so it is ok to buy that extra $50 gift for the spouse on our credit cards.” I would rather see stories about the Furry-like family that turned their life around, paid off the debt, saved up money and are doing great now.
Turn that into the norm instead of the “in debt up to my eyeballs” norm we have now.
Speaking of politicians (spit), on of my favorite web-comics had a great one for Pres day.
http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/21/presidents-day-fail/
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
— Wilkins Micawber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_Micawber#Popular_culture
“Spanglish” counts as a second language doesn’t it ?
Oh and ….
Who has any Hope left to abandon ?
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That Patrick Rodgers looks a lot like someone from one of the otherkin forums I used to be on . . . hmmm, I might have to look up my old online friends.
Whoever he is, I admire both his nerve, and his resourcefulness!!
It’s one thing to have to be patted down before we board a plane. How’d you like to be groped? After you get off… a train?
http://gizmodo.com/#!5768805/tsa-harasses-9+yo-boy-and-other-train-passengers-after-their-trip
Do they drink different water than the rest of us or what?
Jeez….I went from the high off the Patrick Rodgers story right into another stupid moment from a CA family with no common sense whatsoever…..
My extent of Italian is from “back in the day” when I use to work in the restaurants & “Momma” would come in yelling about something, at the top of her lungs, I’m assuming it was all swearing….even then it was a beautiful sounding language…..
As for learning online, well, being online so much really ruined my English, LOL; if anything I need to relearn that…….
Some things never change… Chehkov’s The Cherry Orchard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard) focused on a family that was losing their property, with many of them unable to deal rationally with impending doom.