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fuzzybuddy said:
I was in the dentist's waiting room, and everybody was playing on their phones. I noticed that people like me, who weren't born to iPhones held them differently that the others. People, who were born into them, held them with two hands and used their thumbs. People , like me, held them in their left hands and used the right index fingers.
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I'm the other guy on the planet that isn't married to my phone. Gotta ask you -- are you harassed like I am every time you frequent a business from them asking for your phone number? As if your phone number is some kind of proof of ID? Every time that happens to me, I lie and tell them I don't have a phone, but they're welcome for the name of my first-born male child. Most of the time, they're not amused, but I don't care.

The freakin' phone is a TOOL. It's not some kind of a psychological crutch. Way, waaaaaaaay, WAAAAAAAAYYYY too many people are glued to their phones.

As George Carlin said, "It ain't healthy."
 

I don't know why I do this. I try to go to sleep at midnight and get up around 7-8ish. Some nights, at 12, I'm wide awake and ready to chop down a few trees. I go to bed by 1, and I'm wide awake @4 or 5. By 2 PM, I'll be dragging, but if I take a nap ( more like 3-4 hours), damn at midnight I'll be wide awake again. I keep falling into this habit. Sometimes, I get really pissed off with myself.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I don't know why I do this. I try to go to sleep at midnight and get up around 7-8ish. Some nights, at 12, I'm wide awake and ready to chop down a few trees. I go to bed by 1, and I'm wide awake @4 or 5. By 2 PM, I'll be dragging, but if I take a nap ( more like 3-4 hours), damn at midnight I'll be wide awake again. I keep falling into this habit. Sometimes, I get really pissed off with myself.
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For me, not having a structured routine is one of the joys of being retired and living alone.
 
My last dental appointment was for 2 PM, today. At 11:30, the dental office called and asked me if I could come in, "now". So unshaven, unshowered I was there at 12:30. Of course, the dentist didn't walk into the room until 2:20 PM. I could have bitched to high heaven, but they only charged me half of their original fee.
It's amazing that saving money makes you very agreeable, and happy.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
My last dental appointment was for 2 PM, today. At 11:30, the dental office called and asked me if I could come in, "now". So unshaven, unshowered I was there at 12:30. Of course, the dentist didn't walk into the room until 2:20 PM. I could have bitched to high heaven, but they only charged me half of their original fee.
It's amazing that saving money makes you very agreeable, and happy.
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Maybe it should be that way.

30 minutes or it’s free! 🍕🦷😉🤭😂

I get frustrated when I take the first slot of the day and I still have to wait.
 
Life is good.
First, at the dental office, I was only charged about half the estimated cost. Never look a gift tooth in the mouth.
Then. TA DA. The egg crisis was solved!!!!!!!
When I cracked an egg for breakfast, the shell shattered into a hundred pieces, instead of cracking. Most of the egg oozed out of my hand. That means I'm back to having even eggs.
12 eggs = 6 days with 2 eggs, and no odd eggs to screw that up.

We're under a fire watch, because of the forest dryness. I can never remember which is the more important thing- a watch or a warning.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Life is good.
First, at the dental office, I was only charged about half the estimated cost. Never look a gift tooth in the mouth.
Then. TA DA. The egg crisis was solved!!!!!!!
When I cracked an egg for breakfast, the shell shattered into a hundred pieces, instead of cracking. Most of the egg oozed out of my hand. That means I'm back to having even eggs.
12 eggs = 6 days with 2 eggs, and no odd eggs to screw that up.

We're under a fire watch, because of the forest dryness. I can never remember which is the more important thing- a watch or a warning.
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WARNING.
 
It's time to do my annual rant about Daylight Savings. I'm a clock person, I have three pendulum wall clocks. With those clocks you can't just rotate the hand back. That screws up the mechanism and the chimes, you have to go forward 23 hours, which takes times for the clock to chime each hour. Plus, I have 14 timers or clocks to reset. For what? In the 1700s, supposedly burning a candle at 6 AM instead of 6PM saves money.?????
This time thing is going to screw me up for a month.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
It's time to do my annual rant about Daylight Savings. I'm a clock person, I have three pendulum wall clocks. With those clocks you can't just rotate the hand back. That screws up the mechanism and the chimes, you have to go forward 23 hours, which takes times for the clock to chime each hour. Plus, I have 14 timers or clocks to reset. For what? In the 1700s, supposedly burning a candle at 6 AM instead of 6PM saves money.?????
This time thing is going to screw me up for a month.
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This is why I appreciate the States of Arizona (excepting the Navajo tribe areas) and Hawaii extending the large middle finger to the government.
 
See!!!! We changed the clocks and yup, I'm all discombobulated (more than usual). For 100,000s of years, noon was when that big light bulb in the sky was overhead. Then some idiot got the idea to pretend noon was really 11 AM. Why? To help the WWI war effort. How- who the hell knows. So, now, a hundred years later, we still pretend noon is 11AM, for half the year.
So much for humans being "homo sapiens"- the intelligent man.
 
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Saw Joe Namath, the ex football guy, and pantyhose wearer, on TV. He was hawking something. Man, time was not his friend. He looked like he died a hundred years ago. I'm no longer 18, and yeah I look it, but at least I don't look like a scary Halloween porch decoration.

And I'm still screwed up by the time change. I've been making breakfast for well over 50 years, and have it down pat. Today, I kept wondering what I just did, and what comes next. It's just not a "Senior Moment".
 
We are definitely living in an information age. Last night, I couldn't sleep. I was in and out of bed, but I just couldn't fall asleep. But I kept yawning. While lying there and yawning, I wondered if you could yawn, while sleeping. I googled that, and it's rare, but yes. There's no other time in history can you get that kind of info, instantaneously. OK, wondering if you can yawn while asleep is a bit weird.
 
Watching the news, I heard "Great Lakes, Ill." Oh, memories!! That's where I spent my Navy boot camp. I was on guard duty from 2AM-4AM. It was below zero, and the wind from the lake just went right through me. I had to guard this steel beam, which was going into the new auditorium. It weighed about 50 tons, and was 80 feet long, 6 feet high. To move it, they needed two huge cranes. But there I was guarding it with a rifle that had no ammunition, or even a firing pin. That's in case somebody slipped it in their back pocket, and snuck off the the base with it.
 
I hate the changing of the clocks. Besides just being a pain, it messes me up. I couldn't go to sleep, but I was dragging. Then I'm falling asleep at 8Pm and wide awake at 2AM. It felt like I was coming down with a cold, I couldn't get warm, even under a bunch of blankets, then I was sweating. I go through this every time we switch times. At least, being back on standard time, it feels like the right time. Noon is actually noon. What amazes me is that no one can give a good verifiable reason for DST.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I hate the changing of the clocks. Besides just being a pain, it messes me up. I couldn't go to sleep, but I was dragging. Then I'm falling asleep at 8Pm and wide awake at 2AM. It felt like I was coming down with a cold, I couldn't get warm, even under a bunch of blankets, then I was sweating. I go through this every time we switch times. At least, being back on standard time, it feels like the right time. Noon is actually noon. What amazes me is that no one can give a good verifiable reason for DST.
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I understand that business wanted it to expedite logistics.
 
Charlie, the squirrel, has been running around up and down trees. Yesterday, I noticed that Charlie had a buddy. Both of them were doing squirrel things. Charlie's mate??? Not being up on my squirrel anatomy, I'm not sure which is a Charlie. Which isn't?
When you're concerned about the sex life of squirrels, you got to get out of the house more.
 
November is such a pleasant month. It's my month to take in wayward bills and pay them. I've already got the car insurance bill, the house insurance bill. I guess I should put out the welcome mat for my property taxes, school taxes, and county taxes. I have two magazine subscriptions due. I'm quite sure there's another big one I forgot about.
 
I bet that if I checked around the seats in my car, I could scrounge at least 89 cents in loose change. The reason I say that is I just spent almost an hour trying to get a spot out of an 89 cent Walmart potholder. I have 4. The spot is either ketchup or spaghetti sauce. I've sent all my big gun cleaning stuff into the fight, and the spot won. I just can't let the spot stay, OMG!!!! and tossing the potholder away???? No way. Now, why would I even care about this?
Because at times like this, I realize how weird I really am.
 

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