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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,811

yeah I know you did not ask! You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts. Sitting on the throne, reading a book of trivia, I just discovered that the average American spends 6 months of their lives waiting at red lights. This made…

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Life is not ALL bad

The whole 16 years of our relationship, including the last 11 years of wedded bliss, Señora and I have slept in a queen size bed.  It was plenty of room for the two of us as we both like to touch at least a square centimeter or two of the other person’s skin as we sleep. However, we both have back problems. Señora’s are logarithmically worse than mine.  We have swapped our three queen size…

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Don't wear them short socks...

I was in Columbia, Illinois at the first convenience store you encounter when you cross the Mississippi River into Illinois.  I stop there as it is cheaper to buy a soft drink for my round of golf there instead of at the golf course. As I was standing in line a fellow came up behind me toting a 12 pack of Busch Light and talking on his cell phone a little loud, which is what caused me to notice…

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #7,799

yeah I know you did not ask! You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts. Surely I am not the only male to look over at his woman’s side of the bathroom and be totally mystified. Some of the devices, for all the world, look like…

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Bottle of Tequila - Revisited

I generally do not recycle articles.  I also do not write a lot of fiction, but once a decade or so a story pops into my mind.  When I do write fiction  it is generally triggered by some story I have heard or something that has happened to me. Then my “imagination” runs wild  extrapolating on of the former. Or sometimes – according to Señora about stories of her – I just make s*** up. Generally,…

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Word of the Day - Cyberchondria

Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page.  Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns.  I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms. …

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,921

yeah I know you did not ask! You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts. There are folks whose mission in life is to travel, experiencing as many different roller-coasters in the various amusement parks across the nation and for…

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Chopping wood, folding t-shirts…

Recently I experienced my 26,298 rotation of this planet we call home.  This triggered the lever that counts the number of orbits around the star we call The Sun, setting it at 48 (in hexadecimal) total revolutions, beginning the 49th. All these largish numbers put me in a reflective mood, a pensive mood, going over what has transpired in all those rotations and orbits.  All I could come up with…

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National Siblings Day - April 10, 2024

For the sake of truth in advertising, I kept looking for an image of brothers going at each other, fighting tooth and nail.  All I could were horribly saccharine, the one above being the less  mawkish of the bunch. My take… the greeting card industry is at it, again. However, it does have a touching back story.  Read about it here: National Siblings Day And so it goes.

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National Beer Day - April 7th

Here’s to ya… Read more about it at National Beer Day Cheers

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Quote of the Day – L. P. Hartley

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” ~~ L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between To see…

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Hopefully my Spanish sounds better

The other day while speaking with one of my long term Spanish tutors via Skype I made the comment that my Spanish was too poor to have been studying the language for as long as I have. A few days later he sent me his video.  The comment basically translates as “imagine you have been studying English for 5 years and you ended up speaking like this guy.” Of course he sounds like every other good…

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Vietnam Veterans Day - March 29th

Today is a day to remember those who served in this war. Many of those who served were drafted into the war, and many others did so out of a sense of patriotism.  All served our country… whether you agreed with the war or not. And so it was back in the day. Subscribe to Curmudgeon Alley

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St. Louis Metropolitan Area- A Mixed Bag

The St. Louis metropolitan area is such a mixed bag. I bring this up due to a recent study that listed two St. Louis suburbs among best places to live in the US. It placed the St. Louis suburb we live in, Chesterfield, as 19th on their list, and another St. Louis suburb, Brentwood, which is closer to the actual city of St. Louis, as 18th on their list. Chesterfield is undoubtedly a nice place to…

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Word of the Day - Ablute

Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page.  Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns.  I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms. …

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I Have Been Demoted

I have been demoted, but then again, it most likely depends on your measuring rod. During my middle age years, I would occasionally get the question, “Do you know who you look like?” While this did not happen frequently, it happened often enough I knew the answer.  It almost always was Sam Elliott. I remember one incident at a Quik Trip in Tulsa when a complete stranger came up to me and asked me…

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Quote of the Day – Immanuel Kant

“Always treat persons (including yourself) and ends in themselves, never merely as a means to your own ends.” ~~Immanuel Kant If you have been playing along at home, you no doubt realize that this is a second quote from Kant very soon after the first: “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”  I discovered this quote in a…