Blog 1 : Thursday's Blog I Forgot To Post

I try to avoid watching the news, but all this stuff about China robbing America blind, border crisises (crises?), I don't know, climate change (formerly global warming), banning guns, banning furs, banning MAGA caps, legalizing weeds and so many other mind altering issues, still enter my cerebral cortex, somehow!

I wish I could only think happy thoughts, like that TV artist who used to paint happy trees and clouds and whatever. 

It was kinda encouraging that this morning I was told that "THEY" would be attempting to relieve my back pain by sticking long hot needles in my back and burning out the nasty nerves that are the dirty culprits causing my pain! Yippee - Skippee!!

I'm not gonna tell 'em about the numbness in my feet, just in case they wanna cut them off!! 

Anyway, it's happy thoughts that we need to dwell on, all the time, because negative, realistic thinking will lead us to an early grave, to be sure!

Look at Robin Williams, for example. Always funny, laughing, happy go lucky...never mind. Not a good example.

On the other hand, there are these crabby, one hundred year old men who constantly complain about their miserable lives...uh...disregard my examples, folks.

Just try to replace any negative thing you hear from a news source, friend, workmate, relative, with something positive!

For example...

They - "Trump is a mean, nasty, bad president!"

You - "Yes, but he loves his kids, plays well with dictators and never bashes the NRA!"

They - "China is stealing our ideas and American jobs!"

You - "True, but Chinese people are so cute! Especially Chinese babies!"

They - "The border crisis is overwhelming!"

You - "I know, but it shows America is so great that EVERYBODY wants in here!"

Get my point?!

Keep having happy thoughts, my friends!

Remember what Mr. Roarke always said...

Blog 2 - Today's FRIDAY Blog 

Okay, recreational weeds are soon to be legalized in Illinois on January 1st, 2020.

I don't get it! I've been pulling weeds since I was a little kid, and it NEVER felt like recreation to me!

They are actually setting up dispensaries (places that dispense stuff) to SELL the weeds at a very  high cost! (I know this is all true, because I heard it on the Greg and Dan radio show)

What? Selling weeds? I can get all the weeds I want from my front yard! These dispensary weeds must be some special kind of weeds!!

And how can you recreate with them? Throw them in the air? Make baskets out of them? Put them in a big pile and jump in them, like leaves in the fall? Put them in a pipe and smoke them? Ha ha! How ridiculous!! 

I remember away back in the 1950's, when I'd do jobs for the neighbors as a little kid, pulling weeds in the hot, miserable heat and humidity of St. Louis was the absolute worst job in the world! 

I would often imagine myself in the hottest part of Hades, sweating like a fake news guy at a Trump rally, suffering for eternity, in agonizing, sweltering heat! (I know, Trump wasn't the president when I was a kid, but using Eisenhower would not really work for this illustration) 

Why would someone in their right mind believe weeds have anything remotely related to recreation! 

They also mentioned "pot" sales starting in January. 

I guess that's where people will put their weeds? I don't know!

 Have a great Friday, folks!!