Making Good Use Of Stimulus Cash!

Yeah, I know. I haven't done a blog posting for many moons, but I HAVE been putting that "stimulus" money to spruce up da houze! 

Paint, brushes, plants, dirt, mulch, towel bars, flower pots, and a lot of stuff I can't recall were all purchased with the cash from our, benevolent, President Trump! 

I just included the Trump thing to tick off my friends who loath Trump. Ha ha!

I really don't know where the money came from, but I don't ask questions when receiving free cash!

So, anyway, we've been planting flowers and tamaters, painting our deck and benches, putting up towel racks, and more things that are just a blur inside this ancient, worn out brain of mine. 

 Therefore, since I write my blog in the morning and do my yard work/painting/remodeling type stuff in the morning, my blog has been suffering, although a lot of you know my blog has suffered for a long time, right?

Just wanted you all to know I ain't dead yet, just trying to fix up the house while the weather is nice, and spend President Trumps money he gave me so generously. Whoops, I did it again.

Out Of This World Wednesday

Preparing To Travel Through Time Portal!

Gary - "Chihuahua, Rosie! I cannot believe the Supreme Command has ordered us to travel back in time to Earth, to fix all of the problems in the year 2020!"

Rosie - "Talk about an impossible mission!"

Gary - "I just DID talk about an impossible mission, Rosie! Weren't you listening?"

Rosie - "I was just...never mind."

Gary - "We are STILL suffering from the effects of earth year 2020 throughout the universe! Social distancing has never REALLY gone away, so the population of the universe is WAY down, the beings that go poo poo are still hoarding TP, and a lot of restaurants have never reopened since then! It's been 20, 000 years, for goodness sake!"

Rosie - "You know what that means, Gary?"

Gary - "Yes! We break our Glirkazoidian oath, and give up before we start! We will tell the Supreme Command that we're honoring the ages old "shelter in place" order!"

Rosie - "Don't be a silly gloose, Gary! (A gloose is like a goose on planet Glirka) You know the super hard stuff we always do, and the impossible just takes us a little longer!"

Glirkazoid Gloose (goosikis-beaglium)

Gary - "Very well, Rosie...but if I get eaten or killed in any way, I'll be very angry with you!!"

Rosie - "Cool beans! We need to gather up all the stuff we'll need to take with us in the "time portal", so we can survive the rigors of 2020 on earth."

Gary - "Okay, what do you suggest, Survival Queen?"

Rosie - "Comfortable sneakers would be first on the list, because this was a time before "beaming" everywhere, like we do on Glirka."

Gary - "Air Jordans. Check ✔"

Rosie - "We will also need face masks, due to the coronavirus pandemic, but they should be stylish!"

Gary - "Masks by Ralph Lauren. Check ✔"

Rosie - "In addition, we will have to have cash, to purchase the common food on earth at that time, like McDonalds and Dairy Queen."

Gary " Master and Visa cards. Check ✔ And we can't forget the MOST IMPORTANT item, that ALL earthlings had in 2020!! Smart phones!!"

Rosie - "Good thinking, Gary! We would really stand out as aliens to them, even in our disguises, if we didn't have smart phones!"

As our Glirkazoid globetrotters gather up the necessary items for their passage through the time portal, to the scariest planet in the Milky Way Galaxy, we wonder what methods they will use to change the terrifying events that occurred back in the fateful year of 2020."

Join us next week to find out...or NOT find out, in the next amazing episode of...

What's The Fun In A Feeble, Feckless Font?

With so many impotent issues permeating the whole spectrum of our social mores and tribal influences, we, on this day, shall discuss my new, fun font.

Font - def.
A design for a set of characters. A font is the combination of typeface and other qualities, such as size, pitch, and spacing. For example, Times Roman is a typeface that defines the shape of each character. Within Times Roman, however, there are many fonts to choose from -- different sizes, italic, bold, and so on.

I was so tired of using boring fonts, like...this one. No character or personality, and ESPECIALLY not fun!

Now, compare that mundane old font with this new one. Much better and cuter, right?

I think so, as well! 

I could use this font if I had boring, lifeless readers, but you guys and gals are interesting and full of frenetic fun!! 

Woo hoo!!!

"Danny boy! Why are you discussing a stupid font with so much BAD STUFF hapnin' in the world?" (Proclaimed by a negative Nellie)

Why? It's because of all the BAD STUFF hapnin' in the world!

If you don't get it, you'll need to read a blog with...this font,or this one, or this...but I know you GET IT...TOTALLY!!

That's why I love you!! 

Astronaut Bob Behnken And Me 
Are Almost Old Buddies!

I was totally shocked, surprised and a little bemused, to discover, from my niece, Julie, that astronaut Bob Behnken is from my home town, St. Ann Missouri, and went to Pattonville High School, where I matriculated!! 

Niece Julie

Three clarifications, for you super observant readers:

1. I know you can only matriculate in college, but I love the word.

2. Whenever I did matriculate at Pattonville High School, the janitor mopped it up.

3. I went to the OLD Pattonville and Bobby (that's what I call him) went to the NEW Pattonville.

Old Pattonville

New Pattonville

From way back in the earliest days of  traveling around the globe in what's called an orbit, with monkeys in cute little space suits, I have admired and respected astronauts!

I was there when John Glenn and Alan Shepard did their phenomenal feats of flight, when I watched them on TV at St. Ann Grade School!

Did Bob Behnken attend St. Ann Grade School? Ancient astronaut theorists say YES, but I don't know for sure. 

Satellite view of St. Ann, Mo.

Even though I graduated from Pattonville in 1968 amd Bobby graduated in 1988, I still feel a deep, abiding kinship with him due to our remarkably similar roots. 

It makes me imagine him and me eating White Castle hamburgers together, going to Skylark Bowling Alley together, going to the Airway Drive In Movie Theater in my old English Ford, where it was only a dollar a carload, together, and sharing our ideas about space engineering, rocket science, and cosmic background radiation. 

Cosmic background radiation

Right at this very moment, Bobby is up on that space station, doing space experiments, and probably thinking back to his happy childhood of  hot summer days in St. Ann, going to Northwest Plaza, rooting on the Pattonville Pirates sports teams, and paling around with his old buddies, which would have included me if I had been born twenty years later!!

Green and white, fight fight fight!!

Way to go, Bobby! I'm so happy you applied all the teachings I NEVER taught you!!! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONNA!

One of the most unexplained mysteries of my life, is how I got Donna to be my wife!

Folks are always thinking she's my daughter, when we go someplace new. 

She has the ability to strike up 

conversations with total strangers, has a positive attitude about life, and encourages me, continually, because I do NOT have the ability to strike up conversations, maintain a positive attitude, and I tend to put myself down all the time. 

She said she doesn't mind me mentioning she's 59. She said it's fine!

I bought her wine. 

Birthday Girl, Donna, loves her children and grandchildren to the max!

Those are the facts!

Throughout her life she has had struggles and strife, but has held her head high, I'm so glad she's my wife!

Dear Donna, I'm wishing you all of the best, on your Happy Birthday we'll have DONNA FEST, and celebrate all of the years we've been blessed, today I will serve you, and you'll be my guest!

I LOVE YOU, DONNA!!!!