Women may understand this better than men. Maybe… because men are hunters and women are gatherers. Except, of course, when shopping. (If you YouTube “Defending the Caveman” you will be so entertained with some very funny videos about the communication differences between men and women…). So, the real reason I started this paragraph was to talk about having too much stuff. If I carry a little bitty purse, then I pack it full. If I pull out a medium size purse, then I pack it full. If I haul around a full-size bag or tote, then I pack it full. I don’t know why. It just happens. It’s the mystery of accumulation. We do it with our houses and apartments, too. Like pouring water over rocks, you just find available space. I just read an article about the questions you should ask yourself before you bring anything into your house. 1. Can I afford it? 2. Do I really need it? 3. Do I need it now? 4. Do I have something like it already? 5. Could I find a cheaper substitute? 6. Is this the best deal? Then you need to go home and think about it for a while. They suggested 24 hours, but I think it should be longer. If it’s in my cart long enough, some smart computer sees that and sends me a deal I can’t refuse. That happens a lot. I’m trying to refresh my house and tidy my garage in the next few months, so I hope I’m strong enough to follow some of these rules. I doubt it. I love my stuff.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has started to understand the meaning of life.
Per the Department of Energy: In the summer, keep your curtains closed when you can to help block the heat. Run your ceiling fan which can raise the ac thermostat by 4 degrees, and you will probably feel just as comfortable. During the Beryl power outage, I cut foamboard and placed it over five windows that have direct sun coming in… the difference was unbelievable.
At a Spanx warehouse “somewhere” there is a robot named Digit-the-robot, the first multi-purpose, human-centric robot that does repetitive tasks like moving boxes onto conveyor belts, which frees humans to do other valuable things… like be on their cellphones.
I’m having people over to stare at their phones later if you want to come by…
In case you haven’t heard, there were multiple tap water sites in Houston tested by scientists that had very high levels of a variety of PFAS aka forever chemicals… in fact, these chemicals have been found in at least 45 percent of U.S. drinking water. Not good.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (a very odd man in my book) admitted that about 10 or so years ago when a woman driving in front of him hit a small bear, he loaded up the dead bear cub in his van, and planned to skin it and put the meat in his refrigerator. He had a dinner that ran late that evening, so he didn’t have time to take the dead bear home. Because there were new bicycle lanes in Central Park that had resulted in a few accidents, he decided as a prank to dump the bear in Central Park along with an old bike that was also in his vehicle, making it look like the bear had been hit by a bike. The next morning, the dead bear was on every sort of news, helicopters flying around Central Park, with talk that officials were going to have fingerprints on the bike identified. Then it became old news. Recently a news organization was getting ready to release this story, so Kennedy decided to get ahead of the announcement. Hmmm.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Musician Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens is 76. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 76. Singer Lionel Richie is 75. Actor Meryl Streep is 75. Music company executive Tommy Mottola is 76. Football Hall of Fame Bob Lilly is 85. The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger is 81. Olympic gold medal figure skater Dorothy Hamill is 68. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 76. Singer Maureen McGovern is 75. Actor Sandra Bullock is 60. Author Tom Robbins is 92. Actor – singer Bobby Sherman is 81. Actor Danny Glover is 78. Actor comedian director Albert Brooks is 77. Rock singer Don Henley is 77.
Actor Willem Dafoe is 69. Film composer Alan Menken is 75. Britain’s Prince George of Wales is 11. Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 88. Actor Lynda Carter is 73. Country singer Pam Tillis is 67. Rock musician Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds is 81. Reggae singer Rita Marley is 78. Musician Verdine White of Earth, Wind, & Fire is 73. Model actor Iman is 69. Actor screenwriter Billy Bob Thornton is 69. Former President Barack Obama is 63.
Time to get up and get going. Today’s bad decisions aren’t going to make themselves.
Elizabeth Francis is an American supercentenarian, currently the oldest-living person in the United States following the death of Edie Ceccarelli. She was born July 25, 1909, in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana and currently resides in Houston, Texas. She was born during the Taft presidency, her mother died in 1920, and she and her five siblings were sent to different homes; she was sent to Houston and raised by an aunt. She lived next door to her older sister Bertha Johnson before she died in 2011 at the age of 106, which made her and Francis among the oldest siblings on record. She had another sister who lived to the age of 95, and her father died when he was 88. She raised her children as a single mother. She moved into her current house in 1999, where she now lives with her 95-year-old daughter Dorothy Williams and is cared for by her 69-year-old granddaughter Ethel Harrison. Williams is the oldest person in the world with one living parent. In the 1970s, Francis ran the coffee shop at KTRK-TV in Houston. She never learned to drive, relying on the bus or family members for transportation. What a great story.
Archaeologists found a recipe for beer on scrolls from ancient Egypt dating back to 5.000 BC, making it the oldest recipe in the world.
21-year-old French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati missed his target on his third attempt when his… well, they said that his crouch knocked downed the pole at the Olympics on August 3rd. I do believe that if I was a pole vaulter (and I’m not), and especially if I was a well-endowed pole vaulter, I would have learned to package it up for the Olympics. Evidently the same thing happened at the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016, but not to the same guy. But, if you watch the most recent video, he actually hit the pole with his right knee before anything else hit.
A Texas entrepreneur working to bring back the woolly mammoth has added the dodo bird to his revival list. The dodo went extinct in 1662 as a direct result of human settlement and ecosystem competition. People changed its habitat in such a way that it could not survive. Listening?
This is such a nice quote. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” Rumi
Have a great week.
LISA
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