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What I Heard This Week 02-22-2024

What I Heard This Week February 21, 2024

 

In Arizona (you thought I was going to say Florida, didn’t you), an alligator floating in a pond received quite a few 911 calls from concerned residents. One person reported they saw three live alligators – one under the bridge and one that was swimming around; while another person stated that the alligator bit their boyfriend’s fishing line and they had to cut it. The only problem was that the very realistic-looking, single alligator was made of foam and had been placed there by the City of Mesa Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities so that the ducks, birds, turtles, and other animals would have a place to gather and hang out. They also added a fake crocodile and two fake hippos. This is one good example of why you can’t believe everything you hear… read… OR SEE.

More positive vacation news. A disruptive incident (fistfight/brawl) occurred onboard, in the air, on a Southwest flight from Oakland to Kauai. There is even an available video, foul language, hitting and blood. The two men are now facing criminal charges of up to $37,000. Together or each – don’t know. I just hope it includes jail time, losing their jobs, plus a lifetime ban on flying. It just doesn’t make any sense that people are so unhappy, now believing that any kind of behavior is acceptable.

I have officially resigned from adulthood. Decisions will be made using the eenie-meenie-miney-moe method and arguments will be settled by sticking out my tongue. I’ll be at recess if you need me.

Have you heard of West Side Story, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, or the song, Send in the Clowns? This past weekend I worked with several new and old friends, bussing tables and washing dishes as ticket holders were served a Valentine dinner of salad, lasagna, and crème brulee during a musical presentation of Side by Side by Sondheim at Center Stages.  We are so lucky to have such talented individuals in our community to pull off something as grand as this performance, especially since tickets were just $40, for dinner theatre! Even better were discussions of the lyrics of the Sondheim songs I heard from Mary while we worked.  If you think you might enjoy being a volunteer in art, theater, science, space, or music, or even washing dishes, there is a place for you at The Center for the Arts and Sciences. They are having a Volunteer Open House on March 2 from 11 am to 1 pm. This will give you an opportunity to check out the art gallery & studio, two theaters, science museum, and planetarium, all while visiting with staff and volunteers. There are opportunities for museum attendants, set builders, art classes, servers at intermission… the list is endless. Volunteering helps you live longer, relieves stress as it releases endorphins that encourages prosocial behavior, empathy, concern for others, and puts you in such a good mood that you don’t get into fights on planes. Surely, I have convinced you! If you want to volunteer, you couldn’t ask for a better place. Questions: Contact ahelms@bcfas.org or 979-265-7661. This Thursday is the BASF Planetarium Scholastic Bowl, an evening of trivia and fun. You may want to have your own team answering questions about art, science, pop culture and local interests. It is SO MUCH FUN.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere. Stephen Sondheim

Daylight Saving Time: I am really enjoying the daylight lasting longer each day. Teller and I go walking downtown in the afternoons, and he really enjoys it, smelling and hiking his leg on EVERYTHING. On March 10, 2024, if all goes well, we will SPRING forward again.

Charlotte the Stingray, age 12-14 years, is about to give birth…any day now. The problem is that Charlotte hasn’t been around any male stingrays in her tank at the North Carolina aquarium. One possibility is either Larry or Moe mated with Charlotte… but Larry and Moe are little sharks. The only other explanation is that Charlotte is going through a very rare process called parthenogenesis, where eggs develop on their own without fertilization and create a clone of the mother. The last study of parthenogenesis in stingrays took place 25 years ago. When Charlotte gives birth (she could have as many as four pups), and if they survive, they will have to double the size of Charlotte’s current home. DNA testing can then be performed to determine if they’re a mixed breed (mutt) or clones of their mother. They called it a once in a blue moon experience. Isn’t science and nature great. Where there is a will, there is a way.

“In French, you don’t say ‘I miss you.’ You say, ‘Tu me manques’, which means ‘you are missing from me.’ I love that.”

According to the Presidential Greatness Project, the New Survey of Scholars finds Abraham Lincoln is the favorite and remains America’s Greatest President. Here is the list. Some may surprise you; some may NOT surprise you.
2024 Ranking of Presidents
#1. Lincoln  2.FD Roosevelt  3.Washington  4.T Roosevelt  5.Jefferson  6.Truman  7.Obama  8. Eisenhower  9.LB Johnson  10.Kennedy  11.Madison  12.Clinton  13.J Adams  14.Biden  15.Wilson  16.Reagan  17.Grant  18.Monroe  19.GHW Bush  20.JQ Adams  21.Jackson  22.Carter  23.Taft  24.McKinley  25.Polk  26.Cleveland  27.Ford  28.Van Buren  29.Hayes  30.Garfield  31.Harrison  32.GW Bush  33.Arthur  34.Coolidge  35.Nixon  36.Hoover  37.Tyler  38.Taylor  39.Fillmore 40.Harding  41.Harrison  42.Pierce  43.Johnson  44.Buchanan  45.Trump.

Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet. Maya Angelou

Golf legend Tiger Woods announced his 27-year partnership with Nike is over. This comes right after Nike announced plans to cut $2 billion in costs over the next three years. Velvet Taco is opening their first airport location at Hobby. If you have never, ever had a Velvet Taco, you’re in for a treat. Cat Food: I’ve said this before, check the ingredients in your cat food. Many popular brands, even ones labeled healthy or natural, contain powdered cellulose derived from wood pulp, also known as sawdust.

Estate Planning: Legendary songwriter genius, Beach Boy Brian Wilson recently lost his wife of almost 30 years. She was his caregiver and managed his daily needs before her death on January 30. But there was no successor to his late wife. His family has now filed to put Wilson under a conservatorship because of his recent diagnosis of dementia. Two longtime Brian Wilson representatives, his publicist and manager, will now oversee his personal and medical decisions, but not his estate and finances.  Jay Leno has filed for conservatorship over his wife’s estate after her dementia diagnosis, in order to create a living trust so that she has managed assets in case of his death.

Sitting here at my desk eating the remains of my lunch, a salad from Luby’s with sunflower seeds, cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, purple cabbage, mushrooms and of course, lettuce. There are so few places in town to get a good to-go side salad, so I just thought I should remind you. It was such a nice addition to my lunch of my roasted chicken, fried okra, and mashed potatoes. Yeah, Luby’s. Liver and onions next week.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.  Oscar Wilde

Capital One is set to buy Discover for $35.3 billion. The credit card industry is dominated by Visa, Mastercard and American Express, with Discover in 4th place. The most interesting part of this is hearing Americans are deep in debt with a record high of more than $1.1 trillion. On the morning news it said 49% of cardholders carry debt from month to month, and an average credit card balance is $6,088. The Rule of Thumb: pay off your credit card balance every month except for emergencies. A $5.25 Starbucks Caramel Macchiato is NOT an emergency.

William “Bill” Post died at 96. Who in the heck is Bill Post? Well, in the early 60’s, he was plant manager at Hekman Biscuit Co. One day a bunch of suits (VP’s) showed up with their vision – a piece of pie in the shape of a slice of bread, complete with fork marks around the edge… basically just two pieces of dough with filling. The guys requested they needed something like that… except they wanted it toaster-ready. Post promised them he would have something in two weeks. They were originally called fruit scones, but Andy Warhol’s pop art was very popular, so it became Pop-Tarts. In 1964, there was strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon and apple currant. In 2022 consumers bought 3 billion Pop Tarts…that’s almost a billion dollars in pop-tarts sales. I know I ate plenty when I was a kid. Bet you did too. Hope you have a great weekend.

Thanks for reading us this week. Please sell something.

Lisa

Send comments to Lisa Baker at lisa@thesourceweekly.com

What I Heard This Week 04-07-2022

What I Heard This Week April 6, 2022

This week, a particularly good, and funny friend, sent me a picture of what looked like a gun shop loaded with walls of firearms. Like the wall in Academy. Below where the guns hung, there was a bakery counter stocked full of fresh donuts, eclairs, puff pastry, cinnamon rolls and more… right next to a rolling cart stacked high with pastries that they hadn’t yet put out. Her note attached said, “My political views are whatever this is!” I can see where she’s coming from.

Elon Musk, a frequent Twitter critic, is now joining the platform on their Board of Directors. Hmmm. This announcement came one day after he acquired a 9.2% stake in the company, making him by far the largest shareholder. Musk has also been known to tweet misinformation, along with less than complimentary statements about journalists and other individuals; like comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler, which was quickly deleted. Twitter’s stock jumped 27% Monday. Elon Musk’s net worth is about $300 billion, $100 billion over Jeff Bezos.

Tiger Woods announced that he will play in the Masters Tournament and believes he can win. He’s just worried about all the necessary walking.  A number of Republicans have criticized Mitt Romney because he is backing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court.  GM and Honda are teaming up to build a $30,000 electric car. JetBlue has now offered to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.6 billion. Wait, hadn’t Frontier Airlines agreed to buy Spirit for $2.9 billion? Hmmm. Someone is having a bidding war.  A West Virginia angler landed a 51-pound Muskie (white filleted flesh compared to lobster when prepared with butter), setting a state record for the species. He called friends for assistance in taking photos and keeping the fish alive until it could be released back into the lake.  Flowering plants in Antarctica are growing at an unprecedented speed, a rare spectacle showing a tipping point of the climate crisis. Yep, we now have flowers where it used to be too cold.

On April 13th in NY, the Bonhams Space History will auction lunar dust collected by American astronaut Neil Armstrong from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Just think… man’s first steps on the Moon. The sale of this specimen marks the first time a part of the Apollo 11 contingency sample, which has been evaluated and verified, can be sold at auction. Still in the case from NASA, it is estimated to bring between $800,000 to $1,200,000.

A man named Simon who lives in Oklahoma, found a green tree frog in his boxed lettuce from Whole Foods. Because society seems to be looking for everything, and everybody that seems to ‘wrong them’ in the world, I was sure this story would end up with the guy throwing a fit and suing. No. This is an incredibly happy story. Simon said it was too cold outside on the night he found the little guy in his lettuce, so he put him back in the lettuce box, made him a bathtub with water in a Mason jar lid, and named him Tony. The next day Simon bought Tony worms to eat and upgraded him to a little orange habitat that stayed in the bathroom. Tony was happy. Simon was happy. Tony escaped a few times but was always found. At Christmas, he even had his own stocking. All along, Simon just wanted the best for Tony… release him or keep him? Then Simon got Tony a terrarium mansion, and knew the frog was going to stay with him. Oh, now I need to tell you the best part of the story. When Simon was 10, he was given a 50% chance of surviving leukemia. While he was sick in the hospital, his favorite companion in his hospital bed was a stuffed green tree frog. I saw the pictures. I am blubbering right now.

RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Singer Peggy Lennon of the Lennon Sisters is 80. I remember watching them on the Lawrence Welk Show at my Granny and Pawpaw’s house. Guitarist Steve Howe of Yes and Asia is 74. Bassist Mel Schacher of Grand Funk Railroad is 70. Singer-actor John Schneider of The Dukes of Hazzard is 61. Singer Julian Lennon is 58. Actor Robin Wright is 55. Actor Patricia Arquette is 53.

Actor Michael Learned of The Waltons is 82. Country singer Margo Smith is 79. Actor Dennis Quaid is 67. Actor Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City is 55. Actor Keshia Knight Pulliam of The Cosby Show is 42. Actor Kristen Stewart of Twilight is 31. Actor Elle Fanning of Because of Winn-Dixie is 23. Musician Lil Nas X is 22. Singer Jackie Evancho is 21. Actor Steven Seagal is 69.

Estelle Harris, 93, the actor known for playing George Costanza’s mother on Seinfeld, died at 93. Bobby Rydell, American singer, actor, and teen idol, died at 79. His songs included Wild One and Volare, and he appeared in Bye Bye Birdie in 1963.

The Dairy Bar Celebration, in recognition of its 70 years of doing business in LJ, was postponed in September due to Hurricane Nicholas. Well, Let’s try again. SATURDAY, APRIL 9 from 11:00-2:00 p.m. on the grounds of the LJ Historical Museum. Food, Music, and 1950’s Fun. Mary Harnden, daughter of long-time owners Dorothy and Slim Harnden, will present an oral history in the museum rotunda at 1:15. Period clothing encouraged. So, grab your bobby socks, poodle skirts, penny loafers and more, head over there to say thank-you, and help them celebrate. If you have never had a Dairy Bar Cheeseburger, then you are probably the only person in town that hasn’t. Good memories.

Sometimes I talk to myself, then we both laugh and laugh.

I have shared this with you before, but it spoke to me again, so here it is. Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty, and life. Either way, you win.

Jon Batiste walked into the 2022 Grammy Awards with the most nominations (11) then walked away with the most wins, picking up five prizes. Yes, five, including Album of the Year, Best Music Video for his song Freedom; Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song for Cry; and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for the animated film Soul which was a fabulous movie. Following him was Silk Sonic with four awards. I LOVE Jon Batiste, and I love Silk Sonic. It was a good night for music.

In California, a man found a 7-foot Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake coiled up back behind his couch cushion… in his home. Not his garage, shop, or back porch. The snake removal man says that this breed of snake is a rare find, adding, “You’d be luckier (likely) to find a Rolex sitting on the ground than a snake like this.” Hmmm. No one knows where it came from. Thank you, but I’ll take the Rolex.

We’ve been given a warning by science and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.”
– Bill McKibben

A 59-year-old Florida man was driving down a road in the middle of the night and hit an 11-foot alligator, which caused him to veer off the road, crash, and overturn into a ditch, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. An A380 superjumbo jet just completed a flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel or SAF, made mostly of used cooking oil and waste fats, and operating with a single Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine Ken Burns has a new two-part, four-hour PBS documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

There are now only five remaining rhino species worldwide, and all are threatened. Some sub-species have already vanished like the western black rhino of western Africa, which was declared extinct in 2013, due to poaching. The last male northern white rhino died in 2020.  They were poached for their horns, which are coveted ingredients in traditional Asian medicine. An extremely rare Sumatran rhino, the world’s smallest rhino, was born at a sanctuary in Indonesia recently. I saw her picture and she is definitely so ugly, she is cute.

“We are being governed by a bunch of children,” says Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger. “By a bunch of people that are not serious about running the United States of America and truly don’t understand the threat that’s out there from Vladimir Putin, from China and from some of these actors in the world that want to destroy our place here.” He continued, “The world order is being challenged for the first time since World War II and they’re sitting around thinking today about how we can win our next election, what the newest outrage is, what’s the next thing we can do to get people angry and upset and get their money from them for our re-election.” I wonder if anyone is listening.

Reese Witherspoon’s production company has adapted the bestselling novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing” for the big screen due to be released July 15, 2022 and will feature a brand-new song by Taylor Swift. It was Amazon’s most sold fiction book for all of 2019.

Will you miss switching your clocks forward and backwards? In a surprise move, the Senate unanimously passed (wow, they agreed on something) legislation making daylight saving time, which began last month, permanent for the entire U.S. starting in 2023, after input from airlines and broadcasters. It is called the Sunshine Protection Act. The National Association of Convenience Stores opposes the change, telling Congress “We should not have kids going to school in the dark.” I can’t find whether the decision has been made whether to support daylight or standard time as the permanent choice. We will wait to see if Biden signs it.

“The war doesn’t let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

The war still rages in Ukraine, but now we are actually seeing and hearing the horrors that are so extremely hard for us to unsee. Civilians being blindfolded, hands bound, and shot in the head. Women raped in front of their children. Mass graves, children killed, all while Putin continues with lies and deception to his own country. Please keep them in your prayers.

May your week be filled with good thoughts, kind people and happy moments. Don’t forget… Art Car Parade April 9th. That always makes me happy.

LISA

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What I Heard This Week! April 18, 2019

What I Heard This Week April 18, 2019

Yikes. The headline says, ‘Lori Loughlin pleads not guilty in college cheating scandal.’ What? I’m on the outside looking in, but it would sure seem to me that she is digging a crater for her and her husband. Instead, to be able to come out and say that she has made a huge mistake would be the very best example that she could set for her daughters who obviously need a good role model right now. I see harsh sentencing. Are they just getting horrible legal advice? (Maybe she is actually, seriously ill, with a case of “Affluenza.”) On the other hand, Felicity Huffman and 12 other parents have agreed to plead guilty. I bet they get a slap on the hand and a fine. Community service hours would be the best sentencing for all of them. Humbling, especially if it was working with kids trying to get into college, working two jobs with no car.

If you see a rabbit laying little brown eggs, don’t eat them. It’s not chocolate.

Happy 70th Anniversary to Wallace and Margaret Schlemmer. You have done what most people only wish and pray for. And you’ve done it for 70 years. Wow!

Tiger Woods, age 43, did it again by winning his fifth Masters tournament and a new green jacket; his first since 2005. (He also won $2.05 million, the standard 18% of the total pot, but I’m sure that it wasn’t very important to him…wink, wink.) Woods won his first Masters title at age 21. Rumor has it that this could be considered the greatest career comeback in the history of golf. Woods seems to be a touch more humbled, recently. Well, he needed to be, because he did a lot of damage to his family and his reputation before ‘getting it all together.’ President Trump is so impressed that he says he will be presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Huh?!? I guess I was under the impression that those awards were given to people that discover amazing things in medicine or someone that saves the lives of hundreds of orphans or something like that. Not always. In 2016 honorees from the sports world included basketball players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan, along with veteran sports broadcaster Vin Scully. Entertainers included Ellen DeGeneres, Diana Ross, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford and Bruce Springsteen. Color me wrong.

Notre-Dame Cathedral sits on an island in the River Seine and marks the very center of Paris. It is one of France’s most visited places, with more than 12-million visitors per year – nearly double the people who visit the Eiffel Tower. No one was injured when a fire broke out there this week engulfing the spire, which collapsed followed by most of the roof. As of 04/17, nearly $1 billion has been promised from both rich & poor worshippers, small towns around the world, the parent companies of Louis Vuitton, Sephora, Gucci, Apple, L’Oréal, Chanel, and Dior, in order to help rebuild. Some of the most prized, centuries-old relics of France and Christianity, including the replica of The Crown of Thorns, which Jesus is said to have worn during his crucifixion by the Romans, were among the treasures that survived. It gives me shivers thinking about it, especially at Easter time.

Climate change is the most important story of our time. As caretakers of our Earth, we need to make better decisions. Yes, it’s overwhelming, but unless we start today, nothing is going to change, except to get worse. You have all experienced the changes, but what you do about it as an individual, really matters. Demand change from others. Reduce your waste. Use less energy. Talk to your friends and family. Pay more attention to what you buy and what you eat. How you travel. Stay informed and do your part to make this a better place than you found it. Earth Day is April 22.  Plant a tree. Pick up trash. Make a difference.

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.  C.M. Crowe

RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall is 85. Singer Tony Orlando is 75. Actor David Hyde Pierce is 60. Dr. Niles Crain on Frasier. Comedian actor Eddie Murphy is 58. American zoologist Jim Fowler is 89. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Actor Dennis Quaid is 65. Actress model Paulina Porizkova is 54. Actress Cynthia Nixon is 53. Sex and the City.  Actress Keisha Knight Pulliam is 40. The Cosby Show. Sportscaster John Madden is 83. Actor Steven Seagal is 67.

Actor Haley Joel Osment is 31. The Sixth Sense. Actor Joel Grey is 87. Cabaret. Actress Louise Lasser is 80. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Married to Woody Allen from 1966-1970. Actor Peter Riegart is 72. Donald “Boon” Schoenstein in Animal House. Musician Herbie Hancock is 79. Musician John Kay is 75. Steppenwolf. Talk show host David Letterman is 72. Singer J.D. Nicholas is 67. The Commodores. Actor Andy Garcia is 63. Country singer Vince Gill is 62.

Actor Lyle Waggoner is 84. The Carol Burnett Show.  Musician Jack Casady is 75. Jefferson Airplane. Actor Tony Dow is 74. Leave it to Beaver. Musician Al Green is 73. Actor Ron Perlman is 69. Actor Ricky Shroder is 49. Director Francis Ford Coppola is 80. Singer guitarist John Oates is 71. Hall and Oates. Ethel Kennedy is 91. Classical crossover singer Jackie Evanacho is 19. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 87. Actress Julie Christie is 79. Queen Elizabeth turns 93 on April 21.

April the 18th is International Juggler’s Day. On this occasion, I celebrate the people that work with me at The Source Weekly because they are the best jugglers ever; people that can multi-task like nobody’s business. Thank you to each and every one of them for making sure that this office works the best it can, each and every day!

Why do we have eyebrows? Do you know? Me neither, but when I spent more than a minute thinking about it, I figured I needed to know because I invest a lot of money to make it look like I have two of them. According to Mental Floss, “Eyebrows are the Swiss Army Knife of the human body – they do everything! First and foremost, they protect your eyes. The shape of the brow ridge and the brows themselves channel sweat, rain, and moisture away from the eyeballs so your vision stays clear. Second, they’re essential for nonverbal communication.” So, this tells me that if a good rainstorm comes, I’ll probably drown.

Question: What do you call ten rabbits marching backwards? Answer: A receding hareline.

Jamie Adams, a former Wall Street trader who opened Saint James Brewery in Long Island nearly two decades ago, says he and fellow divers salvaged bottles of beer from the SS Oregon, a luxury liner sailing from Liverpool to New York that sank off Fire Island in 1886. With this beer, they extracted the yeast, then spent the next two years brewing test batches to get just the right taste. Adams believes the yeast from the sunken ship is descended from the lineage used by Bass Brewers in England to make a brand called King’s Ale, which is no longer produced. The new beer has a slightly fruity taste with a hoppy finish and is a replication of what would have been served on that ship in 1886. The taste is also described as absolutely fantastic.

April the giraffe (remember her live stream) has given birth again and it’s a very tall boy. Almost two years after her last countdown that captivated us all, April welcomed her 5’11” calf to Animal Adventure Park in NY. His name is Azizi (Ah-Zee-Zee) which means “beloved precious; mighty.”

In Huffman, Texas, George Foreman’s garage caught fire and is believed to be the fault of a golf cart among the forty cars in the garage. Forty cars? That’s not a garage, that’s a bus terminal. Yikes.

Bend, Oregon will be home to the only Blockbuster Video store left standing after more than 9,000 of them closing since 2004.

Andrew Francis Lippi, 59, had just closed on an $8 million island called Thompson Island, off Key West, when he was arrested for returning several items that he had purchased at Kmart. It seems that he bought several boxed items including a Keurig coffeemaker and light bulbs, then returned the original boxes for refunds, aaahhh, but the boxes were stuffed with other items including a basketball. He had many smart remarks including, “The clerk should have known there was no coffeemaker inside the box because of the weight.” Hmmm.

Bugatti just unveiled the most expensive new car ever built. The French luxury sports car brand started showing off the Bugatti La Voiture Noire, which has a price tag of nearly $19 million USD. No, you can’t have one. They only built one and it has been sold to a mystery buyer, believed to be the former chairman of Volkswagen Group. Just my luck. Day late and dollar short. In this case, $19 million short.

Burger King is introducing the Impossible Whopper at 59 restaurants in the St. Louis area. This is a meatless patty that uses heme, an iron-rich protein that is believed to taste like beef. The heme is blended with a combination of other vegetarian ingredients that give it about the same amount of protein as the regular Whopper, with 15% less fat and 90% less cholesterol. Hmmm. I don’t eat much meat but when I do, I want a good juicy steak.

More than 500 cases of measles have been reported in NY, 332 of them since January with more than 40 new cases just last week. The health commissioner for Rockland County, NY, announced, “Anyone who is unvaccinated, has a laboratory-confirmed case of measles, has been identified by a health investigation as being exposed to measles and is under age 18 will be issued an order to essentially stay at home for up to 21 days depending on when they were exposed and when the county learns of the exposure.” Ruppert said that children must have proof of vaccination, immunity or an exemption form on file at schools and childcare facilities in order to attend. Parents and guardians are responsible for minors, and failure to comply is $2,000 per day. It’s the 29th week of fighting the measles outbreak – the longest lasting current outbreak in the entire nation and the largest outbreak in NY State in 30 years.

A 61-year-old Nebraska woman served as a surrogate mother for her son, Matthew, and his husband, Elliot, who married in 2015 and wanted to start a family. Matthew’s mom was approved as a surrogate after extensive screening, then Elliot’s sister stepped up as the egg donor and Matthew was the sperm donor. Uma Louise Dougherty-Eledge weighed in at 5lbs. 13oz. Tough question:  Would you do this for your children? Being a parent has definitely been the most important part of my life, so yes, I guess so.

The odds of having sextuplets are estimated at one in 4.7 billion. A Houston woman gave birth to six babies at Women’s Hospital of Texas last month. Two sets of twin boys and one set of twin girls weighed from one lb. 12 oz. to two lb. 14 oz.

Thanks to Angela Garrett at Brazosport College for her help and to Mike at Reece Supply for ordering all the necessary foam board for all those kids at UH. It was appreciated. April 18th is Newspaper Columnist Day. Woohoo.  (I’ll celebrate anything!) Dear Easter Bunny, please fill my eggs with health and happiness and deliver them to everyone that I love.

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  • What I Heard This Week 10-26-2023

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    Former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, recently remarried for the fourth time, which also happened to be on the occasion of his 93rd birthday. This time it was to Dr. Anca Faur, his 63-year-old, long-time companion (who looks like she wants to be 27), has a PhD in chemical engineering, and is now the executive vice president of Aldrin’s company, Buzz Aldrin Ventures.  He was first married to Joan Ann Archer in 1954 until divorcing in 1974. The next year he married Beverly Van Zile; they divorced after three years. His third marriage was to Lois Driggs Cannon in 1988 on Valentine's Day, divorcing 23 years later. Looks like he hasn’t given up on ‘love’ quite yet. He has sued two of his children and his former business manager claiming they stole money from him and are slandering his legacy, and that they also undermined his "personal romantic relationships" by forbidding him from getting married. His children say he is also spending money at an alarming rate. Sounds like those children are out of luck. There is a new sheriff in town and her name is MRS. Aldrin. ☹ Notes: Aldrin is also a strong advocate for human exploration of Mars. In 2002, he escaped assault charges after punching a man who demanded he swear on a Bible that the Moon landing was not staged. Good for him. He also said, “Tang sucks. “

  • What I Heard This Week 11-30-2023

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    Former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, recently remarried for the fourth time, which also happened to be on the occasion of his 93rd birthday. This time it was to Dr. Anca Faur, his 63-year-old, long-time companion (who looks like she wants to be 27), has a PhD in chemical engineering, and is now the executive vice president of Aldrin’s company, Buzz Aldrin Ventures.  He was first married to Joan Ann Archer in 1954 until divorcing in 1974. The next year he married Beverly Van Zile; they divorced after three years. His third marriage was to Lois Driggs Cannon in 1988 on Valentine's Day, divorcing 23 years later. Looks like he hasn’t given up on ‘love’ quite yet. He has sued two of his children and his former business manager claiming they stole money from him and are slandering his legacy, and that they also undermined his "personal romantic relationships" by forbidding him from getting married. His children say he is also spending money at an alarming rate. Sounds like those children are out of luck. There is a new sheriff in town and her name is MRS. Aldrin. ☹ Notes: Aldrin is also a strong advocate for human exploration of Mars. In 2002, he escaped assault charges after punching a man who demanded he swear on a Bible that the Moon landing was not staged. Good for him. He also said, “Tang sucks. “

  • Much Ado About Nothing - Texan in Winter

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    The power went out at my house last night for four hours. While this may not seem like a major catastrophe as it was the middle of the night and […]

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