A Not-Greedy Oil Company
It’s funny how a random memory will pop into your head out of nowhere. Everyone has bad things to say about greedy oil companies, but here is a 100% true story. My mother had had a Texaco credit card for at least 30 years, and had always paid the bill off every month. She was 59 when my step father died, and wouldn’t be able to get Social Security until she was 60. She had no income, but still had to be able to get to doctor appointments. So she used her Texaco card to get gas as needed, but the bills started piling up, unpaid. …
Introduction
Welcome to my personal blog! Some of you already know me, and some of you don’t. But either way, I urge you to read this (very long) introductory post before you read the regular blog posts. It will lay the groundwork for various topics I’ll be covering, and perhaps prevent some confusion. (Affiliate Disclaimer) I’ve had a chaotic life with a wider range of experiences than most people have. I’ll be posting about my own experiences, people I’ve known, my thoughts about things, many interesting observations I’ve had. Some of the things I’ll be posting about: Wherever I Go, There I Am I’ve been homeless, and I’ve lived up the…
Christians Only (Update Aug 10)
Links to “Christians Only” posts will be in here. That will make it easy for those who aren’t interested to skip them, and those who want to read them will still find them easily. Every time I publish a new post in that category, it will go at the top of the list. Click the titles below to visit the post you want to see. Please Note: These posts are “hidden” to keep them off the front page. Unfortunately, hidden posts can’t have a comment box. If you want to reply to one of them, come back to this primary post to comment, and indicate which post you’re discussing. …
How the West Wasn’t Won
I love love LOVE watching old Western shows- from the early silent films, to the 30s and 40s matinee series to the 50’s TV shows. They can be dramatic, funny, suspenseful, romantic, corny, high quality or low budget. But whatever the flavor, they seldom reflect reality. ANIMALS Horses can gallop hard for 25 miles or more without ever slowing down or even breaking a sweat. A pair or group of men are travelling through the desert. They briefly stop to talk or look around. Right there in front of each horse is a neat little pile of hay for them to nibble on while they’re waiting to move again.…
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni Did you ever wonder what that second line means? To be “macaroni” was to be sophisticated, upper class, and worldly. In “Yankee Doodle,” the British were mocking what they perceived as the Americans’ lack of class. The first verse is satirical because a doodle—a simpleton—thinks that he can be macaroni, i.e., fashionable, simply by sticking a feather in his cap. This nonsense song was originally sung by the British military to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial “Yankees” during the French and Indian War. It was written at Fort Crailo around 1755…
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The Ben Ben Stone
I frequently see posts on social media and elsewhere on the internet about the Ben Ben Stone. The text accompanying the photo varies, but typically goes something like this: The Pyramid of Ben Ben has puzzled scientists for thousands of years and until now they have not been able to solve the puzzle. The pyramid is located in the Egyptian Museum. The pyramid is made of black iron stone, which is only found in space in space meteorites. All its components do not exist on the face of the Earth.. And here the second puzzle appears because it is iron stone, which is very impossible and difficult to shape and…
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