Only one really good game in the playoffs so far... and it was a doozy! Normally I have the games on and do other things, just listening. But... the end of the Green Bay/Arizona game was worth watching.

Some people get excited about football. I played the game when I was younger (wide receiver and defensive back) and enjoyed playing. To me, watching is kind of boring.

Guess that makes me a bit un-American. lol Canadian football is a bit easier to watch.

Ho, hum... only three more months until baseball season.

Wherever I go, it's always the same: Say something nice to a stranger and they look at you like you're the weirdest person in the world.

Too bad for them! I love life... and all of the quirky people that live in this world. Must be the old hippie in me, to want to spread joy and laughter throughout the world.

It is a hit/miss in the computer world. Some people dig my sense of humor, some take offense. Like the late, great, Henny Youngman once said after a joke bombed: "I hate it when I have to explain 'em."

And so it goes...

PEACE!

Single digits a couple of days ago, 40's today and tomorrow.

Enjoy the ride!

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MY rules. You are a guest here in my world... play nice, or be banned. In other words, love me or leave.

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20 degrees for a high today, wind chill ZERO, falling fast. 30 to 40 mile an hour winds.

I'd love to stay indoors with a warm woman today, but I have to go to work.

Life is NOT fair, sometimes.

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Agree or disagree... it matters not to me in your response. At least I (sometimes) made you feel something. Isn't that a good thing?

Temp dropped from a high yesterday of 51 to 21 today... wind chill around minus 3. Spent a half an hour digging my car out, then warming it up. My toes are cold and my fingers (frost-bitten back in 1985) are numb. The last time I was in Canada, it was 1 degree below zero, and I was walking around in a ski sweater, no coat. You Canucks have some advantages over us in the winter, I think. lol

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Growing up in the 50's and 60's:

In the summer, you left the house after breakfast. You popped in for a quick lunch, and back again for dinner. Play until dark, then take a bath, eat a snack and watch t.v. until bedtime. Outside all of the time, every day. You played all over the neighborhood without adult supervision. You went to the movies on the weekend in town or went swimming and you rode the city bus when you did go to town. Everyone got a summer tan or stayed in the shade. If you were lucky, once you got to high school you borrowed Dad's car to go to a ballgame or a date (and a lot of the times you took your date to the game because it was free to students... you saved your money to buy both of you a snack after the game). No computers... kids used their imagination. No cell phones... one land line in the house, so you had to talk in front of your family. Only five t.v. stations... ABC, CBS, NBC, one independent channel and one PBS channel (after I got to high school). A party after high school was maybe 10 - 15 people... no crashers, no loud music. People actually sat around and talked! We respected our parents, teachers and adults in general. We were not brought up to think that we were special and the center of the universe. Respect for authority has all but disappeared in this country.

Yes, it was a simpler time - if you didn't think about the Cold War, or Viet Nam, or civil rights riots and protests. But we were happier... the suicide rate was almost non-existant.

Now? Kids grow up with adults controlling every activity for them. They stare at their computers and phones, and have trouble interacting with other people. Kids stay in the house so they won't be snatched... and eat too much, exercise too little and get hardly any sun. Sadly, a whole lot of obese, shy and pale children are what our future is becoming.

Do I long for the past? Sure. Can I do anything about it? I try... on an individual basis every day, but I think I'm losing the war.

And so it goes...

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Happily, we're not getting any snow until Sunday morning. 50 degrees... how gloriously weird for this time of year!

And now my cold is back to a single sinus cavity, where it all started.

The human body remains a mystery to moi.

(shrugs)