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The beginning of last week Señora became very ill. We thought she was having an attack of sinusitis or possibly the flu. A few days into it, she lost her sense of taste. Despite having had both doses of the Moderna vaccine, she tested positive for COVID. After a miserable weekend she had the infusion treatment Monday, and she is improving. She remains very fatigued and is still missing the flavor of food.
Out of an abundance of caution, Señora suggested Continue reading “We Bonded”
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“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar hair-cut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” ~~ Sam Ewing, Former Baseball Player, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays
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Since I am always trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent and occasionally prepared, I did not bring up this proposal on October 15, that being National Grouch Day. I did not want to rain on their parade.
Just as an aside my daughter’s birthday is the 15th of October, and while I am sure, like all of us, she can be grouchy at times, that is not how I think of her. She can be, however, very opinionated and does not hesitate to mount a soapbox if the need is there. She truly cannot Continue reading “National Curmudgeon Day”
yeah I know you did not ask!
Señora for Christmas last year bought me a tear off calendar with daily puzzles. Most are fairly easy, but some require a little thought. This is the one that popped up October 14.
Which one does not belong: 22 45 51 96
It was proof positive that 30 years of programming have warped my mental processes. I looked at this, and immediately decided that 96 was the odd man out. Why? We all know about 2 character state codes, AL, MO, AR, OK, MS, etc. But there are many software applications that use a two digit state code ranging from 01 to 51, and for the purpose of these applications the District of Columbia being counted as a state.
When I looked at the answer I knew my logic had been twisted by bits and bytes. As you are racing to tell me, the correct response is 22, being the only one when divided by 3 that does NOT result in a whole number.
Looking for an image, I stumbled across an article on WikiHow titled, How to Become a Curmudgeon. Today, October 15, being National Grouch Day, it is a good day to share the article – link is at the bottom of this posting – and a good day to release my blog post into the wild.
To begin with, I did not realize that there are souls among us aspiring to be curmudgeons. I thought it was something you simply grew into as you became older and wiser. Or alternatively, by the proclamation Continue reading “WikiHow Article – How to Become a Curmudgeon”
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I heard a cynical comment to the recent announcement of a 5.9% cost of living adjustment to Social Security benefits, “Oh that is just Biden attempting to buy votes!
Just a few bits of data for grinding the old mental gears on:
One of our subscribers, channeling his inner Mark Twain, pointed out a typo in my blog posting: Joan of Arc by Mark Twain.
“immorality of the soul” – I think he did believe in that
Immortality, on the other hand, he might have struggled with
Here at Curmudgeon-Alley.com we are always open to corrections, and semi-open to differing opinions since we consider ours as the unsolicited, unreasoned, uninformed and unapologetic ramblings of a very tired old Okie.
And so it goes.
I would have to call this book a two-fer. You have a historical novel, accurate in its facts about the subject, Joan of Arc, delivered by a masterful story teller, Mark Twain. It was the last book of Twain’s published while he lived, and he considered it his best work. Who am I to argue with Samuel Clemens? It is remarkable that this book is not better known. I had no idea until a few weeks ago that he had written such a book. I had bought a two volume set Continue reading “Joan of Arc by Mark Twain”