Miscellaneous

• Number of work days (counting today) until I retire,
• Winner on your first throw of the dice, loser any throw thereafter,
• Number of age spots on the back of my left hand [TMI?], and
• an extremely unusual “beats per measure” in music (very likable example here).

“Hey you, get back to work!”

• 7:00AM Quick blog (hence, the total absence of profound – deal with it)
• 7:30AM Face rake, shower, teeth, clothes – yesterday’s jeans are fine but I’m two days into that shirt and going out in public; that has to change
• 8:00AM Road – Wow, so this is what “rush hour” is like – I remember this!
• 9:00AM Mayo Clinic, Prevnar 13 shot, ban the bad pneumonia
• 9:30AM Road (approx.)
• 10:30AM Walgreens – Decaf is on sale; clean ’em out
• 11:00AM … uhm, close enough – *s*l*o*w*l*y* fix something for lunch
• Noon - “Show up” at the office and try to look productive – when you’ve worked from home for twenty years, this is a total no-brainer
• 4:30PM - Knock off early. I’m retiring soon, you know?

Today’s chuckle courtesy of my Android tablet’s spam filter:

No matter how many times I chase this around the bush, I come back to the same conclusions:

Ever see the “fiduciary” at McDonalds?

Fiduciary - A person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.

This one is rather obvious – who writes these, pre-teens?

No one knows another’s personal Hell, this is true.

Nonetheless, it is sad, tragic but most of all just supremely disappointing when someone just gives up the possibility of redemption.

Well, this process is what Bullseye shooters do to develop a successful shot plan: We write the steps down, follow those steps and, when something doesn’t work, we figure out how to change that shot plan so we do it right. And then we write down the new shot plan and follow it.

Here’s the time-line to keep in mind.

1. British citizens settled in the New World over a couple of centuries.
2. Britain’s King George, strapped for cash, taxed the colonies to help pay the country’s bills, but did so without consulting his citizenry in that New World – he effectively made them non-citizens.
3. The settlers rose up (1776), kicked the British out and created their own country under the terms of its first “Articles of Confederation” (ratified by the states in 1781).
4. That government failed (was deemed unworkable) on several fronts.
5. A “constitutional convention” then created what we know today as the Constitution of the United States (ratified by the states in 1789).
6. Fearful of the power of the government thusly created, however, that same “constitutional convention” immediately proposed twelve (12) Amendments for consideration by the states.
7. The first two (2) of those were rejected but the remaining ten (10) were approved by the states.
8. “Article the Fourth” in the original proposals, after taking out the two rejected proposals, therefore became the “Second Amendment”.
9. Because they list inherent rights, those ten amendments are known as the “Bill of Rights” – they state rights not granted by governments but, instead, which belong to everyone regardless.

Here is a copy of “Article the Fourth” in the original proposals – click for a larger version.

When you awaken in the middle of the night and your fears take over, that’s the wolf, and its his time. He embodies your worst fears, those you cannot stop, the ones that doom you. Try as you might to banish the wolf and get back to sleep, no more than a moment’s peace comes before his canines flash and he lunges for your throat again.