These things happen.....

Our friends on the month long cruise are on their way to Bora Bora. Last week it was Pago Pago and now it's Bora Bora. It sounds like the character Tommy Two-Times from "GoodFellows" is doing the narrative. I guess they will be seeing mora mora of Bora Bora soon.

"You have to play smart. You have to capitalize on the other teams errors." Bob Costas, no. Mike Ditka, no. Tony Dungee, no. These two quotes were from Wanda. I think it may be time to limit her sports viewing.

Friday morning Wanda made a trip to the recycle station. The running total of our returns is now $952.86. Not bad for picking up cans and plastic while on our walks.

Lindsay Lohan served less than one day of her thirty day sentence for a probation violation. Due to overcrowded jails, minor offenses like hers are released early, very early. About the time it takes to process in and process out.

How about we find a large area somewhere in the country that's good for nothing and enclose it with razor wire. Give the prisoners a tent and three meals a day and there you go, or, there they go.

I am one of those people who has a hard time with time. I don't care that the clocks reads 9:19 this morning. My body thinks it's an hour later. I wish they would stop screwing around with the time twice a year. Saturday night and Sunday morning we changed all the clocks in the house, except the one on the alarm pad. I never have been able to figure that one out. 

A little catch-up on some of the more interesting news of the day.

A 54-year-old carpenter in Wantage, England, accidentally cut off his own penis while working with a saw.

His mother told The Sunday Telegraph her son had been cutting wood for a cabinet when the saw inflicted the horrific injury. Surgeons were able to reattach the severed appendage.

"Stuart is a carpenter and uses sharp and sometimes dangerous tools. This was an unfortunate accident but these things happen all the time to people in his profession."

WHAT? These things happen all the time to people in his profession? I would be willing to bet the farm this has only happened once or twice to other carpenters.

Thousands of Dutch believe in the impending end of civilization, and while theories on the supposed catastrophe varied, most tied the 2012 date to the end of the Mayan calendar, Radio Netherlands reported Monday.

De Volkskrant said many of those interviewed are stocking up on emergency supplies, including life rafts and other equipment.

Some who spoke to the newspaper were optimistic about the end of civilization.

"You know, maybe it's really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed," Petra Faile said. "I don't like it here anymore. Take immigration, for example. They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse."

I don't know if we need to worry? But, just in case, I am going to do my part for the good old USA. Starting tomorrow I'll cut down on cookies, pie, and cake.