Last Thursday 4/10/14 was the first of ten palindrome numbered days in succession. All the dates from 4/10/14 to 4/19/14 are the same when read forward or backward. And to think I was a little concerned about the four blood moons in a row. This is truly unnerving..........wow!
Ah ha....I can stop the worry. When you include the full year 2014 the dates are not palindormial (I made up the word). Palindrome dates are extremely rare. There were 43 during the second millennium, none between the 15th and 20th century. There will be a total of 12 in this century. The first was 10/02/2001, the second 01/02/2010, the third 11/02/2011 and the next 02/02/2020. Anything beyond 2020 I leave to younger writers.
I'm amazed this information is truly necessary: Watch out for fake online banks.
The SEC recently filed an action against Timothy J. Coughlin, 63 of Indianapolis, and the Oxford International Credit Union.
Over several years the company collected deposits from more than 5,000 investors worth more than $12.8 million.
The defendants posted false information to investors online accounts to create the appearance that their deposits in the fake credit union were earning substantial daily investment returns.
Coughlin misappropriated at least $5.97 million and used investors money for personal expenses, to fund unrelated business expenses and make distributions to other investors in a classic Ponzi-scheme fashion.
Last night Wanda and I were talking about life and love and money. We have been together since 1987. We were married 10/9/89 which is not a palindrome but very easy to remember. We have similar tastes and outlooks on style and life. We agree, bigger is not better and less is more.
I don't know if we even fall in the middle of the middle class. It's foolish of me to say we wouldn't like, or couldn't use a lottery win but aside from travel and philanthropy we don't need more money. We assuredly have everything we need.
Wanda checks our bank statements on line every day. Not having a great amount of money makes it easy to track. I don't understand how someone can be foolish enough to deposit money in an online bank. Is it the promise of more money and a greater return on their investment? Whatever the reasons, no one deserves to have their future stolen and savings are, after all, part of the future.
As you know I scan the Internet for interesting topics. I saw this last night: Common Phrases We Secretly Hate. Wanda and I both hate "To die for." nothing, I repeat NOTHING is to die for (except your kid a' la Harry Potter). I guarantee you'll be sorry if you take the dirt nap for a gooey chocolaty dessert.
I was listening to a radio interview with an area baseball player. He began every answer with "I mean....." It irritated me. I realize it's a stall to gather thoughts and better than "ummmmm" but not by much. I also hate "You know." Here are a few examples of phrases that made the list.
"Everything happens for a reason."
"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be."
"To be frank."
"Same difference."
"My bad."
"No worries."
"Chill out."
"Give 110 percent."
"Killing it."
And my new personal favorite hated expression, "Happy wife, happy life."
I'm gonna' drink a six pack of tall boys and shoot some guns.
When the state-of-the art indoor range at Wilberton Gun opens in Oklahoma City this spring, owners hope that the 24 firearm lanes, 10 archery lanes and classrooms will be complemented by a VIP Lounge serving food and alcohol.
"As a group we wanted to build a place, the first one in Oklahoma, where you could go in, shoot, enjoy the retail area and then go to the café," said co-owner Jeff Cahoolie.
Gun ranges in California and Texas have already been granted the right to serve alcohol.
“People can shoot first, then drink, added Cahoolie. That's the plan anyway. We're thinking we may separate a few gun lanes for those that want to drink first."
"I've not seen a business that does the firearms that has a liquor license," said Alcoholic Beverage Law Enforcement Commission spokesperson Capt. Brent Fairchild, "but it's possible that if they apply they could be the first one."
“We would just encourage and hope they would be responsible people, especially in today’s age, with the issue of firearms,” Fairchild said.
Nothing goes better than bullets and beer, except maybe bourbon.
The world needs more compassionate people like this woman, or, would you care if I hit you with a sweat sock full of marbles and horse manure.
An Australian driver who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after using her phone 44 times prior to hitting a cyclist has been fined $4500 and lost her license for nine months.
Kimberley Davis’ sentence might have been more lenient had it not been for her comments to police officers following the accident.
After she hit the man on the bike, the 21-year-old allegedly told officers that, “I just don’t care.”
Davis also refused to help the biker, who suffered a spinal fracture, after striking him.
“I just don’t care because I’ve already been through a lot of shit and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it, she told officers. I’m kind of pissed off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist. I wasn’t on my phone when he hit me."
She called for emergency services to help the rider 51 seconds after receiving a text message.
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| Say how-d-do to Mr. Poo |
It's a serious health problem and no laughing matter but I can't help myself.
In order to help clean up public defecation, Unicef India introduced a new mascot in the hope of persuading people not to go in public.
Mr. Poo made his debut in a “Poo Party” music video and has already gotten more than 100,000 people to pledge that they will call on their “Head of State to ensure that India rises to the challenge of ending open defecation.”
According to Unicef, more than 620 million people in India do not use a toilet and 28 million children have no toilet facilities at their school.
“That's half the population dumping over 65 million kilos of poo out there every day,” the Poo2Loo website reports. “If this poo continues to be let loose on us, there will be no escaping the stench of life threatening infections, diseases and epidemics.”
“Urban or rural, poo is all around us, in our playgrounds and outside our offices,” Maria Fernandez, a Unicef campaign coordinator in India, told the Wall Street Journal. “If we’re silent, we’re contributors.”
I try to end the daily blog entry on a funny, thoughtful or happy note but today all I can think of is 143 million pounds of crap a day...every day!
I was shocked at the traffic jams in London, England and Dublin, Ireland. Prior to our trip to Europe I thought of environmental problems as regional, not global. Over the last five years cars have become more energy efficient. More people compost and recycle. All these are steps in the right direction.
But, if we have the technology to operate an Internet web site to educate people about the danger of shitting in public and actually need to do it I think we may be doing too little, too late.
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