Put on a Happy Face.

This lap top I work on past its prime a few years ago. It was purchased in 2008. It's slow and stubborn and makes me crazy on a regular basis. It may still work and have the software I need for the blog but I really need a new one. 

Last night I told Wanda I was going to give some serious thought about continuing to write.

I read a terrific blog yesterday. It was witty and interesting and oh so professional and I thought I wish I could write like that. I guess I don't have the imagination and intelligence to lampoon current events and so-called celebrities. This morning social media is all a buzz about Orlando Bloom and his ongoing feud with Justin Bieber. Fifty-two people left comments on the article and all I can think of is Blooms ex-wife is too tall for Bieber and why are only twenty comments left on the potential insolvency of Social Security.

The world is for the young.

I write the way I write and that's not going to change.

I know that some of my themes are redundant. Sometimes I wish I could change the inner workings of my mind as often as I change my socks which would at least give me a new and different perspective twice a week, but I can't. 

What you read is what you get.

I apologize for not being more upbeat every day. I'm asking you to invest 4 or 5 minutes of your busy life and for it you should be entertained. And I blather on about water shortages and atmospheric heat (the forecast tomorrow is 104). I promise to try and make this more fun in the foreseeable future, or at least until next Monday.

I wish people would keep their cats indoors. I just had to chase a little black and white guy out of the backyard. He thinks our bird feeders are a kitty drive-through.

Three drug thieves broke into a Florida home and discovered three jars of cocaine. They took it home and snorted the contents. Later that evening all three had the persistent urge to drink out of the toilet. Upon further investigation they discovered that the jars were in fact urns, and that they were snorting the remains of the victim’s two dogs Mr. Buttons and Mr. Buttons II.

After an attempted robbery at a Lowes Home Improvement store Milton J. Twilley fled across the street and jumped a fence … right into the Cypress Cove Nudist Resort & Spa. As one of the only folks wearing clothing Twilley was easily spotted by police. It also helped the apprehension that Twilley knocked himself senseless running into a large pole while ogling several sun bathing women.

"I did not steal that phone, said young Paul Hammond, or that other one." When questioned by police at his home 16-year-old Paul adamantly denied having any knowledge of the two missing phones. And then the iPhone rang in his closet. Okay, yes, he stole that. But as for the Blackberry he was also accused of stealing......several seconds later it rang too.

Don’t you hate it when you suffer a heart attack and think you’re going to die, so you confess to a 17-year-old murder, only to find out you’re not going to die and then get sentenced to life in prison as a result? 

Following a dispute, Craig Aylesworth, of Bithlo, Florida, allegedly tossed a Molotov Cocktail at his neighbor’s trailer home … just as the winds shifted, sending embers on to his own trailer. Luckily, he was arrested, since he no longer had a home of his own to return to. 

A San Francisco thief pedaled his bike up to a woman on the sidewalk, snatched the iPhone out of her hands, and rode away. Unknown to him, the woman was in the middle of demonstrating the iPhone’s new GPS tracking device, which worked—the thief was captured minutes later.

Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni was impersonating a police officer when he pulled over another car for speeding. The driver was a cop. Mastrogiovanni was arrested for impersonating a police officer.

It's still not clear if the cause was alcohol, exposed clandestine sex or over cooked chicken breasts but a 300-person brawl broke out at the Jacques Reception Center in Moline, Illinois last week end.

"Screaming and cursing like you wouldn't imagine would be coming from a wedding," said witness Jace Sigelkow. "Weddings are supposed to be a nice classy-type gathering, and this wasn't."

The crowd spilled out into the parking lot and "continued to become more and more aggressive."

A woman was arrested for disorderly conduct and a man was taken in for obstruction and disorderly conduct.

The reception was ended about an hour early, leading to guests "screaming, pushing and urinating outside."....and those were the sober ones.

The wedding party only had until early evening to return their tuxedos so rather than more arrests police decided it would be more effective to disperse the crowd instead of bringing everyone in.

"Tempers flare and minor disputes become major ones," said Det. Lt. Stephen Dollinger. "And with that many people drinking and involved, sometimes it gets out of control."

A love triangle was believed to be the cause of a street fight that involved a naked woman and several other alleged combatants.

It's not clear how the naked woman was involved, but at least five people from two separate area buildings were involved in a mutual combative situation.

The nude woman entered the fray and then allegedly "stabbed or slashed three of the combatants before fleeing."

She was last scene running east screaming, "You F@#k with me...you F@#k with the best."

A Michigan man decided to take a trip down to a local pizza place while only wearing a towel.

Staff members at Happy's Pizza in Muskegon Township were not too pleased to see the unnamed suspect show up because he allegedly had a gun with him when he arrived.

The 27-year-old began banging on the glass at the front of the pizzeria and his gun went off. He may have been angry about not being able to eat at the business, although it was open at the time and two employees were working.

The establishment has a very strict "No Shirt..No Shoes..No Service" policy.

No one was injured and the man walked home after the gun discharged. Police found him sitting on his porch with his 40 caliber semi-automatic in hand. 

Officers asked him to pick up the towel and drop the weapon and he complied.

According to Muskegon Township Police Chief Ken Sanford, the man admitted to taking four hits of acid before the incident.

After the officer defused the "potentially very dangerous situation," the man was arrested and brought to a local hospital to be evaluated.

I'm going to close the week on a happy note. 

On a live Facebook chat this morning NBC News chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman said, "It's unlikely the US will get hit with an Ebola outbreak."