If sleeping is like dying temporarily then I'm participating in this ritual before I go to bed every night. It's mollifying.

Most summers when I was a child we went to visit the old folks in Tyler, TX usually in July or August. We drove from Dallas after flying from LAX and the first place we stopped was a BBQ joint with sawdust on the floor and nickel Cokes. After that it was like 100 degrees and 99% humidity ad old people yakking for days and kids were to be seen and not heard and definitely not to be entertained. I'd never willingly go anywhere near there again.

What's really going on? Did a house cleaner clean the wrong house and doesn't want to be embarrassed or is the person afraid of getting arrested for B & E?

I'm pretty sure I bought a flying saucer inspired incubator that had a single old style Christmas type light for heat after seeing it in a comic book. I hatched a bantam rooster with it. The egg had to be rotated every 4 hours for 28 days. My mom gave the emerging chick a little help out of the egg while I was at school. I can't find a picture of that incubator online unfortunately.

Then Mexicans said, "Oh yeah, how do you like us now?"

When I was born the world's population is what the combined population of India and China is now. Picture that, India and China as populated as they are now and the rest of the world unpopulated.

I try to eat well and focus on fat/protein while avoiding carbs. The problem s healthy food burnout. I spent $50 on nuts and now I can't stand them. Same with bananas, avocados, 86% cacao dark chocolate and others. Recently I bought a 4 lb. bag of rice and 3 for $9.99 frozen pizzas. Sometimes I put the fruit out to get me to eat it. I call it apple-cracker, healthy or salty crunchy. The best outcome is neither. Carbs are addictive, simple as that, and in evolutionary terms humans rarely had a constant overabundance of food which is why gaining weight/putting on fat in good times has until recently been a survival mechanism. Now people just eat too much. especially fast food designed to create cravings for it.

Deserts are full of life, Deranged Donald's cranium is a vast lifeless wasteland.

This picture is totally real

It's remarkable how much Rick Santorum looks like Howdy Doody.

remarkable

Hardly news, Sarah sanders does that regularly.

The older you get the faster time moves. Young people, resist wishing it's tomorrow, next week, next year, to turn 18, 21, whatever, it will come and go faster than you realize.

Old people, get the pneumococcal vaccinations, Prevnar 13 and 23 and if you've had chicken pox get the shingles vaccination, preferably the newest more effective Shingrex. And of course, get your flu shot as soon as that vaccine is available each Fall.

Kind of silly when parking enforcement gets a digital license plate scanner that provides a time stamp and maybe a reminder for the enforcement officer to return later to enforce parking rules.