I Think

The pollen is so heavy this weekend that, for the first time ever, it has me sneezing and blowing my nose. I link everything related to the drought of last year and the copious rains of this one. Nature is compensating for those losses by overproducing.

We ate at the IHop out on the freeway last night. We had not been inside one in many years. Our memories were of a busy but well run establishment, with a fun menu. This one had customers, but no overflow crowd. There was not so much to choose from on the menu. I picked a breakfast similar to Denny's Grand Slam and the mrs asked for a bacon cheeseburger. The waitress brought my food and brought mrs edgarblythe a plain cheeseburger. She promised to bring catsup, but failed to. The various syrups were not labeled. My pancakes were a bit gooey inside. she stopped by to see about us but failed to bring a promised glass of iced tea, until we slurped the bottoms of our glasses with the straws when she waited on a nearby table. They failed to give us a senior discount because of the time it was. In other words, a typical mainstream eating establishment, but too far from home to ever go back.

Gee that's sad ed. The trials and tribulations of the labouring classes after 2,000 years of Christianity. I'm almost weeping.

You might have 2000 years of Christianity. I have millions of years of evolution.

I went out to buy pumpkin seeds yesterday. In my entire life, they have been easy to find. Until I truly want some. In four stores all I located were roasted salted ones. Totally useless junk food. This week I intend to check out HEB and Fiesta. That failing, I will simply buy some pumpkins and smash them. Those seeds would be fresh, at the least.

On Sundays we always have eggs, sausage or bacon and biscuits. We had been getting the canned biscuits provided by Immaculate brand, because they alone of all in the store had no hydrogenated oil in them. Then the store did away with the plain biscuits and I could not find any more locally. I discovered the store still had these biscuits, if you wanted some with blueberries or cranberries. I was dubious, but the berries were the real thing. Turned out they are good. But now the store has dropped the cranberried ones. The label proudly proclaims Non GMO project, no bleached flour, no artificial preservatives, no hydrogenated oil, aluminum free baking powder. Of course it is a processed food, but is a cut above many others. We just finished off a pan of the blueberry biscuits.

Getting ready for a football day.

My wife is off to honor her Dad at the Veteran's Cemetery. She has faithfully gone there at least once a month for about thirty years.

Fresh squash and pumpkin seeds boiled are deeeeeeelicious, Ed. Have you ever tried Kabocha - Japanese squash. Those seeds are really good.

Never have. But if I see any I will.

I am truly baffled to see so many voters going for Romney these days. His party created the mess he is running against. He will be beholden to his base, which is the party that created the mess he is running against.

My wife brought home a bigger check than me. Zippity doo dah.

I often see people instantly murder any snake, lizard or spider they encounter. What are they thinking? The thread about whether to kill insects and such leads to speculation about a human's relations with all of Earth's creatures. I can feel empathy for any species, great or small, but, like most people, will readily kill certain ones, when threatened. From one perspective, I admire a tapeworm, but of course it needs to die. Failure to act when threatened can mean a person's untimely death. The balance of nature must not be upset by whatever process we adopt for controlling pests, the opposite extreme.

Moving my record collection yesterday, I was surprised to see how many 45s I have, still. I thought they mostly had been taken or lost.

People in general seem to have lost their collective minds regarding national politics. Somehow I don't think the masses are really listening and reading about the candidates. They are responding with their gut and are in such a panic they'll gravitate like lemmings heading for a cliff to that empty suit.

Hell, let all those lemings jump off the cliff but puh-lease don't leave us with the 'Lemming-Drop Kid'.

We are very close to a point of no return.

That's the modern style ed. Edge of the seat is a great place for the viewer to be when the ads are shown. Most game rules are designed to make a last minute thriller. NFL and cricket 20/20 are pretty expert refinements of the art.

It isn't done to show ads when real edge of the seat stuff is happening. Not here at least. And if no ads are shown there's no money coming in.

And its a hard rains a gonna fall

Not before the election ed.

The election is practically here. Some of us, including me, have already voted.

I see that tonight is another night of debate for you guys.

I was thinking about debates in general. I think they are really intended for those who have not made up their minds, one way or another. In other words, the "undecided vote".

Since when has any type of debate ever changed someone's mind who already knows how they will vote, or sure on their own opinion? It hasn't for me.

In Canada, I've voted the same way for decades, provincially and federally. I'm sure it will be no different in the U.S.

So, how big is the undecided vote?

I haven't read the statistics, reyn. It's foreign policy tonight. I will likely skip this one too.

I don't vote ed. Once I voted to see what it was like. Try everything once they say. It was like wanking in a bus shelter.

You probably voted for Charles de Gaull.

Nearly November. Ready for 2013? "Time is a jet plane; It moves too fast" - Bob Dylan. Seems like yesterday it was only Oct. 22, 2012.

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