I Think

Sounds silly and counter-intuitive to say this...but, Atta-boy, Edgar!

Edgarblythe said:

I'm 65 and retired now, but my past working life over the 50 years since leaving school was very patchy, with big gaps lasting several years between jobs. but those gaps never bothered me in the slightest because I simply did voluntary community charity work of various kinds to fill in the time.
I've got christian leanings so i suppose that had something to do with it..
"I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want" (Bible: Philippians 4:12)

I expect I will be doing more concrete today. One good thing about my situation, people rarely interfere with what I am doing, once I get started.

Finding it hard to be a football fan these days.

The new VA clinic has been in operation over a month now. I need to register. Actually, I want to get some new glasses. How does one create peons of praise, being half blind?

I sold some of the Texas shapes made from cedar fence boards. Not much, but it's a start. I began these things by first tracing the shape on a pattern, around the kind of road map you buy in gas stations and drug stores.

Hi, edgar. I'm in France now in a town called Strasbourge. Some of us went on an optional tour to wine country and a neat French village that reminded me of Disneyland. Neat.

I always meant to be in France, but never made it there.

I found you a new, really exciting job, Ed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYZZPwJr_c#t=388

I wouldn't do that on my best day.

I hear ya, Ed.

No safety line for a lot of that climb. Where is OSHA?

Well, I fixed leaks after the rain, yesterday and did one sidewalk. Today should be all concrete.
The pool is still greenish and when I went home still was leaking. I had advised them that simply putting in more and more chlorine would not help, that they need to backwash three times a week, ten minutes at a time, because the cyanuric acid builds rapidly in that water. It was already higher than I like it when I quit tending the pool. I bet it's around 200 by now, where 99 is allowable, but 40 very good. They put in some yellow out one weekend, but it only marginally helped. I don't know if they test the water beyond ph and chlorine. That is the extent of pool chemistry for many maintenance people.

"They that go down to the sea in ships -"
I was puzzling over that line this morning. To me it makes it seem they are already on the ships before they get as far as the water. But that's just me, I suppose. It will probably show up in a Bob Dylan song one day.

They voted to make rubble of the Astrodome. But why not? It has been sitting unused for fifteen years, at a cost of millions per year. Do you realize how many corporations we could be giving that money to?

I have been drying moringa leaves. I hope to have at least a quart of powder before the trees lose their leaves during winter.

My smashed fingernail is loose enough to come off now. I will trim it back to the new growth later today. As it is, I have to wear a band aid to keep from snagging it on things.

Psalms 107:23, Edgar. You're a Bible scholar and didn't know it.

I know it's Biblical. I was just concerned about the meaning of those few words. I know a lot about the Bible, as I read a great deal of King James and also read a collection of books that told the Bible in a young person's language, more novel-like. Also was a faithful church goer. None of which kept me from being an atheist.

Many a faithful church goer, upon reflection, opts for disbelief. Quite understandable, IMO.

To many of us, it's pretty silly.

Edgar Blythe said:

I've never been to church in my life because all the ones I looked at seemed to be full of crackpots.
My churchgoing pals used to try introducing me to new churches and for a laugh they placed bets among themselves on how many minutes i'd last before i got up and walked out, my average endurance span was about 4 minutes.
Once i walked out even before the service had begun!
Another time they talked me into attending an Alpha Course class with them but i slipped out and one of the lecturers chased me down the street to try to persuade me to come back, i felt like I was a Colditz escaper, but i managed to shake him off and made a home run.

No doubt there are some good churches out there, and until i find one i'll stay away from the rest..
"Associate yourself with men of good quality, for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company"- George Washington
"If you hang around with losers you become a loser"- Donald Trump
"Bad company corrupts good character" (Bible:1 Corinthians 15:33)

I had been avoiding working on my table project, in part because of the weather. Yesterday as dark was gathering, I spent a few minutes with the pieces I had already cut for the table top. Turns out they are one inch too long, but the angle cuts of 67 degrees are just right. It's only eight cuts to get them right. Rest of the project ought to be fairly simple. It takes much too long to dry out the wood, so I don't think I will concentrate too much on these things.

I'm grateful to be off right now. Those 80 pound bags of concrete are not kind to the back and legs.

I had a thought. If the write-a-novel-in so-many-days contest is held yearly, and you write too slowly, why not start on the one for next year this morning? Who is to know?

I wonder who or what Rand Paul is plagiarizing this morning? Certainly not Elizabeth Warren.

Between several other goings on I put most of my table top together yesterday. That's the hardest part. I'm thinking do smaller projects in the future. Depends how well this one is received.

They told me to work three days starting next week.

Dijya tell 'em to stick it where the sun don't shine, Ed?

I told them, what color and how much?