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Got an easier schedule this wee. Install more light fixtures for two days - help out a bit in the spare time I should have. Two days only. What makes it sweet, the weather will get cool and dry in the week and I will be able to get on some home projects.

The neighborhood Homeowners Association dissolved last week. Not enough residents were paying their monthly fee. When the man running it put up a notice advising people they ought to pay, people ignored him, mostly. Some put out notices of their own, pointing out the founder of the association did not register it legally. Meantime, for lack of funds, we have enormous potholes all the way down every street, the common property, from the mailboxes to the entry, is overgrown and littered, street lighting must be maintained - I told my neighbor we need to get some interested people together and start up a legal association, with some teeth. She agreed. So, we are gathering information and preparing to form a committee. The advisory web site I have been consulting says the committee should not be over ten in strength, because more creates confusion. I thought we would need a petition, at first, but we just need to lay the groundwork and get the residents to attend some meetings and vote in officers and ratify the legal work. I may go to another Association and wheedle a copy of their property rules. More later. Got to get to bed.

It wasn't my intention. I understand your comment, though. i had been reading about Reagan's response so I included his mishigas and lack of effective leadership.

I was shocked that the Sturgeon-General C. Everett Koop was quoted that they (gays) got what they deserved.

I always thought E Koop was a good surgeon general, but I now have second thoughts.

Back to five day weekends. I'm hatching ideas to make money on the side. Too soon to mention any. But the weather is great for projects, now.

Now that I have so much time off, I can spend more time fixing my dinners. On work days I come in too tired to give a crap. I am likely to microwave a few burritos and top it off with a few berries, or even cookies. Today I put some bite size chunks of leftover meat from dinner in the skillet, with about three pats of butter, and three small hands full of dried moringa leaves. Grated some carrots and dumped them in. Ate a few radishes as I worked. Grated cabbage and broccoli and dumped that in, stirring it all up. Then I chopped some garlic and put it on a plate. I turned off the heat, which had been on a low temp the whole time, with the lid on. Then let it sit there, still covered, as I cleaned up the mess. About five minutes later, I dumped it on the plate and stirred in the garlic. Mighty good stuff.

Broadcast news may not have much news to report, but gossip, commercial promos and cute videos get their play. Not mentioning Fox news, because I go out of my way to never see it.

I spent much of yesterday and today constructing wooden gates to put across my driveway. The old wore out some months ago, but I didn't want to get out in the heat for that kind of project. The gates are essentially finished, but the posts to hang them on have to be put in the ground.

That's the hard part. Stay hydrated.

I find it more tricky to stay hydrated in cool dry weather than in high humidity hot days.

You have to give Koop the tip of the hat for having the public balls to openly change his deeply held Fundamental and Calvinist views that direted his early life. As the AIDS epidemic truck the young people in the early 80's, Koop was ordered to deliver a poition statement backing Reagans also deply held views against homosexuality.
Koop refused and came out, instead with a plan for the use and handing out of condoms to sexually active young folks, heterosexuals, homosexuals, IV drug users etc. His change of view, to me, showed that here was a man who didn't jut stick with long held moral views when he saw AID sufferers as innocent victims.
I till hold him in regard since he had the cojones to publically state that "Hey, I was wrong, "

I think you oughta read a bit about koops stance in the waning of the Reagan years. I think Raegan hated Koops guts for his "damascus road trip"

Thanks for that, fm. I didn't know enough about it to have an opinion.

Thanks, fm, for spending the time to tell me about Koop. I'll look into his biography, and look into what he accomplished and later apologized for.

I don't want this to sound flip, but even Saint Reagan softened on HIV &AIDS when the Hollywood stars died. I'm surprised Nancy or her children haven't been more active in Altzheimers research. Ok, Nancy is probably too old now, but there are 2 surviving children.

I found this on wiki. It explains Koop's accomplishments but especially on pediatrics which saved many children. My faith in the man has been restored, thanks to your post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Everett_Koop

I finished constructing the gate. But I got the holes for the posts almost dug and quit for the day. I made a mistake on positioning of one and decided to have a fresh go in the morning. I didn't have the concrete anyway. My wife had the truck.

I figure if we lived a couple thousand years ago and somebody created Superman then, he might be the son of god in religion today.

I hadn't thought of Cream Soda for years. It was similar to a Big Red, but had a vanilla sort of flavor. Wonder if they still make those.

I have my gate posts up. I plan to let the concrete harden for about a week before finishing the job. Last time, I cut the post tops into a design, both for looks and to shed water. May do it again, or may just cap them.

they do. However, the "Cream sodas" of today are lden with that artificial vanilla flavor and corn syrup so the whole thing tastes almost "Fake".
"Fake vanilla" (ethylvanillin) is mae from either wood pulp waste (you can sorta smell it in wood pulp after the bisulphite bleaching). Another source is from petroleum low distillates.
Hows that jack up your taste buds??

I used to go to Mexico in the past and was always required to buy those bottles of cheap vanilla flavoring. After working for Pemex fr a few years I discovered that most of the Mexican vanilla is from the petroleum pathway

I only drank three or four of the original. These days we don't buy any soda at all, except as a treat if we go to a fast food place. Then, it's fill your cup at the fountain. I usually fill from two different spigots, because the ingredients are not always properly balanced. I drink that crap about once every week or two.

I do go to Burger Kings on the road and I always take a cup and mix Sprite with coke or lemonade.

Blindfolded , its hard to tell coke from sprite

I get a charge out of watching people defend Pepsi and RC against Coke.