Posts Tagged ‘ODD thoughts’
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Welcome, welcome, welcome 2011. We look forward you what you have store for us. Grandma Oddball is ready for the new year as you can see from her inner child pictured here. Let's hope that her inner child doesn't melt away too fast !
It's been an eventful month. Well, for that matter, it's been an eventful year but I'll just stick to the last month or so. During the month's course several things struck me as amusing, interesting, significant, and, on occasion, sad. I'm not sure my leaky brain can remember everything but I'll try.
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Blind irrational overwhelming unreasoning rage striking without warning. Sometimes amusing in a perverse sort of way but often causing not just havoc but, on occasion, death. Unfortunately plagues of anger and violence continue spreading unchecked across the globe creating an epidemic of unprecedented proportions.
I'm not talking about outrage or legitimate anger. I'm talking about some serious contagions gradually infecting all the world's various cultures be they religious, political, economic or even philosophical in nature. The fundamental question is; What is the cause and how do we combat or cope with this pestilence?
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Have you ever been scared? Not movie scared but scared by incidences in your life. I have and it was some most unpleasant experiences. Mostly I got scared for my wife and children but on occasion events affecting me would scare me but usually not at the time. When the events occurred I would usually just get mad at my own stupidity. It was only later when I realized the consequences that I would let the potential outcome scare me.
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My son was emphatic, his patience growing thin at the slowpoke ahead of us. Traffic was thick and blowing a horn would do little good but that cuts no ice with the young. I think he may have wanted to just hear the horn. This trait repeatedly surfaced over the years. When I first started using a cane he got a big squeeze horn and attached it. I couldn't really use it since I only had one useful hand. Later when I was confined to a wheelchair he complained about the wimpy horn on the chair. If I listened to my son he would have installed a big aah-ooga horn.
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This post is not a story I normaly post because my Internet Service Provider (Comcast) changed from a McAfee virus detection program to Norton. I thought VISTA was a piece of s**t but Norton is even worse. After installing Norton my computer runs markedly slower which should have been my first clue but I persevered. I shouldn't have.
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Sometimes you see or read things that just make you wonder. Not too long ago I read an article in our local paper about a bag lady in a nearby town that was found dead. Apparently she was a well know figure in the town and the paper had a short biography of her life that struck a tragic cord in me.
