20 some years ago, when I first started working in Lansing, one of my co-workers was having a birthday celebration.   So, we took her out to a Lansing Chinese buffet for lunch.  The food was so horrible that I never wanted to go back again.

Well, fast forward 20 some years and a co-worker of mine was having a retirement luncheon.  And, he picked this same Chinese buffet.

Now, while I still had bad memories of the last time that I ate there, I though, it has been 20 some years, surly  the food has improved.  Well, it hadn’t.  It was still the same garbage that I remembered.  YUCK.

I sure that it will be another 20 years before I go back again.

Hostess has announced that they are shutting down the business.  After 80 years, their products will no longer be available, including my favorite, the Twinkies.

I grew up eating Twinkies.  My mother even packed them in my lunch when I had school trips.  In fact, that was the only thing that I remember about those packed lunches.

As I got older, it seemed like the recipe changed and they weren’t as good.  But, none the less, I still enjoyed them.

I have to confess that it has been years since I have had one.  Since I married a wonder woman who liked to bake for me, I ate her products instead.

Hopefully, someone will buy the company and continue the products but only time will tell.  In the mean time, I can only cherish the memories of my youth.

The owner of a local window company has been running some interesting TV ads lately.  The ads show him sitting in a hot tub drinking wine with four beautiful young women .

Now, I am not sure what the correlation is between getting new windows and sitting in a hot tub with four beautiful women.  If I get new windows, will I get four beautiful women?  I doubt it. But, I do find the ads to be amusing.

Michigan had 6 proposals on this years ballot.  And ads for these proposals seemed to run non-stop on the TV in the morning and in the evening.  And they all claimed the same results if they don’t pass;  Policemen and firemen will be laid off, school teachers will loose their jobs and the elderly will be hungry and homeless.

Fortunately, the citizens of Michigan saw through the scare tactics and made the right decisions.

In the wake of the election, 30 states have started campaigns to secede from the union.  While I sympathize with there feelings, it isn’t going to happen.  A bunch of states tried that 150 years ago with no success.

The election is over and I am very disappointed with the national results.  I pray that the country can survive four more years.

Recently, a young mother was beaten to death here in Michigan with a rubber mallet. I  guess anyone can walk into a store and buy a rubber mallet.

Where are those background checks when you need them?

I notice that a lot of expensive European cars have headlight washers.   And some even have headlight wipers.

I am somewhat perplex as to why these are needed.  I can’t imagine any place so dirty that you would need to wash your headlights while driving.  Plus, if you can afford to drive one of these cars, you probably pay someone to wash your car and have it washed regularly.   So, it is not like your headlights never get washed.

I guess headlight washers are just a novelty.

Disney has come out with a new look for Minny Mouse.  Instead of that fat middle aged woman look, the new Minny is slender and stylish.  But, there is a concern that the new Minny Mouse is too skinny and that young girls will want to model that image.

What can I say.  I guess Barbie now has competition.

My liberal friends tell me that I need to be tolerant of those with different views on social/political issues.  Unfortunately, these liberals are indifferent to the social/political issues that I am supposed to tolerate.  But more to the point, these liberals are intolerant of anyone who is not politically correct.  Go figure.