The other day, I was shopping for fresh orange juice at Meijer (regional grocery chain).  After putting a couple of quarts in my cart, I started to move on.

That is when I heard it, that sickening sound that shoes make when they have goo on the bottoms of them.  Apparently, there was orange juice on the floor in front of the cooler.  Yuck!!

Next stop, the jelly isle.  And yes, you guessed it,  I got sticky fingers!

Well, the shoe sound I can tolerate but the sticky fingers had to go.  So, the next stop was the restroom.  Some water and a paper towel and I was good to go.  No foot squish, no sticky fingers.

Life is good.  🙂

During WWII, the Nazis were trying to teach dogs to read and talk.  I wonder if the first word that they learned was “woof”?

Today was helmet day at the Michigan State Capitol.

Every year, hundreds of bikers ride their motorcycles to the Capitol to protest the states helmet law.  When they get there, they ditch their helmets and take turns riding around the capitol in protest.  Then at noon when the news crews arrive, they have protest speeches which declare the helmet law to be unconstitutional.

This year, as in the past, they are certain that the helmet law will be repealed.  Both the House and the Senate are in favor of the repeal so, all they need is the Governor to support it.

Of course, they have been trying to get the helmet law repealed for over 40 years.  And, every year they have been certain that this would be the year.

Well, it hasn’t happened yet and I doubt that it will.  But, the bikers are more interesting than most of the protesters in Lansing.

Maybe they should try protesting in February.

“Hi!”  That was the subject and content of an email that I received at work.  I don’t know the person that sent it.  I suspect that it was from a vendor.

Well, I am not sure of the purpose of the email.  But, it was simple and to the point, I guess.

Bursting Mellons.  No, this is not the name of some new rock group.  This is a situation that exists for farmers in China.

It seems that the mellons are taking up moisture so fast that they are exploding.  This is bad for the farmers who had hoped to sell nice large mellons.

But, the hogs are thrilled as they are getting feed with the busted mellons.  Life is good for some and bad for others.

Jack Kevorkian, aka Doctor Death, is dead.  The Detroit pathologist, who assisted in more than a hundred suicides, has died of natural causes at the age of 83.

How ironic, he didn’t have the guts to end his own life.  I wonder if former Governor John Engler will attend the funeral?

When I was at my father-in-laws 90th birthday party at church, a woman came up to me and said “Do you remember me?!!  I used to babysit you when you were 9.”

Me, “Well no, I don’t remember you.”  She, “I used to babysit you and your sister.” Me, “I don’t have a sister.”  She “aren’t you Tom?”  Me, “No, I am Ned.”  She, “Oh, sorry.”

I guess it was she who didn’t remember me!  I love these get togethers.

Why is it that the price of gas can go up $.25 per gallon in a day yet it only goes down a few cents at a time?  Can you say “Price gouging?”

It is time for the Feds to step in and make those oil piggies squeal.

8 million women are missing in India.  No they weren’t kidnapped and sold.  8 million is the number of female babies that were aborted because the family did not want to raise a female child.

Now, this is not what the womens movement had in mind when they supported the womans right to an abortion.   But, it is the result none the less.   So, they effective gave women the right to selective abort their female children and keep their male children.  Ironic isn’t it?

Newsweek declared that Grand Rapids is a dying city.

Kind of ironic coming from a dying magazine.