A cold, wintry day here in the Piazza…hardly anyone around. It looks like nothing is going on; but something is always going on – even if you cannot see it….If things weren’t going on, this place would not have been here for over a thousand years…
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Clearing away some Old & New notes:
- (Old) In 1857 Baseball had 21 ‘Aces’. The first to 21 ‘Aces’ won the game. Eventually, they changed it to a nine inning affair. So, progress has been made. (…and contrary to conspiratorial rumor, the Russians did not invent the game)
- (New) Americans spent more than 2 times as much on sports bets this year than we want to spend supporting Ukraine. (This figure was produced before the Super Bowl game…maybe we spent more on the Game/bets…depending upon whether or not Taylor Swift made it to her box.)
- (Old – five years old) They have done studies on ‘Yawning’ and have concluded…’If after someone has yawned in front of you 3 times and you don’t yawn back you fall into the potential ‘Psycopath’ category. 1) Me? When someone yawns in front of me I quietly get of my chair and leave the room; being a potential sociopath.
- (Old – over five years old) A study shows: People who are cynics make less money than people who are not…The idiot optimists make up to $300 a month more, on average. I believe no one gets out of here alive. Does that make me a cynic? I’m broke, making $300 less a month than the average cynic; so I guess this is a well grounded study.
- (New) Americans are shrinking in Height. Back in th 1950’s we were among the tallest people in the world. Today we are #47. (You could look it up, if you do not believe.) American men and women have each lost an inch over the past 50 years. Could this be caused by: New found Weight? Lack of exercise? Old people living longer and shrinking and lowering the averages? Sitting, stooped over computers and cell-phones? Our blood being poisoned? Or, are other people simply getting taller? (South Koreans grew 8 inches in the past century; but then maybe they cheated somehow – like people do) What is going on? More to be revealed – and don’t yawn as you read this blog.
- (Three years Old) A study shows the more you put into work (hours & energy) the more prone you are to having a heart attack. …DUH! But what are you going to do? Quit work and let some intern take your cubicle? See how fast you get a heart attack then.
- (New. Hot off the Internets) Some Super Bowl tickets cost $10,000 to buy…and were bought. Somebody just paid $800,000 for a pair of shoes a guy by the name of Michael Jordon wore in a championship game. (…Only the second highest price paid for a pair of his shoes) Somebody named ‘Bezos’ made $7,900,000 a day last year…oops…correction: Bezos made $7,900,000 an hour last year. He probably could afford a pair of Jordan’s shoes, if he wanted. Don’t say the Economy is not booming…just wait & duck for the ‘Trickle down’.
Enough from me. Quotes attributed to others:
- “The Rich are different from us.” -F.Scott Fitzgerald (So the story goes…) to Ernest Hemingway. “Yes.” -Hemingway said, “They have more money.”
- “It’s easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.” –
- “No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” -Dorothy Day
- “Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.” -Thomas Friedman
- “Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!
You’re always a day away” -‘Annie’, the musical
We’ll be beck in seven tomorrows – if the waters don’t rise and the fires don’t come…and a fond “Hello” to Morgan & Chris, wherever you are…
