Thursday, September 1, 2022

 SEPT 1 2022

first thing i do when i get up...( well make it the second...) is to check the weather radar- and today there is hardly a  green pinpoint on the entire lower 48.  --we had a pretty good rainstorm- tues night....made a few puddles.......since when was a simple rainstorm news ???   now... that's when !------- with half the country afloat and teh other half doing raindances----- mommy nature sitting off in the distance grinning... and thinking    "adjust your priorities" with each thunderclap.! 

forget teaching english literature---- get more science and logic  into those kids in grade school and stop saying math/science is for male children...plus  fire any teacher who has the audacity.  to stand in front of her 4th grade class and say "i never liked science that’s for men" 

 

i bet you thought i was going to spout on electric vehicles to save the world???? if every vehicle is electric and still transports  only one person per 2287 pound vehicle there is still a problem of energy to move that 2287+183 pound person the 13 miles to and from work...daily....

 

one of these days  i am going to. sit and drink my coffee and watch the cars go down route 97-- and count the numbers vs passengrs..- the cars come in blocks of 12...these blocks are created by the traffic light 3 miles up the road. 

 

Ustabee there was a train from that area  into Beverly and /Salem   someone in the seventies got the brainstorm of “rails to trails” and took up the tracks and made  bike /walking paths ... very long very straight  very flat. paths with appropriate road crossing marks..

Have I missed something?   We are waiting to be able to send a rocket off  to go round the moon and someday mars.. searching for water when half of Kansas is floating down the Mississippi.. and was it not said that a woman called off the launch.....because of some minor detail about #3 engine... like it was not going to work??

 I believe it was a “she” that flipped the switch, then left the “suited” men to explain why.

 

Counting “skirts” vs “suits”  in business or govt is like counting cars with 2 or more passengers.. I bet the ratio is very similar.

I have never watched a tennis match before – I have played AT  tennis....my sister was pretty good-  so I know what donald swann was talking about with his  rendition of “tried by the center court”,,,,,which is worth a google if you  can---    it ends with “players are photographed jumping the net but here since the figure one always forgets ----the umpire --upon whom ---the sun-- never sets”

I.              did watch serena last night—and she is a sports person well worth  watching...not only in tennis...   tonight she and her sister ( not a twin, but sister) are going to play doubles.. and then she  ? goes on to another singles match on ?Friday?  

whatever ------she is amazing to watch

****for those of you not famililar.  The scoring makes no sense.   It goes   15—30—40—game.  Except that you have to win game by 2 points. .. so often the score will be 40-40. CALLED DEUCE....And the next point winner has an “AD” ( advantage)  WHERE IF THE WIN THE NEXT IT IS GAME... IF THEY LOOSE THE NEXT POINT IT IS DEUCE – DONALD SWANN HAS A GREAT DEAL TO SAY ABOUT THE SCORING—WHY CANT IT BE 1  2  3  GAME—SOME OF THE OLDER DEBENTURE HOLDERES WOULD BE BOUND TO GET SHIRTY. " SIX GAMES TO A SET---- ?USTABE YOU NEEDED TO BY 2 GAMES. WHICH IS HOW DONALD SWANN GETS TO GAMES. 25 TO 27

TENNIS IS A PERFET GAME FOR TV--- EVERY TIME THEY SWAP SIDES—THERE IS TIME FOR COMMERCIALS...

I PLAN TO WATCH. ON COMPUTER... I CAN’T FIND IT ON VERIZON.     :(