Notes from Doug

Saturday, July 14, 2012

It's Crazy Days downtown today.

I'm not going. I think my crazy days are over.

Rick and Rosey could share a birthday cake.

Rosey Grier of L.A. RAMS fame, back in the 60's, is still kickin' the old football at 80 today.

Stay away from France. Head to Brazil.

Lonely Planet has a couple of interesting lists. It's a travelers survey of the most unfriendly countries in the world and if you scroll down to the end you'll find a place to click for the friendliest countries in the world. You can click here for the full list or for the abbreviated version let me just say, there are a lot more smiling faces in Brazil than there are in France.

Here's a web page you may be interested in.

WKBT has set up a special web page, COPING WITH THE 2012 DROUGHT. Here's a link to that page.

CONFUCIUS SAY:

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

CONFUCIUS ALSO SAY:
(This is for Bob Blair)

"Butcher who back into meat grinder, get a little behind in his orders."

Happy Birthday Rick!

It's Ricks birthday and National Nude day. Does that mean he has to wear his birthday suit?

I am exhausted!

I spent the whole night taking a test. The dream went on forever. I can't remember what the subject of the test was but it was something I knew nothing about and there were hundreds of questions....none of which I knew the answer to. You had to stay until you had answered all the questions.

I don't know how it ended. I still had pages to go when Thunder jumped on my face and wanted breakfast.

I gave him a big kiss. The little guy saved me from taking the rest of the test.

Friday, July 13, 2012

We got a nice little shower this morning.

Didn't really amount to much more than wetting the sidewalks but we might get more later in the day. We could use a lot more.

After so many hot, sunny days I'm really enjoying the clouds and cooler temperatures. Can't wait to get out and enjoy the fresh morning air.

A weather advisory from the NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY WEST OF AN OSSEO WISCONSIN TO WINONA MINNESOTA AND NEW HAMPTON IOWA LINE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A bit of Hollywood history.

You know those 50 foot letters, up on the Hollywood Hills that spell out "Hollywood"? Those were dedicated on July 13, 1923. The sign, originally, spelled out "HOLLYWOODLAND" but the "LAND" part was taken down in 1949.

Nearly 56% of the nation is now experiencing drought conditions. More than a thousand counties are suffering extreme drought. That includes every county in Texas, Nevada and Arizona.

Keep your fingers crossed. We need the rain!

30% CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS

TODAY

50% CHANCE TOMORROW

I spotted this on Yahoo! News this morning.

Some people say this mixture will make your brown grass green again. Sounds goofy to me but what do I know?

Mix a can of beer, a can of Coke, 1/2 cup antibacterial dish washing liquid, 1/2 cup liquid ammonia, 1/2 cup mouthwash. Put the mixture in a 10 gallon sprayer attached to your garden hose and spray your lawn.

I'd have to see it to believe it. Who could even think up such a combination of ingredients?

DONNIE: We have long been putting soapy dish and bath water on the lawn, and it certainly does no harm, and probably does good. From now on I will also spit Coke and beer and mouthwash out there.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

I wish we had some of Houston's rain.

The brown lawns are such a sad thing to look at and, walking over to the library, I noticed one of the younger trees didn't make it. Its green leaves cover the ground and the branches are already bare.

Willard needs to get the waders out.

"Flash flooding all over Houston. Heavy rain and lightening came through here about 6:15 this morning. This is when it is a "retired senior" perk that I don't have to go out in this. The freeways and feeder streets are a mess."

HARD TO BELIEVE

Logo Design by FlamingText.com The ROLLING STONES gave their first performance 50 years ago today!

Here's an amazing fact.

Would you like to move to Manhattan? The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is $3,778 per month and the hardest apartment to find is a small one.

USA TODAY has an interesting article on hotel charges for "extras".

A lot of the "extras" were called "SERVICE" back in my hotel days. Now, I would call it "gouging". It seems to me that the bigger the corporate chain is, the less you're going to get without paying extra for it. "Service", like "etiquette", have become dirty words in American life. Read the USA TODAY article here.