My mentor use to quote Shakespeare to me. One quote he recited to me was—False face
must hide what the false heart doth know. That is pretty impressive that he
could remember that. Also, the quote is
quite impressive. JoeBlow (i.e. a world
class actor in his own right) says—There are 2 plays in town, Romeo and Juliet
and who we really are.
Heather’s
friend Raye says to her when they run early in the morning when it’s
cold—Bundle up buttercup! That soooo
inviting and fun, my opinion. I seem to
always come across like I’m broadcasting bull riding at a rodeo! I think I need to learn to live with it or
learn to change! A friend in our conversation this week said--Any time we mention change in our company, YesterdayBob rolls up his nose and says "AGAIN!" Such is life.
Many times what I think is soooo smart and great one day,
the next day I don’t think that way sooooo much! Yikes! My mentor also quoted Will
Rogers. Here is a quote that he told me
many times—Good judgment comes from experiences and a lot of that comes from
bad judgment. I had most of “It’s Saturday” written when I had what some would
call an “erv error” but I called it a supernatural synchronicity. I accidentally deleted my draft. I laughed.
After some thought, I think it was a God sent a.k.a. happenstance, na, I don’t think soooo. Maybe what I had written was toooo real
a.k.a. toooo direct and would have hurt some of you (i.e. I didn’t know what I
was doing—maybe I was cocky). Why would
I want to do that? You are my friends.
Sooooo, maybe, it was just a good deal.
It was way beyond me. You ever have this “way beyond me” happen to you?
I say to myself sometimes—Is this really real? Have you ever said—I have
learned my lesson, I will never do that again and then what do I do, I do it
again. Da!
I had breakfast with an old friend I made at good old
Northwestern College years and years ago.
He told me about a business friend who he described as “he owned the
city.” He had soooo much charisma that
everyone liked him, especially the woman.
But he told my friend that he was a fake and hated himself to a point
that he would throw up. Well, he was
found out and everything fell apart. He
went to the south and started over and the same result happened. He is dead broke today. My friend didn’t tell me if he likes
himself. Probably not I would guess.
CadillacJack (i.e. who seems uneasy over nothing and
everything) says--Speech is the mirror of the mind. MissPerfect says--Holy smokes, if that is
true, my mind is really something else.
Bob Dylan once wrote the lyrics, “And if my thoughts-dreams could be
seen they’d probably put my head in a guillotine.” Would you like to have folks
know what you think about sometimes; I don’t think soooooo. Saturday question—Do you think asymmetrical
tolerance is a form of oppression? So far are you with me? I didn’t make that up but read it and
researched it as I had no idea what it meant.
Some of you are pretty darn smart soooooo you probably didn’t have to
research it.
Talk about being darn smart! When my sisters and
brother-in-laws were here I learned a lot and didn’t even have to pay for
it. I learned what top shelf meant (i.e.
they are). The smoke detector went off
when making toast and one of my brother-in-laws went to it and waved some paper
under it and it stopped; he said it just needed some fresh air (i.e. think
through that). I learned that squirrels
use their tails to keep warm. I even learned a new joke—How do you cook toilet
paper? You brown it on one side and throw in in the pot! These folks are top cats! No question.
My kid sister and her husband are now in FL volunteering
with Wycliffe Associates. They are around folks from all over the world and
some from third world countries. They
all do their testimonies. Most folks
from the third world countries are poor. In their testimonies, they say that
their faith (i.e. “trust or complete confidence in something or someone”) is
very real. For them to convert to Christianity, they might lose their life or
could be tortured and ostracized by their family and social network. They think most Americans’ faith is in their
money and in being in control. Yikes!
Sooooo the other day I washed the curtains in our garage in
our automatic waster and dried them in our electric dryer. Pretty easy.
Then I had to put them back on the curtain rods. I used a knife like I remember my Mom, Anna,
did it. It went ok at best. I got it done and then discovered I had the
ruffles on the wrong side. I just
laughed. Now this is a first world
problem. Washing curtains for our garage
which houses our car, golf cart, motorcycle, lawn mower, snow blower, chain saw
and firewood for our fireplace. And my
problem was getting the ruffles on the right side of the garage curtains. Da!
4 smart
gals and erv! Soooo I bought a couple of
new twin beds for one of our bedrooms.
Actually, Heather bought them for me ‘cause they have prime. The bed frames were easy to put together and
“poof” the memory foam mattresses just exploded when I cut the bindings. Soooo I had to buy bedding. I was looking at sheets at a store. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. There were a couple of gals dressed in
business casual about 45 in the aisle. I
asked them if they knew anything about sheets—of course they did—I asked a few
dumb questions and we all laughed—they got all the sheets out and explained
everything to me. Then a clerk came and
of course she had to give us her advice and then another clerk came and I heard
all their stories about their sheets, beds, husbands and life in general (i.e.
these gals were sooooo real and fun). I
asked a couple more dumb questions and then they had to touch all the sheets of
course. And finally, they all decided
what sheets I should buy. Then I asked
another dumb question—Do I need comforters which started the whole process over
again. What a hoot! We laughed sooooo hard. Then one of those gals asked—Who is going to
sleep in these beds—my sister and brother-in-law—well, this stuff is surely
good enough for who’s it for. We all
laughed again.
ItchieBitchie says—Deception (i.e. a form of
being phony) is a great trick. Oh ya! It
is used all the time (e.g. the huge massive bloated bureaucratic enterprise
does it all the time). If you watch any of the playoff football games,
deception is a great tool (i.e. now ain’t that the truth). Why? Because it
works. Don’t kid yourself. Few really care about doing anything about
it. Most just try to be a better
deceiver than the next person (i.e. be a better story spinner). Or do they?
I know a lot of very good, real folks with good huge massive hearts, my
kind of folks. Many of those folks are
you guys. No deception in you guys. You are the real deal (i.e. drop dead
real). Oh ya! Except for one of you and you know who you
are (i.e. you never turn off the switch)!
On the surface you look sooo real but…! You play a lot of “me ball!” haha Saturday
question—Do you think girls ever use deceptive flirting to get an advantage?
We had
several inches of snow sooooo I had the opportunity to blow some snow (i.e. the
snow is really pretty this morning). It
was fun. I got to wear my fancy
boots. I always wanted a pair and
finally bought some a couple of years ago as they looked soooo nice and I
thought for sure they would be the cat’s meow.
Well, they are half the cat’s meow.
Why, well the “real me” has skinny long feet and skinny ankles and
skinny chins which allows my socks tooooo keep sliding down. I think I need some of those sock holder
uppers like the old timers use to wear.
I think they were called garter belts. Did any of you wear garter belts?
But those boots really look good on me but none of my neighbors even noticed
but I did!!!! I had a good laugh. Such
is life.
Those who detest the old establishment a.k.a. orthodoxy is
now the new establishment a.k.a. now the new orthodoxy. So far sooooo good until
someone or group comes up with a new orthodoxy and then again we have a new
establishment. Much knowledge is said to
be obsolete after about 10 years or sooner; knowledge changes that fast
especially in the technology world (i.e. throw those old books and equipment away). My sister’s friend’s ex’s cousin on his
mother’s side brother’s girlfriend’s brother just took a position with a
streaming company in CA and he will be writing algorithms to analyze what
people Google and which hits are important to his company. Soooo there you go; “they”
know a lot about us already. Can you
imagine what “they” will know about us in a couple of more years? I can’t imagine. I could have used some of that advanced
technology the other day. I was standing
in front of the urinal but was having a problem. I then discovered that I had my underwear on
inside out and the door was on the other side.
If only my iPhone would have told me that I had my underwear on inside
out. Where was that technology when I
needed it. haha
Do you know any super radicals.
Why are they super radicals? There must be a reason. My kid sister suggested I read the book, Omens:
The Coming Fight for Faith by Travis Thrasher. It’s a novel about how
technology might affect our future. It
is sorta kinda like George Orwell’s book, nineteen-eighty four! ANYWAY it portrays the future where "they" (i.e. who every you want they to be) will know everything about us and it will
be done by robots with artificial intelligence who are programed by “they”
(i.e. we are getting closer). We will lose our privacy and freedoms. The book is about how “they—super radicals”
want to kill all Christians or it could be another group of folks. HistorianAlice says—It’s really ain’t nuttin
new; groups have been killing other groups from the beginning of time and it’s
going on right now. An interesting read—my opinion. Joesixpack says—I’m not a
believer soooo “they” can kill all the Christians; I don’t care. “They” can kill all the Green Bay Packer fans
tooooo! I only care about what I like,
like my paycheck, my big screen TV and my Bud lite!
LuckieEddie says—I think I know that guy! Hey, Joesixpack is a good guy,
really; even if it doesn’t appear that way at times. Sometimes the Bud Light
talks tooooo much.
I read an article in the paper of a guy
and a gal who are riding their bikes from Alaska to Argentina. Wow was my response. I read the article. They were quoted as saying—The real adventure
is when things go wrong (i.e. now that is a certain frame of mind)! The most
interesting part of the article to me was when one of their mothers questioned
them if this was a good idea. Then she
said—They are educated and introspective individuals. Introspective really got
my attention. I wonder if I really know who I am or just think I am who I think
I am. It would appear to me that if we
are humble enough to know who we are, we are a lot better person (i.e. being
real). I think quiet introspection can
be very valuable, my opinion. What do you think of that? That is what I
thought.
My mentor would say to me—erv, if you don’t want the
answers, don’t ask the questions. I
think he was saying—If you just want to continue to kick the can down the road,
why ask questions how to change it. SusieQ says—Don’t worry, it will all work out
one way or the other in the end; it always does; it’s ok as long as the stock market
keeps going up 30% each year haha! AverageJoe says—Now all of this noise could
give a person tinnitus! Yikes
Realisms! If it walks
like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. If
I have not love, I am only a resounding gong, or a clanging cymbal! Yikes!
Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:
erv
MyFriendJean says--Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in their place.
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