Hello on Wednesday Morning

Dear Friends,



The wind has been howling all night. The temperature is in the 50’s. We have a little rain falling right now. One of the bags of garbage was rolling down the street. I had put a bunch of that Styrofoam packing material in a garbage bag. The lightness of the bag was no match for the wind.



I spent three hours in the garage cleaning, throwing stuff out, and rearranging stuff on shelves so that we can now park both cars in the garage.



Linda had fun at Mah Jongg which lasted until 4:30 PM. Many times the games end at around 3:30 PM, but they players must have been into on Tuesday.



I squeezed in a nap too so that I could stay up and watch the Celtics game. The Celtic’s beat LeBron James’ former team the Cleveland Cavaliers.



While Linda and I were on a date night at Matt Reilly’s for their Fish and Chips special, I asked Linda who the big winner was during the Mah Jongg games, and how did Thanksgiving Dinner go for each one of her friends and their families. Every one of her friends won a game or two.

Linda did tell me of a Thanksgiving story which one of her friends told everyone who was playing Mah Jongg. One Mah Jongg player, who is in her late 70’s decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her family. She never cooked a Turkey in all of her days on this earth. This Thanksgiving she decided to cook one herself. She had no clue of how to cook a turkey. She called a friend for advice, and the friend said that you have to put water in the bottom of the roasting pan. Well, the Mah Jongg lady got carried away with the amount of water which she put in the pan. She didn’t give the Mah Jongg ladies much details of how the bird came out, but she did say that the bird came out very moist. A steamed cooked Turkey would of course come out moist. No one asked if she made stuffing or if the cooked bird ever got a crispy skin toward the end of the cooking process.

The lady told the Mah Jongg players that next Thanksgiving she is taking her family out to dinner at a restaurant which her and her family have always done in years past.



I also found out that my mother has a new roommate at the nursing home. She happens to be the Mother of a guy that my Dalton friend and I used to tailgate with at the Patriots’ game when we had season tickets. This guy’s mom is in the same age group as my mother. She had a fall at home, and that is why the family had to put her in the nursing home. It sure is a small world.



Politics – I see where the Latino’s in Nevada want to break away from the Democratic Party and form their own party called “The Tequila Party!” The Latino’s are upset with the lack of progress with immigration reform. Do you think that this group will serve free Tequila at every rally? If that is the case, I might join the movement. Just Kidding!



I also see where some people want Hillary Clinton to resign because of the leaks from the Wikipedia affair. Do you think that all the other the other countries who belong to the United Nations might do a little spying on each other like the United States does on a regular basis? It is so sad that our thoughts were written down and stored on a computer.



The Korea incidents had calmed down a bit from the shootings of a couple of days ago. I hope that we don’t get involved in another military conflict, but we have military bases in South Korea.



I was reading my Time magazine yesterday, and there were a little over 100 billionaires around 2000. We now have over 1000 billionaires in 2010. President Obama is not having success negotiating with the Republicans who want to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the nation. I don’t want the rich people taxed to death, but they could pay a little more in taxes. The middle class has been footing a larger than normal portion of the budget in the United State. I can see why the rich, and us as well don’t want to pay for other people who will sit on their butts, and continue to receive handouts.

I am actually not I favor of extending benefits beyond the 99 weeks our government has already extended for unemployed people. When you are getting handouts for a long period of time, you lose the urge to go back to work. These people don’t want to go back to work for lower paying jobs, but sometimes you have to suck it up and do so. You might have to work two jobs to make ends meet. You might have to work with immigrants and illegal aliens who are thankful to work any kind of job.



Yesterday, I was listening to a local talk program while working in the garage. The host was upset with the people who drive around in those motorized wheel chairs, smoking cigarettes, drinking cups of Dunkin Donuts’ coffee. These people most likely never paid for the motorized device. They are also in these wheel chairs because they didn’t take care of themselves. The government pays for their subsidized apartments too. Whoa, do I sound like a Republican? Even we Liberal Democrats get a little conservative as we grow older.



There are some truly needy people which government agencies can give a helping hand to, but the helping hand wasn’t designed to last a lifetime.



Social Calendar – I will be helping with chores around the house today. We bought a couple four foot lighted trees, and we have to decide where to put them. I have to dig out the bucket which has Christmas Linens in it. We have to put together some toys for when we baby sit for Max beginning this weekend.

Linda has her knitting group this evening at 6 PM. I might do a Chicken Novena while she is with the knitters.



Have a great Wednesday.

For people in the Berkshires, brace yourself for some cool weather after the front goes through including some possible snow next week.

Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad