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The Daily Dose/July 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
GOD, I LOVE THE INTERNET: This site – call it America’s Digital Front Porch, if you must – has been down since Friday and none of us were breathing normally again until it was back up Sunday night. We first noticed the problem when at work early Friday morning, when we tried to post the daily miracle you’ve come to expect here, and this site wouldn’t load.
Here We Go Again: These aren’t the first problems we had, and we started the usual chat with our webhost, and soon enough it was elevated to Level 2 support. The dreaded ticket was generated and we waited.
Dry, Technical Matter: Initially, Level 2 support – again, hardly uncharted waters – wasn’t very helpful. They kept sending me a bunch of technical jargon we didn’t understand, and responses were taking an awfully long time, about twice as long as usual, and the problem was far from resolved when we left work Saturday morning
Fly In The Ointment: The problem continued into Saturday and wasn’t fixed when we went to work Saturday nite/Sunday morning, and it still wasn’t resolved when we left for home. In fact, our last response at 0230 Sunday still hadn’t been answered…Well, billions of people don’t read this crap, and we are loath to alter our personal routine, so we left the matter until we got back to work.
More Dry, Technical Matter: When we next visited our ticket, we had a message advising that assorted files in our account (we have several websites) had been infected with malware. We were told to remove them and provided a link to a blog that explained absolutely nothing whatsoever. We pleaded for help, and we’re told they could do it for us, but we have to open a new ticket and ask them to do it. We do, but before the new ticket is acknowledged, BOOM, we get a message saying that, like magic, no infected files were detected, and full access had been granted
Can You Shorthand The Rest Of This?: Except it wasn’t. We were told they’re doing another malware scan on it, and we went to bed Sunday morning with the site still down. We checked in Sunday evening after waking up and there was a message advising there was malware, but the company would be thrilled to take care of the matter if we would only open yet another GD effing ticket.
The Bottom Line: Longtime readers of this crap know outages happen occasionally, but this was the longest one ever, and we missed our daily chats as much as you did. How malware got into our website isn’t completely clear, though we will now make sure all aspects of every website we have will be kept updated because they said, shy of someone actually inserting them, out-of-date software was the likely culprit.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – There are two entries for you today, from Wednesday and Sunday. From Wednesday, Sparrow deals with a very pregnant woman.
She wasn’t saying the f-word every three seconds like that one lady a while back, but she was doubled over and groaning, and even a dolt like yours truly could tell that while the kid wasn’t waving at us, it was ready to drop…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: Due to time constraints, these entries have previously run.
In 1789 – The first federal agency under the new US Constitution is formed when President George Washington signs legislation forming the Department of Foreign Affairs. The department would be renamed the State Department in September, with John Jay serving as interim secretary until Thomas Jefferson got around to taking office the following March. Today the US has diplomatic relations with 171 countries and roughly 75,000 employees.
In 1919 – Joe Wilhoit of the Wichita Jobbers of the Class-A Western League establishes a new professional baseball record for the longest hitting streak in a game in a 14- 1 win over the Tulsa Oilers. It was the 46th consecutive game with a hit for Wilhoit, breaking the record of 45 established by Jack Ness of the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League in 1915, and Wilhoit would eventually hit in 69 consecutive games, a record that still stands. Some sources say this was the 50th consecutive game with a hit for Wilhoit; however, three Wichita newspapers all have it as his 46th.
In 1940 – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers are at #1 on Billboard’s National Best Selling Retail Records chart for the first of twelve consecutive weeks with I’ll Never Smile Again, the first #1 song on Billboard’s first-ever music chart. The record for most weeks at #1 on any Billboard chart is 373 weeks by Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole of Hawaii on the World Digital Song Sales chart from 2010-2025.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow.
Gene Cernan
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The last human to walk on the Moon was Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, on December 14, 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What song broke I’ll Never Smile Again’s record with 13 weeks at #1? – Answer next time!
The Daily Dose/July 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
GOD, I LOVE THE INTERNET: This site – call it America’s Digital Front Porch, if you must – has been down since Friday and none of us were breathing normally again until it was back up Sunday night. We first noticed the problem when at work early Friday morning, when we tried to post the daily miracle you’ve come to expect here, and this site wouldn’t load.
Here We Go Again: These aren’t the first problems we had, and we started the usual chat with our webhost, and soon enough it was elevated to Level 2 support. The dreaded ticket was generated and we waited.
Dry, Technical Matter: Initially, Level 2 support – again, hardly uncharted waters – wasn’t very helpful. They kept sending me a bunch of technical jargon we didn’t understand, and responses were taking an awfully long time, about twice as long as usual, and the problem was far from resolved when we left work Saturday morning
Fly In The Ointment: The problem continued into Saturday and wasn’t fixed when we went to work Saturday nite/Sunday morning, and it still wasn’t resolved when we left for home. In fact, our last response at 0230 Sunday still hadn’t been answered…Well, billions of people don’t read this crap, and we are loath to alter our personal routine, so we left the matter until we got back to work.
More Dry, Technical Matter: When we next visited our ticket, we had a message advising that assorted files in our account (we have several websites) had been infected with malware. We were told to remove them and provided a link to a blog that explained absolutely nothing whatsoever. We pleaded for help, and we’re told they could do it for us, but we have to open a new ticket and ask them to do it. We do, but before the new ticket is acknowledged, BOOM, we get a message saying that, like magic, no infected files were detected, and full access had been granted
Can You Shorthand The Rest Of This?: Except it wasn’t. We were told they’re doing another malware scan on it, and we went to bed Sunday morning with the site still down. We checked in Sunday evening after waking up and there was a message advising there was malware, but the company would be thrilled to take care of the matter if we would only open yet another GD effing ticket.
The Bottom Line: Longtime readers of this crap know outages happen occasionally, but this was the longest one ever, and we missed our daily chats as much as you did. How malware got into our website isn’t completely clear, though we will now make sure all aspects of every website we have will be kept updated because they said, shy of someone actually inserting them, out-of-date software was the likely culprit.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – There are two entries for you today, from Wednesday and Sunday. From Wednesday, Sparrow deals with a very pregnant woman.
She wasn’t saying the f-word every three seconds like that one lady a while back, but she was doubled over and groaning, and even a dolt like yours truly could tell that while the kid wasn’t waving at us, it was ready to drop…
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Would you like 4Ever & Ever access to Gaylon’s crap?
Of course you would.
Click here. It’s only $24.99.
Click here for complimentary chapters of all of Gaylon’s books.
It’s easy reading on any device.
———
On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: Due to time constraints, these entries have previously run.
In 1789 – The first federal agency under the new US Constitution is formed when President George Washington signs legislation forming the Department of Foreign Affairs. The department would be renamed the State Department in September, with John Jay serving as interim secretary until Thomas Jefferson got around to taking office the following March. Today the US has diplomatic relations with 171 countries and roughly 75,000 employees.
In 1919 – Joe Wilhoit of the Wichita Jobbers of the Class-A Western League establishes a new professional baseball record for the longest hitting streak in a game in a 14- 1 win over the Tulsa Oilers. It was the 46th consecutive game with a hit for Wilhoit, breaking the record of 45 established by Jack Ness of the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League in 1915, and Wilhoit would eventually hit in 69 consecutive games, a record that still stands. Some sources say this was the 50th consecutive game with a hit for Wilhoit; however, three Wichita newspapers all have it as his 46th.
In 1940 – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers are at #1 on Billboard’s National Best Selling Retail Records chart for the first of twelve consecutive weeks with I’ll Never Smile Again, the first #1 song on Billboard’s first-ever music chart. The record for most weeks at #1 on any Billboard chart is 373 weeks by Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole of Hawaii on the World Digital Song Sales chart from 2010-2025.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow.
Gene Cernan
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The last human to walk on the Moon was Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, on December 14, 1972.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What song broke I’ll Never Smile Again’s record with 13 weeks at #1? – Answer next time!
Yo, Homey(ies),
Your Daily Dose will return.
Please, by all means, click here to read today’s exciting entry in The Diary of a Nobody. Sparrow details his night off.
Cheers,
Valued Reader(s),
The Daily Dose will return. Promise.
Click here for today’s entry in The Diary of a Nobody.
All the best,
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Monday, July 20
Return Engagement
Those two kids from last nite with the dad they conned into buying them Hershey bars were back tonite…Both kids were zipping around the lobby this time, and we’re thinking fabulous, the kids are running around like they’re on crack and they’re going to get their nightly sugar fix…This gave us reinforcement for our decision not to reproduce.
The Daily Dose/July 20, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
“WE COPY YOU DOWN, EAGLE”: Regular readers of this crap know one of the items that we tend to mention every year – either here or in On This Date or, as likely as not, both places – is the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
“Houston…Tranquility Base Here…The Eagle Has Landed.”: Today is the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing on the Moon and mankind’s first steps on another celestial body. No matter what we humans accomplish over the centuries, the events of July 1969 will always stand as a landmark human achievement.
“That’s One Small Step…”: We’ve long thought this was our species’ finest hour, a line of demarcation separating everything that came before from everything that followed. The invention of gunpowder, the birth of Christ, and the Beatles also fit that description, as well as some others, perhaps, but the list of such days is very short.
“Apollo 11, Apollo 11…This Is Hornet, Hornet, Over.”: It was the culmination of a long national effort, one that began in 1961, when President John F. Kennedy called for Americans to land on the moon and return safely to Earth before “this decade is out”.
USA! USA! America could use a great national effort now. We don’t have one unless you consider partisan bickering a national effort, and we are so far removed from our national path that we haven’t done anything great since Apollo 17 left the Moon in 1972. We have been at war every day since 1989, and we’ve twice elected Donald Trump – an ignorant liar and a man of zero moral or intellectual substance – president.
More USA! USA!: We are a fractured and bickering mess, all of us circling our own individual wagons now, with citizens unable to take “no” for an answer or even handle an opposing viewpoint without escalation to DefCon 1. We no longer listen, we merely wait for a break in a conversation so we can issue our own opinions.
The Bottom Line: We are in our seventh decade of TV and fast food as focal points of American life, and we are paying the price. We are well entertained and well fed, and not much interested in anything that gets in the way of that. We are no longer willing – and perhaps unable – to do anything hard. This is our loss, because this country and this planet are better places when America is on a mission and has a point to make.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow turns down some KFC. Today’s Diary.
Now, after five or six hours, it’s reasonable to throw it out, but it’s not particularly edible after five or six hours, and we’ve already eaten besides…So a lot of food went to waste…
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Would you like 4Ever & Ever access to Gaylon’s crap?
Of course you would.
Click here. It’s only $24.99.
Click here for complimentary chapters of all of Gaylon’s books.
It’s easy reading on any device.
———
On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
Editor’s Note: Due to time constraints, these entries have run previously.
In 1969 – Human beings walk on another celestial body for the first time when Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon for two-and-a-half hours while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command module. Apollo 11 was the third mission to reach the moon; in May, Apollo 10 had done everything but land, and in December Apollo 8 orbited the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin spent two-and-a-half hours walking on the lunar surface and were the first of twelve humans to walk on somewhere other than Earth.
In 1984 – Uwe Hohn of East Germany establishes a new world record in the javelin at a meet in East Berlin. Hohn threw 343 feet, 9.75 inches to break the record of 327 feet, 1.92 inches set by American Tom Petranoff in 1983. Hohn’s record lasted until 1986 when track and field officials moved the javelin’s center of gravity forward four centimeters, and the current record is 323 feet, 1.1 inches, done by Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic in 1996.
In 1959 – Johnny Horton is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then known as the Hot Country Sides chart – for the tenth and final consecutive week with The Battle of New Orleans. The song also went #1 pop in Australia and Canada, peaked at #16 in Great Britain, had earlier spent six weeks at #1 on the Hot 100, was Billboard’s #1 song of the year, and ranked 37th on Billboard’s 60th-anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. It was the first of two country #1 songs for Horton and remains his only pop #1.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.
John F Kennedy
9/12/62
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
Rome was founded in 753 BC.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last human to walk on the Moon? – Answer next time!
