The Daily Dose/Friday, July 2, 2021
The Daily Dose/July 2, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow polishes some silver. Today’s Diary.
What to use was a conundrum until I spotted some green socks I’d bought from the British folks I’d bought a lot of the cruise clothing from… The socks are lousy – tho maybe they’re what’s worn in Britain – and they worked wonderfully buffing everything up…The only downside was I only got about a third of it done, but it’s a long life…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
In general, the wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done the opposite; and so it will continue.
Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy
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The Daily Dose/Thursday, July 1, 2021
The Daily Dose/July 1, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is STILL working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow puts in a moderately busy day at the veterans service office (VSO). Today’s Diary.
Rob from the Legion post called wanting to know about getting a VA home loan, plainly under the impression that his VSO could be of some help here, an impression that is as widespread as it is false…We can’t…While your VSO has an awful lot of government forms waiting to be filled out, none of them are useful here.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
We are, after all, good people; we are not monsters. But we have monstrosities to confront, and we have a lot of work to do.
Jeff Gaye
Canadian newspaper publisher
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The Daily Dose/Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 30, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has an awful lot of office administration news. Today’s Diary.
Also, the back office ruler is now being stowed in the desk organizer that is on the back desk, to the left of the monitor and the scratch paper pile…I don’t approve of this, either, and I suppose it could be put back in the drawer but regular readers of this crap may – or they may not – recall yours truly recently won the pitched battle over where the 3-hole punch should go and there’s no reason to go exerting any more authority than is necessary.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Man lives in a circle, and when he has been all the way around, he might as well call it a day.
Heywood Braun
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The Daily Dose/Tuesday, June 29, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 29, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is STILL working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is busy all night at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
A mudslide closed part of the Interstate well south of here, so they are detoured through town, one of the great pain in the arse detours since invaders had to work their way around the Great Wall…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in the person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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The Daily Dose/Monday, June 28, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 28, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return later this summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is unable to immediately produce a useful plan for getting his luggage to his car. Today’s Diary.
Initially, the plan was to go to the lobby, get a cart, return to the room with it, load the cart before hauling it down to the car and returning the cart to the lobby and then returning to the room…Offhand, I thought this was a lousy plan, but I was unable to come up with a better one but, knowing me as I do, it was presumed a more efficient solution would present itself before this imbroglio of a plan was actually implemented.
Of course, the logical solution, which presented itself right before I went to get the cart, was to drive to the front of the hotel, get a cart, take it to the room and load up, return to the car and load up before leaving the cart at the front entrance for someone else to use, a wonderful solution.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…the essence of statecraft is to know when to do nothing at all.
Gore Vidal
Creation
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