Permanent Day

And a cool fall day.  Themo says 41 this morning.  Yesterday was about like the same.  But, until yesterday, most of our lows were in the 60's.  Not ordinary fall weather.  I can even remember a time or two when we had snow on Halloween. 

But, as to permanent day.  Yesterday I got a perm.  I want to remember the date, so here it is.  The hair dresser said I had the last one on July 19, but I think it was June 19 because I think it was before we went west this summer.

Our big annual audit at work is over and we did very good, for a change.  Our last few audits have not been that good.

This evening Greg is taking the kids to a monster truck thingy at Harrison.  The boy is really excited.

Speaking of, I have to go now and make pancakes for him.

Hair day

Hannah has been learning to do things with her hair. She is getting pretty good at it.

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A Winner

Hannah won second place in the 4th grade spelling bee.  We were very proud and very surprised.  She gets to go to the Carroll County Spelling Bee now.  The trophy is a golden bee.  She was really excited about winning the trophy.   

Willis and Hazel Gaddy Powell 1936

The back says, Willis & Hazel Powell 1936 in front of school at Denver Ark.

Picture from Helen.

Oh boy

Sin went to Vegas 4 a work confrence.  They always have mini clebs. Last year it was Tony from tiny and dawn.  This year it was Alex from ice roads.  Bob got autographed pics and a third shirt. He was really excited.

No work 4 2 days.

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My Take

on lots of things.

I decided about 2 weeks ago that I was spending to much time watching, reading and in general consuming TV and net news, or what 'They' now call news.  So, I am boycotting both TV and net news.  I have only listened to a few minutes of news since that time and have only checked the fivethirtyeight website a few times to see the 'numbers' on the election.  Our girl's numbers have steadily declined in those two weeks.  Now it is 55.5 vs 44.5.  At one time her number was above 80%.

But last night, I thought I would watch the debate.  That lasted about an hour and I turned off the bloob tube.  It is all so depressing.

Before the boycott, I would get the feel of the times by checking several news websites to see what was at the top of the page and was it positive or negative, never going below the top frame. This morning I did that check and find Hilary is coming out positive,  Trump not so much.

That is it.  Back to the boycott.

I have come to believe that 'the media' IS to blame for Trump.  They all need something to sell to bring back the audience.  He sells, the media buys.  If they did not buy Trump, he would  not have made it on the podium last night because he is not going to buy any of the things he is selling.  If you do buy what he is selling, he says you are a chump.  And on that point, he is correct.  God help us if more than 50% of voters buy what he is selling.