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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Vidalia Onions: I have purchase them
whenever they were available for many years. They are usually so sweet I can
eat them as a snack food. This year that did not happen. I bought some and
they were almost as hot as cooking onions. I went to another store and the
same thing happened. For a while, I did not know what to think. Is this just
a bad year or is someone perpetrating a fraud? I finally got an answer. I
bought some Vidalia onions that had a Georgia Vidalia label on them. They
were what I expect Vidalia onions to be, the real deal. Be warned, some bums
are perpetrating a fraud with the Vidalia name. Some Advice: With the gas prices
being what they are, many people are forgoing vacations. They simply cannot
afford to take the camper or van any distance at all. It will stay in the
garage. Let me suggest a vacation spot that you have probably overlooked.
Your backyard may be an ideal place to have a vacation. There will be all of
the conveniences of home just inside the door. Take a look
at your backyard. Now, try to remember how much you sent on vacation last
year. Use the same amount of money to enhance your backyard. A vacation is a
one shot deal. Your enhancement will last forever and eventually make your
home more valuable. Take a look! Is there room for a
screened gazebo? How about a hot tub? What would you
do on vacation? Can you do it at home? Is there a public pool or lake nearby?
For dining, there must be at least one nice restaurant near home. The Good Old Days: Do you remember the good
old days when everyone minded their own business. Of
course you don’t! If you do, you should see
your doctor about your Alzheimer’s. Those days
never existed except in your faulty memory. Most people were more covert about it back then. Instead of making other
people’s business a public issue, we gossiped and undercut them behind
their backs. Branch Dravidians Again: It looks like they are
going to continue to get away with child abuse forever. All they must do is
stay in A New Law: We are going to have a
new law in Unanswered Questions: I have notices in all of
the flowery rhetoric about alternate energy sources the great lack of
technical details to support the concepts. For example, windmill power. We
know windmills produce electrical energy. However, we do not know how much
these devices cost. We do not know what happens when there is no wind. We do
not know the maintenance requirements, how often they break
down, or how costly it is to fix them. In fact, we don’t
know much at all, but we are supposed to believe. Brand Loyalty: If we took the logos
from the front of a Ford and a Chevy and switched them, most people would not
be able to tell the difference. The auto companies have lost their identities
and with them, their brand loyalty. When I listen to Wagoner and Ford babble,
I realize they do not realize they have lost their brand loyalty. Worse, I am
beginning to suspect, they do not know there is such a thing and that they
once had it. Bull: Now we have the
do-gooders about to get the feds to change paper money. They want different
denominations to have different shapes and feel different just like When I was a punk kid in
Miss Digs is a I am having a fence put
around my garden for several reasons. The most important reason is that Mrs.
Gaffer wants a fence around the garden. The man who is putting up the fence
reminded me that he had to call Miss Digs and get a clearance. I had no
problem with that. I told him the law that required that was a good law. I
still believe that, but I discovered that no law is good when it is implemented by morons. Some bozos came out to my
home when I was away and put two markers in my yard in the same place. One
marker was from Detroit Edison and the other from SBC, the local television
cable company. Both said there was a buried cable under those markers. There is no cable at
that spot, either electric or television. There is no television cable
anywhere on my property. I don’t have or want
cable. As to electric cables, there are a few underground electric wires in
my yard. It would be a pompous stretch to call them cables,
they are just single wires. I put them underground
and I know exactly where they are. There are no wires where those markers were placed. I have owned this property for forty-nine
years. Before we build our home this whole place was planted
to feed corn and there was no such thing as cable. These two fools, whoever
they were, came here with a couple of markers and, for lack of knowing what
they were supposed to do, just stuck them in the
ground and went away. They made no attempt to find the
wires that really are there. Back
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