Author: John

American Citizen, born and bred and proud to be an American --amateur blogger --widowed -- three children all grown --Christian --Veteran -- born to strong Republican family --

Well Folks, I Went And Did It!

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I paid the $48 fee to get control of this blog after taking a couple of months to make up my mind and so today I present myself in a new light– all cleaned up and dark enough to read now and ready to try again. I will take a moment to congratulate myself on making the move hoping that this time around I can do a little better than I have done with the last few dozen tries.

Yes ……

Folks, let me tell you something—really something big, maybe the biggest thing you’ve seen in a long time.

After a lot of thinking—very serious thinking, tremendous thinking, people are saying I think better than almost anybody—I went ahead and did it. I paid the $48 fee. Not $47, not $49. $48. A very strong number. A very stable number. And because of that, I now have total, beautiful control of this blog.

It took me a couple of months to make up my mind, which honestly is very unfair to me because I usually decide things extremely fast. Some say too fast. But in this case, I wanted to be careful. Strategic. Like a winner.

And now, here we are.

Today I present myself in a new light. A cleaner light. A sharper light. Some would say the sharpest light this blog has ever seen. It’s been polished up, it’s been fixed up, it’s been made readable again—which is something frankly not all blogs can say. Many blogs, very sad, are not readable. This one? Fully readable. Tremendous upgrade.

I am, in a very real sense, reborn here. Not like those weak “soft relaunches” other people do. This is a full-scale comeback. A return. A domination of the blog space, if you will. People are already talking. I can hear them. They’re saying, “Wow, this blog feels different.” And they’re right. It is different. It’s me.

Now I want to take a moment—just a brief moment, not too long because I don’t want to get emotional—to congratulate myself. Because frankly, nobody else will do it properly. I made the move. I took action. I paid the $48. And that is what leaders do. That is what champions do. That is what very successful bloggers do.

Do I expect perfection this time? No. I am not unrealistic. I am, however, extremely confident. And confidence is what separates the good bloggers from the great bloggers. Some say the greatest bloggers of all time.

Will I do better than the last few dozen tries? Honestly, the bar is not low—it is somewhere underground at this point—but yes, I believe I will exceed it. Tremendously.

This time, I am focused. I am disciplined. I am organized in a way that frankly might surprise people who have followed my previous blogging history, which has been described—accurately, I might add—as “chaotic, but ambitious.”

So welcome. Or welcome back. Or welcome for the first real time, depending on how you look at it.

Because this is not just another post.

This is the beginning of something much, much bigger.

And everybody knows it. — and if they don’t know it, they will soon find it out.

LOL

I Never Knew That About Bananas

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Somebody told me that if I wash my newly purchased bananas and put them into my refrigerator, I can extend their freshness for up to seven days. They tell me that if I do this, the banana skins will darken but the bananas inside of the skins will remain fresh and bright for the extra time. I haven’t tried it yet, but I am going to.

Looks Like

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I predict for the rest of 2026:

Max cost for a gallon of gasoline = $9.00 – $12.00

Max electric bill for one month for individual residence: $340.00 – $500.00

Monthly grocery bill for family of four – $1,500 -$1,800

Increase in health insurance premiums — 35%

Increase in cost for car insurance: 50%

Cost for bounced check – $75.00

Cost for 4 room apartment rental – $1,800.00

Cost for average new home – $600,000

Increase in personal property tax= 50%

Lost jobs due to AI – 300,000

College tuition – will double

Pound of hamburger- $14.00

Loaf of bread -$11.00

Dozen eggs – 7.00 – $9.00

pound of kansas city steak – 19.00

Can of peas – $3.50 – $4.00

Pound of pears – $3.95

Package of bacon – $7.95 – $9.95 – $11.95

Pound of fish – $19.00

restaurant hamburger sandwich – $15.00 – $17.00

Tooth extraction at dentist – 500.00 – $600

pair of mens denim jeans – $64.00 -$94.00

Men’s Tee-shirt – $19.95 – $30.00

Bag of potatoes – $12.00-15.00 for 5 pounds

Bag of potato chips – $9.00-12.00

Water bill for individual family for a month $120.00

Cost of funeral -$15,000 – upward

Cost of cremation – $2,000 upward

Cable bill – $190.00-$300.00

Humming Along

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Humming along but not in my Hummer– that is long gone ….being driven about in a 20 year old Ford now– excellent shape… all maintenance was kept up to date– the thing is in showroom condition.

The interesting part about this day is that today I start on a remarkably strong probiotic– 500 million active organisms —more than I have ever taken before…. on prescription …sitting around seeing how it is going to affect me … didn’t even go to church today — but so far so good— been about 5 hours since I took it now…..nothing frightening yet.

I have been enjoying using chatgpt ai chat box lately because it seems to know the answers to any question I might put to it. This morning I am going to look for that special wood that is always used in the western united states — I know it is not sage– sage is one kind of western wood that has an aromatic appeal… but this other one is the one that smells a little bit like burning asphalt. I will find it though because chatgpt seems to have all the answers to anything I am interested in.

It is a little later now and I looked on chatgpt and found out that the wood I was trying to remember is mesquite. When I was out west many years ago, we always used it for roasting our steaks out on the range. Later I got so nostalgic about it that I bought special incense with the mesquite smell which i sometimes use even today just to stoke the nostalgia of my old cowboy days. (I still have a closet full of range hats and dress hats from Nieman Marcus.) LOL.

We are having hamburger steak and mashed potatoes for lunch today along with carrots and broccoli and all the good stuff that i could not eat because of my cdif for more than 25 weeks. Now that I am into my 26th week of recovery, I find that my digestive machinery has healed again to the point where I can eat normally once again and it is a real blessing, I can tell you that much.

Oh My God — another gunman firing shots in the vicinity of the President —-Thankfully everyone is safe —horrible incident but yet another convincing reason for the planned Big Beautiful Ballroom to get done —it will be ever so much more secure than the venue where this devilish incident occurred. This evil happening should cause the dearly beloved president’s popularity ratings to rise again, you would think, right?

I am expecting delivery of some new compression stockings in the morning or in the afternoon….Amazon ….this time I am getting the open toe variety to deal with the neuropathy in my toes …never had neuropathy before I got the cdif —but now i live with it daily. Not funny at all.






Hoo Hah!

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April 25, 2026 @ 11:51 PM (EST) —- somewhere on the outer fringes of sanity, I am here for what it is worth and because I am here it should be well worth it for a lot of people who need informing and education and i am a great educator, informant and journalist– just not on a blog — my experience has been with actual newspapers …. in the days before newspapers succumbed to the maga nonsense (madness)— Do you know what MAGA means in some foreign languages? I know of at least three foreign languages where MAGA means “sorcery or witch craft” I shit you not, folks!

But of course, if you are an avid reader of the Holy Bible, then you know the attributes of an anti-Christ because it is clearly spelled out in the scriptures so plainly that even the worst handicapped moron can readily and easily understand it all.

The good news is that the current manifestation of MAGA is reshaping the nation from something was corrupt and unsustainable into something that will eventually be kind of a utopia in the eyes of many.

I just hope that before it is all over and done with, those sleaze bags who brag that they will never touch a time clock or hold down an honest job and who love to suck at the tits of the welfare systems and whose only claim to disability is their self-induced drug habits or alcoholism — or worse — will finally either be forced to work for their monthly checks or get kicked off the system altogether. That is my wet dream day.

As I watch the progress of our beloved nation over the past few months I have come to a few conclusions… based on my unimpeachable powers of observation and analysis … that we have become not only a nation of one party, we have also once again begun to reach that utopian state imagined by the framers of the Constitution…now read the Constitution and analyze that one for yourself before somebody starts calling me racist. Check out what the requirements for voting were in the early days of our Republic …that is where we either are right now or that is where we are heading…. and that is a good thing because that is how this great nation of ours started and that is the seed from which we became great in the first place. There was actually a powerful wealthy ruling class at the beginning of it all and that is where we are heading right now once again….and it was good for the nation back then and it can only be good for the nation now.

Forget about the distribution of wealth folks… that is nothing but a point of useless contention and it causes hard feelings among our citizens. The fact is that if everyone paid more attention when they were in school, and took advantage of all the almost unlimited opportunities for success that this great nation of ours offered them, there would be no such thing as poverty or low incomes because America has always been rife with opportunities to advance and be successful — the only hold up among the millions of our underclass-persons is that they were probably too lazy or ill informed to every take advantage of those opportunities … so folks, poverty in this country, as far as I am concerned, is a disease of wilful ignorance in 99 percent of the cases– or slothfulness. Not the fault of the country– not the fault of the wealthy class ….without the wealthy class there would never been any good paying jobs to begin with…. people have to stop blaming the rich people for all the ills of the nation and get off their asses and make something of themselves.

And let us all start praying for those who are in power in our government… we are suppose to support them in their very hard daily tasks not go around blaming them for everything that happens — when it is a demonstrable fact that they are doing the best they can with what they have inherited and they seem to be doing a swell job of getting things that were broken back together again. I am an old man and I have never seen an administration before that has been so often attacked or belittled or complained about than the one that we have right now …I am surprised that they have been able to do the great job they are already doing despite the complaining and whining of those who do not appreciate them.

We Americans need to start counting our blessings instead of bitching about everything all the time.

Time Is All We Have

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The modern world encourages a casual extravagance with time. We disperse it across trivialities, surrender it to distractions, and invest it in pursuits that neither elevate nor endure. Yet for the discerning individual, time is not something to be “filled,” but something to be shaped—deliberately, even artfully. To spend time well is to curate a life of intention.

There is a refinement in choosing depth over breadth. An hour immersed in meaningful conversation, in rigorous thought, or in the appreciation of beauty—whether art, music, or nature—carries a richness that no abundance of shallow moments can rival. Time, after all, is not measured merely in quantity, but in texture.

This perspective demands a certain discipline. It requires the courage to decline invitations that dilute one’s focus, to step away from the incessant noise of the ephemeral, and to privilege what is lasting over what is merely immediate. Such choices are not sacrifices, but affirmations of value.

Ultimately, to understand that time is all we have is not to succumb to urgency, but to embrace clarity. It is an invitation to live with precision—to align one’s hours with one’s highest standards and deepest convictions.

For in the end, a life well-lived is not defined by how much time we were given, but by how discerningly we chose to spend it.

As for me? At my very advanced age, I certainly do not have that much time left on this earth so I spend my time any damned way that I please…. and I do it without apologies to anybody. I think I have earned the privilege.

I Am Not Paying For This Blog

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I worked on blogging for more than 12 years and it was such a hassle and the readership was low..and never got any better.. even though I am always grateful for the precious and treasured handful of real friends that I had when I was here the last time and there is no need to mention their names because they know who they are.