THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If you live in the State Of Oklahoma … “At all times, wear your dentures, and never wave at the Video Camera.”
Woke up this morning, feeling absolutely terrible, stuck my finger and the sugar is out of sight again, digits are snake-bit high ….. No wonder I feel hammered. But boy the Fried Rice and the Almond Cookies last night, they were really good. Today I have to pay the price.
As I understand it, motorists are still in trouble. Earlier I reported that more and more folks are being towed in by wrecking services now with the rising price of fuel. AAA reports that tow-ins are increasing, as American’s are buying less motor fuel and leaving their tanks close to empty. AAA has reported a “doubling of calls” from stranded motorists needing a tow.
Some media outlets are reporting people pawning off personal items, in order to purchase fuel. Theft of some metals is up nationwide, and the scrap business has reached new highs. Forget the pawnshops, you may have a good source of extra cash right there in your own home.
Young audiophiles are rediscovering vinyl records, which many deem to have “better sound and quality” over CD’s and MP3 players. Artists such as Elvis Costello and Radio-head are releasing alums on vinyl, and sales of turntables have spiked about 500% every year for the past four years. Even my own grandson (14 yrs old) came over the other day and raided a box of old wax out in the garage and took several home with him.
So dust off that Arrow Smith, Pure Prairie League and The Dead, if you can bare to part with them, you could be sitting on a Goldmine. I would be willing to part with just about most all of it except my Lawrence Welk Remembers Woodstock Album, that is a keeper, I cannot sell that one.
A pack of smokes in New York has gone to $10 per pack ($100 a carton) yesterday as they again applied a sin tax to some poor sucker. The new plan in New York is to have the weak and the addicted take care of the majority I guess.
Why people continue to smoke at these prices amazes me, pack of Marlboro’s is over $4 in Oklahoma now. Having given up smoking some twelve years ago, I took a calculator and figured out my daily consumption rates on tobacco. Then I took the current price of a pack of Marlboro’s (my smoke of choice, which is now over $4.77 per pack) doing the math as my daddy used to say, it appears that someone owes me about $31,400 to be exact.
Where did the money go? I wonder why I don’t have that exact amount in my change drawer or a secret account at the bank? I had this friend, a guy, who didn’t smoke. He was adamant about it, he would not allow anyone to step inside his apartment that smoked. But if he met some chick he wanted to bed, he would allow her to barbecue a goat in the living-room!
Not long ago, I asked this cute little girl, why in the world was she smoking. She said that it helped with her weight problem. Which I suppose is correct. In the end, it will cure your weight problems; smoking will cure ALL of your problems eventually.
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I’ve heard many a person say they smoke to keep their weight down – how sad is that? What really happens is the nicotine takes the effectiveness from your taste buds – so you have less desire to eat, and enjoy food less. At the same time it is addictive so you smoke instead.
I am so glad that I have never smoked a single cigarette in my life! My parents were both heavy smokers when I was a child though – so I’ve probably passively smoked a lot – unfortunately.
I have often heard it said, that children emulate those around them. My dad, his brothers, most of our neighbors, in the fifties smoked. I just grew up thinking that it was a natural and cool thing to do, what I did not know was it was the start of a thirty-five year addiction.
I had to quit five times before I actually made it, and I did it cold turkey, without the help of anything other than sheer will power. Changing my habits and my routines, taking a lot of showers, thinking about anything other than a smoke, is what finally did it.
Don’t want any more of that, you can bet you last dollar on that.
DS
Comment by Author — July 11, 2008 @ 11:52 AM