66* yesterday morning with warning sirens blowing and a tornado warning on the TV. It was said the we had received winds up to 57 mph but haven't noticed anything amiss. Did get 1.2 inches of rain is our measuring collector.
Now this morning it was down to 42* with a bright sun but not going to warm much. To top that the TV personality that mostly wrongly feeds us a forecast has put the real possibility of a snow accumulation Friday into Saturday in his morning spiel.
During this day we're going to Jeff City where I'll pay big money for the privilege of having the gum ripper pain me good for seven minuts or so. All the expense and the pain causes a false teeth thought to begin blipping. Just put'um in a cup to clean. No pain and very little cost.
A little learner: Hoosier was but one of a variety of disparaging terms for the inhabitants of particular states arising in the early 19th century. Texans were called Beetheads, for example; Alabamans were Lizards; Nebraskans were Bug-eaters; South Carolinians were Weasels, and Pennsylvanians were Leatherheads. People in Missouri might have had it worst of all—they were called Pukes. Originally, these names were probably taken up by people living in neighboring states, but belittled residents adopted them in a spirit of defiant pride, much as American colonists turned the derisive term Yankee into a moniker for their spirit of rebellion. Today, most of these frontier nicknames have disappeared from the landscape. A few like Okie still exist with much of their original animus. Others survive as nicknames for the sports teams of state universities—the North Carolina Tarheels, the Ohio Buckeyes, and so on—fighting words only on the playing field or court.
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.~Eric Hoffer
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