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April 24, 2021
Alcohol Coaster Set
Cool alcoholic coaster set.
Different colors for different booze.
Wine is fine, but liquor is quicker!
What's your poison? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Alcohol Coaster Set
January 7, 2021
Prescription Coffee, A Washington Necessity
A regular coffee just won't do it, especially with what's going on in Washington, D.C. after the most recent chaotic events of yesterday.
Thus, this prescription coffee is a great idea to wake the masses out of their disbelieving stupor of what's going down in this insane town.
Of course, the supposed Russian way of dealing with their opponents is said to involve perhaps more of a poison approach to handle affairs (reference Navalny), which is way scary!
And with talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the President from office or of impeachment (again) less than 2 weeks from the inauguration, I'll definitely take me some prescription coffee by the barrel. ;-)
(Source Photo: Minna)
Prescription Coffee, A Washington Necessity
November 19, 2020
Vaccine Fears
They tell me that the news is reporting 95% effectiveness and then they pull out their smartphone and show me a cartoon of someone taking the vaccine and their face is all deformed (I won't go into the details).
So I ask him:
Are you going to talk the vaccine?
He says:
"No!"
I ask:
Do you take the flu vaccine?
Again he says :
No, it's poison!
He thinks some more and says (jokingly, I believe):
And if some big burly guys try to hold me down and make me take it, I'll tell them I'm gonna go out and get a gun and come back tomorrow and shoot them.
Bottom line: there is some real fear and apprehension out there about these vaccines.
And surely, some people do have negative effects--whatever that percentage is.
Personally, I will take the vaccine. I would rather try and fail (hopefully not), than never try at all!
How long the vaccine is effective for--that's another matter all together. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Vaccine Fears
July 24, 2020
My Blue Thumb
I got a new spray bottle from Home Depot and I put the Fantastic cleaner it in.
Thinking about the new bottle, I accidentally picked it up to water the plants.
I sprayed the cactus and immediately realized what I had done!
Oh sh*t! I just poisoned my cactus. So quickly, I poured water in to try to dilute it.
I thought to myself how the plant would react and I imagined how a person would react if they drank Fantastic.
Sure enough within a couple of days the cactus was reeling.
But I think a person could probably recover if it wasn't too much, so I'm hoping the cactus will too. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
My Blue Thumb
March 20, 2020
The Dog Diet
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"I interrupt the COVID-19 pandemic to bring you this lil story...
Last night I went to Sam’s Club to buy a bag of food for my dogs.
Already in line, a woman behind me asked me if I had a dog.
I stare at her (those who know me will imagine my gaze 🤔😳) ...but then why would I be buying dog food...right? 😝😝
So on impulse I told her no, that I didn’t have a dog, that I was starting the dog food diet again, and that I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital the last time, but 15 pounds less!
I told her that it was the perfect diet and that all you had to do is carry the kibbles in your pocket and eat one or two every time you feel hungry (I have to mention that practically everyone in line was interested in my story).
Frightened, the woman asks me if I ended up in the hospital because the dog food had poisoned me. I answered...of course not!
I was admitted because I bent down to smell the butt of a bulldog and I was hit by a truck 😂😂😂
I thought the man behind her was going to have a heart attack...he was laughing so hard!
...Let’s continue promoting reading! 😁
I have to confess...I posted this to make you smile. It's your turn to copy/paste it and make someone else laugh.
We need to laugh more! Have a GREAT DAY😄😄😄"
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The Dog Diet
December 4, 2016
A New Type Of Chocolate Chips
And everything is carbs, carbs, and more carbs...it's literally poison for the body.
But when you go into the store and see Lays chocolate covered potato chips...this just brings you to the verge of sin.
The top are milk chocolate covered potato chips, and the bottom ones are dark chocolate covered ones.
Choose your poison?
This is definitely a new type of chocolate chips...Hershey's eat you heart out.
I told my wife pleadingly, "Can't I just taste one?" ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
A New Type Of Chocolate Chips
August 6, 2016
Seaweed Success Diet
Part of the success of my diet.
This is us checking out at register.
The cashier is tallying up dozens of Wasabi Roasted Seaweeds.
The stuff is a great healthy snack.
I had read for years now how the healthy Japanese diet includes plenty of seaweed and fish.
And I have been imitating their knowledgable ways.
And it is working, thank G-d.
Of course, the wasabi flavor gives it a little kick too.
Do yourselves a favor and get rid of all the disgusting carbohydrates in your life.
They are poison from an industry that wants you addicted to their garbage foods.
Get back to basics like fish, meat, vegetables, and that includes plenty of seaweed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Seaweed Success Diet
March 6, 2016
Oh Those Crispy Wontons
But I was good, and didn't have a single one!
Dossy was lucky and could have some and she put soy sauce on hers.
It was tempting, but I held strong.
Carbohydrates = Poison.
Carbohydrates = Poison.
Carbohydrates = Poison.
I tell myself over and over.
Do NOT touch.
Do NOT eat.
Do NOT even go near them.
Not so bad...mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Willpower, plain and simple.
Would be easier perhaps with some different "food" genetics.
But grateful for every blessing G-d has bestowed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Oh Those Crispy Wontons
September 10, 2015
Just Frogs
Just Frogs
January 27, 2015
Trouble In Protection Land
(And it comes on the heels of knife-wielding assailants running wild through the front doors of the White House, people taking pot shots at the White House, and even planes crash landing there).
This time it was perhaps, a small drone innocently passing low without a significant radar signature unto the White House grounds, but next time it may be a miniaturized drone the size of an insect that attacks the President or his senior staff in the White House itself.
This could happen with a pin prick of poison or a small drone carrying explosives, biological, or chemical weapons.
We are entering a new dimension of threats that are not easily addressed with existing technology.
It is said the the President is proverbially protected by a bubble of defenses around him, but where we are going is that this bubble may need to become an actual physical bubble that nothing, not even an insect drone can get through.
It may sound ridiculous, but it may be the only way (for now) to really protect against these threats that literally fly beneath our radar!
Perhaps at some future time, we will have our swarms of defensive drones that go after any attack drone, no matter how small or how many, but in the meantime, we must protect our critical leadership and assets.
Almost two years ago, I blogged about robots, drones, and commandos in exoskeletons attacking the White House and our not being prepared with adequate defenses and counter-measures.
This week's drone crash should be making the alarm bells go off on this issue big time now!
We must move past reactive steps and a failure to anticipate and become true forward-thinkers, strategists, planners, enterprise architects, and futurists.
The protection of our leaders, institutions, critical infrastructure, and people depend upon true out of the box thinking, not doing the same thing but on a different day.
The time is now to think about protections from much more than traditional attack patterns to the wildest and craziest we can imagine--because our enemies are not hampered by the past and won't rest until they see what we won't. ;-)
(Source Photo: here with attribution to David Illig)
Trouble In Protection Land
May 26, 2013
Mayim Chaim
Mayim Chaim
April 8, 2012
Poisons Anonymous
But that by turning these poisons around into generosity, compassion, and wisdom, we can create life-healing.
While this is sort of simplistic, it does point to a number of important things:
1) We can have an impact on our destiny. We can choose our direction and work towards something that is good or we can fall harmfully into some bad and destructive ways.
2) Everything has an antidote. While we may not know the antidote at the time, generally everything has its corollary or opposite and we can find healing by moving towards that.
3) The answers in life are not so far away. How much of a stretch is it to turned a clenched fist into an open hand or to quench ignorance with learning--these things are doable.
If we look at people and events at face value, it is easy as times to get angry and feel hatred at the corruption and injustices out there--but I believe, the key is to channel those feeling into something positive--into change and Tikkun Olam--"fixing the world".
By channeling our feelings into constructive actions, then we are changing not just ourselves, but can have a broader influence--one deed at a time.
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
Poisons Anonymous