Category: humor

  • Geezer Level One Leg Stand Juggling

    Geezer Level One Leg Stand Juggling

    This is just a suggestion for whoever’s on the rules committee for juggling world records. Recall that a couple of young guys grabbed world records for longest time juggling the 3-ball cascade while standing on leg. The current world record is a little over 22 minutes. Wow! I think there needs to be a new…

  • Drain Grates Screwed!

    Drain Grates Screwed!

    Well, early this morning all the drain grates were screwed down tight. We never heard the workers. The rocks we had set on top of them were all piled up neatly on our back yard patio. Any critter that tries to yank those off will get a hernia. If those grates come off again, we’ll…

  • Sena and Jim Do Two Person Juggling Again!

    Sena and Jim Do Two Person Juggling Again!

    Against all odds, Sena and I did what looked impossible the other day—Two Person 5 ball 2 Count Asynchronous Juggling. For some reason that was harder to learn than the first two person juggling trick we learned. You can find only a stick figure GIF of how the trick is done on the web. It’s…

  • Butch Haircut Fixes the Bozo Effect

    Butch Haircut Fixes the Bozo Effect

    Sena gave me a butch haircut the other day. What led up to that? About a month ago, I got a haircut at a local shop. Usually Sena cuts my hair (she’s been doing it for decades), but I occasionally go out for a haircut. I was pretty impressed with the guy who asked me…

  • Door Painters Remembered Everything But The 3 Legged Pig Joke!

    Door Painters Remembered Everything But The 3 Legged Pig Joke!

    The door painters remembered everything but the 3-legged pig joke yesterday. But they remembered everything else. They worked pretty hard getting the doors back on the hinges. One mystifying thing was that they rehung all the newly repainted doors without leaving so much as a smudge on them. They were spotless. We don’t know how…

  • Air Purifier Went to Code Green and More Odds and Ends

    Air Purifier Went to Code Green and More Odds and Ends

    Just some odds and ends here today. Our new RENPHO Air Purifier went to Green Air Quality yesterday around lunchtime. It’s the first time since we got it that it changed. Green still means “good” air quality. Blue is “very good.” Orange is bad, red is “polluted,” and magenta is “evacuate now!” The fan speed…

  • Day of The Fox Hunt

    Day of The Fox Hunt

    Yesterday, Sena called me to the window in the sun room to see the “tabby cat.” When I got there, it looked a lot more like a fox. It was hunting in the outlot and it may have caught a rodent. It also seemed to be flea bitten. When we first moved in to this…

  • CDC Update on Respiratory Viruses and the Covid-19 Vaccine

    CDC Update on Respiratory Viruses and the Covid-19 Vaccine

    CDC posted an update on Covid-19 vaccination on October 13, 2023. In brief, the salient points: They save lives and prevent hospitalizations. The vaccines work. The side effects are mild or moderate. Scientific evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. They don’t make you magnetic and they don’t have microchips to track your…

  • Plant Based Cheese Made with Artificial Intelligence Is Only The Beginning!

    Plant Based Cheese Made with Artificial Intelligence Is Only The Beginning!

    We tasted plant-based cheese by Kraft yesterday. Sena bought it at Hy-Vee the other day. It’s actually not bad. The company is called Kraft NotCo. They make Not Cheese. It’s made with chickpeas, which are the same thing as garbanzo beans. You can also buy plant-based mayo, called Not Mayo. I don’t know if it’s…

  • An Unexpected Encounter with Bigfoot on the Clear Creek Trail

    An Unexpected Encounter with Bigfoot on the Clear Creek Trail

    The other day we put in about a 2.5 mile walk on the Clear Creek Trail in Coralville. We haven’t been there in a long while. It gets really quiet along the wooded trail. Sometimes even the birds don’t sing. It was pretty quiet except for some strange knocking noises. You know, Sena has taken…