Drink Lots of Water
When the temperature gets into the 90’s and even the 100’s, the human body needs extra hydration to stay healthy. The way we do that is to drink extra water every day. It’s OK to add flavors to the water, such as iced tea or lemonade. But the real benefit is from the water – not the flavors.
Filed under Food, General Living, Health and/or Beauty | Comment (0)The Answer Guy
This guy looks so much like John Dring that it freaked me out. Of course, John is too stuck up and snobby to ever wear a stupid suit like this. He has probably never even laughed this hard and had a good time like this guy is obviously doing. If you know him, he could never pass himself off as “the answer guy” anyway.
Funny how a picture raises so many bad memories.
Filed under General Living, Life | Comment (0)History classes
My sister in-law has been talking about how much she loves history, and wants to take a college course in history. I had to suppress a big belly laugh because she has never taken any college courses at all. In fact she dropped out of high school back in the 1970s and only recently got her GED. My wife told her that she could simply borrow our history text books and read our research papers that we have from the history classes we all had to take in college, but she said she really didn’t want to just read a textbook, she wanted to take a college course.
My wife and I told her that we thought that would be a lot more pressure and work than she realized and was capable of handling. We explained that there would be tests, a lot of assigned reading, and research papers that she would have to write. Knowing how much she hates doing anything like that, (especially writing research papers) we tried to discourage her from wasting her money on the course. To be honest I don’t think that she could be accepted in a college for that, but maybe she could audit the course.
Anyway, she said she didn’t want to just read about history, she wanted to take an exciting class where the teacher would be dynamic and make history come to life with his presentations, dressing in historic costumes, and making it interesting; not just read an old boring book. I told her “good luck” finding a college course where the history professor is going to be dynamic and dress in costumes! That’s the type of teaching you might find in middle school, or maybe high school, but not college!
Filed under Education and Personal Growth, Family/Friends, General Living | Comment (0)Grandad's paintings
When my grandfather was in his 70’s he retired from work and started to teach himself how to oil paint. He painted hundreds of landscapes, based on photographs and picture postcards that people sent him. They were really good paintings, and I loved to see them when I went to his house. When he passed away, I asked my aunt if I could have some of his paintings as remembrances and she said no. I was very disappointed. A few months ago she surprised me by shipping me about six of his paintings to me! My wife and I both love them and have them hanging in our living room in the place of honor above the sofa!
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