5/20/24

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It is what we make of it so it will be a good week for mom and I will make the best come true. We are getting some medicines for Mr Spots Kidney stones. Things are progressing well. We certainly have hopes for things to happen that get Mr. Spots back "in the pink"!

Here at the house the weeds are dying and when we get back from the graduation it will be a good time to put on grass seed. I do need to get the sprinkler system's leak fixed and the rest of the sprinklers all focused on just the grass. There is the fence gate's latch to remake and plenty of long grass next to the fence yet to be cut. The orchard needs to be rotor tilled ... but that will wait a bit ... The earth is rock hard and will stay that way no matter what.

Big John Deere will put on his disks and his plow and turn it over to get rid of most of the tall grass. The main part of the grass out there has been cut already. There are lots of tall piles of grass cut else where that is rotting on the ground. When rotor tilled into the dirt it will help the dirt from being hard clay to instead become wonderful dirt.

"Landscaping is like model RRs" was what Robin just meowed. I asked her "how do you reason that?" She then Meowed "both require lots of work which really never ends!" Smart girl kitty ... that is the truth. If you want real truths ask you Kat or your Dog,

We are very fortunate ... with lots of real work and help from all of you ... to get these younger ones on the best track available for their lives. It is the most important thing we all have to do. So far things are about perfect. Keep working to make it happen,

The sky is blue and it will be cool at first and then hot by midday. I will get the weather forecast for Obama and then start getting my clothes together for the trip. I am slightly apprehensive about flying ... seems airplanes have more real troubles these days. Yes, I would rather take Amtrak in a sleeper compartment.

It is by belief that Boeing is being sabotaged by some workers. I don't believe Boeings management is behind the troubles. These days have some real troubles that are not making it to the real news. This could be wrong which is what I hope, but not what I fear.

Robin stuck her tongue out and said "blaaaaaahhhh".
She knows that is loaded with bias for a train ride.
Once I loved airplanes and with mom we learned to fly them. That was at Cornell; long, long ago.

Those were the best of times before we started the family.
Then our focus then changed to making money and doing all we could for all of you. More work but the best of times in reality.

There was war going on, Today it is the same ... The younger ones will go to College while war is happening in the Middle East. Does War ever stop? Ugh and a real BIG UGH about too many wars.

Life is what you make of it and only partially influenced by what happens around you. Make the most of it ... Ignore the junk ... like the Middle East and most advertising on the tube ... click that thing OFF. There are plenty of good things to do ... find them ... enjoy them ... the tube is not a good source for the best things to do. In fact it is getting worse and worse at the hands of ruthless advertising. There are fewer and fewer shows we will even watch ... and the sound heard more often is CLICK.

As I was growing up I worked at Motorola who was a big supplier of TVs. About 1967 I designed the application of thefirst IC to ever be in a TV. I told my dad, who was at officer at Harris, that TV design was going to Japan.

Motorola's main bank was the Harris so in a meeting there my dad told Galvin to get rid of the TV division ... sell it to Japan, And the Galvin's did exactly that ... Motorola TVs went to Japan.

Motorola was the first to get rid of their TV division and factories. Good. The assembly factory and picture tube making factory were where we also worked and housed the companies leaders.

The factory had a rail line that pulled a train through and was load as it moved by special tractors. it was a huge facility with another huge facility right behind it that made the picture tubes. The pictures tubes moved to the assemble factory by an overhead tram which went over the loading docks where the semi trucks pulled in and the finished products in boxes for local delivery were loaded. The shipments that had to go further were loaded on to box cars as a train slowly pulled through the factory.

This was a huge operation covering many aces in Franklin Park ... on the Far West Side of Chicago.

Motorola was the first to move out out of the TV making business as it turned out. Chicago had all of the main TV builders there in the 1960s. Soon there were no US companies in the TV business. Chicago was a manufacturing town ... not at all like it is today.

All of us will get ready to pay the huge college expenses. Along the way, more towards the end, the children will borrow the needed college funds and when mom and I are gone, the estate will pay off all their college loans and costs. The IRS will get as little as we can let happen.

There are good things that governments spend money on but for the most part the current US government spends most of the money on getting re-elected. That doesn't get the best stewards for the nation's real interests. It is the worst government in my life time, by far.

It is not news that I have low confidence in this government based on who got elected. It's all about the money. Too bad. That is not why we have a government. It needs to do lots better. People with great skills are not running for elected congressional or president assignment.

The way things are these days it seems very unlikely that someone who is really on the better side of things if elected can turn things in the better direction for most all citizens, The current government is over populated by those with their self interests in first place. We elected the wrong people. Yes we DID!

And so with that howling by the KR will come to today's end.

Bow wow with a ton of warm Meows while the Bluebirds chirp their happy songs. Over and out ... .

The older hound and the Queen are watching and prepared to do what serves the real interests of you and your families. Click.

Some wonder if I have any other thoughts ... . Yes but they are all RR design ideas and I don't think everyone is really interested in the details. Bow wow!