piles

 I am working on cleaning my desk

    I have a piles of books I am reading.

    I have a pile of magazines I want to read.

    I have a pile of things happening in 2026.

    I have a pile of paper with strange notes.

    At least I am dealing with piles now.

    Someone asked me how often I won at 2 suited spider solitaire.  I said I thought about 40 % of the time.

    So I decided to keep track.  On one piece of paper I won 8, lost 17.  Another sheet had 6 and 21.  That's 14 and 38, which is tad less than 40 %.  

    Jackie always mentions I spend a lot of time reading the paper on line.

    I told her I also go through e mails.  To prove my point, one morning I deleted 321 e mails!  Granted, that was a 2 day span because I had not deleted the previous day.

    We have 2 email accounts.  One we use for ordering stuff.  That is. the one with 321 e mails.  Most of them are unread, but they still have to be deleted.

    I have a note abut children being held in the ICE crackdown.

    If you are under 18,  there is a 20 day limit on a child being held.  After that point the child is supposed to be placed with a parent, relative or a guardian.  Over 400 children have been held longer than the 20 days and 5 have been held 168 days.  We should be ashamed.

    My niece Cindy got our Christmas card.....but it was empty inside!  She only got the envelope.  Must have been raccoons. 

    Talked to my cousin in Alaska tonight.  We spent a lot of time moaning  about the problems that come with growing old.  I used to cringe when I was younger and older folk talked about that stuff.  What goes around, comes around.

    He also said it was going to be below 0 for the next 2 weeks or so.  I told him we will be in the 40s and 50s later this week.

    In 1967 one January day it was something like 67 in Chicago. The next day 18 inches of snow fell.  Or was it 18 feet?  It was a lot.

    A couple of months ago Jackie ordered some Christmas presents. One of us put them away, my guess is it was me.

    We've been looking for 3 days.

    I even checked my shoes.  Nada.  Zilch.

    Gotta be here somewhere.

    Tonight is the longest night of the year...... the solstice is upon us.

Peace and Love