My son-in-law found out a couple of days ago that he got laid off. He works in the tech industry in San Jose. Another friend found out that her employer laid off 2,100. There are lots of lay-offs happening and it's all right at the holidays. The people laid off have put in several years with the company.
Capitalism at its finest.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Your job is GONE.
It's so Beanie to have a pet dog, pig, and duck. Beanie always marched to the beat of his own drum.
I've blogged about Beanie over the past 10-15 years every so often. He was a true Heights homie who hung out at Tasty Pizza. He graduated with my older brother's class of 1982. Beanie was ALWAYS at the bar having a good time with everybody. Beanie was also an avid bike rider. I remember as a teen he would think nothing of riding 65 miles to Looper's cabin just to hang out with us.
I got word yesterday that Beanie died in a house fire.
It will never be the same going to Tasty Pizza and not seeing Beanie there. He was kind of like Norm of Cheers. He always had his spot. Everybody knew him.
Rest in peace, Beanie. I have this sinking feeling that the photos you showed me 13 years ago on your cell phone of random items you lit on fire in your driveway had something to do with your demise by fire yesterday.
I have a long history with this infamous tv show theme. SHAFT!!!! This is circa 1970 ish. Get your bell bottoms on and your fro pik ready to draw like a gun. Right ON! Can you DIG it?
Remember the ridiculous skit on Saturday Night Live with Adam Sandler back in the late 80's early 90's playing the part of Opera Man during the 'Not Necessarily the News' segment? Adam Sandler made a huge joke out of opera, which I have to admit was pretty funny. However, my husband showed me this video he got on his Instagram feed or FaceBook or whatever and shared with me. I avoid social media like the plague but this is worth the share. I actually got goosebumps and cried.
Someday I hope to spread spontaneous beauty like these two men do. In the meantime, people will just have to settle for my random dance moves at the grocery store. LOL. Enjoy. I promise you won't be disappointed.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CybPBVGoJBI/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What says Sonoma County more than Clo the Cow and Clover Milk? How about a 10k marathon? Who would have ever thought that I would ever participate in a sanctioned marathon and actually COMPLETE it?
Well, miracles never cease and today I, along with my teammates, arrived in downtown Petaluma to participate in the Clo Cow Marathon. We are not part of the uber competitive group vying to break records. We are just wanting to partake in a community event and actually have an official name and timed finish. Honestly, just coming off of Covid, I almost bailed because I thought I would wear out early and bring the group down.
No worries. We were not competing and we were just doing it for fun and exercise. My sissy, who was a member of my team, knew every CHP and Petaluma Police officer patrolling the event as she has a career in Sonoma County law enforcement. We stopped and talked with several of the officers, which did not help our time.
During our 10K walk/run we came across so many friendly people greeting us from their porch in fun and silly costumes themselves cheering us on and giving us water. Upon the finish line our names were announced to the crowd who was cheering us on despite we were only 14 or so places from LAST. We got the LOSER prize!!! Mind you, there were 300+ registrants. We finished just 15 or so from the bottom!! LOL.
Here is what matters. We actually got up out of bed early on a Sunday morning to participate and COMPLETE a 10k. So what if we were at the back of the pack. We felt a huge sense of accomplishment just finishing AND the proceeds to go a good charitable cause. We had a blast and bumped into so may people we knew.
Why Israel was created after WWII and shoehorned into hostile territory is something that I don't quite understand. I guess Israeli's needed a homeland and Europe could park all their Jewish populations there ridding themselves of them. We had a hand in its creation as well, so we are partly to blame.
I'm no political nor history expert. However, it seems like we created a monster in Israel. I do not buy for a second that their government is as innocent as our media makes it all sound. The problem is that we are joined at the hip to Israel. In our eyes, Israel can do no wrong. Their government has done a LOT wrong - especially under their current leader. We funnel boat loads of money to Israel every year. They are basically one of our colonies.
I don't know where this will end up, but it won't be good. We have Ukraine and now this turd swirling around in the toilet.
I'm not antisemitic. I'm anti Benjamin NitWit. My Jewish friends are apologetic about what's going on in the middle east. They don't like it, either. I guess it's come full-circle. We all had to apologize to the rest of the world for He Who Shall Not Be Named (the orange cheeto).
