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  • Mein Lieblingstier

    Mein Lieblingstier

    What is your favorite animal?

    Familar Conversations

    I texted my brother the other day and I asked him what his favorite song by The Cure was. Picking a favorite. It’s somewhat impossible. mine happens to be

    My Pictures of You

    If you ask to meet me tomorrow would be different. I have no favored animals. I live a life where I choose not to kill any animals. I don’t brag about it and it’s not badge of honor. It’s just the right thing to do. I do have some favorite animal stories.

    This is a recent find on our bookshelf

    The End Of The Beginning

    My Core Beliefs

    How we treat animals are pure reflections on ourself. They’re not refractions, but a stark glimpse in the mirror.

    The famous line from George Orwell’s Animal Farm pretty much sums it up, “ All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

    I love my dogs and cats, but all animals even though they are not as furry and snuggly and cute, they still deserve a long dignified life.We all only have one life to live

  • Find all The Unused Acronyms (Part2)

    Find all The Unused Acronyms (Part2)

    As tempting as it is to engage on Social Media on public political posts, it’s a bad idea unless you know the person you’re engaging with. Meta reports that ~4% of active users are fake. They took down 1.1 to 1.4 Billion fake accounts per quarter in 2024-2025. Fake accounts engage in Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB): swarming controversial topics and making inflammatory statements, driving up engagement. I had suspected this for a while and found the data to back it up directly from Meta’s transparency site:

    I am careful

    I have to be careful. My wife is a school teacher and men of her parents and some students see what I talk about. So I tread in with care.

    This has become my social media.

    It is not that I feel protected here and I have a lot to say. I’m really pissed at The current regime in the state of the United States. I’m embarrassed to live here.

    That being said

    I try to offer little quirky slices of life, and hopefully a glimmer of hope for some people and hopefully just enough information so people know how I feel.

  • Plains Trains and My Mother In Laws Car

    Plains Trains and My Mother In Laws Car

    Think back on your most memorable road trip.

    I believe it was my first time in Europe. We headed south towards Bavaria and my mother-in-laws car. We did touristy stuff such as Munich and Neuschwanstein.

    That was fun, but I felt like we were just getting warmed up.

    We stopped in a cozy place in Austria to wait out some heavy snow. I loved that place and did some great hiking and snowshoeing..

    We followed some twisting and turning roads through the Tyrolean region eventually landing in Italy

    I was pushed out of the car with a pair of skis in a raging blizzard and I just started skiing. It was my introduction to cross country skiing.

    That afternoon, the weather settled down and we started hiking from hut to hut in the Alps. A few miles in I had one of the best beers I ever had in my life. It was the right beer at the right time.  I believe the beer was called Adam.

    Then we headed back to Germany and just did normal German touristy stuff which included having tea and cakes every afternoon. It felt almost anticlimactic, but warm and comfortable.

    I have been to Germany and Europe, many times since. I’m no longer married to the same woman. I do still see that mother-in-law. (Ex) but I rarely get in a car. I kinda like it that way.

  • Box of Rain

    Box of Rain

    What snack would you eat right now?

    I was listening to the Grateful Dead on Friday night. Bob Weir once said, the Grateful Dead is like licorice. If you like it, you really like it.

    I absolutely love licorice. As far as I know, there’s no licorice in my house and I’d like to keep it that way.

    I like the Grateful Dead. So the licorice analogy fails And in retrospect I seem to like the songs that Bob Weir sang lead vocals on.

    Box of Rain

    And it’s just a box of rain
    Or a ribbon for your hair
    Such a long, long time to be gone
    And a short time to be there

    Rip Bob

    I Especially like black licorice, red vines are the weirdest thing on the planet. Twizzlers should be outlawed as they taste so good. so today, I’ll settle for a box of rain.