Holding a grudge is wasted energy

One of my biggest character flaws besides my ego is my inability to hold a grudge.  Columbus is a HUGE grudge holding community. Seems nobody forgets any wrong doing from the distant past.

I had a pretty quick temper before I had skin cancer ( malignant melanoma) 30 years ago.  Had MOHS chemo surgery and the whole bit and it seems to have changed me. I would go to a therapist to talk about things and they were exasperated with my flowery outlook on life. 

One therapist said "THIS IS A SERIOUS LIFE THREATENING CANCER"  and I would say. "Well, how would being worried help?".  Enjoy what you have NOW as you never know how long it will last.

Holding a grudge is SO SO time consuming and will really wear you down.  Being mad is one thing but long term ANGER is just wasted energy.  Just trying to remember who you are mad at is work.  I have a whole spread sheet (KIDDING).

I mention this as Darvin, who I have tangled with at various times, has apologized to the world and I must apologize as I CERTAINLY did not help calm him down with MY anger towards him.  It was like 2 cats on opposite sides of the window screaming at each other.  So I must apologize also. 

Like Darvin I must find what that trigger is that sets me off. I feel it's frustration for the most part.  I'm more like a match that flames bright with anger and then goes away. DONE.  I can burn off anger and then I'm normal again (except when I virtual golf poorly on the TGCTour). 

ANYWAY - Merry Christmas to all and lets make 2019 a happy year. Let's work to improve Columbus even when it seems the world is stacked against us. 

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In the last couple years I have heard people say they are worried about the world. Especially when North Korea and Trump were having their pissing match.

COME ON PEOPLE seriously? worried?  really?

And I hear how people are saying we have gone backwards as a society and all is going to hell and yada yada yada.  REALLY?

Last night DJ and I watched another episode of the GREAT show called "America in Color" on The Smithsonian Channel. This episode was about the 60s and OH MY GOD!  What a freaking bunch of Neanderthals that lived in the 60s. 

One part was of course on the Cuban Missile Crisis and people were literally afraid of nuclear annihilation.

I remember my parents, who it SEEMS, could not pay rent but still could afford a bonafide fallout

Took this somewhere in Columbus - won't way where

shelter stocked with food and water.  Most houses on our block had fall out shelters.   My QUESTION is . . . when did parents built them.  Months before the Cuban Missile Crisis? during? after? What was the time table and how long were they frightened.  I was just a kid so I was not worried at all (that I can remember).

America in Color is a fantastic show of never seen before home movies that have been colorized by a new technology and is full of new facts or things you have not thought about for decades.

It's more then 5 episodes though as they have added more.

https://youtu.be/WiHgUDtqSoU


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Looks like New York State will go full on recreational cannabis in the near future as their governor said he is making it one of his top priorities. 

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Don't look now but Saturn is losing it's rings at an alarming rate.  In about 300 million years - no rings. They are all being sucked into the planet.  So sad. 

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Remember that brinks truck that spilled $300,000 onto the highway?  Motorists have turned in $125,000 but $175,000 is still missing!   OOPS!!

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HA - Tucker Carlson is losing sponsors after the racist "news" commentator said "thanks to illegal immigration, huge swaths of the region are covered with garbage and waste that degrade the soil and kill wildlife."   FOX "News" is nothing but racist shit heads spreading lies.

They recently told their viewers that cannabis is worse then heroin with addiction.  Just a lie spreading hate network for the gullible.

FOX FAKE NEWS is nothing but propaganda for the far right.  But they do have pretty blonds that  old white people love. 

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In 2013, the city of Windsor’s council voted 8-3 to stop putting flouride in the city water supply.

Since then, the percentage of children with tooth decay or requiring urgent dental care increased 51 percent between 2011-17. In related news, the Windsor City Council voted yesterday to reintroduce water fluoridation with a vote of 8-3.

Same thing is happening in Fall River.  I talked to dentists in Columbus and they are getting MANY more tooth decay kids.  I guess the Fall River government does not care about their kids teeth.

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A few years ago I was stuck on the wrong side of the tracks in Columbus in a snow squall.  I jumped out and took a few shots!

SADLY a few others seem to be on a different hard drive and now I must find them.

Still one of my favorite photo of the train station

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Cheers