What does Columbus mean to me?

I gotta pee

I was at a meeting with our financial adviser and she was telling us that what we needed to do was increase our wagers in my NBA system (now 37-15) and borrow a large sum of cash to buy more cannabis stocks . . . . . and then Gus woke up and wanted to pee so I had to get out of bed. 

Later in the day we did meet with our financial adviser which is really cool to hear someones views who is actually IN the industry.

I was asking about recession.  Basically they watch for 14 different signs and signals when it comes to the "recession" talk and not one of those are flashing yellow signs.

As they said - the stock market is run by earnings and earnings are doing great.  Sure earnings are sometimes lower then expected but it's like complaining that a baseball player WAS hitting .370 and is slumping to .350 now.

Still GREAT. 

As we were talking DJ mentioned my many many spreadsheets I keep and they showed one that tweaked my interest. A 100 year chart of the S&P

So if you are looking at the current stock market and getting a little nervous what we are in is more like "weather" compared to "climate".  The climate is still very good, but the weather sucks.

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There is a show on The Smithsonian Channel called America in Color which I figured was just another history thing and then I watched an episode.

OMG it is OUTSTANDING.  All the footage is from home movies and each episode is like a trivia find with "I didn't know that" information surprises.  We watched The 1920s last night and it was riveting. 

DJ and I were both multi tasking, reading books and doing spreadsheets and after 10 minutes we were both glued to the TV.

The Empire State Building - almost empty for 10 years after built.  Took 20 years for it to make it's first profit and was the laughing stock of NY. 

Watching films of these iron workers, no safety nets, no helmets and the going rate was 40% deaths.

Cars were a pretty new thing with people getting run over right and left until NYC decided to invent the first traffic light.

does Stop Light dude still read the blog? 

We highly recommend this show on Sundays and probably on demand somewhere.  

https://youtu.be/WiHgUDtqSoU

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Since I mentioned cannabis . . . . . 

In 1974 the Medical Collage in Virginia got funding from the National Institute of Health to find how cannabis adversely effected the immune system.  Instead they found that cannabis, IN MICE, slowed three types of cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and and virus induced leukemia.

The DEA quickly shut down all research on all cannabis.  

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Harold Baines was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?  Really?   Seems the 12 people that voted for him all played with him.  Cronyism?  What does balderdash who is the HoF expert think of Baines getting elected to the HoF.  Am I missing something?   

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I really gotta give the newspaper my article on Bob Poser and his pitching against Earl Combs and Lou Gehrig. Bob passed away in 2002 and there have been reports of sounds at Hillside Cemetery of baseball games being played in the early morning hours.     

Perhaps next spring I'll submit it. 

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Speaking of Columbus  - BANNER ART CONTEST

From the Columbus Website  - The Columbus Downtown Beautification Task Force will be partnering with the City of Columbus to create and install street pole banners in the downtown featuring artwork produced by Columbus students, residents, and business owners. The banner theme will be “What does Columbus mean to you?”. 

I'll tell you what Columbus means to me.  

When we moved here we were greeted with open arms of friendly people that made us feel welcome.  We both strongly remember walking into Sharrows and how honestly friendly people in Columbus were.   That was the very first impression and people HAVE to remember that first impressions, even online, are very VERY important.  

If  someone's first exposure to Columbus is a rant on facebook blasting the government, that is a first impression and it is remembered.  Words really do matter. 

HOWEVER - right now?  What does Columbus mean to me?  

When I take Gus out to go pee at night, the stars are shining, you can hear a train in the distance and all is right with the world.  There is no better place I want to be then right here, right now. The crisp, air, the clear nights, the distant sound of a train, a dog barking and looking up at the Milky Way.

I walked back in last night and told DJ, "GOD I love living in this town". 

THAT is why people move to Columbus.