Kellogg's - downtown trees - Lockjar-ish

Well - NOW I HAVE to blog as Clark noticed others were getting some sort of  HTTPs error or whatever  - I fixed it so it might be back to "normal"? 

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As for cannabis - Clark makes a good point - legalize it / tax it / test it and get it off the street. Kids should not be smoking cannabis and right now it's easy for them to get street dope.  

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Holy mackerel - I woke up Wednesday morning and it was like my jaw was out of place or something - seriously - I could not put a peanut between my teeth (for example).   I've never had anything like this.  Growing used sucks as each morning you wake up and see what hurts today LOL 

SO - after going 24 hours and doing some  internet research  . . . Lockjaw?  Tetanus ?  WTF?  So Thursday I email my Doc and he returns saying perhaps I should come in EVEN though I said it was a little better today with some mouth exercises.  

Went in and he looked at my charts and basically said "let's wait and see what happens" and then he probably charged me $3000 of which Navitis and Quartz will argue over and I'll end up paying out of my pocket (probably not but I feel that way).

So it's Monday and I'm 85% better.  

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Friday was balderdash 36 hole birthday extravaganza with a small get together at our house after.  The only thing of importance was that some of the attendees compared Nightwish videos to that Detroit band Trans Siberian Orchestra   OMG   Have they not been to an actual rock concert for the last 3 decades?   Are the Grateful Dead sort of like the Dave Clark Five?    My head spun when I heard that.

How can you compare the two bands 

https://youtu.be/FrJvKZNEh7g



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DJ was FORCED to buy a new iPad as hers pooped out and when you buy a new Apple thingy you get a free year of Apple TV.  

We loaded it on the Samsung and LG but our 6 year old Sony did not have it. I'll tell ya - totally impressed with Apple TV or Apple Pro . . whatever.   We watched the Tom Hanks flick Greyhound and loved it.  Yea - it's a beer and popcorn movie inspired by WWII  but it was a fun fun romp and DJ wants to watch it again now that she knows about convoys and the longest campaign in WWII.  

Hanks was in charge of a Mahan Class Destroyer while DJs dad was on a Portland Class Cruiser (about 8 times larger) but you got that wet cold feeling in the movie in the battle scenes in the North Atlantic.  I'm SURE some people would have fits with "you can't do that" stuff but it was a fun movie although I feel there were 2 hours on the cutting room floor. 

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Next stop for the camper - The Apostle Islands - never been there.  Can't wait.  Gus got all excited when we moved the camper out of the garage to open it up.  Smelled like a campfire. LOL

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Columbus received 1.61 inches of rain this past weekend.  

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OH - the first time I mentioned Giannis Antetokounmpo in this blog was October 18 2013        

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It's been 3 years since they installed trees in downtown Columbus and all the predictions of people getting their eyes poked out have not come to pass.  

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OH - watched a thing about Kellogg and Post cereals companies - if you made a movie people would not believe it. 

The guy who invented the first breakfast cereal ONLY wanted it for his hospital - NOT for normal citizens.   A person in the hospital (Post) saw it and stole the idea and started making millions on "Grape Nuts".  Kellogg's brother had been screaming at his dumb brother to market it but the dumb one refused until the hospital burned down and he needed the money 

SO - younger Kellogg started making it but left a batch out overnight.  In the morning the just for the heck of it trying to get the water out of some grain put it through a press and invented Corn Flakes.  he went to Detroit and a manufacturer started to make special presses for his "Corn Flakes".

This started to eat into Post's Grape Nuts so what does Post do?  He buys ALL of the presses and rights to the presses and makes his OWN Corn Flakes . . called Post Toasties. A direct ripoff.

HOWEVER - The reason Post was in the hospital in the first place was stress and this competition was causing stress.  He took his own life.  HOWEVER - he willed all of his EVERYTHING to his daughter - UNHEARD OF - His daughter gave the finger to the Board of Directors and instructed them to start buying up all the small food companies. 

A few years later they changed the name from Post to General Mills!

and that's my story.