Moon Shots

There was a time when 3 or 4 of our aging basketball buddies would play raquetball.

The site was a Jeffco rec bldg. We clocked in the 8 AM Sunday slot and had to finish at 9. Court times were not staggered so up to 24 guys were changing clothes, showering, dressing, etc. at the top of the hour.

There were only four shower heads so a maximum of eight could shower at one time, doe-si-doe, soap then rinse. Most everyone was a stranger so there was no shower room goose talk.

The locker area was also spartan.

Two rows of tiny lockers and a single bench between.

Wet, sloppy floors.

Jim solved the dilemma.

He would exit the shower with his towel, climb up on the solo bench, keeping his feet out of the muck, then--butt naked--would bend over and start wiping around.

Within moments the room was clear.

Three new products we found

These are new to us and have worked well.

#1--Ant killer liquid (not the spray). TERRO liquid ant killer. Apply to cardboard, paper, foil. We placed our hit in the top of the closet. The Pied Piper went to work. Within 3-4 days the ants had taken TERRO to their abode and were Adios. Available at Home Depot.

#2--Stop bleeding from cuts and lacerations. Safe for all ages. QR powder. Pat this powder on a bleeding happenstance and within 15 seconds a scab has formed, no pain, bleeding stopped, wound sealed. Bought ours on line.

#3--For mostly our older brethren, Bayer Quick Release aspirin Crystals. If one feels like a stroke or heart attack is happening, it often is recommended to take an aspirin to thin the blood while you are are taken to the ER. Time is so critical in a CVA or heart attack. Place one Bayer crystal on the tongue and it instantly enters the blood stream. Available at a pharmacy in a box of single dose foiled packets.

74 Years of Birthdays

Another year. Another wrinkle.

I chose 1935 as the year to begin my life, because....

a postage stamp was 3c a new clunker was $580 a house--$6,296 gas 19c/ gallon

Franklin Roosevelt was President Social Security was started unemployment was 20.1%

Persia becomes Iran Nazis introduce compulsary military service Cubs lose WS to Detroit

Heads or Tails

1,780,000,000,000.

That's not dollars. That's not illegals. That's the number of pennies gambled in penny slot machines last year in Nevada. It produced a win for the house of $1.8 BILLION !!

When we moved here ten years ago there were less than 500 penny slots in town. They were still operated by hand fed coins and jingling payoffs.

One time I was passing the penny slot area on my way to the book at the Plaza downtown. Every machine was taking juice. There was a mounting jackpot of $1700 that had been growing from $500 and the gamblers were pressing.

An old lady player had to take a whiz. She placed a large TAKEN sign on her slot machine and raced to the can. When she returned, a Sooner had played on her machine and hit the $1700 jewel.

Many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

I had a big twixt in my life's jack pole.

The Denver Post printed on its business page that an Wyoming Life Insurance Co was buying out Uni-Wall Interlock, I was a big insider and I would have rcvd over a million $ in life insurance stock at 1966 values and I had a major position in a linked company, Mountain Modular Mfg., a public company with tangible assets at Eagle, Co.

In the last minute as we were ready to close the deal, the key man who held the patents for Uni-Wall, GM, asked for some more dough up front.

The ranchers of the life insurance sensed "taint" as in taint no deal.

Like the lady at the Plaza, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.