You both certainly deserve time away in a beautiful place. If I could do 1/10,000th of what you both do to help people, I’d think my life was a success! Have a safe trip!! Well here goes.
There are consequences for all of our actions and our inactions. Over the years I’ve certainly made my share of wrong choices. As we live we learn. I’ve tried to become more consistent at doing the right thing but still at times feel I’ve made a mistake. You could say when we make the right choice we will be rewarded in some way. We may be certain, a nation that makes poor choices will surely not be blessed, it will not and cannot collect the reward. If a nation turns its back on God, or a blind eye to crime, covers it up, the nation will certainly not be blessed. Don’t we see this in Godless societies?
The interesting thing about a reward is it’s put in place before anyone claims it. There are rewards right now for certain fugitives, all you have to do is find that fugitive, turn them in, and the reward will be released to you.
In the case of a lost dog, if you spend 2 hours looking for the dog with no luck, you can’t claim the reward. No dog no reward.
Hebrews 11:6 says “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would draw near to him must believe that he exists and he rewards those who seek him.” This is the amazing thing, you don’t have to find God, you just have to seek him. Seek is a powerful word and your search is personal. When you put God 1st place, and seek him, you will be rewarded.
When we seek material things in life, life will get very shallow. We’re always struggling trying to make it happen. I need something bigger. When we seek God we will find instead of seeking blessings, blessings will seek us. Don’t get consumed with things. We are not called to make money we are called to make a difference. We are called to honor God. Sure work hard, develop your talents, be your best, but don’t chase money, chase God. You can work 24/7 but you can’t buy Health, you can’t buy strength, you can’t buy a good nights sleep. Seek God and these things will find you. Seeking God should be a vital part of our life. We all must make time to put God 1st and spend time with him.
It’s incredible when we open our eyes, look under the tent, we see that communism, socialism, many leftist policies separate us from God. At times, when the left has come into power, and they do their best to lead us away from God, we see these bad things take place. People begin to struggle, it’s almost as though we begin to live with a shell around us. Our very freedoms are under attack. It’s no way to live, certainly not a happy productive life.
I have found some of the most fulfilling things in my life have been helping someone when I can. This for me makes my connection to God, and my reward is the feeling I get, it can sustain me for weeks. Being kind to a stranger, helping someone when they need help. It can be as simple as giving a person a compliment. For me there’s no better feeling in the world. Happy Sunday everyone. J.Goodrich
So True! I have been reading Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records / Blueprint for Your Soul / He continually tells the same instructions. He read the whole Bible every year he was alive. He gave 19,000 health and life readings and was told the toll would shorten his life, he kept on giving readings. He was all about service and God. Thanks James for the reminders.
When I opened up my remarks at my sister's funeral basically I said the that. BUT THE REAL DEAL IS THAT IF GOD SEEKS YOU.... like Jonah.. and that was just a fluke post by me.. and you run from him......like JONAH.. you could end up tossed on the shore.. :) It is better to seek God than the other way around.. which does happen. We do have free will...:) after all. Thank you, James. I am not a "Joel Osteen" materialist believer.. but God has rewarded me, pressed down w/ full measure. BECAUSE HE WANTED TO
SiP, I’m sorry for your loss. My sister had taken 2 Covid shots and now has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She still works hard and does very well but it’s a ticking time bomb.
I’ve run a small construction company for almost 40 years. In the past I would have 2 or 3 jobs running at once, but found people weren’t happy. I now only run one job at a time and I’m picky what I do. I know I’ll never be rich, I figured that out decades ago. I will only keep doing this if people are happy with what I do for them. I pay my bills and know there won’t be big profits banked, I’m ok with that. I mostly like what I do and if I’m able to keep my customers happy, pay my bills, and help people when I can my life is fulfilled. Much of my happiness honestly comes when I help people for nothing in return except the feeling I get from it.
I certainly hope this email was released on a timer and you are enjoying a nice, well-earned Sunday morning sleep! Not like the rest of us sleep-deprived maniacs awake at this hour!
07/20/25: BRAVO! "AnotherPlanetsHell" on the YouTube Dancing Vaccines video summed him up PERFECTLY: "He went from building an entire persona and career around at least pretending he was poking a finger in the eye of the establishment, to being an overtly abject and gleeful shill for it. He's contemptible." Enjoy the Italian coast! As for a GENUINE comedian, I'm reading Spike Milligan's war & post-war memoirs when he was still in the British army in 1944-46, rotated out after getting wounded and ending up in a genuine band that minored in comedy. So your reference to Italy hit a home run!
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. If you can suffer through 1100+ pages of Atlas Shrugged, you deserve a medal.
I generally like to finish a notable work that I start reading, even if I find it tedious. My recollection, perhaps thirty years old now, is that I made it to about 800 pages before calling it off.
I will say that I read Moby Dick in the late 80s, and disliked it. I read it again a few years ago, and saw it in a different, more positive light.
I recall only WHEN I read Moby Dick. HS American Lit class. No memory of it other than the guy standing on Moby with his spear embedded. Totally missed the point our teacher had in mind, surely.
She thought her class assignments were the ONLY thing in the world we had to do. Even in college, I never got assigned so much to read and write essays about. All the smart girls loved this class. . .
My high school sr yr English teacher had her masters in English. We had to hand in one essay a week. In frosh college English was thrilled only had to write 12 essays over 16 wks...a vacation!
Now with AI, students will be able to "write" those essays and not have the tedious task of actually reading the books. Sad turn of events. I always loved to read. Though 1000 page books require dedication no matter how good the book. When I was a kid my Father read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. It was as thick as a dictionary. He did it because he lived through it growing up in Norway.
yep, that is what I recall too-- one a week, BUT! on top of that she would have longer term projects like plays to read and report on them too, and other misc. crapp.
Senior year, same teacher, I was taking both Calculus AND Analytical Geometry(sep. classes) and Physics . . . With all this tech stuff and having to write a TERM paper too, I was going nuts.
Same thing happened to me over Gone With the Wind only in reverse. I thought it hopelessly romantic the first time around and utter immoral trash the second. 😄
07/20/25: Back when she was at her prime, I had paid little attention to all TV. That changed in 1980 when I started a five-year stint at NBC (unhappy ending. A year later, I was working at GE, which bought RCA, which owned NBC, so I was back in the company that had fired me. Happy ending.).
So finding Went With The Wind years later was an unexpected and welcome surprise. But almost everyone in TV is eventually corrupted, often with tragic / even horrifying results. WWTW = Great comedy. But they're not people I'd want behind the wheel of the car I'm in.
Well, maybe only if female. I have been trying out audible and inevitably find I have to rewind because my mind simply can NOT focus on the audio and doing something else.
Even simple things: tracking a coyote stopped all audio sensory input-- REWIND!
07/20/25: Which is why, with 100+ books on our To Read shelves, what fails is IMMEDIATELY tossed. And with the idiot publishers cranking out 500,000-1M titles a year, America's going to run out of space in those abandoned PA coal mines pretty soon.
😂😂😂 hey Holly Crap. As a gifted and talented dyslexic/LD cluster type of gal,
can multitask. However my daughter who has her masters in teaching,
😂😂😂 said she can't do it either. She would find herself standing in the middle of the yard with the rake, just standing listening to the book.
What can I say it's a gift. Rewind is always an option.
However if I was tracking, I definitely would not be listening to a book as I do it when I'm doing basic chores, like the forever making meals for the feral/rescue cats, and cleaning up after them🥴. Remember only one EAR Bud, because you will know when you lose it, and you won't end up burying it in a hole if you'r Landscaping😬. Plus, you might be able to hear animals sneaking up on you❤️
Thanks for sharing, Substack is so much better than Facebook, kind of like a breath of fresh air.
I must say I'm so grateful for Audible (and LIBBY), because I can't read novels anymore as my brain just won't focus, and it totally zaps all my energy(like in 6-10 min). But give me a good research article and I am good to go to read and disect it(when the brain is working).
I'm so grateful to have read so many historical fictions and other incredible novels that share so many pearls of wisdom in this world we live in, and we need lots of pearls and lots of good role models these days to survive the insanity and relentless bombardment of gaslighting and propaganda😖
07/30/25: When I mentioned to my (perfect SATs!) cousin that I was reading AS, she sniffed, "Oh, THAT phase." Later on, I marvel that between the ages of 14-18, the book seizes the young, indiscriminate reader and shakes the hell out of him/her. Then, not long afterwards, the book's appeal has evaporated. But I could have done without the condescension...
Hope you and Jill are having some relaxing moments on your working trip.
Love the memes regarding Colbert and PBS. Colbert had become rancid and needed to go. He suffered from a terminal case of TDS. It led to his demise. PBS has gotten away with liberal group think for so long they don’t know any different. It’s about time they were defunded. Americans don’t need to be paying for a station that brainwashes listeners. Thanks for the early Sunday Strip!!
All and anything MS, OneDrive included, deserves prosecution.
Sadly, anything Google shares this space as well imho.
All goes to prove when parachuting work through everything before entering the plane.
Oh brother! The Vax dance. So glad I'd given up on TV long before that! Sad how many cute and funny things got perverted by the cabal.
Appreciate the Dem Terms. Climate change is a particularly contentious term in my book.
Local fun. My phone bill is absurd. Marched over to my provider. After roughly 3 hrs of suffering was allowed to pay $90/mo less for accepting a free phone I dont need. What tangled roads they travel.
Hoping, despite the start time, you're off to a successful day! Power to you!
I had a friend (now departed) whose father was a massive hoarder. He had a pole building filled with stuff. He had non running cars also filled with things. My friend had one hauled away and the tow truck driver came back to see if he wanted more hauled away. The cars trunk was filled with tools. My friend always said his inheritance would be in a pile.
Please explain Mark. I no longer use MS products or their cloud drive(One Drive) but am aware it is "there". Does it fail a lot, people losing files inside it or something?!
One Drive was an MS attempt to aggregate everything on your PC and synch your phone, emails, tablet, etc.. Invasive and required excessive registration. I will probably switch out to some kind of linux to avoid the Windows 11 nonsense. The PC I have works perfectly well.
Just started the process of building another WinTel (mid-sized) tower - this is number 7 or 8 since 1991, the time between builds is lengthening due to improvements in hardware - last full build was Christmas 2014. Anyway, the purpose of that bit of self-laudatory prose is to give context to the following: if you want seamless syncing between your desk computer/laptop computer/tablet computer/phone computer/wrist computer/TV computer/smart speaker computer {phew} AND THE CLOUD — become an Apple fan boi.
What began as a quixotic dalliance with the iPodTouch 15’ish years ago eventually morphed into true intimate relationship shoving aside, but not away, the much longer relationship with MS and Intel. I guess you could say there’s enough room in my tech-sphere for a tech-throuple 🤣. ( 🤔 actually it’s more complicated than that - more like a quadouple or a pentouple as I also have A few Linux variants amongst the electronics residing on Intel hardware and SBC hardware.
While Linux can be fun and satisfying for the tinkerer/technically astute, real productivity w/o frustration can be found on Apple devices. Not perfect but more friction free; you’ll give up some things like the extensive gaming community, but it’s coming around, and a few more dollars - tho that’s closer to a wash than it used to to be as much of the base software you’d be paying annually to use on WinTel is gratis from Apple.
Yep, I am an Apple long-timer-- since 1984. I used to program four different state tax forms(with all calculations) in the 90's-- a LOSING proposition but I learned Excel programming.
So, it was hard to transition into Numbers(from Excel) and Pages(from Word). Both inferior to Excel in the 90's but their functionality "breaks even" after MS complicated both apps so badly with added, unnecessary abilities and interface.
My wife still insists on using Excel because it prints labels(!) better than Numbers. So, I pay $120+ every year to make her happy to print. . . labels.
Not a current spreadsheet user, tho back in the day I had to take some classes - I seem to recollect that Excel has some pretty powerful functions and abilities that Numbers doesn’t - Numbers is kind’a basic compared to Excel? I should run it by my son, tho I think he’s been offloading the business-y aspects of his practice so he can focus on his core elements.
As for labels I think I’ve been using both platforms but I do remember the last time I wanted some new labels it felt like I was playing a game of Twister.
As for the annual label expenditure: happy spouse, happy house?
Ya’know, I’ll readily admit that a driving force behind this latest (last?) build is MS FlightSim and X-Plane (11?). Don’t know if I have the time, even winter, but I had fun back when - MS FS, X-Plane, Fly! And many other game-ified flight sims. My current build has plenty of oomph for the 4X games I like but falls short with graphically intensive games. But, do I have time to play⁉️ I’m should be writing. We’ll see.
Oh yes, for sure Excel is a better product overall, but here's the THING:
They could have turned it into 2 or 3 products for different levels of use; 90% of users would be happy with basic functions even below Numbers; Next level are those who actually use it to a bit . . . more, tables, about 10 functions-- 5% of users. Very few will actually use it's functions every day and deeply. What this means to MOST is they have to wade through all the interface complexities and put up with constantly changing locations of tabs and menus and KEEP paying for upgrades. When I retired I virtually stopped using MS products.
I had always thought it would be "neat" to get into computer games, specially those related to flying since I had always wanted to fly but never did!
However, my love for being outside outweighs computer affinities. I would much rather sit in a treestand or track a yote.
There was a series of MacBook Pros, and now a MacBook Air. They've all been equally great, and I like the light weight of the Air. I've only recently retired as a self-employed editor of nonfiction, working mostly with Word, and they've all been good.
I purchased a laptop 💻 18 months ago. I took it out of the box, set it up and then didn't use it because my husband got sick. I tried taking it out of the box to start using it again and I encountered a problem. I can only enter 4 characters of my PASSWORD.
Hi Ana. I don't know. Without seeing it I can't diagnose. Find a reliable super geek near you and see if they can help. If you bought it at or through Best Buy I would suggest taking it there. Or try an online forum or youtube for a fix. Most likely someone ha had the same issue before.
Apparently about a year ago MS failed to fix the synchronizing system so files did not sync any longer between phones and computer-- the main reason for having it. Instead they created a second file type / source which started saving files with a url address / extension(?) instead.
STILL, this has not been fixed.
UNrelated I heard a couple of months ago that many cars in the last 10 years have transitioned to a start / stop system which actually turns OFF the engine when you stop at a light. . . to save a bit of gas. (Friggin' asinine.) MANY people are put off by this as it causes an odd shudder on restart when you take your foot off the brake to GO. . . This was brought "home" to me last month when I bought a 2 yr old Caddie. . . I thought I could live with it but now I turn OFF this "feature" every time I start up my expensive car -- irritating. (Some cars have NO option to disable, at all.)
Brought to you by the same sort of corporate idiots that failed to fix synching on ONE Drive!
It’s 8 a.m. in Kentucky and I know what all Dr Malone’s subscribers are doing ha ha! I hope everybody makes it to church on time 🙏. You got to love the community!
So...about cars. Dodge and Chevy both have an MDS (Multi Displacement System) that "saves" gas. MDS turns off some cylinders on and off as you drive at certain speeds. 8% ish savings in fuel.
In the Dodge / Ram / Jeep/ Chrysler Gen 4 Hemi is eats camshafts at about 120k miles. Known issue. The repair cost is over $7500. I know this as my used 2011 Ram truck suffered this 100 ft out of the dealer lot. Looong story. Dealer ate the repair cost after the usual dealer shenanigans. This particular issue stumped the techs and went to Dodge engineers as it would simply not run right. Fixed by, "Torque to spec, plus a little bit", like the old days.
Anyone with a 6.2L GMC / Chevy truck of recent vintage will probably have the thing shred a camshaft , lifters, etc. due to the GM version of the MDS. Check the web for MASSIVE (and expensive) GM recalls on 6.2 L powered trucks and suv's.
None of these systems have ever worked properly and are stupid fixes for CAFE (Corporate Avg Fuel Economy) standards enacted during the Arab oil embargo in the 70's. So should Pres Trump or one of his cabinet be reading this please scrap that shit and the DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) nonsense so I can have a truck that just WORKS. Oh and get the auto industry to release all the fuel efficient patents they bought up while you are at it.
The car issue…. I rented a car with the shut off “technology” in Utah for a ski vacation a few years ago. Driving up Big Cottonwood Canyon we ran into a long traffic jam After probably at least 20 minutes (or more) of the stop/start “technology” the car overheated. We turned back down and took the bus up. 🤬
And this is why I’ve retained my ¼ century old truck - outside of regular maintenance and replacing a cracked head it’s been the least trouble of any vehicle I’ve owned in 50 years. My year round daily, a 5th gen 4Runner, is about as bullet proof as a vehicle can be and my summer fun mobile, NC3 Miata, has been steady as well - next year it becomes tax free, just like the truck. Although both truck and the impractical convertible need new tires 🤷♀️
If we had CBS on for the 10:00 local news, the intro to Colbert would never see the light of day on our tv. Not the first note. Of course, neither did Fallon or Kimmel, but Colbert was particularly offensive. There is a word that doesn't include profanity that describes him, but it escapes me just now. Or maybe it hasn't been coined yet. How about "eesquishous?"
Have a wonderful work vacation. I have to say I don’t watch mainstream news. I don’t watch much TV. We might turn on a movie about 8:00 pm . We get our news from alternative news. I have never watch a Stephen Colbert show. His vax spots were disturbing. When I pull up a news channel during Covid I was appalled at the Covid vax commercials. I have been much better off not watching mainstream news. AOC meme was great. Have a great day!
President Trump recently noticed a slight bit of swelling in his lower legs. Upon a thorough examination they found it is attributed to chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) a common condition in older adults, where leg veins have difficulties returning blood back to the heart. Democrats immediately began trying to find a way that this could somehow connect and push Trumps cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. He’s just not fit to fix everything we did too destroy America.
Look at how much time the man has to sit behind desks, at tables, in chairs at interviews. The calf muscles are called the the second heart because they push blood back up the legs, but in order to do that ya need to be moving. I doubt President Trump gets on the golf course as often any more (Golf carts are just another chair). Sometimes I think the best exercise he has time to get is walking to the helicopter and the walk to Air Force One.
I do. So lets add Walking from the beast (his limo) to Marine One (the helicopter) then the walk to Air Force One (Designation to any Jet the President is flying on), and in reverse order on the return. All done to limit exposure for the President's safety. i.e. limited exercise. Should they place treadmills around the Whitehouse office and living quarters?
He is 79 and his diet is NOT the envy of RFK Jr. Where does he even get a simple home cooked meal. Mara Lago? Nope. All the official banquets he must attend entertaining heads of state? Plus, he stress eats. But the chefs could/should be able to make great healthy meals with proper proportions.
I worry about him. One good thing is a heart can be fixed if you don’t have a massive heart attack. I’m thinking he’s in good hands, as long as Obama has nothing to do with his care🙄.
Yes, not sure if you caught Tulsi on Maria Bartiromo yesterday. She released over a hundred documents proving Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comer, McCabe, Susan Rice, etc. conspired to take down Donald Trump. They hid intelligence documents and made up many to frame him. Tulsi called it treason. She handed it all to Bondi and Patel so now we will watch and see if Bondi will prosecute these people involved in trying to “destroy democracy” and “no one’s above the law”, as the democrats say over and over again. It’s ironic how they call Trump a traitor, he’s colluding with Russia, he’s an insurrectionist, but you show proof that all of these high powered democrats are what they were calling their political opponents and now people are going to be killed! She can’t release those documents! This is dangerous. Republicans have to stop giving interviews to MSM all together. They are a big part of the problem!
He should get one of those seated foot pump devices. Look kind of like bicycle pedals. Would help to get the blood back up to his heart. If he has varicosities that doesn’t help either.
Franklin's quote on democracy and liberty particularly got my attention. Even if every nitwit, dolt and clown in New York City votes for a communist - a political abomination that has caused more death, desolation and despair than any other - does that mean we should supinely submit to our own destruction? Or would a wise and sentient nation ship this Ugandan commie bacillus back to the hellhole from which he, and his equally evil parents, emerged?
OMG!!! How to chose the best meme today! So many good ones. Must admit anything Ayn Rand is a favorite but the Ben Franklin quote hits particularly hard in light of all the “Democrats Socialist” crap going on. Italy, Drs Malone? I am half Italian and have never been to what I understand is a fabulous country. My Grandmother kept urging me to go but somehow it never happened. In my twilight years now and suspect I’ll just have to keep reading travel brochures. Happy Sunday everyone!
You both certainly deserve time away in a beautiful place. If I could do 1/10,000th of what you both do to help people, I’d think my life was a success! Have a safe trip!! Well here goes.
There are consequences for all of our actions and our inactions. Over the years I’ve certainly made my share of wrong choices. As we live we learn. I’ve tried to become more consistent at doing the right thing but still at times feel I’ve made a mistake. You could say when we make the right choice we will be rewarded in some way. We may be certain, a nation that makes poor choices will surely not be blessed, it will not and cannot collect the reward. If a nation turns its back on God, or a blind eye to crime, covers it up, the nation will certainly not be blessed. Don’t we see this in Godless societies?
The interesting thing about a reward is it’s put in place before anyone claims it. There are rewards right now for certain fugitives, all you have to do is find that fugitive, turn them in, and the reward will be released to you.
In the case of a lost dog, if you spend 2 hours looking for the dog with no luck, you can’t claim the reward. No dog no reward.
Hebrews 11:6 says “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would draw near to him must believe that he exists and he rewards those who seek him.” This is the amazing thing, you don’t have to find God, you just have to seek him. Seek is a powerful word and your search is personal. When you put God 1st place, and seek him, you will be rewarded.
When we seek material things in life, life will get very shallow. We’re always struggling trying to make it happen. I need something bigger. When we seek God we will find instead of seeking blessings, blessings will seek us. Don’t get consumed with things. We are not called to make money we are called to make a difference. We are called to honor God. Sure work hard, develop your talents, be your best, but don’t chase money, chase God. You can work 24/7 but you can’t buy Health, you can’t buy strength, you can’t buy a good nights sleep. Seek God and these things will find you. Seeking God should be a vital part of our life. We all must make time to put God 1st and spend time with him.
It’s incredible when we open our eyes, look under the tent, we see that communism, socialism, many leftist policies separate us from God. At times, when the left has come into power, and they do their best to lead us away from God, we see these bad things take place. People begin to struggle, it’s almost as though we begin to live with a shell around us. Our very freedoms are under attack. It’s no way to live, certainly not a happy productive life.
I have found some of the most fulfilling things in my life have been helping someone when I can. This for me makes my connection to God, and my reward is the feeling I get, it can sustain me for weeks. Being kind to a stranger, helping someone when they need help. It can be as simple as giving a person a compliment. For me there’s no better feeling in the world. Happy Sunday everyone. J.Goodrich

Amen, James. Thank you for your beautiful, true, profound words. Have a Blessed day.
Thank You Marie-Louise, same to you and yours!
So True! I have been reading Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records / Blueprint for Your Soul / He continually tells the same instructions. He read the whole Bible every year he was alive. He gave 19,000 health and life readings and was told the toll would shorten his life, he kept on giving readings. He was all about service and God. Thanks James for the reminders.
Thank You DD!!
Such wise words James! God is good! ✝️💟
Thank You Jennifer!!
When I opened up my remarks at my sister's funeral basically I said the that. BUT THE REAL DEAL IS THAT IF GOD SEEKS YOU.... like Jonah.. and that was just a fluke post by me.. and you run from him......like JONAH.. you could end up tossed on the shore.. :) It is better to seek God than the other way around.. which does happen. We do have free will...:) after all. Thank you, James. I am not a "Joel Osteen" materialist believer.. but God has rewarded me, pressed down w/ full measure. BECAUSE HE WANTED TO
SiP, I’m sorry for your loss. My sister had taken 2 Covid shots and now has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She still works hard and does very well but it’s a ticking time bomb.
I’ve run a small construction company for almost 40 years. In the past I would have 2 or 3 jobs running at once, but found people weren’t happy. I now only run one job at a time and I’m picky what I do. I know I’ll never be rich, I figured that out decades ago. I will only keep doing this if people are happy with what I do for them. I pay my bills and know there won’t be big profits banked, I’m ok with that. I mostly like what I do and if I’m able to keep my customers happy, pay my bills, and help people when I can my life is fulfilled. Much of my happiness honestly comes when I help people for nothing in return except the feeling I get from it.
SiPyou sound like a follower, believer and seeker to me!
Well stated.
I certainly hope this email was released on a timer and you are enjoying a nice, well-earned Sunday morning sleep! Not like the rest of us sleep-deprived maniacs awake at this hour!
Jill and I are currently in a boat along the Italian coast on a working vacation.
Ah, So that makes your post at a much more civilized hour. Enjoy your vacation!
How's the fishin'?
Ha!
07/20/25: Fauci will be on the hook any day now...
I too was on a boat this weekend, putting my son’s engine back together from having an extra gallon of water in the oil 😂😂🤪
"WORKING VACATION".. uh huh.. NO ONE WORKS IN ITALY.. :) but if that is your story and sticking to it.. :) ROFL.
07/20/25: BRAVO! "AnotherPlanetsHell" on the YouTube Dancing Vaccines video summed him up PERFECTLY: "He went from building an entire persona and career around at least pretending he was poking a finger in the eye of the establishment, to being an overtly abject and gleeful shill for it. He's contemptible." Enjoy the Italian coast! As for a GENUINE comedian, I'm reading Spike Milligan's war & post-war memoirs when he was still in the British army in 1944-46, rotated out after getting wounded and ending up in a genuine band that minored in comedy. So your reference to Italy hit a home run!
You call that "Working"?
Enjoy this wonderful time away from the every-day, home will look after itself, it usually does.
I am sorry. I also have not been sleeping well.. I chewed FOUR GUMMY BEAR MELATONIN and I was out like a light
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. If you can suffer through 1100+ pages of Atlas Shrugged, you deserve a medal.
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Yep, 2x, and the movie :)
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You are a Fountainhead of knowledge.
Too cute!
Ha ha ha ha!!! Another favorite!
I had often considered reading that. . . thanks for the quick review.
So, much to read and so little precious time.
I generally like to finish a notable work that I start reading, even if I find it tedious. My recollection, perhaps thirty years old now, is that I made it to about 800 pages before calling it off.
I will say that I read Moby Dick in the late 80s, and disliked it. I read it again a few years ago, and saw it in a different, more positive light.
I recall only WHEN I read Moby Dick. HS American Lit class. No memory of it other than the guy standing on Moby with his spear embedded. Totally missed the point our teacher had in mind, surely.
She thought her class assignments were the ONLY thing in the world we had to do. Even in college, I never got assigned so much to read and write essays about. All the smart girls loved this class. . .
My high school sr yr English teacher had her masters in English. We had to hand in one essay a week. In frosh college English was thrilled only had to write 12 essays over 16 wks...a vacation!
Now with AI, students will be able to "write" those essays and not have the tedious task of actually reading the books. Sad turn of events. I always loved to read. Though 1000 page books require dedication no matter how good the book. When I was a kid my Father read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. It was as thick as a dictionary. He did it because he lived through it growing up in Norway.
I read that too. I did not consider that tedious.
Would be really nasty requiring book reports now without AI since high school grads coming out now reading at 3rd grade level. "See Spot run...."
yep, that is what I recall too-- one a week, BUT! on top of that she would have longer term projects like plays to read and report on them too, and other misc. crapp.
Senior year, same teacher, I was taking both Calculus AND Analytical Geometry(sep. classes) and Physics . . . With all this tech stuff and having to write a TERM paper too, I was going nuts.
Another hefty but notable tome is Witness by Whittaker Chambers.
Same thing happened to me over Gone With the Wind only in reverse. I thought it hopelessly romantic the first time around and utter immoral trash the second. 😄
07/20/25: The third time is the charm. Nah, watch this (the TV Cliff Notes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wVvGQ0P4Y
Where in heavens name did you find that! Carol at her best! Hilarious!
07/20/25: Back when she was at her prime, I had paid little attention to all TV. That changed in 1980 when I started a five-year stint at NBC (unhappy ending. A year later, I was working at GE, which bought RCA, which owned NBC, so I was back in the company that had fired me. Happy ending.).
So finding Went With The Wind years later was an unexpected and welcome surprise. But almost everyone in TV is eventually corrupted, often with tragic / even horrifying results. WWTW = Great comedy. But they're not people I'd want behind the wheel of the car I'm in.
Where is the picture from that you have on your Substack page. Thinking of changing my name to
Crap on toast, after I saw yours 😂😂😂🤭
good one; I had to think on that one a bit. . .
Just when I think I have all the answers, I can laugh at myself and say
Well, crap on toast!
And journey on ❤️
Possibly like when you say
Holy crap!
When you allow yourself to discover more.
If I have missed the mark here -
NEVER MIND❤️
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/quzszpn7anaspaboa8fvc/tower-mountain-copy.jpg?rlkey=2uqjfwfamh0pt5b9fh9atqw29&st=dp7cvea0&dl=0
Sure looks like Sedona, except for that green with the frost on it?
You are dead ON Sherry!
With the attitude that you never stop learning, you will never really "die".
The NEXT life will be awesome+.
It's called audible book with one earbud in while you're working or doing daily chores.
Well, maybe only if female. I have been trying out audible and inevitably find I have to rewind because my mind simply can NOT focus on the audio and doing something else.
Even simple things: tracking a coyote stopped all audio sensory input-- REWIND!
07/20/25: Which is why, with 100+ books on our To Read shelves, what fails is IMMEDIATELY tossed. And with the idiot publishers cranking out 500,000-1M titles a year, America's going to run out of space in those abandoned PA coal mines pretty soon.
Oh but I did! Twice!
Two medals!
🤭
😂😂😂 hey Holly Crap. As a gifted and talented dyslexic/LD cluster type of gal,
can multitask. However my daughter who has her masters in teaching,
😂😂😂 said she can't do it either. She would find herself standing in the middle of the yard with the rake, just standing listening to the book.
What can I say it's a gift. Rewind is always an option.
However if I was tracking, I definitely would not be listening to a book as I do it when I'm doing basic chores, like the forever making meals for the feral/rescue cats, and cleaning up after them🥴. Remember only one EAR Bud, because you will know when you lose it, and you won't end up burying it in a hole if you'r Landscaping😬. Plus, you might be able to hear animals sneaking up on you❤️
Thanks for sharing, Substack is so much better than Facebook, kind of like a breath of fresh air.
I must say I'm so grateful for Audible (and LIBBY), because I can't read novels anymore as my brain just won't focus, and it totally zaps all my energy(like in 6-10 min). But give me a good research article and I am good to go to read and disect it(when the brain is working).
I'm so grateful to have read so many historical fictions and other incredible novels that share so many pearls of wisdom in this world we live in, and we need lots of pearls and lots of good role models these days to survive the insanity and relentless bombardment of gaslighting and propaganda😖
Be well
❤️🙏❤️
07/30/25: When I mentioned to my (perfect SATs!) cousin that I was reading AS, she sniffed, "Oh, THAT phase." Later on, I marvel that between the ages of 14-18, the book seizes the young, indiscriminate reader and shakes the hell out of him/her. Then, not long afterwards, the book's appeal has evaporated. But I could have done without the condescension...
11000 pages 😳
Game on, but on Audible
😂
Hope you and Jill are having some relaxing moments on your working trip.
Love the memes regarding Colbert and PBS. Colbert had become rancid and needed to go. He suffered from a terminal case of TDS. It led to his demise. PBS has gotten away with liberal group think for so long they don’t know any different. It’s about time they were defunded. Americans don’t need to be paying for a station that brainwashes listeners. Thanks for the early Sunday Strip!!
Good morning to a good day. :)
All and anything MS, OneDrive included, deserves prosecution.
Sadly, anything Google shares this space as well imho.
All goes to prove when parachuting work through everything before entering the plane.
Oh brother! The Vax dance. So glad I'd given up on TV long before that! Sad how many cute and funny things got perverted by the cabal.
Appreciate the Dem Terms. Climate change is a particularly contentious term in my book.
Local fun. My phone bill is absurd. Marched over to my provider. After roughly 3 hrs of suffering was allowed to pay $90/mo less for accepting a free phone I dont need. What tangled roads they travel.
Hoping, despite the start time, you're off to a successful day! Power to you!
"One day son this will all be yours!"
For a brief moment there....
I am closer to this than I have accepted as a realization. Hahah!
I had a friend (now departed) whose father was a massive hoarder. He had a pole building filled with stuff. He had non running cars also filled with things. My friend had one hauled away and the tow truck driver came back to see if he wanted more hauled away. The cars trunk was filled with tools. My friend always said his inheritance would be in a pile.
Mobile storage units soon to become desirable classic vehicles?
(with dated with fast food drive thru window children's souvenirs)
Jill, Doc enjoy Italy and as always another superb collection of funnies.
"When Big Bird became a child predator, it became time to defund PBS." - Well said.
One Dive is a sufficient crime against order that Gates should go to prison just for that.
Please explain Mark. I no longer use MS products or their cloud drive(One Drive) but am aware it is "there". Does it fail a lot, people losing files inside it or something?!
One Drive was an MS attempt to aggregate everything on your PC and synch your phone, emails, tablet, etc.. Invasive and required excessive registration. I will probably switch out to some kind of linux to avoid the Windows 11 nonsense. The PC I have works perfectly well.
Just started the process of building another WinTel (mid-sized) tower - this is number 7 or 8 since 1991, the time between builds is lengthening due to improvements in hardware - last full build was Christmas 2014. Anyway, the purpose of that bit of self-laudatory prose is to give context to the following: if you want seamless syncing between your desk computer/laptop computer/tablet computer/phone computer/wrist computer/TV computer/smart speaker computer {phew} AND THE CLOUD — become an Apple fan boi.
What began as a quixotic dalliance with the iPodTouch 15’ish years ago eventually morphed into true intimate relationship shoving aside, but not away, the much longer relationship with MS and Intel. I guess you could say there’s enough room in my tech-sphere for a tech-throuple 🤣. ( 🤔 actually it’s more complicated than that - more like a quadouple or a pentouple as I also have A few Linux variants amongst the electronics residing on Intel hardware and SBC hardware.
While Linux can be fun and satisfying for the tinkerer/technically astute, real productivity w/o frustration can be found on Apple devices. Not perfect but more friction free; you’ll give up some things like the extensive gaming community, but it’s coming around, and a few more dollars - tho that’s closer to a wash than it used to to be as much of the base software you’d be paying annually to use on WinTel is gratis from Apple.
Yep, I am an Apple long-timer-- since 1984. I used to program four different state tax forms(with all calculations) in the 90's-- a LOSING proposition but I learned Excel programming.
So, it was hard to transition into Numbers(from Excel) and Pages(from Word). Both inferior to Excel in the 90's but their functionality "breaks even" after MS complicated both apps so badly with added, unnecessary abilities and interface.
My wife still insists on using Excel because it prints labels(!) better than Numbers. So, I pay $120+ every year to make her happy to print. . . labels.
Not a current spreadsheet user, tho back in the day I had to take some classes - I seem to recollect that Excel has some pretty powerful functions and abilities that Numbers doesn’t - Numbers is kind’a basic compared to Excel? I should run it by my son, tho I think he’s been offloading the business-y aspects of his practice so he can focus on his core elements.
As for labels I think I’ve been using both platforms but I do remember the last time I wanted some new labels it felt like I was playing a game of Twister.
As for the annual label expenditure: happy spouse, happy house?
Ya’know, I’ll readily admit that a driving force behind this latest (last?) build is MS FlightSim and X-Plane (11?). Don’t know if I have the time, even winter, but I had fun back when - MS FS, X-Plane, Fly! And many other game-ified flight sims. My current build has plenty of oomph for the 4X games I like but falls short with graphically intensive games. But, do I have time to play⁉️ I’m should be writing. We’ll see.
Oh yes, for sure Excel is a better product overall, but here's the THING:
They could have turned it into 2 or 3 products for different levels of use; 90% of users would be happy with basic functions even below Numbers; Next level are those who actually use it to a bit . . . more, tables, about 10 functions-- 5% of users. Very few will actually use it's functions every day and deeply. What this means to MOST is they have to wade through all the interface complexities and put up with constantly changing locations of tabs and menus and KEEP paying for upgrades. When I retired I virtually stopped using MS products.
I had always thought it would be "neat" to get into computer games, specially those related to flying since I had always wanted to fly but never did!
However, my love for being outside outweighs computer affinities. I would much rather sit in a treestand or track a yote.
Yes. It's been Apple for me since nineteen ninety-three. No complaints.
Wow, 1993⁉️
What’s been your fav device?
Which one has made the most impact in your life?
There was a series of MacBook Pros, and now a MacBook Air. They've all been equally great, and I like the light weight of the Air. I've only recently retired as a self-employed editor of nonfiction, working mostly with Word, and they've all been good.
Good morning Mark. Our Lord directs our steps.
I was meant to read 📚 your comments today.
I purchased a laptop 💻 18 months ago. I took it out of the box, set it up and then didn't use it because my husband got sick. I tried taking it out of the box to start using it again and I encountered a problem. I can only enter 4 characters of my PASSWORD.
Is that part of the DRIVE ISSUE?
Hi Ana. I don't know. Without seeing it I can't diagnose. Find a reliable super geek near you and see if they can help. If you bought it at or through Best Buy I would suggest taking it there. Or try an online forum or youtube for a fix. Most likely someone ha had the same issue before.
I agree with Mark, ask for help from Supplier.
Yes, someone explain. I didn’t get it … me bad.
. . . did my own search==>
Apparently about a year ago MS failed to fix the synchronizing system so files did not sync any longer between phones and computer-- the main reason for having it. Instead they created a second file type / source which started saving files with a url address / extension(?) instead.
STILL, this has not been fixed.
UNrelated I heard a couple of months ago that many cars in the last 10 years have transitioned to a start / stop system which actually turns OFF the engine when you stop at a light. . . to save a bit of gas. (Friggin' asinine.) MANY people are put off by this as it causes an odd shudder on restart when you take your foot off the brake to GO. . . This was brought "home" to me last month when I bought a 2 yr old Caddie. . . I thought I could live with it but now I turn OFF this "feature" every time I start up my expensive car -- irritating. (Some cars have NO option to disable, at all.)
Brought to you by the same sort of corporate idiots that failed to fix synching on ONE Drive!
It’s 8 a.m. in Kentucky and I know what all Dr Malone’s subscribers are doing ha ha! I hope everybody makes it to church on time 🙏. You got to love the community!
Well Barb, not sure I will make it to church again this Sunday.
Father Goodrich's sermon will likely do me well for a couple days.
Me neither. Home with a nasty cold. It will be Bible in a Year with Father Schmitz today IF I can tear myself away from the Funnies!
So...about cars. Dodge and Chevy both have an MDS (Multi Displacement System) that "saves" gas. MDS turns off some cylinders on and off as you drive at certain speeds. 8% ish savings in fuel.
In the Dodge / Ram / Jeep/ Chrysler Gen 4 Hemi is eats camshafts at about 120k miles. Known issue. The repair cost is over $7500. I know this as my used 2011 Ram truck suffered this 100 ft out of the dealer lot. Looong story. Dealer ate the repair cost after the usual dealer shenanigans. This particular issue stumped the techs and went to Dodge engineers as it would simply not run right. Fixed by, "Torque to spec, plus a little bit", like the old days.
Anyone with a 6.2L GMC / Chevy truck of recent vintage will probably have the thing shred a camshaft , lifters, etc. due to the GM version of the MDS. Check the web for MASSIVE (and expensive) GM recalls on 6.2 L powered trucks and suv's.
None of these systems have ever worked properly and are stupid fixes for CAFE (Corporate Avg Fuel Economy) standards enacted during the Arab oil embargo in the 70's. So should Pres Trump or one of his cabinet be reading this please scrap that shit and the DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) nonsense so I can have a truck that just WORKS. Oh and get the auto industry to release all the fuel efficient patents they bought up while you are at it.
The car issue…. I rented a car with the shut off “technology” in Utah for a ski vacation a few years ago. Driving up Big Cottonwood Canyon we ran into a long traffic jam After probably at least 20 minutes (or more) of the stop/start “technology” the car overheated. We turned back down and took the bus up. 🤬
And this is why I’ve retained my ¼ century old truck - outside of regular maintenance and replacing a cracked head it’s been the least trouble of any vehicle I’ve owned in 50 years. My year round daily, a 5th gen 4Runner, is about as bullet proof as a vehicle can be and my summer fun mobile, NC3 Miata, has been steady as well - next year it becomes tax free, just like the truck. Although both truck and the impractical convertible need new tires 🤷♀️
What is most sickening to me in the Coalbert ad is the performers were mostly gay or trans males acting like females.
Turns my stomach.
It makes my day this sludge of a man will be gone . . .
If we had CBS on for the 10:00 local news, the intro to Colbert would never see the light of day on our tv. Not the first note. Of course, neither did Fallon or Kimmel, but Colbert was particularly offensive. There is a word that doesn't include profanity that describes him, but it escapes me just now. Or maybe it hasn't been coined yet. How about "eesquishous?"
Luckily, I didn’t watch that far! Had no idea how often he was perpetrating this offense.
Have a wonderful work vacation. I have to say I don’t watch mainstream news. I don’t watch much TV. We might turn on a movie about 8:00 pm . We get our news from alternative news. I have never watch a Stephen Colbert show. His vax spots were disturbing. When I pull up a news channel during Covid I was appalled at the Covid vax commercials. I have been much better off not watching mainstream news. AOC meme was great. Have a great day!
President Trump recently noticed a slight bit of swelling in his lower legs. Upon a thorough examination they found it is attributed to chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) a common condition in older adults, where leg veins have difficulties returning blood back to the heart. Democrats immediately began trying to find a way that this could somehow connect and push Trumps cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. He’s just not fit to fix everything we did too destroy America.
Look at how much time the man has to sit behind desks, at tables, in chairs at interviews. The calf muscles are called the the second heart because they push blood back up the legs, but in order to do that ya need to be moving. I doubt President Trump gets on the golf course as often any more (Golf carts are just another chair). Sometimes I think the best exercise he has time to get is walking to the helicopter and the walk to Air Force One.
yep, I just started walking about 20 to 30 min / day. . . quit exercising about 10 yrs ago and this is surely helping. It's easy to be lazy.
Ya' gotta' be a plugger. . .
You should know this, Robbie. The helicopter is Marine One.
I do. So lets add Walking from the beast (his limo) to Marine One (the helicopter) then the walk to Air Force One (Designation to any Jet the President is flying on), and in reverse order on the return. All done to limit exposure for the President's safety. i.e. limited exercise. Should they place treadmills around the Whitehouse office and living quarters?
Many times lower leg swelling is a sign of congestive heart failure. When I mentioned it to my nurse wife it was the first words out of her mouth.
He is 79 and his diet is NOT the envy of RFK Jr. Where does he even get a simple home cooked meal. Mara Lago? Nope. All the official banquets he must attend entertaining heads of state? Plus, he stress eats. But the chefs could/should be able to make great healthy meals with proper proportions.
I worry about him. One good thing is a heart can be fixed if you don’t have a massive heart attack. I’m thinking he’s in good hands, as long as Obama has nothing to do with his care🙄.
I think we all worry about him. I hope JD Vance is a good understudy. Even after Trumps term is over I would sure like to see the progress continue.
Yes, not sure if you caught Tulsi on Maria Bartiromo yesterday. She released over a hundred documents proving Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comer, McCabe, Susan Rice, etc. conspired to take down Donald Trump. They hid intelligence documents and made up many to frame him. Tulsi called it treason. She handed it all to Bondi and Patel so now we will watch and see if Bondi will prosecute these people involved in trying to “destroy democracy” and “no one’s above the law”, as the democrats say over and over again. It’s ironic how they call Trump a traitor, he’s colluding with Russia, he’s an insurrectionist, but you show proof that all of these high powered democrats are what they were calling their political opponents and now people are going to be killed! She can’t release those documents! This is dangerous. Republicans have to stop giving interviews to MSM all together. They are a big part of the problem!
He should get one of those seated foot pump devices. Look kind of like bicycle pedals. Would help to get the blood back up to his heart. If he has varicosities that doesn’t help either.
My wife just said that, too.
Franklin's quote on democracy and liberty particularly got my attention. Even if every nitwit, dolt and clown in New York City votes for a communist - a political abomination that has caused more death, desolation and despair than any other - does that mean we should supinely submit to our own destruction? Or would a wise and sentient nation ship this Ugandan commie bacillus back to the hellhole from which he, and his equally evil parents, emerged?
I vote for a one way ticket back!
A ticket back is one-way.
No return for turncoats.
A great batch this week doc with Ben Franklin’s wisdom being the best one!
OMG!!! How to chose the best meme today! So many good ones. Must admit anything Ayn Rand is a favorite but the Ben Franklin quote hits particularly hard in light of all the “Democrats Socialist” crap going on. Italy, Drs Malone? I am half Italian and have never been to what I understand is a fabulous country. My Grandmother kept urging me to go but somehow it never happened. In my twilight years now and suspect I’ll just have to keep reading travel brochures. Happy Sunday everyone!
All I have to say is HALLELUJAH for arresting the ONE DRIVE creator!!