90% of what people think of you ...

I have been told that 90% of what people think of you is based on how you look or present yourself and only 10% is based on what you actually say. Thus JFK can go to Berlin and call himself a jelly filled pastry (a simple error of syntax) and people still go wild, maybe they thought it was American slang ("hey, I’m a jelly donut!").

Thus I present to you the new look of my blog. I figure that after three years it could use a face lift. Now as the theory goes, you will now find me to be more intelligent and sophisticated though the actual quality of the content will not change. This is due entirely to your perception of the page. Voila instant credibility!

Blog on a Blog

My wonderful wife has started her own blog. And the odd thing to me is that, at only two days old, her blog has received more comments than mine has cumulatively in its years of existence.

Oh well, I guess people know what they like. And honestly, I would pick her over me any day!

Life lessons are a good thing to gather.

I am starting to gather life lessons from others now so that i can improve my own quality of life early on. Here is one that was shared with me recently:

Working people frequently ask me what I do to make my days interesting now that I am retired. Well, for example the other day the wife and I went downtown and went into a shop. We were only in there about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, “Come on man how about giving a senior citizen a break?” He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an ignorant fool. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So the wife called him a butthead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. About then our bus arrived. We try to have fun each day now that we are retired. It’s important at our age.

Such wisdom.