HER, HIM, THEY, US

Good morning. ☕️🏜

*Please forgive the grammatical errors, Chad.

Can we all agree starvation is bad. Can we take a moment and agree no child should starve to death. 🙏🏻

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Case in point, this guy, Igor Mykhaylovych, of Washington, who saw an (endangered) monk seal and threw a large rock at it reportedly saying he was “rich enough to pay the fines,” before walking away.  

Creep. Pay up, rich guy. 

I've heard both the Pope and President Obama express the concern at how people are quickly becoming more desensitized and less compassionate for "likes" and "subscribe". 

One woman posted rage bait on IG regarding how she believes people in the service industry should be treated. She said it's perfectly fine to treat wait staff like garbage because they knew their jobs when they woke up that day. I told her she must have been raised by vultures to think that way. She got defensive and replied "it's just a skit" to which I replied, "I said what I said, vultures." This type of social media rage bait is going to validate more garbage behavior out in public. You know that saying, "You can judge people by the way the treat the wait staff" is no longer valid when the majority think it is okay to treat the wait staff like garbage. Being thoughtful and reasonable is unfortunately the minority and in many circles frowned upon. Young America loves discourse. 

No one gives less F's regarding how you feel about criticism than a Gen X woman. I'll call your parents vultures if you act like a vulture out in public. With calm and conviction, vulture is as vultures does, and PS, honey that dress makes you look even fatter. Blue is not your color. No you cannot squeeze all that body squish into a size 24 dress. Go bigger or go to a gym. 

--Sincerely, Gen X

Happy Mother's Day, wildlife! 

"Momma we're hungry!"

"Breakfast is served my lovely babies."

(Sigh) I'm going to miss these eagles when they go. Because of the "luxury hotel" being built under their nest, and humans never allowing nature to simply live and let live, I fully expect these gorgeous birds to move on somewhere less populated by people once the eaglets have fledged. I don't blame them. I'm not a fan of us either. I'd like to live somewhere less populated by humans too. Working on it. 

There's a trend rolling around with the young ladies on social media where she's just finishing up with her makeup and texts the guy asking what the plan is. He replies, "I don't know up to you." And her response is to immediately get mad and wash her face. Apparently she irrate that he has no plan so F U I'm staying home.  🙄 (sigh) Kids today.

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And this trend is very popular because young American women hate men with a fury of 20 SNAPPED episodes. Especially young Asian women. OMG run. 🔪

And again, this is purely generational. GEN Xers in our late teens and 20's had hangouts with familiar Friday & Saturday night faces at the hangouts. We hung out at the beaches, bowling alley, pool halls, neighborhood bars, cruised the beach boulevards, friends with their own apartments, you know, hangouts. That's where we met each other. Getting a date for Friday night (because Friday night is date night) was usually made the previous Saturday night when you were out with friends and met a guy. You swapped numbers, did the weekday chit-chat and then by Wednesday he would say something like, "This new (film) comes out Friday night want to go?" Or "There's a concert at the park want to go?" The guy always said there's a (whatever) happening Friday night want to go?" And that's how Gen X dates were made. He paid. You looked pretty. Good times were had. And even if she was like, "You know I'm not really feeling like a movie," then he would say, "What are you feeling like?" And she would suggest, "Our mutual friend is having a BBQ are you interested going?" And chances were 99% good he is totally cool going to a mutual friend's BBQ party. 

I realize Gen X left our houses when we were young because the internet wasn't a big deal yet but you kids today can still leave your houses to meet up and create hangouts. Just use your words. Communicate. 

One commenter on that young gal's IG post with her washing her face said, "Why waste the makeup" to which she replied, "Not a waste. I got content made." 🙄 

Just go outside and play. YOU BE FOR REAL. 

Remember her? This nut. She murdered her ex-husband and his new bride for being in love and having a life together. Old school entitlement. Her ex-husband was giving her plenty of money - tens of thousands every month in 1989! Just take the money and move on with your life! But no, she spent the rest of her life in jail and died there because that was a better idea apparently. 

The typical young mom is selfish. EXAMPLE: A young mom today wouldn't take her kid to the bathroom. The little girl was crying and screaming in pain but the young black mom refused to take her kid to the bathroom. "Wait until we get where we're going!" She kept yelling at the crying girl. Then the young black mom got on the phone and complained about her kid. Just know when that little girl grows up, mom is going to die alone and I hope she goes screaming and crying in pain. 

These two beautiful (affordable) summer wedding dresses, 25 likes...

This AI model and AI (not real!) wedding dress, 4.5k likes. 😒

Sure, you could find someone, maybe, to make this wedding dress for you but it's going to be very, very expensive. 

Young people today prefer the AI virtual world over reality even in couture but that's because younger generations are growing up in the digital/social media age of instant gratification. It's wild. It's also not their fault. I heard a guy ask for directions to a nearby store at a Starbucks and a 20 year old they/them snottily asked, "Are you going to buy something?" Wow. It/they doesn't own Starbucks and even if they/them did why cop attitude over a simple question? Dude was only asking for directions. 

This makes me laugh...

Yeah. No kidding. Even if this is AI, still, no kidding. On tables of 8 people an automatic 18% tip should be added to the bill. Automatic! I know y'all think you're the grandest people in the world and its an honor to serve you but I assure you its not, and you're not. 

Summers in Las Vegas have me acting like a ready vandal to save a dog or cat trapped in a hot car! Last week when it was 98⁰ to 103⁰ out I screamed at a woman for leaving her dogs outside in the heat. I actually screamed at her house until she came out got her dogs and took them inside. In all my travels Las Vegas have THE WORST pet owners. Like this A-HOLE who left his dog in the park while he went on a run - like take your dog with you! Maybe your dog would like a run too. Creep. But no, he just left his baby in the park, no food or water. There his dog sat waiting for him to come back. I've seen him walk this dog around the park but today he just left the dog sitting there waiting for him to come back. What a sweet puppy too. He doesn't deserve this dog. He's lucky it was a cool day out. If it was hot out I would have taken the dog home with me. I live nearby. We have a yard. I could have easily plead in court he abandoned his dog. Dude was nowhere in sight but he must have left down the trail. The dog is sitting there clealy staring after him waiting for him to come back. I really don't like human beings sometimes. God truly does challenge my patience. 

Yes ma'am. 

I pondered in my last blog of 10 years if the kids today were enjoying their lives. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Looking back on it now I loved my childhood. Loved it far more than my adulthood. Sure our families were trainwrecks but where and how I grew up and my friends made being a kid incredible. Had my dad's first wife got the psychological attention she desperately needed my childhood would have been perfect. Kids today are so hostile at such a young age - not young angst hostile - just angry and willing to show you how much to the emotional extreme. Which is wild to me because they don't have to fight to survive like we did. We literally fought off minus 30⁰ weather, perverts, trafficking, starvation, lime disease, losing a limb, there were no police or doctors or parents where I grew up. I'm a 70's/80's prairie kid from the Midwest in the thick of serial murderers. 

Someone should make a game show called 'Flies' after 'Lord of the Flies' and recreate a Midwest 70's setting to see how many 2026 era kids could survive it. I'd watch that! When I was 12 or 13 years old after watching horror movies all night in a friend's basement the boys scared us girls in the pitch dark as we were walking home and I ran into a tree with low hanging branches - one tree branch stabbed me in the eye. There was no ER or any kind of hospital nearby. I had to wait until the next day for my dad to drive me into the city. I spent the night with a hole and tree bark in my eye. Luckily I didn't go blind. I had to wear an eye patch for a few weeks. Put greasy goo on my eye to heal the hole, and then later eye drops. Got teased hard in school for my pain and troubles. "Thats what you get for running into a tree!" The kids teased. I would love to see a 2026 era kid deal with that. 😆 We were raised to not react to pain, any kind of pain, it annoyed our parents. I was in so much pain for days afterwards but - whatever it was what it was. That's also why we're the generation of real men don't cry. Little girls didn't cry. Grown men better not cry. 

My GenX generation of men who are like, "Yeah man, woke trans gender WTF!!" Oh so quickly forget that...

While Elon's DAUGHTER looks like this... 

Y'all looked like this in the 80's but still called yourselves MEN so like why, who, how, whatnow? 

Nice crop top. 💯  heterosexual. Not a gay curiosity in your body. Nope. 😏 For you non-GenX thats 80's Sabastial Bach of (rock band) Skid Row and all the dudes back in the day tried to look like him. Yes, HIM. He. A dude. A guy. A man. A dude. And at least half of you are MAGA guys now so WTseriousF bros. Are you just jealous she's prettier? Petty. 

Elon blocked God. Shocker. You know he's not really God, right? 

What we need now are some eagles.

The Fam. The kids will be fledging soon. 💔

This is my favorite trend among graduates. It's gonna be a wild and crazy ride finding out who you are. It is for all of us after school. Don't let go of that teddybear 🧸 any time soon, my guy. I'm 57 and I still have mine. Most dependable hug when you need one.

Good luck out there.

God bless us.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.

Mathew 5:16

OK bye! 👋🏼 

JURY DUTY

Good afternoon.☕️ 🌅

*Please forgive the grammatical errors. 

At last, the cute fuzzy little penguins have names.

He's Batman!

Well that's sad. This was the only airlines that took me to and fro, no drama, plane intact, no fuss no muss, and never once lost my luggage. 

Genuine good is such a rarity these days whenever I see an animal out and about I'm like, "Awww what a cutie sweetheart precious beauty of all that is right in the world" and then a person walks up behind me and I'm like, "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!!!" I always have to remind myself, no, no, let them pass. 

Anyway,

This is a good man. 🫶🏼

Women in my generation really appreciate a good man in part because (I was born in 1969) women weren't allowed to open their own bank accounts, according to daddy Google, until 1974. In some states, a husband could still commandeer his wife's money from her personal account without her permission. All the women in my extended family relied on a man's money therefor I was raised to be a wife and rely on a man's money. Barbie, as in the barbie doll, was the first "person" to tell me I could be a doctor and/or a lawyer, however, much like the rest of my generation at the time I too agreed being a doctor or a lawyer sounded absolutely horrible. I much rather run my own (husband provided for) household. 

Things sometimes sound better than actual reality - like front pockets on dresses. I tried to keep my cell phone in my front pocket ONCE, it was awful, annoying, I couldn't sit down or pick up anything that fell on the ground. No thank you. I don't want anything in my front pockets. 

My sainted grandma Louise, who I mention from time to time, became a widow young in life. My grandpa made sure she was provided for before his death. My grandma spent the remainder of her days in service to the Lutheran church. She was devout. The church organist. Every time I see that Simpsons episode of the little old lady jamming Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida I think of grandma. She never remarried. She never dated. She was the only independent woman I knew. I mean, my grandpa made sure she was financially provided for but she never needed a man for anything. She drove a white caddy, made all her own financial decisions, still had money in the bank when she died, and paid her own bills without a man's council. Young women in 2026 may not see this as independent but in the 70's and 80's it was very independent. She never worked (not for a paycheck anyway) but if she had to I'm certain she would have rather worked for a paycheck than remarry. 

I grew up witnessing first hand the benefits of gender roles - men providing for his wife and kids financially even after his death. Then again, conservative men were built very different in the 70's & 80's. They were provider-men, had manners, followed hygiene practices, dressed nicely, took pride in appearances. They were strong and silent. It was a good system. Women chat with their girl friends, joined book clubs to be social, had lunch and tea with their society/neighborhood friends, there was never any confusion as to what the roles of man and wife were in the home. It was nice. Uncomplicated. Today, in my late night doom scrolls its woman after woman complaining about men not doing the bare minimum in relationships WHICH IS WHY couples should attend counciling before getting married. A third party will ask couples the tough questions like, "Why do you want to be married?" And "What do want from your partner in this marriage?" And "What religion if any will you raise your children as?" and "What will you do if you feel the marriage failing?" A third party is not blinded by your love. 

2026 women have become more entitled and demanding.

2026 men have become lazier. 

The problem is no one really has to struggle in 2026. The internet, AI, chatbox, home delivery, everything is instant and at your fingertips the moment you turn on your cell phone. I don't even write my own emails anymore. Young people expect human beings to behave the same and why wouldn't they? Even social media snaps their fingers in a 15 second before and after reel - and hey look how easy things got better with just a snap of their fingers. Entertainment used to be us entertaining you. Now its you entertaining us. 

Hello there. 👋🏼 

 

Dear people visiting Southern Nevada, if you want to hear it from a local where to dine, and we tell you, just say thank you, and move on. Do not whine that the place is too expensive. You have Google. Look up restaurants your dang self. Look up restaurants in your price range. Someone on FB asked Las Vegas locals where a good place to eat is. My favorite date place in Las Vegas is Oscar's Steakhouse. Sheldon loved this place and took us there often. He's the one who introduced me to it. 

If a dude asks a girl where she wants to eat and she tells him, don't get mad if it's pricey. Instead pick a few options in your price range and offer her a choice. Dudes make it harder than it needs to be.

Click the yellow link. 

OSCAR'S STEAKHOUSE

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For that reason I'm posting this in every blog until dudes stop complaining. 

"All women are expensive. Pick a woman in your price range and shut up."

Tell them, my good sir. 👏🏼 Educate these men. 

Las Vegas had two days of cool weather in the lower 70's. During this time I had jury duty.

JURY DUTY

As I have posted a few times now regarding the way a woman chooses to dress, once again this is an actual wedding dress from an actual bridal store. 

Just walk down the isle naked I guess. 😒 This isn't fashion, dear. Fashion requires cuts of fabric, not cuts of flesh. Why is she trying to be "sexy" on her wedding day. Is she worried being dumped at the alter? If I were her husband-to-be, that dress would make me dump her at the alter. I wouldn't want a nudist for a wife. In 2026 I'm guessing he's already seen her naked. This tells me she wants others to see her naked too. 🚩 Someone go help that man. It's called accountability. Any woman who wears this on her wedding day believes she has no accountability. Look out for that in the future, my guy. This wedding dress is a 🚩of so many problems to come with her.

Ladies, dress how you want to dress so long as you understand that you are accountable for it. "My body, my choice." The moment a woman surrenders her options to live better, to make better choices, I have zero interest defending her no matter what. 

Women are more sensible than men by nature. That's why child rearing is left up to women. Women are the sensible ones so act like it. I do not believe women have fallen so far down the rabbit hole as to not know right from wrong.

These men are accountable for their actions too just like women. When I was younger I might have been quicker to judge these men but in 2026 knowing how entitled women believe themselves to be, knowing how abusive women can be, knowing how reckless women can be, knowing how criminal women can be, I'll hear his side of the story first before I judge. 

Accountability is knowing less clothing, more exposed flesh, will give you unwanted attention. Accountability is knowing that some men are depraved and believe if you dress this way you're just "asking for it". Accountability is also doing whatever you want thus inviting all kinds of cause and affect. You are accountable for 100% of your actions. 

Below are advertised prom dresses. I'm rather certain actress Brooke Shields has a thing or two to say about child sexuality in print and film. 

If I had sons I would raise them to not date girls who dress this way. I would want my future daughters-in-law to respect themselves. Revealing and exposing is not the same thing as class and sophistication. If a girl feels she has to expose herself to get attention or adoration that's a HER problem. Additionally if their fathers approved of their high school daughters dressing this way I would wonder if maybe the girls were being sexually abused at home. 

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THIS:

Last January I was served with a jury summons. I was in Wisconsin at the time and tried getting out of jury duty but the court clerk just deferred me until May 5th. To the people who say, "I just throw jury summons away" pray you never need a jury of your peers because if your actual peers are doing what you did and just threw the summons away, what you might be left with are people who barely speak English. Be that, this was my second jury summons. The first time I was summoned I served on that jury, this time however, after a series of questions, the judge excused me and gratefully I was done. 

That was me, prospective juror #69. That's how I had to address myself before the court. 

The eighth district court house is like 1 hour 40 minutes by bus one way from where I'm staying. Luckily it's downtown by Fremont Street casinos. I can use casino bathrooms if I get there early and need one. Everything here in Southern Nevada is so spread out. The roads were an after-thought to the construction. Literally seven minute walk to the nearest casino from the courthouse. Strange place for a courthouse but whatever. They gotta put it somewhere, right? 

As luck would have it I didn't have to be at the courthouse until 12:15. 

I served on one jury before this one in Los Angeles over thirty years ago. That trial was 1 count prostitution, 1 count pandering. This case that I was recently excused from was  (I lost count to be honest) something like 15 counts sexual assault against a 14 year old step daughter. A little Woody Allen action (allegedly). This man on trial raised the girl since she was a baby and (allegedly) had a sexual relationship with her when she was 14 years old. The word "rape" never came up, just sexual assault. As charge after charge, after charge, against this man, page after page were read, everyone in the courtroom who fully understood English were extremely uncomfortable. I had no idea there are so many sexual assault charges in the legal system. As I wrote in my last blog of ten years, if you followed it, I mentioned having a mad crush on my art teacher in 7th grade. He was in his 30's. How old are we in 7th grade, twelve? He was so attractive I would have let him do anything he wanted to me and it would have been illegal and WRONG. I took his class again the following year I was so attracted to him. Too bad I didn't have a crush on my science teacher. I might have been a scientist instead of an artist. I'm not a lawyer I don't know the difference between rape and sexual assault, and that's one Google search I ain't doing. As the judge read off the juror names and numbers who were excused, I looked around the remaining jury pool and alternates (I was among the alternates) and I wondered how many of these people were this guy's actual peers. How many remaining jurors have read a book in the last six months. I only saw the back of the head of the man on trial but by his slumped frame he already seemed defeated. 

If you are among the people who did not throw your jury summons away then you know the judge asks the jury pool a series of questions. After the judge, the attorneys get to ask each individual juror a couple of questions if they want. I didn't get that far this time. I was excused by the judge for financial hardship. No way I survive on the court's $60 a day for two weeks which is how long the trial was estatimated to take. Aside from myself other jurors were excused for religious beliefs. Jurors who said, "Only God has the right to judge this man" were also excused, two or three women, Catholics no doubt. Protestants know God creates, man destroys. I judge man all the time. In the end God will judge you but until then the law says when summoned we must judge each other.

SHAME on any designer, store, manufacturer, etc., who promotes child sexuality. I've always been against toddler beauty pageants, Olympians forced to wear tiny bikini bottoms, and sexualized ads aimed at teenage girls. No teenage girl should wear a dress like this to prom. I'm looking at you dads!

Wives, if your husband says it's ok for your daughter to wear this dress to prom, check that man's web browser ASAP! If your husband tries to rationalize that your daughter wears a bikini to the beach so what's the big deal if she wears this dress to prom, check that man's web browser ASAP! 

Something snapped to make these men think it's ok to hang out the window naked. If left unchecked crimes worse than exposing himself in public could occur. This is why I say women are sensible creatures by nature, so be sensible. Dress sensible. "Men should be held accountable!" And they are, Karen, only AFTER something terrible has happened. At that point it's moot why the terrible thing happened - thus prevention is the only cure. 

And look, I'm not interested in parenting the world, add to that what consenting adults do behind closed doors, fine, whatever, keep those doors shut and locked, HOWEVER, when it comes to teenage girls, more education, less fashion influencers. More dress, less flesh.

Times are different from when we were kids. 2026 young men want bikini model influencers. 1987 young men wanted a girlfriend who could start a fire with two sticks. That was wife material right there. 

I ALMOST FORGOT

While in the jury waiting room, the woman sitting across from me, a 40-something white woman, randomly kept flipping me off. She did it so much I started flipping her off. Then her jury number got called in the first group out. I didn't see again after that. What the... ?

That time in LA I sat on a jury, one woman, a co-jurer, and I almost went a few rounds while in deliberation. She was "this close" to calling me a derogatory word for Asian and hand-to-God it took every ounce of strength in this world and the spirit world to not throw her out the window. 

Imagine if that middle finger-flipper and I ended up on the same jury. One of US might have gotten hauled off to jail. 

If a lawyer can act judiciously as a mediator in divorce court then why can't a panel of them act as jurors? Someone? Anyone? Twice now I've seen who is in the jury pool and it's a little scary in there, not gonna lie. Just remember that before you commit a felony. 

102⁰!! And so begins summer in the desert. 

Say you're in the desert without saying you're in the desert. 🥵

The older I get the more caffeine I need. I finally tried Starbucks Macha latte. Pure hype! Personally, it's good for a cold drink on a hot day but I need caffeine. I need to feel the caffeine. I need four shots of espresso to vibrate my nervous system like I stuck a fork in a light socket. Thats how many are in a venti iced latte, four shots. Light me up Starbucks! Having low blood pressure is for the birds. I miss the high pressure tension. After cardio I need caffeine just to stay awake. 

I miss martinis.

I miss cigarettes.

I haven't had a drink in five years. Not since my stroke. I'd take gummies if they didn't just put me to sleep. I'm open to suggestions. The doctors said "in moderation" but the prescription bottles read "do not drink alcohol" so... ?

The only reason to still have Twitter.

View from the courthouse. 

"If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her; and they be found; 

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days."

Deuteronomy 22:28, 29

OK bye! 👋🏼