Like Nose Hair - C. S. Woodbridge

The Coward and the Miser - Chinese Proverb

The Best in Others - William Arthur Ward

Pork - Tim Early

First, Best, or Different - Loretta Lynn

Un-ring a Bell - Shana Alexander

Expensive on Credit - Czech Proverb

Looking at a Door - Helen Keller

Anger Like Gold - Old Saying

Pruning by Study - Francis Bacon

See the Light or Feel the Heat - Caroline Schoeder

Brain Weak - Bob Faravoni

The Living Memorial

This is a paper sent to me after my mother's death that I believe originally came with a letter addressed to my aunt who oversaw funeral arrangements. The big issue was that my mother had no person she could trust her children with and so turned to her ex-husband's sister. 

the remains of this paper show you very much how my life turned out. The truth is that those of us who have children already have a living memory that is a testament to how we did in life.  

My mother did everything she could for me save for marrying a good man. She died in 1989.

Evil with Evil - Prophet Mohammed

101 Ways to Boost Your Math Skills Book Review

'101 Ways to Boost Your Math Skills' is a self help book that looks amassed from the suggestions of children who have no idea what they're talking about.

Some of the things here are certainly helpful but the big thing is this book is that it tells you to live your life around math. 

If you're going to spend a lot of time doing math you will do better at it but is that how you want to live your life?

This isn't a book for the average person. This is a book for that person who really wants to be an engineer or mathematician.   



Who should read this book? Skeptics 

Books Read: 37 of 5000

Tree and Axe - Shona saying

From Our Children - Proverb

Know of a Better - Bruce Bairnsfather

Play With Us Book Review

"Play With Us" is a scholastic book that comes from a more innocent time in human history when children could play together without parents and not get kidnapped. 

It is similar to the old Dick and Jane books in that now you don't call people Dick unless you're upset with them. Why is this younger boy playing with even younger girls? Well, because back then little boys didn't have google or R rated movies. They didn't know anything about using their man bits and those girls were perfectly safe. 

Or it could be that back then you didn't talk about the bad things your children when through. My mother was surprisingly tight lipped about her life.

Now if you look at the artwork you'll see that it is superb, water color I believe, and overly suggestive for a children's book by modern standards. The little snots I grew up with would be laughing about this for days. 

In any case, I don't imagine you'll find a copy of this strictly scholastic book, and I'm not sure how it came into my collection. I wouldn't go looking for a copy of this one.

Who Should Read this Book? Those with clean mind. 

Books read: 36 out of 5000

May You Keep Flying - Stephen Hawking

Things We Don't Need - Dr. Larry Lea

My First Book of Words Illustrated By Jan Palmer Book Review

'My First Book of Words' Illustrated By Jan Palmer is just what it says it is a group of illustrations with words attached. It's a book designed to help children learn the names of things. 

I will say that the lettering could be bigger and placed in a more uniform position that would aid in clarity and understanding. Still this book is a useful learning tool for those trying to teach their children. 

Then I will also need to point out that we normal call it a hot dog not a frankfurter. Then again the name is accurate and I guess I've always know what it was. 

Who should read thing book? Children Learning How to read.

Books read 35 of 5000

Forty-two - Douglas Adams

Center of Middle Age - Franklin P. Adams

Say and Mean - Franklin P. Adams

We Only Have to Look at Ourselves - Stephen Hawking

Time in Which a Genius Would Wish to Live - Abigail Adams

A Fool May Throw a Stone - English Proverb

Trouble is a Part of Life - Dinah Shore

Boogeyman - Tommy

Love and Skill - John Ruskin

101 Ways to Do Better in School: Book Review

"101 Ways to Do Better in School" is a rather outdated volume that brings back things that I was told in grade school that simply aren't true. In a way, this is a book about how to lead a better life that applied to the best logic of the 80's. 

This book was a fast read but had limited use in the modern times.  A good number of things in this book are common sense items like eating right and keeping yourself organized. 

I would have to point out that most folks who are organized probably already do well in school and most of us disorganized people are this way because we have too much going on in our lives. 

Who should read this book? People who don't know how to people. 

Books Read 34 of 5000

Masquerade by Gayle Lynds Book Review

Masquerade by Gayle Lynds is a spy novel in the level of absurd passing that of James Bond. It revolves around a woman who has been surgically altered so perfectly that it would need to have been by the best surgeon who ever lived. 

She is used as bate for one of the most dangerous 
assassins who ever lived, but she isn't sure they have told her the truth.

Now, this wouldn't be a spy novel if they had told her the truth so it's kind of predictable in that regard. Further, the plot has more twists than a taffy factory.

Did I enjoy this book? Not really, it was hard to keep all the names in my head.  The plot was so twisted that it was difficult to remember who was working for who when and the text was less than engaging. This is the kind of book women read to escape a life of boredom.

Who should read this book? Women who want to be turned attractive and have sex with a spy.  

Books Read 33 of 5000

He Was My Patient - Samuel Loomis

In Order to Appease the Gods - Dr. Samuel Loomis

The Girl that Survived - Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

I Don't Wanna Scare Anyone - Friday the 13th Part 2

A Young Boy - Pamela Voorhees

With Shut Eyes - Oklahoma Proverb

 

1994 Royals Yearbook Review

So, this is my only surviving yearbook from Jr. High School. There is very little I can say about it as there is almost nothing in the way of commentary. This book is just literally pictures with names. 

I have to say this brings back nothing but bad memories. My Jr. High was a hive of nasty and from what I'm told, people who live in the area can now hear the children, eleven to fourteen year old's, cursing as they walk home. 

Who should read this book: Just about no one unless you have one, and you want to look back on things. 

Books Read: 32 of 5000

I Met Him - Dr. Samuel Loomis

Political Landscape - Bernie Sanders

Dirty Animal Control Officer

Fur fount after the disappearance of one of my animals, a cat named Cheshire, believe to have been torn from her by the suspect.

Friends and Neighbors, this as a review I wrote regarding the Downy Office of County of Los Angeles Animal Care and Control. I posted this both on Yelp and FaceBook but the Yelp review appears to have been taken down.  

The law entitles me to an unbiased investigation. They have yet to conduct such and investigation. Here is my Review:

Officer Armando Ferrufino(Badge number 60) investigated my report of animal abuse. I reported in writing that my neighbor confessed to killing cats with a twenty two caliber rifle and burying them under his rose bushes.

After the investigation Officer Ferrufino had the nerve to ask me for a favor on behalf of my cat killing neighbor. My neighbor wanted some stuff he left on my property back. I have four dead cats and one with over two thousand dollars in medical bills.

Hay, Armando, investigations are supposed to be confidential and you can ask that man to pay for what he did to my cats!

This is swift. I believe her to be the first animal belonging to me that the suspect destroyed. At the time I owned one cat and one dog.  

This is Pork Chop. He was found by a neighbor, and I took him in. The suspect forbid me from having this animal registered and told me that I could not keep him. The suspect was known to feed this animal biscuits that he would not let my other dog eat. Pork Chop died shortly after. As the suspect worked in a hospital for thirty years he would have had access to chemicals that could have killed my dog. 

This is Hyde. The suspect was friendly with this animal and even entered photographs he took of the cat in a contest at the VA Hospital in Long Beach. This was the third of my animals that I believe to have been killed by the suspect. 

This is Shannon but the suspect called her "Mamma Cat". She was  a feral cat, but the suspect stated that he had been feeding this animal. One day I found her an a kitten in my house. The kitten had been wounded with a pellet gun. I believe the suspect to have killed this animal as well as most of a litter of kitten she had been seen with. 

This is Ire she was found in my living room and believed to be the kitten of Shannon. She had a wound through her paw that looked like it had been made by a pellet gun. Months later after I had her registered, chipped, and fixed she was shot a second time in the right eye. I informed the suspects spouse and the next time I saw the suspect he came running up to me stating that my cat had not been shot in the eye. I had never accused him. 

This is Cheshire. The suspect insisted she was killed by coyotes and knew exactly where she had been last I saw her. I believe he killed this animal, who was friendly with him, and tor out her fur to make it look like an animal attack. I've seen coyotes attack cats. For that much fur to be left behind I would have heard the animals fighting. Further, that was no way he could have been that sure she was killed by a coyote unless he had seen it himself.    

This is Bob Denver. The suspect knew he had a broken skull without being told. I consulted a man with three years experience as a detective with law enforcement. After hearing my statement he concluded that the suspect either was responsible or was connected with the party responsible for killing my animal.  

After Officer Ferrufino stated that he had concluded my case and found no evidence he tried to convince me that coyotes had killed my animals. How a coyote could have cracked my cats skull and left him in the street for me to find is beyond me.

I requested a copy of his report and found that Officer Ferrufino had omitted my report from his file, failed to properly record my statements, and made no attempt to learn if the suspect owned the twenty two caliber rifle that he stated he had used to kill cats. 

There is no indication that Officer Ferrufino even asked the suspect if he owned a pellet gun that could have caused Ire's wounds or for that matter asked about any firearm or pellet gun. 

I pay animal registration, and I have a right to a proper investigation.