That's what happens when you have superglue on your hand.

This is amazing stuff...

https://www.google.com/search?q=german+ … Ckmg3Y64_s

I sense treachery.

We in Texas have a similar problem.  We're being inundated with Californians.

Be thee here Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever...  I invite you all to enjoy a magnificent piece of music presented by a magnificent voice.  I also invite you all to grasp the meaning... for it involves us all.

Peace.  Have a wonderful holiday period however you choose to celebrate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJw-ey1DPRA

It appears not.

I realize what I am about to say might paint me as something of a contrarian (not a truly bad term), a dinosaur (a somewhat worse term), crotchety old fart (now we're getting truly negative), or just a nasty old SOB (we have arrived at the center of Negativity City).  I think emojis are silly.

I don't use them at all.  While they may add a bit of "cuteness" to a post, "cuteness" has never been my objective.  Whether I'm trying to be deadly serious, humorous, simply chatty, blathering nonsensically, or expressing an emotion, I try to let my words convey that.

I guess now I'm coming across as something between a crotchety old fart and a nasty old SOB.  Bah.  Humbug. 

Peace, and may God save us from our respective politicians.

Some years ago I dated a lass who lived in Norman, Oklahoma, which is about a three to four hour drive from where I lived in the Dallas area.  Every other weekend I boogied to her place, and on those other weekends she came to see me.

The National Weather Center is located in Norman.  There is a simple reason for this:  Norman is located in the Tornado Belt of the U.S., and is well situated to observe violent weather throughout a region of the country cursed by such weather.  Norman, which is next door to Oklahoma City, has witnessed much really ugly weather.

There were times when I would be driving back to Dallas and see enormous thunderstorms building off to the side of the road.  These things would have the classic anvil shape to their tops, and while they were beautiful to observe I always knew that whoever was underneath them was likely getting the crap pounded out of them by torrential rain, large hail, and possibly worse... like a tornado.

I was once on a Lear Jet (a company aircraft) headed to Tampa, Florida from Texas.  The plane passed over the Houston area at an altitude of around 42,000 feet.  The pilots managed to skirt around a massive thunderstorm over Houston, and we could look out the windows of the plane and see that the tops of this monster were well above us.  Clearly the folks underneath that thing were getting pounded.  Lately I learned the tops of that beast reached about 50,000 feet.

Beautiful?  Yes.  Monstrous?  Also yes.

jackneve...

Part of my early morning routine, and I am a morning dude normally up by 0500 CDT, is to log on to various news and financial sites.  This morning most of the sites I hit came up quite nicely, but with three of them the system gave me the old "I can't get there from here.  Try again later." routine. This went on for some time, and then magic happened.  The miscreant sites appeared and gave me the news... good and bad.

I suspect your and my issues were the result of some Internet infrastructure hiccup that disrupted things for a while and then got fixed.  Sometimes I think we expect perfect performance from the miracle of the Net, and that's a stretch on reality.