Sunday, August 31, 2025

Man Better Than Bear

I wonder if she now would rather encounter a man in the woods rather than a bear. 🙄

"Alaska jogger dragged 100 yards by bear in terrifying predawn attack near driveway"

https://www.foxnews.com/us/alaska-jogger-dragged-100-yards-bear-terrifying-predawn-attack-near-driveway

August 31, 2025, at home

Prostate Cancer Video

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. I created and uploaded a short video in this regard onto my YouTube channel. (lenght: 1 minute)

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (Aug. 31, 2025)

https://youtube.com/shorts/yORYamxqKeM?si=KeuTbn6l-5KrY6AH

August 31, 2025, at home

Prostate Cancer Awareness

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

1 in 6 men with have prostate cancer in his lifetime compared to 1 in 8 women who will have breast cancer in her lifetime. Yes, prostate cancer is more deadly than breast cancer. Federal funding for breast cancer research is 600 percent HIGHER than federal funding for prostate cancer research. That's SIX TIMES HIGHER !!! (That makes me sad.)

Selfie: August 28, 2025

August 31, 2025, at home



Frittata

This morning, my wonderful wife made this delicious frittata.

August 31, 2025, at home





Today Is ...

August 31, 2025, at home





Dutch Grand Prix

I am watching live coverage of the fifteenth race of the 2025 Formula 1 racing season on August 31, 2025. The Dutch Grand Prix is being broadcast on ESPN from a feed from Sky Sports F1. The 72-lap race started at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern Time in the United States).

Below is a diagram of the Circuit Zandvoort located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line and 35 km (22 mi) west of Amsterdam (capacity: 105,000). Each circuit (track) around the world has a different configuration, therefore a different dynamic, regarding turns and elevation fluctuations.

This season's 24-race schedule is as follows: Australia, China, Japan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Miami (U.S.), Italy, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Hungary, The Netherlands, Italy (different circuit), Azerbaijan, Singapore, Austin (U.S.), Mexico, Brazil, Las Vegas (U.S.), Qatar, and Abu Dhabi.

Before each race, there are two or three days of practice/qualifying. The races run every week or every other week from March into December, with a month-long summer break that starts after today's race.

In Formula 1 racing, there are 20 (male) drivers, with ZERO drivers from the United States.

There are 10 teams (with two drivers on each team), so not only do drivers compete against their rivals, but they also compete against their teammates. There are two championships: one for the drivers and one for the constructor teams.

The 10 constructors are Alpine, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Haas, Kick Sauber, McClaren, Mercedes, Racing Bulls, Red Bull Racing, and Williams.

This season, as with last season, there are three races in the United States. In fairly recent years, there were no drivers from the United States and no races in the United States.

Formula 1 racing is the only sport that I actively follow. I have been a fan for decades. I watched my first F1 race decades ago on television at the home of one of my many Austrian cousins while on vacation in Austria.


Saturday, August 30, 2025

Brach's Candy Corn !!!

I am celebrating !!!

I love Brach's candy corn. I love candy corn, not only for their distinctive taste, waxy texture, coating of shellac, and various colors, but also because they contain FOUR types of sugar.

I like Brach's Autumn Mix which is a mix of regular candy corn, chocolate candy corn, and candy corn-style pumpkins. I have been eating this mix in recent days, but a different brand. I'm quite happy that Brach's is promoting candy corn so early in the season. I don't ever remember them doing that.

Ingredients in Autumn Mix: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Confectioner's Glaze (Shellac), Salt, Cocoa Powder, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Gelatin, Dextrose, Artificial Flavor, Honey, Yellow 6, Sesame Oil, Red 3, Yellow 5, Red 40, Soy Lecithin (An Emulsifier), Blue 1.

(Shellac is made from a resin produced by the lac bug in the forests of India and Thailand. It is used to prevent candy from drying out and is perfectly safe for human consumption.)

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19yXAzK4y9/

August 30, 2025, at home


Happy Birthday, Dad

Happy Birthday to my father (August 30, 1934 - February 14, 1997). I still sorely and immensely miss him.

The top photo shows my dad and me in December 1974 at the house of my great-aunt Rose in East Orange, New Jersey. I was 13 years old. The bottom photo shows my dad aboard the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) cruise ship during the 1980s; I can't remember exactly when it was.

My dad died on his mother's birthday - she passed away on May 22, 1977 - and the day after his sister's birthday.

Dad was cremated. Half of his ashes were interred at Breslau Cemetery in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, the town where he grew up and where his businesses were located. The other half of his ashes were scattered into the North Atlantic Ocean from a U.S. Navy ship. Dad served 22 years in the Navy and retired at the rank of Commander. He was a few months short of Captain.

He served on a ship in the 1950s, transporting DPs (displaced persons or, as he called them, delayed pilgrims) after World War II from Bremerhaven, Germany, to New York City.

My father had a twin brother named Wilbur who died in 1935 at the age of 9 months due to spinal meningitis. Wilbur is also buried in Breslau Cemetery next to my grandmother and also my grandfather who passed away in 1983. Breslau, which is the original name of Lindenhurst, is also the name of a town in Germany.





Texas Becomes More Red

GOOD NEWS !!!

"Abbott signs Texas redistricting map into law, securing major GOP victory ahead of 2026 midterms"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abbott-signs-texas-redistricting-map-law-securing-major-gop-victory-ahead-2026-midterms

August 30, 2025, at home

Is This Equality?

Is this equality?

August 30, 2025, at home



Booming

August 30, 2025, at home



Today Is ...

My favorite beach is Robert Moses State Park, Fields 4 and 5, on the southern coast of Long Island, New York. I grew up several miles from this beach. When I lived there, I loved it during the summertime, but I preferred walking on its shoreline in the coldness of wintertime. I live in southeastern Florida, and no beach can even compare to the greatness of Fields 4 and 5. (great memories)

August 30, 2025, at home

I prefer my marshmallows slightly burned.

August 30, 2025, at home





Friday, August 29, 2025

Today Is ...

My University Colors are:

Villanova University (Wildcats), bachelor's degree in communications with a minor in the French language: blue and white
University of Missouri-Columbia (Tigers), master's degree in journalism: gold and black

August 29, 2025, at home





Homemade Bagels

This morning, my wonderful wife made homemade berry-walnut-sesame seed bagels. Ingredients: berry yogurt, flour, baking soda, walnuts, and sesame seeds (in an air fryer). I enjoyed this one with cream cheese.

August 29, 2025, at home



Thursday, August 28, 2025

New Facebook Profile Photo

haircut-and-shave selfie, August 28, 2025, for my Facebook profile



Haircut & Shave

This evening (August 28, 2025), my wife and I received his-and-hers haircuts at home. I also received a shave. Earlier this evening, my mom, who lives about a mile away, received her haircut and style from our stylist.



"Shrekking"

Have you heard of the latest dating trend? It's called "Shrekking."

Shrekking refers to women dating men who are ugly and whom these women consider below their standards, with the assumption that because the women are superior to these men, the women will automatically have the upper hand in the relationship and be unlikely to get hurt. It's basically women dating down instead of the usual "hypergamy," which means a woman always dates up.

More often than not throughout my life, I have been at the right places at the wrong times. I could have used Shrekking to my advantage in the 1990s, when I was single and in my age 30s. Another recent example is: Several years ago, nerdy guys were in fashion, which was something I also could have used in the 1990s.

Here's a news article about Shrekking.

‘Shrekking’ is ‘dating down’ and settling for ugly partners‚ but it may just ruin your love life, experts warn

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/shrekking-dating-down-settling-ugly-140459320.html

August 28, 2025, at home

Biased Reporting

So true ... The biased reporting is blatant.

August 28, 2025, at home




Flag Burning

If burning the U.S. flag is protected under the First Amendment, so is burning the gay flag, the Black Lives Matters flag, the Mexican flag, and, yes, even the Puerto Rican flag.

August 28, 2025, at home

Today Is ...

Today (August 28, 2025) is International Read Comic In Public Day. Yes, I have read comics in public, mostly in the cars of the New York City subways and in the trains of the Long Island Rail Road in the mid-1990s.

My favorite comic book character is Jughead Jones (Forsythe Pendleton Jones III), but I didn't start reading his comic books until the mid-1990s, when I was in my mid-30s. At that time, I was working in New York City as a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for an international weekly magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry.

My brain was immersed in complex information every day, so I decided that I needed something simplistic to read during my non-working hours. I remembered that I liked Jughead in the 1960s and 1970s (newspaper comics, TV cartoons), so I started picking up the Jughead Jones Digests every month at the supermarket to take my mind off of chemicals.

I have been a fan of Jughead since I was a kid in the 1960s. I enjoyed the comic strips, which I still do, and The Archies Show cartoon TV series that aired for one season in 1968, when I was seven years old.

I am a huge fan of Jughead Jones, mainly because we are very much alike: He's lazy, awkward, clumsy, and a free spirit, plus he likes to eat, especially hamburgers, and is not popular with the ladies.

I still have those digests from the 1990s.

August 28, 2025, at home

I prefer red wine to white wine. I like Italian red wines, especially a nice fruity Chianti, and Austrian (not Australian) dry white wines.

Hint: If you need to stay awake for partying, drink white wine. If you want to relax and fall asleep/pass out, drink red wine.

August 28, 2025, at home

I like cherry turnovers. I am sure that I would love them with chocolate ice cream.

August 28, 2025, at home

I do have one (pre-knotted) bow tie: dark purple with somewhat of a paisley pattern.

August 28, 2025, at home







Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Trump Surges

GOOD NEWS !!! Are liberals heads exploding? I think so, probably.

"Nolte: Trump Job Approval Surges to Personal Record in Far-left AP Poll"

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/27/nolte-trump-job-approval-surges-to-personal-record-in-far-left-ap-poll/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwdGRzaAMcprpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn3vGqe8SOv5EybNwr6nnFTWFZUYvn3xRxFSB6kP_stzqAdmpXPK1WC1-7la_aem_HO4Cu2xhvXUegnbhkdEYcQ

August 27, 2025, at home

Today Is ...

My paternal grandmother used to make peach pie when I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s. She never used a top crust. She would boil the peach pits in water, remove the pits, and then add unflavored powdered gelatin and a few drops of red food coloring to the water. She would pour the hot liquid over the freshly sliced peaches in the pie shell before baking. The pie would have this, well, pinkish-white, gelatinous substance on top. I liked it.

These days, we know that peach pits, as well as the pits of cherries and plums, contain small amounts of amygdalin, a chemical that can break down into the poisonous chemical cyanide when digested, so do NOT include these boiled pits in your recipes.

August 27, 2025, at home

I don't think that I have ever eaten this.

August 27, 2025, at home





Fake Wedding Rings

I wholeheartedly agree. I even put this theory into practice. When I was single, I wore a fake wedding ring for months twice in the mid- to late 1990s to get women to be friendly toward me: once while living in New Jersey and working in New York City; and once living and working in Florida. Women seemed to be more friendly toward me, but not that friendly. When a man wears a wedding ring, he is suddenly viewed as normal by women because they know that at least one woman knows he's normal. He automatically becomes less threatening.

August 27, 2025, at home




Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Facebook Confusion

oh.my.gosh: I was fooling around with my Facebook settings, and I was able to access my previous Facebook account. I had been locked out of my previous account, so I started this account. That means that I now have two active accounts and one inactive account from years ago. I decided that, to avoid confusion, I will stay on my new account, meaning this account.

August 26, 2025, at home

Cracker Barrel Victory

GOOD NEWS !!! Was this a publicity stunt in the way that IHOP changed its name to IHOB and back again or just a stupid liberal CEO's "woke" decision ??? Anyway, I do consider it to be a victory in The War On Men.

"Cracker Barrel scraps new logo design, keeps 'Old Timer' after listening to customers"

www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cracker-barrel-scraps-new-logo-design-keeps-old-timer-after-listening-customers.amp

August 26, 2025, at home

Man Better Than Bear

I wonder if she now would rather encounter a man in the woods rather than a bear. 🙄 "Alaska jogger dragged 100 yards by bear in terrif...