2 22 22

Today’s reading is from Bill’s Book of Numbers.

The date is the same front to back and in fact, thanks to Emma, ALL dates this week when reversed are the same read forward and backwards. 2 23 22, 2 28 22. Pretty neat and kind of weird and WHO sorts these things out? I mean what a job. I wonder what it pays?

In my haste scrambling to finish the 12 stellar projects for the exhibit in Corpus I have missed a number of good-to-great opportunities for clever titles and subtitles for reports. However that has happened before and will certainly happen again.

In fact, that is one of the many things I REALLY like about me. So what?

I missed an entry. As my x-M-i-L was famous for saying … ‘oh well’. I figure it is only going to torque 4-12 near-patrons aka freeloaders for now. When this vehicle launches and the pledge drive goes live, I shall show some concern but not right now.

I am reaching the magic 1000 entries on the wix side which is the milestone decision point and I am going to give the substack a good effort before cutting it off completely. In the meantime, I shall continue to ‘fine tune’ and hope subs come around to Rush Limbough numbers and I can loaf and coast.

I started the next read after FINALLY finishing Stalin. What a relief.

SO WHAT IS IT?

It is the Civil War historical account I put down when Stalin arrived of the small battle in NE La at a place called Millikan's Bend. The Union or Federal forces used slaves for the first time against the Confederates. The author has done meticulous research and once again this is a fascinating account tracking down the truth and what really happened. Talk about politically charged. I mean it is a good thing more people are NOT reading this sort of thing because there would be a stark awakening. Like shocked out of a deep sleep.

Last night there were a number of official ‘reports’ by Federal officers and officials that were suspect and not reliable. The name of a key eye witness to a series of atrocities could not be found in the unit rolls so looking back and deeper the author found how period penmanship and legibility was overlooked and lead to a ‘misspelling’ which led to misidentifying the witness calling into question the veracity of the account.

This is exactly how and why sometimes history gets it flat out wrong.

Why I vividly remember Mrs Laidlaw in third (3rd) grade screeching to our clas ‘neatness counts.’ Then when we were learning writing or penmanship it makes sense now. FBNextGen is calling it ‘writing cursive.’

OK. So I caught an Astros 2021 Playback baseball replay game versus of all teams the NY yankee-spankies. Down 3-1 when I found it, I stuck with it figuring Houston might comeback and sure enough they did. Nothing, NOTHING SWEETER than seeing ‘the bombers’ lose and in their own park yet. The crowd was so sparse that no one was even chasing foul balls in the stands. Hahaha.

WAIT A MINUTE …!!

There’s ANOTHER Playback game !! The Astros now playing the Toronto Blue Jays. I mean this is too cool for me almost. Almost.

But I can handle it.

Have I died and gone to Heaven? Or what ?

Thank you God!

Life is GOOD.