This and That

            

I had thought initially that on this, the last day of the month, I would do a look-back and discuss what a crazy August this has been.  Seems that everything this month from weather to riots to politics to local matters were all in some kind of a crazy swirl.  Throw in the virus business on top of everything else and it all added up to one big you-know-what-kind-of-cluster.     But hey, we survived it and as you know, it’s only rock n roll, right?

Instead of looking back then, how about I’ll just do a dump of some things that I had stashed on my desktop for possible use in the future?  As George famously said – the future is now.  

And yes, I was thinking about doing a post on how cool a saying and approach to life that is. I started pulling some things together on it but ultimately did not follow thru proving that just maybe, sometimes the future really is tomorrow.

Then I was thinking about doing something on how St. Mary’s is such a small county but yet we sure seem to have a lot of zip codes (see below.)  However, to pursue this required me doing some research where I would compare sizes of counties and then try to bounce their populations off that number to see just where St. Mary’s landed in those rankings.  It quickly became more work than I was up for, so I Buzzyed it.  

“Buzzyed it” is my new way of saying “to hell with it.”  And along those lines, I was toying with a post of how cool it would be to come up with a literary reference or phrase as great as Catch-22 and how that has become such a catch phrase all its own.  I was inspired along those lines by this recent letter to the editor I spotted in the Washington Post:

And here is St. Mary’s ZIP code chart:

Then, just because I hadn’t done anything on our boy in awhile, I thought to do something about Trump’s biggest lies. (This was on the heels of my “Mexico-will-pay-for-the-wall” note from the other day.)