September 26, 2023

11 Historical Figures Who Were Really Bad At Spelling

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51224/11-historical-figures-who-were-really-bad-spelling

1. JANE AUSTEN
Luckily, the author of Emma and Pride and Prejudice was always fortunate enough to find editors who could weed out her various alphabetical mishaps. An early work, written when Austen was 14, was called Love and Freindship.
2. GEORGE WASHINGTON
According to Richard Lederer in his book More Anguished English, the man who would become the first American president wrote “we find our Necessaties are not such as to require an immediate transportation during the harvist" while complaining about a supply shortage during the Revolutionary War. The National Archives cautions, however, that for many letters from 1787 to 1790, the spelling issues are actually the result of his nephew copying them: “The mistaken impression shared by some that the mature GW was a bad speller and careless writer derives in large part from the defects of Lewis and other copyists.”
3. WINSTON CHURCHILL
Though he later became universally regarded as one of the greatest orators of all time, one of Churchill's early report cards said “Writing good, but so terribly slow—spelling about as bad as it well can be.”
4. AGATHA CHRISTIE
“Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me... [I was] an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.” It's incredible to think that this humbling statement came from the pen of one of the greatest mystery authors of all time: a woman who would later be celebrated as “The Queen of Crime." Later researchers have proposed that Christie could have been dysgraphic (and possibly dyslexic) [PDF].
5. ANDREW JACKSON
Examples of Old Hickory's seemingly innumerable botched spelling attempts include the continent of “Urope" and performing before a “larg audianc.” This ineptitude even went on to become a political punchline. His perennial political rival John Quincy Adams once denounced him as “a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.”
6. ALBERT EINSTEIN
In Einstein's defense, English was his second language. It's therefore easy to understand why spelling and grammatical errors in his works were a constant source of frustration to the physicist. “I cannot write in English,” he wrote to a friend, “because of the treacherous spelling.”
7. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hemingway seemed to have difficulty with p

September 23, 2023

Vitamins that show protection from Covid and flue.

On my phone and can’t provide a link.
Go to promed and search vitamins D3 and K2.

September 18, 2023

Saw the CEO of GM a few days ago on tv.

She was almost in tears about how broke the company is. We need every dime to invest in new technologies and can’t afford raises for the workers.
My first thought was, how about you returning $20 million of that $28 million you got last year and wouldn’t that $500million you spent on stock buy backs last year been better spent on new technologies?
Cry me a river.

September 16, 2023

50 years ago, time flies

September 15, 2023

51 year member of UAW and

the local that is now walking the picket line.
Lots of memories of standing on Michigan Ave, in the cold, warming up around the burn barrel. All of those car driving by giving us a honk. Some folks stopping by with a box of donuts for us. Can’t tell you how much that would raise our spirits.
I retired from my job, with a defined pension over 21 years ago.
No more retirement like I had. Still the same pay rate I had back then.
Companies have record profits this year and can afford massive stock buy backs that benefit large stock holders, like CEOs. All while the workers are stuck with 2002 compensation. How much have the prices of cars gone up in that time?

If you happen to drive by a picket line, at least honk your horn and pump a fist. Drop off some food and encouragement.

September 2, 2023

Very lucky today.

Was not going to stop at any yard sales today, but I need a guitar cord. It’s for a guitar and small amp I want to put in the booth. They are not cheap at the music store.
Stopped at one about a mile from home and noticed he had lots of drum equipment out. So I ask if he might have a cheap guitar cord.
Said he thought he might have one in the attic of the garage. Sure enough he found a bag that had 3 of them. I asked how much for all 3 and he said $15. I took them all. One to make the set, one to put away in case I need one and another one to sell for $15 in the show case.
It pays to ask.

August 30, 2023

Wife got a call from her daughter yesterday

and she had a great story about her granddaughter’s husband who was working in a small factory and got cut at work. With a work injury, a drug test is required. He flunked the cannabis part. Boss told him he had to take 2 weeks off, go to rehab and then pee clean.
He told them to forget it he is quitting.
Boss came back and said he is a really good worker, so they have now changed the policy. He can stay and use from now on.
Got to love it, change taking place.

August 29, 2023

Any violin players know the trick

to help tuner pegs stick a little better?Wife has a couple of them that the pegs are slipping and don’t hold.
Thanks

August 27, 2023

I didn't know humming birds eat

lots of insects.

August 24, 2023

Our little humming bird is

loading up at the feeder for its long flight south.