Bart "J.B." Hopkins's Blog, page 3

Stop!

I think the real question this image creates for us all is whether the woman behind Rishi Sunak intends to take a large bite out of the back of his head.

boom

It's the sound a bomb makes. It's also what I say when I hit "post" on these blog entries.

I skipped #355

​Random thoughts today. The years are starting to take a toll on my body. I need more recuperation time, but I am getting less. I need to magic up some time to exercise. Sitting on the curb isn’t as easy or fun as it used to be. It’s harder to get up. Are they making the concrete harder these days?
 
Maybe the two or three of you that read these ramblings can commiserate.

New Suit

Yesterday, I went shopping for a new suit. Right away I noticed that my favorite brand, Kenneth Cole, was on sale, half off. Fortune was favoring me.

I took one of the blazers off the rack and tried it on, but I needed the next size up. I slid the hangers back and forth, looking, but they didn’t have a 48 Regular, so I grabbed the 46R and took it to the cashier to ask if they had one in back.

When I handed her the coat she narrowed her eyes, pursed her lips, and silently sized me up.
“You realize this suit is a slim?”

There was a pregnant silence. “Yes,” I replied. “That’s why I am asking for the next size up from my normal 46R … to balance out the difference.”
She looked doubtful, but turned to her computer and hit some keys. Nope, they didn’t have that size.

So, I bought a Ralph Lauren instead. Classic fit - not slim.

2012

Ten years ago I created my website and blog. Ten days ago I broke my website and accidentally deleted my blog files. Or, more accurately, I thought I had backed them up, but the backup failed. So here we are.

Blog entries prior to today were those of which I had record, thanks to email or some other source. I have reentered it just for kicks.

​Everyone has a plan until they get punched.

Life is a test

I learned the other day that it is, indeed, possible to break a website. Specifically, my blog. And while my web hosting service offered so graciously to restore the site to a previous state for an obnoxious fee, I decided to just let it go.

And here we are. I'm trying out Weebly to see what the blogging is like on this platform.

​Stay tuned for more random thoughts.

Looking Around

Have you ever looked around and considered the insanity of the things humans have created? I’m talking about microwaves, airplanes, radios, skyscrapers, cell phones, computers, submarines, electric razors, all things electric, sunglasses, space shuttles, and a thousand other things we casually walk by and use every day without giving it a second thought. Yes, you […]

looking around

Have you ever looked around and considered the insanity of the things humans have created? I’m talking about microwaves, airplanes, radios, skyscrapers, cell phones, computers, submarines, electric razors, all things electric, sunglasses, space shuttles, and a thousand other things we casually walk by and use every day without giving it a second thought. Yes, you can quote a text, or laws of physics, or whatever, but how did we get from grunting to knowing how to leave Earth? Seems like utter lunacy. They’d have burned us at the stake 500 years ago for just a whisper of these things.

Winter

What if we just didn’t have winter this year in Texas? Seems plausible. So tired of baking in the heat every day…

winter

​What if we just didn’t have winter this year in Texas? Seems plausible. 

So tired of baking in the heat every day…