Country life is a good "un"

It has been a little over a year since my lovely bride and I moved to the country to enjoy the good life.  And it is a good life. We really are enjoying the quiet of being out of the big city as our four footed neighbors next door make very little noise, but there are a few things that still punch my buttons every so often.  One of them is that almost everyone up here will tell you to “have a good-un.”  Yes I would occasionally get that in Houston but not as much as here.

What I really want to say to these people is “Have a good what?” I don’t know what an “un” is. Do you want me to have a good day, a good time, a good life, a good idea, a good night sleep, a good day at work, a good morning, a good afternoon, a good lunch, a good rest, a good drive home, a good week-end or did you just mean to say good bye.

The state legislature in Connecticut is tying to pass legislation that will say that the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly an airplane.  They say that Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead was the first to fly. He is said to have made a flight in 1901 and the Wright Brothers didn’t get it up until 1903.  Wow the next thing you know people will be saying that Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America, oh wait he didn’t.  The Vikings made the trip over about five hundred years before Chris stumbled on to the Bahamas Or they will say that Marconi didn’t invent the radio.  Oh wait, he didn’t. Nikola Tesla did. How about that George W. Bush didn’t start a war?  Oh yeah. Did he ever.

I have noticed a number of gun nuts who refer to their guns rights as not only constitutional but God given.  So far I haven’t found anything in the Bible about guns. I am assuming guns must be mentioned in the book of Remington & Sons or Smith and Wesson.

Edward Snowden the person who leaked the NSA data has come forward.  He is an IT specialist for the C.I.A and NSA, but here is the good part. He didn’t graduate from high school; he spent 4 months in the Army reserve but didn’t complete any training and was discharged after getting hurt.  He says he was first hired at NSA as a security guard then promoted to a technology job with the C.I.A. He claims to have been a spy all his life and says he self identifies as a spook.  I would say he is just spooky. 



Stay tuned for future adventures.