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A Blogger's Drought

Almost an entire week and I could not find material.  To yam about.  Imagine that.  Might as well be under a rock.

Nothing noteworthy in the scheme of things or net new observations so this is merely a filler.  Part to ensure that my faculties are operational.

Let's recap what crossed my radar -


  • POTUS lost his tweet privileges for all of 11 minutes.
  • Desis celebrated Diwali in variety of manners suited to their belief systems (including religious, queuing up at temples, capitalist, facebooking, liking and in my case eating).
  • A General fell from grace aka General Electric or GE - a large industrial conglomerate and a publicly traded entity making everything from  jet engines to medical equipment to locomotives and founded by an Edison; hit all time lows trading on the stock exchange.  Apparently the chief knew not how to steer (but flew around like an Arab sheikh with two company jets).
  • Apple started selling Roman (not literally otherwise the Gauls would have had a picnic) as in the latest in their line of glass cases dubbed the iphone.  This time it is the 'X' on the tenth anniversary of the first iphone sale.   Cult members queued up at their temples.
  • Crazy people continued to kill others of their species for no apparent reason except what I would chalk up to being - crazy (and you like the Gauls thought only the Romans were?)
  • Lastly what might have been the season's first rain (light rainfall) streaked on through.

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