Great to have you on board this week.
Like I said earlier it’s like getting your car out of the shop when it’s been in for two weeks. I never have had the same amount of recalcitrant response from a couple of the ‘recalcitrant ISP’ crowd… and hope not to have it again. But it may happen and I’m finding out that though I’ve been buying and using (or stumbling around with) computers for more than thirty years now – there are still things I have no idea why they work (or more likely why they *don’t* work) and so I must depend upon my grandsons who are not always available to pull me out of the computer morass.
Well…I’ll learn someday. I want to get good enough to write sensibly and so people will want to read it – but right now I’m at the bottom of the pit of accomplishment and will have to cut new steps in the cave wall to get out I suppose. In any case… griping about it does not get the job done! That much I know… and getting back in the groove somehow is not beyond capability if I can just reign in my exasperation at the failures I experience. (I couldn’t have safely piloted a plane like this… computers ARE CONQUERABLE! – I think!)
But we’re in the middle of a presidential campaign and I think it’s important to be able to communicate well in these troublous times. So bear with me if you can.
I’ve mentioned it before – but for your interest I’ll say again that I do think a source of information that’s pretty accurate and doesn’t cost you an arm or leg (or anything so far) is the Rasmussen Reports – that are posted daily around 9:30 AM and turn out to be pretty accurate for a couple of reasons. [www.rasmussenreports.com]
First they are surveying (in most instances or questions) *likely* voters. Rather than just picking out a randomized sample by age gender and I would guess location. In checking the results predicted with the actual results themselves… they come closer than the news organizations etc. because biases creep in there and distort the outcome. They also vary day by day – but don’t seem to take the wild sweeps that happen to other polling businesses…and I can’t always figure those out either. I think it has something to do with who is paying for the poll and what for.
Well. Better get ready for the rest of the week. And we still have the conventions ahead of us – which I don’t see as swinging wildly from left to right etc. They are more like streams that continue to flow in line with rainfall and gradients etc. So… be patient and don’t do what I have often done – let my enthusiasm get in the way of seeing what’s really happening.
OK… almost the witching hour… got to get on with life as it is not as I might wish it to be.
Best to you all…Remember HE has said “I will never leave you nor forsake you!” That is predicated on trusting in HIM. If you want that unpacked or examined I’ll be glad to discuss it with you as you wish.
All the best… IN HIM
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
NOBODY SAID IT WOULD BE EASY – DIG IN
Homer: Jist a Minit: Mr. Jack – Hit’s ‘bout time we
tooken a break ain’t hit?
Mizp: Homer, Ah ain’t heered you make ‘smany
Mistakes at one time.
Homer: Oh – sorry Miz Pearl… I shunt have said
tooken shood I have?
MizP: Well I’s glad you kerrected hit.
Jack: Miz Pearl… it might be better if you talked
to Homer about that privately.
MizP: Oh yes …you’s rite Mr. Jack – Ah’m sorry
fer speakin’ out Homer. Hit jist grates on me…
Homer: At’s awl rite Miz Pearl… I wants ta do better
An maybe you kin teach me sum more.
Jack: I’m glad you’re being courteous Homer.
BB: At’s th’ gemun in you Homer. Very good.
MizP: An now if’n we cud git th whole crowd…
BB: Ta speak better – at’d be grate.
Jack: It would Mr. Bill…politeness is never …
MizP: Never outta style Ah always says…
Jack: And that’s good for the politicos too.
Homer: Ah shore thank so too Mr. Jack.
Jack: You don’t have to be mean or cranky to …
MizP: …to gitcher pint acrost Ah say…
Homer: And that’s sumpin you cud teach th’…
MizP: Thuh TV peepul Ah say… you’s rite.
BB: Homer’s allus rite on those thangs Miz P…
Jack: I’ll agree with you there.
BB: Ah cain’t stand hit when they’s three er
fouwah fowks tawkin all at once…
Homer: Right Mr. Beelie….jist irriatatin as awl
git out Ah thank.
MizP: An a bad eggzample ta’ th’ chirrin’ too…
Jack: Excellent and we can take the Road Less
Traveled , right?
BB: Whut awl does at mean.
Jack: Well we’ll talk about it next week. OK?
MizP: OK By me…Ah’ll expeck hit then.
Jack: And I’ll try to remember it then – so
See you next Wednesday – I’m Jack Buttram.(End) Jebco Editorial Service
E-mail n4zhk@arrl.net
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