Miscellany from a hiatus

*I really miss this joint.
*I hate contrived encores at concerts. Honestly, if you know you are going to play six more songs, just play the sums'o'bitches. If you were that good, then you deserve your encores. Don't make me beg for the set you were going to do anyway.
*If you shoot a moderately powerful gun at a tornado, would the bullet go through the funnel or get caught up and become just another piece of debris?
*Speaking of tornados, the center of one is a neon green color, not a glorious blue sky as portrayed in the movie "Twister". (Source: A Weather Channel show on the Siren, WI tornado).
*I must admit, I don't get/appreciate music near well enough. I took the lovely Mrs. Jib and her sister to a concert in Minnesota. Some attendees seemed to get a primal pleasure from the music. Meanwhile, I was just pissed about the contrived encores.
*A man spends the first 18 years of his life learning what his body is capable of on a ball diamond. He spends the next 12 years taking great pleasure from what that body can do. After that, he must learn the new limitations the body places on him every year.
*The controversy over the Scooter Libby commutation is proof to me that politics is the undeclared national pastime of this country. What a stupid thing to get angry over.
*It is sometimes nice to ignore politics for a week. I highly recommend that everyone try it occasionally.
*The comedy channels on satellite radio are highly addictive until you have every major comedians' act memorized.
*I was at the Mall of America this past week, and I had a chance to do a lot of thinking, seeing that I wasn't really shopping. When young people go to the mall, they dress to be seen. That's fair, since the mall is as much about seeing and being seen as it is about shopping for that age group. At some age people stop looking at you, though. And if they do look at you, it is probably because of an unfortunately placed stain or because you no longer care enough to correctly match you clothing.
*Marriage is the number one cause of mismatched clothing.
*Clumsiness due to age is the number one cause of unfortunately placed stains.
*Cleaning unfortunately placed stains will only make you look like you peed yourself a bit. Live with the stain.
*I know none of this from experience (*wink*).
*Minnesota music fans are just as half-assed as Minnesota sports fans.
*A $6 beer is occasionally worth every penny.
*Wisconsin is now apparently the Beirut of fireworks. The lovely Mrs. Jib commented last week on how few fireworks we had heard so far this year. Then dusk came on July 4th. Who needs commercial fireworks displays when your neighborhood sounds like Normandy?
*If you are ever sitting alone in your dark, older, creaky house and your cat suddenly sees something that you don't and takes off running at full sprint, you'll begin to understand why some cultures eat the little ghost whispering buggers.
*I miss this joint.