Day: April 29, 2025

I believe in the estimated 4.54 billion years
that earth has existed
that other advanced civilization may have
have inhabited this planet millions of
years before our civilization.

I find it more than plausible and suspect
that someday science will confirm it.

Imagine what a find that would be.
Imagine if an advanced civilization or
civilizations had been buried deep in
the earth after the millions of years
and changes in and on the planet.

I would like to see that day come
before I die and I become buried
deep in time and eventually what
is left of me vanishes into the
earth and is forgotten just like
ancient civilizations
might have been.

Bob Boyd

Yeah, I know there’s quite a difference
between exceeding the speed limit
and putting chips on numbers on bingo cards.

But for me the restraints of a 55 miles
an hour speed limit is comparable to the
restraints of sitting at a table and putting
dinky chips on those cards.

Truth be known, I’d rather be driving
faster than 55 on an open highway
than sitting in a boxed in room mindlessly
putting chips on freakin’ bingo cards.

But if I get hard up and get so de lu lu
that I feel the need for one of those
so called “age appropriate” (hate
that expression) women in my
reclusive life, or if I became brain dead
enough, maybe I’d go play bingo for amore
or for something mentally challenging
to do.

Bob Boyd

But, kidding aside, I can see how for many people bingo provides a source of socialization. For seniors who are alone, it can add some time with people in their lives and probably be beneficial to their mental and physical wellbeing. I write that as someone who worked with the elderly for decades, and when I walked through the senior center of the nonprofit I worked at, I saw many old people having fun playing bingo.

Heard the slang word de lu lu for the first time today, had a feeling it meant cray cray.

Amazing how new slang words come and go and popular words and expressions too.

I can remember a time when cool things and cool people were heavy and something really amazing was outtasight, or it might have been far out.

I can remember visiting a guru in upstate New York and a young woman who sat next to him at his talks who always said – Excellent! Excellent! ad nauseum, as if the guru had given her that word as her parrot-like mantra. Squawk. Squawk.

And there was a time when bread that you put peanut butter on and even put cheese between the slices of it was considered currency.

For example, “Hey, Man, what’s happening? You got any bread to pay for the tickets to that Grateful Dead Concert?”

And speaking of bread, I recall how when toast became more than bread you heated up in a toaster. And believe me if you valued your reputation or your life, you didn’t want to be toast.

Now I always hear people talking about seeing things through a lens or having to unpack things like topics instead of luggage.

Do they need these lenses because they feel there’s a lack of mental acuity in the world?

And why go to the trouble of unpacking a topic when you can just talk about it? Why include that unnecessary baggage about it?

But in terms of all these slang words and popular expressions, I guess it just is what it is.

Later, time for me to split.

Bob Boyd