OBSERVATIONS: Lessons Learned (re-learned or remembered) 2011

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First call to prayer at 4:18- not a bad way to start the day.

You have enough stuff: more friends is better (and remember to tell them how important they are while you can). Ol’ friends are sometimes the best… they know how far you’ve come/grown…

“It’s a Wonderful Life” or “A Christmas Carol” might be the best holiday movies ever made, but “Die Hard” isn’t bad…

When your physician tells you that you have a pre-arthritic condition it means you already have arthritis.

When you are on a dive vacation flight lay-over on the mainland be sure to have bug juice (and apply same).

People that generalize are ignorant (Oops…).

Get a professional to winterize your irrigation system (and obtain their guarantee in writing).

When eating mensef at a wedding use your right hand (put your left somewhere) 

The older you get the less likely it is that your thumbnail will work as well as a straight-slot screwdriver.

Just because it is categorized as non-fiction doesn’t mean that it is…

Some politicians won’t trust gov’t employees as they suspect all are “lazy & shiftless.” (see 5^th one above) BTW- Incumbents are the problem (as are those that vote for them).

Meme (L)

Even though your kid (or climbing partner) moves half-way across the country doesn’t mean they are off-the-books; it is also a good time to establish a FedEx account.

Removing your gold & diamonds from your safe deposit box and keeping it in the trunk of your unlocked car isn’t a good idea.

Stay away from Atlanta: they have zombies there.

“Climate Change” doesn’t mean it is going to be warmer where you live.

Way 2 much plastic floating around the Caribbean, and the Red Sea is cold in early May.

When they tell you at the theater box office that the movie is scratched, but they’ll provide a full refund during the first half-hour, you can be assured the film is fine for the first 31-minutes.

Sex & politics have been bed-partners since… way before Cleopatra…

When your local computer store starts selling fishing supplies too, it is time to move on.