Monty by Jim Meddick for June 08, 2024

Lima, Ohio used to bill itself as America’s speed trap. I wonder if they still celebrate it?

Poor Monty. He’s floored.

Those Ancestry people recently notified me of some updates on my DNA. Somehow they know I am more likely to enjoy naps and not very likely to enjoy dancing. I want to know how evolution has impressed those traits on my genes!

Now to scrape the linoleum tiles off the fridge. Or not.

After getting the DNA test, I didn’t buy any other “Ancestry” products, but they still send me teasers from time to time. They sent me one which they appeared to be claiming was a photo of my great grandfather at work in 1913. But when you read more carefully, it was apparently just a generic photo of people working in that year. They had a similar one of one of my great grandmothers.

I know that the great grandparents in question had a mom and pop grocery store, but I don’t think they invented anything.

Just find someone you relate to in whatever way you want and identify as that.

Lima Ohio is where the M-1 Abrams tank is made

Don’t you know it’s a turned down day

Those DNA tests can produce some interesting results. My wife did it a few years ago and she discovered a nephew that no one knew existed. I did it and then helped two cousins connect with children who had been given up for adoption because of the parents were teenagers at the time. Some real surprises, I can tell you.

My grandfather and my brother were both worshipful masters of their masonic lodges. My brother, at the same lodge as Harry Truman.

I wonder if theres a John Boy in that tree ?

Those are some pretty lodge shoes to fill.

Oh well at least the ’fridge looks cool and unique.

I will be glad to see the backside of this linoleum saga. Maybe linoleum will make a comeback to replace plastic/vinyl since it is made with natural materials.