A Favorite Blog -Thom

Today's Saying

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl



It is time to share with you another of my favorite blogs.
This is the thirteenth Thursday that I have done this so I needed to pick out a blogger to receive this dubious honor who laughs in the face of superstition. A person who is not bothered by black cats or ladders . So being the thirteenth on a Thursday will not bother him.
Thom's Place 4 Well Whatever

I almost didn't feature this blog because he has so many readers already that is highly likely that everybody that comes here goes there. But this being my thirteenth blog on favorites he seemed to be the best candidate.
His blog is different.
He remembers and celebrates all kinds of birthdays and events from other blogs.
He destroys memes with answers the meme creator never expected.
He gives out internet awards by the pail full.
He partipates in Raven's Challenge, Quilly's three words, Friday 55, and Portrait of Words. He provides the pictures for Portrait of Words every other time. In addition he enters into anything that comes along that strikes his fancy.
He shares family stories and pictures.
He drives a bus.
And I'm not sure I've even scratched the surface.
If you haven't visited him please do.

The group stared at Herman, stunned into silence as he had just given them the name of Eugene Lepisto as the one who could go to the old woman/witch and save them.
Finally Eino breaks the silence. “Eugene is one of the worst drunks in town. He goes on binges that last three and four days during which time he isn’t sober at all. He opens the Fly Inn in the morning and closes it at night. In the in between time he has his own bottle. I doubt that he is smart enough to lie to anybody, yet alone a witch.”
Herman , almost laughing, says “ That’s the beauty of it he won’t have to lie. In fact he won’t lie. He will tell her the truth. There will be no duplicity. There will be no performance.”
Eino glaring at Herman says “ You told me the truth would keep us here forever. Why would we want him to tell her the truth. Are you crazy?”
Herman laughing,” Your truth will keep us here. His truth will set us free and back home. You see Eino truth is what you believe it to be. If I really believe this town was brought here by a flying saucer. Then that would be my true story. If I really believed that I could take and pass a polygraph test in which that was one of the questions. Personal truth does not have to correspond to the physical world or real truth.”
Eino, now looking confused, “How is Eugene’s truth different from ours?”
Herman responded “ Eugene is a blank slate. We sober him up and we tell him any story we want of how we got here. He will believe it because he trusts us. He doesn’t know the other story because he was drunk during all of this. He is a blank slate. Further we tell him that we are running out of whiskey and only if we get back to 2009 will there be any. Then we explain that he needs to go to this nice old lady and tell her the story and our needs. We need to convince him that he is the only one that can do it without telling him why. Chief Ican needs to lock him up now as a public nuisance and keep him locked up until he is cold sober. While that is happening we need to develop a story to tell him.”
The first winner of yesterday's contest is the 1 st comment. That's what the random generator says.
And the 1 st comment was by :

Quilly
Now I need her book choice and address sent to me at
jlinna@new.rr.com
The second winner in yesterday's contest who gets to choose from the remaining four books is the 2 nd comment.
And the 2 nd comment was by
Boots
Now I need her book choice and address sent to me at
jlinna@new.rr.com
( Please send first and second choice and I will send the one Quilly doesn't choose.)
Congratulations to the winners.

I want to thank all those who took part in the contests. I will do this again sometime next year.

I did check the random generator and the next number generated was not three. Random numbers are random numbers and you never know what it will give you. But a 2 is just as random as all the others.