ARE YOU DEAD?

Are You Dead?, also known by its English name Demumu, is a Chinese application designed for people living alone. It requires setting up one emergency contact and sends automatic notifications if the user has not checked in via the app for consecutive days. It was released on the App Store on 10 June 2025. In early January 2026, the application gained popularity due to its name and the issue of safety for people living alone, and ranked high on the list of paid applications in the Chinese region of the Apple App Store before being removed. (WIKIPEDIA)

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES!

Largely unknown to many but a very small circle of close friends, I am known as The Man Of A Thousand Faces. Here are four of them. The remaining 996 faces will be revealed sometime during the next 20 or 30 years. I'll keep you posted!

Am I Inactive?

I have always been inactive in life but why wait until now to remove me?

OUR FIRST EARTHQUAKE OF 2026!

The first earth tremor of 2026 hit our region at about 7:59 AM today. 6.5 magnitude. No big deal. 

I've grown accustomed to these telluric movements since I felt my first one back in 1957!

NEW YEAR WISH!

                                                             As you get older, this happens a lot!

THE ANNUAL GRUMPY OLD MEN REUNION!

It's almost the end of the year so, as it always does at this time, the Grumpy Old Men Club held its annual reunion at a park bench to bid farewell to 2025 where, after much discussion and heated arguments, we decided to hold next year's meetings someplace other than a park bench. The reason? We've been bothered too much by all the damned pigeons hanging around looking for crumbs!

Hallelujah! Christmas Time is Here!

  MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

TWO SHADES OF GRINCH

Yes! Don't get me wrong.  I enthusiastically love Christmas but there's another side to the Yuletide Season I just simply hate...and that is the crowds at department stores, the long, long lines at cashiers, the prices being hiked up on everything and the fact that it's all over, done with and gone so quickly.  Still, unlike the Grinch, I have never, ever hated Christmas. 

CHRISTMAS 2025 WISH LIST!

I have compiled a very exhaustive and thorough list of great gifts I would like to receive on this Christmas Season. And if past history serves as a guide, I know very well my list will be ignored as it typically has been the case for the last 70 plus years...but who cares! It's always a delightful exercise to think about all those lovely girls I know I'll never meet!

A CHRISTMAS MEMORIES REVIEW

ACTING! (The Christmas Sweater Performance)

Christmas is the season for gifting and receiving...and Yuletide themed sweaters are among the top favorite gifts exchanged between family and friends. If you are a good actor, you will wear your Xmas sweater with phony but very convincing pride!

The Christmas Tree Squirrel

ELF ON THE CLARINET!

Apparently, the Elf on the Shelf has no taste in music!

DECEMBER!

                                                 The Season to be jolly, all over again!

Finally, I've become a NOBEL PRIZE Winner!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY 2025!

ACTING! - WHEN YOU LOOK AT CLEAVAGE!

 

            “Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.” ― Jerry Seinfeld

WHEN YOU'RE GROUCHY, YOU'RE GROUCHY!

...and of course, I next bumped into the store window glass!

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NEIGHBORS!

 

I don't get it! If people know they have neighbors downstairs...why don't they try to be less noisy, especially at night?  ANSWER: People are basically stupid! 

Am I beginning to sound like a grumpy old man?  ANSWER: You betcha!

ATTACK OF THE KILLER PUMPKINHEAD