--ALL THESE EMPTY PLANS, THE HEAT STAINS ON MY HANDS

 

…What a treat to wake up this morning and find in my email a note from Bill Gates saying that he had randomly picked ten people to donate $5 million each to.  Apparently Bill is near death and can’t spell for shit.  I wonder how many people actually react to these scams.  There must be some.

…It’s raining sheets outside, but at least the weekend storm passed without much damage.

…Here are some very random things I learned last week that you may or may not already know:

-One in six people actually had a harder time parting with their car than ending their first relationship

-There are over 7,100 islands in the Philippines

-Cats sleep over half their lifetime while a giraffe sleeps less than an hour a day

-Every day 580 people try heroin for the first time

-There were more than 1,000 accidental shootings involving children aged 17 and younger from January 2014-June 2016

-Paris is the most visited city in the world and France is the most visited country in the world

-Singapore is the number one desirable location for Americans to move abroad (that surprised me)

-The last issue of Rolling Stone magazine was 52 pages, its fewest ever