When you turn 50 you receive your AARP card (American Association of Retired People) even though most don't have prayer of retiring for another decade and half or more. When you turn 60 and are a male you receive your AGOM card (Association of Grumpy Old Men) which allows you to be a curmudgeon about just about everything.
Today's rant will be about fragrances, specifically those in soaps, shampoos and other assorted toiletries. At the hotel I stayed in the last couple of days they had an oatmeal soap bar - with little bits of oat chaff in the bar just to show you that it was the real thing I guess. I don't know about you but getting little bits of oats up my orifices isn't my idea of getting clean. Then there was the shampoo. It was lavender. I've run across various citrus, berries, wheat, and miscellaneous herbal fragrances. All I want to do is get clean and not smell like a Visagoth.
Short Stuff
Historical Trivia Question of the Day (winner gets dinner cooked by Moi) - when was the last successful invasion of England and who was the monarch who led the invasion?
Housing Market Warning - The USA Today (which I only read when I'm in a hotel) today had an interesting article talking about the effect that the retirement of baby boomers over the next 20 years is going to have on the housing market. The basic theme was that there will be a a general and long term increase in housing sell offs as these people retire. That will lead to a long term situation where there are more houses on the market than there are buyers. Younger home owners should take this into account in their planning.
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Well, that's a prize worth trying for. The Englishman I live with said "There hasn't been a successful invasion in a very long time." His guess is William of Normandy in 1066 - I guess this will be a test of the English school system.
Well, it may depend on what you mean by "successful". The Jacobite invasion from Scotland in 1745 was successful, but he decided on his own accord to head back to Scotland.
Otherwise it would be the Revolution of 1688 by the crazy ass Dutch who overthrew King James II.
Thank you Wikipedia.
that must have been the last crazy Dutch dude. There are only super normal people left here now!
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