Safetogototown

  I am involved with our local church.  In retirement I spend time doing odd jobs around the grounds and building.  I have done mostly gardening work in the summer.  During the winter I have been busy with drywall repairs.  In retirement the time spent there has been quite fulfilling.  However the church I belong to is part of the United Methodist Church.  The United Methodist Church is presently going through a debate resulting in many local churches deciding to disaffiliate from the world wide UMC. Technically what the UMC is going through is called a  schism  .  I guess everything needs a fancy word.  It is no secret as to the major issue in the debate.  The issue is the acceptance or rejection of same sex marriages.  One side of the debate wants to accept same sex couples and one side wants to reject them.  To me this one way to make a decision, boil it down to its simplest terms.  From the simplest terms I c...

  How do we decide whether or not our decision was good?  Sometimes it is quite obvious.  I invested in company X and lost a million dollars.  Lets call that a bad decision.  I invested in another company and made a million dollars.  I would call that good.  However you find out that a friend invested the same amount in a third company and made 2 million dollars.  Or I did not invest in anything and held on to my money.  A safe decision maybe.  Now what do we think about our original decision?  Making a healthy return is good but most of us would agree that "healthier" is better.  Using the previous example a 2 million dollar return would have been a better decision than one that lead to a 1 million dollar return.  I started thinking about this while watching news and analysis regarding the overall effectiveness of the United States covid response. The debate went like this.  On participant laid out the negative affec...

  I have been on a holiday hiatus the past 2 weeks and have enjoyed every minute of it.  These past 2 weeks flew by.  We took a cross country trip to visit one set of Grandchildren for Christmas.  Any time with the Grandkiddos seems to go by quickly.  We had a wonderful time and Santa Clause was good to all of us.  I got a new Cowboy hat!!! I thought I would write about the information that is used on a trip like this and the decisions we had to make before and during the trip.  Poor decisions during a trip like this should not be taken lightly.  A bad experience travelling can set an unhappy mood for the entire trip.  Lets face it the holidays are crazy enough.  The goal is to have a safe and pleasant trip, a nice visit and a safe return home. With that goal in mind the first decision is the mode of transportation.  The only two viable options were drive or fly.  So what to choose?  Using logic some of the factors to cons...