Batsh*t-Bonkers?

Happy Saturday morning. You’re probably wondering why the title? And no, I am not going to start doing the daily UK’s Katie Hopkins’ delightful Batsh*t show from her perch in jolly-old Britain. But more later.

Now, back to normal it’s time for a morning coffee after Halloween, or maybe for Marcia I should say: Happy Cacao-Iloween for just this weekend – she loves hot chocolate. We did experience another first this year. The first year in many, many where we did not roam the neighborhood watching grandkids race around in costume. Time does pass doesn’t it?

Actually, it’s a bit nutty here at “The Corner of…blah, blah.” Thursday morning at 12:30am we had a power outage. Then I got a text that power would be restored by 4:40am. One hour later I received another one telling me that out of the 1967 ‘lucky’ in-the-dark customers all but 759 were still impacted. We, on ‘The’ corner of blah, blah, etc. were still in the dark. Then another text, power would be on by 5:15am. Apparently, our power did come back on five-ish.

OK, so building on all my Batsh*t-Bonkers (now to be referred to as just ‘B-B’) of nighttime fun, I had to reset several clocks. Always thinking, I dealt with the fact that tomorrow morning all those same clocks must be set back an hour (an event that too is ‘B-B’). In a brilliant move I ended up putting all those blinking clocks on the soon to be Sunday time.

This works great, except that now half our timepieces give one time and the on-line others another. I believe that Marcia has stuck her head around one corner or another umpteen times with the words; “now what time is it?” Was this move on my part a ‘B-B’ move?

Batsh*t-Bonkers 2 – is the lovely Chagrin Falls, Ohio annual Fall tradition referred to as “The Pumpkin Roll”. It’s an all night event otherwise I’d shoot on up. In any case enjoy these few minutes of ‘B-B’ seasonal fun:

Final Decoration pic – It’s been fairly strenuous, deciding on the final “best of” Halloween home decoration picture of the week for 2025. Keep in mind, the lucky winner was selected by me, came from houses I pass during my walks, and is completely subject to my subjectivity for this selection process.

I toyed with going for houses with the most decoration stuffed into the smallest yard. I quit that effort when I lost track of just how many bony fingers sticking out of the grass I could count. Then, another negative was the weather, two days of rain plus gusty winds meant that too often the massive inflatables had either blown over or purposely been deflated. I settled, again, on simplicity.

I love this winner’s décor. As a kid, would you walk a long dark drive towards a massive and imposing house only to be greeted by these two gatekeepers? As an aside, this is the house Adrianne’s best buddy since kindergarten, Gillian, grew up in, and Marcia and I have attended parties at. Maybe that last bit helped lock in my decision. Click on picture for full size.

Batsh*t-Bonkers 3 – Is the politics current in our city as managed by Mayor Aftab Pureval (think “Pure-Evil”). Finally, we’ve reached national status. We’re quickly placing ourselves alongside some other cities. To find the others, just grab the top contenders in an array of stats; crime rate, murder increase, carjackings, or in financial straits, don’t be choosy, pick any other undesirable category.

The latest is the firing of our Police Chief, Terri Theetge (who they made responsible to the City Manager who’s appointed by the mayor). This means that her work was overseen by a political group heavily entrenched with the DEI, WOKE, and Progressive twaddle of the day. This last bit is important.

As a career officer she rose through the ranks with nothing but positive reviews. Her parents, sibs, uncles are all in law enforcement. Personally, I don’t know her other than that she has a sterling background.

Anyway, crime in the core city areas is out of hand and aside from inept courts it’s also the ‘white glove’ treatment the ‘perps’ receive from the city.

All of this finally received National attention when a racially initiated brawl broke out downtown, and since neither the mayor or City Manager take any responsibly Chief Theege was quickly tossed under the bus.

And here is the problem – her record, is sterling! And is deemed so unanimously by the Fraternal Order of Police. So here is their ‘brilliant’ solution, she’s been put on paid leave (i.e. fired), a new ‘acting’ Chief appointed, and a Law Firm hired on the public’s dime.

Why hire a Law Firm you ask? The firm’s sole job is to discover cause for her firing! To a former neighbor and Past President of the NAACP this and much more is so bad that he is recomending that a Federal case be opened.

Let that sink in; first fire than find the crime for the firing! History comes full circle!

Quote – “give me the man, and I will find the crime“, or “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” The saying is commonly attributed to the Stalinist-era the secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, ? or possibly to Stalin himself by Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshinsky in his memoirs.

A Peppercorn for your house update – And here is Bulsh*t Bonkers 4 and it’s from the UK no less. Last week I focused a bit too much on all that ‘kingly’ stuff. Not to worry, this is just a quick update. It appears that King Charles has made up his mind and is booting his younger sib, Prince Andrew, out of the Royal Lodge and ‘disrobing’ the guy of his royal titles. There goes that sweet, single Peppercorn a year rent deal, and Andrew can now ‘display’ his new magical, invisible, royal robes.

I wonder if it’ll affect World peppercorn prices and if “Naked Emperor” comics will soon reappear?

Life is AMAZING!

Dirk

BONUS POINTS:

After splashing down southwest of Hawaii, completing man’s first moon landing, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins had to…………. (only one of these is correct)

1) “stay isolated in their capsule for 8 days”
2) “while still in their capsule used a scale to weigh their moon rock stash”
3) “drink a liquid diet for several days”
4) “complete a standard U.S. Customs form”
5) “use a dual engine GM highway bus to travel to Houston”
6) “flew from Hawaii to Houston on the Concorde dressed in isolation garments”