03/28/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Understand some folks are waking up to discover a deposit from ‘Uncle Sam’ … Supposed to spend it, to help restart our economy … Hope it works…

My friends know I have been a huge sports fan and have been all my life … and occasionally they share an interesting tale, maybe a story they remember or an article related to the topic…

For many years, beginning in 1894 to the mid-50s, one of the biggest sporting events in North Carolina was … a baseball game. … Easter Monday baseball was a tradition unlike any other in the state. A recent article highlighted the rivalry … Wake Forest vs NC State. According to the article, one of the first meetings was on April 16, 1900, the Demon Deacs won 1-0. Future games were played before large crowds, in fact … one Charlotte sports writer wrote in 1988, “the General Assembly gave in to state employees who wanted to attend the … Easter Monday game” … Long time Secretary of State Thad Eure, then clerk of the N.C. House explained, “Everybody around the Capitol was raising h… about wanting to go”, a bill passed the Legislature on April 19,1935, just a couple of days before Easter making Easter Monday a holiday.

Long, interesting article and thanks Jim for sharing … direct from GODEACS.com website…

Speaking of sports … like everything else, all sporting events have been halted … Never dreamed that would happen … from high school spring sports to The Masters golf tournament … nothing…

COVID-19, just go away … forever and ever … I wish. Many are suffering, dying and I am complaining about no sports … sorry…

Stock market up yesterday … should be down today…

“Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that ‘Price is what you pay; value is what you get.’ Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.” Warren Buffett

“Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.” Dagobert D. Runes

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it’s always there.” Kay Boyle

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