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I posted a rant or two a few months ago about the due diligence process I was going through in the process of selling my company. Well, the due diligence wrapped up around the first of June and we have been negotiating the contract for sale since then. It's done. Yesterday I spent at my lawyers office signing the 50 or so documents necessary to complete the sale. Sale closed and my money is on the wire. Just thought I'd post the concluding follow up. I'm drained. A little time to unwind, then to figure out the rest of my life.

It’s getting busier, we will be past here again before noon and then won’t be home until it’s all over tonight.

Her name is Maja for now. Her name is in the tradition of Inga and Ylva; Swedish female names. Couchson

Had breakfast for my brothers bday and my sisters wanted to go to a local antique mall. Sumbitch half of the stuff in the store was stuff I played with or used in my lifetime!?!? ? That was NOT an antique store, those have old stuf.....

Per recommendations from Smudge about what Hosmudge uses I sent back the other cameras and purchased a Moultrie M-50 (not M-50I). The first day/night of testing has been satisfying. Great advice. It seems to have a fast enough shutter.

Stopped at Byerly's (Lunds/Byerlys one of our upscale grocery stores)...I picked up some flour...and wanted something sweet. This was more expensive than a sweet treat but that is okay..no calories.. A new dishcloth

Yesterday on our way home after our bike ride, my wife and I stopped at a restaurant for lunch. Lunch special was fish and chips, and the deal was, after the meal, the manager would come over and flip a coin for a chance at a free meal. My wife wasn't lucky, but I was.

I work in a hospital that does a lot of high risk pregnancies / deliveries. That's a tiny part of what we do, we're a high end hospital, we don't do appendectomies, only high acuity cases. I often wonder are we really benefiting people. Sadly, not all babies are meant to live. We now have the technology to get them to birth, and the means to keep them alive, but there are often unintended consequences to these interventions.

Sounds like an Amish Paradise. Right, @JerrySTL?

I stopped at a store on my way to work yesterday and my purchases came to $9.86. I gave the clerk a $10 bill and then opened the change part of my purse to get a penny. He said not to worry about the penny because "nobody under 30 uses exact change anyway." Because I'm polite (us old folk were raised that way), I didn't point out that $10.01 isn't exact change. But then he continued ranting that nobody under 25 uses cash at all, and moreover, they don't know what flatware is. He proceeded to prove his point by asking a teenager standing with her Mom what flatware is, and the girl responded "flip flops?" At that point, I shouted at everyone to get off my lawn and left the store. So do you still use cash for small purchases, and if so, do you try to round up to avoid getting pennies in change?

The bog is at 2780 feet, pretty high for a bog. Its big claim to fame is the carnivorous pitcher plant.

Screw you BuffJim!!!

Party like it's 1699!

"...he died in dignity with a name, a full belly, and love." That dog checked out in better shape than a lot of us will.

Clip clop clip clop bang bang bang clip clop clip clop

We were early enough we got through ok. We will have more trouble on the way home.

You are going to do a drive-by of the Amish? BAD Longjohn!

Yeah, I like to get quarters back in change, so if the cost is $7.58, I hand over $8.08 (for example) and get the oddest looks from the younger cashiers.

I'll often times dig out correct change. It's what little old ladies in the Yoop do. I found out it's frowned upon in NYC. #tourist

Police cruisers have changed since the days of dad's Crown Vic.

You can take the cat. The boys need structure. This cat so far has defended herself pretty well against the other animals here. Couch

What's one more? A forum member's wife just let me know the cat might be their's. However, I might have to fly her down to Dallas once she is in fatter shape. Couch

Do you want some?

43 hot, humid, and hilly miles in just under 3 hours. One of the group hit a sharp rock that was in the middle of an otherwise smooth road and had a sidewall blowout. It was 3 miles from the finish so I got my car and drove back to pick him up. Two other riders stayed with him. That's an advantage of group rides.

As I was walking out of Popeyes Chicken,, I found this kitten under my car. I took her home and fed her. Now I need to find her a home. Couch

I am reading a fabulous book, The Happiness Hypothesis, but Jon Haidt. Right now he is covering how hospitals in the early days went a little too far in fighting germs and separated babies from their mothers to avoid infection, but many died due to lack of human contact. Then later a guy did the famous experiments with monkeys and fake wire or cloth mothers, and found they attached to the soft fake mothers. The author asks "How did science get it so wrong?" Good question! Similarly, Freud was basically full of shit, just sort of making things up. And lobotomies come to mind. Then there are the engineering failures, like the Tacoma Narrows bridge. I guess maybe the bottom line is it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature! I love this book because the author is trying to prove or disprove ancient wisdom with science. He said at first he thought Buddha would be his favourite philosopher, but experience is proving that the western bias for doing might not be as evil as Buddha thinks. The arthur also developed this metaphor of our brians as a rider on an elephant - the rider is the rational, slow thinking brian, and the elephant is the emotional fast thinking brian, so the rider is vastly outmatched but can tame the elephant with the right thinking. This fits with an article I just read in The Washington Post aboot people forgetting their kids in hot cars and the kids die. There the arthur talks aboot how our brians are claptrap contraptions with the new stuff just sort of piled on the top of the old lizard brians, so there is much evidence of malfeasance in the interaction between the two. Sigh - psychology seems like so much more fun than engineering.

Annual Amish school auction. A constant stream of buggies going past my house today. At least the pasture is dry, they open it up for parking if it isn’t too wet. I’ll try to remember to take pictures when we drive by.

Hot & humid here too. 29 miles on an early ride thru Detroit w/ 97 others

I posted it with you and @AirwickWithCheese in mind. Yes, the dog passes, but he received a lot of care late in his life. The girls channel has little to do with actual sailing, more about her free veterinary services.

I'm afraid to watch, I don't like sad things. The dog better be ok.

When you design a car only the Cat in the Hat would drive, profit margins are low.

Cleveland sucks. Couch

Good luck closing it.

The Mennonites that DP and I ride with are quite modern. They even wear Lycra bike shorts and colorful jerseys.

What I find strange is falling asleep in front of the TV, waking up a 3 am, and realizing the topic someone's speaking about on a TV show is the last thing I remember being discussed in a dream I just had.

I grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo.....and Rattlecan grew up in Waterloo County where historically and culturally Mennonites and Amish have been..as well as Germans. Not sure if forumites remember, but Rattlecan is from a long line of Mennonite family members. There were Old Order Mennonite family members on his side. My friend's husband's parents are Old Order Mennonite which even my friend (who wears a white net over her hair bun) and only dresses to her knee with dark pantyhose....had to get abit used to them. Some of her siblings intermarried with non-Mennonites. However several other sibs remain Mennonite. I grew up in Waterloo and many of the old street names ..and my classmates had German last names or last names that reflected Mennonite family heritage. When I moved to London, Ontario for university...I found the city very boring and too Anglo for me. I assumed everyone outside of K-W knew about Mennonites. I joke to my dearie with his beard and face profile, if we stuck a straw hat on him, he could pass for a Mennonite-German farmer. (Well, actually dearie was a part-time farmer for 10 years..with pigs, cows, etc.)

But they still don't have sex standing up!

He can still take a pic of the Amish parking lot!

As you can see, womaxx's critter restaurant is busy as usual They seem to have knocked over the table sometime during the day however.

Dearie saw lazy slow bike rider who seemed abit sloppy on his cruiser. Suddenly in a flash, the guy ripped on fast on his ..cruiser bike in the cycle track. He wore an radio earpiece in his ear... Dearie could tell the guy was actually very competent on his bike.. He figures it was an undercover cop. This was in Metro Vancouver a few years ago. This happens...where I don't even learn of this stuff until several yrs. later.

It is 2:33am here. Good Morning All.

I'm guessing they (kzoo and these chicks) both use gibberish.. we don't understand him more or less don't care what they are saying... I could be wrong... Anyway... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

But I’m out on the lake. I listened to the weather experts yesterday and missed a beautiful day. They are calling for more thunderstorms today. I think this might be the last year for this favorite tree. It’s been standing in the lake for almost fifty years since they built the dam.

This part of the lake is often referred to as “up in the stumps” I don’t know why?

@Longjohnmissed his calling!

I'm thinking she found a home Lucky kitten

"Do we still get it?"

This in part. Many "SUV's" aren't SUV's, they are camouflaged cars, especially crossovers. Several SUV's and crossovers don't even have 4 wheel drive unless added as an upscale package. Crossovers by in large forgo the cross country capability by reducing the ground clearance in favor of more car like handling. Marketing has made the SUV label more acceptable than the soccer mom van label. So many single driver SUV's driving to work each day are simply a waste of the drivers time. Given the number of multi car families out there, a driveway full of SUV's makes no sense. For the very few who actually tow a boat more than twice a year (once to the water and once home) a single SUV or Truck makes sense. For the rest? Why? In the end, the most often heard answer (by me anyway) reverts to the sitting up high which then reverts to the turtled SUV in the median of the snow covered highway. And did I add that they increase an already bad drivers sense of invincibility?