Family First

I know.

You think I haven't written on my

Blog

because I was waiting for the outcome of this past election.

You think I am going to derive pleasure from the victory of

Joe Biden

over

Donald Trump.

Well yes,

I am.

And yes I did.

There is a long way to go from here though.

All the progress we have made as a

Nation

during the last 6 decades were reversed by 4 years of bigotry.

Okay,

I could go on & on about this subject but I want to emphasize that today is,

Family Comes First.

My daughter flew in from

Philadelphia

last week.

My grandson

and my daughter will be staying until this coming

Wednesday.

I just want to ask you to be patient with me until

Thursday.

I doubt I will be able to write again until then.

Maybe you could look at some of my older

Posts

on the

Blog Archive,

buy my e-novel

No Return Address,

read the 4 part series

Gentle Jim And Niagara Falls,

watch my

Music Videos,

Help Me Write The Experiment,

the 46 episodes of

The Man From Mars,

the 8 chapters of

Why Should I Die?,

True Life Stories,

The Hauenstein Philosophy,

Poetry,

or all my original stories on

Short Stories & Flash Fiction.

I hope you keep on reading

and I will see you

Thursday.

 This is,

Telling You To Spend As Much Time As You Can With Your Family

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family.”
- C. JoyBell C. -

 

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

 

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Election Day 2020

 It is a big day in the

United States.

It is

Election Day.

 

In this country,

 if you don't think it is important enough to use your right to vote,

to entice you,

they offer you

Free Donuts

and a sticker that reads

 I Voted

at the polling stations!

I know more people in this country are taking it seriously this time around

and the turnout should be the biggest in recent elections.

My question is,

Who Will You Vote For?

This is,

Predicting That If Pumpkin Face Loses

He Will Press The Button To Launch Nuclear Weapons To End The World

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
- Euripides -

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10 Proof or 5 Percent ABV

Hey, did you hear that Apple, the computer company, wants to develop their own autonomous cars? They have a huge problem to overcome. They are having trouble loading Windows!

I can't wait to see Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates in Heaven. Once he gives me the gate code, it will be the first time I live in a gated community!

If you have been reading this Blog over the years, you know that I was a musician for many years. And after all these years I still get recognized once in awhile. It is at Family Reunions, but I still get recognized!

The other day, I went to one of those fancy discounted Oriental massage parlors, hoping to get a "Happy Ending." It turned out to be self-serve!

 

When I first met my wife, she used to call me "The Drunken Master" because of all the beer I drank. When I look back now and think about all the money I spent on beer over the years, if I had that money today, think of all the beer I could buy!

  This is

Hoping You Had A Safe Halloween

TwoBuckHowie

And

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

- Benjamin Franklin -

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Eve Of Halloween

 Yes,

it is the day before

Halloween

when people who celebrate the

Day Of The Dead

begin the ritual of scaring themselves

and their loved ones,

with stories

and poetry of the macabre.

Trick-or-Treating has been cancelled in my neck of the woods due to

COVID-19,

so I plan on reading the

Raven

by

Edgar Allen Poe

out loud to my kids,

watching all the

Tree House Of Horror

episodes from the

Simpsons,

and covering my eyes when my kids put on the scariest flick they can find on

TV.

If you are like me,

reading terrifying stories

and poetry is far more entertaining to the mind then watching all the special effects

Hollywood

can cook up.

So,

for your weekend pleasure,

here are some links to frightful

Poems

and scary

Stories.

 

Poetry

*****

 Vegetarian Zombie

The Curse Of Being A Vampire

1800 Aussie Ghost Story

 

Stories

*****

A-L-I-V - A Short Story

Tic Toc Toc - A Horror Story 

The Refrigerator Hacker 

Kingfisher - A Flash Fiction Story 

And The Child They Love - A Flash Fiction Story 

Did It Hear Me - A Flash Fiction Story 

21st Century Way of Talking to the Dead 

 

This is,

There Is Plenty More Where That Came From Under The Headings Of Poetry And Short Stories & Flash Fiction

Jim Hauenstein

 

And,

 

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog,  adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg, and owlet's wing.
For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
- William Shakespeare -

 

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Calculating My Travel Time

This is a post I wrote in 2015

and I feel it is worth repeating here since it has two story lines that I really enjoy.

Space & Humor.

*****

Have you heard?

"A team of astronomers has spotted three exoplanets orbiting around the same star – Wolf 1061 – one of which is in the habitable zone." by Natali Anderson for Sci-News.com. "Wolf 1061 is a red dwarf star located in the constellation Ophiuchus, only 14 light-years from Earth."

Only

14 light-years

away!

Do you know what that means?

Here,

let me get my abacus out.

OK,

  if light travels 300,000 kilometers

or 186,000 miles per second,

and there are 60 seconds in a minute.....

 Let me get my slide rule out.

Sixty seconds in a minute,

60 minutes in an hour,

and there are 24 hours in a day.....

I never did learn how to use this thing!

 I need a number two pencil

and some scrap paper.

  If light travels 300,000 kilometers

or 186,000 miles per second,

we have 60 seconds per minute,

60 minutes per hour,

and 24 hours in a day........

This is why they put calculators on cell phones.

I'm going to use miles instead of kilometers in my calculations because I was born in a country which decided a long time ago to go against the grain of the rest of the World.

Again,

we have 186,000 miles per second,

and we have 60 seconds in a minute.

That will give me 11,160,000 miles so far.

Since we have 60 minutes in an hour,

and if we times that by 11,160,000,

it will give us 669,600,000 miles.

With that said,

we do have 24 hours in a day

and if we times that by 669,600,000 we will have 16,070,400,000 miles!

Since 2020 is a leap year we will have 366 days in this year

and I'll just times that by 16,070,400,00

and we'll get 5,881,766,400,000 miles!

Now we're getting somewhere.

Take 5,881,766,400,000 and times that by 14,

as in 14 light years away

and we'll end up with only

82,344,729,600,000 miles!

Only?

If I write it out,

it looks like

eighty-two trillion, three hundred forty-four billion, seven hundred twenty-nine million, six hundred thousand miles from Earth!!!!!!!!! 

OK,

I can live with that.

Now my  

Vespa Scooter

tops out at a whopping 70 miles an hour.

It will take me....

carry the one....... 

Hell, I don't know!

It will take me a long time dammit!

Wait,

I know!

If I buy a Harley.........

This is,

Hoping If I Hitch-Hike Outside The Kennedy Space Center An Astro-Nut Will Pick Me Up And Take Me Away

Jim Hauenstein

And,

“No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.” 

- Mary Roach -

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