Oh nothing really just wanted to share

Thank you. Wouldn't it be great if that was the main topic of conversation for a few days ?

 

Gen. Marshall was to be given tactical control of ten atomic bombs, four for Kyushu and six for the Kanto Plain/Tokyo area. More were in the pipe line, at least three a month by October. Japan was on the verge of being bombed back to stone age.

 

The US was preparing for a long battle on Japan. So they were punching up production of their biggest bombs. The strategy was to drop a bomb on a tough nut and march our troops through the area fifteen minutes after the fires died down. (Shows we didn't know much, if anything, about fallout.)

The "one or two bombs" thing probably comes from the two bombs that had actually made it out to the Pacific but weren't used. They were expended trying to kill Gojira at Bikini.

 

Well, the six-page spread in the Mt. Pleasant Intelligencer for one.

 

Groves and Oppenheimer were photographed at Ground Zero the day after the Trinity test, so they weren't much worried about it.

 

Actually, the "shadows" were places where the light flash DIDN'T hit the ground, being blocked by people standing there. /quibble

 

With all this isolation I've been experiencing I've achieved an transcendental state of comprehension. It might just be the Scotch though.

 

I heard a hundred bagpipers playing the other day. I think the morphine had something to do with that.

 

I hope the next stimulus check gets here soon, my stock is rapidly depleting. Almost out of Gin and down to the last bottle of Whisky.
$1,200 ought to carry me through to the end of the year.

 

Oh yeah forgot to mention; just found out my son-in-law tested positive for Covid19 !

 

Ouch. I get checked every twelve hours. Evidently hospitals are full of sick people.

 

Talked to him and he says he's doing ok so far. Quarantine for two weeks. And the grandsons won't be going to school next week. One was going to remote learn anyway .Good thing as far as I'm concerned. I

Have you got someone to sneak in a bottle of beverage ?

 

Boss Lady has my ... Bible. She'll be by tomorrow.

 

Okay here's your laugh for the Day;

Staying inside the lines wasn't too much trouble but seeing the numbers was a real pain in the arse. Had to use a magnifying glass to do most of this. Which was okay since the whole idea was to leave this Earth for a few hours and concentrate on something besides all the ridiculousness. So for about a week, I transcended to another realm and gained yet more respect for anyone you can truly put paint on canvas and make it look like something.




The one on the left is a photograph (lighting sucks) of just another evening in Northern Minnesota.