June 28th, 2025
“ Dobroho ranku”, or “Good Morning!” in Ukrainian, is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Ukraine. The UJT will remain focused on Ukraine until we can all rejoice at the end of hostilities. It has been 2,146 days since Russia invaded Ukraine.
This week, I learned some stuff:
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- Generally speaking, I have only good things to say about having a regular exercise regime. I feel better I sleep better, but there can be an occasional twinge where I’ve used the machines a little too hard. I’m making progress on my workouts, adding more weight and more resistance.
- Our pond keeps giving us some challenges. We haven’t got the secreting yet on it. We had to fill the pond twice this week because we had a leak in the waterfall. But I think we’ve got it sorted now.
- As a hob around my yard with Skippy, my cane and the rest of the world for that manner I really miss my body. You know the one that was pretty thin and flexible and painless. Sometimes I can spend a few minutes recovering my breath remember remembering how agile used to be.
- I need to do something about my grass. It still looks like crap even though I receded and fertilize a lot of stuff. I just can’t seem to get it to be happy.
- You can find out all about today’s history here
This week’s Website Update:
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- I I had a frozen ham bone that looked a lot like a rack of baby back ribs that I defrosted this week. There’s a happy accident because I used the hambone to make a version of the Black Eyed Peas recipe. I gave you guys after the first year that tasted so good. If you have a hambone and hanging around, I know what to .
- The Home Page quote this week is from Elbert Hubbard: “Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive.”.
Bonsai Tree and Stained Glass, Update:
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- Last week, I said I was restarting my Stained Glass project… I lied. Maybe this week. I did prune and rewired my old Fcus bonsai tree that I’ve been training for 15 years or so.
Weird-Stuff-O-Meter:
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- Today I have a doctors appointment with my eye doctor. This is where we document the decline in my ability to see. I’m not sure what happens when I get to the finish line and I’m totally blind, but I hope it’s good. Perhaps a cake or cupcake or kick back from the government. Anything is possible. In the meantime, I’m learning more things every day about the tools around me. They’re incredibly effective, but they have an interesting side effect. For example, my Apple Watch will talk to me. It’ll tell me all the things that I want to know like the time, the humidity or the temperature things like that it’ll also walk me through how to select applications from the list of applications on it, and of course, Mickey tells me the time every time I touch the face of the watch. The downside of all that help is at night. I know there’s a way to turn it off at night but haven’t figured that part out yet so it’s not all that unusual that you would tell me it’s 302 or that the humidity is 60% in Chula Vista at four in the morning. You get the idea. Sometimes when my watch has been. Distracted I will get 13 notifications of texts and emails anyway with all the help. I’m doing fine and I’m learning a lot.
This week’s UJT Radio Program:
This week let’s continue with the artists under the “S” category.
- Simon and Garfunkel — The Sound of Silence — This it’s another one of those anthem songs I’ve mentioned before. When it first came out, the effect was quite profound. People would stop talking and listen carefully. The song came out in 1964. It was released on their “Wednesday morning 3 AM” album.
- Simon and Garfunkel — For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Live)—Trying to pick a favorite Simon & Garfunkel song is almost an impossible task. This is clearly one of my favorites. I love the imagery in the harmonies. It was originally religion 1966 as the B side of their single “hazy days of summer”. This is a live version that was really still one of their best of albums in 1999.
- Sinead O’Connor —Nothing Compares 2 U — For most of us, Sinead was a controversial, Irish woman who put out an absolutely fabulous one hit wonder. She released other music, but nothing achieved the fame of this song. This song was released on her, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” album released in 1990.
- Sister Hazel — All for You (Full Band Version) — there’s something I’d catch you about this song that grabs me and won’t let me go. It was released on their, “Somewhere More Familiar” released in 1997.
- Sly and the Family Stone. — Hot Fun in the Summertime — this is a favorite song we’d have on the radio turnedall the way up driving around South Florida and my friend Dino’s golden GTO. It was released as a single in 1969.
- Snow White —Journey, Pt. 1 & 2—tThis is one of those pieces of music that not many people are here but they should I have no idea how I found out about this song this music. I can find the information on Snow White other than the 1937 Disney release the iTunes information about this song says it is from, “The Best Of Snowy White (Remastered)” released in 2010.
- Soundgarden — Black hole, Sun —my son Shawn was the first one to turn me onto these guys, but I really enjoyed the music for a long time now. This came from, “Superunknown (20th Anniversary)” released in 1994.
That’s it… Do the best you can; Laugh every chance you get; Always remember… The best is yet to come! As always, thank you for being my friend!