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Last night I saw him at a comedy club in Burbank called Flappers. The last time I had set foot in a comedy club was 2008 when I entered a comedy contest in Pasadena. I did not bring enough people with me to win, but I had a nice set and the manager invited me to come back for the next contest night. Having been a wannabe comic from 1992 through 1998, I am paradoxically kinda bored with standup comedy and I did not expect Dore's show to be more than chuckles.

Morning

Another busy week. Last calf successfully hit the ground running. No more birthing worries and late night checks until next year. Keep a magnet on the refrigerator with the message "Old Farmers never die, they just go off to the funny farm." Fresh set of challenges daily keeps the mind and body active.

$5K per Household?
A recent article from Really American notes that Representative Ro Khanna, during the session on the 29th April that Defense Secretary Hegseth had with the House Armed Services Committee (it lasted 6 hours, that session!), said that there are estimates that the war in Iran is costing each American household $5k. Hegseth said the overall cost is lower, $25 billion instead of $631 billion, but that is still $600 per household. Now, I think it needs to cost each American household $0. In other words, it needs to not be happening!

And, of course, this doesn't even include the costs of the sanctions, the gas/oil/diesel/wev costs, grocery costs, and everything else. So I wonder what the true cost of this Trump crap is? Really? It cost over 100$ to fill the gas tank of our Toyota Tacoma truck yesterday. 100$! And it was over 350$ to go to the grocery store to get 3 bags of groceries, cat litter, some soda pop and toilet paper! Gads!

Yep!

Spent the last 4 days up at the farm planting tomatoes and such. Did the first mow of the year. Took about 6 hrs, but I broke it up into three days. Used about 2 gallons of diesel fuel at almost 7 dollars a gallon.
Some of the family come up for the day on Saturday and Sunday, so spent some time playin' an fishin'.

Since (as Enhydra Lutis pointed out) this is Star Wars Day, May the 4th be with you, I thought I'd try to put Star Wars to bed here, at least for awhile.