DATA OOOOPS

 11/21/25

Madison Alabama

Well  the OFM did a great job again. He got his head on backwards and inside out and thought he  was doing great. Nope, Old man Weather got him to paying better attention. The OFM had been operating on weather statements by others instead of checking it out himself. The OFM weather predictions were coming in rather wrong but he had a decent record of predicting general weather for areas he has traveled the last 17 years and staying out of trouble.

Here is where he messed up. The OFM had asked other locals what the distance was from here to the Gulf of Mexico coast, He got told it was a a little over a hundred miles. OK. But where he really screwed up was forgetting that the Gulf of Mexico has a huge curve in it and not checking a map. Yesterday he finally did the checking things himself and realized the error.  What he found is that instead of a little over a hundred  miles it turned into 600 miles.

So the curve of the coast went a lot farther south to get to Rockport than he recalled. As a result the OFM now knows that Madison Alabama is more like 600 miles farther north than he let himself be fooled into believing. Now that makes the weather here more reasonable to predict.  Where we are is at a latitude up into the lower panhandle of Texas. Now that far north is a whole different weather pattern.  So now I need to learn the weather winter patterns  for the cold country of  Madison Alabama instead of wonderful coastal Rockport Texas.(see the header picture) This was a really stupid mistake for a boon docker /explorer like the OFM. Now I plan to spend some time today to thinking like this area where it gets colder. Might even need to get a long sleeve shirt or two for winter here.

Keep warm and try to have tooooo much fun. OFM.

Not Much Happening

11/19/2025  

Madison, Alabama

Howdy again. Here is the big excitement this last week. My laundry got done today and it has been put away.  Now that is exciting in my life.

Things are going smoothly for the most part.  Painting pages from coloring books has been my daily chore for fun. And for rehab the lady has me doing all sorts of games requiring thinking. Good grief that hurts  my poor pea sized brain.

There you have all the excitement of the last week. Have a great time and keep smiling.

Good Night.

NEW COLORING BOOK

11/11/25

NEW BOOK

MADISON, ALABAMA

wow Did I get a big surprise today from the mailman.  A nice Christmas present came in from a reader/ friend. It was sent so as to be fun finding out who sent it. I think it is from a long time reader here in Texas. Sooner or later my DEMENTIAed head will figure out who but for now I will just enjoy it.

The gift is a very difficult coloring book that will have very challenging colorings to do.  THANK YOU FOR THE FANTASTIC GIFT MYSTERY READER.  It is a book named WINTER WISHES

A CHRISTMAS COLORING FANTASY

BY LYNN LANGMADE

It is about 40 of the highest level difficulty coloring pictures in the world. We are excited to get busy working on one of them. The OFM bets it will run close to two months to do one of the easy ones. But what beautiful art it will be when finished.  A real painter artist would maybe do the pictures justice.

Thanks again to the giver of the great present. Maybe I will find out who it is someday!

On the mind damage front, the therapist says I am making good progress and likely slowing my mind failure rate by a good bit.  After discussing my situation with her and then consulting the internet it appears I might have as much as five more years of somewhat functional mental abilities ahead. That means I need to get busy cramming stuff into the blog soon.  hmmm that could be a lot of fun, right. By then I will be 85 .  That sounds like nice piece of time to prove to the world I really am a knuckle headed fool, doesn't it? 

In the meantime everyone have tooooooo much fun please.

LATEST GUESSING

 MADISON, ALABAMA

11/3/2025

It is time for an update on my condition. It is not good. All the markers for my dementia are out in full force and I am on a normal path for one of the types of dementia to put me down in the next very few years.  For those who it might make a difference, let me guarantee you it is not a wonderful way to quit living. HOWEVER I have a not had average life. So do not cry for me but rather get busy and live your life to make me feel I have done very little. 

I moved in to here at HERITAGE on May 30 \2025 thinking why do I need to be here instead of a campground like  Point Mallard. Now I know the answer......I AM SICK.  But there is not time to cry over it all.  It is time to use every moment for living and laugh at the grim reaper as he trips on the rocks I leave on the path for him. he he he. So there is the future for me.

Next month I finally get a few moments of a doctors' time to see my future situation. It will be interesting to see what is coming at me in the next couple of years.

As far as here and now, I cannot safely drive anymore. My response times are way too slow for normal traffic and I do not want to cause anybody else injury. So I stumble along as best I can. Friends and family have been wonderful in accommodating me with my needs. Sorry I cannot bring you great adventures and exciting events any more but I am still trying to set up to show the world my ofm colorings.

So everyone get busy trying to have tooooo much fun. I AM.