Big Business

I just realized how many skin care commercials are on televisions now. I think it would be interesting to find out what percentage of advertising is done by skin care companies. It seems that every program includes one for an acne treatment, an aging skin cream, or one to treat dark circles. There must be a lot of money to be made in the beauty and skin care industry.

The Tourists Have Arrived

I don't have to look at the calendar to know what time of year it is. Around here, you can judge things by the number of tourists and who they are. As of last week, I know it is summer. All of the families with children have started showing up in droves. I'm not complaining. The local economy is based on tourist. Many were scared that there wouldn't be any this year and the locals would suffer. It looks like they were wrong. All of the makers of diet pills and swim suits should be happy as well. A trip to the beach usually involved those two things.

Throw It Back

We live on the gulf coast of Florida. My husband loves to fish and goes out quite frequently. We are surrounded by military bases and they do bombing runs in the gulf. Areas of it are off limits because of that, but everyone knows that things sometimes go astray. I am always kidding him and telling him to be careful what he catches and not to get blown up.

I just read when a fisherman here caught a live air to air missile. He not only caught it, he kept it on his boat for 10 days. When he finally reported it, the military blew it up because it was too unstable to transport. WTH was he thinking???