Happy first Sunday of the New Year!

Joyous though I may feel, the weather is not the best this morning. The tune…..The weather outside is frightful applies. Cold!!!

I began this blog yesterday. Worked on it for about an hour again beginning at 2 this morning when I woke a bit. Back to it at 6 this morning. Temperature 63 degrees.

There is hope in sight. High today projected at 75.

The week ahead a disaster. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday not good. Tuesday 66-58, Wednesday 65-61, Thursday 64-62. When it is cold up north, it is cold in Key West. Not as bad. However bad if you are not accustomed. I have a small heater. A thin blanket. Could use some body heat. The one problem with being a divorced is not the lack of sex. It is the cold nights with no one lying next to you providing body warmth.

“January 6” tomorrow. A day that will be remembered in American history. The day when an insurrection occurred at the Capitol.

Note that Trump refers to January 6 as “a day of love,” labels the rioters as “patriots,” and repeatedly has promised to pardon some of those charged and convicted.

He also has promised retaliatory indictments. Expect Liz Cheney to be one of those indicted.

Many men and some women owe their daily shave to King Camp Gillette. He did not invent the razor, nor the safety razor, nor the concept of disposable blades. He was however the first to patent disposable blades. Gillette came upon something that would be used and thrown away so the customer had to keep coming back.

In its first year of trading in 1903, the Gillette Safety Razor Company sold 51 razors and 168 blades. By the end of 1904, it had produced 90,000 razors and 12,400,000 blades.

His concept simple. He sold the razors at a loss, made his profit on the blades. Turned him into a multimillionaire.

Gillette died in 1932 at the age of 77.

Today, the Gillette brand is owned by Proctor & Gamble. The Company purchased the business in 2005 for a staggering $57 billion.

Alcohol may be on the path cigarettes traveled. Most smoking to significantly fewer to like next to no one.

I wrote about the federal attack on alcohol yesterday. Comments coming in already. One humorous: “Drink now, before Trump screws that up too!” Could happen, Trump a non-drinker.

Strange things are happening. I Hop and Applebee’s will soon merge. Both restaurants will operate out of the same building. Two signs, 2 doors, but the same kitchen and cook.

Food sales experts expect the “combo” to do well.

When will it occur at the I Hop on North Roosevelt Boulevard?

Enjoy your Monday!

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