Happy Eggs are happy! Happy Monday was published and links had been shared on Facebook and Twitter. It was a little later than I usually have breakfast and as a I dropped two eggs in the pan I noticed this face smiling back at me. Obviously I ran to get my phone and take a pic. First the eggs were happy. Then the eggs were scrambled with shredded cheese. Then the eggs were a sandwich. The old saying is true: You are what you eat so then I was happy!

Norm MacDonald passed this week at the age of 61. This story got a lot of coverage and you probably saw it whether you were a fan or not. He fought a long and very private battle with cancer. You may have missed Bob Dole tweeting his condolences. Dole was 73 when he ran for president in 1996. MacDonald was only 37 when he was doing his Dole impression on Saturday Night Live. That was 25 years ago. “Bob Dole will miss Norm MacDonald” he tweeted this week at the age of 98.

Ed Asner passed at the end of August and I have just failed to mention him. What everyone else seems to remember is Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore Show but I was born in 1975, I’ve never seen that show. Carl in the Disney movie Up was not only voiced by Asner but the character seems to be very much modeled after him. That’s basically him in the cartoon. Elf has become annual holiday fare in our home and to me Ed Asner is Santa Claus. Listen, I already cry a little at the end when the sleigh takes off in Central Park. I won’t be able to watch it this year without thinking that Santa Claus is dead. Bob Newhart better hang in there or I won’t be able to watch it at all.

You can only bring one back. That’s what the caption to this said anyway. In this first place, Radio Shack isn’t gone. I mentioned a few weeks ago they keep appearing in my FB newsfeed trying to get me to buy a vintage boombox. They have around 500 or so stores across the United States. More importantly, if I was going to bring anything back it would be Pizza Hut. Not the glass store front “Wing Street” things they have now. No, I mean I would bring back the brick buildings with the red roofs, the large carpeted dining rooms with the booths and tables, the Pizza Hut stained glass light fixtures that now appear in the t.v. ads for the sake of nostalgia and the salad bar. I would bring back late 80’s/early 90’s Pizza Hut. This is where I want to go.

It’s that time of year again. The days are getting cooler, the nights are coming a little sooner and the frogs are trying to get inside. All summer long I never see any frogs where we live but every year about this time we find two or three looking for a good place to spend winter. This little guy is on the outside of our storm door. That was a tricky shot to get without a clear reflection of myself taking the picture. They usually end up in between the two doors, on the same glass but somehow on the inside not the outside.

This is the current state of vaccination for Covid-19. I keep hearing people say that the FDA rejected approving a booster shot. That’s not entirely true. An FDA panel that has been studying Pfizer’s data does not recommend the FDA approve a booster for fully vaccinated adults. The actual decision has not been made yet but will happen one day next week. They will probably follow the advice of the panel and not recommend a third dose for adults that have already had two. A booster for those at greatest risk was already approved back in August, they will just not recommend it for everyone. Seniors over age 65? Yes. And they may add healthcare professionals and teachers to the list of those at highest risk. This of course only applies only to the Pfizer vaccine. It has been shown to wane in effectiveness over time, more so than Moderna’s vaccine, while still providing a high level of protection. The effectiveness may drop from 96 to 84% over a period of six to nine months. Pfizer can still respond to the panel’s concerns regarding safety and efficacy before the FDA makes the actual decision next week.

Mr. Clean has Magic Eraser but Food Lion (store brand) has mystical eraser. The best off brand product I ever saw must have been in a test market. WalMart had a version of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter called Wow! I Totally Thought it was Butter. I looked for it but the closest store to my physical location that carried it was in Soddy Daisy, TN. Had I known it was going to disappear instead of rolling out nationwide I would have made a day trip up there to buy a tub. Missed opportunities.