Tuesday Tidbits...

Looks like we're in for ANOTHER day of "dreary" here in Ft. Wayne.
Got that nice GREY pall hanging over us, but who knows...we might see the sun for a few minutes (like we did last evening, fleeting as THAT was). That was cause for amazement...heh.
Our Hoosierland weather for today will see us having mostly cloudy skies, but it will be slightly warmer as temps climb to around 84 degrees. And yes, that damnable chance of showers continues. This should have stayed in April (the showers thing), where it belongs.

Now, what say we get a nice refreshing drink to chase the blahs away, as we see what's been going on elsewhere, hmm?
*** First off of the hat rack is our "What the hell happens today, Bob?" feature:
JUNE 12 -
---It's National Call Your Doctor Day

(and what exactly should I call him or her?)
---It's National Jerky Day

(oh, the fun I could have with THIS one)
---It's National Loving Day

(wonder if Momma Fargo knows?)
---It's National Peanut Butter Cookie Day

(haven't had any of these in way too long)
---It's National Red Rose Day

(closest we can come is the PINK ones we have outside)
*** Next up, and because it IS a Tuesday, let's see to all those FWPD calls that went out last week (that we were never told about).

JUN 4 - JUN 10:
SHOTS FIRED ((113)) - ARMED ROBBERY((53)) 
((23,113 - vandalism by gunfire))
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18F065064 06/04/2018 02:26am 113 SHOTS FIRED 1400 BROADWAY
18F065431 06/04/2018 09:58pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 6700 SHADOWBROOK CV
18F065438 06/04/2018 10:09pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1700 MAUMEE AV
18F065462 06/04/2018 11:02pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2900 BOWSER AV
18F065858 06/05/2018 10:37pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2500 OAKRIDGE RD
18F065864 06/05/2018 10:44pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 6500 HAZELETT RD
18F066344 06/07/2018 02:52am 113 SHOTS FIRED FAIRFIELD AV & POPLAR ST
18F066696 06/07/2018 10:00pm 113 SHOTS FIRED S ANTHONY BLVD & E BERRY ST
18F066700 06/07/2018 10:07pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2700 BOWSER AV
18F066730 06/07/2018 11:24pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7900 DECATUR RD
18F067076 06/08/2018 08:40pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2100 RANSOM DR
18F067110 06/08/2018 10:16pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 300 W DEWALD ST
18F067192 06/09/2018 01:17am 113 SHOTS FIRED COLERICK ST & REED ST
18F067214 06/09/2018 02:08am 113 SHOTS FIRED W COLUMBIA ST & S HARRISON ST
18F067215 06/09/2018 02:12am 113 SHOTS FIRED ST MARYS AVE & HIGH ST
18F067357 06/09/2018 01:16pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2000 MAUMEE AV
18F067501 06/09/2018 08:09pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1800 MAPLECREST RD
18F067521 06/09/2018 09:04pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4300 WALKERS RIDGE
18F067575 06/09/2018 11:48pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4200 COLDWATER RD
18F067597 06/10/2018 12:57am 113 SHOTS FIRED 3500 SMITH ST
18F067605 06/10/2018 01:15am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2400 LILLIE ST
18F067639 06/10/2018 03:14am 113 SHOTS FIRED LILLIE ST & E PONTIAC ST
18F067650 06/10/2018 03:55am 113 SHOTS FIRED STELLHORN RD & MAPLECREST RD
18F067664 06/10/2018 04:50am 113 SHOTS FIRED S CALHOUN ST & W HOLLIS LN
18F067830 06/10/2018 05:15pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7900 DECATUR RD
18F067907 06/10/2018 10:15pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2900 GLENWOOD AV
18F067911 06/10/2018 10:21pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3100 BEACON ST
18F067920 06/10/2018 10:41pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 200 NORTHEAST DR
18F067929 06/10/2018 11:10pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2800 GARDEN PARK DR
YES INDEED...PLENTY OF STUPID GOING ON OUT THERE, FOLKS!
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18F067051 06/08/2018 07:38pm 23,113 2500 SMITH ST
18F067231 06/09/2018 03:09am 23,113 4200 PLAZA DR
18F065506 06/05/2018 01:52am 23,113 2900 WARSAW ST
18F065681 06/05/2018 02:47pm 23,113 1800 S HARRISON ST
18F065985 06/06/2018 10:07am 23,113 7900 DECATUR RD
18F066247 06/06/2018 08:32pm 23,113 4800 TRACE DR
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18F067596 06/10/2018 12:45am 53 ARMED ROB 1500 LEESBURG RD
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18F066202 06/06/2018 06:04pm 56 MOLESTING 4100 HESSEN CASSEL RD
18F066754 06/08/2018 01:16am 56 MOLESTING 3300 BEAVER AV
18F067018 06/08/2018 06:01pm 56 MOLESTING 1500 HOBSON RD
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18F066725 06/07/2018 11:11pm 58 SHOOTING 5300 WEBSTER ST
18F067077 06/08/2018 08:41pm 58 SHOOTING 4600 S HANNA ST
18F067261 06/09/2018 07:01am 58 SHOOTING 100 COUNTRY FOREST DR
18F067867 06/10/2018 07:22pm 58 SHOOTING 1300 ST MARYS AVE
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18F066740 06/08/2018 12:10am 59 CUTTING/STAB 1100 W OAKDALE DR
18F066185 06/06/2018 05:50pm 59 CUTTING/STAB 4500 S HANNA ST
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18F065516 06/05/2018 03:22am 61 RAPE 2200 RANDALLIA DR
18F065968 06/06/2018 08:37am 61 RAPE 4100 LIMA RD
18F067393 06/09/2018 03:05pm 61 RAPE 2200 RANDALLIA DR
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18F066406 06/07/2018 09:51am 75 PURSUIT 6400 BLUFFTON RD
18F067167 06/09/2018 12:26am 75 PURSUIT 1000 W COLISEUM BLVD
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Plus 13 narcotics calls
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DUMBASS!

Fireworks calls JUN 4 - JUN 10:
18F065308 06/04/2018 04:52pm 44FW 200 E HOOVER DR
18F065346 06/04/2018 06:07pm 44FW LIMA RD & EDGEWOOD AV
18F065821 06/05/2018 08:49pm 44FW 2100 EDEN ST
18F066258 06/06/2018 08:58pm 44FW 1200 IRENE AV
18F066731 06/07/2018 11:30pm 44FW EDGEWOOD AV & LIMA RD
18F067121 06/08/2018 10:37pm 44FW 4900 COVENTRY PKWY
18F067519 06/09/2018 09:00pm 44FW TRACE DR & PEERLESS DR
18F067523 06/09/2018 09:05pm 44FW 8200 BUTTERMORE RUN
18F067542 06/09/2018 09:46pm 44FW 3200 FOXCROFT DR
18F067543 06/09/2018 09:48pm 44FW 2700 BUTLER RD
18F067544 06/09/2018 10:11pm 44FW 6100 SPY GLASS RUN
18F067557 06/09/2018 10:46pm 44FW OLIVER ST & HURD ST
I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ANNOYED AT THESE IDIOTS?
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*** Next, it seems some near NE neighborhoods have some concerns (and deservedly so). Here's the story:
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/20180612/slocum-proposal-worries-residents

This is the Francis Slocum area (which has some FWPD calls going on there, yet not to the extent that say Pettit-Rudisill does (where we reside). But these neighbors are pushing back against some proposed "low-income" housing.
 And many came and spoke out at a recent meeting downtown.
((Most had to do with fears over the caliber of people who might rent an affordable housing apartment. 
One by one, residents who live near the proposed complex approached the microphone and expressed fears that the development would bring crime to the neighborhood and drive down property values. (yes, it does...the woman is right)
 

It will come.

“We know that with low income comes drugs, and we know that with low income comes violence,” resident Grace Beltz said. (again, a spot on call.)
“Are we going to have a bunch of felons coming into our neighborhood,” Busche asked. “How do we protect what we as a community have and are obviously very proud of? How do we make sure it's not crappy people coming in, people who are on probation or on parole?” 
“Crime knows no address. It's all about how the property is managed", said a representative from New Generation Management.)) (there are caveats attached to that , believe me)

As will these.

Okay then...valid points made by those in opposition. But, who's to say that this management company will run the place in perpetuity? What if they sell the place to another management firm that is less concerned with the clientele?
Or, what if having that housing causes people to SELL their houses and move away, allowing the deadbeat landlords to bring in the riff raff? That's what happens in a LOT of places, and what took place in MY neighborhood.
Maybe crime knows no address, but, it depends on the TYPE of crime that the inhabitants bring. There is a hierarchy (and windows to be broken).

Such a "tight" family...not!

Plus, there are always the "tag-alongs" as I call them. The people who "move in" AFTER one person signs a lease (and then their friends come and stay overnight, then wind up a semi-permanent resident). You get the idea here.
Almost every place around US does that with gusto. No oversight there.

You folks DON'T need this crap.

I hope the Slocum neighbors can get this proposal dumped, before they lose their neighborhood as we have (apparently) lost ours.
*** Next up, I spoke yesterday about loud noise and music and how it can give (many) adverse effects, both psychological as well as physiological in nature.

Well, there's a new twist to all this. Here's the story:
http://www.journalgazette.net/food/20180612/at-restaurants-loud-music-is-cha-ching

Now, who knew that the type (and level) of music in a restaurant could affect your purchasing ability, and in effect, cause you to buy unhealthy foods?
Hell, damn near ANY food can be harmful to some degree, depending on whatever study some libtard pulls out of their ass, so why bother with that? That doesn't bother me. What DOES, is the aspect of having music determine "my purchase".
((“Volume is proven to directly impact heart rate and arousal,” according to the study. And it impacts our decision-making, as well.))
Ahh, so it's the VOLUME we're talking about...just like I said yesterday (and in other past posts).
You mean like the boom cars we can hear SEVERAL BLOCKS AWAY? Or the home stereo we can hear from the NEXT STREET OVER?
THAT kind of volume?

Now, I've been to good sit-down restaurants that had a PIANO PLAYER doing his gig and making dining a wonderful experience.
They called that "dinner music" for a reason.
Then again, I've never felt it conducive to digestion hearing PAINT IT BLACK or ANY form of (c)rap music at a level where I have to speak in a stentorian tone to the person next to me.
This is a good story, and worth a read (feel free to take some notes...there might be a quiz...lol).
*** Next, we had our first real "missed trash pickup" last Thursday, and city council is working to alleviate such things.
http://www.wpta21.com/story/38377580/pickup-problems-council-sets-ultimatum-for-red-river

Granted, we did have alley reconstruction the next block up, but that didn't impact OUR alley one damn bit. Also, the RECYCLE truck came by by early afternoon, so that went fine. It was just the trash pickup that dropped the ball.
After an email to my city contact and a Wifey call into the *311* system, we had our pickup early Saturday morning.
Problem solved as far as I'm concerned,

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot !

Our neighborhood hasn't had chronic issues with Red River, despite the locals around us placing up to TWENTY TRASH BAGS at the curb a full SIX DAYS prior to pickup...or not even bothering to put their bins out at all (and then bitching to the city they got missed...idiots).

Easy to find squalor around here.

Hell, people around here toss trash all over the streets (and from car windows almost daily), so they wouldn't be bugged by some missed pickups...that's the way THEY roll. It's their way at getting back at "Whitey".
*** Next up, John Rosemond had a good column last week about teen depression and suicide:
http://www.news-sentinel.com/living/2018/06/09/john-rosemond-respect-of-a-lack-of-is-a-big-reason-behind-teen-depression-and-suicide/

I think this speaks for itself in many ways.
Depression does stem from a lack of respect - SELF respect. You feel like you're not worth a damn, and the world would be better off without you. Whether you're right or wrong has NO bearing on YOUR feelings, either. If anything, it becomes more selfish.
John makes this brilliant observation:
((The rise of child and teen depression since the 1960s is the inevitable corollary of a corresponding decline in respect for parents and other adult authority figures – one’s elders in general – that began developing among America’s youth during that very deconstructive decade.))
Yes it DID...and yes it HAS!
That's what happens when liberalism says you shouldn't be a parent, but more of a FRIEND to your children...

Be careful what you sow...you might not like what you reap...kapeesh?
Mr Rosemond truly "gets it".
*** Next, let;s stop by "Kitten Corner"...

Top o' the sofa, Ma...!

Well, our children didn't have authority issues...just "where to nap" issues...LOL.
They were both busy taking the time to select various places they could grab some "Zs".
Well, there was certainly not much going on outside, (unless you like watching rain soak everything).

Oh, now she's just being cute.

You can never say that any day with these two is boring, although when they rub against yoru face while they're shedding can be a real mouthful (of fur)...HA!
*** Next up, time to check back in with "Midnight and Company'...

At least the FOOD is dry.

Our furry twosome were once again trying to dodge the rain, which didn't seem to want to cease.
It was "under the table" time for feeding, and I admit that it does get a bit "crowded" under there.
They stay dry, while I get wet feeding them...

It is dry...and plentiful.

Midnight went off on patrol and missed his lunch, but was back for dinner (and hand-held treats time. In fact they wee both around until it got dark out. He was at the back door, and she was at the patio door. It's nice to be SO well-guarded. Our police could take some notes from these two.
*** Last back to the downspouts...it would seem that noise has more problems attached to it that most people realize.

But, with our distraction quotient well above normalcy, it would also seem that people don't wish to be bothered (until things get too far out of hand). Isn't that always the way?

Worry about fixing the corral gate AFTER the horses are gone...typical (but not very productive).
Noise affects everyone...no one is immune.
(what about deaf people, Bob? They can't hear anything)
Well, they do FEEL loud noise...think about it. If you've ever been to a live fireworks show, when an aerial round goes off, don't you feel a slight "thump" to your chest? Same thing when you attend a reenactment of Civil War actors. A cannon from that era does the same thing.
And you have to admit your BP rises a tad, and you feel a surge of Adrenalin.
Now, think about soldiers in a combat theater...ALL that noise from artillery, bombs, small arms going off all around you.

That's why you use hearing PROTECTION at a firearms range (indoors OR outdoors), people.
How about when a car backfires? That shakes you from your calm, doesn't it?
And rock concert music...Back in the day, I was advised to take ear plugs to a Van Halen concert...if I wanted my ears to NOT ring afterwards.

After attending a couple Nugent concerts, and having ear-ringing for a day, I chose to take the ear plugs. Had a great time, and wasn't shouting to others afterwards.
That was back in =the 70s and early 80s.
Think about WHY police, fire, and ambulance vehicles have such loud SIRENS - to alert you to move the hell out of the way!

Sure, certain types of noise ARE warranted, but only in specific instances.
Everything else that annoys others for no reason is NOT required or needed.
And this is a problem we CAN do something about...if we shut up the noise long enough to hear ourselves think.

Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay SAFE out there, America.