My Dad And Hayley Mills

It all started when I went home after school. There in the living room was a broken lamp on the floor, my dad, Homer just came in from work, he took off his belt and spanked me, but my mom, Mary, came down the stairs and told my dad that she did it while cleaning house.

My dad climb upstairs and ask him to forgive him. I thought to myself (Here's my chance to see Hayley Mills playing Peter Pan ).To make up my dad took me to see the show, it was in a another city and not Columbus, Ohio, I forgot the city's name but it took an hour and a half to drive there.

My dad and I did see Hayley Mills performed but we never met her in person.

In 1987 I got air mail from Scotland and in the envelope was a personally signed autograph from Hayley Mills. How much are her autographs worth ? Hardly nothing about $20 since she signed a slew of them.

1987 is when she was in the United States starring in "Save By The Bell" , I quit watching it when Hayley left.I usually watch it with the sound off, close captions on, because I couldn't stand the canned laughter.

A few years ago I joined the Hayley Mills Fan Facebook page, there are people on there that know Hayley Mills personally. I uploaded the autograph and they told me those are the pictures she uses to sign autographs, and they also told me the autograph is authentic.

I rather trust Hayley Mills fans on Facebook instead of  autograph authentication services, you are just paying  for their opinions. So what this say about Pawnstars ?

I had to hide my autographs from my brother, Larry, he likes to sell things, they're not for sale, I like the people on those pictures and not how much money they'll bring me.

My brother usually went to my bedroom to search for the autographs, but unknown to him, I hid them in his bedroom in in a return air register, tuck in one of the vents; Where it cannot be seen, under his bed..(END)

Presents For My Late Mom

My mom, Mary, died in 1998, she was a heavy smoker and her left lung completely gave up.

When I was working I usually gave presents to my Mom on the holidays.

I colored in this picture when I was a little kid using crayons.

One present I gave her probably on Christmas was a peacock light.

She always had it on top of her
grand piano. Yes, she did know how to play the piano.


I also use the peacock as my profile picture of my old sadsack67 twitter, however there were back then too many people with the username of sadsack67, so I decided to use stanleyinparis.

This bunny candle holder I thought at first I gave it to her on Mother's day, but the more I 
thought about it, it was actually on a Easter Sunday.

This is what my mom gave me including the artificial flowers.

I used to like the comedy 'Cheers' back then from 1983 to 1993. I now use it to keep my spare pens and pencils.


                                   Why do I use the word present(s) instead of gift(s)? So, I would not offend any German people, gift in the German language and pronounce the same means poison and not presents.

                       That's all for now  

Scams are on the increase.

Scams are on the increase, but most of these scams can be prevented by simply not answering the phone of numbers you do not know,they may leave a message or voice mail but ignore those also.

Watch out for medicare scams, they call saying that they're from social security and yet they will ask for your social security number. Wouldn't they already know your social security number?

New medicare cards are being mailed out without social security numbers but another number that is unique only to you but it takes time and they will never call,unless you call them first.


There is also a "Can you hear me ?" scam. Never say "Yes"  they will record your 'yes' and apply it to another recording such as "You want me to charge this to your credit card ?" which is followed of course with your recorded 'yes'. 

No legit company will call you unexpectedly, unless you called them first and are expecting their call.

Another thing a person can do is to Google the number, when a dialogue box  pops up saying "Google couldn't match any documents" then you know that number is fake. Beware tough business numbers can be 'spoof' on caller I.D.

Never press any buttons even to opt out it'll prove to them they have a real number. I followed this advice and I am down to only five scam calls a week.

In any case follow this rule: I CALL YOU, YOU DON'T CALL ME 

Best Time To Take Pictures?

Last Thursday I took pictures of my old Polaroids at 6:41 PM,why 6:41 ? Because sunset was at 7:41 PM. Now common,Stanley, you're not making sense, the reason is that:  one hour before sunset or even one hour before sunrise is when the light is all even out, no sources brighter or darker than the other.This actually however is the best time to take pictures of nature ,people at picnics outside, kids playing etc., cool weather....

...However, in my case (inside my house near a sunny north window), I use those times to take pictures of pictures with my iPad mini which yield better picture quality results than any other of my devices, but when I had transferred the taken pictures to my computer they were too big like 2000 to 3000 pixels each, and my photoshop software was unable to change the image size to 600 pixels as photoshop   gave me a program error message;  The images were simply too big.

So what am I going to do ? Well, this time I am going  line up my old Polaroids and take a video of them using my iPad mini  panning left to the right then make vidcaps  of the video, after it has being transferred to my computer. Using photoshop, sometimes the mp4 format has to be change to the wmv format  that can be done using the computer's windows movie maker.

Once the vidcaps are made I can use photoshop to crop unnecessary backgrounds and make other improvements.

There are videos of youtube that teaches people how to transfer pictures from iPad or from other sources to a computer, so I will skip that part.Of course one can use a cloud service like Google cloud which can be retrieve from any synced device. 

How did the picture of pictures turn out ? Well, not as a good quality as if one had use a picture scanner, all I can say "acceptable" 

          Click video below for Google's  free camera scanner.
         click here for Google's Camera Scanner
Oh, yes, I did get those large pixels images off my iPad..its hard drive would  have filled up in no time.
                                  ***END***

Outlets and Outlets.

You're at the doctor's office and notice that their outlets have  horizontal slots; Well, that is a 20 amp outlet connected to a 20 amp circuit.  The hospital equipment 20 amp  plugs have one vertical blade, one horizontal  blade and a ground.  The wiring used  on the circuit breaker is 12 gauge with ground.The smaller the number the bigger the wire.

In modern homes kitchens and bathrooms use 20 amps, but why are there only 15 amp outlets connected ? Well, in some states it is acceptable to use 15 amp outlets on a 20 amp circuit if there are series of them and not just one or two.

HOWEVER, NEVER INSTALL  A 20 AMP OUTLET TO A 15 AMP CIRCUIT THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. 15 amp circuits are use mostly for living rooms and bedrooms. The wiring use for a 15 amp circuit is 14 gauge with ground, which is smaller than the 12 gauge.The wiring in the 14 gauge wire is easy to bend. The 12 gauge wiring will be  a little harder to bend.

20 amps which handles more wattage than 15 amps are for heavy duty appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines etc.

Now can one plug in a 15 amp appliance like a tv into a 20 amp outlet ? The answer is yes;  If the answer was no, the plug wouldn't fit in the 20 amp outlet in the first place.

Always make sure all connections to the outlets stay; If the blades are expose  even 1/8 out of the outlet that could easily start a fire.

One can change the outlets without any hitch just follow the instructions that came with the outlet(s). However, wiring  a house is a different story, when done call in an expert to check your work and make sure all outlets and plugs are UL listed (United States) and/or CA listed (Canada).

Balancing An Egg On Its End

Can a person balance an egg on its end only on the season of spring equinox ?  Well, that's a myth, actually a person is able to balance an egg on its end anytime of the year. What makes it difficult to balance is the yolk inside the egg, it won't stay centered.However, it is still possible to balance a raw egg.

 To balance a raw egg use its fat end, use a rough surface (like a rug), or sprinkle salt on a smooth surface, you can also can shake the egg vigorously trying to stir the yolk and egg white inside the shell. There may be also an appliance you can buy that stirs the yolk with the white right inside the egg.

When an egg is hard boiled the yolk inside  will stay centered, meaning you can spin the egg on its end. You can even trick your friends, give them  raw eggs to spin, while you spin the hard boiled one, raw eggs will not be able to spin, hard boil eggs will, or  flat the fat end of a hard boil egg  with your fingers,then balance that egg on its end.

Breaking an egg inside your fist is nearly impossible even tough it can be done. Give your friends raw eggs to break inside their fists , while you  use a soft boiled egg and pretend to struggle like the rest, until you finally decide to apply pressure,  the white and yolk  will spill out.. (Reason for the soft boiled rather than hard boiled.)
                                    Also see my last year's April fools blog and prank of last year: How to turn a smart tv picture upside down. Don't worry it's legal and easy:
Click here for Turning A Smart TV Picture Upside Down

                                          ***END***

A Little Boy's Broken Heart

This is a true story of an amateur psychologist name Betty who lives about 15 miles west from me. 

One day at work she wanted everyone to come to some event during the weekend, and when she  had asked "Who is going?" nobody had raise their hands,so Betty had asked again, but this time angrily, hands did show up  that time,from almost everyone, except mine, I had my heart set going to the movies, and thought to myself what could she do ? Hang me by the thumbs?

Another "psychology" trick she tried to do is pretend to be a different person ,with a different personalities ,to see which "person" the co-workers  would liked best. Just because something is stated in a book doesn't make it true.

Betty probably thought raising her voice, people would do what she wanted, but all that did in reality  is to make people wish she had laryngitis.

I did see Betty once driving her car about 85 miles per hour on a country dirt road with her family and friends.I know math and would know what speed she was actually going.

When I was in Betty's small town some years ago she avoided driving down the ditch by running over a  miniature collie and killing it, just  to protect the looks of her damn car. If Betty did go down the ditch the car would still have been  drivable.

I myself would   have driven down the small ditch spearing the little kid's heart. After all, insurance probably would have covered most of it;  But that is not what is important here! 
 Because of Betty's wrong sense of priorities, a little boy's heart got broken.

Best Way To Play The Roulette Wheel.

You're at the casino playing the roulette wheel, What's the best way to play ? Just play only once then walk away regardless if you win or lose. Why ? Well, I will show you using math :)

Roulette wheels have numbers on them from 1 to 36 some have  a zero and double zero making it 38 numbers.

The odds playing the first time is either 1 out of 36 or 1 out of 38 depending on the roulette wheel. If you play just one number for $1  you will receive  $35 if you win.$2 bet $70 and up from there.

Odds of playing the roulette wheel for the first time:  
 1 out of 36 (without a double zero roulette wheel)
 1 out of 38    ( with  a double zero roulette wheel)

Now you're playing for the second time what are your odds ?
{ (1/36) x  (1/36) } or 1 out of 1296 (without a double zero roulette wheel) 
{ (1/38) x ( 1/38) } or 1 out of 1444 (with  a double zero roulette wheel)
    
Now let's play for the third time: 
{ (1/36) x (1/36) x (1/36) } or 1 out of  46,656 (without a double zero roulette wheel)
{ (1/38) x (1/38) x (1/38) } or 1 out of  54,872 (with  a double zero roulette wheel).

As you can see the more you play, the more the odds are against you !

 So, simply put, just play once and bet only on one number then see what happens then walk away.In the unlikely event you do win just take your money and walk away; Do not play more than once. 

Sure you can bet on more than one number at the same game, but the cash winnings go down.For example  if you play two numbers for $1 you will receive only $11 if you win, and down from there depending how many numbers you play in one game
.Odds are always in favor of the house.
                                ****END***

               

More On The German Twins (1963)

First off I never did have sex with Allison and Heidi our relationship was totally platonic. Of course, that does not exclude hugs and kisses. 


When the twins knock me down to the ground, or more precisely, when I allowed them to knock me down to the ground I wanted them to kiss me so badly, but even that never did happen.I  myself refrain from kissing them, I didn't want them mad at me or lose them as friends. I love them that much.I forsake the kisses for their friendship.After all, people especially females are not toys.

Their beautiful faces where only inches from my face when I was "pinned"  down. Looking into their very beautiful eyes,seeing their red ruby lips,yes they were wearing lipstick , feeling their brown wavy hair on my face and smelling their perfumes they were wearing.

In fact they got their perfume smells all over my shirt and the rest of my skin and clothing.

 After "playtime" was over I went home and placed the perfumed shirt into a big transparent plastic bag to keep as a souvenir.I would still have the perfumed shirt today, but my mom had to washed it. I wanted to open the bag occasionally, to take a whiff of the twin's perfume, before I went off to bed for dreamland ,and to dream about the German twins.

My toxic uncle Don didn't want anything to do with any Germans not even the Japanese because of WWII. In fact he told me if I keep socializing with the German girls he will cut me off from his will, but  his words were meaningless.I was in love.

When I got a job I made my own money which I would never share with my toxic uncle; MY MONEY !

 He did not even want our German twins' gift a  Fußball (Foossball)  game table inside our house, or least  he wanted it to be  in the attic.We never did get rid of it, we played it !--War is not the peoples' fault but the governments'.

Loving the German identical twins made me exercise more and even did better at my homework getting grades of A's and B's.I cannot describe how I felt in those days but I felt very well.

I heard somewhere that Hitler may still be alive using an assume name, but if he died good; No tears shed, celebrations instead; If still alive he can see his failures.

Even to this day I love the German people; They will always have a place in my heart, especially Allison and Heidi.

All races and even disabled people are welcome in Germany now. Hitler failed big time :) 

Click below for the song "Bel-Ami" sung by Belsy. Even if one does not know the German language you will still be tearing;
Belsy is that good of a singer:
 Click Here For The Song "Bel-Ami" by Belsy

                                     See also:
      How Many Identical Twins Are There In Germany?

                                                   

Invisible Ghost Causing Squeaky Stairs

An old man is sleeping and suddenly hears his stairs creaking as if a ghost or an invisible man is walking up and down the stairs.

It is not ghosts or invisible people ,it is expansion and compression causing the wood boards to creak depending on the temperature and/or weather changes. Not because some "ghost" is walking up and down the stairs.

Should one worry about creaky stairs or even floors ? No, if one does not hear the creaks it could either mean the floor boards were nailed too tight or someone fixed the creaks by putting small mental screws underneath the floors plywood.

These mental screws will also expand or compress along with the floor boards making them still safe; After all, having the floor board too tight will cause problems, like splitting into two or more pieces causing holes and weaken floors. 

My Late Brother Larry

My brother Larry died on Christmas day 2017 at the age of 74. I do not have many pictures of Larry just a few of his baby pictures, but I have memories of him which I will share.

I believe I was only 4 years old, my parents were burning leaves and I walked too close to the flames and my right leg caught on fire. 

Naturally, I was crying and screaming. Larry came out to help , drop me to the ground and  rolled me until the fire was out.

At my very young age I thought he was picking on me while I was still in pain.
It turned out that he was reading his boy Scott book that day.

One day my brother brought in an aquarium tank filled with guppies that probably was a take home class project.

Once Larry went off to school my sister and I took the guppies out of the water ,put them on a tray so they wouldn't drown.

We were very young, we didn't know anything about gills. Larry was disappointed.

My brother is the one who taught me how to play chess. It started when I had placed  chess pieces on just the black squares of a checker board.

He taught me how to set up the chess board right, how the pieces move and the rules of the game.

In a few weeks I thought he was cheating with moves such as "en passant" and "castling" but they were legit.

Below  a  very short video of  Larry in his pontoon boat  1986:

When Larry was 18 he joined the armed forces. Once the terms were up for one  he enlisted into another. The goal of course is to make money a nest egg if you will.

My mom, Mary, told him "Larry, you're going to be a very old man before your time !"

Larry replied back saying: "Yes, but I will be a very rich old man !"

Larry was on the navy ship 'Enterprise" in 1968