Texas Farming, Senate Politics and the AI Robocall Debate

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All right, welcome one and all to yet another episode of Fifty Plus. Man, my card key keeps working at the entrance to the building here, and I'm thrilled to be back in here to share another hour with you, another lunchtime hour. Appreciate you joining me during this time of day, especially when the day looks so good outside to be doing something out there, playing golf or fishing or riding a bike, walking around a park, whatever you want to do. Go get some sunshine this afternoon. It'll make you feel better, a lot better really. Vitamin D is very important. I'm not going to get off onto a vitamin thing here, but vitamin D is vitally important to us and our body's overall health. And that's enough of that. Take vitamins if you don't eat healthy diets, and if you do eat healthy diets, make sure that what you're eating and calling healthy is actually that. There's more and more fake food out there, and the fake food doesn't have all the vitamins and minerals that the real food has.

I'm not judging anybody on how they eat. My eating habits aren't the best in the world, but I am starting to pay more attention to this, and hopefully it's not too late to make sure that I can still live a whole lot more years on this planet of ours. So speaking of sunshine, and speaking of our weather, sunny and gorgeous through Sunday, then a 30% chance of some rain Monday afternoon through about Wednesday, and then, well, nobody really knows after that. Still looking at highs around 90, which at least is better than 100, but I'm more than ready now for some days when the high is maybe 84, 85 degrees, and the overnight lows start tickling the chin of the 60s. That's gonna feel really, really good. It looks like fall outside today, doesn't it? It really does look like one of those early winter days where if you walked out the door, it might be 55, maybe even 60 degrees. But rest assured that it does not. It doesn't quite feel like fall yet, unless of course you're from here, as am I, and you already know that we never get more than a few weeks of true fall weather. And they tend to be broken into two dozen or so random days of leftover summer that the planet just didn't know where to put them. Sort of like in the spring when you're trying to pack away your coats and jackets and whatnot, and already all of your drawers and all of your closet spaces filled, you don't know where to put them. Well, that's how our fall days fall into our weather patterns. Nature doesn't know where to put them, so they just drop in randomly. And while I'm on the weather, on a far more serious note, say a prayer for the folks over on the Northeast Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaias, and quick sidebar, that's the first time I've ever heard that name. Anyway, Hurricane Isaias is plowing northward on a geographic line and timeline that are going to bring it ashore along the Alabama coast, maybe a chunk of far western Florida, somewhere in there as a potentially cat three hurricane. I think it might have already spun up to a three, already today, I'm not sure. I haven't checked in a little while. That one's going to come ashore sometime late tonight, which makes it all the more frightening and dangerous for both the people huddled in their homes and for emergency crews who are going to be taking nonstop calls for hours tonight and all the way through tomorrow morning.

It's one thing to take a hurricane in broad daylight. You can see the trees start to move a little more, but it's another all together to wind up losing power in the middle of the night and just not being really able at all to see what's going on outside your home.

Southern Alabama has a jillion trees, beautiful wooded area almost all the way to the coast and even more forest inland. And Isaiah's is likely gonna knock down thousands if not more of those trees. I just hope they don't fall onto or into people's homes.