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           In the long ago, Solomon said, “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered” (Ecc. 1:14-15). This is a hard truth for many to grasp. Put simply, there are some things in life that we cannot change!

“He didn’t play the guitar, he didn’t sing, he didn’t have to; He is Hopalong Cassidy, (“old B-movie cowboy actor).

Some say there was a character out of the Old West by the same name.  This character by the same name supposedly had a gimpy leg from a gunshot wound; he sort-of hopped along.  Therefore the tag, Hopalong. 

Fast-forward to the 1940’s when B-grade cowboy movies became mostly Saturday fare, a guy by the name of Bill Boyd, adopted the hero-stage name of Hopalong Cassidy.  Who knows why?  

This week I will bring you the next installment of 50 Fast Facts.  We pick up at #30.  King Tut owned a meteorite dagger.  What’s that, you ask?

Recently, I read some information about things that occur “commonly,” meaning often or prevalently. Becoming interested, I did a bit more reading about some of the common occurrences around us. People make multiple choices every day. Sometimes our choices are similar to the choices others make. I’ve chosen ten common choices or occurrences – in no particular order – to share.

The first week of the Kentucky General Assembly’s 2019 Regular Session is in the books. We had a productive few days in Frankfort and leave in good spirits about what is to come this session.

As I write this, it is Sunday morning, there is ice on the roads and, except for a brief interval involving pancakes, I have barely moved from the chair in my BBC room.  I watched several episodes of DCI Banks, a British crime drama, before shaming myself into getting a shower, believing that would motivate me to get up and get moving.  The shower didn’t work, and I am back in this chair.  I must be still recovering from Saturday night, when I cleaned Diddle Arena in Bowling Green.  Not by myself, mind you, but as part of a cleanup crew.

The title for this article is part of a larger quote from a man long dead. Our habits have a great impact on our lives. There is the need for patience, or endurance, as well as strength and courage when times get hard. Let us read some passages that state this truth.

COMPARTMENTALIZE- The word I used as a header for this particular column is thrown around a lot in some circles of our society today. For those readers whom may not be all that familiar with it or who don't know how it operates in everyday life, I'll start with a typical example and then a short definition. First the example- “it's nothing personal, it's just business!” Now the definition; to compartmentalize means that -you are able to divide things into different sections or “compartments” and do not have them overlap or integrate, one with another.

My daddy bought half-interest in a business in Greenville, Kentucky in 1943.  We moved there when I was 10 years old from New Cypress, five miles out; a church, a school, a general store; a village of houses and people — many of whom were my kinfolks...my place of birth no less.  

In town we were the third house from Greenville Depot and the Illinois Central Railroad.  The trains ran fairly close to our backyard.  In addition to freight trains, we had two passenger trains daily — one at 4 o’clock in the afternoon; the other at 12 o’clock at night.  

Nathaniel Baldwin invented the headphones in 1919 in his kitchen.  He started making more by hand and selling them to the U.S. Navy.  January 1, 1937 in Germany, a company called Beyerdynamic started making the first dynamic headphones and named them DT-48.  Fast forward to 1958, John C. Koss Made the first stereo headphone.  In 1966, Koss started to make headphones with pictures of the Beatles on them that were wildly popular.  Two years later, Koss made the first Electrostatic headphones.