02-25-2026 — The other side?

Howdy all. Still under the weather here. And that is difficult to believe considering how lousy the weather has been. I guess after 3 tries, I should give up testing for a “name” to what I am suffering. It may not be COVID-19, or FLU A or FLU B, but it is miserable. Last night was the pits. I felt a teeny bit better this afternoon, for awhile, but then the stuffed nose was back, and that caused drip, causing coughing. I’ve decided the various cold/flu medicines that are in capsule/caplet forms, are totally worthless. I get a temporary assistance from the NyQuil type liquids. It doesn’t matter to me if it is daytime formula or nighttime, because it doesn’t affect my not sleeping much anyway.

The batteries for my EcoFlow unit didn’t arrive yesterday, but may be arriving today. At least they are marked as “out for delivery”. We will see. At this point I will just try to get the boxes into the garage, and wait for a day when I feel well enough to open them. The electrician sent out his estimate for adding the various inlets and outlets, and conduits full of cables. A hefty amount. But really not more than I expected. I approved the estimate on Monday.

I have a question for the few people that actually read my blog. Yesterday, I heard a comedian say something that caught my ear, but really didn’t get digested until the middle of the night when things I’ve seen and heard come back to get resolved (hopefully).

The comedian, who apparently is autistic, stated he had heard the kids joke “Why did the chicken cross the road? — To get to the other side.”, many, many times. As have I. He then said, because of his autism, he never thought anything but the linear straight line result of “to get to the other side of the road.”. And his audience chuckled.

I didn’t hear anything after that. Not sure if it was on a web page, or the TV. As I said it really didn’t digest then. But it remained in the unsolved section of my Non-typical ADHD brain for later handling. When I got to thinking about it, I realized there really is a double meaning to "To get to the other side.”. Not only the road, which is obvious, but to the other side of life. In the 70 plus years I’ve heard that stoopid joke, not once did that occur to me. So now I ask you, am I the only person who never considered the chicken was thinking of checking out? Now I am going to use Google to search the joke and the comedian, and see what I’ve been missing. Sure would like to know I’m not the only person who misses the obvious, and it makes me wonder how many other punchlines “humans” get that I don’t even contemplate.

Either way, I do hope the chicken got across safely, and can now Enjoy Life.