Greetings and Good Thursday Morning!

I just checked the new Uncle Joe Story. It rested well. I made one tweak and let it be. It seems anxious and ready to go. Not quite yet . . .

Tomorrow, at 9 AM sharp, Uncle Joe will walk onto the scene of his next adventure. I hope you can be there with him at the start.

This morning, where I am sitting right now typing, it is 82 degrees Fahrenheit (27.8 degrees Celsius) and will be 102 F (38.9 C) later in the day. In the city in the valley in Colorado below the mountain where I will be staying, it is right now 46 degrees F (7.8 C) heading to the high of 70 degrees F (21.1 C). The present difference between here in Texas and there in Colorado is 36 degrees F (20 C) and will be 32 F (17.8C) at the warmest point of the day. For me, the transition will be somewhat like putting a nice steaming cup of hot chocolate into the refrigerator and taking out a frosty cold glass of chocolate milk. They both look, feel and taste good, but you had better be ready for what is on its way before you take that first sip or you may be startled and surprised.

Have a surprising day, be prepared and don’t be startled — it’s all for fun,

Grandpa Jim

PS: In yesterday’s blog on languishing languages, I realized this morning I did not give you the population and number of languages in the United States. As of the 2011 Census, the population of the U.S. is officially 311,591,917 (about 4.5% of the 7 billion people in the world). Although 311 languages (4.5% of the world’s 7,000 languages) are reported to be spoken the U.S., only 162 native or indigenous “small-town” languages exist within the borders of the Unites States (a contribution of about 2.3% to the world’s language pool). I hope you find these data points interesting and revealing.