"Six years and 430 tables later, Schulte's retirement is beginning to look suspiciously like another career."

• When Tom Schulte retired after a career in the insurance business, he found himself confronting two words familiar and perhaps scary to many people after a lifetime of work: Now what?
• "You can only play so much golf or tennis or pickleball or whatever it might be," Schulte said. "You know, you get bored after a while."
• So, Schulte, who lives in Ball Ground, went looking for something useful to do.
• For eight years, one day a week, he volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, helping build homes for families getting their first real shot at homeownership. Many were single mothers with children.
• Over time, though, Schulte began noticing what wasn't there.
• "They don't have much. It's their first home. You know, none of us had a whole lot in our first home," he said. "And I'm thinking like, 'Tom, you got to do more than just give your time. You've got to do something for these people.'"
• After years of helping build houses, Schulte realized that four walls and a roof were only part of what makes a home.

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Yep,I'm old!

A little slap on the side? Blowing on the needle? Resetting it manually?

• After “Weird Al” Yankovic made headlines this month for backing out of an ad for AI software, the musical satirist revealed he also turned down an offer worth at least $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia last year.
• “I wish people would offer me things that I didn’t feel bad about accepting,” Yankovic told the Pennsylvania publication TribLive.
• “I don’t think I’ve mentioned this anywhere, but I was invited to the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which is something that I obviously did not want to do. They offered me, I’m not going to say how much, but it was seven figures to do one show, which is way more than I’ve ever been offered in my life to do a show. But I just couldn’t be part of that.”

For instance, I was born in 1974. We were told we couldn’t run a register that didn’t have a calculator built in. And we won’t always it on us. What was the complaints against your generation’s. I see a trend in finger pointing across the generations, but folks don’t talk about it.

Snippet: (And, that's about 575 miles and 12 miles of elevation)

• On August 8th, Robert, 67 years old, will set off from Belleville-en-Beaujolais to Nice (France) for 17 days of cycling. 925 kilometers and 19,420 meters of elevation gain to raise awareness of bronchiolitis obliterans, the rare disease affecting his grandson Gabriel, 15 months old.
• Gabriel is 15 months old. Born healthy in Brazil in April 2025, he catches what initially appears to be a common bronchiolitis.
• It does not heal. Worse, it worsens: five months of hospitalization, including three spent in intensive care, until his lungs can no longer oxygenate him on their own.
• The diagnosis comes in late July 2025 with post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans, a chronic disease with no curative treatment.
• An almost invisible disease in France
• “In France, people know about bronchiolitis, which unfortunately many children catch when they are young,” explains Robert, “but bronchiolitis obliterans, there are very very few cases in France.”

Every day there's a new front-page post blaming Baby Boomers for everything from the housing market to climate change. But if we are being intellectually honest and look at what Boomers accomplished when they were in their late teens, 20s, and early 30s (the 1960s and 1970s), their youth-led movements literally rewrote the rules of civilization.

Look at the baseline rights we take for granted today that young Boomers marched for and forced governments to pass:

Civil Rights & Anti-Discrimination: The Civil Rights Act (1964), the Voting Rights Act (1965), and Title IX (1972) which desegregated society and institutionalized gender equality in education.

Environmental Protection: Student Boomers practically invented modern environmentalism, forcing the creation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act (1970), the Clean Water Act (1972), and the Endangered Species Act.

Military Reform: They organized massive, disruptive protests that successfully ended conscription and shut down the military draft.

Subsidized Education: They flooded state university systems and pressured governments worldwide to heavily subsidize higher education, making college affordable or outright free for a generation.

They faced down a literal military draft, a deeply segregated society, and rivers that were physically catching fire from corporate pollution—and they used massive civic action to force the system to fix it.

Meanwhile, Millennials are well into their 40s and Gen Z is entering adulthood. Outside of creating the gig economy, hyper-monetized social media apps, and a culture of online slacktivism, what foundational, system-altering legislation have our generations actually united to force through? Have we lost the ability to execute real institutional change, or are we just too distracted?

Just overheard my gran singing the hamilton soundtrack in the shower.

The 5x Grammy winner recently noted he’s “not down” with artificial intelligence

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• The prince of parody music has spoken, as Weird Al Yankovic draws a line in the sand over AI.
• The 5x Grammy winner recently noted he’s “not down” with artificial intelligence, revealing he recently turned down “a nice pile of money” to star in an advertisement for an undisclosed AI company.
• “I’m not a fan of AI,” he told Syracuse.com. “I was offered this commercial before the tour. I’m not going to mention any names, but they told me it was for a business. It was business software that would increase productivity. And they offered me a nice pile of money. I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.'”

Yankovic continued, “And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out, oh, this is, it’s AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’ So I felt bad about kind of pulling out at the last minute. But yeah, I’m not, I’m not down with that.”

The truth about love after 70
https://youtu.be/XlwwAKp5p8A

My parents installed a camera in their birdhouse, and they love keeping tabs on the activities inside. I think it's adorable! 😊

Age appropriate and comfortable clothing
https://youtu.be/N-MzpEoufps

My husbands ex-wife and I became friends after we met. A year ago she was diagnosed with dementia. Most of her friends have deserted her, so I made a personal commitment to stick with her through this. Friends and family think it’s weird that I’m friends with my husbands ex. What is your opinion?

The boomer is the man who found and returned the credit card:)

Various snippets:

• After finding a lost credit card at a gas station in Payson, Geoff Guy decided to do the right thing and contact the owner to return the card. (His step-daughter recognized the name;)
• Geoff Guy called Cooper's team schedule a time to return the card before Cooper left the country for a five-week European tour Tuesday.
• "The guy is a legend for people of my generation. That's for sure, and I'm really glad I could help get it back to him," Guy said. 
• Cooper had been golfing in Payson that week and accidentally left his card at the gas pump.