What did you say?

Yes I have a hearing problem and at times it can cause a few laughs. On my Dad’s side of the family there is a history of bad hearing, so I come by the hearing problem genetically. However, there is even another reason.

I was in ROTC in college, not because I was that patriotic, but because Eastern Michigan University was a land grant college and every red blooded American male student was required to take two years of ROTC.

One of the things you had to do in ROTC, if you were in the advanced corp. , was to fire a M-1 rife for record, of which I did. It was a hot spring day in Michigan and everyone, including me, wanted to get the shooting over with. To make that happen, instead of having the shooters 20 feet apart we where put 5 feet apart and in those days there was no hear protection.

You guessed it all I heard for the next 3 weeks was ringing. I didn’t want to tell the Army of my problem, so I went to my family Doctor and he prescribed something that would stimulate the blood flow in my ear. After a few weeks the ringing went away, but that was too late for hearing what was going on in my course lectures. As you might thing I had my worse grades in my college career that semester.

Some years later I had a very sour throat and went to a eye, nose and throat doctor. It didn’t take him long to tell me that I had a bad hearing problem and should consider a hearing aid.

The hearing aid worked good and I finally knew what people were saying. One person had a problem with it at first and that was Micki, my wife. You see she liked to make remarks to me about what I was doing and at times they could be pretty snide, but it didn’t bother me, because I didn’t hear them until I got the hearing aid.
When I told Micki that I could hear her snide remarks, she said “I am not sure I am going to like the hearing aid. “ She did find a way around me hearing he remarks. Either she would turn on the garbage disposal or put her head in the refrigerator.

Now I am at an age that my friends hearing have started to weaken. When you around us and listen to us you can get some healthy laughs.

Here is how our conversation may sound like. Mike tells me that it is windy today! I answer by saying “No, it Thursday. And Doug says.”So am I ! Let’s have a beer!
As you can see we are all at the point where we have to say “What did you say.”

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Getting excited

You would be excited to. Have you ever wanted to start a project and for whatever reason it took longer to get started than you thought. But when you finally got started things started to happen. Well that has happened to me.


“Dump the Grump” the new book I am writing has been laying around in the old brain for over six months. It seemed that I just couldn’t get started and I have a reason for that and I call it “crystallization”. What crystallization is letting your subconscious work for you.
Some time when we try to hard the brain gets locked up, so that is when It time to quit instead of trying to force the issue and put project on hold. Will that is what I did with “Dump the Grump”. Then things started to percolate and the ideas started flying.

The purpose of the book is now clear in my mind and I am now able to start to put the outline together and start to write. You bet I am excited because this is going to a book that will make you laugh, cry and help you rethink how you do things.

Changing things for the good really is what is important to me. If I only help one person that reads “Dump the Grump” and they make positives changes in their life, that would make me feel good because I touched some in a positive way.

“Dump the Grump” gets people to laugh when I tell them the title and that is good, because laughing is so good for us. In the book“ Dump the Grump” you should get some good laughs and this healthy.

When reading “Dump the Grump” you might do some interpersonal evaluation of your life style and that is good also. We are never too old to make positive changes in our lives. It is now known that our mind can continue to grow and expand forever by working it. No more do we have to say we can’t learn new thing, but what we should say I don’t know that yet but I will.

This fall when you read my book “Dump the Grump” you will get some laughs, some ideas on how to be more positive, and how all this will give you happiness which builds health In your life.

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Friends

You have friends and I have friends like this. Here is my story of some special friends. We play golf every Wednesday. Each one of is as different as night and day.

Let’s start out that we are not great golfers and at times each of us thinks we could be good if only a little more practice, like if I could only putt better or I am not good around the greens or if I could hit the ball longer and straighter. I think you get the idea.

Here we are every Wednesday playing golf together and at time we can be bickering about nothing or something that has no real importance.

Do over’s are not in the rules of golf, but you will hear that term from time to time in our foursome. A do over is usually used when whoever was trying to hit that little white ball and it doesn’t go where the hitter wants it to go, so they call for a do over. What is funny in many cases the do over is worse the original shot.

Enough about do over’s let get to the real funny stuff. One of the guys, who I’ll leave nameless, will bring up a rule in golf and another, who will also be nameless, will say that he doesn’t think that is right and the discussion begins. At times it can get to be more than a discussion. If I am not involved I will find the discussion funny, but when I am involved it’s a different story.

Each one of us has our own way of describing our bad shots. Me I can but a little extra action in my disgust by pounding my club in the ground a few times. One of my other partners always gives himself a verbal beating for doing something wrong, or how about the” how I could do that.” This is precious, when one of that not to named guy misses a putt he’ll say I got robbed and I’ll say if you put in the center of the cup it would have gone in.

As you can see I am no saint when playing golf, but once it over it’s over. The four of set down in the nineteenth hole and have a drink and most cases it is Ice tea. Then we pour over the what if’s and realized if we were a little bit better we really could have had a good round.

When you have true fiends no matter what happens you always remain friend.

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What is a grump?

How about the room cheers up when he leaves? Some people might call a grump a grouch. Others might see a grump as a complaining type of person. Would being eccentric qualify as grump? That is for you decide. As you can see there are lots’ of way to be a grump.

If a person was being positive at the top of their lungs and being absolutely wrong, it that a grump? A grump manager is like a seagull because when he barges in he makes a lot of noise, dumps over everything and then moves out.

Grumps can be real pains in butt, like this one I am going to tell you about. She is at party and it’s getting late. The group has thinned out and she talking with a couple people. It doesn’t matter the subject but all of a sudden she is the expert and lets everyone know it, besides that if you don’t agree with her she tell you don’t know anything.

Here is one that uses to frost me, but know that I am more aware I just let it roll off my back. The situation is your doing something and the, I’ll call this person a grump, steps in starts doing whatever you were doing and in reality they don’t know how to do it and screw everything up. What I do in that type of situation is walk away and count to ten.

If you can see there is pattern starting to develop. Most people either don’t like grumps and or are greatly annoyed by them. So they try to avoid them. That is too bad because some grumps are very good at s some things, like clear thinking. The problem is it hard to stay around them long enough to hear the results of their clear thinking.

There is so much more that I will be telling you about grump, so stay tuned.

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Dad’s Day

Sunday as almost every knows was “Fathers Day” and yes I am a father so I got the call from our boys. Our Dallas son called and his girls give me a special father’s day cheer. Oldest son called us from Disney World because his family surprised him with the trip.

The reason I didn’t call it Fathers day is our boys never said ‘Oh father can you help me” or “ father thank you for coaching me”. No it was away dad this and dad that to that is why I call it Dad’s day.

I was sleeping in because our friends had us over for dinner to celebrate mine and two others of our friends that have birthday in June. The host prepared two tenderloins that where so tender that the meat almost melted in your mouth. The potatoes that where mixed with cheese tasted like they came out of heaven. The wine and peach gobbler with ice cream finished me off. So that is why I slept in father’s day.

Once I got my eyes open I saw this great looking flowery shirt that Micki was showing me with big smile on her face say “ Happy Fathers day. She also got me some golf balls, which I really need. Sense we rebuilt our golf course, which has twenty more acres of water, which I am having my golf ball fly into quite often.

In our house if you don’t have a sense a humor your’ in deep trouble. If Micki ever gave me sentimental card I would know there was something wrong. She always gives me and her friend’s card that is most people won’t give to their mother.
Here is what my father’s day card said. “ I you didn’t marry me would be driving someone else crazy”.

Dad’s day for me was special because I was laughing most of the time and it is now know laughing is good for you health. I also spent a lot of time smiling and saying thank you, which are all important in keeping you self happy which in turn if very healthy for you.

Laughing, smiling and saying thank you are just a few things that can keep you happy. By the way happy people live long and enjoy life more that those that are not happy.


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What is happiness with wealth and knowledge?

Happiness is knowledge and it doubling every five years. So there is never a lack of knowledge to help you on your way to happiness.

Years ago if you were serious about gaining knowledge in a special field you had to go to the library. Yes I spent many hours in a library during my college years.
Today it so much easier, just get on the Internet and the world of knowledge is at your finger tips. You hear this a lot when someone doesn’t know something, Google it.

There are many search engines, but Google is the King. Micro Soft is trying to go big time with Bing. I hear that is pretty good, but old habits are hard to change so I am still Google guy.

If you want to get even deeper in a subject go to Google and click on G-mail, then at the top you will find more. When you click on more you get a drop down. Then click on scholar and you will find “Scholar Google” There you can find papers on your subject and other research studies.

You can get so much information that it can make your head spin, but for me that is great. Just think if you want to know score of a ball game, you can get it or you might want to find out about our space program and how it is coming along.
There is no question you can’t ask, but you might not get the answer you were thinking you would get.

The more we know the easier it is to make good decisions and by making better decision the world gets a little better. The more knowledge we have the better we are had making the world a better place.

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He remembered this?

This about our son Todd. He was defensive end at Mankato State University. It being a division two football school and they had a playoff system. Mankato won the right to play in the playoffs. As you can imagine everyone in our family was ecstatic.

The game was to be played in Fargo ND the week after thanksgiving. That was no problem for us because we had been flying up that way to see Todd games. I orders tickets to fly to Minneapolis and we would drive the rest of the way. Then I made Hotel reservation in Fargo at the Radisson
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The day of the flight came and we were off. It is not that bad of a drive to Fargo from Minneapolis, just long enough to get relaxed.
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We found the Radisson and went to check in. If you have ever been in that part of our country you know the people are very nice and the front deck gal was as nice as she could be. When she found out that we were from Ft. Lauderdale she took a step back and said “why would you be here this time of the year.”

We told her that we were here because of the playoff game between Mankato and North Dakota State tomorrow and son was playing. She told us that it was going to be about 12 degrees and 25 MPH wind tomorrow and even the locals won’t go to a game in that kind of weather. That wasn’t going to stop us.

Up we go to the room and wait for Todd to call because he wanted to come over and visit. Sure enough the phone rang and it was Todd. He said he would be right over.
There was Todd’s normal pound on the door and I let him in. I guess when you six foot four and all conference defensive end you can pound on the door. The first thing he did was to find the local telephone book and open it and started looking through it. He found what he was looking for and said “ Great Grandpa Lindemann was sure busy when he was here.”

Years earlier I had told Skip and Todd about my grandpa had come up to North Dakota to work in the wheat fields in the summer and log in Minnesota in the winter.

How he remember this I have no idea, but he did. Then Todd said “ There is almost one whole page of Lindemann’s in the phone book.” I really think he was proud of his Great Grandpa.

By the way Mankato State that very cold Saturday won, so it was worth frizzing our you know what’s off.

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Being mentored

We are all mentors and have been mentored, even if we didn’t know it. I am not going to go over the academic types of mentoring or the ones you might have read or heard about that organization use. I am going to tell you about my mentor and he was a GREAT one.

First, this mentor didn’t spend hour telling me what and how to do things, that wasn’t his way. He mentored me by his example so let’s take a look at what he did.
My mentor was a hard working individual, so guess what we did, we worked hard together. It could be building a building, cleaning out a building or painting something. We did it together. You might have figured it out by now, but my mentor was my dad.

I never looked at as he was my mentor tell much later in my life. One thing I thought I is a gopher. That means whatever Dad needed when we were doing something and wasn’t close by he sent me. It was go for this and go for that. I must tell you I wasn’t a very good finding things and many times my Dad would come and find whatever he wanted for himself. When that happened I really wished I was somewhere else, but it taught me to look better.

He also taught me to finish what you start. I build an eleven for utility race boat when I was fourteen. Dad helped me lay out the transom and that was the extent of his help. Oh, he would check out the progress and encourage me. And he couldn’t miss what I was doing, because the boat building project took up half the garage.
In the spring of the year the boat was ready to be launched. It floated and I put my fifteen hoarse motor on and I was off. I think my Dad was happier and prouder than I was.

Now to the deep stuff, respecting others, practically those that deserve your respect like adults. I can remember this to this day. One of my dad’s good friends stopped by to our house to chat. I was there and wanting to be friendly I said “Hi Oggie.” That was the wrong thing for eight year old to say to an adult. I’ll just say he said “His name is Mr. Cook.” Then he explained that I was to call adults by their last name and use Mr. , Mrs. or Ms. You can bet I learn a great lesson that day.

Helping other was something my dad did at a drop of a hat. If a friend needed help and he could help he did. That has stuck with me my whole life. I could write a book about what I learned from my Dad and I migh
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I’ll leave you with the most valuable lesson of my mentoring process. It is not what you say, but what you do.

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Caring

Do you remember when you were sick and your mother made sure that she did everything in her power to make you feel better. She would hold you to help you keep warm. She would bring you warm soup or whatever was the family secret food was that made people feel better.

Your mother cared so much, she might set with you and hold your hand or just smile at you. In so many ways I think the caring did more to get us over whatever we had than anything
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My reason for bring this up is how important caring is to our mental and physical health. You know something when people really care is shows. When people care they don’t even have to say anything because there seem to be a radiation of love when you are around them.

Yes at times we need medical attention, but for sure we always need caring. What caring does is reinforces our self esteem, which in turn helps build our immune system. Today we are finding out how our own immune system can fight off the worst of deceases.

Last year I had a hole in my retina. If that had happened to me fifteen years ago my Doctor said they would not have been able to help me. But, today he could and did. The hole in my retina is close and that is wonderful, but the real story is how Micki took care of me.

I had to keep my face down for four day and that was day and night, except to put drops in. You quest it Micki made sure my face was down, by the way keeping your face down is a real pain, and made sure every drop was in my eye on time every time.

This is the funny part Micki had to drive me everywhere for two weeks, she only asked me two things. One I couldn’t tell her how to drive and two don’t give her directions. I did keep my part of the bargain, though I must say I had to bite my tongue at time

The caring Micki, I am sure, help make for a successful result. And when Micki had back surgery and should reconstruction I was there and loved every minute of caring for her.

The whole point is by caring for others you receive so much more that you ever give.

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