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Hi to everyone

This is my first entry/attempt as a blogger, which makes me a newbie to this.

I'm proud of myself for taking this first baby step into the unknown world of blogging.

So i must sincerely apologise in advance, if I stumble along the way, as I'm a constant work in progress. Please bear with me on this point.

I will get better as my confidence in myself grows, and I know I will embrace this unknown and become more and more confident within myself, as I slowly learn to hopefully become a seasoned blogger. Fingers crossed. :-)

I will end here for now, because this is a start. I've had the courage to write this and for me, that in itself is a HUGE accomplishment for me.

This first blog is just an explanation to anyone out there who chooses to read my future stories, that I've taken this first step.

Wish me luck. I will be back.

Take care and more importantly, be safe.

I'm enjoying the freedom of not having a job, but my list of accomplishments seems to have fallen off the face of the earth! Quote me on this: "I'm getting less done being retired than when I was working a 50 hour a week job."

Probably 10 months ago when carrying a printer up the stairs one night, I caught the paper tray on the handrail and a screw popped out from under the machine. I've got the screw but have no idea where it actually came from. The print quality was horrible and I professed many times I'd replace the machine. Office Depot was running a sale on the newer model and offered $50 for a trade-in of any old printer. I got lucky... this one is wireless network ready so I can put the printer anywhere and use it with any computer, tablet or cellphone on my network. Is this one of my biggest accomplishments of 2020? Hmmm...

Okay, working on home renovation was a real struggle. My mother had a saying "That will take a month of Sundays to do" in that, if you could only work on something Sunday and you worked at it for 30 weeks to finish... she was right. If everything follows course that episode (sale of a house) will be over within a month. I've got tools and 40 years of memories in storage unresolved until the pandemic dissipates.

My accountant started my taxes in January and I dragged my feet so she filed extensions for me. She sent over the drafts for review 2 weeks ago and this past weekend I did the review. The final final tax papers and quarterly reports arrived this morning for me to sign. Just before the deadline for the quarterly report. An accomplishment I'm not proud of.

I was working on a large remodeling project that got shelved. The client called to make some adjustments and the boss is happy we didn't lose the sale. I'll probably take that to the next step in a week or so.

Note to self:
You actually have the time now to do what's on your mental and written list.
Need I remind you more?

I really wonder what schools teach these days. Talk to high school graduates and they have so little knowledge of the past now. I know even when I was in school, only bits of history was taught. And grade after grade the same bits. I started out in a one room school. The teacher tried to teach everything she could because she knew some kids would never go beyond 8th grade, particularly farm boys and girls.
I then went to a 4 room which combined the 4 last one rooms. Again they pushed everything they could because that was how they had been programmed to teach.
High school was boring due to knew it from grade school. Plus I had our library at home and parents taught me too. No book was off limits. Learned to be a prolific reader.
This plague is just one of many that humans went through since civilization began. Many plagues occur in countries that lack basic sanitary living conditions in super dense areas. Problem is now with air travel, too much interaction occurs with those countries. Fly to a foreign country and home before you know you are sick.
People today are too complacent. Go to a buffet. How many wash hands before eating? Then those who do use the same serving utensils everyone who didn't paws. Sit down and eat. I have hand sanitizer I use once at table. I open doors by the most awkward place I can, not the common one. Wear gloves in stores all winter. I view everything as contaminated, even aisles someone just breathed in. So I am well prepared for this new plague.
There is a saying that he who does not learn the history of the past is doomed to repeat it. Most of what occurs in the present has teachings in the past. Parents need to get kids to enjoying history. Then they will know we have been there before. And how to deal with things. Like mom used to say..there is nothing new under the sun. And people need to get over the attitude of not me.

Hello lovers!

So many blogs about this famous virus so I decided to just post one of my own.

March 2, we had our first case here in Jordan
government took extreme measures in order to protect us.
launched awareness campaign
halted travel to/from different countries . Thousands of passengers from the last few planes that landed here were taken straight to quarantine areas - 5 star hotels for 14 days.
suspended tourist travels. I had to cancel my trips.
March 10, halted all educational institutions operations, public and private sectors closed down, started working from home
March 17, implemented our National Defense Law, total lockdown.
March 22, the government allowed Gas and Water deliveries
March 23, the government allowed doorstep deliveries of water, bread, and baby formula
March 24, small neighborhood grocery and convenience stores along with pharmacies, drinking-water stores and bakeries were allowed to open from 10:00 to 18:00 .on foot only to get basic supplies; vehicles are still not permitted.
Thursday till Sunday morning, no one allowed to go outside.

425 total cases down to 165 active cases, 7 deaths.

Things here look very promising and could go back to normal soon.

Our government acted early and able to control the spread so yes, I believe the quarantine, lockdown are helping...

meanwhile...

I'm working from home for more than a month now. The company decided to make some golden hand sanitizer so we are busy and still in business, very grateful for that, many out there are losing their job.

this lockdown thingy keeps me grounded and brought me closer to loved ones and old friends. From a distance I'm able to organize a group of young people back home to do something for our small community and help the most needy there. Sent some help to buy sacks of rice and groceries to give to the poorest of poor. Also able to give back to my beloved old convent school, with my classmates, we were able to raise some funds to give to our sisters in need and some of our mentors then. Feels good!

Somehow this virus is doing us a lot of good, we sit back, reflect and realize the most important things in life.

Be well and stay safe everyone!

Hello everyone. Long time no see. Hope you all are doing ok in this world craziness. Please stay healthy and safe all.

Anyway, in Riyadh still keeping the working hours. No matter how I wish to stay home to get some rest, I cannot. I was supposed to go home, but lockdown kept me here, so after my 2-year contract, I'm here and can't move. I am not complaining. Im am very grateful that I still have a job and get paid at the end of the month. However, I'm so freakin tired! I wish to have even just 2 weeks of rest straight..

But I'm ok. Thank God for keeping me healthy and safe althroughout this debacle so far.

Just ranting for a bit guys. Thanks for understanding.

How are you all?

I been noticing on fb and even here, it seems like the depression levels are up because of the virus thing. Not being able to live normally don't help.

Here is a little advice from someone who knows depression inside out. Don't focus on when this is going to be over, instead focus on the day you are on. Ask yourself "what can I do today so when the day is over, I am happier than when the day started". We don't know when this will be over and focusing energy on that is just wasteful and will ruin your day even more. Take it one day at a time. Occupy each day with something, try not to look too much on the end date, focus on the day at hand instead.

This separate paragraph......

writing business.....

really isn't so bad....

after all!

I don't understand why no one ever brought it to my attention before.

But, be careful what you ask for.

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do...
That said, I've had enough of this place.
I'm gone!

Besides, I was up at 5am and did a marathon of internet research. I had enough of this place.














APRIL FOOLS !!

.....Bravo and I were walking into the government offices of this little ocean hamlet, VERY ham. On our way to pay confiscatory taxes---money on its way to much redundancy and waste. Who hasn't seen this? Government employee road work crew, surrounding sewer trench, digging done by oversized backhoe, really only two or three humans needed---one on backhoe, and hand shovelers. Over half a dozen standing/sitting about hole in road, --smoking, joking ---all with paychecks, and government PENSIONS. Crew chief, assistant to crew chief, ad hoc- protempere- adjunct- deputy under secretary to crew chiefs, and so on. Pensions in the dreaded private sector? Don't hold your breaths. Onward we two, and private firm house painters at real work. Merely two souls, busy as bees. Pensions? ---what are those? Same with next few craftperson crews. So, we reach Tax office, at around 10:30, all "workers" gone home, sign on door, "closing at noon, due to storm". No storm within 500 miles. On way home, passed dozens of private businesses, with no "storm early release" notices anywhere in sight. Busy workers. Whence the lack of trust in government, and the phrase, "good enough for government work"'. And suspicion of science, especially as pandering pols wastefully turn it into policy. Using, what?, why OPM of course.The growing dichotomy. Folks on right who produce, create jobs and pay taxes, others on the leftie end of big government pander largesse. Trump Vs. Bernie types. Populism, on the right and LEFT. Of course, as with self loathing, privilege guilt, virtue broadcasting, ---lefties can (constitutionally) only focus with hate speech on the former---only to admit to the latter with a gun held to the head. Science?, on which I've tried to blog to clarify it's essence and real roles/limitations. Well, just remember that Karl Marx himself, son of wealth, ur- communist, proto source of so much human suffering---prefered to combine the terms to describe his and Lenin's craft. "Scientific Economics". Sort of has a nice ring to it, no? Great for public big government policy, as history clearly shows.

....so, with all the worldwide qvetsching about novid 19, all the gloom and doom, I boldly ask, what about the PLUS sides of this latest pander demic? I can think of lots of these. No doubt so can the Brilliant and Dazzling CS Posters' Club. For starters, I no longer have to make up stupid and impossible to believe lies about missing tedious meetings. Did so already several times this week. To whine is human, to be grateful, and sneaky, divine. What a Virus---what a Country!