I have a female cousin who is the same age as me. Our birthdays are a week apart.
She's in New Jersey and rarely do we communicate. Different priorities in life.
I recall after a long absence I did speak to her and discussed getting older. My mention of grey hair must have been a sore subject. She colors her hair and I don't.
It must have shocked her to say the first grey hair I recall getting was on my chest. Hopefully she doesn't have any chest hair!
News at 11 tonight stated there was a data breach in the State of Florida computers for unemployment. While they are unsure of what information was captured, all applicants have entered personal information that included social security numbers and banking information.
I haven't experienced COVID-19 testing first hand. Should I need to, there are few centers near me, one being about a mile away. I see in local news, Home Depot has setup testing centers in their parking lots. I'll have to pass by one this weekend and see how many are in line.
Some people report there are no lines... does that mean less people with symptoms? That's a good thing in my book. If it's because people are apathetic, that could be a bad thing as asymptomatic carriers could unknowingly infect others.
A friend of mine works in a busy office and required to wear a mask when outside of his cubicle.
I heard one of the local manufacturing companies had a worker test positive. They shut down for 2 days and had a crew come in to sanitize the place. Routine testing is now required for the workers.
Testing, testing, testing... That's the only way to stay ahead of the trouble.
Online, surgical masks in quantity are around $0.75 each. A local vendor has packs of 4 at $12.50 and I doubt they will sell many at those prices. They are cashing in on corona... or at least attempting?
A friend told me Walgreens now has stock and selling a box of 20 masks for $12.
That's the right price.
America made a poor attempt to convert to metric in the 1970's and with the exception of tools and some engineered products, we switched back to the imperial system learned from England.
Last time I checked, America, Liberia and Myanmar were the only countries still measuring by feet and weighing by pounds. Thanks England for abandoning us!
It's time to set the record books straight.
Let's start with the 1967 song 98.6 by Keith.
From now it's "Hey 37C, it's good to have you back again... Oh hey 37C, her lovin' is the medicine that saved me..."
I'm getting calls, letters and emails from people and companies all reminding me about new COVID-19 changes they have implemented. Enough already. The air conditioning serviceman will arrive with masks, gloves and booties. I know who to call when my a/c breaks, I don't need to be reminded every week.
I haven't purchased from Guitar Center in a year and now they will deliver to my car when I order online. 2 emails a week telling me this.
Time to get out the bug spray because they are crawling out of the woodwork now...
I made a sales call to a customer who admits being a hoarder. I shook my head and said I understand. Wanting to know my story, she asked and I said it was more of collecting than hoarding. My shed was filled with years of hand drawings for kitchens and furniture, family photos, memorabilia and things I was holding for friends and family who didn't return to claim them.
80% is gone now and it's hard to unload the rest.
Tools? Sure I've got 3 jigsaws. I'll keep the best one and unload the others. I don't need a machete anymore or do I... No plans to go postal so I'll gift it to someone at work.
Strangely, my brother asked today about the wall plaque my father received when he was in the Navy aboard the battleship USS Missouri where the Empire of Japan signed a surrender which ended World War II. Yeah, I replied. I had it in my hand yesterday and don't know what to do with it. I'm glad he said it's okay to mail to him along with other family memorabilia.
No room, no time for it.
My neighbor is nice enough to hold a dozen plastic storage bins of mine and I'm trying to take 2 every visit. It's a holiday weekend and that could be four that get moved. I have many things to unload and will probably do some local Craig's list or offer up.
2 used jigsaws... make offer!
Coming or going... this should be easy, but people usually get it wrong.
Is there a rule in English explaining this? I don't know.
but, I do know COME to or GO away.
I'm GOING to the movies tonight. Right?
We are GOING to the movies tonight. Right?
If I booked some service calls and the boss wants to know what is happening, I would be correct to say the serviceman is GOING to see Mrs. Smith at 2pm
I'm here and you are there. I invite you to my house and I say "Come over"
Let's say, you cannot go out and instead, invite me. You say "Come over."
In both cases the person is GOING to meet the other person.
Expecting you to COME to my house, I call and ask your whereabouts it's incorrect to say "I'm coming to your house" because (from your perspective) you are GOING to my house.
Coming or going... got it?
Next blog I think I'll address the abbreviated spelling of etcetera again.
I just got the news my extended family in a land far, far away had their first born today. Sadly, we cannot travel to be there for the event.
If you haven't noticed, the internet is saturated. One place of saturation is the website Pinterest. What seemed like a good idea to 'pin things of interest' has become never-ending pages of repetition that link to other pages of never-ending repetition.
There is no end to it. Twitter is not far behind where you scroll down and down and down and cannot find the end of whatever you started looking for with the same retweeted BS over & over.
Years ago my customers would email links to a website called houzz. In it were beautiful photos of kitchens and furniture settings. That's where they got ideas... the ones they shouldn't be using. The example is their kitchen 9 feet by 8 feet, barely large enough to put all the requirements of a functioning kitchen and they are looking at the 'wish list' kitchen photos probably 15 feet by 12 feet asking me to design a separate refrigerator and freezer combo that requires 6 feet and a hearth style range that needs 5 feet.
I remember telling a client, the kitchen in the photo is much larger than your kitchen. It's not possible to fit both. Either you get the cooking and no refrigeration or the refrigeration and no cooking. You decide.
This week, I went on a sales call. Townhouse with a really small kitchen and she's on a budget. The customer did her research and showed me pictures from Pinterest. One was a pullout gadget that was all expense and little function.
I'm sure that gadget was pinned a gazillion times and every salesman was asked to incorporate them into a design simply because it looked so good.
I watched a men's tennis tournament last weekend from an undisclosed private court in Palm Beach County.
All I could see was the 2 players and a chair umpire. I didn't see a line umpire. There were no ball boys or other people on the court. Less than 10 people sitting in chairs under tents at least 50 feet away from the court. The tall fence around the court had dark green wind breaker screen so the players were without distraction.
Boom cameras were at the ends of the event and only peered over the top of the fence.
This was a real tournament, but an official match tennis like I've not seen before.
Today, it was women's tennis. Same court.
Sure I've seen practice sessions, took lessons, played on private courts many times.
This tennis was pure-player without the anger, crowd pleaser and emotions of people watching and cheering. I actually enjoyed it more!
Between play, they did a drone view from a few hundred feet and you can see it's a single court in someone's back yard. Maybe 3 acres of land with 20 cars in a row line along the back. No doubt, from the video crew players and coaches.
Except for the players, everyone was wearing an N95 mask.
we can add Robert Conrad to the list of actors who have passed on.
The Wild Wild West actor dead at 84
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