My neighbor is in her 80's and her son living with her is in his 60's. Originally from New Jersey, they would spend winters in Florida and summers at home. COVID changed their schedule and it looks like they are going to be here year-round.
I've only seen her 3 times and one of those times, paramedics had to escort her to emergency. Her son rarely comes out too. Usually, to check mail or to get groceries. He doesn't go far as he carries oxygen, usually by a portable machine slung over his shoulder with a nasal cannula and short tubing.
I know when they are up as I hear them 'bumbling around' as early as 5am. Banging doors or walls loud enough to wake me from a sound sleep. Usually, breakfast is around 7am. I know this as I can hear them scooting their wooden chairs on the tile floor. The chair dragging is intermittent, but it actually goes on all day. Sometimes, it sounds like they are rearranging furniture and pushing the dining table back and forth a few feet.
If you have experienc dragging a chair to the table in a few 'short bursts' you probably know the sound I'm describing.
I consulted a friend about offering them some self-adhesive felt pads they could stick on the bottom of the chair legs, but I'm told that's a bad idea and I sold just tolerate the dragging noises... at least I know they are alive!
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I'm not sure how Rudolph Giuliani aka Rudy Giuliani gets to pronounce his name Jew-lee-on-knee, but the former New York mayor and lawyer was walking the edge of a quagmire for a few years now and has lost his footing.
His largest claim to fame has been lawyer for Donald J. Trump and that's getting him in a world of trouble for the 2020 election with claims of fraud.
In 2022 he was campaigning (soliciting) for his son in a grocery store when one of the workers tapped him on the back and called him a name (What's up scumbag?) and Rudy claimed he was hit so hard it felt like a shot or being hit with a boulder.
The man was arrested and lost his job. Surveillance video shows a totally different perspective to Rudy's claim. The guy is suing Rudy for $2 Million for false arrest.
The new news is a woman who claims to having been a former associate to Rudy is owed back wages and claims to have been forced into a s*xual relationship. She's seeking $10 Million and says she's got audio to back up her story.
The tip of the iceberg is the claim that Rudy and Donald J. Trump had a plan to sell presidential pardons for $2 million each.
If all this is true, Rudy could slip into the quagmire and possibly take the former president with him.
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What was it, last week when Donald J. Trump attended the CNN Town Hall meeting and stated he was allowed to take classified documents when leaving the White House?
Apparently, that wasn't a good thing as his lawyer Tim Parlatore, announced a few days later that he's leaving the team.
Trump remains under federal investigation for mishandling classified documents as he left the White House in January 2021.
Personally, I think they are dragging this out...
How much more proof is the government looking for?
I'm curious if Parlatore will get paid for his services.
Link (one of many)
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The legendary NFL running back Jim Brown has died at the age of at 87.
Having played for the Cleveland Browns, he was elected to the Pro Football of Fame in 1971 and went on to be a movie star and civil rights activist. According to his wife, he passed peacefully in his sleep...
Rest in peace Jim Brown.
I had a interesting day starting at 5am and back to back meetings. I'm getting 2 of my clients complaints about some new system of electronically signing documents. My statement to management is START WITH THE NEW ORDERS and not penalize the orders already in house as it's bumping them to the back of the priority list.
For a few weeks, I worked with a general contractor doing a total house renovation and though I stressed for him to approve the details of my sales drawings, they go to engineering/design to make the actual shop drawings the factory builds from. He was obsessing for every little detail that cost a few weeks 'dotting all the i's and crossing all the T's.' The job is an hour drive from me, but I pushed every facet of the sale. I made a special trip to pick up the deposit check I made a special trip to drop off samples for the homeowner to approve. I had a sample door made for them and drove it down the same day it was painted (wrapped in a towel and put in a box, I was on the highway with the windows open a few times to keep the paint fumes from knocking me out) for special approval. At least 3 back and forth messages to tweak drawings.
I got annoyed as the office cannot put his order into production because he questioned the temperature of the lighting. We used to do 3,000K and switched to a brighter 4,000K. He want's 3,000K to match the lighting in the house.
"Put the order into production, there's no reason ho hold it for a change in light color"
I got a message to review the new drawings with a color of lighting change this afternoon. Nap time came around 5:30 so I'll check the drawing later tonight.
It would appear the 6 to 8 weeks delivery will now be about 14 weeks.
Order processing delays will be my topic of discussion in the sales meeting tomorrow morning!
Background for the reason of my blog title and for those of you who don't speak Spanish. I learned the phrase about 45 years ago as a draftsman where all my coworkers were Hispanic. I was the only Gringo in the drafting department and picked up a few phrases along the way. Yo no soy bobo means, I'm not stupid.
Before logging in tonight, I scanned the new members list to see a woman who could easily qualify for the most beautiful new CS member. I won't give out her name and location, but her photo referenced to an Instagram profile of a woman originally from Venezuela that linked to a TikTok page where she uses her real name with the prefix Yo Soy (first name, last name)
Yo soy translates to "I am"
Wow...
is it possible a REAL person is a new member on CS?
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Since I lost 10 pounds this year through daily walking and LESS FOOD, I've been watching YouTube videos about what foods to eat and what foods to avoid. There are easily 20 different contributors who claim to be doctors with all sorts of advice on the subject of improving health.
Most of them talk about Keto or Ketosis and avoiding sugar and carbohydrates. Okay, I get it. But... Up until I started watching these videos, I was always told by the medical professionals in real life, that breakfast should be the most important meal of the day.
Now, I'm hearing as crazy as one meal around 5pm.
I get the short term fasting and the avoidance of sugar and carbohydrates, but a routine of planned starvation with only one meal a day doesn't 'sound like' sound advice.
I'm debating if I should post some of those videos that I think fall off the edge of the earth.
Clean your liver by eating these foods, toxins in these foods, the best way to speed up your metabolism...
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Said many times and places, if you tell a lie enough times, people will believe it to be the truth. That often spawns conspiracy theories. Sometimes the facts don't align with the stories.
There will always be a mystery about the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. They died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in July 1999.
I've seen a handful of videos and some airplane animation of the flight path. Okay, that looks viable. A few things that tipped me off of something suspicious that wasn't right.
Senator Edward Kennedy who was the uncle to JFK Jr. identified the body. The autopsy was rushed and the body cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.
This is the best one:
While I heard it was the Identifications to the 3, I later read it was the registration papers to the airplane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. washed up, soggy but intact, on the very beachfront property he owned.
The plane went down and was found at a depth of 116 feet about 8 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. I cannot 'fathom' how the registration magically washed up on his property.
I'm thinking, tell a lie enough times...
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I first heard the term 'swatting' when Marjorie Taylor Greene complained about people calling the police to say she was in a middle of a domestic violence dispute. Cops rushed to her house thinking there was trouble. False alert having them show up at your door, especially if it's in the early morning hours!
A similar term SWATing is when the report is more serious and the SWAT team shows up. This time it was when Steve Bannon was doing a live podcast from a studio in Washington, DC when someone called to say there was a shooting.
Police raided Steve's home (and podcast studio) responding to calls of a shooting at the location. since it was live, his podcast audience heard a scuffle in the background before the host switched to an ad break.
Later in the show, Bannon explained the noise. "We got 'swatted' in the middle of the show."
Apparently, this has happened more than once.
Story link:
Now that Fox News has settled with Dominion and agreed to pay $787.5 million in their defamation case, does this mean the election wasn't rigged?
Is this the end to the belief that Trump won and as he says should be installed as the president?
Does this mean that Fox News makes it to the top of the reporters of fake news?
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System blog number 67,010 where it was 67,956 yesterday.
More than a year ago I was having some pain to a molar that previously had a root canal and crowned. The dentist took an x-ray and found nothing. The recommendation was maintenance, so the hygienist did a deep clean and applied a thick paste into the gum line that I wasn't to brush out for 48 hours. I'm not sure of the name of the product, but it has some antiseptic properties and the pain subsided.
The problem appears to have returned as I'm getting sensitivity to pressure (I cannot chew gum or it aggravates the condition) and slight pain from cold, so I no longer put ice cubes in my mouth.
I'm with a different dentist now and explained my dental history. She took x-rays and couldn't find any infection or cause for the pain. The recommendation was (another) deep cleaning. Unlike the previous maintenance that only required the area to be desensitized, this one required full Novocaine injections.
As long as I'm in the chair, shouldn't we do both sides?
Okay, she replied.
It's amazing how they describe getting a needle as a 'little pinch' when they are going all the way to the back... the area that shuts off all sensation to the front of the jaw.
I said "Why do you call it pinch when it's much more than that?"
She said "Should I call it harpoon?"
I replied, "Yeah, that's more appropriate."
4 injections, 30 minute wait, 30 minutes of digging, scraping and cavatron followed by an antiseptic rinse, I was done.
My entire lips and jaw area was numb for more than 2-1/2 hours.
I didn't follow instructions about not eating until the numbness wears off and the bite on the inside of my cheek should be gone in a few days!
While I was uncomfortably numb, I went home to play comfortably numb.
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I'm in a pondering mood today thinking about decisions I made along the way in life and what would have happened if I chose a different path.
I have a few different model helicopters. They vary in size and power. While I like to fly the smaller ones, the larger ones are more precise and easier to fly. One of my favorites is a middle size, so it's got the good power without sacrificing performance.
I told one of my friends I wanted to buy another helicopter but unsure of what to get next. Holding back, I decided to wait a while. This model has been in production for a number of years and I recently saw a YouTube video where one guy has over 200 flights with all the original parts. Nothing failed or had to be replaced.
I wanted to get one as a backup and missed a sale where the manufacturer dropped the price and they sold out. I was able to get one from a retailer who only had one in stock. Now, I've got a spare... just in case I crash and need a backup. The model is discontinued now, but tech support said they will keep parts for a few years.
My friend, has bought and sold at least 20 in the last 2 years. If he gets a new model and doesn't like it, he lists at the helicopter classified site and it's quickly sold. Right now his favorites are all larger, high performance models that have been in production less than a year. All new stuff.
For now, I'm sticking with what I have as it's 1/3 the cost of the larger models. If I had to do it again, I suppose I could sell what I have and choose something from a different manufacturer.
I bought a new car this year. It's more substantial than the previous car. While I liked the liked the one I traded, the seat was small and and the interior road nose while on the highway was excessive. If I had to do it again, would I have chosen the model I currently have? Probably, knowing what I know now, the model below my selection with front wheel drive (and not all wheel drive) would have been fine and I wouldn't have selected it in a metallic grey. White requires more washing, but in 103 degree weather it would have been cooler sitting in the hot sun.
What else?
Probably the most significant if I had to do it again situation was a love relationship, gone wrong that happened about 14 years ago. We dated casually and although she had her own house, she moved in with me for convenience. After I realized her personality wasn't right for me, I called it off and asked her to move back to her place. She started dating another guy that only lasted a few weeks and wanted me back in her life. Foolishly, I let her in. She was flying around the room on her broomstick one night and I couldn't take any more and I had to call off the relationship a second time.
She came to my door a few times, but I wouldn't unlock the security gate.
If I had to do that again, I shouldn't have allowed her to move in and certainly not tried a second time with her.
More?
There will be more, I'm sure.
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At 4:45 this morning, several phones in my house sounded an alarm. I got up to read the message:
Imminent extreme alert
TEST - This is a TEST of the Emergency Alert System.
No action is required.
Little do they know, some action is required. That message could have gone to a few hundred thousand cellphone users and someone should be responsible for their actions.
I equate that to yelling FIRE! in a movie theater and then saying "Only kidding."
As a kid, we had Civil Defense sirens located around the city, usually on top of schools or government buildings, designed to be used in the event of extreme emergency... like Russia sending off some nuclear missiles from Cuba that's only 90 miles away!
You could set your clocks by it as they sounded on the first and third Saturday exactly at 1pm and run for about 3 minutes. Yes, testing at 1pm.
I'd certainly like to know what genius scheduled emergency tests at 4am.
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