I had forgotten it was Sunday. Playing on the internet all day, naps, several small meals, negotiating a contract, I had more than 30 windows opened, mostly to YouTube and news when my computer froze. The last page I hit was about masks and mask making. The hard drive cache file must have overloaded, the light never went off. Some web pages have a scripts that my browser dislikes. When the page doesn't respond I usually see a message with the option to continue the script or close the page. That didn't happen. It must have been 6 or 7 minutes and none of the pages responded. I tried closing a few but the computer was too busy to respond. Time for a break...
It was nearing dusk and we decided to walk around the golf course. After living in a country club community for more than a year, yesterday was really the first time we actually walked around the scenic side of the community. It was a good idea to do it again today.
Ducks... a few small lakes with ducks. Tonight, I brought a small piece of bread. As we got to the middle of the course I could see another couple on the walkway feeding ducks. They left and the ducks came right up to me. Momma duck, poppa duck and their 6 baby ducks. Sounds like a fairy-tale? I was breaking off pieces and they came quicker than I could and throw. Obviously, these ducks were accustomed to being fed by humans. Not a new concept for them as they were at my feet waiting.
Just as I had finished, a woman walking the trail started reading me the riot act about feeding the wildlife and how they carry diseases, I responded with "Understood" but that wasn't enough, she continued on (with her well rehearsed speech) and I again acknowledged with "Point made" but that didn't stop her and she continued with "They cross the road and get killed." By then I was making a hand gesture for her to move along as I repeated "Your point was made" Sheesh!
Maybe they should have put up a sign "Do NOT feed the wildlife" I would have expected something like that since they have a doggie poop bag station in the middle of the course of a dog restricted community. Yeah, they have problems with the residents walking their dogs on the golf course.
Back to the apartment for dinner, after checking the news. I see it's the president at another briefing responding to several governor and medical complaints about the lack of test kits.
"We continue to procure millions of swabs, I have something here just happen to have, it's a swab. Looks innocent, not very complicated. Anybody like to see what it looks like? Should I open it, does everybody? Open it up, I will, I will. This is what it's about, right, is it duh, does it remind you of something? Reminds you of this right, ones a swab, ones a Q-Tip. It's actually different, It's very sophisticated actually, but it's a little bit like, so this is the swab and duh, we've ordered a lot of them, they have a lot of them. Some of ahh some of the states err they were shipped to states and the states don't know where they are and but that's it."(transcript as close as I can get it)
For the record, they are BOTH swabs.
Q-TIPS® is a registered trademark of Unilever.
Not every double ended swab is a Q-Tip.
SERIOUSLY, did you believe that last comment he made?
I didn't. Who sent them and to how many states?
How is it possible the White House sent out swabs to 'the states' and they don't know where they are??
Not very complicated.
You smell it? Look what it did to the BS meter...
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