I was a musician in my teenage years and often deprived myself of sleep rehearsing and playing gigs. After the music career subsided, my obsession became model helicopters and weekends were late night marathons of building, catching 2 or 3 hours sleep and heading to the field for a few hours flying, lunch then a nap and Sunday night getting back to a normal sleep cycle that I maintained during the week.
After a divorce, I cared for my father until his death. To do this, I took on several part-time jobs so I could check on him, cook a meal, administer medicine, cat nap and head to another job.
30 years later, I find myself doing the same broken sleep cycle syndrome. I'll work on a design project, catch a few 'winks' shower, go to work, come home have dinner, take a nap and start all over again.
I read somewhere that Thomas Edison possessed a similar ability to work to exhaustion, take a nap (on a cot in his workshop) get up and continue with his projects.
Retirement wasn't something I considered and I was with my daughter this evening (setting up a wireless printer) and she's going out for a week on job training. Her comment was 6 more years until she can retire. I know if I retire it will be a never ending series of projects, be it home renovations or hobbies. Collectively, I'd be getting 6 hours sleep every 24 hours, but it (most likely) won't be in one session.
I came across an interesting story today about anxi-vaxxers using the drug Ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.
According to the FDA, Ivermectin, is generally used to treat or prevent parasites in animals. It's NOT an anti-viral drug and it is highly concentrated to be used on large animals like horses and cows. High doses of this drug is/can be toxic to humans.
One manufacturer warned people it's not to be used to treat or prevent COVID-19. But that doesn't stop people from going to the feed store and buying some!
Mississippi poison control has seen a rise in calls of people using Ivermectin obtained from livestock supply. While there is a formula of Ivermectin intended for humans it's a totally different grade and not found in the same place you buy cowbells.
Mooove over. I need some Ivermectin.
I do like that logic. Be fearful of a vaccine and rush to get medicine used to rid cows of parasites.
I selected the blog category of 'health' because 'stoopid' wasn't available.
As I watched the video, I wasn't sure what the end result was going to be. It appeared to be the consistency of salt water taffy, then as they worked it and the candy cooled it was brittle as though they were working with glass.
Al that work is revealed in the last minute of the video.
During the pandemic, many women on CS changed their occupation status to student.
I see spending the time wisely has paid off. There are lots of new profiles listing their education level as masters degree making less than $25,000 and... they are working in a salon doing nails/pedicures.
Obviously something wrong here...
I was up early for a client meeting west of me and on the way back (heading east) I passed a private school with 'golf course grass' along the front of the property. We are getting radical changes in temperature this time of the year. Afternoons register 105F degrees in the car and 78F degrees this morning. Combined with daily rains, the humidity is very high.
The entire lawn was covered with dew that glistened in the sunlight. It appeared white like a fresh dusting of show and disappeared as the angle of the sun changed.
The song Morning Dew was covered by many. Written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson and released in 1962. I first heard the Jeff Beck version on his 1968 album Truth that featured Rod Stewart on vocals.
I saw this story last week and it's still on my news feed. It's about a man in Vancouver, Canada who went through the McDonald's drive-thru. He dropped something from the window while paying for his order and opened the door to retrieve it. The car rolled forward with the door open and him leaning out. The door strikes part of the building pinning the man between the frame and door.
First responders were unable to revive the man and sadly he died on the scene. Police said there is surveillance of the incident, but are seeking dashcam footage or an eyewitness.
Considered a freak accident as no other vehicles were involved, but it's not the first time someone was injured or killed in a similar way.
I've heard of people putting their car in park to make the payment then then accidentally putting it in reverse only to strike the car behind them!
As I traveled around my city today I noticed many flags being flown at half-mast in remembrance of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.
At the time I was working from home as a salesman for a kitchen company. My daughter phoned to tell me to turn on the TV to see the news.
20 years ago and life just flew by...
The signs are on the highway. Now that I'm doing half the miles as I did when I lived in Miami, I still enjoy a drive on a few roads in south Florida.
This was the case on Sunday when I drove to Miami Beach to drop off samples to a customer, catch a few model helicopter flights with friends, get a haircut, visit my daughter and grocery shop. I logged in more than 150 miles.
The 2 main roads were I-95 and I-595 that each have 5 lanes.
Speed limit on both is 65mph.
Yesterday I was in the middle lane for most of my travels and at times doing 80-85mph.
But... that doesn't matter how much I exceed the limit as cars fly past me on both sides. What pisses me off is when they swerve around and cut in front of me from both sides so aggressively the 2 cars almost collide.
It's not like I'm doing 50 being tailgated and in the wrong lane, but I find that I have to prepare well ahead of my exit as cars that normally merge to the right into the deceleration lane. Often I see drivers who are willing to drive on the right shoulder, cut in front the car making an exit, then skate across 2 lanes to get back into the flow of traffic.
I did have a theory that worked for a while... Stay in the left lane and limit the number of morons to only the right side. I did have one try to sideswipe me on the left as he squeezed into the safety zone.
Slower traffic keep right...
I watched a rare interview from 1993 of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts who died this week at the age of 80. Initially, Charlie was a graphic artist (who did some record sleeves for the Stones) interested in jazz and became friends with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones.
Charlie had played rhythm & blues in clubs around London before becoming a Rolling Stone in 1963 when asked to join the band. That gig lasted 58 years and he performed every concert and played on every album!
It must have been difficult for Charlie as he was very shy and avoided interviews and media coverage with the only exception for his love of fashion and owning some 200 bespoke (custom) suits.
Mentioned in the interview, Charlie was self-taught and learned by listening to records of other drummers. Pair of diddles... is a funny takeoff for a basic drumming rudiment called PARADIDDLE consisting of four even strokes played in the order left-right-left-left or right-left-right-right.
He died in a hospital and had undergone some earlier unspecified emergency procedure. No other details to his death had been provided.
It's difficult getting the lyrics 100% on some songs. I blogged about this before.
An old song came on the radio today that needs clarification.
It's
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.
You may have heard it... what sounds like:
"I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark, we're livin' in a polygag and givin' off spock"
Is really:
"I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark, we're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks"
Yeah...
Bonnie turned 70 this year!
I was channel surfing yesterday and came across a show about people who take extreme measures to prepare for doomsday. The family on the episode had a garage filled with food and items to sustain themselves for months. The husband bought a large military surplus truck designed to travel on rough terrain. They went on a field trip where the man reveals a cavern with a steel door where they planned to live. They descended down by ladder and had plans to stay there in the event of some Apocalypse/world-ending catastrophe.
I see there was a landing with stairs down to the entrance. Hope he doesn't encounter 5 days of rain or the entrance will flood and they could be swimming inside that cavern!
Anyway, I went to YouTube to see if I could find that episode and to my surprise all kinds of 'prepper' videos showed up. Survival bunkers, living off the grid instructions, combat training, weapons needed, emergency food and medicine stockpile, protective gear, batteries, gas & generators, solar power, bicycle generators.
Some of the statistics say only 1% of the population will survive an Apocalypse.
When I hear the word prepper, I usually think of pepper... as in Dr. Pepper.
"Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"
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