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I'm turning 74 in Aug. I love the beach / ocean where I find my inner music. Mostly listen to old country and blues, but also welcome a variety of genres of music of old and a parrothead at heart. Enjoy meeting new folks, BBQs, drinking beer with family and friends, playing cards, puzzles or board games.

Another shooting in Hollywood, Florida. And what do I see for the crowds? Blacks and maybe other minorities. It is a joke that they blame the whites for all their problems. Can't any of them get together and not start shooting? The news is filled with black criminals. Black violence. To the point that when a news story is on about some shooting, car jacking, shop lifting or abuse..the immediate conclusion is..it will be a black.
I feel sorry for all those fine, upstanding blacks who work hard. Keep a fine home. Raise fine kids. What an insult to them to get thrown into the fire with a bunch of hoodlums. I see government, media, businesses and more peopled with blacks who just wish to live a peaceful life and grab a piece of the pie.
Treat me well and I don't care if you are a green alien.

Has everyone gone insane. Lets put men in swimsuits and then put tuck it undies in Target in front of children. Lets push beer with a trani. Lets have men push tampons. How about a clown in skirt, red wig and uggs prancing around in nature telling people to buy north face! If I was a trans I would be super angry at being made a characture of!
There have always been queers around. They didn't shove it in our faces and just got on with their lives like we all did. What went on in the bedroom, stayed in it. We knew. They knew we knew. Who cares.
Now a minority wants to prance in parades, turn the rainbow into something one discourages a child from wearing so they dont take heat.
As far as pride clothes in stores...If I wanted to buy fetish clothes, stripper clothes or whatever..I would have had to go to a specific store that sold it and had to be over 18. Not pride. Lets shove it in peoples faces as soon as they walk in the stores. Underwear used to be in the back in it's own section. A man blushed if he went to shop for his gal.
Then we get the censorship of books written in history. Guess what. That was the way life was. Read it and make sure it doesnt happen again. Nope. We are going full Marxist now.
Where does it end. They scream racist but ask if you are black or white. Why not red or yellow? How come asking an Asian or American Indian their color is racist but not black or white?
What is the future? I can't sing Old MacDonald had a farm? And a cow? Can't call him old, that is offensive to older folks. Can't say farm cause there were bad things that were called farms. Can't say cow cause it might offend a heavy set woman?
Where does it end? A nation of milk toasts who faint at a discouraging word?

Lessons I learnt today. Never spread quick drying super glue with your fingers, yes my fingers look like a snake shredding its skin.
Never never power wash your feet however filthy they become while power washing.
When cleaning out the spa remember to unscrew the outlet.just couldn't understand why the muck wasn't going.
No its not been one of my brightest days.

An airline passenger recently went to extreme lengths to avoid paying a fee for extra baggage - she wore many of the clothes she had packed to bring down her suitcase's weight, New York Post reported. However, the viral travel hack adopted by many didn't work for her, as she ended up getting a fine from the airline.
Notably, 19-year-old Adriana Ocampo was traveling with airline Jetstar from Melbourne to her home in Adelaide, Australia, after a girls' trip with her friend. After realising her carry-on luggage exceeded the maximum weight limit of seven kilos, she put on all of her extra clothes to avoid the excess baggage fee. Her friend also followed suit, as her case was also over the limit. She piled on almost six kilos of clothing including t-shirts, jackets, jumpers, and trousers. Speaking to South West News Service, Ms. Ocampo said that she ''looked like a bear'' while trying to pull off the stunt. The only way take the weight off their bags is if they put it on , so they started putting on our jackets and coats. As well as layers of jackets and jumpers. One woman had about six layers on and stuff in her pockets”.
''Everyone in line was staring at them and laughing , it was kind of embarrassing. People were annoyed that they were holding the plane up”.
However, their luggage was still more than 1kg over the limit, even with best efforts. The airline told them they had to pay the $65 fine. What's more, she then had to wear all the clothes on the plane as well.
In a statement to The Independent, a Jetstar spokesperson said, ''While we certainly see the funny side, we have limits to carry-on to make it fair for everyone. Keeping track of how much baggage passengers bring onboard means everyone has room for their belongings and we're meeting our safety requirements.''
In a similar incident in 2019, a Filipino airline passenger wore about 2.5 kilograms of clothes to bring down her bag's weight to only 6.5 kg. She also posted a hilarious photo on Facebook which showed her wearing around five pairs of pants and multiple T-shirts and jackets.

Every year there is a major car show in the Wisconsin Dells/Lake Delton. Been on for years. Between tourist season, water park capital of the world, traffic is a pain. And crowds. Used to be at one park and they almost had a system. But, got a hassle so moved to Mt. Olympus water park. And the city and park and club never have seen fit to broadcast how to enter, where to enter, where to park for visitors or anything.
We have given up on it. And so have many car guys we know.
So we went up to the Dells and sat along the main drag in downtown to watch traffic. And except for a T-bucket, a kit 30s roadster, bread truck, a few 60s, the cars were mostly fart poppers. Kids with newer cars that they pretend are hot cars. Lots of noise, burn out from stop lights, yelling and sillyness. Only cool were 3 Mexican choppers sitting at the curb. Fender skirt extensions on back, tractor seat, Desoto head gas tanks. And a radio so loud you couldnt stand there to admire.
We watched cars and people. And I said nothing like here to make me feel ancient. Too many young people walking past.
I looked a photos at the show itself and same idea...cars like driving on the freeways. I think the real hot rodders, restorers, collectors have written the Dells off. Kids more interested in racing around, burning tires and being cool. Guess what children..WE started it all way back. Been there, done that and are not impressed.

I was feeling fine on Friday. I went to work as normal and everything was good.

Saturday I made plans to do some grocery shopping and just restock my fridge, but when I woke up, my throat was sore. Like really sore. I ignored it, thinking "oh, I might just have had a clogged nose during the night, so my throat must have sort of dried out during the night", and I went about my day. I restocked my fridge, but I was feeling worse with every passing minute.

Suddenly, my entire body was burning. I had vertigo, began to sneeze and cough a lot and every muscle in my body started to ache. I sort of just went "Oh, I'm having a very bad cold. Maybe it's because the climate is different? The US had a very dry heat, while the heat here is more wet. Maybe that's what's messing with me?"

I spent most of my Saturday in bed, trying to watch YouTube videos on my phone, but I was overcome with extreme exhaustion. Not good, seeing as I was due to attend my mother's birthday on Sunday. I decided to call her, to let her know that I might not make it, because I was currently feeling like absolute hell. We agreed that I would call back on Sunday to let her know if I was attending or not. That was about 7 PM. I went straight to sleep after that.

Sunday morning, my fever was gone. However, I was still low on energy, and my nose had started to run. Now, I COULD technically have gone to the birthday, but seeing as my newborn niece would be there, it wouldn't be safe for her if I was to attend, so I phoned up my mother to let her know, that I wouldn't be arriving due to my illness.

Luckily my mother is very understanding, so she was all "It's alright. Just focus on getting well", which I tried to do. I did feel a lot better, and my vertigo was gone, so I decided to make the most out of my day at home, and just play video games all day long. I have recently bought Hogwarts Legacy, so I played that for a few hours. I didn't leave my bedroom until 4 pm, when I had to go to the toilet.

A few hours later, I thought "Well, if this is how I feel tomorrow, I'm gonna go to work".. And go to work, I did. I met one of the sales people, and I told him about how I felt, to which he jokingly said "You might have covid"..

It might have been a joke, but it all made sense. All the symptoms I had. All point to covid..

Now, I should have gone home, but I couldn't get myself to leave, because it was busy. Was it stupid? Yes. Absolutely. However, I did manage to stay at least 6 feet away from everyone. I will stay home for the rest of the week, or until I feel better. If it is covid, it shouldn't last for more than a few days. I have to self-isolate for 4 days, meaning I cannot leave my room until Friday, except when I have to make food or go to the bathroom. When I do, I need to wear a face mask, which is fine. I have several still in the box from the pandemic, so I shouldn't have a problem with a supply.

So yeah - someone gave me covid, it seems, and the most likely place is the airport in Washington. It sucks, but there's not a lot I can do about it. Luckily, it's a three day work week, so hopefully it shouldn't be too busy tomorrow.

If you are curious as to how I sound when I speak.. Well.. It sounds like a croak mixed with having a potato in your mouth, seeing as that's how foreigners think Danish sounds like.. Speaking with a potato in your mouth.

But for now, it's off to bed! Hopefully, tomorrow's gonna be a bit better, and hopefully I will feel better too.

And yes, I know I have been reckless by going to work on public transportation with covid symptoms. No need to point that out.

Do you believe, there is a god or gods, if you do or don’t, please explain why?

Already it's Eurovision night again....
and again, Ireland ain't in it but I'm glad, that's what they get for messing with the public votes

Now had the real winner of gone forward ....
who knows, we could of won tonight


very Enya like and perhaps a tad, too much ......

Anyways, the show goes on

Anyone any favourites?
I've only seen half the previews and so far I'd give No1 to Portugal and No2 to Moldova.

Ps, a big shout out to England...
are ye out of men?
what's with the three female presenters

When I was young, there were things to fear of health. Cancer was a given. Rare to know someone, rarer for them to survive. A broken bone meant rods and casts that stayed on forever. Polio meant crippling. Lots of illnesses meant death.
Then when my husband got cancers, treatment, a week in hospital for surgery and more treatments.
Now..drive through medicine!? My tenant is having hip surgery. They will replace the ball and socket. I asked details to plan on my farm. How long, the rest.
He told me they moved it up a day so next Wednesday is it. OK..so going in Tues. Nope. They will call him with the time to be there Wednesday. So home when...Thursday. WT?? Yep, in one day and home and started to walk some. I said what is medicine now adays? Like In and Out Burgers? Drive through? He will heal and then they will do the other hip. I said how about we toss you in the back of your Suburban,your son can drive you down and you go through like car wash and home again!
I know the thinking is that people heal faster with less bed laying. But, doesnt there have to be a happy medium? Although the way my husband got care, he was better off at home with me to do his care. And now with turn overs of Docs and shortages of nurses, guess hospital care is a joke.
Rather like the care in Assisted and nursing facilities.
Still mind blowing tho.