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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...

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.

.for those in cash for a while, during the Lawrence Welk champagne bubble magical rises more recently, smiles all around. Time to jump back in, once President Trump and VP Pence's great leadership turn the coming mini pandemic around? Tactical Bears milling about the landscape.Stay tuned.

I got a call yesterday from the owner of the company who offered me a sales position. He had a 'start back' meeting and wanted me to attend. The county enacted the phase one and many non-essential businesses are back in operation. It's masks, hand cleaner, shoe covers and alcohol wipes for us and be extra careful of where we go and what we do as all our actions now are viewed with a different eye. Getting in and out of condo security may change now that everyone will be wearing masks.
One (masked) woman came to the showroom looking to renovate 2 bathrooms and I'll see her on Friday. Another appointment was also scheduled for me on Friday.

Extended vacation is over... it's back to work!

I knew car dealers would have a tough time selling cars this month but I didn't know they would be making crazy offers. One local dealer is offering no interest loans with 7 years of payments and no money down.
That roughly works out to $357 a month on a $30,000 transaction.
If you are keeping cars longer and purchased one from an 'off lease' dealer you would be getting into a deal with a 2 year old car and your last payment the car would be 9 years old.

You can shop from your cellphone and they will deliver the car to you.
Something to consider?

That scares me. It does.

Last week (and again last night) I watched a TV show called SONGLAND where unknown song writers go to Nashville to compete. Each week there is a guest music star and three writers chosen to each perform one original song in an attempt to be selected for the star to decide which song to record.
The song writers get to perform the first round with their songs in a raw format. There are 3 'judges' who critique the work and offer suggestions to improve each song, especially making it personalized for the guest recording star who appears that week.
Each judge is assigned to one of the writers and they take the raw song massage it (pitch, tempo, lyric changes as necessary) into a finished product. After, they return to perform the finished work where the guest star has to decide on the winner.
While it was no spectacular show of talent by the writers, judges or the recording star, it did give some insight to the music industry as to some of the collaboration required to a good melody and lyric into the viable song!


Songland on NBC

evolution of the banking system. Google the topic. From the fall of the Roman Empire, through the feudal millennium, and onto scams such as endless growth, monetization, the federal reserve, with holding and federal income taxes, silver certificates, a gold standard, historical and more recent depressions/recessions, ditching the Glass-Steagall Banking act, petro dollars, wars for capitalism, and lots more. Will give any self respecting conspiracy theorist a stiffie, for sure. Silver slippers exchanged for jeweled ones. A yellow brick road. The throngs of little people (us). And Toto, who looks behind the curtain to expose it all. Who could make any of this stuff up?

I clicked on an investment story that CoDiagnostics has a test for coronavirus that's 100% accurate stating their stock will skyrocket. Naturally!
I didn't see it in anything medical (not that I actually researched it) so there's a possibility of a high degree of BS and advertising for the company.


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Last month, masks were hard to come by. All the Amazon vendors showed back-orders. Fortunately, I had some saved from renovation work last year and travel. We found a box of 25 surgical masks in the medicine cabinet at my house.
Grocery shopping?
Everyone has some kind of mask. No mask, no entry.
It bothers me to read hospitals are out of masks. N95 and surgical masks are in short supply. As of tonight, I see Amazon has KN95 masks direct from China for $8 each in limited supply and surgical masks around $1 each in quantities of 50.

People are getting masks from somewhere. 30% are the fabric variety, probably home-made. It's been 2-3 weeks since I've seen/read and stories of the clothing companies putting employees back to work making surgical style cloth masks.

I did some research and planned to do some home-made masks. Joanne's Fabrics only had the raw materials and Walmart had 1 sewing machine (in a 30 mile radius) and lots of raw materials. That was more than a week ago.

On my return trip to Walmart, the machine was gone, nearly every bolt of white cotton fabric gone and all the elastic material for straps was gone.

I procrastinated... waited too long.
So ended my plans to make masks from home.

Every night I check the new cases for my county. The numbers are dropping but every few days it spikes. Because it this, I'm expecting the stay home order to be extended for another month.

Procrastinator or not, it's unlike me not to have a backup plan.

I'm thinking...

Tagged : manifesto chp.2 x temp. Free speech..

As in, very temporary...with diminished value....
Does the ripping of the "Terrific speech" ...pose any kind of clue to the Foxes of the World who R now trapped in the paradox position:....explaining F word [ fema... logistics ...while clinging to the illusion that Trump was ever more than a S A G card actor.
Only a Quadrillion more $yllables and per Adventure, team Amerika will find a cure for the Crowning Mass Ejection....
Relationship of Command / at the drive inn
Food & Liquor / Fiasco
Hypnotize / system of a down
Get behind me, $atan / white stripes
The E N D / black eYed peas
Black holes & revelations / muse
.. total: . Neon Bible / arcade fire