Weather

The media people who guess the weather kept saying yesterday was going to be a washout. Widespread rain over the area with an inch of accumulation, off and on, all day and into today. Problem is that we may have gotten a drop of rain from the fluffy white clouds. I still got the herd of feral cats fed and watered and the trash and recycle bins out despite the weather.

Today I await a package from FedEx that contains my new TiVo box that will get installed tomorrow. I still don’t understand why the cable company doesn’t want me hooking up the box myself. And I’m confused as to why taking the non-working box to them to get exchanged gets called an order. I simply said that the box quit working and I would like one that does work. Imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail receipt for my ‘order’.

The way my luck has been going the box won’t work when the technician installs it. I can see it now. Another e-mail instructing me to rebox the TiVo and take it back to FedEx. Once that is done another TiVo will be shipped to you and an appointment made for a technician to hook it up. Time will tell. Enjoy our Tuesday.

I had a feeling

I had a gut feeling back when the vaccine for COVID was being pushed so hard. The feeling told me that big group was pushing to get as many people as possible to get the jab. At first, I thought big pharma was behind the push, but I was wrong, and surprised. Turns out that an insurance company was behind it! I’ll not mention any names but will leave a link at the end if you want to find out.

The article in question quotes a doctor who spilled the beans. According to the source, an average doctor could make $250,000 if 75% of his, or her, patients got the jab. That’s a sizable amount to some of us. Several people were wondering why there was no discussion allowed about the vaccine, and the fact that the CDC had to rewrite the definition of ‘vaccine’. Somethings just didn’t sit right.

I still haven’t wrapped my brain case around why insurance companies would foot the bill to push the drug. More is said about in the article, and there is also a video of a word famous cardiologist, who I’ve never heard of, talking about it. Whatever happened to ‘do no harm’? To see the article, go here- https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/cardiologist-reveals-much-doctors-got-bribed-push-covid-shots/?utm_source=wnd-news-alerts.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking-news-alert-5-12-2024-3

Enjoy our Monday.

Sunday snicker

A Protestant missionary is in India trying to convert Hindus to Christianity.

He teaches a Hindu man about Christianity and gives him a Bible.

He comes back a week later and sees a picture of the pope among all the other gods at the man’s house.

“Why do you have a picture of the pope there?”

“Isn’t he the reincarnation of Jesus?”

The missionary told him that Catholicism isn’t as good as Protestantism, and he should take the picture down, then left.

The missionary came back a week later and the picture had been replaced with a picture of his pastor.

“Why do you have a picture of my pastor there?”

“Isn’t he the reincarnation of Jesus?”

The missionary explained that Jesus wasn’t reincarnated, gave him a cross to put there instead, then left.

The missionary came back a week later and saw that the picture had been replaced with a Roman soldier.

“Why do you have a picture of a Roman soldier there?”

“I was confused about the cross, so I read about it. You never told me your god was defeated.”

Just wondering

In a recent comment I was asked what I called a group of cats. I didn’t know the official name and stated that I just called them a herd. It kept eating at me until I finally got on a search engine to find out. According to more than one site, a group of cats is called a clowder. After finding that out I’m going to keep calling them the herd.

It was a bit chilly on my pre-dawn cruise to the grocery store and only slightly warmer for the return trip. After getting all the expensive food secured in a safe location, I decided to cruise out to a satellite office of the cable TV outfit and try to my cable going again. So, with old box in hand, I explained my dilemma to the young lady behind the counter.

She grabbed the box, stuck it in a cabinet and locked it, and then told she couldn’t give me a new box. She then said a new one would be sent FedEx. So, I set up an appointment for a technician to come out Wednesday to install it and was told FedEx would drop off the new TiVo box on Tuesday. It appears that a customer can no longer install their own boxes, even though I had done so for years. Hopefully the cable TV will be up and running on Wednesday afternoon. Enjoy our Saturday.

Media

Since I haven’t been watching any TV I rely on the internet for news. I have some conservative news sites that I have been following and am now questioning that fact. One of these sites sent an email with the header ‘Breaking news’. I went to the site and was not amused. The ‘breaking news’ was an article that boldly stated ‘The Feds May Have Planted False Evidence Against Trump’.

Well, that statement had me spitting out my coffee. I consider that akin to stating Biden may have flubbed his lines while getting incoherent today. Then I thought that people at the site may have having a bad day and it just slipped through. Regardless, I have lost faith in the site. Another site posted something that got me wondering, and not in a good way.

I don’t remember the header, but the story was about ticks. Yes, those troubling little critters who like to suck our blood. This article said that since 1960 the government has been biologically changing the ticks to insure more sickness from bites. Think Lyme disease and such. Was such technology available in the 60s? If so, who was crazy enough to initiate such a program? One of those it’s sounds crazy enough to be true stories. Times sure have changed. Enjoy our Friday.

Where there’s smoke

I just read the city is getting sued for damages to businesses from a flood 5 years ago. The former city administrator was also mentioned in the lawsuit. Some may remember the day 5 years ago when the Hesco barriers let loose and flooded the downtown. I seem to remember at the time that someone on the city council said they didn’t care about the businesses.

More recently we had a partial collapse of an apartment building that claimed a few lives and ignited a controversy. As occurs when something like that happens words were exchanged, several got blamed, and we had national media coverage of the collapse. There were a few things that I wasn’t happy with, but I held my tongue. And, lawsuits are pending on the event.

Since I have never had a desire to become a politician, I find it hard to belittle the efforts of those who are. I do know that our river city has been against building a permanent solution to our flooding for decades. Most favored response is that it would cost too much money to build a berm or any other kind of permanent solution. I sincerely hope that this year is a little calmer and common sense makes a comeback. Enjoy our Thursday.

When it rains

I have been trying to post updates to this blog at around the same time every day. Yesterday the computer went FUBAR, and I have no idea when it posted but got notification that it did. I thought everything was sorted yet forgot that when it rains, it pours. When I got online this time there were problems that I hope are sorted out.

Yesterday was like the Twilight Zone anyway with the weird things that happened. It started with no internet, advanced to no internet and phone, and ended with some odd correspondence from a local company. I received 3 envelopes from the same place and started opening them. Then first started that my bank auto pay wouldn’t work. The second stated that my new auto pay had been set up, and the last one thanked me for my auto pay payment! I’m still working on figuring that out.

The feral cats needed food, so I cruised to the store and picked up a 30-pound bag of food. It was pouring down rain as I walked toward the car when an older gentleman thanked me for coming out in the storm to buy dog food. He then added that the dog was worth it! The cat food must come in bag that looks like dog food. I never noticed. Enjoy our Wednesday.

Try again

Yesterday was not my day and I didn’t make it out to exchange cable boxes. The minute I woke up I knew it was going to be a slow day as I couldn’t breathe. Didn’t think a hospital visit was needed and self medicated until I could at least breathe without wheezing. A bunch of positive thinking and a nod to man upstairs and I’m almost back on par.

Thanks to technology I have a little machine that clips on my finger and tells me what my oxygen level is. It came back 97% so I wasn’t worried. What I learned is that just because I think I can still do some things doesn’t mean I should. Lesson learned, until next time. Today I have to cruise back to the store to pick up more cat food then a little later try to get a new cable box.

I’m told it’s a TiVo box and has to be replaced with the same. Not sure what that means but the wife wanted it a while ago, so we got it. Hopefully today I can everything done I was going to get done yesterday. One of these days I’ll learn, but until then I’m doing things my way. Enjoy our Tuesday.

New week

Although the scene above is great I’m going to cruise out to the cable company and try to get a new box. If a new box fixes the problem, we may be in business again. If not, we’ve been without cable since a week ago last Friday and have had no bad side effects.

Our city government must be messed up if the local print media are expressing concerns. One mentions a problem with closed meetings. Another fine example of not paying attention to history as this was tried by a previous administration and they got in trouble with the state. I’m not fan of closed meetings as I feel the group involved with the closed meeting is doing something I won’t like.

A different paper stated that the interim city administrator was going to retire. Huh? Adding interim to the title infers the job is temporary. One can retire from temporary jobs now? Must have led a sheltered life to be confused by this. Sounds like a fancy way to fluff up a pending job application to this oldfart. Enjoy our Monday.

Sunday snicker

A man is struck by a bus on a busy street in New York City. He lies dying on the sidewalk as a crowd of spectators gathers around. “A priest! Somebody get me a priest!” the man gasps. A policeman checks the crowd but finds no priest, no minister, no man of God of any kind.

“A PRIEST, PLEASE!” the dying man says again. Then out of the crowd steps a little old Jewish man of at least eighty years of age.”Mr. Policeman,” says the man, “I’m not a priest. I’m not even a Catholic. But for fifty years now I’m living behind St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Third Avenue, and every night I’m listening to the Catholic litany. Maybe I can be of some comfort to this man.”

The policeman agrees and brings the octogenarian over to the dying man. He kneels down, leans over the injured and intones in a solemn voice: “B – 4, I – 19, N – 38, G – 54,. . . “