Monday, October 31, 2011

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK..............

Was that scary enough for you?
LOL!

Come closer, and I will tell you a tale of a night that is sure to give you a fright.
Listen little children and older ones too…yep, Mom and Pop if you must…

Once upon a night there was a tight wound gal who rode around the town in a magic groovy brown pail that had the power to float above all that was below, yes, that’s right I said a pail, got that?
And yes, it did have grooves all around it that were important, but I will get to that later, on the why, OK?
This magic gal also thought she was quite the cat’s meow too with her pointed proboscis and blackened circular targets around each eye and even her lined thinly protruding lips, her body was the size of a petite monkey, perhaps the squirrel type of the species and hairy like that too, and on her pail she took it upon herself to look into all the windows around the town to make sure nothing good was happening in those homes, apartments, trailers or shacks…You see, this was because if all was well, then our gal pal would temp fate and make things BAD happen to whomever was showing that they were too happy with their fate, good or bad…
She felt that happiness was against all she believed in and it was her duty to take it away!
Scared yet?
Now, she was the one who chose specifically screaming children and parents that were nasty to one another and the world at large to be her epitome of what she believed the world’s havoc in the now of our time should be…
In her mind her own joy, or misery, depending on which way you want to roll on this backwards way of thinking, was to see anger and hatred continue with greed to make all the world’s people eventually dissolve into nothingness…

She was a tough horrid mean ugly gal, but to her she was the best that the world could have for her way of thinking…
And she saw that her plan to make it all bad, was in her idea of good that was now seemingly happening to her dismay/joy.

Who or how could she be stopped?
The good decent people of the world wanted to know…
And no one… and nobody seemed to have the answer since it was easier to be disagreeable than kind and loving and the more bad things happened the more people would be that way!

Do any of you out there know what to do to change this horrendous horror of a woman’s devious work?
No?
Come on, someone has to know…?
Maybe if we laugh, out loud, she would stop?
Huh? You forgot how?
Well, we have nothing to lose, do we?
Try it, if you remember… it comes from deep in your belly and not quite a hiccup or a cough but a giggle would be closer, oh try, please try…I can’t hear you!
LOUDER PLEASE!
I almost can hear you…LOUDER!
YES!
You got it!
HOORAY!
PAIL GAL WILL BE ON HER MERRY BAD WAY, all due to everyone now here learning to laugh at the hardest of times in life… and then no one can ever harm you!

On that scarier than it ought to be tale of jest allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to, as always to count those blessings and to share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
Sure you do.

PS Oh, why was the pail groovy, because she was a leftover gal who went rotten and for that she was ready to be tossed out, not recycled, like we all should do on most other things, right?
But as we all know some things just have to be gotten rid of since nothing will change what they really have become…hmm, wink, wink… you know what I mean...

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Snow on the pumkins to our way up north, but here a cold-front came through...

BRRRR, chilly!
Here we started our day out with temperatures hovering around the mid- seventies, degrees, and that is Fahrenheit folks!
To us Floridians, in October that is cooler than we usually get here and that we are used to.
By now, though, our temps are usually in the mid-eighties during the day and about sixties at night, perfection! And that will be returning, so I have been told. And if you like that we also have a similar weather clone in March as well…
Although, I must admit the drizzle has returned with a dull dreariness in our skies, but other than that, who could really complain, huh?
After all this IS paradise!
And this too will pass…

Trying to get a handle on the idea that in my old stomping ground of dear sweet ole New Jersey that they had a mega snow storm this weekend with nearly an unheard of over a foot of that beautiful Currier and Ives cards white fluffy cold stuff that is until the removal trucks and animals change its prettiness to yellow and brown; reality check, I give it until tomorrow, what do you say? Thus the snows on those pumpkins that I understand were few and far between due to the unfortunate visit of Hurricane Irene causing the crop to be not what it usually is, bumper… so sad, and I am so sorry for all our northern neighbors dealing with it all, and don’t any of you forget the EARTHQUAKE that they also had in their area too!
Whoa, talk about a trifecta!
All bets are off there, I am more than sure.

I can remember not too long ago when those same people could not understand why anyone would want to live in hurricane country, meaning the Gulf coast states, hmm?
Geez!
Is there no where to be safe anymore?

Sure, these things are all flukes, at least we all hope so… and when you get down to it that’s all we got, hmm?
Oh what’s that you ask; I know I can’t hear you but I bet you thought to ask it if I could hear you, hmm?
Any-who, that would be ‘hope’ friends, that’s all most of us got these days…but that’s good and better than nothing!

Our ninety-nine per-centers seem to be hanging in there in spite of it all, weather, and finding out that they are not having much support from the local officials, government and police officers. It seems even some promises for insurances to be paid locally by the NAACP they found their hands were tied due to national not wanting to commit…But we all know that cops and minorities too are included in that 99%, how odd, no brotherhood there.
Let’s face it they answer also to a higher power… their bosses too, but they are suppose to serve and protect all of us those law enforcement officers, I thought, hmm?

My heart goes out to their cause and if it were another time and I was in better health, who knows I might be out there on the frontlines with them for moral support! I did do it back in the sixties and seventies when I felt the urge to be heard on those topics that fired us all up!

That’s not to say what I do now is not an extension of that desire, absolutely!
Albeit, at times much tamer than those days that I recall with a little faster beat of my heart with the excitement of doing something that important and anticipating a really great outcome!
Not naïve, but consistent and in the end we were heard, if you too recall.
And so my advice, which is if you want it, as it is free like everything else I give out here… is to never ever give up in whatever you believe in… that’s all, and perhaps things may change, not today, not tomorrow, but someday!

On that commonality for us all of wanting to change what we care about for the better …allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Investigative reporting here...

When on a learning journey we all know that we should use many sources to find out the information that piqued our curiosity to begin with, hmm?

And so it is not unusual for anyone who has a chronic disease to turn up additional information on that disease’s symptoms that may not be so common to the general population who also suffer from it per se.
Or perhaps anomalies that turn up that could be just coincidental possibilities or directly responsible, got that?

Have you ever Googled your illness or someone else’s that you cared to help and found that a symptom that appears totally not the usual is one that no one had mentioned before?

Well, since I have had Multiple Sclerosis I am one of those that thinks, on occasion that all my other health issues may be related to it, and what I have found is…
That because it is an autoimmune disease that our immune systems are off kilter or better explained as compromised and that makes us more susceptible to infections, but no sinusitis is not caused by MS!
At least that is what I gleaned from my research on the topic from only others with MS discussing it that is sinusitis/ chronic infections of it in chat rooms for those things. In other words who knows…sometimes doctors interject common sense info there too.
As so many other problems that arise they may appear to make one think that everything is connected, but no, nothing is that simple.
We as a group of sufferers, oh I bet you think that using that terminology is just dreadful, huh?
Well, we sure we ain’t thrilled daily with our parathesia, spasms, blindness etc. and lack of just getting around and doing what we so yearn to do, and have fond memories of better times! (Authors note: I did not mention so many of the other graphic details/symptoms; since I was being kind to all you healthy people and I didn’t want to freak you out, OK?)
Whew, but boy, that did feel good.
All chronically ill people suffer, and some just pretend for their public personas that it’s all ok or perhaps they prefer denial and not sharing, but it isn’t OKAY for all of us!
As we all know knowledge is power and many of the Multiple Sclerosis associations believe that too and use it as their maxim, wouldn’t Sir Francis Bacon be so proud, and a little known fact is that he also invented bacon, no, not really, just pulling your leg, laugh, a joke.

And so like any human being knowing that and with all the advantages we have today with ‘The Internet’, gosh I still am amazed how fast I can solve an argument or find just what I am looking for, right here, day or night.
Anyone, who doesn’t admit that, daily, is not as curious as I am I suspect! Or has a life and is way too busy for this baloney, but as we all know I have way too much time on my hands and so I do look… and sort and think and figure out with my deductive reasoning, hmm… or which ever happened first to any of us in this time continuum, LOL!

On those words to live by, well not live by, but maybe just try to understand why… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you all to kindly count all you blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Friday, October 28, 2011

Remnants of Rina gently spilling onto our terrain...

Just call us lucky living here in paradise!
We bit the bullet once more… and boy did we score.
Gingerly the rain has come in to bathe our floras with their possibly last hoorah of this wet season, called the hurricane one.
I do realize we have another month left; after all I am an old timer here in Florida and have been through twenty-five of these things.

We have other things to consider now; like this is the ghoulish time of the year and we love it!
Decorations aren’t what they once were… we are more conservative with just a door hanging sign of ghouls stating, ‘Happy Halloween!’
Inside we have a scull and a couple of artificial but realistic looking pumpkins, gourds too, after all it is harvest time as well, hmm? In the day, we had a lawn full of tombstones with silly commentaries on them, those were the days!

Hubby went to the store for candies, already sold as twofers; for all the little ones that should grace our door-way this Monday afternoon and evening.
How I used to enjoy making costumes for our sons when they were small, from Robin Hood to scarecrows to robots et al.
So much joy in those days…it goes way too fast…
How I miss it.

Two nights ago I had that horrid sinus problem that is with me still but lessened.
I forgot to mention my neck and ears were involved in the discomfort too.
Hubby and I do believe we have a handle on it, but may take awhile for it to work.
Years ago, I found I had many food allergies, thus my allergic migraines.
At the time I went to an allergy doctor who gave me desensitizing shots for a period of six months and I appeared to have been cured! I had those little stick tests too, and it came back at the time that I was allergic to everything but tobacco/smoke and pets.
But that was thirty-three years ago.
And guess what?
I think that they are back… who knows…
Salicylate sensitivity symptoms are well documented and here is a site to validate my theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_sensitivity

And sinusitis is a symptom, and we also noticed that wine, white more so than red has quite a bit, and so I guess you can say I am allergic to it?
But many other foods have it too.
It will be fun trying to narrow it down.

But it could be the diet that I needed!
All those years ago I was my thin self, about one hundred pounds soaking wet.
Who knows it could be a wee bit unorthodox for nutritionists or diet mavens but this could be my answer?

I can take many things out of my dietary consumption and then work my way back, hmm?
We don’t eat fast foods or packaged foods most all we eat are either fresh or frozen, both supposed to be in the okay preferred varieties.
Odors also set me off and I have a dilemma with them, which I won’t go into.

Well, as I play detective with this newest need to know, why my health is at stake; and I do have too many other problems to not try to control this one, huh?
And so I will put on my thinking cap and see what’s what.
It may take time, but I have a lot of that too, hmm?

On that hopeful thought of that new project of mine, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, October 27, 2011

A personal really bad night...

Headaches come and go, and believe me if there were a contest on the worse ones I would be in the running for winning it!
I used to suffer from allergic migraines, sinus and a myriad of different quality ones from late teens to late twenties.
Well over the last few years I do believe my sinus issues have come back, and you know something?
I never ever missed them.

Last night’s was a contender in the pain wars of that sort of thing, and so not being able to take decongestants or over the counter medications due to my blood pressure problems although medicated and under control.
You read the small print.
Any-who, I have had to become creative with pharmacists and doctors help in how to deal with these exhausting headaches that not only make you feel as if you want it to be amputated since in my particular case as in last night my eyes burn, nasal passages too, and nausea is quite evident, and did evolve from there…
Oh, my methods of dealing with the problem, my Systane eye drops, saline nasal spray, when that fails my Netty pot, and yes, we are on city water, not a well where they had some type of ameba claim lives via the nostrils. That would be my last straw, literarily.
Moist towels/ washcloths were tried too and nothing was helping and yep, you got that right I could not fall asleep, misery.
Then I remembered I had the Amoxicillin that the doctor had first prescribed in August for this same problem that has seemed to become chronic but then switched me to a faster anti-biotic pack, but I still had the never used bottle in our cache medicinal closet in the kitchen, and so I took one of those too!

Within the hour my nausea turned into vomiting and diarrhea, difficult maneuvering to use the appropriate disposal fixture in the bathroom…need I say more?
I did impress myself with my dexterity in not missing for either ends disposal of whatever was in my system for the last twenty-four hours to be removed!

That’s as graphic as I will get, this went on for hours… but I finally was able to return to bed with many pillows under my head and I suppose from shear exhaustion I did fall asleep.

This morning or I should say late morning Hubby checked on me to ask me if I wanted to eat so I could take my daily medications.
I just looked at him and tried to speak but my voice was horse and shaky, but I did say that I would need milk to take some of mine, which are supposed be taken with food.
This shaky voice things has continued all day and so has the headache, but I still took another anti-biotic pill without the same negative reaction, and I am due again within the hour, they are 500 hundred milligrams to be taken every eight hours and so that is what I am doing, until all finished.

I think I told you that the doctor we were both going to left the area and so we again do not have one, but I did get an appointment for next week at the health department.
I’m just happy I had this medicine available now; another hospital visit would be not cost effective!

My head is saying again that I am done with this for this evening and so allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Ratta tat tat I got me a rap... and you may even clap... hap, hap, hap!

I have come to the conclusion what the Wall Street protesters need is a quirky little rap spiel to express what they really want…go with me here… Okay?
Have I ever steered you wrong?
All right that may be, but that’s history!
Forgive me and move on…you know I am going to do it anyway with or without your approval, hmm?

Here goes…

“What we need right here is for us to be clear
and for those Richey Riches to know that we do fear
our not having any more gear,
like food to keep the mood to not be rude,
and an abode to be our mode for our commode so we won’t explode,
and a toad for our tots to not needs those who knows what’s… got it, get it, no we need to net it,
we are for the many and you cannot see past the money so we can have some too of that dear sweet honey!”

How’s that?
I suppose it could use some tweaking but at least I put it out there.

And I really do believe in their journey, but not all of them are using mellow fellow judgment and might give the rest who want what they want a bad reputation.
Why in California they got wild with violence and found the law enforcement folks were prepared for them ala rubber bullets.
Now we’re talking!
Rubber bullets all around, give them out to the criminals too I say!
Sadly, the quiet restrained local contingency here just south of us in Fort Myers Florida, keep receiving tickets for congregating later than the parks allow, and so the local authorities there felt they would teach those hostile do-gooders a lesson that they deserve to be fined were it hurts in their pocketbooks!
That’ll teach ‘em, hmm?
Fining people who are jobless and have no visible means of support sure will do their tax base well when all those $135 tickets get paid, hmm…. Like never!

Gosh, am I the only one who sees the futility in that logic?

On another important story front: It appears that Hurricane Rina is lessoning in strength it has gone down from a category two system back to a category one.
OK, now it is still quite a distance from us and some would say it is moving still at a snail’s pace at only the rip roaring speed of six miles an hour, but this storm should be watched, although the pros insist the worse it will be for us is a rain system by this weekend and rather fizzling and not too severe.
Whew, are we lucky or what?

Here on our own home-front: the last few days I found out two things that I have not been more aware of my Facebook friends own crosses to bear… by going to one friend’s page I found out that her eldest son passed away just a few weeks ago and of course I have since sent our heartfelt condolences and the other one was that our local weather gal’s infant son was wearing one of those helmets at six month old, but not because his head was misshapen from now lying the babes on their backs as many have had but he actually did have a more serious problem that caused him to need physical therapy due to head and neck problems, found out by the picture that mommy had posted back in July…who knew… bad me, again this is a teaching moment to not ‘assume’ since we all know that makes an ass (cringer factor, sorry!) out of you and me! I should have asked the mother what was wrong, but sometimes we all feel that is being too nosey, but let’s face it, it is better than assuming!
That’ll teach me, hmm?

On that moment of realization in life’s need to know… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fired up, are we?

Some people insist that when one speaks their mind they will do it without caution of caring from the way they say it to the world at hand.
And although I have made the statement that my filter is broken and in reality at times it most definitely appears to be…with what comes out of hands writing this or my mouth stating that, most times I do try harder not to do what I do with an almost honest effort.
Most people at my age would realize that when they blurt anything out into the general population those words may very well come back to bite them in their tushies!

And that is where I might fall down on the job, but not all is lost, since the fact that I mentioned it, ‘could happen’, it is possible that I will know when it does, happen that is, got that? TA DA!

When people read this banter of mine nightly they may access it from the Google site or the Facebook page that I share it with… or even if they just search a topic that might interest them… how wonderful… some are looking for just what I have in my storeroom here, yea!
The oldest game and story in the book… what’s that you ask, nah I know you didn’t because I couldn’t hear, you, but if you would have and I could have then, I would let you know why, all right? Okay, I will tell you anyway, are you ready?

Ha, don’t say a word, remember I can’t hear you! LOL!
But here goes, because, well, I have grown a fondness for you all…

Why the laws of supply and demand my friends!
Yep, any person in the marketing game will tell you that is how to make your money maker tick away the numbers of ringing the blinging into those deep pockets that we all possess, AHA; you so boldly say! Having what they so desire and are willing to make an effort to attain… for a price… in my case, the price is only the time it takes to find me!

Did you really say that?
Again, I can’t hear you… but I do love to tease you all as often as I can….but darn, I can’t see the expression on your baffled and or questioning faces, my imagination let’s me think it though, so ha; I’m good! Hope it is good for you too…

Moving on…
Well, so far Hurricane Rina is causing havoc on the western Caribbean and has gotten Florida in its sights for possibly a tropical storm hit this weekend or after that… yes, as you can tell we are still in a wait and see mode, which consists of staying tuned to the channels who will decide our weather fate and so as good Floridians, we all will…
And yes again we are in that infamous ‘cone of uncertainty’! Scary, but tis the season, hmm?

Sadly, when I started tonight I was on a mission to straighten out a misinterpretation of just what my title could or should mean, and in my book it doesn’t give me a blank check to be crude or rude…For that I will leave to the professionals who are paid for such things, and have plethora’s of attorneys to fight in their corners if need be…
Not me, not here, not as long as I keep my nose clean and give credit where credit is due.
And I explain that my opinion is just that, not the rule or the law! CYA at its finest!
I’m no fool, although, I do know that it may go into some conversations nightly, but never ever initiated by me, you are all free agents and I respect your ability to find fun wherever you can… but this is not on my radar to rehash, oh no, not ever!

We as Americans, here in the United States of America, or in Central or South Americas, what-have-you do what you are allowed but I am from the northern part of these countries and we feel that we can say things we feel strongly about… but in my mind with a caveat in trying hard not to hurt others with stinging words.
True that I can be harsh, but mellow is more my style these days and I do believe it is good row to tow… Now whatever does that mean?
Did I get that wrong, is my Norm Crosby showing once again?
Oh well, I think you get the point the concept of choosing words to write this thingy is starting to make me consider exactly what to leave here in my written legacy, and how I want to be remembered and so NOW I will try more diligently to recall the facts with tenderness and care and loving for all of your delicate emotional sensitivities.
Sound good to you?
Sure it does now if I can only figure out what code I am speaking in, I may try it! LOL!

Does this drivel sound coherent to you?
Eh, what do you know!
Oops, sorry, did that come out of my censored restricted brain?
CRAZY!
But loving it…

Take care, be here or there or don’t change a word for me; do your own thingy and be proud who you’ve become because, sadly it’s all you got!
Oops, sorry!
In closing, my point was to change the misnomer that my title was irreverent and rude and crude and as you can see, due to my cringe factor being with me as a constant I rarely use four-letter words, oh wait, love, feel, oops, know, you get my drift, I do use them a lot!
Now allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all you blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

And get your kids inoculated with whatever shots are available to prevent whatever they have to prevent, since they can! Simplicity at its finest! Oops now someone will be annoyed… well that’s me all over the place, bound to happen, huh?

Monday, October 24, 2011

Hurricane Rina! And a bit of other things that I might find interest us, hmm?

As I mentioned before that our hurricane season has not ended and that was not more evident then when our 18th named storm of the season was named today, as first a tropical storm and then Rina became a hurricane, all today. Right now a category 1, but fluctuating back and forth from ones to twos to even a three over the next five days!
As I write this evening it is located by the Yucatan Peninsula near Central America, we, in southwest Florida will be watching it closely for many days since it is a very slow mover; at around four MPH, but wind, circulation speed at 75 MPH and gusts to 90 MPH!
Meteorologist have stated we again are in a watch and wait mode… all we can do, nature is so unpredictable, hmm?

Turkey’s, 7.2 earthquake has claimed nearly 300 lives at this writing with more than one hundred aftershocks.

Life in the tropics is never ever boring!
Yes, this is one of the many things that living in paradise has to deal with, but worth the occasional nature’s wrath as any true lover/dweller of this lifestyle will be the first to tell you…!

We, of course never ever ask for this, no one does.
But as most will surmise, as well as me that the chance of another direct hit of extreme weather is still considered a crapshoot by all who love living here, and no we are not gambling with our lives; its logic and proven fact.

Horrors of devastation, no one in their right mind would ever want to bring down upon themselves, let’s face it you would be crazy!
I think the fact that all these totally weird weather/ natural disasters in never before areas of the world or not in hundreds of years are so unique unto themselves that the explanations have gone from the rapture to scientific reasoning’s that we were due.
If G-d were a vengeful G-d than he/she would have much to complain about our wars and crime etc… our lack of respect for humanity, but I believe no G-d would ever feel that way about his creations, he/she made us flawed for a reason, or so the many different versions of religious bibles, Korans, Torah, what-have-you say.
Nah, this is science, geology, and the ozone layer, pollution of the water and land, or some such things perhaps? But, remember I am not a professional, just opinionated.
Oh, all right, in that department I could be considered one, oh wait that would mean I would have to be paid for all this, which I am not, and so I have maintained my amateur status once again, hooray!

Whatever is causing these weather anomalies, no one has found the way to prevent it from happening yet and so we are all its mercy, we can all admit!
So, although, after we had our direct hit from Hurricane Charley and I wrote a note to the head of the National Meteorologists Association, I think at NOAA, wondering why we cannot redirect hurricanes or tornadoes or prevent earthquakes or Tsunamis?
To me it seemed like a plausible question since we can send/fly all over our universe, and land people on the moon, seed clouds to cause rain and do so many other scientific things, right?
And you know what she said?
Yes, in 2005, at least the head honcho of the department was a woman, but I do not recall her name and we have had several computer crashes since and so I cannot access that information, but you can feel free to try… Oh, you want to know what she said, hmm that they are working on it, but haven’t been able to yet.

How about that?
And as we all know, sadly, to date, it still hasn’t been resolved.
So here we sit at the mercy of nature; while brilliant minds converge on the problems but still have not found any answers.

And so we as people of the planet must realize that as much as we want it to stop, others still do not have the power either… shouldn't that be refreshing to know?
Nope, doesn’t work for me, does it work for you?
I didn’t think so…
And as awful as this last season of horrendous weather systems had proven once again, no one can hide, since the weather will find you in no matter what hemisphere you live in…hmm?

Sorry, to burst any bubbles you may have had about this horrid stuff we all call ‘weather’, a previously harmless topic of nearly anyone’s conversation at one time, safe to open any get-to-know-you at any party themed evening… now a dreaded discussion, which causes chills in even the bold and beautiful, equally!



Please note that tonight’s discussion was not to scare but to start the open discussion of…gosh I have no idea, but I am sure you do…getting old has its perks, and forgetting can be one of them, since right now I have seemed to forgotten the rest, HA!

Allow me then to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Some just say it better, hmm?

Last night wasn’t a cop-out; it was the knowing of when to let the trained professionals take over.

I do love reading fiction or reality, have you non-fiction, but these days only in short increments, my eyes are not very good, but you all know that…

We did go out to the Cape Coral Florida Oktoberfest, a yearly event on Pine Island Road!
It proved to be as super duper as I remembered, with a very good tasting German cuisine and bands with festive music that belonged to the happening and were a constant; in two locations on the compound.
To be honest, the food did not only cover the typical German fair, but also Italian and barbecue; as well as vegan too!
As far as the music went they did have a group of bagpipers, polka dance music too, and so there was something for anyone interested in those realms of programming. Dance troops as well.
Kiddies’ carnival rides and games a plenty, and booths for local vendors and so this was a rather large production since the Cape Coral German American Club has quite a nice site, almost as big as most state fair grounds!
That is mainly why they can do all that they do; and this was their twenty-sixth year.
And yes, we took pictures but too many to post.
Besides most would be bored, ha, right?

Any-who, besides being a litigious society, sue everyone for everything, but I knew you all knew that… we are somewhat a picture is worth a thousand words society too!
Come on, you all know what I mean, just look at your Facebook home page, hmm?
And there is nothing wrong with that, huh?
I, myself have done it, get your mind out of the gutter; many ‘photos’, as we used to call our online PICS.

Loving photography is not that dissimilar to loving painting in my mind.
So I recommend the concept to anyone who has not yet tried to compose a photograph by looking at the beauty in the world; many of my Facebook friends display their abilities daily!
Yes, I used the word ‘compose’, but isn’t that what is meant by creating?
Sure no one can create beauty, sure we can improve on it with cosmetics, but something still has to be there… and then of course there is nothing like a baby, which ninety-nine times out of one hundred would more than likely be absolutely created and gorgeous by nature, and so is a sunrise, sunset, and a waterscape, a landscape, a flower, bird, a butterfly, you get my drift…
Nature is all natural; that’s me, redundancy at it’s finest!
Architecture, in my mind can be too, beautiful that is, as well as well as an elderly lined faced that shows where that person has been in life, like a roadmap…
Compose all that into whatever you find beautiful and you can never ever go wrong with that way of thinking or in your choice of compositions…in other words, yes those pictures speak to all of us, and realize what they have to say…

On that germ of an idea of how to spend all that time you don’t have…HA, allow me to the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Items worth reading, I did...

http://news.yahoo.com/285-indian-girls-shed-unwanted-names-122551876.html

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113681/debt-collectors-secrets-smartmoney?mod=bb-debtmanagement

http://news.yahoo.com/now-biden-rape-claims-legitimate-034844811.html

Friday, October 21, 2011

Are you afraid?

Life is hard.
And that is just the way it was planned to be.
No one has it smooth sailing.
People will throw you an olive branch or hit you with a limb.
Nothing is taken for granted, ever, by those who truly know.
We, as beings of the human race have been told to be more co-operative with one another to survive.
But have we?
Will we?
I have no idea.
It appears just when we get close to camaraderie something happens to destroy the concept of caring for us one another as fellow men and women.
Although, we are slowing up the war effort and there is even a promise of an end to combat before the year is over.
Jaded, I’ll believe it, when I see it.
We have lost too many lives over the years in all wars that have all been considered just when ‘we’ get involved.
Yet someone’s father, mother, sister, brother child or whomever dies or is maimed way too often.
Bummer, I say.
We need lives saved all over the place and that means not only on the home-front, but all over the world!
Why am I the only one who sees the simplicity in it, since now most of the truly horrid ‘leaders’ have been gotten rid of…
Karma is a heck of thing, huh?
Stopping the wars is not so easy, so I am told.
Geez, it sure seemed easy to start them, but that’s just me.
And as we all know, I am not that smart.
I believe that this topic has been discussed to death, odd choice of words, hmm?
Well, in my book, quite appropriate.

Moving on... anyone recall my last month’s injury faux pas?
When I tried to amputate my thumb via the mandolin slicing potatoes for a delish breakfast of home fries and eggs for Hubby?
Any-who, it healed eventually and the remnants of the hospital ER run, i.e. bills, are still coming in...
Yep, I did have the good fortune of having the hospital giving us a break with an enormous discount which we charged and paid off within the time frame they asked for, but the doctor’s bill came last week.
And his is a bit more than the hospital’s discounted price and so I tried to negotiate with his billing department by sending them the hospital bill’s paid information with their 75% discount and thought that they too might take pity on an uninsured lady.
But today, we received a note saying it was a no go and that all they are willing to accept is a $25 a month payment, interest free until the $310 is paid off, what a deal, I ask you? Okay, it will take a year to pay it off, actually 12.4 months, at that amount, but they hold all the cards and so Monday I will call them and let them know I will be accepting their offer, what choice do I have?
I will pay online and so I won’t have to use any stamps that will save a bit there, but I pay all bills online anyway…
I tell you, we get one thing paid off and then something else comes up and here we go again!
Yep, in June I finished my cataract eye surgery from 1-12-2010 and then a few weeks later my ambulance bills, Hubby’s ambulance ride will be all done by next month all from 2009. The IRS was finished last month and I am still paying off my oral surgery from last November 2010. Although, also interest free and will be all finished with that by next June! But I have more eye surgery hanging over my head for that clouded lens on my cataract lens replaced eye, my lefty…are you following this?
Hope so, since I think I am getting a little bit lost! LOL!
Gotta laugh or I will cry!
Thankfully, social security recipients will finally be getting their C.O.L.A.,3.6 % this January, a cost of living increase after not getting any, get your mind out of the gutter, stagnant since 2008!
That should help a wee bit, I would think...
All in all, we are survivors!
Financially and physically; like the rest of you.
Somehow with all that goes wrong in life, roller coaster worthy happenings in life we somehow, some way keep going on, and on, and on…

YES! We beings of this earth are miraculous!
Someone knocks us down and we get up again and again, just the way I like it uh huh, uh huh, uh huh?
Staggering! Astonishing! Astounding!
Pat yourselves on the back, you all deserve it!
I, at times, feel that we do too…
Making it in this life seems not as hard as it looks on the surface, with our desires to enjoy it in spite of it all…rolling south than north with some east/west detours on the roadways here and there and everywhere, hmm?
Never ever dull or boring although I claim to have that thought on occasion, who can complain, why me of course!
It’s like I was born to do it! LOL!
And so now you know my secret what makes me laugh deep in my soul and where you can’t see it is this baloney of learning that everyone has a commonality in dirty laundry… if they tell it like I do nightly they would be stealing my gig!
And that makes me laugh like a bowl full of jelly, since that is my voluptuous form these days and that is quite a giggle too!
Ha! I made a funny calling this gig a giggle!
Can you hear me?
Nah, but if you could, you too would be laughing your butt off, and if that really did work mine would be invisible now! Maybe I should try that as a weight loss program, hmm?

Wacko, tonight for some strange reason and I have no idea why that is… could be that now, once again, they, the powers that be, have determined that our cell phones DO NOT cause brain tumors, whew how I worried over that one!
Sadly, next week they will probably take it back… as they have been known to do...hmm?

On that crazier than me statement allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!
Have a great weekend!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Thinking, thinking, thinking...

Aw, Geez why bother?

I don’t use my pre-thoughts anymore to determine what will come out my mouth into the atmosphere of the world to be heard by the few… OK, the one or two, Hubby or Skipper, ha! Well, sometimes the many may hear me but not so that I would know it I suppose…huh?

Have any of you out there felt that thinking carefully about what you wanted to express was worthy of caution in the way you said it?
Sure you did… but not me!
Not now, not ever!
And yes, there have been many a time that I regretted after, that is what I had said, and you all know once it’s out there; there is no taking any of it back!

That alone should have told me not to do it…
I never mentioned that we did go to the Oktoberfest at the Cultural Center over a week ago, but that was the night my stomach failed me and Hubby told you I was unable to write, which was sadly true.

But there was more to it…In reality it was just as well I did not enjoy this year’s version the band was all right I suppose but the food was just fair compared to my in-laws who all were from Germany. That alone should tell you I know a bit about German cuisine, yep I married a man who’s Mom is German Catholic married to a German Lutheran and me a Jew who thought she was an Austrian, but turns out from two of my cousins doing our genealogy that we have German ties too as well as Polish, Russian just about any eastern European group that came over in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s!
But to be honest we, Hubby and I, are both Americans.
Both born here, although, Hubby’s Mom was born in Germany she’s been here since the age of five and now she is ninety!
So that is why when Hubby said something I didn’t like, it was really awful in the midst of the festivities last Wednesday I said something that was way off kilter even for me…what I said is… “You sound just like a Nazi!”
Now, I was upset, yep with what I said and it was more than just a stage whisper it was a rather loud comment of my disappointment.
Perhaps, I should put it into context, I do believe Hubby said that this buffet that we paid upfront for the great deal of saving six dollars for the two luncheon meals was not really a buffet and the platter with a smidge of this and that that we had for a total of twelve dollars a piece including red cabbage soup, not good soup, and beverage, coffee and iced tea and that we were not allowed to go back to chose another item we might prefer better, since portions were doled out to us in minute helpings. And not all was that tasty and some was not even hot and one item was hard to eat due to it not even being crunched worthy or being able to go down at all!
And so I just wanted to have some of the items that I did enjoy and supposedly you could not do that. The Black Forest cake wasn’t bad, but nothing like Hubby’s Grandma’s.

And so in retrospect I do believe shouting out such a comment at an Oktoberfest is not exactly what I would think would be a nice or even a good idea, but there it is I said it and no taking it back ever... Who knows if I will be banned from the place, so far no news is good news I suspect…
We left shortly after that since in my realization of that stupid comment I rode my blue chariot, my mobility scooter, right into Hubby’s ankle and that not only made him shout in pain it made me feel even more awful!
And I couldn’t get out of there fast enough… we had plans anyway, to get shot, oh not that way, our flu shots sillies!
So at this point I thought that was what I needed another physical pain for the day and so we left for Walgreen’s; no appointments necessary and got our yearly doses.
This year though, the price went up for me, Hubby is on Medicare so again his was covered completely, but mine went up seven bucks from $25 to $31.99, well there goes our six bucks we saved and then some…LOL!
What a day, and so those things might have all contributed to that nasty day for me of ending up feeling ill…who knows… even the stupid have some feelings…

The next two weekends, coming up, are the yearly Oktoberfest in Cape Coral that we have been to previously and we may go again, it actually starts tomorrow…
I hope they don’t speak to those people who ran the one at the Cultural Center that would be too embarrassing to be labeled an idiot by people who hardly know me and that in reality that all the problem really is that my filter has never ever worked on my brain.
They say confession is good for the soul in some religions, huh?
And so I do believe I will be good for a while now… and on that admission of being me allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS and to think after over forty years of marriage and Hubby sticking up for me whenever he heard any anti-Semitic comments or jokes, by saying he was half Jewish, via his better half… that I could say that to him of all people. I feel so ashamed, but that doesn’t mean I won’t say something just as ridiculous sometime again, one never really knows with me… I think that’s what makes me fun, and unpredictable, sort of unique, hmm? Nah, but that’s all I got…or not…

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

When all was said and done...

The storm left a few with documented, yes by professionals that tell by examining the mess of tornado’s wrath/wreckage left behind. And flooding too in some areas as well, determined by the depth of the water over roadways and lawns that usually are not in that condition and yes, the naked eye is responsible for determining that, but thankfully no deaths or even injuries have been reported i.e. as far as I know by this writing.
Oh where, you ask?
Here is where, in Glades and Broward Counties of Florida for the tornadoes and flooding here and there sporadically in low lying areas throughout the tri-county area meaning Charlotte, Lee and Collier Counties; here also in Florida.

In other news: Zanesville, Ohio a small backwater town apparently with little previous fanfare is getting some awful notoriety due to a man keeping exotic animals, which he was arrested for not caring for and also on weapons charges in the recent past, Terry Thompson, owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm.
In fact he had been incarcerated for a year and just released three weeks prior to last night.
He also appeared to be having marital problems and so he decided to set his pets/exotics free and take his own life after.
Approximately forty-eight animals had to be destroyed since they, sheriff’s office of the county felt human life should be considered threatened by the beasts that ranged from tigers, lions and bears, wolves, monkeys, giraffes and the like…a few are still being rounded up at this writing and schools and businesses were all under lockdown for last night and today.

Most blame the state of Ohio’s lax rules on allowing the keeping of such animals with little or no restrictions.
Oh, I don’t know about that, but why would a criminal be allowed to keep such animals with his history of cruelty to them?
To me it is a no brainer when Thompson was told the first time and found guilty I blame the local authorities for not stopping the whole thing then, is it just me?
Perhaps, last night and today’s horror of killing innocent animals and the need to protect an entire community may never have occurred, hmm?

Ah, life and its justifiable concerns for us and how and where we live it…
But to my, thrilling knowledge of acclaim our area made the top ten, and this time for a good thing…
As one of the top ten best places to retire to, how about that?
Neat, huh?
We received the distinction for having homes; being on the cheap for on being a waterfront community, salt water canals i.e.… maybe they didn’t say cheap, perhaps it was that they actually said reasonable? Who knows…?
That’s a very nice thing either way.
Even our block seems to be getting more action with a new lot that became vacant for the Charley (hurricane) home finally being demolished and taken away just last week, leaving another valuable/cheap/reasonable waterfront property for sale.

They were saying cheap but the empty lot next door to us went for $112,000 in 2005 and I have no idea what that new lot’s asking price is. I suppose to some that is cheap for only 125’X 75’ lot, but to me that doesn’t qualify as that cheap? Hope they don’t build a Mc Mansion… as they call them… they make us little guys taxes go way up and usually they are multi storied to accommodate the small lot with enough square footage for the newbies, which makes them able to see into our private fenced back yard and if I eventually go out into our pool they will see my way too voluptuous body! Not a pretty picture!
(Perspective again, I suspect.)

Also the homes on our block for sale seem to be getting some action too, it appeared that there was an open house with quite a turnout there which spawns interest in the other ones for sale too; whatever works, I say!

On my more than active reporting items or an eclectic variety, may I say for your perusing desires, of course, because that’s the kind a gal I am… allow me also to be the first to wish you to have a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Influence...

Influence is to have power, to apply pressure, to sway an authority, wielding some weight and taking control, manipulating, or persuading and inducing, talking into or win over, and having an effect or inspiration that projects an impact to stimulate change and may have some bearing on to inspire to shape the outcome! TA DA!
Wow, I want some of that.
In reality, we as Baby Boomers believe that in our deepest desires that we do have that ability to change things, therefore behaviors or attitudes or human nature or the world or beyond! Well, not beyond, but you all know what I mean…
Whether dealing with our children as they grew or at our jobs or our grandkids or the powers that be, even our government.
We feel that our vote counts as much as our opinions… are we living in a dream-world; I ask you?
Nah! I say!
I have heard it told that only one person has the ability to change the world…and we are all still looking for that one being!
And no, I am not referring to a deity of any organized religion, or the Messiah, or what-have-you, no this will be a mere mortal…
Not so mere we all say! I hear you!

Immediacy is what is occurring this evening as I write this since perhaps just after four P.M. the networks locally took over our general programming to let us know that our extremely wet weather is of primary concern and for lack of a better way to say it… THE WEATHER IS OUR ALL CONSUMING NEWS this evening…
I must admit rightfully so, no argument here, no way.
But this proves my point for us even without cable or satellite or a Dish, what-have-you when there is news the stations take over our airwaves and so we get it, all of it!

Rain can be refreshing or worrisome as so many times it is in our hurricane season, and yes, we still are in that not so happy season until November 30th … Rain can bring lightening, thunder and heavy winds, as in tornadoes and no so far so good, although we were under warnings and watches for those nasty extreme fellows… Fortunately, this appears to be just a BIG RAIN MAKER, thankfully!
You see, with all this water around us, being on a peninsula especially, we get what is known as waterspouts that stay over the water but if, and now this is a BIG IF, if it, that waterspout, comes ashore it turns into a tornado!
Then we have a BIG problem, since there aren’t any basements here in most homes in Florida due to a very high water table that is the aquifer, what-have-you… safe rooms too are few and far between and I might suggest but I could be wrong mostly for the wealthy? To me, though, they should be included as mandatory in any new construction anywhere in the world!
Sure, they have nasty horrid weather too!
It’s obvious that there is other news around the world and we get that in on our networks here nightly at six-thirty P.M. and yes, it took over and moved on to national and international news and we actually have our rain system temporarily under control, at least here where we are… amazingly like they all knew that, it did stop for now.
But our local weather professionals said it will take breaks but continue on into the night… getting heavier perhaps by the later hours between ten and midnight!
I would normally be asleep by then, most nights but not every night… tonight I may stay up to watch and wait and make sure that we will be okay…
You all know that Mother Nature is one of those things that we have no ability to control, therefore, no influence over… how sad that we of so much power to possibly change the world for the better cannot still do a thing about the weather, and yes it is frustrating and maybe someday that will change…
Heaven knows we have plenty studying the idea, but these scientists are in the many of others who are trying hard to cure many diseases and on that front we seem to have too far to go too… although, many say any day now.
Then why are they gouging consumers in the price of the drugs to help them?
Sadly, is it to who’s benefit to cure us?
I wonder… what mere mortals can do?
Nah, it will happen because we will make them do it with our power of making them know how much we have to survive… no one seems to have any real influence over these people that literarily hold lives in their hands, hmm?

Confusing, but aren’t I always, but you also must admit that some of this is thought provoking too?

We will have to wait but please hurry, some are dying to know your answers…

On that truism of life allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all of your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS on the weather we do also get those scrolls on the bottom or sides of regular programming screens whenever we need to know, how thoughtful of the local networks, hmm?

Monday, October 17, 2011

People who...

Are truly amazing are why life is worth living, brave people that are forever changing others way of thinking about how different we can be in handling life’s curve balls.
JR Martinez comes to mind as well as my own thoughts of how I viewed Helen Keller’s true story.
Human beings with insurmountable difficulties that appear to nearly effortlessly rise above them…talk about WOW Factors!
Ashamed at times with my own way of handling my lot in life or my own ‘curve balls’, but you know we all have them, and some are not visible but are there just the same…
Strength and attitude is what we all know is what it should take.
Pain, we all have pain.
Bad days, we all have bad days.
Lazy, we all have lazy days.
Trying harder, we all can try harder…

Now wait a minute Tobi, now you are going too far!
WHOA, she’s talking in the third person again, oops, NASA we’ve got a problem!
Not since George the first, i.e. Bush, not Washington did we have anyone with so much vim and vigor and prolific wordiness speaking to themselves in the third person… and this is me talking to me? And no, I do not believe I have a kinship to George the first or any other relationship, Barbara he is all yours! LOL! But he is a bit of a cutie, even in his nineties, hmm?

Ha!
Moving away from another evening of maudlin recalls although those two peeps I mentioned above in the first paragraph are quite something special and I revere them as human beings and anyone would be smart to try to emulate what they became after their horrendous medical issues clouded their lives but never ever rendered them helpless or hopeless!

Life is fun and odd and needing sometimes for writers to change it up…
Now whatever does this gal mean?
Well, if you actually did say that this is what I would have answered to your question of your unfailing curious mind…
“IDEAS, FRIENDS”, but isn’t that what some of us all just need, an idea of what to do?
Or think about other than our own problems or miserably boring lives?
OOPS, TMI, sorry!
For the acronym challenged which I believe are not online but here this goes for them, OK?
TMI= Too Much Information, which Hubby says that way too frequently while I watch my two soaps daily and he may interject a who or what, at least I think he does and so of course I accommodate his curious mind, because that is what any good wife/ BFF would do, right?
Oh, again for the acronym challenged, not you necessarily, but BFF= Best Friend Forever!

Any-who, not to say that anyone who reads this drivel on a regular basis does not have their own ideas of how or what to do… but everyone, you must admit, might have a unique perspective?
And what the heck, sometimes we hit on a thing or crazy way of doing something that might suit your needs at a specific time in your life…so I say … what the heck, hmm?
We all say that we are open, but open to what?
New ideas, to an insult, to a downgrade, to accepting others, to a train wreck attitude, to a lifestyle change up or just plain change in either direction, as you all know I could go on and on?
We as breathing things, or have you 'homo sapiens’, on occasion we may need some shaking up at times, huh?
And what better way than to go into the world and live it than to stay cooped up in your wee rooms in your tiny abode and go into a semi-dark room to read about it what the real shakers and movers are doing via here on a Blog, Internet, Facebook, or a non-fiction book or a fiction novel, or tabloid magazine, or whatever? LOL!
Think about it… that’s long enough, now get out of here and live your life!
But hopefully return with your own stories to share and I do mean share, write them down… and don’t forget…oh darn I did… oh well, just Kidding!
Have your own brand of fun and live, love and laugh, our iconic signs that portray the epitome of what we all know is right and true to be the answer to a real life.

On that little bit more upbeat ending to my evening or my word splurges, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Talking

About things that make you sad are supposed to help.
Dan Wheldon, died today in an Indy Race in Las Vegas when he crashed his car into the guardrail, he was just thirty-three years old. Our condolences go out to his family and friends and race associates.
No, that didn’t make me feel any better, and I am sure it didn’t help you either.
Why?
I didn’t even know the young man.
And he is only one person, when thousands of other nameless people die daily too; maudlin.

Our thoughts cannot be of all this all of the time.
We, as a people would never ever be happy… and we do deserve to find ‘some’ happiness.
It’s not that we don’t care; it’s more the fact that we cannot allow such realities to consume us.

On the chance that I might off-put some I will move on to something more positive… what some of our friends are doing this weekend.
A Facebook friend and her Hubby are on a romantic island get-away for the week not just the weekend.
The island is one of the most pristine here in southwest Florida, Captiva; a lucky couple!
For those of you who are not familiar with Captiva, the sister to the larger Sanibel Island has some of the best shelling in the world!
For more info go to this site: http://www.captivaisland.com/ , a great vacation location for you non-locals to think about.
It is not too close to us but not that faraway either and Hubby and I used to go for the day via our little nineteen foot Sea Hunt center console when I was still able to get on and off of it…ah memories.
Without them, what have we got?
In those days we used to love to swim and fish and shell and stop for lunch at one of the many restaurants that pepper our island hopping Gulf shorelines. You could dock there and go in or eat outdoors, which we used to do especially when Skipper our Bichon was along for the day, which was usually always… He was one of many who came before him and they too would be our shipmates!
(Benji (b.1984-d.1998) and Brandi (b. 1988-d.2004) our Yorkies, Andrew (b.1992-d.2001) our collie/Shepard mix…) There were more but my memory isn’t as good as it should be, thus this unsolicited memoir.
Oh no!
I went back to that topic again… death!
I suppose we cannot escape it, but we all must go on and live our lives with the respect that living gives to us, no matter how badly we may feel, hmm?

Have you at any particular age felt uncertain?
Sure you have.
I feel as if I am an adolescent that needs to find her self…somewhere…
As if lost.
I know you all know where I am, here, at any given moment in time, most all nights...
But where am I when not here?
Hmm?
Am I being the best I can be for me?
Not for you or you or you, but selfishly for me?
Something to ponder over, hmm?

Death can teach us to not to waste what little time we all have left, in other words a healthy person, doesn’t know either, hmm?
Hit by a bus or crash in car or killed in the wrath of Mother Nature, hmm?
And so no matter how we physically feel day after day, we must do whatever it takes to make the most of each and everyone we get… and so I have been trying to do that and will continue in that vein of reality to learn to live from death…
As we all should.

Hefty stuff tonight but it had to be said to myself, not that I gave up or anything, since we all know each day is a new beginning or the first day of the rest of our lives… or whatever other clichés you need or I need to get motivated to not fall into the doldrums.

Self talk does work, and so that is what we should all do in a positive way, right? RIGHT!

On that note of trying hard to find the good in all sadness for us to remember that life is too short to not enjoy it to the fullest… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I just figured out why I am having all these many grammatical mistakes my TIA'S, mini strokes! That explains it, gosh and I just thought I got stupid that is to say more stupid!LOL!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Ah, the weekend!

What is it about ‘the weekend’ that makes even the youngest child and eldest adult go, ‘ah the weekend is coming up and we have plans’?
Or do we?
Yes!
Everyone finds something of interest to do on ‘the weekend’, whether it is just relaxing and basically doing nothing productive or going out on a date or concert or a sporting event or a party with a spouse, just shopping or I don’t know to family for a holiday or whatever…

Some certain types of employment do NOT have what most consider ‘the weekend’ off, since everyone from retailers to realtors to police and fire fighters do not have those days off, unless on vacation or ill, usually; they do work most all weekends since activity in those fields appears to heighten on those days. I suppose it is because more people are out and about…hmm? Even people in entertainment biz rarely are home or ‘off’ on weekends, here in the US of A, considered ‘Saturday and Sunday’.
Hubby became a deputy back in 1995 and when he did it was an adjustment to him since his previous lines of work or self employment, aside from our restaurant he had weekends for the taking to do whatever he so desired.
That is when I wasn’t working for others in promotion of retailing, nope for those two we absolutely worked weekends, but I have to admit I loved that and the high energy that gave to me!
To me though it seems silly that when you are retired like we are now and not working at all to be looking forward to the weekend, since most days are no different than any other for we have the freedom and time to do anything we so desire during the week days too! See, silly!
The only problem is that many of the exciting happenings seem to occur on ‘the weekends’ due to the availability of the masses.
And so mundane tasks are done during ‘the week’, conventionally Monday through Friday and so even so we are ‘retired’ we too have to wait for what the promoters do to create excitement in our ‘neck of the woods’, neighborhood, or county what-have-you.
Sure some things are ‘ongoing’ as they call them… which sadly also can mean ‘boring’ if you have seen them many times before.

Hubby had a wild idea to call any two days in a row he had off or three when he would go four tens of work, his weekend, but I poo pooed it, to me it was irreverent to do that to ‘the weekend’ of the world’s Saturday and Sunday, also the two days that most religions celebrate their days of rest, huh?
Even when I first started working retail I worked in a county in NJ that had the ‘Blue Laws’, which meant everything was closed on Sunday!
I don’t know if they still exist, but when I moved to the southern part of the state, they did not have them and so we worked the weekends including Sunday. Florida didn’t appear to have them either, since as a district manager of five stores in five counties they too were all open on Sunday and therefore all weekend long too!
Exhausting is all I got to say about that and boy I am so glad that I am out of that rat-race!
But oddly enough all fund raisers for the different organizations I worked for had most all their special events due to turnout being greater, scheduled on weekends and so yep I still worked even in my ‘bum years’ as I called some of my on again off again non-profit affiliations that went on for over forty years, when I was just plain Mom or a workaholic doing it all but getting paid outside of the home… even when our sons were long gone on their own, I was a free for all in the ‘volunteer business’, week days and weekends and not working for pay gal! But still working, you know what I mean…
And yes, I would change none of it, since all is mostly fond memories.
I do long for some of it occasionally; it’s only been a few years since…
But when I did it I could give ‘my all’, during a remission time, so-to-speak, and now it wouldn’t be that way, since ‘my all’, ain’t what it used to be…and that would not be fair to anyone.
Sounds harsh 'all or nothing', but that’s me, sorry!
In reality that’s not true since I write this nightly and occasionally give not for profit information, which I do hope helps some.
And I still do advocacy online for anyone who asks and so I am still sort of in the game…
We donate smaller amounts of monies too, and buy products that help different organizations, and so we do our part I guess.

Now this might clutter your ideas of what you may want to do with your weekends but may I make a suggestion?
I hear you!
Of course I cannot, but if I could hear you say, “SURE!”
Find out what’s happening on the weekend that you are off and just go volunteer to help or do something you really care about. Of course if you aren’t employed right now and have many days off when not looking, do it too then, it costs nothing and lifts the saddest of us spirits to be there for others! Who knows now this is a slight unknown fact but some people looking to employ others do it and you could meet your new boss… who knows… but that’s not why you should, you should do it because it helps, really helps!

On that note of my interference in ‘your weekend’, not to mention your life… allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?



PS: two updates: the other night when I could not sit here to write was due to a tummy malfunction, but it resolved, didn’t want to bother you with my all too common daily problems, and why I did now is beyond me…LOL!
Oh, that was only one, two was that although my thumb seems to have healed skin-wise amazingly to me with just a small scar, but it seems that I continue to have a burning sensation on it and it is worse when it gets wet. I hope this too will go away…any suggestions?

Friday, October 14, 2011

Interesting...

Interesting means: attractive, motivating, appealing, exciting, fascinating, attention-grabbing, out of the ordinary, remarkable, and not to mention, aw, OK, yes… note worthy!
Whatever is interesting Tobi, you all ask?
Well, perhaps you did not really ask, but you may be wondering what the heck that’s all about, hmm?

Why, the protestors on Wall Street of course! They brought back memories of a time that I was thinking might have gone the way of the Nehru jacket of that time too, the 1960’s ( I heard a rumor that the Nehru jacket, may comeback, but who knows; I don’t hear like I used to…) Whatever could she be baiting us with this odd woman with not much brainpower but a bit of long winded hot air and verbose nonsensical wordy writings?( As if she were being paid by the word, but nah, she gets zilch, nada, nil, bupkis for all the glory of posting these nightly enchanting, well not enchanting but it goes against my cringe factor to say what I really mean, reports!) What she actually means on topic is… Why, standing up for the little guy and meaning it, is where I am at! Davey against Goliath a story as old as the Bible, you all know that one, hmm? A good one, in my opinion…
The movements’ reasoning, to me, is still a bit confusing on what they are trying to accomplish but I think that they want the rich people to start to make jobs so that they can all go back to work?
Geez, didn’t we all make them, Wall Street, et al, those rich persons, that loan that they are supposedly going to pay back, some day?
And wasn’t that for taking care of business? Meaning fixing the mess they made?

Camping out in the city of good ole NYC, my old college stomping grounds, but someone should have sent those kids to the park where they could have gotten comfy on the softer terrain…the rich live over there too, you know Central Park West?
Hmm, the West Wing, the West Coast, the Central Park of the West; am I the only one here that sees a pattern… do the rich only live in the west?
Probably, if I recall, wasn’t the Gold Rush in our west too?
Yep, now I got it, let’s go and tell them all… all those westerners! Wait a minute I am a commoner and I live in the west too, that is in the southwest of Florida, not quite the same, huh? Not to all of us anyhow, you betcha!
Oops, sorry got carried away, but you know me, when I am on a tangent… I am on a tangent…oh so right, hmm?

But seriously, not to make light of what those not so mellow folks, and we thought our protests were peaceful and we were oh so mellow, but wait those were drug induced mellow fellows, different time different peeps of all ages now, (take that Limbaugh, you not getting it right person also who benefits from free speech but not getting why anyone else should also have it too, how odd and sad for you…,) and that they are all throw-backs to a time that too was filled with turmoil and blight and fight and like and hate and movements and caring and action and being what our rights bestowed on all of us… the right to not be happy and to try and change that for us and anyone else who felt as we did too! (And to change the minds of those who didn’t, which is an enormous task and doesn’t always work.)

As we all know, as time moves on, the more we think it changes in reality it changes very little…why I remember (not personal memories really, wasn’t born yet, but was told about that time, like we all were) when some folks way back when were throwing tea overboard in New England in protest of taxation without representation… and that was another great cause that many stepped up to the plate to make a difference, hmm?

People who feel the ability to make a difference in the world we all live in should be acclaimed not detained and the proof is in the pudding as the rest of our country takes up the cause across our ‘fair’ nation… that specific word is why we must not forget we all have the power and the need to fight the injustices we believe that exist and try our best to change them for the better!
Good for anyone who has that gumption to undertake this vast test of human change for the masses… by going to whom they believe to be the source of the problem?

On that something to think about, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Thursday, October 13, 2011

How?

Out of frustration, when, would be a better question.
I have a brilliant acquaintance, which used to belong to MENSA, which has put up on our local city wall on Facebook poignant messages about things we all care about.
And today was no different.
She felt that we as a world community put more emphasis on the death of Steve Jobs than the deaths of millions of people a year due to famine and other unspeakable happenings worldwide.
Good for her, I say.
But in my opinion her analogy of our human concern was a bit skewed.
You see, amazing people who have made an individual mark on the world are a rare commodity, while, sadly, in comparison deaths from famine and horrendous (Holocaust in nature) other means beat at our hearts and souls daily and have been part of history horrifically forever!
And no, no child or woman or man who has died by no fault of their own is never ever been forgotten by any of us who truly care which we could be counted by the multitude in numbers my dear Facebook buddy.
We are a world, who by now, and in this generation can be blamed for many things, but not for not caring for our other human beings is a questionable presumptuous blanket statement.
To me it was an insult of how we all feel in the larger world picture.
Although, most of us are overwhelmed with the massiveness of the undertaking to solve this unjust ghastly appalling reality of our world’s inequities we as a people care and do as much as we as individuals are capable of by aid of donations or advocacy on bills that will provide people to physically go there to help if we are not able to.
And we support private organizations by joining them or donating to them etc.
Most of the poorest of Americans seem to be able to relate the best to their plight and find that we can help in some way…After all ‘there by the grace of God… goes I’…
Same with many other injustices in this world of housing, food and medical care and prescriptions not being an absolute of having and that is happening right here in our US of A!
None of us are so heartless not to want to do something!
Only thing is that we do what we can, when we can…
Methodology of helping is vast and complex in some cases.
Any person with a heart knows that to do something is better than doing nothing, and that is why I have faith in us as a world.
My Dad (b.1907-d.1986) had faith in humankind and that was the legacy he left to me, to feel that too!
Hate has no place in humanity, care and helping and loving one another and acceptance is what we have to do, and many are.

Please dear friend feel better about the world and know what you feel we do too and that it is a massive undertaking but no one on this planet of man/woman does NOT care it is a slow difficult thing to accomplish that’s all… and all any of us can do is try.

On that note of being overwhelmed with this and so many other enormities in life allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Hubby here

Tobi is not feeling well tonight. She will be back tomorrow night.

Hubby

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ten cents short and a year too late...

Imagine that you are someone who is so efficient that you pay your bills as you receive them, not when they are due, but the day they come.
Gosh, that’s me. And the reason I do it is because all the money we get for the month, pension and social security has come and no more will be coming until the next month so before we foolishly spend it on something other than what we should I make sure our bills are all paid then fun ensues, got it?
As long as we have the funds i.e. I do it and we always still do at this point in the month and this was our last due bill.
And since I am the bookkeeper for our bills, for nearly forever… our credit is still excellent. You see, like most I am sure today, we never ever charge what we cannot afford to payoff at the end of the month and so far… we have been lucky, but someday, who knows…but it’s there if need be for emergencies; and I sure hope that never comes to be!

As many of you must know my eyesight is extremely compromised and that we all know that bills in snail mail arrive in a normal font for the well sighted to see.
This blog though I write in large text and I have amped up my other sites too. For some reason whoever aided me previously on doing it for me, get your mind out of the gutter, the font size, it appears it was diminished when I had that last fluke occur over the weekend this past when our server was screwed up.

Any-who, the point I was trying to make in my round about way is that I misread the bill by all of ten cents!
And I felt awful since I paid it online, as I always do and so I called the bill source (I could not change it and I did try, but hit pay too quickly) and they were kind enough to credit the whole ten cents to my account that will take two or three billing cycles to fix, but they backed it up with a confirmation email; would you believe?
And this kind company who was AT&T, my cell phone provider.
Before the offer was made, I did explain my mistake and suggested since my bank would not allow me to pay only a ten cent amount to set it right that they tack it onto my next bill but I didn’t go into my eye problems being the cause, how odd and so unlike me. I saved it for here to talk about just between us, as usual, OK?
Problem nipped in the bud, like I always try to do… to face those problems and remedy them, not hide from them. TA DA!
I know, not that big a deal, but in my mind they might have sent it back saying that I did not pay the correct amount! Boy, I am such a worry wart, nothing new there, hmm?

Second part of my title, ‘a year too late’, refers to the year our first home a Townhouse condo in NJ was built.
On occasion I go on zillow.com to check the value of homes we owned and lived in and see how the economy has affected them.
Odd hobby, some may say, but I have a lot of time on my hands and you know it is interesting.
You see it was listed as being built in 1973!
But au contraire, we moved into it brand new on December 18, 1972!
With our first son who was nearly eight months old at the time.
One rarely forgets their first home or date of when you arrive in it.
And so I wrote to the realtor who was listed for interest on the account and we have been back and forth all day.
He/she, since the first name is Pat and so I don’t know for sure stated that it says on the taxes the date and there is not a thing that they can do about it.
Oh well…
Many tax records are incorrect, and they do not accept retractions apparently.
Case in point, another of our homes here in Florida had on its records that is was a three bedroom two bath when in fact it was a four bedroom three bath, but what can you do? It was our second Florida home on the other coast here.
Not a thing, but frustrating all the same, and no they were not added on later, they were built into the home back in the late 1970’s.

I just remembered while writing this that I wrote that our son was only five months old when we moved in, but I realized that takes some of my legitimacy away since I did say he was born in May, oops!
Bad Mother, I thought he was only five months old, now why did I forget that?
We had been living in a basement apartment before the move, and it was not a very good situation.
But I had remembered the move distinctly since it was for us like moving from hell into heaven!
All there was great, a wonderful social life with many young parents with much in common, all in our starter homes together and we lived there for six years and then built our second home, a five bedroom bi-level south of there on a lot just under an acre in size, ah memories...
We moved to Florida back in 1986 where we have bought older homes and renovated all three that we have owned at one time or another, which brings us to today and our little retirement home.
Our jewel on the Elkam waterway with our boat and pool and sunshine and no worries…
If you believe that…how did you get into my dream? LOL!
Life goes on here as it does everywhere and some things never ever change… less is more I have been known to say, but with me I always find something to fuss over, hmm?
Contentment should be almost a given, but health issues that are real not imagined are a daily grind that can be unkind.
Today lefty leg went very numb mostly righty leg has been that way. Lesions are nasty fellows that never ever let you forget when the MS train daily calls claim to your bodily functions… All of us who have these mean reminders that we want out of, and liken heavily for more distractions of doing or thinking anything but like a drug addict our symptoms call to us and steal us back into the reality of what we have been dealt… and there is no rehab to rid ourselves of these undesirable effects… MS, Multiple Sclerosis is forever or at least until they find us all a cure…

On that sadder than I wanted to be end to this essay allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Monday, October 10, 2011

An update and mish mash of other things...

With all the things that have been happening these last few days with people and my reaction to their actions I almost forgot to tell you that our replacement knives arrived about a week ago from Farberware!
Brand new and no delivery charge just exactly what they promised and so to me that proves that some companies are true to their customers with lifetime warrantees on their products, refreshing, right?

Now more than ever we must unite in consumer logical responsibility.
That’s not to say in our pasts that we should ever not take the conscientiousness of following up on products’ claims and holding those manufacturers to task on them.
Quality control is why this is important and when we lapse at these not making sure that these American products are as good as they should be they and we become lesser than what we as domestic consumers need to or should want to have in our possession, true?

I know some may hesitate with our economy in such a massive mess.
But perhaps some of it may have been caused by not maintaining our excellence in that production?
It’s not only the fact that products are being made abroad and outsourced but that our higher paid manufacturing teams have not been up to our once superior par?
Sometimes I just wonder why we have gotten to where we are today.
And the blame goes all over the place but rarely do I hear us taking the culpability for our own undoing; just a thought, huh?

Today, I received an email from my email pal ‘Oprah’, yep the OPRAH, and her new show on her new cable channel is beginning tonight at eight with Rosie O’Donnell’s show right after, I believe.
You all have probably seen the ads, right?
RO & O, tonight on OWN.
Unfortunately, (Or fortunately in our minds) we gave up cable back in 1995, when our two sons were gone and on their own, we also found out on this coast we could not have an ala cart menu of programming like we had over there on the east coast.
Logically would you pay for what you didn’t want or need?
And to be honest all these years we have not missed it.
We get movies delivered to our home from Blockbuster and news and weather on the networks and with CNN and the Weather Channel on here or even we can rent shows too that are on cable from the Sci-Fi or History channels or what-have-you.
So we feel we miss not a thing!
Every time I get these little note worthy emails from Ms. Winfrey I write back sorry I don’t have cable and just today I wished her luck as well, as if she really sent it to me and as if she really reads what I send back, ha!

Now this might seem a wee bit harsh and I could be way off track here, but why does Ms. Winfrey believe that all her past viewers automatically have cable or satellite or whatever it takes to receive her new station’s programming?
All those years she told her audiences to be the best they could be and do what is right for them and live within their means, than why would she become rather elitist in believing that everyone has and can afford to have cable or satellite or whatever it takes to receive her station’s programming?
She who believes that humble beginnings now are a choice and can be changed by mindset and desire?
Millions here in America, right now, today many have other more important priorities like medical bills, medicine or food and just are trying to pay rent or a mortgage to save their homes, hmm? And cable may be something on the back burner or find they can manage fine without it, contrary to some people’s opinions, hmm?
I think back to when I discussed those shacks/homes with the caddies (Cadillac’s) out front and cable TV inside, it’s your priorities stupid! I feel like yelling to all those people who think that having cable is essential in life while they profess to not ever watching TV anyway, since they prefer to go out to enjoy life or to read or what have you, but have those sixty inch flat screens? How odd, hmm?

Hypocrites, I find are the most creative in telling you what YOU should have and why.
Not to say that about Ms. Oprah Winfrey, because we Americans love this woman, and sincerely I do too.
Why wouldn’t I?
She is magnificent in her ability to help the downtrodden in every way imaginable she is truly a person to emulate and she appears to have the Midas touch in her business acumen!
What a down to earth, great icon of this world we are all better for knowing her...
It’s just that we don’t have cable and we are fine with that, that’s all and no nasty comments please, it is by choice, and we could afford it if we wanted it and took the channels they want us to have, but we want to pick and choose like we used to be able to; you know what I mean?
We had cable in NJ from when it came out until 1995 here in Florida on the east coast and so we know all about it and we had HBO, CINEMAX, DISNEY, CNN the Weather Channel, National Geographic and such, all those so-called premium channels and loved and enjoyed them with our sons while they grew up.
And it was a package deal and logically priced then, according to what you wanted.

All I know is that we are free here in America to make choices and no matter what your social-economic situation is at any given time in life we all have the ability to decide what is best for our particular family and no one can decide that for us! TA DA!

So on that note of much confusion, I surely hope not…aw shucks… sorry!
Allow me to be the first to wish you all to have a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and to share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Hello, do you have my cell phone?

Odd question, huh? She explained she lost hers and was trying to find it by calling it… (I sure know what that is like, I too had lost mine once and that helped me to track it down too and fortunately after shutting it down at the cell store but got it back…I had dropped it out of my car in a shopping center parking lot and was lucky enough that someone called Hubby from my address book in the phone and he started to go to get it but I got there first.)
A woman, who sounded elderly to me, asked if I had her phone; she had dialed my cell phone number… and was a bit insistent that I might have hers.
I replied, “No this is mine and I have had this number for nearly ten years.”
I said where did you get my number from, and she had no idea or answer either.
She did give me her name and I do have caller I.D. on my cell phone, so I had her number too, a landline. And so I felt she must have dialed incorrectly and so I asked her what number did she want and she repeated my number to me…
I said that isn’t correct do you perhaps have another number to try?
And she rattled off another to me and I said maybe that she should try that one and she hesitantly said okay and hung up.
Hours later, my cell phone rang once again. I keep it in the compartment of my walker seat, and most of our friends or family use our home/landline to call us these days and so whenever it rings it is usually someone who we don’t know that well or a stranger like her.
Yep, it was her again.
She seemed rather frazzled and I told her again that this was not her phone and she apologized and hung up.
Something about her reminded me of perhaps an elderly person with dementia not unlike Hubby’s mother and it made me wonder if perhaps she needed help.
I told Hubby what had transpired and he suggested calling the non-emergency number for the Sheriff’s Office to do a check on well being.
I had already done two things to check on the woman and a reverse phone number look-up for an address online for free and then county site to check to see who the home belonged to… The writer in me imagined that she was a recent elderly widow who might be lonely or worse needing help from some unknown assailant or even that she might be being restrained from her freedom and needed to be released from her keeper, who knows… that’s what makes us writers’ write, imagination, huh?
I called and spoke with a young woman who gave me her first name and operator number and I explained why I was calling.
She said that she would have someone look into it and I asked if they could let me know how it all turned out after some hesitation I gave her my name and phone number.
The only reason I hesitated I didn’t want the woman to think I was being too nosy, but to be realistic I did have concern for her well being and so I told her my name and number just like she did for me, ha!
A while later a female deputy called back to ask why I had called and I told her the same thing concern for the woman who sounded confused.
She said okay and that she was going to check into it, and I asked if she could call me back… and by nearly four o’clock no one had so I called there.
A different operator answered the phone with a different number and I asked for the one I originally spoke with and she asked me what it was about and so I told her.
Gosh, all I wanted to know is if they followed up and that the woman was all right, this second female operator said that the officer went there and the woman was just fine but was just trying to find her phone.

Boring story, huh?
But not really I think ‘being safe instead of sorry’ is NOT a mistake in anything in life.
I always think of that young mother Denise Lee who no one followed up on the person who called after she saw the young mother in the back of the car and later she was found dead.
Scary and that was the same Sheriff’s Office I called too.
One never knows does one…?

Any-who the operator told me they were too busy to call me back, strange then why did they tell me they would? This was not the 911 number this was their non-emergency number, baffling and not that logical to me; besides Hubby is retired from this Sheriff’s Office, which was about three years before the Denise Lee case happened.
It will be five years since he retired at the end of this month, Geez time flies…

Imagine, what a song, true?
One of my favorites, for lyrics though I would have to say my number one!
Today would have been John Lennon’s seventy-first birthday; what an amazingly talented prolific writer.
Next time you hear the song think about those lyrics and when they were released in 1971, from lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/Beatles%20Lyrics/Imagine%20Lyrics.html


“Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one”


As a favor to yourself really look at these lyrics without any prejudice of politics and if it were possible how would you try to accomplish this?

Perhaps the impossible dream, yes it does seem but a worthwhile fantasy to aspire to…
But I am one of those fools… too.

On that much to think about allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Try to just ‘imagine’ too…

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Hope this works!

Today was another frustrating day.
Oh, let me clarify, no one was what I would consider mean to me or even Hubby, but no one was totally able to figure out what was wrong…
Did I forget to mention?
The problem today was our server not our computer and not my feelings, except for not being able to communicate with my FB pals.
Any-who, it appears that has been happening all day long and I spent hours on the phone with Century Link at first after an hour and half determined that our DSL was up to speed and so it was not their problem, but were kind enough to give me Norton’s phone number since they felt that we may have been invaded and for those who are not familiar with Norton they are our anti-virus company.
In spite of last night doing a full virus scan and defragging after and clearing out our history Century Link felt I should have them test us for unwanted invasions and take over our computer like they have before to eerily accomplish from their location in India my computer’s ability to once again be our family member with access to the world and beyond!
Well, not really beyond, but you know what I mean, huh?
Norton sent me to their site that has the ability to take over my computer and to do its magic and make us well again; gosh wouldn’t that be great if doctors could do that?
Oh well, but I must get back to the story…
Long nah the short of it all was that they could not be accessed since the computer was taking twenty minute to download their eraser program which is only 84 gigabytes and in those twenty minutes it did only 20 SECONDS of the 40 minute 50 second download… I felt like shouting ‘Houston we have a problem!”
But I restrained myself.
What it eventually boiled down to after another hour and a half on the landline was that the server was more than like WRONG and it was their problem since by process of elimination the Norton tech was able to determine and so I was told to call them back and let them know it was on their end!
Century Link was not absolutely sure with their first tier person and so after a little this and that he did seem to think that something was not Kosher and so he said that it was coming up, where I knew not where, but that someone else nearby us was also telling them they too were having the same situation of no access to things like mail, or surfing or poking or accessing any little thing that comes up on their Facebook page, well my poking comes and goes… too weird, who knows?
And so he felt that his second tier guy should take a look at this.
So I was handed over to the more informed one?
I have no idea what that meant, but he said that we were not alone…hmm, I knew that, since first tier just told me that someone in my area, perhaps a mile or two away was also suffering from computer malfunctioning server syndrome.
Can I coin a phrase or what?
Odd situation calls for odd people to name them, huh?
Moving on the low down turned out that tier two, Mike, said that he was going to send the problem over to engineering and that it should be fixed within two business days?
I said but its Saturday, he knew that.
I got pouty, but he couldn’t see it and I said the obvious, so this means not until Tuesday?
He said he would try for sooner but that they were short handed and that they have a minimal crew on the weekends!
I played the news card and said…” I saw on the news not too long ago where Century Link left a bunch of seniors down in Collier County somewhere without service for about a month and when they finally came it took like two minutes to fix it.”
Dirty, under handed me… oh and I even mentioned I write a blog, double dirty with a cherry on top! Shame on me.
And so he checked and sure enough he had said he would see what the situation was and call me back within the hour, and he did within forty-five minutes, actually, a man of his word, refreshing!
I was relieved for the break since by the time we got done it was eleven thirty and I had been on the phone for this problem since seven A.M.!

When he called he said that the problem was bigger than just two of us more than one hundred in Port Charlotte were also suffering the computer malfunctioning server syndrome too! And so he said it has become a priority and that they would try to have it fixed within twenty four hours, hooray!

My underhanded devil made me do it way of not working my magic but could be off putting to some was not needed in the long-run, only the facts, just the facts m’am!

On that bit of slap happy hopeful desire to be amongst the computer peeps online real soon…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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