It's back...

What's back you ask? Our glorious beautiful warm Florida weather!

We are now in the latter part of October, and do you know what?
I was in the pool this morning like the good old times and the water temperature was a toasty eighty-six degrees and the air temperature was a few degrees higher, how about that you northerners?
(An aside: Monday at mid-seventies and windy I could not go in even though the water temperature was up over eighty-three with the wind and cooler weather it wouldn’t have been beneficial for me; rule of thumb for arthritis 85 degrees and over and for MS 85-ish are the water temps preferable for exercising in the pool.)
That solar blanket does work well, even though last night was not as cool as the previous few nights with them being in the low to mid fifties, last night was in the sixties, and boy did that blanket work along of course with our solar roof panels, perfection in concert.

You see, I do believe that my consistent desire to do my ROM (range of motion) exercises in the swimming pool has been a big help to me. And I will continue as long as I can with this new addition of the blanket it seems that it may take me into November! It has been nearly four months now that I have been back at it, and I recommend it highly for anyone with neurological, arthritic or even paraplegia disorders it helps the muscles not to atrophy too severely when done at least a few times a week.

New topic: Do we want to discuss what’s going on with those bailout recipients… oh, all right? If we must! I want our money back and all you fools stop paying out those bonuses before you repay your loan to the rest of us AMERICANS, you hear? Didn’t your Mom teach you responsibility? Bills first then fooling around money! The rest of us are expected to do that, what makes you any different?
Good, now I am so glad I got that off of my chest.

That will be it for tonight unless you want to discuss something else?
You see below this Blog besides checking off you opinionated impression of what you read you can also leave me a message of whatever you care to and that includes discussion material within reasonable perimeters of course. As I have said in the past this Blog is rated PG, but sometimes PG 13, OK fans?

Good night to all and to all I seriously hope for you to leave me some wonderful message, good idea? Yep, I thought so!

How's your computer working?

Our computer has seen better days even with the anti-virus in place doing its check nightly.
Near invasions seem imminent on a daily basis, worms, horses you name it all those nasty warrior animals that want all of our computers to crash.

I have been communicating with our local newspaper’s internet editor most of the day, since I do read the local paper daily online. I seem to need to tell them when something’s not right, and yesterday it was a story glitch that didn’t go where it was supposed to when you clicked on their read more hot key. Today the problem was more disturbing and as of a few hours ago it still had not been fixed. In their editorial comments section which I read religiously it would not go to further on continuing the story, what it did was go to an inscription stating an error was made and you were not allowed to view the information, below is what it said but much larger and in bright red fonts:
“Server Error in '/' Application. The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.”
Whatever that means, the editor asked me specifics like was it just on the editorials or elsewhere in the paper and I was able to tell him that it was just there in the editorial letters section by checking randomly the rest of the paper.
I just checked now to get the correct wordage to tell you, and found out that it is still happening.
Its nice to be able to help out even a professional, one getting paid to do the job he needs my free help for…now I am not getting angry, just wondering.
You see, when I used to walk all over the neighborhood and call the code enforcement people, and others to let them know about things they didn’t have enough employees to cover they always thanked me, and said that I was a big help to them! Now I can’t walk around to help them out, and so I am giving freebies to the newspaper people, boy I wish there was a way to make a few cents off of all this? Nah, once a volunteer and a Good Samaritan it’s hard to stop, and it does feel so good too, especially when your appreciated with a thank you or two!
Some people won’t do anything unless they are getting paid to do it; sadly they are usually the very rich. More medium income and poor people seem to know that volunteering is a great thing to do, perhaps because it’s easier to relate to people not far from us?
All of you are probably, by now saying well those two you mentioned are not non-profit organizations they are definitely for profit, but even so they have had cut backs in funding and jobs, and as we all know that newspapers all over are suffering as well as small municipalities, so now even the so-called mighty have fallen too. And so help where you can I will too. Optimally non-profits but others could use your helping hand as well, just say yes in these cases.
Good night to you all and do something for another …secretly it makes you feel soooo good!

Question...

“Have you had all your shots?” may very well be the new social conversation opener for the upcoming holiday season…
I know, who would have thunk it this time a year ago?
Doctors here in southwest Florida won’t be giving the H1N1 shots if they can help it…why you ask? One main reason and it’s not because they don’t have confidence in its ability; actually it’s because they feel they would be overwhelmed with the quantity of people needing to get them and so they believe schools and public health officials such as the health departments should be in charge of the distribution of the shots.

Last year at this time, it was change, change, change, and we must keep hope alive!
Well, how soon priorities change, huh?

The jobs market it seems to most has gotten worse but nightly the news confuses us, we are up with jobs we are down with jobs too, same with foreclosures, up and down, and even the stock market the same way! Who would have thought they would end up all in the same conversation? Although, to hear it told the market being up just brushing past 10000 mark, we are doing well, but it’s still more than 400 points below what it was!

Tobi the truthslayer ooops that should be Tobi the truth sayer is your road to the facts of life. I will always tell you all the truth whether you want to hear it or not!
And I sure hope there is no copyright infringement in using that line, facts of life, but the expression was around way before the sit-com. Never know whose watching I could get in big trouble not unlike those crazy Heene’s those Colorado peeps who enjoy the limelight no matter how they get there. Sadly the local law enforcement feels the family is not all together that Kosher, if you know what I mean? And they will be filing felony charges against the parents.
Daddy and Mommy seem to want fame at all costs, and the boys are the useful willing, though have it underage, shill to get them there; what a family.
I sure wish the children well; they are way too young to understand any of this baloney!


Good night to all… and to all remember one thing…children first!

We did a lot of somethings!

We left the compound today and journeyed forth into the world of band shows, boat shows, and seafood festival shows and artsy fartsy stuff! Yep, I suppose you can say we ventured out into the land of the lost and found?
And what is that supposed to mean, you ask?

Well, I will tell you all my mighty inquisitive audience that I truly love…it means…that we found out about the festivities and became lost in the crowds!
And there were many peeps out there in that world of joy and amusement; all there to have some good old fashioned fun, parking was timely, finding a spot that is, and we managed on the second go round or was it the third? No, it was after we came back from fishville and then we came back to the other showings at the park on the other side of the town. In reality we had a third choice at our event center they also had today a craft’s show that we felt too pooped to pop over to.

Any-who, we made legit stops on the way home to, picked up my prescription at the grocery, and something for din-din. Sandwiches fit the bill Hubby’s was cheese steak, and mine was my usual roast beef on multigrain with salad to the brim! We stopped at the wine shop for a few beverages too.

But when we got home we found a surprise was left at our front door and we don’t know from whom? Someone must be thinking that we are needier than we think we are, and they left a container of spaghetti already cooked, and two rolls, this is way too weird… It was cooler today but in the seventies way too warm for any food to survive without bacteria forming, but by who is a mystery, and so unfortunately we feel the need to throw it all away or suffer unhealthy consequences. But right now the good gesture is in the frig in cool storage in limbo. No note was enclosed; do we have an admirer or admirers?

What would you do under the circumstances?
I have no clue.

On this mysterious ending I will say to you my good night and tell you to keep smiling and have some fun, heaven knows we all need it!

77....

YES! Its seventy-seven degrees with the humidity down to 44%, at five thirty P.M.!
Wow, are you all jealous?
I know you are.
Good ole Florida is going into heat arrest!
It’s nice and comfy now, but in no time at all it will be heading down the thermometer sliding towards outright cold!
Ha, you snicker, but the truth is the truth.
Everything is relative, what one person thinks is cold another may just believe is chilly.

I can remember a time when sixty degrees was the beginning of warming up in the old days of being a northlander.
But here it means the temperature is dropping, possibly to the point of no return for several……….hours! And it creates a very frosty feeling on the skin just the thought of it!
Stop that heehawing; who amongst us has not felt cold?
Tell the truth you all know what I mean, goose-bumps included.
A chill is something one never ever forgets once you have had it once or twice or more…
But our physiology somehow knows how to cope with those unnatural moments of air freeze on body, and makes allowances.

Now that we know this, it is one more thing that we as humans share; isn’t it refreshing, in a comfortable way, to know another commonality? I cannot tell you anything that is not common knowledge, because folks, now get this….I’m not that smart!

I only over-think most everything that there is a thought to be produced over it, got it?
Over thinkers are not that bright but portend to fool their public with throwing them off track with fanciful disconnected thinking and speaking, huh, you say?
There I got-cha! Doubletalk has been around since the almighty has made con-artists or other artists of fluidity of speech. Got it?

Tonight was just an uninformative trial of non expressive jabberwocky, all right I suppose a bit expressive, but downright ridiculous.
You must agree. Did you notice that was a statement not a question?
I do know that when we haven’t done much here, I have a tendency to ramble, and I guess by now you all have figured it out that today was a dud excitement wise, so sorry to bore you all, but you know me, big mouth with lotsa gobblygook to express thoughts in writing whenever there is an audience for that sort of thing, ha, how about that friends?

So now I will bid you a good night, and try to be more interesting like you all are daily, wink, I am sure!

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive...

Gotcha! No deceiving here, are you disappointed? I sure hope not.
The balloon boy is being accused of being a liar and that the whole thing was a hoax, but the family insists it is not. If you recall the search ensued due to the six year old child thought to be in the helium balloon floating in the sky, but it turns out that it was empty when it landed gently on the ground. The child says that his father yelled at him so he went and hid in the attic above the garage and was afraid to come down for hours; hope that is the truth, because the dad has somewhat of a reputation.


Miracles do happen…you all saw it that the six month old baby in the rolling stroller that fell on the train tracks in a Melbourne Australia train station and the baby was all right accept for a slight bump on its head?
Wow! But I bet that stroller was history… but who cares…


Now let’s talk seriously about Jon and Kate Goselin, you know them, the plus eight couple? They have a set of twins and a set of sextuplets! How could they get divorced or cancel their show they really need the money, but that daddy seems to have forgotten why they originally agreed to the whole deal. Be real people those babies need you and probably sixteen pairs of new shoes! Fight off camera if you please; think about those kids first!

New topic: personal and important to yours truly: Today, Hubby configured our bargain discount store solar blanket to our swimming pool. It is an oval but much larger than our pool, actually twice its size, and so Hubby marked it off in black indelible marker and then cut it to size, and now it fits like a glove! And just in time too; the winter is coming to Florida this weekend! Yep, I do not kid you; tomorrow alone will be only a high of 75, and tomorrow night in the mid-fifties, yeow! Our next few days promise to be rather chilly, yes, I do know that it has snowed in most of the country, which is considered early for this year, but somehow its not supposed to get cold here, after all this is southwest Florida, you know?

Please wish us safety in our weather time of stress, and we will wish you all the same thing, OK? Good night.

I take it all back! Well, most of it.

What I am talking about is my cooing and crooning about the stock market doing so well, last night; its not that it didn’t do well as you must know by now, it did, and has maintained that level again tonight. The thing I want to take back is my semi-excitement over it.
People all over the country, about ten percent of our population, are losing their jobs daily and even stooping to negotiate working for less money to save what minimal positions that they do have available!

It’s too obscene the total idea that the rich are getting richer, which does come to mind, and how a truer statement has never been made, oh phooey! And so I apologize for making such a big deal of something so traumatic to so many!

New topic: FAT CHILDREN, it appears to be rampant. A baby of only two months old weighing in at nineteen pounds, a three year old at ninety pounds, and last but not least a thirteen year old at four hundred pounds! Shocking, what’s up with that? I must admit when interviewed it does seem like that two out of three cases the mother’s were also obese, but the infant’s Mom appears to be slender in the news story, but the father is not shown; so who knows?
I do know that obesity is at an all time high nationally, nearly up to 60%, unfortunately, myself included; true horrors. We all have to find out why, most would suggest ingesting too many calories, and not moving enough, but I truly believe it is more complicated than that. We will see, it could be glandular, food additives have been investigated, and more are all real possibilities.

Moving on… today was not that busy, but I did notice the news keeps saying that we senior types on SSI will be receiving a little ‘checky’ for being told we are no longer getting the COLA, cost of living allowance increase, which has been around 3%, but as high as 5.8%, for this year or even in the coming years, and so they are talking about giving us a check for $250 bucks, and that is less than half of what the normal increase would have been! Not bad, but still not great with everything going up, such as utilities and other major bills waiting right behind to follow suit. But who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth, and to be honest they are just talking about it now anyway, once in the hand then I will believe it! Something to think about…

Good night to all and to all take care, be safe, and count those blessings, and in my ultimate wisdom I will think about stopping the search…whatever… you never know.