MVA Refund
Sometimes you win. My auto insurance company screwed up dates on my account and it appeared that I did not have auto insurance for one day. That is a "no, no" in Maryland, and I was fined $150. After lots of action by me and help by a nice lady at the MVA, I received an MVA letter saying that I would be getting my $150 back.
Beer Testing
Tell Tale Heart IPA: It is, of course, brewed in Edgar Allen Poe's old "stomping ground", Baltimore, at the Peabody Heights Brewery, 401 E. 30th St. At 7.3% alcohol, it has a marvelous flavor. I heartily recommend it to one and all.
Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce: supposedly this is Ben Franklin's recipe, using molasses and spruce tips and sprigs. At 5% alcohol, it's OK, but not great. I was hoping that the spruce would give it a special flavor, like beers that I really liked when I was in Germany. But, it didn't come close and I thought the taste was kind of ordinary. Try it.. you might think differently.
Granma SEZ:
Elaine says that Hermine Saunders had the dates wrong for Baby Boomers (see my earlier blog entry). She says it really is from 1946 through 1964. She knows this is true because she was born in 1946.
Telephone Irritations
Have you ever called a company and had a robot tell you to wait while they connected you.. and while they supposedly did so.. you heard some kind of phony computer sound...the whirr of magnetic tape, the click of a printer, or other irritating noise? I get that all the time, even when I call a communications company. How dumb do they think we are?
Also, what about the robot voice that says: "Listen carefully, as our menu has changed recently."
You know that is usually a lie.
I do not like to talk to a robot. They never understand me and it takes forever to get to talk to a human being. As soon as I can, I press zero, and sometimes I do get relief.. sometimes not.
Name Changes
I read that the government of China is telling the population that they should be giving their kid's typical Chinese names, and not names that reflect Islam.
Gunsmoke II
Texans were confused about the new open-carry gun law. The law doesn't specify the number of guns a person may open-carry. Private businesses are still able to ban guns on their property.
I'll bet that Texans will want to hire another Marshall Dillon when gun fights start to escalate.
You Think Crime is Bad in the US?
The Week magazine says that "Nearly 100 mayors and more that 1,000 municipal officials have been killed since 2006, when the Mexican government first deployed troops to fight the nation's drug cartels."
Repeal of Obamacare?
The Republicans in both the House and Senate did receive the anticipated veto from the President on their (wait a minute... you won't believe it...) 62nd try to repeal Obamacare... and, of course, there were not enough votes to override the veto.
Raising Mozarts?
A Spanish company is marketing the Babypod, which is a miniature speaker that can be inserted into a pregnant woman's vagina to stimulate the fetus with music. I did read where some scientists have said that playing music to unborn babies is a waste of time. I don't think so.
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