Long time no blog.
What's going on in my life? Funny you should ask.
Knives
Years ago, Elaine bought 6 paring knives with colored handles. Over the years, some of them have disappeared. We only have three left. So, on a trip to the Gettysburg outlet stores, we bought 6 more at the Kitchen Outlet Store. They were only $1 each... a good by, except, they are sharp as razor blades.
I unsheathed one and sliced into my thumb.. lots and lots of blood to be staunched. Later, I got my index finger sliced and after that, the finger next in line. So, with three fingers covered with bandages and bandaids, I tried to function. Have you ever tried bathroom activity with your left hand bandaged? Not so easy. But I lived through it. Somebody yesterday told me about an ancient mariner who was on blood thinners... who cut homself accidentally and bled to death. So, let that be a lesson to you.
Memory
I'm almost through with a Great Course on my car's player. The professor has a lot to say about our memories. One thing that he says is that when we remember something, we just pull up a small amount of information... our brain supplies the rest of the details from a common repository.. because, if we remembered all details of events, our brain would fill up quickly. Think about that for a while.
The professor also says that to improve our memory, we should not rely on Crossword Puzzles, but, instead, take dancing lessons.
NETFLIX
House of Cards is back and I am now hooked again.
Orange is the New Black is back and I will be hooked again.
I watched The Keepeers, which was about Catholic Priest abuse and murder of teen age girls in a Baltimore suburb during the 1960's. I remember the cases. My blood boiled then, and it boils again as I watch this documentary.
Toyota
I had funerals and birthday parties and graduation ceremonies to go to last Saturday. Instead, I spent hours at our local Toyota dealer while they figured out why my Rav4 was not working well. It turned out to be a messed up alternator.... a new one of which had to be ordered from the factory.
I came back the next day to learn that the ordered part had disappeared. But, they had already prepped the car for the transplant, so it was undrivable. They gave me a "loaner," which had a lot of pushbuttons and GPS screens. I had to have help getting it started and running. They told me to come back the next day to retrieve my car.
I drove a total of 12 miles in this loaner, and used a quarter of tankful of gas! I had to get it filled to half in order to turn it back in and avoid a fine. Oy! But, I did get my car back... and thus begins the "Nickel and Dive" time for me. ($800 this time.)
Well Disciplined Youngsters
While we were at the Gettysburg Outlet Stores, we stopped in the food court to fill our stomachs before our trip back to Westminster. All of a sudden, an explosion of kids occurred. At least 200 teen-agers in maroon t-shirts entered. Their shirts showed stars and stripes, and said "forever." So, we knew they were patriotic.
The boys were all quite tall... as well as most of the girls. And... they were very polite and well-behaved. Elaine and I asked one of the adults with them what High School they represented. They were not high-schoolers, they were in the 7th and 8th grades of a Tesxas Junior High School.
Why were these kids so tall? Have they been eating hormone-filled hamburgers?
This school takes their kids for a two-week tour of the East Coast each year. They visit Washington, DC, then Gettysburg, New York and Boston. Imagine, herding 200 young people for two weeks. And the expense...... some scholarships, but mostly, the parents foot the bill.
Goat Yoga!
This idiocy has finally reached rural Maryland. Ladies bring their Yoga mats to a farm where a herd of baby goats live. As the ladies do their exercises, the goats are tempted to jump on their backs and legs. Yuck! To each his own.
The Claw
A young boy somehow worked his way into a claw machine trying to get a prize. Unfortunately, once he got in, he couldn't get out, and firemen had to rescue him. They did not let him keep any of the stuffed toys.
Hope for Fat Pets
The Week magazine reports that the nation's first animal obesity center has opened at Tuft's University in Massachusetts. Treatments cost $250.
And You Thought that New York City was the Billionaire Heaven
A Florida hotel (Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles) has three indoor elevator that take residents up to their condos in their cars. The New York Post says that one of the 56th floor condos has enough space for 11 cars. And the asking price is only $32 million!
Ending with a Joke from Reader's Digest
"Guess what I heard today?" a man says to his wife.
"What, hon?" she askes.
"The mailman has seduced every woman on our block but one."
"Huh," his wife says. "I bet it's that stuck up Phyllis in number 23."
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