A small but passable life.
by Neogy Titwhistle
Entries 563
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I called it.
Facebook stock is tanking. (26% just today) So far to the tune of about 200 billion in value. Let’s do the zeros: $200,000,000,000. The Zuck holds 55%, therefore the kid just lost over $100,000,0...
Finally got it done.
I had charged the scooter up on Sunday. So yesterday morning I was out the door at 9:30. I stopped at Fry’s pharmacy and got the booster. Even after sitting for the required fifteen minutes after...
Best three weeks ever!
It was a glorious three weeks. The best ever. We only managed two visits to the pool before our “Winter” weather set in, with highs only in the low sixties with clouds and then 1 7/8’s of rain ...
Best X-mas present ever!
Daughter arrived on the 19th. She handed me a sonogram picture and said “Merry Christmas Grandpa”. We’ve managed two afternoons hanging at poolside. And then last night at midnight it started ra...
Counting the days.
Another end of the month routine completed. Doing the one load per month laundry on the last day of the month. After washing my sheets I put them away and made my bed with Mom’s flannel set. Just...
Mystery solved!
About a week or so ago I had one of those rare incidents. The one where your stomach cramps and then once on the crapper (hopefully!) your butt just explodes. I couldn’t for the life of me figure...
Boomer bumbles along?
My new phone arrived by FedEx yesterday, just when I’d laid down for my afternoon nap. So I decided to just switch over then instead of later. Unboxed the new phone, figured out to insert new SIM...
It didn't work.
For good and bad reasons. I was hoping to get through the month without buying anything but food and the usual “household” bills. No such luck. The first item to pop up was a flyer from Boost Mo...
Feeling stupid!
I’ve always known that I wasn’t the smartest person in the world, but at the same time I was certain that I possessed a little common sense. The day before yesterday proved me wrong. It all start...
More rain!
I finished reading “A Renegade History of the United States” by Thaddeus Russell. That makes nine books read so far this year. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in US history. It e...
Quietudeness?
I finished reading “Devoted” by Dean Koontz. I’ve found about four inches of rain in my rain gauge in the month of July. That was more rain than the whole last two years or more. The grocery bi...
Mission accomplished.
I found a pressure washer for $80. I got half the trailer washed before it got too hot outside to do any more. I finished reading “The Machiavellians” by James Burnham and “The Righteous Mind” by...
Going thru the list.
May expenses: Food $111.25, transportation $0. Accumulated miles on the scooter to date: 102. I couldn’t be happier with it. I’ve had to charge it twice since the initial charge. And there is 53...
We're free?!
At least those of us not ignorant and are now fully vaxxed. No more masks! CDC just announced the news. One week after my fourteen day waiting spell. It couldn’t have been timed better. Be well ...
Here it comes!
Today was our first 100 degree day of the year. Exactly 100 degrees. Last year it happened in April. And that was the first of 145 days over 100 degrees last year. I did an Instacart order yeste...
Errands.
I finished reading “Permutation City” by Greg Egan. I returned it to the library today and found the new Stephen King on the shelf. I have another book in the pipeline but it was a purchase reque...
Monkey wrench.
Well, it seems as if the pandemic has thrown a real monkey wrench into the whole mail order bride business. Is it still called mail order when no mail is used any longer? Anyway, the bureaucracy ...
The one week of Spring.
It is over. Summer arrived April 1st with our first ninety degree day of the year, coming in at ninety-four. Today will be our third 90+ day of the year. And a few more days to go, maybe. I just ...
A morning mission.
I got up a little earlier than usual. I drank one cup of coffee and then rode the scooter to the grocery store pharmacy and got my first dose of Moderna. Easy peasy. Next dose, April 22nd. I kept...
No clue.
Today is the first day of Spring. I’ve heard there is weather in other parts of the country. Not here. It was 84 degrees yesterday and may do it again today. And then a week of seventy somethings...
First road test.
I studied the wiring schematic for the scooter. I realized there was no switch on the schematic. The switch is located below the USB port inside the little cubby they call the phone holder. I tur...
Still no rain.
Today should be the last day of cooler temps until it returns to normal. For the last three days it has tried to rain. Two mornings in a row there were a few drops in the rain gauge. And even aft...
Hope for the best, expect the worst?
Two weeks and one day after I ordered the scooter it arrived. I uncrated it, assembled it, got rid of the crate and then found a problem. The running lights and turn signals don’t work. Everythin...
One book?
I finished reading “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson. That’s one book read for the year so far. We had our second eighty degree day of the year a couple of days ago. The weat...
Done did it. Two its.
Sunday I Ubered (Uberd?) to the pot shop that is only 3.3 miles away. I found and purchased a 1/4oz of Lava Cake POP for $50. And it has taken so long for pot to be legalized that now I get a sen...