Today's Tids Issue 4,620
Te brain still works:
I think I have Spring Fever.
It’s that lethargy that comes with warmer air chasing away the stimulating cool
of winter. It is the new aromas tickling your nose, of flowers coming to life.
It is clouding the rational side of your brain. Feeling the rapture of smiles
and laughter; running free in fields of sprouting daffodils coloring the world
with new life, your head in the clouds. Yes, I have Spring fever. It is a good
thing. Yes, even sitting in a room for days and days, looking out a god dammed
window for hours after hours. You can feel the wonder.
The amount of bad
Coronavirus jokes is starting to reach worrying numbers. Some scientists claim
it might be a pundemic.
(Stolen from
a great punster and reader.)
The seagulls
around here are really getting angry. I can see it in their eyes ss they scour
streets and alleys for scrapes, typically abundant in the past during tourist
season. There’s nothing quite like an angry seagull looking over your shoulder while
grilling something outside.
Sometimes a passage
of beautiful music arises in my room, and I close my eyes and drift into that
outer world that once was.
I have mixed emotions
about this stimulus package. No doubt, I want the economy to be treated for malnutrition
along with solving the medical problems, creating vaccines and therapeutics.
But It seems un-American to allow the Government so much control. For people to
get used to Government stepping up with handouts. Yet I feel for so many
hardworking people who had been doing well, and poof!, just like that, the Government
shut down the world.
Teaching
subtraction is a lessen lesson.
The visions
of hospital ICU areas are chilling.
There are way too many “ifs”
guiding critical decisions, medical and economic.
But we should do ok
if we can minimize, or even better, completely remove politics from decisions.
The Question:
Name today’s top ten billboard popular Song hits and
their performers. I dare you. Bonus: Which women figure skaters won back
to back Olympic gold medals? And which US women skaters have won Olympic golds?
Which US Figure skaters, men and women, have won the most golds in world Championships.
The Headlines:
--Three Major Stock Markets Have Solid Opening – Nas
+106, Dow +231, S&P +36; Day Exected To Be Choppy..
--Global CV Cases Up To Over 735,000, Deaths Over
35K; Trump Extending CV Control Guidelines To End Of April.
--Israel’s Netanyahu In Self Quarantine; Prisoners
In Iran Riot.
--North Korea On Missile Firing Rampage While Rest
Of The World Fights Killer Virus; Kim’s Country Fired Two More Short Range
Missiles Yesterday.
--Postponed Japan Olympics Rescheduled To begin On
July 23, 2021.
--Most Americans Agreeing That March Sucked; Hoping
That April Will End Better.
--Michigan Joining Louisiana, NY, NJ and Cal As
Virus Hotspots.
--Spain Joins Italy And US In Passing China In
Reported CV Cases.
--Pelosi Plays Politics Pointing Finger At
President.
--Passengers On Stricken Holland-America Cruise Ship
Zaandam Off Panama Transferred To Another Ship.
I am rigidly adhering
to the suggestions about staying isolated for the good of everybody. But I have
to tell you, it’s hard to find news beyond CV for the Tids Headlines Department.
I guess if that’s all I lose, I’m ahead of the game.
If this pandemic
tells us one thing, it is that the hospitality industry as a core economy is fragile.
Just ask the seagulls.
My regular source for
potato chips was out of Original Ruffles, so I sucked it up and went hard for
Wavy. The things you do to sacrifice in tough times.
With all of this free time,
I should be writing a novel. Instead I’m trying to make the Tids novel.
When congress stops
playing games and steps up for the good of all, they can get things done --
“All” being the operative word.
It’s really getting hard now
avoiding answering the phone and later telling someone you were out.
Meanwhile
politically, the Covid is an ironic two-edged sword. It is producing a
downtrodden Trump economy that Dems couldn’t have imagined their wildest
dreams. But, the pandemic is also making Joe Biden obscure, almost irrelevant while
casting Donald Trump, love him or hate him, into the spotlight.
A monkey
in Brazil is an Amazon Prime-ate
A reader from the South
writes to tell me I could make a lot of money renting my RI license plates to New
Yorkers trying to flee their CV ravaged city opt their luxurious homes here. (You may have read that RI State Police is
stopping all cars with NY plates entering our State. They are recording RI
destination and addresses and phone number, and location, and mandating a
14-day quarantine.) License for sale!
Lately when I think
of oldies but goodies that never fade, it’s classical music. My current addiction
is to Saint Saens Piano concertos.
Actually,
I love almost all music. big band swing, jazz, original Rn’R before Elviseration,
Broadway, folk/country, seventies/eighties rock and even a couple of Beatles
songs. But I have trouble finding anything particularly memorable in today’s
most popular stuff. I like to be moved slowly, emotionally, not frantically
driven. I wish some of todays’ better tunes stayed around longer so I could
learn and remember their names, and performers.
I’m also
addicted to fields of daisies.
Did you see where NY’s Gov Cuomo
is going to sue Rhode Island for stopping and quarantining those New Yorkers fleeing
to their RI summer places. RI’s gov Gina Raimondo says that optics don’t count when
you are trying to save lives.
Our Gov Gina,
who from this guy’s point of view has been a little bit annoyingly Sing-songy
in her previous years, has really stepped up to the plate, looking and acting like
a leader. Gina BTW is the Chairwoman of The US Democratic Governors Association.
You feel the effects of a good drama
in the core of your stomach. If that is the key satisfaction measure, then the
just returning Netflix show, “Ozark” still has it!
The Answer:
Number One on the charts this week is The Box by Roddy
Ricch. The rest in order are Blinding Lights by The Weekend, Don’t Start Now by
Dua Lipa, Life is Good by Future featuring Drake, Circles by Post Malone, Roxanne
by Arizona Zervas, Adore You by Harry Styles, Intentions by Justin Bieber featuring
Quavo, Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi and at #10, everything I wanted ( in all
lower case) by Billie Eglish. Humming yet? In a quick glance, the top 100 has a
lot of songs by Lil Uzi Vert, none by Tylor Swift. Of “The Voice” judges Maroon
Five with former judge Adam Levine has one way up at #12 ,and Blake Shelton has
a duet with Gwen Stefani which is number 52. But for most of the rest, I am as
confused with these names as is Spell-Check. Bonus: While not American, Sonja
Henie captured American’s hearts with 3 back-to-back Olympic golds. The only other
back-to-back Olympic gold winner was Katarina Witt. The US skaters with Olympic
Golds are Tenley Albright, Carol Heiss (That was an American back-to-back),
Peggy Flemming, Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi and Tara Lipinski. Note: Peggy
Flemming and Kristi Yamaguchi won back-to-back World Championship Golds. Most
gold medals won by Americans in the World Championships go to Dick Button with
6 and then Michelle Kwan and Carol Heiss at 5, Hayes Alan Jenkins and Scott
Hamilton at 4 and Peggy Flemming at 3.\
A soccer coach was seen on a bench
near his playing field polishing his shoes. A passer-by asked, “Why are you doing
that. They’re just going to get dirty again.” The coach looked up, and said, “Well,
it’s like that person who says why do I have make my bed every morning, I’m
just going to sleep in it later tonight.” It’s about discipline, an orderly complete
mind, starting your day off on the right foot with a good attitude, with an easy
first accomplishment; it’s a “keystone” habit causing a domino effect of other
smart choices and positive practices throughout the day. And it keeps hair and
who knows what else dropping onto your sheets from pets and other vermin sneaking
into your bed. BTW, research has shown that the most successful leaders and executive’s
make their beds every mooring.
Sittin’ in a rockin’ chair
lookin’ for something do to? Snap out of it, Rock!
HB Eric Clapton.
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