Today's Tids Issue 4,621
Inter-Connectivity:
So, when I was kid,
we would roll down hills in tires. Those were Goodyears.
Diversion Excursion:
Everybody is worried about the disease and the economy,
but not a lot of thought has been given to what people should be doing to entertain
themselves to remain sane in a darkened room. I notice that internet jokes are
up. And I personally think puzzles are great – especially hard one’s that last a
while. I suspect from snippets I have seen that many are delving into their personal
creativity and using various digital techniques to generate visual masterpieces.
Hell, some people may even read this for diversion. But as I said, we should be
looking for diversions that keep us sane! Like perhaps, spending time developing
new recipes, learning how cook books work. So…send ideas you have that keep you
busy and laughing and enjoying life even as you sit locked in an enclosed box
called home.
“The store sold me cut-rate food
for my horse at an exorbitant price, then had the nerve to send me a ‘customer
service’ survey. I didn’t hesitate to give them the feed back.’
Ramifications:
(Finding stuff that could change, even drastically,
as the result of the crisis shut down.)
--The Voice live performances and voting may have to
be curtailed, Oh, the performances and live voting could continue, but without an
audience, a band as a cohesive group, it could be pretty dull entertainment.
And, how costly would it be to move those big red chairs six feet apart?
--During the past several years, a lot of people have
taken out good sized mortgages for a second homes based on the promise of making
good money with rentals. With people’s mobility opportunities in hiatus causing
rental homes to remain empty, are we looking at another mortgage crisis?
It’s great that gas prices
are so low. Your car sitting in the garage will be a cheaper asset on the books.
The Question:
Wat was the first town in the world to be illuminated
by electric lighting? (Hint: It is in the USA.) Bonus: Name the top five songs for 1948, 1958, 1968
and 1978.
The Headless:
--Stocks Open Lower.
--Death Toll Tops 3,000; Doctor Birx: Reinforces High
Death Rate Projections near 200K; That Is the Best, “If We Do Things Almost Perfectly”.
--CDC May Ask People To Cover Face In Public; SF Bay
Area Docs Seeing Flatter Curve After Two Week Isolation.
--New Yorkers Hail Arrival Of US Navy Hospital Ship.
--Coronavirus Cases Pass 787,800 Globally.
--India Cracks Down On Muslim Group Emerging As Virus
Cluster; Mexico Prez Alters View Now Telling People To Stay Home.
--Idaho Gov Signs Two Bills Limiting Transgender Rights;
Reflects Upon Conn Lawsuit By Girls Athletes Against Transgender Girls Playing on
Girls Sports Teams.
Taking out the garbage
and re-cycling products has become a thrill. In fact, I take them out separately
in order to have two things to do.
I believe we have a pretty
good chance for a swift economic recovery despite the record downslides. For at
no time in the past have we ever had such capable, fast moving digital resources
which could catapult an economy.
Did you ever in your wildest imagination
ever consider that going to the deli for salami and provolone would be considered
a dangerous act, like walking across a minefield?
A lot of people are saying
that the NFL Draft maybe the highest rated TV show of the year, despite the fact
that they will remove all glitz and roaring crowds from the broadcast. Sports
fans will be so hungry for anything that resumes sports that they will tune in more
than ever. And it will give newspaper sports writers something to analyze for a
week or so.
Little achievements
are magnified in this current state of hibernation.
It is pretty well agreed
that 2/3rd’s of CV deaths will be people who probably would have
died within 2 or 3 month from another serious disease. It doesn’t diminish the seriousness
so the new scourge, but it puts the wider problem a bit into perspective.
LL Bean
will probably make the adjustments demanded by new business restrictions Ok.
Historically the famed Maine outdoor sports and clothing company has always been
on- line – phone line that is.
Are wall Street predictions
realistic for all, or are they just for a small segment who will make money off
of gains and losses.
Here’s what really annoys me.
Why can’t somebody in the White House plan these daily announcement groupings
better. They always seem to come before the end and the big reveal in a TV
program, or like Sunday during the final 2 minutes of a replay of that momentous
Pats-Falcons Super Bowl. How inconsiderate is that? How hard is it to look at TV
schedule and a clock? I have missed many an ending of an interesting show
falling asleep, but this is annoying because it is so hard to find a good diversion.
Back to business
as usual will probably mean fighting for survival.
When you consider
that the world has given us the earth stopping coronavirus, it is not so
strange to see that the Patriots don’t have Brady anymore.
Triglycerides
now. Defibrillater
From a contributing reader of note:
Roses are Red
April is Grey,
I hope we can all leave
Our houses in May.
Ramifications:
Retail malls have been suffering for a while due to
the growth of Internet selling. The Virus will push many of these displacements
of green fields, now hanging on by fingernails, into uselessness. But, they may
relive again as some useful for communities. It’s the old clearing out of dead
wood in the forest thing that leads to a healthier regrowth. New ideas set
roots and they grow.
Now being forced
to watch some specialty TV shows endlessly, you find that most disciplines have
really limited vocabularies. How many ways can Decor sows say open concept, or
food shows say a little crunch with some heat, or a sports guy saying 110%
effort. Most professions separate themselves by the way they combine words into
phrases, and that goes from MBA’s to lawyers to health people. And the more all
of this is repeated the more you find out there’s not much to it at all.
Hooter’s has
developed a new food delivery service which will be called Knockers.
Ramifications:
I have read of a possible new development called a “Rent
Strike”. Which basically means a lot of people without income will not pay rent
and have formalized a group. Non-payment will cause landlords to miss bank loan
payments and then banks with have to write down bad loans and then…and then…. I
thought one of the prime reasons for the $2.3 Trillion bill was help people pay
rents.
The Answer:
You may be entirely surprised to to learn that
Wabash Indiana was first to have electric lighting! Bonus: Ready. 1948: Twelfth
Street rag – Pee Wee Hunt; Nature Boy – Nat King Cole; Buttons and Bows – Dinah
Shore; You Call Everybody Darling – Al Trace; Love Somebody – Doris Day/Buddy
Clark. 1958: Volare – Domenico Modugno; All I Have To Do is Dream – The Everly Brothers,
and also Claudette; Don’t – Elvis Presley; Witch Doctor – David Seville;
Patricia – Perez Prado; “Yakety Yak (#21) by the Coasters was the highest of my
favorites, “Don’t Talk Back”. 1968: Hey Jude – The Beatles; Love is Blue – Paul
Mauriat; Honey – Bobby Goldsboro; On the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding; People
Got to be Free – The Rascals; Mrs. Robinson was #8. 1978: Shadow Dancing – Andy
Gibb; Night Fever – Bee Gees; You Light Up My Life – Debbie Boone; Stayin’ Alive
– Bee Gees; Kiss You All Over – Exile; Gibb and Bee Gees also had two more in Top
Ten; ABBA showed up #32 with Take A Chance On Me. Interesting the lack of hard
rock and roll in these top lists of the years. Tends to show what’s happening
below the Noise.
Read a joke book.
It’s great medicine.
A suspected Covid-19 male patient
is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and
nose. A young student female nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.
"Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles
black?" Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm
only here to wash your upper body and feet." He struggles to ask again,
"Nurse, please check for me, are my testicles black?" Concerned that
he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his
testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She
raises his gown, lifts and scans the man’s jewels. looking closely, she says,
"There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine." The man
slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, "Thank
you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very, closely: "Are -
my - test - results - back?"
A tribute to Wabash Indiana:
