Reboundability

Today's Tids Issue 4,618

Getting a grasp:

96 to 0! Now that’s refreshing.

One of the most important things which can temper the potentially depressing sequestering, is having something to look forward to. A trip in the future. A note from a friend. A good TV program. But I just realized I am running out of Cheetos. No hope. No hopes at all. When the cupboard’s bare, you’re in despair.

Heroism is found every day in the hearts of people walking or moving along in wheelchairs, smiling through pain and debilitation, on the streets of US cities and towns. They are not seeking the lime light, they just do it.

Yikes – the stock market just had two really strong up days in a row. Frankly I wouldn’t mind seeing a longer string of pretty good up days, like 250-500 points in day, rather than these hysterical surges of late. I think a slower movement upwards makes for a more reasoned marketplace, building slowly a firmer base.

So, did you hear about the disturbed Undertaker who’s ride broke down on the way to a funeral? His mechanic didn’t make hearse calls.

The Question:

Whatever happened to Jennifer Grey? Bonus: What was the name of that Techno religious Cult where in1997 39 members committed suicide in a Mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Cal? Extra Bonus: Who in a show on Broadway played the woman who was the character Baby Snooks?

The Headlines:

--Markets Open Strong, Continue To Rise In Late Morning; Huge 3.283 Million In New Jobless Claims Less Than Forecast.

--Senate Passes CV Bill 96-0.

--China And US Will Overlook Differences At G20 Coronavirus Summit.

--Putin Delays Vote That Could Help Him Stay In Power; Says CV Problem Will Push Off Vote On Constitutional Referendum That Would Extend His Stay To 2036.

--Ford Says It Could Restart Plants As Early As April 6.

--New aid Package Could Help Airlines Stay Flying.

--New $276 Galaxy Tab A Form Samsung Could Give iPad Some Real Serious Competition.

Something to think about while gazing out of the window at streets and country lanes devoid of people – planting your vegetable garden. For instance, here where I live, a national planting chart says we are in zone 6. That covers Southern New England and New York, Northern Pa and then all of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. It takes in Southern Colorado and good chunks of Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Right now, broccoli, spinach and cauliflower should be in. It’s about time right now for some tomatoes, peppers, peas, onions, lettuce, kale and beets. Wait until the first of May for squash, cucumber, corn, cabbage sprouts and beans. (Link to an entire list of USA planting times for all zones across the country at the bottom of Today’s Tids.

Happy 80th Birthday Nancy! Let’s hope the Speaker will deliver the American public a nice gift today or early tomorrow. Altruism is good, Nancy. I only worry that some rascally Dem congress person will make a stand for a personal objective, and slow the entire process.

By the way, that rascal would be you-know-who… AOC, who said yesterday she would force calling back House Members to the floor for a roll call vote. Which basically means she’s trying to extort Nancy on her birthday. How great is a communist heart?

I was looking at a US county map showing CV cases. The West looked terrifying. But then I realized that the counties out there are really, really big.  So, one or two cases in a Montana county looks like all of New England. Analyze your statistics.

As the Cheeto stash was showing signs of dwindling to zero, I sucked it up this morning to run to the early old person shopping hour at the local Big Box BJ’s Wholesale. What I found was plenty of Toilet paper and nary a crunchy Cheeto, and not one bag of original Ruffles. What a snack in the face that was!

The financial stock analysis focus should be on finding the companies that are most reboundable when the threats ease.

The US economy is so fragile on paper that one person in Congress trying to make a name for her or himself could kill the stock market.

I’ve spent a good portion of my lockdown waiting for a person at my prescription drug service to answer my call in the order in which it was received.

Yesterday I wrote what I thought was an interesting story of a theory   handle the virus without destroying te economy so much or at least minimizing a potential disaster. It centered on a surgical lockdown of only most risky age and health groups. But since the excellent Tom Friedman wrote that and when I decided to write my snippet, new data says that in NYC 1/3 of those infected are in the 18 to 44 age bracket. Sorry.

The Answer:

When you think of Jennifer Grey you may automatically think of Dirty Dancing. Some would also go with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Her first big staring role was in Red Dawn. But her career after DD has been lackluster and here is the odd reason why. In the early 1990’s she underwent two rhinoplasty procedures, the second to correct problems from the first. The second resulted in a new nose where even her friends failed to recognize her. Her appearance negatively changed her career. “I went into the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous. I felt Like I was in the witness protection Program.” My question: How shallow is Hollywood? Bonus: The Cult was called heavens Gate. It was a gruesome scene. Extra Bonus: It was Barbra Streisand playing Fannie Bryce who played Baby Snooks.

The Planting Season Chart Link: https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/planting-schedules/Zone-6-Planting-Calendar

Well, its bean fun fertilizing your minds with Tids crap. But I bean thinking cauliflowers that bloom in May, may squash the virus. I aspiragus to a more pleasant life, getting out of my corn-er. Hum a pleasant Melony, with a berry joyous jaunt to my step that says limalive. Onion glad I kale.