jake5270
Gift PremiumLaid-back, easy going guy until my passions are aroused. I've been here 3 other times... I keep trying to get it right, I guess. lol
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Sunday, December 29, 2019, 2:10:23 AM- WOW! | ||
An English staple, fish and chips, was not originated in England. The batter fried fish came with Jews from Portugal and the chips came from France. Well, hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza didn't start out in the U.S.A, either. So what? Food is food. I'm just glad it got here! | ||
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Friday, December 27, 2019, 7:44:55 PM- It don't matter | ||
It's been a short work week for a lot of people this week, but Friday is still Friday. Bring on the weekend! | ||
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Thursday, December 26, 2019, 8:23:42 PM- Post Holiday | ||
Well, I called my sister in California in the evening (7pm), thinking I would talk for an hour and then be ready to finish making my Christmas dinner. Wrong My sister, her husband and my nieces and their husbands had just finished dinner and she didn't 'feel' like talking. Said she would call me back in an hour. Okay, it's family and allowances are expected to be made. I finished making dinner, ate and cleaned up the dishes, pots and pans. By this time it's 8:30 pm and I called her back. She is just getting started cleaning up after their meal. She had me on speaker and I just love to hear the sound of rattling pots and pans, and the occasional sound of running water while I'm trying to talk. Oh... and shehadn't even opened my presents to her yet. Well, I wound up talking to my brother-in-law for an hour before she got back on the phone. I was a tad miffed, but didn't say anything. We talked a few more minutes and then she wanted to rest. I was cheery, told her I loved her and said goodbye. Someday I'm going to make her listen to me while I'm being rude and cleaning up and see how she likes it. Phew! I'm SO glad Christmas is over. ~ | ||
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019, 10:00:36 PM- Ta-Da! | ||||||
Back in August, one of the tenants where I live moved out and left behind, sitting next to the dumpster, a Sony 40" flat screen t.v. There was no remote, but I hauled it up to my apartment just to see if it worked. It worked, but there was a problem: The t.v. worked, but was programed for only two stations, both analog. Without the remote, how was I to get the t.v. to accept my AT&T input? I mulled it over and finally decided my best option was to buy a Universal remote and see where that led me. Well, it didn't work right away, so I put the t.v. back in the corner of my bedroom... and kind of not really forgot about it, but thought there'd be a time later on when I could devote serious attention to the problem. Four months go by and today I thought: "Let's either get this sucker working or pitch it." An hour and a half later, after programming the universal remote to the t.v. and then programming in the Uverse dvr: Success! I now have a 40" t.v. in both the living room and the bedroom. To a lot of younger people this is not a big deal. Being 67 years old and doing it all on my own with no help makes me quite proud of myself. The only drawback is that it will sometimes take me longer to get out of bed in the morning now. I have a smug look on my face and I deserved it. ~ | ||||||
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019, 7:33:55 PM- If the shoe fits | ||
A very Merry Christmas to all of you fellow NNers. We're definitely on Santa's naughty list. | ||
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019, 2:30:20 AM- Back off | ||
I haven't heard this old gem from Ringo Starr for a long time: And yes, it sounds real close to something else. | ||
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Monday, December 23, 2019, 7:57:03 PM- A rarity | ||||||
I forgot to put up a blog yesterday. I won't lie to you... My mind was elsewhere. Friday morning, I started to hop into my morning shower ans stopped dead in my tracks. NO HOT WATER. I called the leasing office: Closed until January 2nd. I called the emergency maintenance number: I'm still waiting on a call back from them. It wasn't a total disaster. I had heat, I had electricity. I had food that wouldn't go bad. I had the internet, t.v. and a library of movies I could watch. My personal hygiene didn't suffer either. I've been camping enough to know I could boil some water and 'freshen up'. Finally, I thought I'd try something else to fix my problem: On Saturday, I emailed the leasing agent... I mean everyone checks their email nowadays, right? Sunday morning there was a knock at my front door. It was a plumber, sent by my leasing agent. He wanted me to check my hot water. Everything was great. I didn't immediately hop in the shower, but it wasn't long after, believe me. I thanked the plumber and sent a rather flowery email to my leasing agent thanking her as well. Lesson learned? As Mr. Spock would say: "There are always alternatives." ~ | ||||||
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Friday, December 20, 2019, 7:32:22 PM- Not my... | ||
I have a good friend who stated yesterday that Donald Trump is "Not my president'. I don't like Trump myself. However, he IS the president. I told my friend that, although I agree with him as to the man, I would still take a bullet for the president, no matter how I felt about him personally. To me, it's about respect for the office. Period. Of course, if I really had to take that bullet and didn't like the guy, I'd find a way to tell the son of a bitch what I thought of him as a human being... either right before or right after. | ||
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Thursday, December 19, 2019, 8:01:06 PM- Ravi time | ||||||
I recently re-watched the 1968 movie: Monterey Pop. It was filmed in 1967. It is famous for all of the 60's performers: Janis Joplin, Canned Heat, The Mammas and the Pappas, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix. Most of the performances live there were so-so. The exception was by Ravi Shankar. He was brilliant and received a standing ovation after his performance. Don't know who Ravi was? Think sitar. He was the master of that sound and influenced a lot of musicians in the late 1960s, most notably the Beatles. He passed away in 2012 at age 92, but his sound will live on forever. R.I.P. Ravi, and thanks somuch for the music. ~ | ||||||
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 8:15:23 PM- Interesting | ||
I had originally made a pun about having sex with the dead and using an outhouse in the winter... both thoughts leave me cold. The odd thing is that when I typed in the word for having sex with the dead, all that showed up in the finished product was a bunch of x's. Odd to see censorship on NN. ~ | ||
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