Want to hear my latest excuse? I brought home the traveler’s crud from New England. I feel awful, thank you. On another, marginally more cheerful note, I also am in the process of phone migration. I have gone from a flip phone, as depicted in the above A&J from 2008, to a modern cell phone. Yes, really. It’s a Galaxy s5, because I know there are those among you who actually would want to know. No, it’s not the latest, but as near as I can tell it does everything but laundry. I figure it’s good enough for me until I get used to it. That is all I am going to say about my cell phone. Or my very bad cold. I hope you have a great weekend! I plan to have a better one.
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Just to let you know. You can’t get the crud via a computer virus. I realize that Ghost is not up to par yet (I’m not either and I’ll be 60 in December) but that does not give you an excuse to not go on the internet and post! lol
You can get the laundry app at the app store.
OK, so I’m posting. Today’s A&J is a hoot, but women can do that number also. And it’s not polluting, in a big lake, running stream, or ocean. After all, as Grandpa said in ‘Pickles’ when grandson [they were out in a rowboat] was hesitant to use the lake, ‘Where do you think the fish go?’ Not suitable for a public [or private] pool, but just possibly occurs there.
Colleague and I used to tell frosh biology students that, when you inhale, you’re probably taking in molecules from Bonaparte’s last breath. We are environment-processing machines, but it can be done wisely or stupidly.
Today’s Ballard Street is also not bad.
Peace,
Hope you start feeling better soon!
Good luck with your new phone. I love my Galaxy S4. I don’t plan on upgrading until I absolutely have to. The S4 was the last Samsung with a user replaceable battery. I hate devices that won’t let me change my own battery. One of the many, many reasons I will never own an Apple product.
So sorry you’re sick! I love my Galaxy s5, and I bought it after the 6’s came out so I could get it for free. I guess that’s not going to be an option anymore, so I plan to use this one until it dies. I also went from a “dumb” phone to a smart phone at that juncture. You have to pull me kicking and screaming into new technology when I’m comfortable with the old! 🙂
Get well soon, Jimmy.
Sandy, that is one of the reasons I went to an LG phone on my last upgrade. While Samsung followed the Apple model of taking away the customer changeable battery, LG kept it. And so far, I haven’t heard of any exploding LG phones either!
If misery does indeed love company, Jimmy’s snot would be very fond of my snot. Three weeks and I’m still trying to get over my version of the crud. On the “bright” side, I didn’t have to go all the way to New England to get it.
And with Jimmy’s “new” s5 and my iPhone 5, neither of us can claim be one of the cool kids. But I doubt either of us ever did, anyway.
Sorry about the crud. I have not switched over gracefully to my smart phone, a Moto E. I am on Republic wireless because of cost. At first I included the unlimited data for a total of 25.00 a month, plus fees and taxes which took it to 27.00 and change. But I never use data so dropped down to 10.00 a month, data only when I am on a WiFi network. I rarely use my phone, not even texting, so I am a technophob I guess.
What you have, JJ, is commonly referred to as “con crud,” because that’s where you get it. So far I’ve been lucky, but I know people who get it at least once a year. In the future, try to get enough rest, and eat at least one real meal a day, and you should be OK. Hope you’re beginning to feel better by the time you read this.
I just watched OF in action. Anyone know why the picture includes nice sharp details in the foreground but the water/steam column in the middle distance shows up highly pixellated? Such really detracts from my emjoyment.
From Word A Day today: A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)
Debbe, hope all is well with you.
Just a fast drop in on a strange puter to let you know that I am visiting charming little towns in Georgia that I have mostly never seen before, like Social Circle, Ga and Millegeville. We did attend a great arts and crafts shindig at Stone Mtn. Will be home sometime tomorrow night. Peas.
Well, I suppose this should not be surprising. From that other author whose blog I follow, and who I mentioned said he was going to the Salt Lake City ComicCon: “…I picked up some nasty con crud which turned into a cold.”
Seriously, spending significant time in close proximity to tens of thousands of people from all over the country is probably not the optimal strategy for staying well. Of course, I got sick just by spending a couple of days at a hospital, which is a good place to get well but also a good place to get sick, so…
I get fewer colds now than I did when teaching hordes at BSU. An aggravating factor was the availability of tunnels btw. most campus bldgs., where you could escape the sub-0 temps, but readily exchange germs.
Peace,
emb
Student there when my brother was (from FL) never went out from Nov till Spring.
Debbe?
Someday I will be dragged – kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
Because of rollover min. BH phone cost about $10 a year – that may be a slight exaggeration
but not much. It is only on when she is speaking and that not often. It is for HER
convenience, no one else. By the way we still use a rotary dial phone. Niece and nephew
had never seen one.
That r. d. phone will likely last longer than most electronic marvels produced today. Past bedtime. Peace,
Had a great day. My angels got sails on, I may never remove them. We were in race, of course we were last but we had a great time. Dickenson slept on boat mostly, slept at Thai restaurant and is asleep in bed. I am heading there soon.
I always caught something at Dallas Market shows that resembled Legionaires Disease, went into pneumonia. Every market, about four a year. Air systems.
Good night.I am back on health meals, exercise and knee replacement. Everyone will benefit.
emb
The RD in kitchen came with house so is over 50YO
The on in cellar I put in in ’78/
GM Debbe
The older I get-
The more I realize no one has any idea what they are actually doing
and everyone is just pretending.
Debbe 😉 Good version of this one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_yIyCtgrc
Here’s my boat Stella in her slip at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Show. She is on very front row opposite the Maritime Center which is awesome position. Look in far right corner.
I feel like I won the golden ticket to the candy factory. Magic.
Jimmy you should come here and draw, these are your demographics. You could open the book to sailing strips, bring originals or copies of sailing strips, sailing tee shirt and sell out. You went wrong way at comic cons.
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