Are you aware there are entire movies on YouTube? Most of them are old and probably no longer protected by copyright, but there are quite a few, including old naval warfare movies. (It’s true: if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, but they remain one of my guilty pleasures.) Of course, I’m sure you already know this, but why doesn’t anybody tell me these things?
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Just did 40 minutes on recumbent criss stepper. Taking a break and coming back for second machine.
I had washed Dickens and he’d run into bedroom. I was dressed and crying NuBalance gym shoes in to put on laying on bed, hit his wet trail.
Cross trainer, have no idea about Hal.
I’d have been down on that floor awhile as phones were charging in kitchen.
Would never recommend a hallowed out pineapple as a weapon storage site.
JAckie are you sure you are okay? DIdn’t you fall a few days ago?
Jackie, perhaps it is time to consider an emergency pendant or bracelet like my mom had that can be used to summon help if you cannot get to a phone to call for it. And before you dismiss that as being just for “old folks”, let me say that I am seriously considering getting one for myself, since it can not only be a lifesaver in case of a fall or other medical emergency, it also can serve as a panic button in case of fire or home invasion.
And as I understand it, they now have cellar/GPS-connected units that can be used outside the home and even while traveling. If you are interested, I’ll let you know what my research reveals.
sandcastler™: Why would someone consecrate a pineapple?
I don’t know, sand…I’ve been told one can store a GLOCK in a bucket of water without doing it any harm. And who’d expect you to produce a defensive weapon from the inside of a pineapple? #TacticalAdvantage 🙂
Ghost I would appreciate that when you find out. I used to wear a flip phone inside my bra. No one seemed to notice.
Had the GPS activated on the Mustang. If it is stolen or I drive it off a mountain I want it to be tracked.
Agree I need some way to let people know I need help. Dickens gets very upset but he can’t bring me phone or go alert anyone.
Today’s fall was walking barefoot on large ceramic tile floor where wet dog dripped water from his bath. My fault.
Kyle and Tony are putting up rails around decks and patios to give me something to hold on to. They worry too.
Had a good time this afternon buying cookbooks and gardening books. A lot of fun because books were 1.50 and these were all expensive hardback, very good cookbooks. Got a lot of Weight Watcher’s cookbooks, American Diabetics cookbooks and similar but also some VERY excellent trendy cooks and a great Southern Cooking one, we’ll actually several Southern ones I had read reviews on so I knew what I was getting, lots of Food Network.
Sand, I got the CIA tips cookbook, secrets of the CIA.
And for Ghost one of Giada’s books. I will give it to you if I ever see you and in meantime I will keep my eye peeled for more of her books. Maybe I can find all of them.
As soomdud (not me) once said, “I’ve been watching Giada on TV for years, and I still don’t how to boil water.” Her cookbooks may be easier for guys like that to follow, perhaps due to the fact the pages don’t jiggle.
If you bop your head on something on the way to the floor, you may forget that you, like Janis at the beach, had tucked a flip-phone into your bra. The pendant/bracelet has an accelerometer in it that registers a fall and alerts the monitoring service. Probably a little more reliable than, “What is it, Dickens? Did Jackie fall down the well again?”
Check and see whether those alerts need a landline phone to work. Otherwise, no landline, no service.
Hope you don’t have any lasting injuries, Jackie!
Hint taken.
So many people no longer have landline service that the medical alert companies do indeed have service-over-cellular now. I took a quick look on-line last week, and I hope to revisit that this week.
Anyone in the Village have any experience with the non-landline side of that service?
Heh. Yesterday I got this email solicitation, obviously from a company that shipped me something I ordered from the Big Department Store in the Cloud.
“Dear friend,
“Greetings! This is Rita from X-DRAGON.
“To thank the deeply love of all the new and old customers, we have a series of promotional activities in this month, you could check the Special Offers and Product Promotions of the item page.
“These promotions will be finished soon, if you like it, do not miss. And I can recommend a hot selling item to you.”
Well, in fairness, “Rita” has better English than I have Chinese. And who knows…X-DRAGON could also be a mail-order bride company, and that “hot selling item” might be Rita herownself. 😉
Ghost: I’m also interested in what you find out / alert systems.
Have also been putting off advanced directive mtg. w/ Sanford H.B’s official A.D. person, and good friend, M.Div. [ELCA], whose M.Div. wife did an excellent funeral at FLC this afternoon. All good funerals are, for me, Elaine’s all over again, this one in particular. Our BUMC pastor officiated at Elaine’s in Jan. ’11, but Linnea, who had worked closely w/ Elaine in hospital chaplaincy for years, did the eulogy.
Peace
Question for Mr. Ghost, you once generously offered to come spend time in Oklahoma when I got first knee done. Does that offer still apply?
As soon as I get the truck fiasco finished and bury Trigger I have the boats to finish disposing of and bury them, another issue and I hope things go better for awhile.
My surgeon is high demand and has to be booked months in advance normally. Plus I have to go through clearing several.doctors besides her. I am reaching point knee is about to go I think .
If offer is still good it is on your schedule, not mine. But I would need dates.
For the food porn groupies among us, I cooked maple bacon Chipotle pork chops, Santa Fe quinoa, Mexican corn and Cuban black beans with Texas bacon cornbread.
About as cross cultural as Houston is!
For tomorrow’s lunch chicken breasts with mushrooms Hatch peppers sauce, brown rice and corn and salads. And leftover Cuban pulled pork and the cornbread.
Minions come for the food since I really seldom care when they show up. Besides I don’t bother to cook well without someone else to cook for.
Got a Birds of Oklahoma bird identification book. I need to dig out some binoculars too.
Yard is full. Bulbs are breaking out of ground.
Time to plant onions, snow peas, kale, broccoli, other early plants like cauliflower, etc.
My birthday is the seventh and I am happy to not be arranging roses for Valentines except my own.
The Mustang is my birthday, Valentines gift, as was Trigger, and Cowboy Cookies before.
Ghost, here’s a service I heard about through my VA in Tuscaloosa. One-time purchase of equipment, no monthly fees. Monitored and it has the ability to work via landline or VOIP (internet phone such as Vonage). There is a cellullar only model and a cellular connection available as a plug-in unit for the other models.
https://www.logicmark.com/products/
Forgot the link.
Thanks, Mark; I’ll look at them. One of the top-rated ones I did look at (with cellular option) was pretty much the opposite…no charge for the equipment; a monthly fee that varied according to the level of service you require; and month-to-month payments, with no contract commitment. Obviously there is more than one way to skin that particular cat. (Which, now that I think of it, may not be the most politic term to use in the Village.)
Our central Kenyan river looks to be a string of disconnected pools. That water only riffles if there’s a breeze.
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Mark: Thanks. Will ask around at SHB about those,
https://www.logicmark.com/products/
Peace,
Don’t know whether to blame falling or exercising or falling and exercising but things are hurting that don’t normally hurt. And I have two small black holes in my right breast that look like I got bit by a snake with some dark streaking.
It sounds like you were bitten by your flip phone. As far as I know they are not poisonous. Scrolling back I don’t see any emb. I hope that he hasn’t left.