Yeah…that’s a low-quality pun because I haven’t had sufficient coffee yet. SackO’SugarK telecommutes on Fridays which means we get an extra hour+ of sleep Thursday nights. Unfortunately, it also means an hour+ delay in starting the morning caffeination process on Friday, thus leading to substandard puns at this hour.
Apparently, CNN’s recent Dem townhall was seven(!) hours of all the shit they want to ban. Cheeseburgers, plastic straws, internal combustion engines, meat and factory farming (so where’s all that grain to replace the meat gonna come from?), fossil fuels, nuclear power and lots more.
The small studio audience hooted like chimps, of course. Decrying big corporations while several read their question-screeds off of smart phones.
Guess they’re planning on buying their smart phones from local, artisinal consumer electronics craftspeople in the future or something. And charging them via solar power…which will work well during, say, Boston winters. And they have no plan for keeping the required network powered-up. Riding stationary bikes / running on treadmills?
Criminy…there are way too many dangerously stupid people. And they vote.
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Hope there were no untoward surprises re Mac and Elena’s new doc visit yesterday.
Thank you for the good wishes my friend. Sorry I did not follow up yesterday. Everything seems OK. I had not had a regular Doctor for most of my adult life but after the heart attack in 2016 and finding I was diabetic I needed a GP so I found one locally. I have been very happy with him and Elena was impressed as well. She saw in in 2016 and 2017 when we had no insurance but had to switch when she got insurance in 2018. She went on Medicare in August so we she had an appointment this week with him to get back with him. Sadly, we got a notice he was no longer with the Baylor, Scott, and White system last month. Bummer. So we have been looking for a new Doctor for weeks now. Elena wanted one that operated out of a hospital so all services would be available. BSW has a new hospital quite close and we thought that would be perfect but we have found that it is hard to find a Doctor that is accepting new Medicare patients so it has been a frustrating process. There were none at the hospital we wanted. We did find one at the Hospital where I went with my heart attack, It was not part of the BSW system then but they bought it soon after. It is not as new or as close as the other but it is acceptable, so we went there yesterday for out first appointment. It was OK, the Doctor seems good. We will see how the lab results come back and how they handle it. Not sure yet. I do wish I could have stayed with the other Doctor, he was really exceptional. At least it is nice to have us both fully covered with insurance. It has been a long time.
Happy Friday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, and Sven!
Fatwa -- from what I hear, interspersed amongst the 7 hours of calls for banning things were commercials for many of those same things. Capitalism for me, but not for thee?
Gotta take Mrs. Paddy’s car in to have an airbag replaced under recall. An airbag, btw, that was previously replaced under recall. It seems when the original recall went out a few years ago, the replaced defective Takata airbag inflators with new, defective Takata airbag inflators.
Just got back from Waddlemart. They’re rearranging the entire frozen food section, so almost nothing is in the same place it’s been for years. Imagine my great delight.
Mac --
Thank you for checking-in; very glad to read “everything seems OK”. May that continue to be the case.
Paddy --
That sucks about the second replacement airbag. Whatcha gonna do with the old one…some “science”?
Happy “What The Cat Drugged In” Friday, GN!
Yeah…that’s a low-quality pun because I haven’t had sufficient coffee yet. SackO’SugarK telecommutes on Fridays which means we get an extra hour+ of sleep Thursday nights. Unfortunately, it also means an hour+ delay in starting the morning caffeination process on Friday, thus leading to substandard puns at this hour.
Apparently, CNN’s recent Dem townhall was seven(!) hours of all the shit they want to ban. Cheeseburgers, plastic straws, internal combustion engines, meat and factory farming (so where’s all that grain to replace the meat gonna come from?), fossil fuels, nuclear power and lots more.
The small studio audience hooted like chimps, of course. Decrying big corporations while several read their question-screeds off of smart phones.
Guess they’re planning on buying their smart phones from local, artisinal consumer electronics craftspeople in the future or something. And charging them via solar power…which will work well during, say, Boston winters. And they have no plan for keeping the required network powered-up. Riding stationary bikes / running on treadmills?
Criminy…there are way too many dangerously stupid people. And they vote.
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Hope there were no untoward surprises re Mac and Elena’s new doc visit yesterday.
Thank you for the good wishes my friend. Sorry I did not follow up yesterday. Everything seems OK. I had not had a regular Doctor for most of my adult life but after the heart attack in 2016 and finding I was diabetic I needed a GP so I found one locally. I have been very happy with him and Elena was impressed as well. She saw in in 2016 and 2017 when we had no insurance but had to switch when she got insurance in 2018. She went on Medicare in August so we she had an appointment this week with him to get back with him. Sadly, we got a notice he was no longer with the Baylor, Scott, and White system last month. Bummer. So we have been looking for a new Doctor for weeks now. Elena wanted one that operated out of a hospital so all services would be available. BSW has a new hospital quite close and we thought that would be perfect but we have found that it is hard to find a Doctor that is accepting new Medicare patients so it has been a frustrating process. There were none at the hospital we wanted. We did find one at the Hospital where I went with my heart attack, It was not part of the BSW system then but they bought it soon after. It is not as new or as close as the other but it is acceptable, so we went there yesterday for out first appointment. It was OK, the Doctor seems good. We will see how the lab results come back and how they handle it. Not sure yet. I do wish I could have stayed with the other Doctor, he was really exceptional. At least it is nice to have us both fully covered with insurance. It has been a long time.
Glad to hear you are both insured! Here’s hoping for good lab results and that you’ve found a doctor you can work with and trust.
Happy Friday, GN!
Happy Friday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, and Sven!
Fatwa -- from what I hear, interspersed amongst the 7 hours of calls for banning things were commercials for many of those same things. Capitalism for me, but not for thee?
Gotta take Mrs. Paddy’s car in to have an airbag replaced under recall. An airbag, btw, that was previously replaced under recall. It seems when the original recall went out a few years ago, the replaced defective Takata airbag inflators with new, defective Takata airbag inflators.
Hiya, Sven, Paddy and Mac!
Just got back from Waddlemart. They’re rearranging the entire frozen food section, so almost nothing is in the same place it’s been for years. Imagine my great delight.
Mac --
Thank you for checking-in; very glad to read “everything seems OK”. May that continue to be the case.
Paddy --
That sucks about the second replacement airbag. Whatcha gonna do with the old one…some “science”?
Unfortunately they don’t let you keep that, otherwise I could see putting it to wonderful use (hold my beer).
Passenger ejection seat? 👿