Cop Car's Beat

OMG - "There is always a way"? (Pet Peeve #13)

I'll not give away where I found that Utopian quote; but, the discussion centered around the future of the human race - rather short-term in the discussion but could be opened up to the long-term. I wanted to answer that, "No, idiot, there is NOT always a way!" But...it is against my operating principles to actually write that a person is an idiot, particularly online, and there was no reason to make him/her the butt of my bad temper. Yikes! Let us assume that I made the whole thing up. (Oh, yeah.)

Sign of the times

4/7/1933 - Entry in my father's diary:

50 g[allons] gas @ 12 1/2 [ȼ]

50 [gallons] Kerosene @ 9 1/2 [ȼ]

5 [quarts] tractor oil @ 65 [ȼ]

Steel Drum [$]1.00

12/26/2015 - It's a nasty, misty, windy day out, this morning - with worse coming in. Since my car had only about 1.5 gallons left in the tank, I filled up.

14.6 gallons 87 Octane gasoline @ $1.539

Morgan Friedman inflation calculator:

    What cost $0.125 in 1933 would cost $2.26 in 2014.

 

Dancercize

Obituaries - good for the survivors

Am I senile? Am I hallucinating? I know that, at least once I have posted about the strange (to me) ways people choose to say that someone died, in an obituary. But...I can't find it to which to link.

OTOH: I have posted about an obituary that struck a cord with me (Good life, refreshing obituary - Kay Arvin). Well, here's another obituary that struck a chord with me. It probably isn't new to you since it is said to have gone viral. Hunky Husband forwarded this link (from The Wichita Eagle) to me: ‘Hardware failures’: Obituary for Illinois man goes viral.

The photo of the obituary (from an Imgur posting): My mother-in-law was confused by this obituary, so she read it to me.... I'm sorry that the man died, but his brother wrote a bang-up obituary!

These days are good and bad

Bad, because the knee that I twisted while in Colorado has become quite painful. For the past several weeks, I've been unable to sleep in my bed and have had great difficulty sleeping in my recliner since finding a relatively-pain-free position is a huge challenge. Oh, well. Come Jan 14, 2016, my new physician will take a look at it. Since my knees have taken turns giving me a pain since 1974, I've become accustomed to putting up with pain for periods of time. Wasn't it just about eight months ago that I went through (nearly) this with the other knee?

Good, because it is a sunny day and I, at last, figured out the fix for my computer problems that kept me from getting audio with most (but not all) of the online-posted videos - all YouTube videos were beyond me. I simply uninstalled Adobe Flash! Duh! Why didn't any of the help/community websites suggest that? I had to figure it out myself.

Since I can now play videos and hear them, here are a couple that I enjoyed. The Boogie video is a re-posting from Ronni's blog (Time Goes By), while the Supercool video is from a website suggested by one of the videos that Ronni had also posted, today - but not the same one! BTW: I never cared for Coca Cola as a kid (as if I got to try it all that often!) but learned to like it when I discovered that the little refrigerator in the office of the branch library in which I worked cooled the 8-ounce bottles of Coca Cola to the precise temperature needed to have the Coke instantly freeze up in my mouth. Yum! (I still only like it at that temperature.)

 

 

 

And the following video is for any family who may have missed it.

 

My den is back in shape

Whenever Hunky Husband schedules a few days away from home, I take advantage of the opportunity to schedule maintenance on the house. This past week, I scheduled carpeting replacement for my den - which occurred Tuesday. It was as large a project as having the carpeting replaced in the parlor, living room, and hallway (Fall of 2013), in the two bedrooms that are on the main floor of the house (Spring of 2014), or having the vinyl goods replaced in the kitchen, breakfast room, dining room, and mud room (Spring of 2015). Why? Because I had the whole world jammed into my den. I spent a couple of hours each of 4 or 5 days getting nearly everything out of my den in preparation - everything off of the walls, all of the movable furniture out (except the 93" couch, a 6-shelf bookcase, and a recliner chair), and everything out of my closet. (When it came to my closet, Fibber Magee would have been proud!)

It took the guys only four hours to remove the three pieces of furniture, take up the old carpeting, lay the new carpeting, and bring the chair and bookcase back into the den. I had asked them to take the couch to the basement - and leave it there! It has taken me several hours per day since they left to get everything else back together.

Well...not everything is back together. I took the opportunity to throw out/give away much of the "stuff" instead of bringing it back in. (Fibber Magee would no longer be proud of the closet. It has a few cubic inches of space left!) In addition, I took a small cabinet downstairs to my bedroom and took a thick glass tabletop (about 2' x 3' x 1") down to the basement for storage (we've had it since about 1970 and still haven't figured out how to use it!), and brought up a tall, narrow bookcase from my bedroom. Yes, folks, much like Bogie, I am good at figuring out how to do things by myself.

The biggest challenge (physically) was finding a place to "store" this computer setup/desk where it could be in service during the upheaval. The desk and computer are shown in Done and done; but, the setup had been amended to include a small TV console on which my printer and printer papers reside. All told, the length of the setup is about six feet. I moved the server from one wall to another in the dining room to make room for the computer desk/setup and was quite comfortable working at my computer for a couple of days.

Before: Computer Desk parallel to built-in desk - 

After: Computer desk against wall perpendicular to built-in desk -

 

 

Jewels from unwanted catalogs - 2

Jewels from unwanted catalogs was posted about 23 months ago. Since then, more jewels have cropped up. I've tried not to duplicate entries from the original posting; but, if you see a duplicate, please accept it as one little hiccup in life!

 
 

 

            

Math: It's all fun and games until somebody divides by zero 

There are two kinds of People: Those who can extrapolate conclusions from incomplete data
 
 
 

 
 

           
 
 
 


  

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