Well, I'm too down in the dumps to come up with anything really original today
so instead I am putting forth the following - - -
This is after seven on
Saturday December 15, 2012 and the jinxyness continues here in lavender
background. I haven’t experienced any
sustained “positive’ period since it was summer back around mid September, I
don’t think. This computer is still
booting more slowly despite the act I was able to run the file clean-up and
other stuff in Accronis late this morning.
I double checked with Judy to make sure I was taking the steps in the
right order, which I was not, and she set me straight. It’s been cold today. They said we made it to 62 today but I doubt
that. I remember being out on the patio
after lunch with Wally and Keith in the shade and being cold in the wind. I was telling Wally how I’d have to reset the
default speaker vs headphone settings every time I used the new phones. And I told him that I couldn’t get the
speakers back till I rebooted, which I don’t think is normal. Wally said that Marilyn Monroe used to work as
a riveter during World War II, which had to be back when she was a
teenager. She began making movies in the
late ‘forties. Tonight Dennis was
despairing of their ever finding a cure for almost any systemic cancer, unless
the Lord comes back, or resurrected in Death.
James and Dennis were saying “Our bodies are so complex only our creator
fully understands them.
Last night it was the
usual ABC game shows. Nikita wasn’t on,
so we watched Chef Ramsey. They reviewed
three restaurant disasters in Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and one in New
Jersey. The latter two appear to be
mainly Italian food restaurants. Then at
nine was “Fringe”. I guess I went to bed
about a quarter to ten. I slept well and
first woke at five but after twenty winks didn’t get up till ten to six. I took a long hot shower to get warm. As per Saturday usual I turned on KNX radio
and listened to “rewind” and all that.
They said that out of respect for the dead at that New Town school, the
Republicans would not deliver a rebuttal to the President’s address today. I think that was wise. It was sure cold in this room.
We had oatmeal and I
used a pink sugar from my pocket.
Eventually we got a fried egg and toast, with nothing to put on it. Dr. Levy was here early. There were some new weirdos in class I’d
never seen before, who weren’t very articulate during “check-in”. I was near last and went through a fast
recitation of my problems. After this
Dr. Levy wanted to talk about goals for the new year because he didn’t feel
like talking about the school shooting.
Dr. Levy says he’d like to learn to be an expert photographer and take
the sort of high quality the professionals take, and use a better camera. Someone let it slip that nobody in Vince’s
computer class does much to contribute to those complicated video
technics. Other than saying he was in
San Francisco last week, Dr. Levy said virtually nothing about where he’d been
or what he’d been doing the past three weeks, but made some joke about he and
his wife not getting along. Dr. Levy
mentioned he’d like to have all these speakers he knows come and make a
presentation in class. One brother is a
retired police commander, and another two relatives are pharmicists. I indicated I’d like to hear one of
them. Mike Deletore after making light
over his “not leaving three weeks ago” then said he’d like to learn basic
computer. We went till sometime after
nine. Then I went with Rosemary (?) to
her room to look at minoras and other things in her room. Dr. Levy said he wanted someone with him
because it would “make it easier to find an excuse to leave, since she loves to
talk a lot”. The room was warm enough
but smelled of feces or some sort. Then
I went with him and he gave me a five dollar bill. Earlier he said that I could make both social
gatherings if I attended his at four and then went on to my brother’s house
about five thirty. In terms of goals- -
naturally I thought of things like “getting enough to eat” and not freezing to
death, and people not dropping like flies around here who turned out “to be a
lot sicker than anyone thought”. It’s
depressing on the soul. Dr. Levy said
“You people think this place is bad, but take my word for it, just about every
other place is worse. Some places are in
such bad neighborhoods you don’t dare walk on the streets because of the high
crime rate”. And I had to agree with him
about that. I’ve seen these other
places. I went to the liquor store and
bought a pack of John Black grape, and a jar of Folgiers instant coffee. Then I paid Richard Moore back three
cigarettes I owed him. At this time I
thought “things are looking up today”.
Actually I thought of
saying, “You don’t think you could throw in an additional dollar fifty for an
eight pack of chocolate donuts, could you?”
This computer is still just as slow after the clean, up. I am increasingly plagued with static and
various pops and crackles- when I do anything audio on the internet. It’s not just one source now. It’s on the British Blues station, and also
on Chris Matthews. All the cords appear
to be plugged in properly leaving it a question as to what is causing it. I played a game of Pinball just before lunch,
and did extrordenarily well playing just one game. Got a really high score. But then I saw a disconcerting sight on my
way to the dining room. The cleaning
staff was doing one of those major “spring cleaning” jobs in Wally’s room with
the furniture being pulled out and stuff being chucked in the trash can. We had cabbage soup for lunch, which is the
only thing we got seconds on. We had a
chef’s salad. I wonder about some of
these people who salt their salads. We
had cantaloupe for desert. I had Leo Le
Port on and he was talking about connections of fax machines and printers to
various other things- - that was a little esoteric. Later on I watched the lengthly concluding
minutes of the Indiana and Butler game on CBS two. Butler ended up upsetting Indiana by a point
or something- - and Indiana blew their “ghost of a chance” to pull out the game
at the buzzer.
I decided to turn on
Chris Matthews earlier than my normal routing today. I watched all of Thursday show and the long
first segment of Wednesday’s show, or maybe it was all of Wednesday and the
start of Tuesday. That’s it. But then Nora was making the rounds on this
side of the hall and spending time in a lot of the rooms. I feared perhaps I’d get that major room
cleaning today and have to leave. But
when Nora came she didn’t stay long.
Then I watched the ABC sports review program. I think Dallas will beat Pittsburgh, and
alas, Green Bay will beat the Bears, but I am predicting that the Texans and
Denver will win their respective games, if anyone cares. The Baltimore Ravens are high now, but are
headed into a slump.
We had some spaghetti
type concoction for dinner that was good, and carrots and a green salad. Laura started with the cart on our side,
which pleased and surprised me. Most of us
had seconds on everything. We had
strawberry yogurt for desert. I made
instant coffee. Of course the shooting
is still dominating the news, with the Mc Laughlin group relying on yesterday’s
outdated information, like that the father was killed. The town was considered one of the safest
towns in the country, and the school was considered one of the best elementary
schools in the country, and had one of the best security set-ups, even with
student drills, in the country. But all
of that could not prevent what happened.
I watched the Mc Laughlin group.
The other topics raised were the budget impass, and the Fed Chairman
blatantly tying monetary growth to the progress of the economy, saying he’ll
end his extrordenary stimulation policies when the unemployment rate drops
below 6.5% - which is a ways off. Many
Republicans are jumping ship and advocating that the Republicans give in to the
idea of a “tax hike” for the rich, but then hold the democrats accountable to
produce sizable “entitlement” cuts at some point down the line. It may be that we’ll just have to go for the
hike to age 67 for Medicare, and damn the hardship it will cause so many
people. It’s the price of making Mitch
Mc Conell happy. John Mc Laughlin for
his end of how prediction stated that the economy would dip into another major
recession in 2013. Mort stated that
Mayor Bloomberg has decimated the crime rate in New York with the murder rate
only about an eighth or something of what it had been only a few years before,
partially due to law enforcement’s “stop and frisk” policy. I think this is a pretty good idea since if a
person on the street has a gun, you know he doesn’t have it legally.
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