Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENT OF THE WEEK
(another update)
General Flynn Released
I hope that my descendants will learn about this most horrific attempt by the administration in power as it tries to take down the winner of the election of 2016.
President Obama, with the help of the FBI and the Intelligence Community did everything they could to remove General Michael Flynn from power, sending him to jail if all went well.
The FBI....a bunch of losers, horrible people. James Comey...smirks and smiles and a creep. James Clapper....head of Intelligence, a liar and traitor.
But I caution my descendants that I don't want to be harsh.
Flynn was Obama's head of Intelligence, of which America has eleventy-eleven million intelligence agencies. Goodness, I even have an Intelligence agency to check my email. Obama fired Flynn because...well Flynn didn't like Obama's lie to America that Al-Queda was on the run, which it was not at the time. There was also that very questionable "deal" with Iran involving mid of night transfers of huge containers of cash.
Then President Trump re-hired Flynn but now it all gets confusing as Trump fired Flynn for allegedly lying to VP Pence. The FBI then brings in every two-bit nothing-burger from their 7th floor to spy on the Trump campaign, and move on to trapping him into admitting a lie to the FBI, which is against the law.
I warn my descendants that it is evidently ok for the FBI to lie to everyone, including the American public.
At any rate, as of this date General Flynn has been released from investigation by DOJ and....we shall move on.
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MAJOR CULTURE EVENT OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Little Richard Died
May he rest in peace.
He sang many songs....no rap or stupid stuff.
He was a rocker and, good golly Miss Molly, he will go down in rock and roll history.
Snow storm in mid-May
It may, perhaps, be no big deal. But this was the first snow storm recorded in the month of May since 1977.
We survived. Although the Democrats wanted to shut down the economy.
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM ME RE THE PANDEMIC
(that my descendants may know how I handled it)
My garden is blooming because they are allowed outside.
Below, on the left, the rhododendrons that light up the front of the house. On the right, Clematis, gorgeous flowers that climb and bloom and shine.
As of this writing the company is beginning to open up. Georgia has opened. About ten other states. Soon I maybe shall be allowed to eat in a restaurant.
Below, a picture that pretty much says how I feel.
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OVER THE INTERNET
(social media explains so much)
From Facebook
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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Working From Home
It is my hope for my descendants that they have received one of the few benefits of this pandemic, which would be an embrace of the notion of working from home.
For I hated, HATED, commuting to work every day. Let's see, at one point I had to go through Baltimore's Harbor Tunnel every damn day, sit in traffic, and that horrible tunnel. For 15 years at least.
After that I drove almost to Washington D.C. from Pasadena, Md. There were buses and long walks from parking spots, parking garages. To downtown Baltimore, next to the Baltimore zoo..
In 1991 the company I was working for was putting in a new payroll system. I was in charge of this huge job and I didn't want to be hanging around the Baltimore Zoo late at night. I managed to set up my ancient computer so I could work from home. Since the company I worked for needed that new payroll system, they needed me. So they let me work at home, but only after putting in a full day physically on the job.
I loved it.
Also I'd read a book by Alvin Toffler called "The Third Wave", which was an analysis of the future of life in our country. One of his big recommendations was the concept of an "electronic cottage", a house people lived in but also one they worked out of, communicated with the world, ordered their goods from....on and on.
Now Alvin Toffler, I must insert for my descendants, also wrote a book called "Future Shock" which warned all of us to only "replace ourselves" on the planet or else humans would die by the millions with not enough food produced by earth to keep everyone alive.
This turned out to be totally untrue and I myself had one child only, the biggest mistake I made in my life. But Alvin Toffler told me what to do.
Still and so, Toffler's "The Third Wave" really did come to be although it wasn't until the great pandemic of 2020 came along and working from home in that adorable electronic cottage was a necessity.
I spent about two hours every day in a car to get to work and home, doing work I could easily do at home. I prayed that someday I wouldn't have to awake in the middle of the night to go to work, to cart my baby out the door in the freezing cold, to fight traffic and snow plows and erratic drivers just to get to a job that with the benefit of electronics I could do at my home.
There will be some adjusting to working at home. Most likely it will become more of a reduction because, again if we've learned nothing from the pandemic of 2020, it's that there is a need for humans to socialize and interact with each other. The socialization might involve shared happy activities or job interactions via physical meetings.
Whatever the case, I'd be happy to only have to travel to work one or two days a week.
So my descendants know that not all bad became of the great pandemic of 2020. Saving gas and time, having happy employees.....all from working from home.
May my descendants be reading this from their homes.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
He's part of the family and he loves watching TV
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