Ah, yes. New Year's Eve

Which to me is a useless holiday.

I gave up ringing in the new year a long time ago. I think it was about seven or eight years ago I stayed up and watched Dick Clark or whoever it was do the Times Square thing and felt kinda sleepy all New Year's Day because of it.

Fact is that it has been a long number of years since I have stayed up late for anything over the past several years unless it is at work.

Come to think of it, I generally feel pretty good on New Year's Day because I'm in bed long before the new year is rung in.

It wasn't always that way...

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I read where Donald Trump said the post office was undercharging Amazon. The statement was followed by the usual outrage.

What followed the outrage is someone did the math and as usual the Donald is right. The postal people ought to be charging Amazon more money.



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Haves vs have nots

I saw this picture the other day and laughed. It said an awful lot to me and spoke the truth in many ways.

Actually it isn’t just about bust size, it’s about an attitude that seems prevalent. It’s a part of the continuing battle between the haves and the have nots. It doesn't matter what we are talking bout having or not having, either.

One of the things I tend to notice is an awful lot of socialist or socialist leaning types always seem to want to take from successful people and give to the less successful because they seem to think it the fair thing to do.

My guess is that the socialistic types are either too lazy or stupid to earn their own way and are outright jealous of those that have earned nice things.

Another thing I have found by watching my peers over the years is that an awful lot of liberals are not as generous with their own money as they are with someone else’s. I’ve seen an awful lot of them cheat on their taxes or do similar things.

When I listen to liberal types grouse about taxes I am quick to point out that that the money to give someone else has to come from somewhere. That generally gets me a dirty look.

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I am guilty of this. Most of us are.

It's easy to get taken in by fake news and both sides are guilty of fake news.

I do have to wonder, though, how much fake news from the conservative side is false flag from the left. There is a lot of that going around these days and both sides ought to get pounded for it.




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We are getting closer and closer to a new year.

It is one holiday I tend not to go out on because it is actually a nuisance.

I suppose it has cleaned itself up a bit over the years but for decades we called it 'Amateur Night'. This is because people that thought they were serious drinkers because they would have 2 beers on the Fourth of July, a glass of wine at Thanksgiving and an egg nog on Christmas would go out on New Year's eve and tangle with a bottle of 80 proof whiskey and wonder why they woke up in the hospital after wrapping their car around a tree.

It seems to have cleaned itself up both because of the attitude of the public and the sharp increase of DUI checkpoints.

I guess in my mind the holiday has morphed from an amateur stupidity night to pretty much a blah holiday.

I suppose it's a good excuse to dump a little bourbon into egg nog but I don't even bother with that. I generally meet the new year with a snore and a fresh wake-up.


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Maybe later

a busy day.

Someone sent me a list of things electronically and I was planning on printing it.

Instead I took my Kindle with me and fired it up at the store and loaded the list onto that.

Seeing the printer was acting up it saved me a lot of trouble.

I am constantly amazed at the computer age!

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Today is Boxing Day in England.

It is the day that the servants that were required for Christmas festivities were given off to spend with their families.

Learn something new, didn't you?



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Merry Christmas

Let's leave it at that.


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It is Christmas Eve

and it is warm and dry which is a good thing because I am no fan of snow.

That is a VERY good thing.

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Pipe dream time.

I once thought it would be nice to have two sailboats, on in Florida and one in New England. Come November the one in New England would be put in the yard and the one in Florida would be put in the water.

Reverse the process come spring.

I could just fly up to work from Florida or drive down from New England.

Actually it would not be all that expensive but the reality is that it would be somewhat of a pain in the neck.

Still, it has a certain amount of merit.







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Looks like it may be a wet Christmas

Which is OK because I hate snow.

There is this product made foe breakfast called 'cereal'. You put it in a bowl and put milk on it. I just rediscovered it. It's pretty good, really. 

My next project is to find a decent diet to drive my cholesterol down and start in on it. It seems that I no longer get along with Statin drugs anymore.







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One of the things I wish I had known a lot earlier

was  taking a little better care of myself.

An example of this is the case of my army boots. I just junked s few pairs but kept one in case the army gets into some kind of trouble and they need the services of a beat up 66 year old man.

I replaced them with some good commercial foot wear.

When I was younger I could wander around on a steel deck all day and feel fine at the end of the day. A few years ago an on-deck watch would leave me aware that I had been on deck a while. It wasn't really pain, just a kind of tired feeling.

A shipmate turned me on to a pair of Bates and it was like walking on air.

Another thing is that I simply used to bundle up with whatever on cold days. For years an old flight jacket and several layers of zip-front hoodies served me well. To a certain extent I still layer.

I grew tired of this and decided to get myself some decent cold weather gear and that became another thing I wish I had done years earlier. I didn't 'cheap out',  either. I went with quality gear because it works quite well it lasts. Buy once, cry once.

While back in the day I was seldom truly miserable, I was never 100% comfortable. Good gear makes the difference.

Incidentally I am not a believer in insulated coveralls if you are going to be going in and out. I prefer a jacket and insulated overalls arrangement. You can take the jacket off and unzip the leg zippers when you come inside. With coveralls you either peel the whole rig off or roast when you are inside. It makes life a lot easier.

For what it's worth you also feel a little more professional in good gear. You're not running around like a bag of rags.

Good gear is about as expensive as rags when you amortize it over the years. In ways it may actually be a whole lot cheaper when you add everything up.




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The deer have changed color to winter grey.

It's winter now and the deer have changed color and are now in winter grey mode. Gone are the beautiful browns and it will be this way until the weather breaks in the spring.

It's a yearly cycle and never ceases to amaze me. They turned a little late this season for some reason.

It is amazing how things like this happen because they seem to know when the weather is going to get bad and they change just before it happens.








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The new TV set.

Sure the hell ain't like the old one.

Back in the day you would hook up a twin lead antenna with two screws, plug it in, turn it on and when it warmed up click the channel and watch Bugs Bunny.

This new one had all sorts of things to do to get it going and I thought I would have problems with the cable box but that sorted itself out.

An old guy like me managed to get it figured out and I got it up and running in about an hour so I'm now a happy camper.

What was a stroke of luck is it is the same brand as the old one and I didn't have to reprogram the cable company remote.

All in all pretty good.

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Whoops!

Almost missed a day!

Update.

I am 66 years old and just bought my first brand new television set.

It seems that every time the one I had cratered that inside a day someone would offer me a freebie.

It never failed.


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Last night it rained and the snow is pretty much gone.

and that is a good thing.


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One of the things that is a royal PITA is what happens after you buy an airline ticket or something on line.

After the sale is made they slam your inbox with ads, promotions and reduced rate trips to Graceland and Las Vegas.

I wish they would stop doing this. If I need something from them I'll call them. If not I wish they would just go away.

eBay is good for this but they seem to have learned and have managed to keep it down to a semi reasonable level. 






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One of the things I noticed is that PAs are becomng more and more commonpllace.

That's Physicians Assistants that I am talking about.

I first used the services of a PA in about 1980 and have appreciated them ever since. The first ones for the most part were military trained at Ft. Sam Houston. Top shelf medics most likely began the program years before that.

Some of them were real characters.

The first couple I met had recently retired from the Army and  were ideal for where I first met them. They were in Alaska and a lot of their clientele were what they had dealt with in the service, young men between the ages of about 18-45.

We were young and resilient and healed fast. The guys loved them for their no nonsense attitude and didn't mind their informal nature at all. I was once diagnosed with my PA telling me, "You got the crud."

Needless to say, there were a lot of people that were appalled to find they had no medical degrees. Other people sometimes mistook them for being former basic medics which they were certainly not by any means. They had extensive training at Ft. Sam and I know it was well over a year at the time. It's a lot more difficult now.

Even back then these men were very competent in their field. They knew how to treat most routine medical problems and equally as important when to send someone up the chain to an MD.

The medical trade took one look at these military medical people and decided they had a home in the medical business. An awful lot of things that doctors used to do didn't require all the years of medical school. The responsibilities could be pushed down safely.

Over the years it appears that the PA requirements have grown a lot more stringent and from what I have seen many of them now have specific areas of expertise. 

I had no problem with the early PAs and I have no problem with the newer breed. If they are in their comfort zone they are every bit as good as a fully licensed MD. I know that if they find something out of their comfort zone they will 'kick it upstairs' in a heart beat.

Still a lot of people get all worked up when they arrive at the doctor's office with a common cold and are assigned a PA to handle it. They shouldn't feel that way. If they have something serious the PA will send their case up the chain to the appropriate specialist.

Personally I think that being treated by a PA is a good thing. It's when the PA assigns me to a specialist that scares me because it likely means I have something serious







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Things are starting to look up

I am starting to feel a lot better and may post a few things for the benefit of my readers.

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This is getting old

Still feeling lousy.

FWIW I am posting with a Kindle Fire.



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ANother rough day

There IS an end in sight.


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Still feeling rough

Bad

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