Young

I might have mentioned it in the past how much I dislike young people. I don't mean kids, I mean young people who appear on television and offer advise and explanations to today's political events.

I ask, what backgrounds these people have to be able to tell me the political thinking? What is their experience that they base their opinions on? Everything must be based on their book learning but that is not experience.

I will take any day an experienced political commentator over the age 50 because at least he has a background and he has seen things.

This is my reversed age discrimination. Give me an older person any time with his experience based know how against these young Turks.

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Speaking of young versus old people here is another observation.

I have been watching a lot of poker tournaments lately and I noticed that 99% of the pros are young people. By young I mean below 30. So, here is my question. Where are the old-timers? Where are the people who play poker professionally for 15-30 years or longer? Did they die out or did they just give up because they can not hold their own against these young people.

Some of these players look so young that I'm sure they are asked to show their IDs whenever they enter a casino. I understand that playing poker for a living is much more attractive than any 9 to 5 job and the money can also be more enticing. But still, where are the oldies?  

Saturday

 I will skip Saturday because because my creative juices went to sleep. But I will wake them up soon because I need them for Sunday.

Friday

My wife decided sometimes last year that I had it too good by using our one and only tabletop computer. She claimed I was bolted down front of it most of the time and thus denying her any possible access to it.

So, to solve this "major inconvenience" she solved this problem by buying me a laptop. Smaller one and not Mac but Microsoft but all mine. This laptop was a combination Christmas/Chanukah and birthday present.

I am very happy with this. The only problem I have is that it took me forever to get used to Mac from Microsoft when we bought our computer a few years ago. Now, I am back getting back to the Microsoft system that I conveniently forgot.

This was the way with me when I worked. I had to learn how to use Lotus 1-2-3 and when I became fairly confident with it I was told forget this one, now we are using Excel. When I got used to Excel my darling wife decided that Mac is the future. For her yes but I am going around in circles. I wouldn't be surprised if I had to go back to Lotus 1-2-3 one day.

But that is life, what goes around comes around. If one lives long enough he will see things that went out of use or he will see styles returning. Just like bellbottom pants! 

Our Future

Being "locked in" my abode makes it necessary to watch a lot of tv. Actually being retired is also necessitates watching a lot of tv. 

How many hours can a tv set endure before it says kaput I had enough?

Anyhow, I found general programming extremely poor. It is very hard to find programs that are really entertaining or educational.

For example, BBC America a British TV network broadcasts old American shows, and the same one over and over again. It is a shame when there are good current and former British shows that are genuinely funny.

There are shows like Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld that can be found all over in the programs. Just like Lucy was years ago. They said that any given time of the day Lucy was on somewhere in this country.

I'm not sitting front of the box all day long, but I do watch more than I used to. Actually the box is no longer a correct definition. Just like dialing isn't either and carburetor is also passé. These are words only us, old-timers remember and use. 

Lately, my wife and I watch more political programs as we used to. It is very interesting how the media is divided between Biden and Trump. ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN were openly on the side of the democrats while Fox used to be Trumpist but now it is waltzing backwards. Newsmax is openly on the side of Trump (for now) and it is interesting to watch this last one because it reports things none of the others do.

This proves that media outlets lack conviction but full of chasing the mighty $. Advertising money runs their programming. Today's antichrist is tomorrow's messiah! Funny to see how these commentators turn suddenly 180 degrees with their opinions. And, these are the people we supposed to trust.

The soviets used to censor what could be published. Now the democrats do exactly that. They control what can we, the public should be informed of. That is not a healthy situation but looks like we are heading in that direction. After that comes the elimination of term limits. Watch out!  

Covid-2021

 This entire pandemic thing is going crazy. Nobody knows what is good and what is bad. Nobody knows what is the correct behavior.

In my apartment building there is a sign that says that the landlord wishes everyone to wear masks in the common areas like hallways, elevators, laundry room etc.

This is all ok, but I for one have the tendency to go out within the building without my mask. I just don't put it on or I just plain forget it. The other day a lady balled me out in the mailroom for not having my mask on. I told her not to worry about it because I am ok. She didn't buy it. Then I told her to piss off!

It annoys the heck out of me when I see reporters on tv out in some desolate area and talking into their microphone with the mask on. What are they afraid of? There is nobody around but their crew.

In the US Senate when they speak at least they remove their masks but in the House of Representative they insist of having their masks on making their speeches unintelligible. That's alright they don't make too much sense anyway. Anyway, it is to some's advantage to cover their faces!

I find it funny how scared the Washington politicians are since the January 6 event. They are so scared that it can be smelled all over the country. Don't they realize that it was by the people they claim to represent? It was the people for whom they try to do all that good stuff from both side of the aisle. This was their fan club they are suddenly trying to alienate themselves from.

Don't they realize that two years from now there will be elections and they all will have to account for their actions? Or they just don't care and are so sure of their power that they are convinced that they are invincible. 

To have military presence in Washington is unheard of, at least in this country. Is the military propping up this regime? 

  

Robin

I don't know if I ever wrote about our dog. But if I did it is ok, I will write again and this will be an update.

Just to recap, we have a four year old Maltese. He is very cute, very lovable and he is houseclean.

Abigail was clamoring after a dog for years and years and eventually her mom decided that we should make her happy. Remember, it was her mom who decided it! Three years ago we went to a shelter and adopted this one. Why this one? Because he was the cutest one in the bunch.

It took him all of ten minutes to make himself at home and to make our home his home. He is very well behaved except he likes to bark. Anything moves outside our windows or door he barks at it. If we would live where he could be outside he would be continuously chasing after cars and bicycles. There are certain people he doesn't like and barks at then there are people he just doesn't pay attention to.

We took him to a behavioral class at Petco but he flunked it. Shortly after the class started he got into such barking with his classmates that they asked us to leave and gave us back the tuition. So, he is a behavioral class dropout.

Abigail swore on the bible that she would take care of him. Who do you think gets up early in the morning to take him out? Her mom. Abigail takes him out at 11:30-ish and around 3pm and that's all. At 7pm and after 11pm her mom and I go out.

No wonder this dog is so attached to her. She feeds him, occasionally she baths him, and generally always babies him In the evenings if Abigail or I try to go near my wife he starts to bark and goes into attack mode. For some reason I must taste good to him because I have more dog bites on my hands and arms than a professional dog trainer. 

It is a good thing that my last tetanus shot is still valid.

Correction

Please read Sentimental Me that was erroneously published Sunday. I was ment foe Monday!

Sorry!