11:40 AM, Saturday Morning:
Up early again this morning. I've been up since about 5:15 AM.
I got to bed late last night after a four way Zoom call between me and Pat (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Glenn (Cathedral City-Palm Springs, California, and Spo (Phoenix, Arizona.)
I had to schedule the Zoom call at 11 PM my time so as not to be inconvenient for Spo (Michael) and Glenn who both live in the Pacific Time Zone which is three hours behind the Eastern Time Zone where Pat and I live.
I wanted to show Spo the custom shirt I purchased from Glenn's company Glennartstudio.com (see HERE).
Pat, Glenn and I often Zoom call, always ignited initiated by me. Yes, I'm the Stir Master of these friendships. Guilty as charged.
I caught Spo at a bad time. He was cleaning up the mess at Casa de Spo in Phoenix from his aging dog who is now incontinent. Drama at Casa de Spo!
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| From to-left Pat (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Ron (Milton DE), bottom left is Glenn (Palm Springs, CA), and Spo (Phoenix, Arizona) - no need to write letters anymore! |
We had a wonderful forty minute conversation. I use the free Zoom app which limits calls to forty minutes. The only downside is when the forty minutes is up, Zoom abruptly cuts off the calls, sometimes when one of more of the participants is in mid sentence or even mid word. BRUTAL! But in a good way, if I had the unlimited Zoom, then we would yak on for hours until someone gets bored or has something or someplace to go and suggests we end our gab fest. The forty-minute limit works fine. No one gets their feelings hurt or nose out of joint when someone suggests we end our yak session.
Zoom is great though. Much better than FaceTime. With Zoom we can share our computer screens. And the Zoom calls are always clear and a good connection. I find FaceTime to often be an unstable connection and blurry. Also, we can't share our computer screens on FaceTime.
What's Up For Me Today?
I've already done my early morning shopping. I like to get out early on these high traffic summer resort weekends. Yes, as regular followers of this blog know, I live near a very popular resort destination, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. In fact I'm only four miles from former president Joe Biden's summer home. When he was president I always knew when he was visiting his home because three Secret Service helicopters would fly Casa Tipton-Kelly. Since the Orange Cry Baby won the election, the helicopters no longer do a fly over. For all I know, Joe's probably over there now at North Shores (where the really expensive homes are) but I doubt if he knows it. A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the Jake Taper book "The Original Sin", which exposed that his staff was covering up the fact that Joe had lost it.
After my mid-morning meditation (I don't call that a nap because I take my one and a half to two hour nap in the afternoon from about three to five PM), I ventured out in the continuing heat and humidity to take my neighbor's dog out for her pee. Hmmph! I get up in the middle of the night to take a pee and I take my neighbor's dog out for a pee. My neighbor frequent goes fishing with his fishing buddies. He's a widower like me. Only difference is he's straight and is MAGA big time. We don't discuss politics. We do watch out for each other though. Which just goes to show you can't assume all MAGA are bad people. One of my favorite bloggers, Jon of Lone Wolf Concerto, is also a MAGA guy (I think, judging from some of his blog posts). But Jon is a helluva nice guy though just as is my neighbor Bob M.
Well, I'm off now to prepare my meal for tonight. I'm having pork chops smothered in sauerkraut and red onion, apples, and white wine. I am cooking this in my old crock pot which still works just fine.
Have a great day everyone!
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| Atlantic City, 1967 (or cold be Rehoboth Beach, I forget which one, long time ago!) |
