What they saw…
What we saw…
And what happened next…
*Not my pictures, from an online ASW group…
Those were fun days at the ‘office’… Sadly there aren’t many subs that want to play anymore…
From a friend, who will remain nameless… His ‘experience’ highlights the ‘issues’ with the current games being played…
I’m just wiped. I first started having symptoms on Sunday, Nov 30. Fatigue and coughing…almost continuous coughing. Appetite went down the tubes. Sweet things (iced tea, cokes) suddenly became too sweet. Salty things, too salty. I weighed 264 before the 30th. I now weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 248. Pants literally falling off.
My wife has it, too. But her symptoms are light, almost non-existent. Makes me a bit jealous.
The weekend was rough. Fever, coughing, more coughing, little sleep. I had run into the medical mafia when trying to see my doc. 1. You have to be tested first (?) Testing is scheduled twice a week by the county medical department. You have a choice of Wed or Thurs for half a day—by appointment. The local pharmacies, CVS/Walgren/etc. are controlled by the county. Once y9u’ve had the test, you wait 2-4 days for the results. If you have it, they’ll call and tell you you’re in a 14 quarantine. If you don’t, no call.
Now once you’ve been tested and found positive, you can call your doc—and get immediately shuffled off to the covid group. Earliest appointment was eighteen days off.
Screw this shit! When to our local ER. Told’m my wife and I thought we had covid. We followed a nurse off to the hospital’s garage which had been converted into a dozen or so partitions for a mini isolation center. I was taken to one and seated in a comfortable chair. (Side chairs from hospital rooms, I think.)
Wife and I were swabbed for covid. Doc came by and interviewed me, symptoms and all. Because of my near continuous coughing, he sent me off for a chest x-ray. Yep. Covid pneumonia. Wife is fine.
We’ve lost some friends from covid—not so much from the disease, but because of the delays getting treatment created by the medical mafia. (bold mine, but true!)
No see Doc without test.
Get positive result, then make appointment with doc—2-3 weeks in future. Then. Standard treatment is amoxicillin (to prevent bacterial pneumonia. I got my pneumonia short a couple of years ago.) and a nebulizer if you get short of breath.
No wonder people are dying. From the onset of my symptoms, nine days ago, now, a person couldn’t receive treatment for three week. Hint: screw the bureaucrats. Just walk in to your local ER.
And that whole mask thing… Back in March it was “No mask, not needed, save them for the professionals; just social distance!” Then it was ‘any mask’ works… until the actual size of the virus came out… Then it was ‘particulate’ matter was the issue… And you got it through nasal passages (Which is a mucus membrane, just like the eyes, but I don’t hear/see anyone saying anything about protecting your eyes) And there’s THIS….
Oh, and stop singing… And put your mask on between bites while eating, and wear your mask in your house. But don’t go to church. But it’s okay to go shopping, etc…
And now that the vaccine is days away from being certified, “Oh, the vaccine won’t be enough, you must continue to mask/social distance until (the 12th of never maybe?)…
Sigh…
Maybe this is what we need to remind us to hang on a little longer…
As 2020 comes to a close, the solar system has decided to grace us with a cosmic Christmas miracle that hasn’t been witnessed in nearly 800 years. On Dec. 21 (aka the December solstice), Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in the night sky that they’ll almost appear to collide from our vantage point here on Earth, creating a radiant point of light often referred to as the “Star of Bethlehem” or the “Christmas Star.”
Full article, HERE.
Now in Texas, some folks use a different tree topper…
On the shelf, Texas style…
And if you’re wondering ‘what’ the elf is doing, it’s ‘assisting’ a cow to deliver.
Soooo… To be correct, this would be at 0300, in the freezing rain, in the middle of a muddy pasture… And the cow is gonna be PISSED by the time the elf finished ‘helping’, and chase it up the nearest tree.
h/t Jim W for the pic
Grandson and the new Rottie, Coco, playing with a balloon…
Frankly, I’m amazed she didn’t pop it! Vito popped soccer balls for fun.
Once again Mr. Ramirez hits it out of the park…
Pelosi et al did the deed and finally owned up to it… Or lack of it…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted during a press conference on Friday it was Democrats’ decision to withhold crucially needed aid for Americans suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Full article, HERE.
This could be interesting!!!
Why do the words ‘turnabout is fair play’ come to mind?
As the probability of a Joe Biden presidency increases, a major GOP group is wasting no time on working to hold him accountable. America Rising, a powerhouse, Republican research organization, rolled out its Biden Accountability Initiative on Wednesday.
Full article, HERE.
From the website, HERE, this is what their goal is…
The foundation laid during the 2020 election cycle will set the course for holding the Biden Administration accountable for the next four years. Research efforts will include:
- Compiling vetting documents on all Cabinet and high-level Biden administration nominees and appointments
- Analyzing Biden’s policy proposals
- Running an aggressive FOIA campaign
- Monitoring donor interactions with the Biden administration for potential ethical violations, including with businesses owned by members of the Biden family
Cue the screaming on the left in three, two… 🙂
Originally wrote this for what I thought was going to be an anthology about the election and possible happenings regardless of who won. The anthology didn’t go, so…
You get April Fool!
Click the cover for the link to Amazon!
The blurb-
Sean ‘Mac’ McCampbell just wants to keep his head down, avoid the riots, and finish his Linguistics PhD before his GI Bill runs out. But when the professors are promoting insurrection and the cops won’t contain the violence, Mac finds trouble won’t leave the people and places he loves alone.
There’s only so much hurt you can inflict on a man before he decides to do something about it.
The Long March is about to get a real surprise on April first!
Novelette, 13,800 words
Black and White…
You could hardly see for all the snow, spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
‘Good night, David. Good night, Chet.’
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning. She used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option… Even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $99 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive???
Except I’ve been busy writing…
So you get humor
MURPHY’S OTHER 15 LAWS…
- Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
3. He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.
4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
6. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
7. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them.
10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
11. The things that come to those that wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.
12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
14 . The shin bone is a device for finding ! furniture in the dark.
15. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
And then there is Maxine…
A minister decided that a visual demonstration would
add emphasis to his Sunday sermon.
Four worms were placed into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a container of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a container of chocolate syrup.
The fourth worm was put into a container of good clean soil.
At the conclusion of the sermon, the Minister reported the following results:
The first worm in alcohol – Dead.
The second worm in cigarette smoke – Dead
Third worm in chocolate syrup – Dead
Fourth worm in good clean soil – Alive.
So the Minister asked the congregation –
What did you learn from this demonstration?
Maxine was sitting in the back, quickly raised her hand and said,
‘As long as you drink, smoke and eat chocolate,
you won’t have worms!’
That pretty much ended the service –