WHY I have not blogged you ask?

SO - you want to know WHY I have not blogged?  Do you really?   here is why.

Last night I was drinking a beer and I had a mouthful and all of a sudden I started to cough.  You know that feeling, it's happened to everybody.  Two minor bodily functions competing for that same second of my life making one very large issue AND .....  to top it off, EVERYONE is staring at you.

I make my first whatever it is that happens trying to make sure beer does not come out my nose and realize I'm in deep deep shit. HOWEVER - a lightbulb goes off above my head saying "ROD, you are on the porch, spit the beer onto the floor it will help the plants under the porch".   SO - I do it and I live

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that, my friends, was the highlight of a retired quarantined male with a wounded knee day.  It was much better then waiting for the mail.  And that is why I stopped blogging as I figured people would not be THAT excited 

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Death rate graphs come from

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/cases.htm

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Cars - DJ is thinking of buying a new Outback and I started to do some research and see they now have an auto-engine shut off when you come to a complete stop. 

I had this feature on a car in the 70s, a Dodge Dart convertible.  It would automatically shut off IF I got it to come to a complete stop.   I say "IF"  because the breaks were SO bad I would LITERALLY (no really . . .  LITERALLY) start pumping the brakes a block ahead of time.  MANY times I had my leg straight out hoping I could stop in time and I always had a bail out ready.

I remember going to Midas Brakes to get an estimate.  I could not afford it so I said put everything back.  They did not want too and resisted.   I lived to tell the story so . . .  I also went to Car-X with that car to get a muffler and I must have looked poor as they came back and said all I needed was a new gasket AND they gave it to me free.

Car-X was my goto place for decades after that.

That care was a convertible and Elweed threw his suitcase through the back window on one super cold day.   Not a huge deal but when I was working as a cook on night shift at a truck stop on 51 and the interstate just outside of Madison there was a blizzard and I worked 24 hours straight until things got cleared off.  A beer truck was stuck there  . . . we had a lot of beer and food (I was the only cook).

So - finally we are rescued and roads are clearing - I go to the car and open the door.  The ENTIRE INSIDE is snow.  I spent a good hour shoveling out the INSIDE of my car.  The broken back window was facing into the wind.   OH - My CB handle was SuperTramp (My #1 rock group at the time).

Back on topic - It SEEMS that auto-engine shut off is now a feature and not a pesky inconvenience.       

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I see The Oaks employees are all wearing masks now.  I golfed The Oaks last night and had my best round (again) with an 87 which included an 8 on the par 4 18th.  sigh  The round for the 4 of us took 3 hours and 45 minutes - FAST!

I can't remember any of us really spending more than a few minutes looking for a ball.

Golf is such a head game.  I did not miss a putt under 6 feet. They were automatic. Just go up and hit the damn ball.  In fact my entire round was just get up there and hit it.  No real thinking. Walk up to the ball and hit it. The only swing thought was smash the shit out of the ball.  Takes like 5 seconds.  No critical thinking.  You have had all that time waiting for your turn you really should know the routine by now.

The Black Cloud had a 18 inch birdie putt that he froze like for 30 seconds and then almost missed it.

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If you look at the Columbus chatter pages you would think Columbus is a horrible place to live.  Yet when Kate Bender decided to have raffles to help businesses because of the assumed "pandemic"  she was not expecting this huge outpouring.

Over $30,000 was raised from Columbus residents that went to businesses.  Although I don't think Anytime Fitness should have gotten anything as they still took $$ out of our account the entire time

ANYWAY -  WELL DONE COLUMBUS!!!

Speaking of the "pandemic"  Is this the second wave or still the first

 WHO said all States should have 30 contact tracers for every 100,000 citizens.  That is why states shut down to prepare for the second wave.

I looked Friday at the worst 24 states in regards to Covid19 infection increases.  All but THREE were run by the GOP.  SURPRISE!!

OH - here is a fun thing that happened - NEW PRINTER.  WELCOME TO THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY with  LASER PRINTING TECHNOLOGY .

 With the HP dying once again and it being the 3rd HP in 4 years (they kept sending me a new one free) and this one NOT being in warranty we went with a BROTHER.  I hope it never runs out of ink as I don't know where the ink is  LOL     Maybe I'll do what everybody did at work, wait for somebody else to deal with it.  HEY - I was the copier guy not the printer guy. 

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Scientists believe that the first person to live 250 years has already been born.  I believe it's me.

WEATHER - YEEE HAAAAA   After 3 days of upper 80s then it gets hot.  Should be in the 90s for a good 10 days.

CHEERS