Technology of the past

DJ and I were sitting on the porch with some wine and music and we were talking about whatever and a question came up about binoculares and wishing we had good ones as the ones we have now are $30 crap.

So I get my iPad and DJ gets hers and she is looking up good binoculars for birding and I'm looking at Cabelas.  We find some 3 good ones and see Cabela's is sold out of 2 of the 3 and I comment.

"Here we are looking to see what Cabelas' have in stock and what they don't have while listening to a music on a radio that is coming from a satellite that is getting the data from my phone".

All this when I started my techno life with this amazing techo adding machine.

THE MAGIC - BRAIN

This was my first adding machine and SO AWESOME for Strat-o-matic.  OMG - I wore this out.  I could do SO much before with this beauty and my slide ruler.   Of course I had a bamboo one AND still have it. 

BUT WAIT - in 1972 ( 4 years later) my dad purchased (?) an Ti SR-10 for $150    WOW - It's almost like I could go to the moon.   ALL FOUR FUNCTIONS 

I gotta say - my parents were pretty poor moving from apartment to apartment and moving from a beautiful home next to Jones dairy Farm in Fort Atkinson but then provided so many cool things that enriched my life.  Thank you mom and dad. 

Fun Fact - When I got my job as an intern for the State in 1987 my keyboard did not have a  " 0" or "1" .  You had to use an 'O' or a "I"  which makes zero sense to me but that was how it was.  To this day I have no idea why.  It was only for a few months before we were upgraded to a full keyboard. 

I THINK it was a space thing on the keyboards.   So weird.    

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Sad - heard that a road crew worker was killed this morning on 151 when a tow trucks boom came unattached and hit him. 

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And seriously Robin Vos - remember this guy? the one who said elections were perfectly safe and then helped showing us how safe it was? 

  

A very good friend of mine's son who posed for this image on the right and was being VERY good EXCEPT  . . . . he voted and then got infected. . . . .

WELL - Vos claims  that he could not attend his own state convention, citing other engagements? Poor planning if you cannot even remember one of the most important GOP state events.

So, which is it? Poor planning or another blatant lie? I'm pretty sure that the date was set a long time ago.

not unlike trumps big rally Saturday . . oh didn't hear about it?  It was canceled because there was a chance of showers EIGHT HOURS EARLIER than the event.

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The Columbus Historical Society museum was open this past Saturday (2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month) and it is really a interesting place for all things historical in Columbus.  

I bring this up as when I was going through some of my moms stuff I found an old newspaper . . I mean OLD!!   On the envelope she writes the paper can't be more than a 100 year old UNLESS it's the real thing.  It LOOKS like the real thing.   Did they have copy machines 100 years ago? 

And as I was CAREFULLY looking at it and saw this.  Probably would be frowned upon in today's media. 

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Illinois largest cannabis dispensary opened today - a couple miles from the Wisconsin border.   7600 square feet just off the interstate.  Yea - I'm waiting for the new State Trooper department to open a mile away  LOL  

What I found interesting was on the news instead of talking about illegal cannabis crossing state lines they talked about  keeping cannabis out of the hands of children.    

I have been obsessed with all things "legal cannabis" as I find the whole thing fascinating even though I have never inhaled the evil weed on purpose.   

In numerous studies from Colorado and Washington - ODDLY, youth smoking cannabis has actually gone DOWN in states where it is legal.  Violent crime has dropped and vehicle deaths have dropped also.

So far this experiment is working.  Yea - there are a few bad things as people overtake edibles but if you weigh the good vs. bad the good is FAR out weighing the bad.         

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My buddy Elweed and another friend had a fight (verbal).   Elweed is a smoker of cigs and is VERY VERY concerned with Covid.  Well one friend who has never apologized for anything gets too close and is hovering over Elweed talking and Elweed says "social distancing" and other friend says  "well, hold your breath".   sigh

this did not sit well with a covid-o-phob.

to put this in proper perspective.  When I bring Elweed up to Columbus he sits in the back passenger side seat with a mask on. 

As of 7/13/2020  Wisconsin

   

Stealth Trainer. 

Not me

11 days total planking is 29 minutes and 25 seconds.  MUCH harder than actual planking.  So far so good.  I'm feeling it. OK - I'm only up to 1 minute and 20 seconds but think about exerting maximum effort in almost every muscle on your body for 1 minute and 20 seconds.  OMG.  Yet it's fun.

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Have a great week - it's going to warm up for sure this coming weekend.

Cheers