Month: January 2022

Another “Fabulous” Milestone

No, not another “age” thing. I hear the smirking out there. The folks at WordPress keep track of my postings, and they tell me that this writing will be number 200.  I know – where has the time gone?  Who knew that I had enough in me that anyone else would want to read?  For this momentous occasion, I debated the content.  Would I write extensively on the world situation in Eastern Europe?  Would a piece on climate change be appropriate, particularly with one storm after another charging across the country, and a major blizzard due to hit us tomorrow?  Perhaps an opinion piece on voting rights.  Or I could do one of my signature “grumpy old man” bits about something that’s been driving me nuts lately, like plastic bottles tipping over or the daily phone calls about health care supplements. But no, none of those are suitable or suitably positive.  None really set the tone for the Big Two Hundred.  So . . . . .

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And the Masking Goes On

Just received a new shipment of masks.  They are the latest in a long line of mask-developments that will protect us from the latest strain of COVID, named Omicron.  Personally, I’d have called it “Phil”, which is far easier to remember.  We could reuse some of the hurricane names, I suppose, or use some that the National Weather Service has rejected, like “Timmy”.  Here’s the headline on the news:  “An update on the newest pandemic variant, first reported in Arkansas, which the CDC is calling, ‘Bucky’.”

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