Weren't too many around by the '40s. If you were 15 in the war you'd be about 90 by the time of this picture.Here's a Civil War veterans reunion in Austin held in 1941.
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That's the bad part. The hospital doesn't have enough Covid cases to make up for the cancelled surgeries, so they have an excess of beds. If he had any sense, he would tell them that they can continue elective surgeries, until they occupy 80% of their beds, then they have to cut them off. He must have gone to the Andy Beshear conference for Governors, and he doesn't think before doing stupid things, either.
Good morning from ATX. Currently, we've got 41°F and clear. Today's high should reach just 58°F. Loving it.
Returning to work today. I'll start here in a few.
Wishing happiness and health to all our fellow D-League members.
Returning to work today. I'll start here in a few.
Wishing happiness and health to all our fellow D-League members.
Goooooooood Morning Legionnaires!
42° on tap for today with winds gusting to 20mph. Going to do my only Christmas shopping today while wife and daughter are at work/school.
Daughter started the year going to school with the option of virtual if she wants it. Given a choice now after Christmas to do virtual if not, stay in school for the rest of the year. She is now telling us she thinks she wants to go virtual. She has a friend on line she plays games with from England that is doing virtual and she now wants to do the same. I told her she better think about that hard because, with me now being home I will ensure that her school work will be done first along with home work next and any on line time with friends will be limited. The look on her face told me all I needed to know. Now she is not so sure. Heh, Heh, Heh. Mean ole daddy.
Good morning from a cool Gulf Coast
We have 39° at the present and the sunshine will bring us up to 72° by midafternoon. Our humidity is 71% and winds are out of the East at 7 mph. No rain and no snow or ice.
Trust all are well or have a road to good health and prayers for those who need a little touch. Sonshine cleans the soul
We have 39° at the present and the sunshine will bring us up to 72° by midafternoon. Our humidity is 71% and winds are out of the East at 7 mph. No rain and no snow or ice.
Trust all are well or have a road to good health and prayers for those who need a little touch. Sonshine cleans the soul
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Good morning D-League. Hope everyone slept better than the night before after the Cats crapped the bed.
Sorry about the health care industry jerking you around Ben. My wife works as an RN with some administrative duties at a Johns Hopkins hospital in Maryland (not the main one in Baltimore. This is suburban DC.)
She's friends with the chief of staff, and has some insight into how the hospitals have been jerked around on elective surgeries -- shut down to keep patients from getting infected and to clear room for Covid, back on to generate revenue for the hospital and surgeons, but with ZERO family visits, then modified family visits, then back off again.
Naturally, it is people in situations like yours who end up getting jerked around. It has also had her in a spin as a surgical nurse. She's had about ten different shifts since spring, now working 12 hour shifts three days a week that completely exhaust her.
Just another way 2020 has sucked some life out of us all.
Sorry about the health care industry jerking you around Ben. My wife works as an RN with some administrative duties at a Johns Hopkins hospital in Maryland (not the main one in Baltimore. This is suburban DC.)
She's friends with the chief of staff, and has some insight into how the hospitals have been jerked around on elective surgeries -- shut down to keep patients from getting infected and to clear room for Covid, back on to generate revenue for the hospital and surgeons, but with ZERO family visits, then modified family visits, then back off again.
Naturally, it is people in situations like yours who end up getting jerked around. It has also had her in a spin as a surgical nurse. She's had about ten different shifts since spring, now working 12 hour shifts three days a week that completely exhaust her.
Just another way 2020 has sucked some life out of us all.
Here's the battleship USS Texas transiting through Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, in July 1919. Nice detail.
39°➫ 67° Sunny, nippy & dry.
Good Morning D
Great photo. I have been through the Panama Canal and it is very impressive. Quite an engineering feat back in the day.Here's the battleship USS Texas transiting through Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, in July 1919. Nice detail.
Morning folks. It is cold and cloudy here. We are supposed to get to fifty today.
On insurance: I worked for the railroad and I don't get normal Medicare, it is called Pamletto. My cost for Medicare and supplements for Sherry and I are about $12,000 a year; however, with that I basically have no deductibles. My hip replacement in 2019 was $2.00 out of pocket. Part of my cost are picked up by the railroad in some sort of deal that they have with Aetna and Mutual of Omaha. Thank God I got hired by the railroad.
My daughter is COO for Medicaid in Kentucky at Humana, plus she deals with Ohio and Georgia on an as needed basis. The state is a hard thing to figure out. They keep moving all the goal posts on a monthly basis. She complains about it all the time and goes to Frankfort often to have negotiations, but because of that she has a high paying job trying to keep the rules manageable. I tried to switch to Humana this fall and found it nearly impossible.
On scheduled surgery: I was supposed to get my left hip replaced on March 23, 2020. They cancelled me three weeks before to cancel the operation. The doctors office advised that they would call back when they could reschedule it. To date they have yet to reschedule it.
I just stay pissed most of the time. I never really understood how one little virus that kills less than one percent of the infected could shut down a damned country, but it has.
On insurance: I worked for the railroad and I don't get normal Medicare, it is called Pamletto. My cost for Medicare and supplements for Sherry and I are about $12,000 a year; however, with that I basically have no deductibles. My hip replacement in 2019 was $2.00 out of pocket. Part of my cost are picked up by the railroad in some sort of deal that they have with Aetna and Mutual of Omaha. Thank God I got hired by the railroad.
My daughter is COO for Medicaid in Kentucky at Humana, plus she deals with Ohio and Georgia on an as needed basis. The state is a hard thing to figure out. They keep moving all the goal posts on a monthly basis. She complains about it all the time and goes to Frankfort often to have negotiations, but because of that she has a high paying job trying to keep the rules manageable. I tried to switch to Humana this fall and found it nearly impossible.
On scheduled surgery: I was supposed to get my left hip replaced on March 23, 2020. They cancelled me three weeks before to cancel the operation. The doctors office advised that they would call back when they could reschedule it. To date they have yet to reschedule it.
I just stay pissed most of the time. I never really understood how one little virus that kills less than one percent of the infected could shut down a damned country, but it has.
I deployed down to Panama in 1981 for JOTC. Locks are indeed impressive.
Rock Bottom . . .
Don't get caught in that crack. That point of view is crappy and you won't see the big picture.
I need to go out and find one but my neighbor said the stores sold out. No problem, I think I will grab another quilt and go to bed. Why not?
I played football in HS. I sprained an ankle and screwed up a knee in that time. I still have the effects from that knee injury. I loved football but if I had had a son I don't think I would have encouraged him to play football.
I also boxed a couple of years in the Golden Gloves tournaments and that may help explain why I am accused of being addled (and a Trump supporter).
My all-time favorite version of You Win Again. That piano work on this song is so simple but magnificent.
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My brother had both knees replaced when he was about 60. Both screwed up from football. Kidney operation when he was 19-20 from football. Quite a good player...still remember Woody Hayes in our living room. Doctors told him not play college ball due to H.S. injuries.
My son was a very good player too. Had several small/mid-level college offers and then a number of large schools started looking/recruiting him till he tore up a knee and ripped his hamstring.
Great sport/memories if you don't have lingering medical issues.
Me? I was too chicken to play football. 😊
This was my daddy's favorite version and mine too, of You Win Again. Johnny Cash had a good one but not as good as Jerry Lee. Johnny Cash is my favorite country singer so that is a mouthful for me.
My daddy said Jerry Lee Lewis played the piano like a Pentecostal preacher. He might have been right about that. It sure sounds like some church services and gospel singing back in the 1950's.
Well, it is in the blood...him and Jimmy S.
Shall I read you the story of the snake?
Oh, Hello all, and I hope this day finds you in great health, great wealth, and great love of your families.... God Bless you all!
Jerry Lee, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley are all first cousins... A couple are double first cousins however that works...
And Mickey Gilley. All first cousins. They had a fourth 1st cousin who did not go into show business but he was also a wizard on the piano. I saw his obituary a few years ago. He was content to be a pastor of a church and minister to his local congregation in Louisiana.
Louisiana put out some great pianist back in those days. A whole bunch of them ended up on Bourbon St in New Orleans.
My wife has double first cousins. Her father and his brother married two ladies who were sisters. Small town
Yeah, I remember the phrase, my Dad even mentioned us having some but I wasn't sure how that worked. Thanks Sir.
I never played football. By the time I was interested, my knees were already screwed up from playing basketball. Coach wanted me as a running back, and I told him my knees wouldn't last the first practice.
Kind of like 3rd cousin twice removed...????? Some of this stuff I've never been able to figure out.
Don't feel bad, as I've never been good at figuring it out either.
First cousins share a grandparent, second cousin share a great-grandparent, third cousins cousins share a great-great-grandparent, and so on. ... So your first cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your first cousin . Your second cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your second cousin. Your third cousin once removed is the child(or parent) of your third cousin.
It gets complicated. I have a chart that spells this out that I refer to time to time.
First cousins share a grandparent, second cousin share a great-grandparent, third cousins cousins share a great-great-grandparent, and so on. ... So your first cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your first cousin . Your second cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your second cousin. Your third cousin once removed is the child(or parent) of your third cousin.
It gets complicated. I have a chart that spells this out that I refer to time to time.
I have that reference too, put to music: (Sir)
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JOTC in mid Jan-Feb 83 for me and we stayed an extra week to help guard the locks and give those already there a break.
I am my own grandpa. 🤪
Beat me to it. Great minds and all.
That is great!
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Mentioned on here a few weeks ago that I got a Power Smokeless Indoor Grill on an early Black Friday deal.
Did some bone-in chicken breasts tonight. Did good...in fact a whole lot better than I thought it would. No smoke. Quiet exhaust fan (was expecting it to be loud...we have an air fryer that sounds like a small jet). Cooked really well. Beat standing outside in the cold with the sun going down.
Mentioned on here a few weeks ago that I got a Power Smokeless Indoor Grill on an early Black Friday deal.
Did some bone-in chicken breasts tonight. Did good...in fact a whole lot better than I thought it would. No smoke. Quiet exhaust fan (was expecting it to be loud...we have an air fryer that sounds like a small jet). Cooked really well. Beat standing outside in the cold with the sun going down.
So you just kick yourself in the ass when your grandkids pull up the onions out of the garden. Wish you were around 50 or so years ago. Maybe I wouldn’t have felt the belt.😢
