Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[spiritbass]

My deepest sympathy to you everyone she touches.

Thank you.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It sure has been an unusual and bizarre year and the theme is continuing. My next younger brother's sweet wife is currently dying a horrible death from prion encephalopathy. The chances of contracting this disease are literally one in a million or more. It is contracted from contact with blood carrying the infection. In deer, it is known as chronic wasting disease (bovine version is mad cow disease). Hers is the first known case in Missouri. Some distinction. The most probable cause was being bitten by a deer tick carrying infected blood. I can't think of anyone less deserving of being taken out of life like this...

my word.

 

[GonePlaid]

My deepest sympathy to you everyone she touches.

Likewise.

 

[spiritbass]

my word.

The only mercy I see is that the course of the disease is progressing unusually rapidly. I've tried to imagine what it has been like for her, but I can not. She is already in hospice at my brother's house. I visited Wednesday evening and gave my brother a big, long hug. She is unable to recognize faces.

 

[Charlie Tango]

The only mercy I see is that the course of the disease is progressing unusually rapidly. I've tried to imagine what it has been like for her, but I can not. She is already in hospice at my brother's house. I visited Wednesday evening and gave my brother a big, long hug. She is unable to recognize faces.

How tragic. I'm so sorry.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Covid is soaring in the region, almost 1400 new reported cases in the last day. Schools are a hotbed of infections. Not too long ago, doctors were saying that kids were low risk. Things have changed. When a student or teacher is infected, the entire class has to isolate at home for two weeks. Today 1200 classes are closed, over 300 were in the last two days. They are talking about temporarily shutting schools down again. Since the school year started, the last three grades attend every other day, the home days are done online.

A family member is retiring from teaching in two weeks. Nothing to do with covid but good timing.


Last thing that anyone wants is to be infected on Friday the 13th. I find that I'm wearing a mask more when outdoors. I have alcohol in a spritz bottle and spray the paper mask inside and out whenever I come in. That way I can reuse them.

Any sadistics about C19 in the military? The SO insists on doing T'Day at our home this year (it will be a small group, less than 10), but her niece's son is in the MAY-Reens and will be in town to join us for the "festivities". Hence, my questioné.

A family member got married in Vegas. It was planned. I suppose that their subsequent divorce a few years later wasn’t. Vegas wasn’t very lucky for them.

Friends of my old lab business partner got married in Oh Vay, Gus! years ago. They went to one of those Elvis chapels to do the deed. Both Brad (comedian and actor, you've seen him in many movies) and Peggy (speaker and writer) are "little" people. The Elvis impersonator wedding official, or whatever he's called, got a huge surprise when Brad & Peggy walked into the chapel. She was dressed up as Tinker Bell, and Brad as a miniature Elvis! True story.

The fear that the right virus can wipe out the entire human population causes a lot of anxiety.

Don't worry, they're working on that in their laboratory over there in Whereverland®.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Any sadistics about C19 in the military? The SO insists on doing T'Day at our home this year (it will be a small group, less than 10), but her niece's son is in the MAY-Reens and will be in town to join us for the "festivities". Hence, my questioné.

Friends of my old lab business partner got married in Oh Vay, Gus! years ago. They went to one of those Elvis chapels to do the deed. Both Brad (comedian and actor, you've seen him in many movies) and Peggy (speaker and writer) are "little" people. The Elvis impersonator wedding official, or whatever he's called, got a huge surprise when Brad & Peggy walked into the chapel. She was dressed up as Tinker Bell, and Brad as a miniature Elvis! True story.

There was a story a couple of days ago about a family that got together for a kid’s birthday. They thought that they were being careful, only close family. One person had covid but didn’t realize it. Of the 13 guests, six of the eight adults were infected and three of the five children. The guests came from three households.

The thing is, you never know. Small gatherings don’t mitigate the possibility by much, all it takes is one infected person and they could be asymptomatic.

As for the military, this update was released three days ago.

COVID-19 and the U.S. Military - War on the Rocks


I imagine that it’s pretty hard to surprise any wedding officiator in Las Vegas. Brad and Peggy sound like they should be on the Wall Of Fame.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I imagine that it’s pretty hard to surprise any wedding officiator in Las Vegas. Brad and Peggy sound like they should be on the Wall Of Fame.

Sadly, they, too, are now divorced. Must be the Elvis/Vegas connection.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Finally, someone who understands math (not the teacher)

 

[Jeff Scott]

Finally, someone who understands math (not the teacher)

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Strange that this should come up when I was thinking of going out to buy a couple pounds of 80% dark chocolate!

Anybody want some? Come on over!

 

[Jeff Scott]

This is getting kind of creepy around here. After I got back from my chocolate run, I was reading a thread where I came upon this!



Now, I get that yesterday was Friday the 13th, but today? Must be due to this:

 

[StereoPlayer]

Cataract surgery, by my

This is getting kind of creepy around here. After I got back from my chocolate run, I was reading a thread where I came upon this!



Now, I get that yesterday was Friday the 13th, but today? Must be due to this:

 

[GwenOnBass]

 

[StereoPlayer]

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Sound like every years family party...

 

[Charlie Tango]

Sound like every years family party...

Here in Washington Post land there has been an annual tradition for 20 years. Carolyn Hax, the paper's advice columnist, has hosted the "Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors," where readers write in some of the most unbelievable family drama. It usually shows up around mid-December. Most submissions are merely crass, rude or thoughtless displays of familial dysfunction, but one reads it for the infrequent gems ("Christmas is canceled. Take your <stuff> and get out!"). For more merriment, previous years' Hoots are archived, so one can locate the ones that had one laughing to the point of tears. It usually shows up around mid-December. A definite must-read.

 

[GwenOnBass]

What everyone who watches newspapers closely sees is a rise in obits during and after the holiday season. The prevalent speculation is on account of I can make just one more Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's etc. intent.... Just not as many people decide to stick around for one more Have Fun at Work Day.

 

[beans-on-toast]

There's always a bump after holidays. Newspaper obits are way down in volume, not like in the old dayz. Aren't they mostly for lookie-loos?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Paid obits began to replace news column obits decades ago. Whatever the funeral home writes is printed as is. Funeral director takes a fee, newspaper take a fee. Paid obits are distinct from display ad obits, and those are distinct from classified obits (memorials). None of it is enough to pay for the cost of the newsprint.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Newspaper obits are way down in volume, not like in the old dayz.

I wonder what kind of marketing is needed to increase the rate?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Strange that this should come up when I was thinking of going out to buy a couple pounds of 80% dark chocolate!

Anybody want some? Come on over!

If Betty eats a pound of 80% dark chocolate over two days and Sally eats a pound of 70% chocolate over a day and a half, who is more depressed?