tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17225374206072104112024-03-13T06:12:58.338-07:00The Blog of Minnie La RoseOnly the names have been changed to protect the innocent ...pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.comBlogger647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-16224331321385486812023-06-03T02:12:00.001-07:002023-06-03T02:12:30.703-07:00Trying To Get Regular again.<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>The web site you seek</b></span></p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>
<span style="background: white;">Cannot be located but</span></b></span><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Countless more exist.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I am finally trying to get my life back to normal. Since we came out of lockdown I seem to have spent an </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">inordinate</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> amount of time </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">visiting</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> doctors, dentists and the like but so far I only have a long visit to my GP in the almost </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">foreseeable</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> future.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The knitting group carried on regardless but masked and a </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">much-reduced</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> lunch group reconvened this last week. I am not sure if there will be another one; we were down to three but nice to see old friends again.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My main problem at the moment is my earthworm farm. D2 promised to regularly remove the worm castings but she seems to have </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">disappeared. I stopped feeding them as the farm was full and I threatened to put them in biodegradeable bags and dump them in a red-topped bin . . . but find that I cannot kill them so I am back to feeding them for the time being. As it is winter here they will not cook if dumped so we will have to consider our options. I will give it a bit more time before I bag them up and dump them.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">My cats are going gray and I have put them onto a soft diet as I was getting fed up with cleaning up the up-chuck every morning. It took them a few days but they seem to be enjoying the change. One problem is that a lot of the supermarket cat food is tuna and Poppy, when she was only a kitten developed a tumour which analysis found was caused by too much tuna which would have been what her breeder fed her kittens on; I have never fed tuna to my cats.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The Limerick:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Mark Twain was a mop-heaqded male</i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Whose narratives sparkled like ale;</i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>And this Prince of the Grin</i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Who once fathered Huck Finn</i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Can still hold the world by the tale!</i></span></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">We'd tell you where, but then we'd</span></b></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Have to delete you.</span></b></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I discovered that my IT provider has been taken over by a bigger one which leaves us here in Australia with very little choice and I had some trouble setting this page up. Even now it is trying to out-think me about what I want for the page and is constantly correcting my grammar. I am not happy, but no-one asked me . . . it just happened so I am going to have to get used to it or get off the internet . . . not an option.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">So far, with a bit of tweaking it is doing as it is told but I am not holding my breath and it is going to be something of a learning process until it all becomes automatic again. In the meantime I am correcting the computer's corrections. Ah! I have the option of ignoring the computer's suggestions; maybe we can work together after all.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE LIMERICK</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Tis my custom," said dear Lady Norris,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"To beg lifts from the drivers of lorries.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>When they get out to piss</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I see things that I miss</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>At the wheel of my two-seater Morris."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br /></b>
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<span style="background: white;">Hit F1 to continue </span></b></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Zen engineering?</span></b></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Autumns is here and life is finally starting to settle down and I no longer wake up feeling frightened. It is now eight months since my bank account was hacked and I am managing much better than I did last July. In the mean while the bank which I considered to be "easy" has changed things and has become difficult. I use it for small transactions and suddenly it has altered its format and I had a great deal of hassle paying a small account. When I finally managed to do the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">transaction</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> I was asked to rate its new format. I gave it four out of ten because the transaction eventually went through. One of my daughters said that she awarded them two out of ten. That is one of our 'big' banks so people are going to have to deal with the changes.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Just when I thought that I was getting clear of medical appointments with only a tooth with "no roots" left to deal with, my doctor has suggested two shingles vaccinations and of course, the inevitable annual 'flu vaccination. "sigh".</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">My little cats are both going grey; they are 13 years old. Both are mostly eating soft food but that is more about me being fed up with cleaning up furballs first thing every morning. They are both on pain medication now and Parsifal has gone all kittenish and bats his pingpong ball around the bath because it always rolls back to the middle where the plughole is.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A couple of our erstwhile lunch group are trying to re-convene it but I suspect that there will only be three of us attending. However, the knitting group is getting back to its pre-covid numbers which is really good and we took our masks off last week for the first time for years. With winter on the horizon I suspect that they will be on again in a couple of months.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">I have got back to spinning as I reaslised that I have a large amount of unspun fleece and quite a lot of spun yarn. At one stage I had ambitions to spin enough fibre to knit a dress. I don't think that I have the figure for a dress now but will spin it up and maybe knit two sweaters instead.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>The Limerick:-</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>If it's magement men you pursue</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Don't hunt every beast in the zoo -</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>Just look for the signs</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>That say: "Tigers and Lions."</i></span></span></div><div><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">It isn't how many . . . it's WHO.<br /></span></span>
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<span style="background: white;">Squeeze trigger? (yes/no)</span></b><br />
<br /><br />Squeeze trigger? Life has not been easy on and off in the last few months. My kids say that I have PTSD and I need to see a psychotherapist. It seems to be getting better so I will wait a while and talk to my doctor.</span><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It started when my bank account was hacked but it really didn't affect me until I tried to get into B-pay and found that it all looked different. Just a note to say that my bank was "down" that day and I needed to get one of the staff to put the payment through. Not a problem as the bank is just across the road but the staff member sort of growled at me while he did the transaction. To do him justice he may have been having to do it all day but the time before last when I had a look the site was very messy. Today it looks much more normal so maybe the bank has sorted thngs out or I am seeing it through different eyes.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Parsifal had to have a loose tooth removed a couple of weeks ago. It was a bottom canine and seemed to be dangling by a thread. The vets do not like my cats any more than they like her and I had to laugh when a nurse came into the room dressed in long padded gloves and a full length padded apron. I keep their claws clipped but it was probably a sensible move on her part. Anyway, he has been much happier and is on a mostly soft diet and pain relief for his joints.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">We are gradually opening up again after the Covid but there are still people wearing masks and we all wear them to the knitting group still.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Limericks will probably be duplicates for the most part as they are either duplicated in multiple books or are definitely not suitable for a family page . . . or are among myfavourite and worthy of duplication.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Pygmalion said,"I'm afraid</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>I've fallen in love with my trade.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>I'm much too elated</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>With what I've created</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>And, chiefly, this woman I've made.<br /></i>
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<span style="background: white;">It considered your request,</span></b></span><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">But the chips were weak.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">That is about right, too. Over the last year my computer has changed considerably and I am once again feeling my way through the abyss.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The computer was hacked last July and the effect on me was not good. I found myself in a real lather whenever I needed to do any financial transactions and although everything went as I wished I found the two-step verification a pain and I had to buy a new, fancy mobile phone to enable it. Now that I have mastered it I have found that I am mostly not asked to do it. Luckily I do not use Medibank or Optus so it could have been worse.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The reason I am back to writing this Blog is the information that a friend still comes in and reads it sometimes. And I guess that it is a record of what I am doing; nothing much at the moment . . .</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">A lot of time has been spent catching up on medical stuff but yesterday my ophthalmologist decided that the right retina which he has bee obsessing about for years is stable and he will check on it in two years which is a huge weight off my mind as I always thought that it was not necessary . . . but he is a retina guru so I suppose that we must pander to obsessions.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Like the post which I wrote about a year ago - it is still hot; 39 degrees today. My cats are going grey and are limping a bit but there is a new arthritis injection for cats which I shall investigate although I think that it is a bit early to go down that road but I have put my Vet on notice about it. It is a once-per-month deal and obviously once I start down that road there will be no gpoing back. I'll stick to the oral anti-inflamatory medication for the time being.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I think that I have exhausted the funny but respectable Limericks so I will be repeating myself as the writing of Limericks seems to be lost art but here goes:</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>There was a young lady of Ryde,</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Whose locks were considerably dyed.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>The hue of her hair </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Made everyone stare;</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>"She's piebald, she'll die bald" they cried,</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Centre of my universe,</span></i></b></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><i><br />
<span style="background: white;">I abandon all.</span></i></b></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This Christmas was HOT and things do not look to be improving greatly over the next week. Here are our </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">temperatures</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> over the Christmas week:</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">Christmas</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> Day - 42.8 degrees</span></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">Boxing Day - 43.5 degrees</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">27-12-21 - 41.0 degrees</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">28-12-21 - 40.7 degrees</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">29-12-21 - 38.0 degrees</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">. . . and it is about to start heating up again.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">However we were lucky - my air conditioning is very efficient. A fairly large swath of Perth had no electricity at all for about four days; no cooling: no refrigerator: no hot water: no lighting: no fans . . . it must have been a nightmare for those poor people.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">The family all came around here for lunch and afterwards we played a very funny, very rude game with black and white cards. I do not know the name but anyone who has played it probably knows what I am on about.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We are back in </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">lock-down</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> of a sort: we have to put on masks to even walk out of our Apartment doors, use the tracking App and keep our masks on in company so the three of us who attended the knitting group today all wore masks for the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">duration</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> and compared the pros and cons of the ones we were wearing.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been triple vaccinated so I have done all I can and will get a fourth one if given the opportunity. D1 has a cold but two rapid antigen tests have come back negative so hopefully they are accurate as she lives in New South Wales where things are not good.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>The Limerick</b>:-</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>The Limerick is callous and crude,</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Its morals distressingly lewd.</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>It's not worth the reading</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>By persons of breeding;</i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>It's designed for the vulgar and rude.</i></span></span></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-56413305373866430322021-12-25T21:41:00.000-08:002021-12-25T21:41:01.029-08:00Covid Koala is back on the windowsill<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b>Chaos reigns within.</b></span></p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>
<span style="background: white;">Reflect, repent, and reboot</span></b></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Order will return.</span></b></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span>(24-12-21) As of seven pm last night there is a Statewide mask mandate due to a French backpacker who flew into the State, just before the border clamped shut, and </span><span>proceeded</span><span> to visit cafes, nightclubs and other crowded </span><span>venues</span><span>. He had tested negative to Covid before he flew in from Queensland and unknowingly infected five people. Fortunately he used the SafeWA App so his contacts are being trace and tested.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mask Mandate will continue until 28 December and will then be reviewed.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">I took a break after the last paragraph and it is now Boxing Day. We are in the middle of a heatwave; yesterday the temperature was 42 degrees and today is predicted to be 44 degrees. I have very efficient air conditioning so it was good that the family all came to me for Christmas day. After lunch we played a game which GB2 brought: very funny and not limited by such things as the number of players or political correctness. I called a halt at 5.30 when Parsifal emerged to tell me that he was hungry and that it was past his dinnertime.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">D1 and I had arranged for her to Skype me when she arrived home from her Christmas party (she is three hours ahead of us here in Perth) but I kept getting "slow connection. Try again later" when she called me, so I tried again but no luck and this morning tried D1's mobile number and eventually reached her on the landline. Obviously since the whole of Australia seems to be in lockdown now all the lines were busy. It was a pity that the whole family were unable to get together but . . . maybe next year.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">I have a wet towel over the poor worms as they are out on the balcony. It could be worse; my balcony faces South but the air is stifling and no change in sight as far as I have heard and no sea breeze either. Hopefully all the arsonists are sleeping off their <br />Christmas dinners as the sky is clear of smoke.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">The limerick:-</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><i>I knew a young lady named Clair</i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><i>Who possessed a magnificent pair.</i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><i>Or that's what I thought</i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">'Till I saw </span><span style="color: #333333;">one caught</span></span></i></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">On her brooch and began losing air.</span></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background: white;">Lazy programmers!</span></i></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been ruminating for a couple of weeks about the timing of the booster vaccination which is recommended for five months after the second dose of the Covid vaccination. Initially the recommended wait time was six months and I had an appointment for that with my GP's Medical Centre but with the advent of the Omicrom </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">variant</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> the recommended time has been reduced to five months which was, for me, yesterday.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I had coffee with D2 this afternoon at a stand-up coffee shop next to my pharmacy and I asked her, in view of the fact that there is no Covid-19 here in Western Australia, if I should get my booster after five months. Her recommendation was to get it at five months, which was yesterday, so after she </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">left</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> to get her hair cut I popped into the pharmacy to find out my options.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;">I was told that they had been busy with vaccinations all day but that everyone had now gone and that there was one dose left which I could have if I wanted it. So I was vaccinated then and there and feel much better having made the decision to get it done early.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;">The State is going to open up on February 5 so it will be back to masks, social distancing, masks on empty trains and buses, Covid Koala back on the window sill and the hassle of contact tracing which is almost the only use I have for my Smart Phone (its other use is for banking) which is why I now, against all my instincts, walk around The Centre with my phone in my hand - something which I vowed I'd never do. </span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;">Parsifal managed to get himself shut in my saucepan drawer this afternoon - don't ask me how - and only alerted me when he started rattling the saucepans. </span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;">The Limerick:-</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i><b>Said a girl, "This may sound idiotic</b></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i><b>But I find sex in cars most exotic.</b></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i><b>I've always adored</b></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i><b>Making love in a Ford</b></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 18px;"><i><b>For I'm really quite auto-erotic!"<br /></b></i></span></span>
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<span style="background: white;">These words: "File Not Found".</span></i></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">We are back to computer haiku, an echo of a long distant past in lieu of the Life Gets Tejus verses. Life is still tejus as Western Australia is still in almost total lockdown due to the Corona Virus. We have had almost no cases here and those were mostly returning travelers who had to spend time in quarantine. However, the lockdown is due to end in a month or so but with rules and masks and unvaccinated people will not be able to work.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">I have finally mastered my banking under the new rules imposed by my new modem and limits on the amount I can pay from the account without having to use the Smartphone which I had to buy to get the authenticator in order to be able to do online banking (if you follow that) and for the most part it is now just as it was in the olden days.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">I have also found out how to answer my Smart Phone; it is a swipe from the bottom left to the top right and the phone is also useful as I have my vaccination record available to show if asked when we come out of lockdown. To download that I had to tackle the MyGov site which, hitherto, I had tried to stay well away from; but needs must and I can now access all the injections I have had over the last ten years or so.</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">I am going to revert to limericks which I have used before as the anthologies have the best ones and the modern ones are rather crass</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i>There was a young man of Cape Horn</i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i>Who wished that he'd never been born;</i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i>And he wouldn't have been</i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i>If his father had seen</i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><i>That the end of the rubber was torn.</i></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-17612286042180300902021-08-13T23:33:00.001-07:002021-08-13T23:34:19.551-07:00Computers are getting very frustrating<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Technology is getting more and more frustrating and I am starting to get angry as it all seems to be geared to mobile phones and I have just spent a frustrating few minutes trying to get this font for the draft up to a size which I can read. It is not perfect but not minute and in the final posting I can, hopefully get it up to size.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Yesterday I decided to renew my virus scanner as T/M has been reminding me for weeks that it was due in the middle of next week. However, it needed my password and when I looked up my list I realised that I had encountered problems before because I had listed the password as B******* and although I could have probably made an educated guess I had not recorded the number at the end so I decided to get a new one. No problem except that T/M refused to recognise it. Tried again T/M sent me an email after thinking about it for about ten minutes and it went through so now I am death to viruses for a couple more years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today I needed to update a spread sheet as I always do at the beginning of the financial year but found that it had transferred itself from Microsoft to Excel (I know, but the computer thinks that they are different systems) so I painstakingly re-entered all the formulae only to discover that when I saved it that it had reverted to its original format. I have saved the new template but am not holding my breath that next year it will not have decided to use some other format to confuse me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">However, I managed to marry my medicare number and my MyGov account and was able to download my vaccination records onto my new Smart Phone along with a certificate to show that I am fully vaccinated against Covid-19 even though Western Australia is just about the only place in the world where we are pretty well free from the infection except for returned travellers in quarantine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>A restless young lass from Leigh Creek</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>Went to Yemen and married a sheikh.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>She said in a letter,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>'My lifestyle is better,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i>And it's only my turn once a week."</i></span></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-82587540385868277472021-07-16T05:07:00.001-07:002021-07-16T05:07:22.836-07:00Life is Still Tejus but I have Run Out of Verses.<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I have had my second and final (I hope) Covid shot and the relief is enormous. Not because I thought that I might catch the virus - Western Australia is probably the safest place in the world in that regard but because I have defeated technology in order to navigate MyGov and Medicare, combine the two, install an app on my newish smart phone and download a certificate to say that I am fully vaccinated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been battling technology for about a year now, ever since I had the NBN connected and found that I needed a new landline phone, new smart phone and fathom out how to work them. This also encompassed the problems I had with banking and paying my bills which seems to be working at the moment although I still have some underlying unease that I might have a problem down the track. This was due to the NBN creating a new persona for me without telling me so that I was unable to log in to my bank account and needed to keep on phoning the bank whenever I needed to do a transaction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There is nothing else of note. The knitting group was cancelled for one week when the State went into a sudden lockdown for five days and the supermarkets seem to have ample supplies of toilet paper if it happens again but our borders are firmly shut and I seriously doubt that D1 will be over for Christmas for the second year running. However we chat regularly on Skype so there is contact.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I sponsored a guide dog this year and my puppy arrived a couple of weeks ago. GB2 and I are going to visit "<i>Visability" </i>next Tuesday to meet her. Her birthday was on 21st April so she is still a baby but already sits on command so she is a clever puppy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Limerick:-</b></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Said a young Darwin lady, quite rude,</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first time she saw a man nude,</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"I'm glad I'm the sex</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's concave not convex!</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't fancy things that protrude,"</span></i></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-22533035246563310592021-06-27T05:29:00.000-07:002021-06-27T05:29:01.366-07:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (10)<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Grief and misery,
pains and woes<br />
Debts and taxes, yea, so it goes<br />
I think I'm gettin' a cold in my nose<br />
Life get tee-just don't it?.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Recorded by Walt Brennan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Covid Koala the Drop Bear is back on my window sill as we have gone back into lockdown again but, at this stage, only for three days so I have unearthed my masks again. We are lucky - only one local case, unlike New South Wales which has had over 30 infections and growing. D1 lives and works in Greater Sydney so she is right in the thick of it and is back to working from home.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am due to have my second Astra-Zenica injection on July 16 and will feel happier when I have full cover although I am not sure how effective it will be against the forth mutation of the virus which is the one which is the one making people sick in the Eastern States at the moment and which is highly infectious.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My most exciting news is that the guide-puppy which I have sponsored arrived unexpectedly late last Thursday night and is in the care of a puppy minder who's remit is to potty-train her according to a friend who has close connections with Visibility. The puppy's name is Bridie and she has already learned the 'sit' command. She is black but beautiful to quote the Bible's description of the Queen of Sheba.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My pictures are starting to fall down and I am going to have to get someone to put them up again. Currently they are suspended by fishing line to a sort of gallery hook and rail system and the only picture hanger who seems to advertise online is called The Hangman so when the lockdown ends I will need to get him/them in to rehang everything after I have dusted the tops as I have been too afraid that I will bring them all down if I try and put on too much pressure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>The Limerick:-</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There was an eccentric old boffin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Who said, when he couldn't stop coughin',</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"It isn't the cough</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That carries you off.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's the coffin they carry you off in."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-43642031841603492092021-06-10T06:47:00.002-07:002021-06-10T07:08:01.653-07:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (9)<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Cow's gone dry and the hens won't lay</b></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Fish quit bittin' and it's Saturday</b></span></p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>
Troubles are pilin' up day by day</b></span><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><br />
And now I'm gettin' dandruff</b>.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Recorded by Walter Brennan)</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Life seems to be finally settling down. I am now able to pay my bills without any hassle from my bank - as long as I remember to use my keyboard and not my numpad. I have had my 'flu shot and my first Covid-19 shot with the second one due on July 16th.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think that I have sorted out my hassles with my NBN phone. Not happy with it but it mostly works (I think) - very few incoming calls and only one message left on the answerphone so far. There is a bit of a delay before the recorded message and that might be putting people off but it does weed out the scam calls.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have had my drooping shower door fixed and the big pink Persian has gone to the cleaners. It is too heavy for me to lift so I am going to have to take up all the other rugs and wash the whole floor before it is returned to me (assuming that it is returned as there was, when I think about it, no paperwork, just an estimate but the carpet shop is just across the road next to the Post Office so I can go and beard the owners in their lair if necessary).</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My accountant was miffed that I did not contribute to a worthy charity last year because I was annoyed that despite my annual charitable contribution I was still obliged to pay income tax. So, with a promise to a distant cousin (I think that she is a fifth cousin; maybe a sixth) who has written a book about her family (a branch which I have not researched) she sent me a copy and asked me to contribute to a charity as payment so I have sponsored a guide dog.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Originally I asked for a black boy but some puppies are on their way to Perth and the only black one in the litter is a bitch so I am going with a girl and have submitted two names as requested. As soon as the name is settled I can write and tell her about what I have done.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The cats are well but a bit smelly at the moment or my new nose-drops have woken up my scent sense. The have not had their booster vaccination and that is a bit overdue but neither the vets or the cats are pushing the issue. The cats do not behave at all well when we have to visit the vet and they never meet other cats to catch any nasties. It will eventually have to be done though . . .</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The limerick:-</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>A large part of this type of verse</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>About practices lewd and perverse</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Is quite scatological,</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gynaecological</i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Bulls**t, and some is much worse.</i></span></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-31879303704677155462021-05-07T05:36:00.000-07:002021-05-07T05:36:31.427-07:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (8)<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tin roof leaks
and chimney lean</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">An' there's a hole in the seat of my old blue jeans</span></p>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">And I ett the last of the
pork and beans<br /><br />
</span><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Just can't depend on nothin'</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Recorded by Walter Brennan)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Don't hold your breath but I <i> think </i>that I have finally mastered my new fixed-line phone. I was finding that whenever I followed the instructions and pressed the HOME button to connect with a caller I was cut off after a couple of words. I was usually able to recognise the voice and call back and the phone tends to record the numbers of aborted calls but it was getting ridiculous and very frustrating so I went back to the drawing board.</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There I found an alternative:- "Press Home<b> <i>or any dialing key</i></b>" so last time I pressed 7 and connected with a man offering me $4,000.00 to install solar panels. I have spoken to him before on one of my re-callings and for the second time carefully explained that I live in an apartment with no control as to what is installed on the roof. I suggested that it would be fruitless to keep on phoning me but I am not holding my breath on that one.</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So now my phone works (I hope) and my banking is back to what it was pre-NBN albeit I am now "person 2" so it is time to master my Smartphone which I can sort of use, mostly for the 'safeWA' app but I have made an occasional call on it. As I rarely give out the number no-one actually phones me on it (yet).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We have been in partial lock down again for the last week with masks whenever we step outside our apartments - ending at one minute after midnight tonight but will still have to wear masks on public transport. That is a bit of a lost cause because the buses are almost empty and the trains are not stopping at the Claremont Station due to months of ongoing upgrades.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mothers' Day is on Sunday and there is dinner at D2's place but no suggestion from anyone as to how I will be getting there. I am hoping for a lift but there is a very convenient bus. D1, at my suggestion has sent me some knitting wool as it is something which I can use when my knitting group re-convenes and I hope that D3 is getting me some rubber feet for my yoga chair which, at the moment, slides along my tiled floor and offers very little support when I need it.</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">. . .and now the Limerick:-</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Auntie Val is a very smart cookie,</i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>She likes to mix gambling with nookie.</i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Before a big race</i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>She goes home to her place</i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>And curls up with a very good bookie.</i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-22708501688863405792021-04-24T21:47:00.007-07:002021-04-24T22:44:50.779-07:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (7)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Hound dog howlin' so forlorn</b></span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Laziest dog that was ever born</b></span></p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><b>
He's a-howlin' 'cause he's a-settin' on a thorn<br /><br />
</b></span><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><b>An' just to tired to move over</b></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Recorded by Walter Brennan)</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">We are once again in Lockdown. This time for only three days but I am not holding my breath as I think that there are a few more possible cases found over the last 24 hours.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I have had my first Astra-Zenica vaccination and the second one is due on 16th July. If I survive that I should be in the clear until the next time but currently I am sporting a headache which feels like a migraine and hopefully that will go away in a few hours but D2 will be coming here to collect some cat food later today and she can check me out if I get concerned.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">And speaking of cats - Parsifal has been vomiting again and it is definitely NOT a blockage this time so I am letting him sleep it off in the hope that it is nothing serious as visiting the Vet would be a bit difficult at the moment.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I am still having technical problems. I think that I have finally sorted out the on-line banking and we are right back to where I was before the NBN with no need for the Authenticator or the Banking App and it is now problems with my new fixed-line phone which refuses to let me answer calls although it records the number so I can phone back. So far it has only been nuisance calls and telemarketing so I am not that fussed and I am gradually putting my contact into the 'phone book' which seems to then recognise the callers and allows me to answer their calls.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">And my E-reader has deleted all my books and emails and told</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> me that my e-mail address is invalid. Not really a problem as it still allows me to download new books and maybe I just overloaded the library - I DID have the Mueller Report stored there and it must have taken up a huge amount of space. I have it in hard copy but the print is so small that it is hard to read and not really relevant any more as the enquiry, if it ever eventuates, will all be reported by the NYT and Rachel Maddow.</span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I will try to get back to posting more often in the future as I use this blog as a diary. But it has mostly been me and my struggle with technology over the last nine months and something I would prefer not to be reminded about - especially the banking. When I phoned up for help (a frequent event) to be told, "Yes, we know who you are but you will still have to authenticate yourself." even the bank must have realised that it was a bit silly.</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The Limerick:-</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>An innocent bride from the mission</b></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>Remarked, on her first night's coition,</b></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>"So that intimate section</b></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>Is used for connection . . .</b></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><i><b>And in such an awkward position."</b></i></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span>
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<!--[endif]--></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-32497305660285154202021-02-02T01:14:00.004-08:002021-02-02T20:42:45.398-08:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It! (6)<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A mouse a-chewin' on
the pantry door<br />
He's been at it fer a month or more<br />
When he gets through he'd sure be sore<br />
'Cause there ain't a darned thing in there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Recorded byWalter Brennan)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Life is
truly tedious at the moment as there is one man with Covid-19 (English strain)
who spent about ten days out in the community but fortunately using the “SafeWA”
app so there is a record of where he went during the time he has been affected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meanwhile,
we are all in total lockdown for five days<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>masks in the common areas in
the Apartment building and everywhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So far there has not been another case discovered but there is massive
testing and D2 is a part of that as she is an emergency physician working in
the main public hospital in the danger zone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To add to
Perth’s woes there is a massive bushfire upwind of us and the whole of the city
is enveloped in smoke so all the doors are firmly closed and the air con is
running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing going for it all
is that my dental appointment in two days time has been canceled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Covid Koala
the Drop Bear is back on duty on the window sill of the dining area and I have
taken the opportunity to wash all my bedding from the fleece under blanket to
the duvet and everything in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday (and probably today from the feel of it) the temperature registered
over 37 degrees (or 100 degrees in the old measurement) and even the down duvet dried
so fast that I simply kept on washing everything and it was all back on my bed
in time for me to sleep in clean everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am getting
over my phobia about paying my bills online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the problems which I encountered after the installation of the NBN
I still get a bit nervous in case I encounter problems again<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but
I have an ‘authentication app’ (the reason I needed the smart phone) and, of course, the SafeWA app is the cherry on the cake for the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My toe is
finally pain-free although I have not yet tried wearing a shoe and my right eye
has been lasered so I now have really good long distance vision, really good
close-up vision and nothing in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New spectacles are pending for reading and computer but I haven’t needed
spectacles for general seeing and am still getting used to not having to take
them off and on for the first time for over 70 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cover one eye when I use the computer . . .<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
limerick:-<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 106%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have used
this one before but it is one of my favourites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">There once was a student of Johns<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who wanted to bugger the swans.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">But the loyal hall porter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Said “Sir, take my daughter,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Them birds is reserved for the Dons.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></o:p></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-73454463184741965412021-01-18T04:30:00.003-08:002021-01-18T04:42:14.673-08:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (5)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>"Old brown mule he must be sick<br />
I jambed him in the rump with a pin on a stick<br />
He humped his back but he wouldn't kick<br />
Now there's something cock-eyed somewhere"</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><i>(Recorded by Walter Brennan)</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are still in lock-down throughout the State and any returning travelers need to spent two weeks in quarantine but the rest of us are able to go out mask-less. There is an app on my smart phone which I can use to log in to any venue where it is accepted and which enables contact tracing. I notice that almost no-one uses it but I do so to ensure that it still works after GB1 tweaked it and got it up and running again after it suddenly refused to work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time in waiting rooms because doctors here seem to have got the bit between their teeth and cleared their waiting lists before Christmas. I have had a cataract removed from my left eye and laser treatment to my right eye and, after five years of trying I have finally had my sore toe shortened and fused and it no longer hurts to walk but that entailed a visit to an anaesthetist a morning in surgery and several followup visits.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the future I have a visit to the podiatrist, dentist and haemotologist and, hopefully, that will be the end of it for a while, but I will need to see my optometrist about new spectacles as I have one eye with close vision and one with long distance vision but nothing in between. However, for the first time for 70 years I do not need to wear spectacles</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meanwhile our knitting group has continued every Tuesday afternoon and our Lotto Lunches have resumed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Being in lock-down I have been spending far too much time watching the goings on in the USA, as have most of my family and friends. The thing which has struck me almost most forceably other than the goings-on there is the lack of knowledge of spelling and punctuation to the degree that it is sometimes impossible to understand what the person posting on Facebook is trying to say. I am not sure if it is poor education, confusion about what is actually happening or the difficulty of typing small buttons with two thumbs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Male squirrels, with tails in the air,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Keep collecting and never despair,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">For they all know, one day</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">A female will say,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"A nice set of nuts you have there!"</span></i></b></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-46029760945658447142020-12-06T23:08:00.000-08:002020-12-06T23:08:52.477-08:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (4)<p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I opened the door an' the fly's swarm in</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Closed the door and I'm sweatin' again</span></span></p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
And in the pros... (a huchh) crack my shin</span></span><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
Just one darn thing after another.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Recorded by Walter Breenn</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">an)</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are still in lockdown here in the West but if all goes to plan we will be open to interstate travellers tomorrow so contact tracing has been put in place. I have an app which is supposed to record any place where I sit down with other people but I had some difficulty loading it onto my smart phone and haven't tried it out yet. I will do so tomorrow when I go to knitting over in the Library where the librarians will be able to point me in the right direction. I loaded it last week in the library but it refused to connect until I returned to my apartment (traffic overload?) so I am not quite sure how may numbers I put after my password. I will find out tomorrow.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have been neglecting my blog recently due to the hospitals gearing up to do as much surgery as possible before the State opens up so I have had my long-overdue left cataract removed (short in the left eye to balance the long distance in the right eye as the right eye has no short vision, a thing which I discovered when i got home with the left eye covered and found that I was not able to measure out Poppy's anti-inflamatory drops and had to get GB1, who was babysitting me, to do the measuring.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have also finally had my painful toe shortened and fused at one joint, something which I have been trying to get fixed for over five years. The toe is still very swollen and I am wearing a funny shoe thingy to protect it. Hopefully I will be able to get back to exercising in the new year.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And back to my problems with banking on-line; last time I paid an account everything was shrunken so it looks as though the Bank is planning on making everything Smartphone size. Grrrrr!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enough with the bitching; The Limerick:-</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">A newlywed lady from Young</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Asked the doctor to fix her torn lung.</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">When asked how it ripped</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">She replied as she stripped,</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"The man that I married is hung!"</span></i></b></div><div><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-66024756830609285882020-10-23T21:09:00.002-07:002020-10-23T21:10:27.747-07:00Life Gets Tejus, Don't It (3)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The water in the well just gettin' lower and lower</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Can't take a bath at six months more</span></span></p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
But I've heared it said and it's true, I'm sure</span></span><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
That to much bathin' will, will weaken you</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Recorded by Walter Brennan)</span></i><br />
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<!--[endif]--></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Life has been busy for the last couple of weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parsifal has finally been unblocked but it
took several days before we got any results. He is now on a small dose of laxative
a couple of times per week and has become very cuddly (when he is not beating
up his sister who gives as good as she gets) and is mostly in bed with me when
I wake up in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poppy, now
that her loose tooth is out has become very playful and kittenish which is
lovely to see . . .so I now have two happy cats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Last week I received a letter to remind me that I was due
for a mammogram so I went and had that done three days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is something which I hate having
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that it is designed to save
me from something worse but now I am waiting for the results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The technicians who do the ultrasound are not
allowed to let the victim know the findings but they usually give some hint if
all is OK and I understood that all is well but I need to know for sure as it
is easy to misinterpret the hint such as I received this time, “all over and
that is good.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I spent yesterday sorting out my finances to send off to my
accountant and only hope that there is enough for him to work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What with the dreaded NBN and the chaos it
created with my banking I am not sure that I haven’t missed something
vital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still get a sinking feeling
whenever I have to do any on-line banking and since I now seem to have two
passwords into my account there is still uncertainty about getting into my bank
online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And since the advent of the NBN my answer phone doesn’t work
so I have switched it off and maybe I will have to get a new online phone as I
hate my mobile phone which I had to buy in order to get back into my bank
account; there is an app which gives me a code in response to a password which
I have to enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all getting very
complicated and I pity people in my age group who are being forced to use the
internet for the first time in their 75 – 80 years in order to access their
social security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This coming week I have an appointment with the
ophthalmologist regarding the removal of my second cataract which should have
been done in March until Dr C. decided to take six months off and cancelled my
appointment; and a visit to a foot surgeon for about a fifth opinion on the
treatment of my sore toes which are seriously affecting my balance which, due
to Meniere’s Disease is mostly by guess and by God and keeping my eyes fixed on
where I want to walk to; and using my toes - which hurts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">There once was a pious young priest</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who lived almost wholly on yeast;</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">"For," he said, " it is plain</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">We must all rise again,</span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">And I want to get started at least."</span></b></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></b></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-41704094418295164532020-10-09T02:10:00.003-07:002020-10-09T23:45:56.062-07:00Life gets tee-jus (2)<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
My shoes untied but I don't care<br />
I ain't a-figurin' on goin' nowhere<br />
For I'd have to wash and comb my hair<br />
And that's just wasted effort</span></span><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>(Recorded by Walter Brennan)</i><br />
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<!--[endif]--></span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a quiet life in lockdown the last week has been surprisingly busy. On Monday evening I realised that one of Poppy's last teeth - a bottom canine - was hanging quite literally by a thread and the tooth was sitting outside her top lip but sometimes pointing up and sometimes down so I decided to take her to the vet the next morning and and have it removed. Knowing how they both react to the vet I decided to give her a sedative. As she resisted having her mouth opened I knocked the tooth and it fell out. It was HUGE. She was ecstatic that she was rid of it and galloped around like a kitten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Then the day before yesterday Parsifal started vomiting all over the apartment; mostly bile (fur balls) and it stains so I spent a lot of the morning cleaning up and by evening I realised that he was not using the litter tray so yesterday morning I phoned the vet, dosed him with a sedative and took him in two hours later. He was not sedated enough and ripped his clipped claws down my hand; blood everywhere. The vet and I decided that he needed more sedation so I brought him home for another pill. Then yesterday afternoon, using a very devious manoeuvre she anaesthetised him and did a thorough physical examination including X-ray, heart, lungs and abdominal palpation before pronouncing him constipated but healthy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He was still asleep when we got home and Poppy was convinced that he had been out on the town without her and growled and spat at him whenever she saw him. Only now, 24 hours later, will she let him even approach anywhere near her. Now I have realised that Poppy is also constipated so they were both given a laxative with their evening meal. And they are both curled up together finally to sleep.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">To the nun said the priest drinking gin,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Drinking gin is a terrible sin!</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">My condition is chronic</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I do need the tonic,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">And something to put tonic in!"</span></i></b></p></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-27254716171627449132020-09-30T06:56:00.000-07:002020-09-30T06:56:27.143-07:00Life Gets Tee-jus. (1)<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i>The sun comes up and the sun goes down</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The hands on the clock keep a-goin' 'round</i></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>
I just get up and it's time to lay down</i></b></span></span><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br />
Life gets tee-jus, don't it?</i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 18px;">(Walter Brennan recorded it but I do not know i he wrote it)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My feelings exactly and now the Blog format has changed again and I am </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">trying</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> to find my way around </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">the</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> new one; I don't need any more changes in my on-line life just right now. The thought of paying bills still sends me into a cold sweat and now my printer has died.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I bought another one but when I started to read the installation instructions I got that cold </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">sweaty</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> feeling again so I have called on SIL and GB1 for help. As SIL said, I could certainly do it on my own (probably he is right but . . .) - and the document which I need to print arrived in some unknown format and I can't copy and paste it so I have sent it to another email address for safe keeping. At least I can still email . . .</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I ordered some carpet runners - 12 metres of them - so that the cats' paws do not get damaged as they get older. They arrived this morning and Poppy thinks that they are fine but Parsifal is avoiding them and jumps over them if he needs to cross over. They are not very beautiful, being basically brown but so is the apartment so they look the part.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We are still in lock-down although the only Covid-19 cases here have been returned </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">travelers</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> and our border is still firmly closed so there are not many of those and they all have to go into quarantine. We are all keeping social distancing but no-one is wearing masks. I have mine ready for if they are needed. There is talk of opening the border before Christmas so maybe we will have a first wave here and I will get to wear my masks eventually.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">God's plan made a hopeful beginning</span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">But man spoiled his chances by sinning.</span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">We trust that the story</span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Will end in God's glory,</span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">But at present the other side's winning.</span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i> </i></b><br /></span>
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<!--[endif]--></span></div>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-74121579834508913542020-08-28T21:12:00.000-07:002020-08-28T21:12:48.995-07:00Person Woman Man Camera TV<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Anyone who follows USA politics will recognise the title to this piece; it was supposedly a part of Mr Trump's Montreal Cognitive assessment. When I was working in a psychiatric facility people were asked to punctuate the phrase "no ifs ands or buts" which, in my opinion is a trick question because the "and" stands in place for a comma and therefore a capital at the beginning and a full stop at the end would be sufficient but I think that the I was asked to read and recall the words when I did the test so maybe a couple of Oxford commas would suffice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, we are on the subject of cognition and last Saturday D2 and SIL came here with jump leads and trickle charger to try to get D2's silver classic Porsche up and running.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For years I have been babysitting a varying number of D2's classic cars, two Porsches and a classic VeeDub. A few weeks go the order went out that the secure parking to the Apartments was scheduled for cleaning and all cars needed to be removed for the duration. As the silver Porsche which I was minding had a flat battery D2 brought the battery from the red Porsche which did not fit the slot but she connected it anyway and as the battery was in the boot (which is at the front) there was plenty of room for it. All went to plan, the car was relocated for 24 hours and then back into my parking slot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">However, trouble struck when she came to return the batteries to their rightful cars; the bonnet had jammed the battery was flat and she was not able to do the exchange. She consulted SIL who had two suggestions: (1) recharge the battery through the cigarette lighter or (2) attempt to jump-start the car since the motor was in the back and therefore accessible. I should add here that access to the residents' parking is via tight corners and a steep, narrow tight curve with no room for a flat-back truck and towing is illegal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shortly after these desperate attempts were to be tried they came back up to my apartment and told me that all had been fixed the batteries had been changed over and the car was operating just fine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In trying to open the bonnet, D2 had been <i>pulling the wrong lever.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have posted this before but it is very clever. This Limerick was posted in the Classified Ads of a London paper and it was a while before the public penny dropped:-</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">An Anglican curate in want of a second-hand portable font would exchange for the same a portrait (in frame) of the bishop-elect of Vermont.</span></i></b></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-21276902271471931632020-08-16T06:18:00.000-07:002020-08-16T06:18:39.926-07:00A little Less light Now.<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> I have fixed the blinking light on my fixed-line phone. Once again I had to search the internet, ask pointed questions and then choose the simplest solution which worked and now I have the proper steady light which blinks only when the phone rings. Not that it has rung very often and mostly it is people trying to persuade me that there is something wrong with my internet connection. Since there were a couple of unanswered calls registered and which my phone identified by their number I was able to trace the calls to China, which figures, from the accent of the "technician".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For some reason all the cold calling spammers are convinced that Telstra rules the phone lines and that Telstra is going to disconnect my landline within 24 hours. They do not seem to have realised that Telstra is not wireless and that if the telco disconnects my cables they would be cutting off the internet which they would be providing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And my new mobile phone ran out of charge and would not re-boot once charged. The only thing which the "how to" manual actually gives information about is how to turn it on again if it becomes unresponsive and that worked as well so I am learning all manner of new skills. It has all been something of a wild ride and all I now have to document is how to delete the unanswered calls on my landline phone. I have already done it twice but it is all a bit hit and miss so I need to write it down to fix it firmly in my mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hopefully my final hurdle will be next week when I have to turn off my "computer" (for that read modem) for three consecutive nights while technicians check the connections of the shops below. I used to turn off my last modem with gay abandon whenever a thunderstorm was in the offing but after the last few weeks I do not trust the new one to behave itself when I turn it on again. That is an indication of how bruised I feel since the NBN was installed but I can always call Techie to fix it again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Limerick:-</span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of a wounded war hero I sing</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Coming home from the war in the spring:</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh, he may have been lame</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">But he came just the same,</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">A discharge is a wonderful thing!</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p><br /></p>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-45632489428293511422020-07-29T05:23:00.002-07:002020-07-29T05:43:55.310-07:00We Shall Overcome<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. . . and this is not just floundering around trying to find out how to write a new Blog Post in the new format (which I have already forgotten but I think that it is a link which appears when I click on 'Posting as pinkozcat' . It seems that every new 'improvement' on the internet involves searching and extra clicks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I am referring to now is my ongoing battle with my i-Pad which has steadfastly refused to recognise my fingerprint ID when I have needed to download a new app; I even resorted to taking myself into the city at one time to the apple Shop to download something which I deemed essential.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I tried, in vain, to download the Chrome App and eventually went into google and asked some pointed questions. The reply I received was easy, worked and should have been included in with such information as using one of my cats' paws or a spare nipple should I feel like stripping off whenever I needed a new app.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is what I did, following the newest instructions:-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Launch 'Settings' App</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Navigate to 'Touch ID and Pass-code section </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turn off toggle for 'I-tunes and App Store'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Re-boot the device (i.e. turn off at the switch at the side and count to 20)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turn i-Pad on again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IT WORKED</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So simple and yet it seems to be one of Apple's deepest, darkest secrets never to be divulged to frustrated i-Pad users.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The red light is still flashing on my land-line phones but I can phone out, receive calls and the answerphone works so I am not too fussed. I gather that I have to contact my NBN provider to get it switched off but I am putting that off until I recover from multiple repeats of "My voice is my password".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the Limerick:-</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whenever a nun's feeling wild</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She keeps herself quite undefiled</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By thinking of Jesus, </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contagious diseases</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the bother of having a child.</span></i></b>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722537420607210411.post-34866363637926463562020-07-17T06:16:00.000-07:002020-07-29T07:49:16.629-07:00A little light at the end of the tunnel<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Techie came yesterday and networked all my computer stuff and, hopefully, things will now work as they should. I woke up at 4.30am yesterday morning in a muck sweat because I was going to pay an account but throughout the whole debacle Macquarie Bank has allowed my payments to go through with a minimum of fuss even when things were in a shocking muddle - and Kobo has relented and is allowing me to load books onto my e-reader again. It has taken about four weeks to get everything sorted so fingers crossed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am sort of getting to almost like my new mobile phone and today I bought it an overcoat and screen protector. This shift is probably due to the fact that Techie suggested that the blinking lights in my fixed-line phones was because their batteries are about to fail. I have ordered more, noting that their warranty is just three years and it is just three years since I bought the last lot. Hopefully they will keep the fixed-line phones working for a while as I have had enough of electronics to last me for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My birthday dinner had to be cancelled because I had a bad reaction to some new medication so it is going to be this Sunday instead. In order to network my system I had to identify myself to my internet provider and that included voice recognition and stating my full name, address and birth date. When I got to my Street name I received an incredulous sound on the other end of the phone and had to spell it. It is unusual and apparently Italian and no-one quite knows how to pronounce it. At the end of the transaction the operative on the other end of the line wished me a Happy Birthday. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And speaking of addresses, last Friday I received an express package with the most garbled address on it and delivered to me because the only correct part was my full name and the street address although the number was a Chinese restaurant and when I opened it the sender believed that I had requested some special Optus cabling. I checked that the Optus outlet downstairs was the Unit requesting the cabling and delivered the whole package to them. I haven't heard anything further and my attempt to phone the sender produced no results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Limerick:-</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There once was an old man of Lyme</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who married three wives at a time;</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When asked, "Why the third?"</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He replied, "One's absurd!</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And bigamy, sir, is a crime."</span></i></b>pinkozcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06834655342420589678noreply@blogger.com0