Archive: Bananas and our granddaughter broke her little toe
Posted By RichC on November 5, 2024
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Last minute political question since we vote in the US is tomorrow
Posted By RichC on November 4, 2024
Most people can answer to the “4 years ago” question (below), but a more important question in my view would be, “Do you think you and your family would be better off under a Harris or Trump presidency in the next 4 years?”
Both presidential candidates have leadership records to run on, so compare wisely … but in either case, make sure you vote! 🤔
Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago
Economic Confidence Index remains negative at -26
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 9% volunteer that they are about the same. The 2024 response is most similar to 1992 among presidential election years in which Gallup has asked the question.
How to get rid of a couple of common kitchen bugs
Posted By RichC on November 3, 2024
Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2′ with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants. 
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Where did you meet your spouse? How couple met 1930-2024
Posted By RichC on November 2, 2024
Here’s an eye-opening video chart from LinkedIn shared on social media (X.com). Although some might question the raw data, it is nevertheless 
interesting … particularly as people started meeting each other online!
The 2024 World Series is over with Dodgers beating the Yankees
Posted By RichC on November 1, 2024
Although watching Major League Baseball was not high priority in our life this year, Brenda and I did enjoy this year’s World Series. I didn’t really have a favorite, as I’ve always had a dislike for the NY Yankees (adversary to the Cleveland Indians, now Guardians) and frankly the LA Dodgers fit that same category (our hometown team is the Cincinnati Reds in National League and I’ve been a fan since the days of “The Big Red Machine“).
So … watching the games without a vested interest made whoever eventually would win just an enjoyable series to watch. In the end, the LA Dodgers did look better in the 2 wins in Los Angeles and except for game 4 (Yankees won), they pretty much dominated the series. Errors on the part of the Yankees didn’t help the hometeam in game 5 … so in my opinion, the best team won the World Series this year. Brenda and I both enjoyed watching ALL the games … even if I secretly want the series to go on to a full 7 games. Congratulations to the LA Dodgers, the 2024 World Series champs.
On another note, since it is Tech Friday, my second favorite web browser, Firefox, turned 20 years old (the primary is still Brave since it pays me a tiny fraction of crypto when I view ads that it serves up). Anyway, congratulations to the Mozilla programming team, as I can honestly say, “I use it everyday on DeskTop 1 of my MacBook Air M2 and it really is my favorite web browser.”
My Samsung i500 SPH as a WSJTech ThrowBack Thing? #TBT
Posted By RichC on October 31, 2024
One of my regular Friday reads is the weekly technology update by Joanna Stern and her Wall Street Journal team called Tech Things. 
At the end of this weekly update, there is usually a “Throwback Thing.” I mentioned to them that my “still favorite” pocketable cellphone was the Samsung i500 SPH and that I posted about it in my blog 17 years ago (Wow, SEVENTEEN years, shocking even to me). The editor asked if I could shorten the blog post and give them permission to use it as a “Throwback Thing” in an upcoming article.
We’ll see what happens (but at least it makes for a good Throwback Thursday #TBT post) … AND this small, sturdy PalmOS flip-phone is still a winner in my book.
Always have a backup plan, even if Trump/Vance are confident
Posted By RichC on October 30, 2024
Besides the impressive rally at Madison Square Gardens last weekend, the relentless schedule being pushed in these final days (months actually) of the 2024 Presidential Election must be exhausting. Donald Trump as done everything from working at McDonald’s, to podcasts, or large outdoor rallies … one that nearly took his life.
JD Vance has been just a busy hitting swing states and although I’m not following Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as closely, I suspect they are tired too … and know her campaign is not fond of the “help” coming from President Biden who referred to Trump supporters as “garbage.”
CNN.com – 10/30/2024
What a different a year can make for the stock market indices
Posted By RichC on October 30, 2024
Last year on this date, I commented about “investors being nervous this time of year” on the U.S. stock market indices.
So as a filler nearly exactly one-year later, I figured I would do the same. The DOW and NASDAQ above on October 29, 2024 are WAY UP from 2023 and Chevron ($CVX) below is relatively flat. I just found it interesting.
Archive: Our family is enjoying the 2024 autumn weather
Posted By RichC on October 29, 2024
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Music Monday: “Midnight Special” recorded by CCR (1969)
Posted By RichC on October 28, 2024
I enjoyed a some Creedence Clearwater Revival last week on my headphones while walking. While having listened their version of “Midnight Special” many times before, it has never been included as a Music Monday selection.
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Midnight Special” | 1969 |
Shocking to me was just how many bands performed the 1905 Howard Odum song:
The song has been recorded by Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Odetta, Les Paul, The Kingston Trio (who also recorded their song “The Tijuana Jail”, which retains the same music but with new lyrics),[16] Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Burl Ives, Big Joe Turner, Bobby Darin, Cisco Houston, Jimmy Smith, Mungo Jerry, Van Morrison, Little Richard, Buckwheat Zydeco, Otis Rush, The Spencer Davis Group, Lonnie Donegan, Eric Clapton, The Louvin Brothers, Long John Baldry, The Kentucky Headhunters, Willie Watson, Mischief Brew, Hoyt Axton, Odetta, Billy Bragg, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others. Jody Miller arranged her own version and included it on her first album Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe in 1963.
Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
- lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.