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My favorite Covid things
Posted Nov 19, 2020
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aAnPFeo11s
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Covid-19 Do Re mi(includes lyrics)
Posted Nov 19, 2020
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBh-eo3tvE
Let's start at the very beginning:
A sore throat and cough in wuhan
And in no time at all there were one two three,
And one went on a plane,
Took it overseas,
And that's how pandemics get started, you see.
Woe is me.
Now we've got covi1 19.
(spoken) Ooh let's see if I can make it easier.
Do not fear,
But please stay here.
Stay at home now everyone.
We must wash and clean things well.
Cars, no long trips just for fun.
Don't let covid virus spread.
isolate yourself at home.
see your friends online instead.
that 's the healthy way to go.
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Coronavirus songs to pass the time
Posted Nov 19, 2020
Coronavirus rhapsody (Bohemian rhapsody")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eo9M4-BrJA
Stayin' inside (Bee gees parody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUXntGlqFI
hands washing hands / Sweet Caroline [Neil Diamond]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLgsV_Ms3Q
Quarantine/Dancing queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmDcg59Xzek
Covid-19 Do re mi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBh-eo3tvE
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Explaining my life
Posted Nov 5, 2020
I talked to a clinician on Tuesday. She asked if I thought I had special powers. I was a little testy abut being asked that. Did she think I was bipolar or Schizophrenic? Absolutely not! I am not a special person who imagines great powers at his disposal.
But I do like to think I have good taste and an ability to enjoy beauty in Nature. I taught myself to be a pretty good amateur landscape gardener -- from 2014 through 2019 I made the trailer park where I live into a showpiece of beautiful plantings -- Alberta Spruce and roses and holly and peonies along the side of the entrance ramp, with three or four other gardens elsewhere around the park's perimeter. There are gorgeous little purple clematis climbing a trellis on the shed that everyone sees when approaching the main office. And a yellow rose bush in front of the office itself, along with dwarf evergreens in planters.
The place looked like a construction site or a prison when the tenants' Association first got ownership of the place. Now it looks elegant and loved. Love is what I think of every day. love of life, love of good food and music and other people (I dislike very few people, and wish I could get them to like me back. I think that most of them do. I'm afraid I want *all* of them to, which is impossible).
I like to laugh and tell jokes and entertain people. I sang for sixty years (can't do that much any more, but still love music). I want people to feel good if it can be arranged. Lately there are times when I'm, not feeling particularly good, and I regret it if their day is diminished by beholding the way I feel. I would correct that if I could, but I can't. So I am beginning to ask people to help me. My father was vehemently self-sufficient. Learning to accept help is one of the toughest things to learn.
I led a physically active life despite being in a sedentary job. Shifting books in the library, watering plants in the Park, swimming three hours a week, planting dozens of trees and shrubs (using the least possible effort if possible).
I lie in bed more and more now. I love to be in a compact home -- it's about 50 feet long and twelve feet wide. In cold weather, I can pace back and forth along the long end. It seems to be enough exercise to keep me in tolerable shape.
Even during my worst days, I have some moments of transcendent beauty and sense of purpose. There's a reason why I am still alive. I want to live as long as possible. Maybe there are some things I can pass along to younger people? I want to be of use as a mentor.
People asked me why their rose bushes looked so exhausted at the end of the summer. I said that roses have one purpose: to produce blooms. Once they've done that, they dial back their efforts so they can put something into their roots for the next season. They'll be blooming fine next year, surely.
I wish all my friends here at H2G2 and in real life the happiest and best lives they can have. I would love to be part of the reason why their lives are better, but I understand that that may be hoping for too much.
So, I just offer this simple explanation of what I think I was put on earth to accomplish. I never got to experience sexual attraction or love, and have tried to spread my love around to plants, animals, and benevolent wishes toward everyone. It's not enough (I'm too often unsatisfied with what I've done), but as someone who was born with a damaged kidney and stiff arteries that primed me for high blood pressure, I've been lucky to live past sixty. The last twelve years have been pure gravy.
Peace and love, everybody. I know I will try too hard to add value to every conversation here and elsewhere. But I'm an open book. Guile was neve rpart of my makeup. WYSIWYG.
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Signs of an odd intruder
Posted Nov 3, 2020
Today I reached for hard boiled eggs in my fridge and found none there. Then I went to get a jar of peanut butter and found super chunky (which I never buy). I also tend to keep not more than four russet potatoes on hand. I had six.
This does not rise to the level of grand larceny, more like michievousness. I also get no mail at all for several days running, then some appears early in the morning, way before the mailman would arrive.
The message I guess, is that I am not secure in my own home, just as my financial transactions are not secure on my computer.
Malwarebytes, the most powerful antivirus program I have, never does a scan, no matter how hard I click.
Whoever is doing these things is working at a high level of competence, and wants me to be worried. I am worried. He (?) ants me to notice these things, and maybe kick myself for not noticing them sooner.
My utilities et paid by credit card, which has a secure site which I can't get into. Every time I try, I get the message "temporarily unavailable, while a little sign at the stop of the screen says "plug-in blocked."
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Myh computer service company tells me I'm going to the wrong website, though it worked fine for 15 or 20 years, just not now.
Something powerful enough to evade the most powerful antivirus programs is at work, along with mail fraud (which I can't prove) and intrusion on my space.
No one who reads this can do anything about it. All I can say is that I am not crazy or imagining this. It's a coordinated effort. Is my phone tapped, too? Who knows?
Please believe that I'm not crazy. Please.
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