We’re a little late for
Earth Day, which was Tuesday. I did not
type Tuesday or Wednesday and today is Thursday April 24, 2014, which is
Armenian genocide day, as I reminded my listeners on a tape several years back
on this date. As you may know the
internet went out a couple of days ago.
It first manifested itself in fact Monday afternoon during the Norman
Goldman show, which I rarely tune in anyway.
But yesterday during the Stephanie Miller show about eight fifteen this
internet suddenly quit working. For much
of that day the internet slowed to a crawl but was still working a little. They say it’s “take your daughter to work
day” and I thought yesterday was national Secretaries Day, or it used to be
thirty years ago. It used to be the
Wednesday last week of Standard Time back in the dark ages where DLST didn’t
start till April. Anyhow I went to call
Judy to relate my complaint to her and ask for her advice what to do about it
when the phone had this horrible hum- - either like a transformer hum like
magnetic interference- - like when you get a microphone a little too close to a
de-guiser, or else it’s a failure to ground the wires perhaps having them
plugged in backwards- and it’s the noise it makes when you hold a guitar or a
microphone with the thing plugged in backwards.
The phone company came
over here about a quarter to three and the office was paging Augustine because
the phone guy wanted to talk to him. By
the way Mal Evans informed me this morning that Augustine’s name is officially
taken off the “classified name” list- - so this can show up in blogger
unedited. The phone guy said there was
no problem with the wiring outside the building, which is a hell of a surprise
to me because I’ve looked at the wires out there and it’s a mess- - droopy in
places, and almost going around in circles.
Augustine later told me a wire was broken outside and he fixed it. If so it’s something the phone company
missed. It was just after that he said
“try the internet’ and to my astonishment it was working perfectly. It was the funeral of some dignitary- - and
the Video was playing. The effect was
only temporarily, and the internet has been very sporadic. Later in the evening it was working again
after Not working right after Augustine left.
Rosemary oil is good for awareness.
I was playing an old Stephanie Miller program in Free Speech TV. I also had some documentary on live Free
Speech. This morning I had the Bill
Press show on and also Drive radio listening to “Urgent” and “FM” that rare
Steely Dan song, and ‘Peaceful, Easy Feeling”.
But just after six our time- - the internet cut off completely. I played “Highway Blues” from my personal files
and Whitmark CD One tracks 9 and 10. I
haven’t tried the internet after breakfast.
Augustine said he’d be by with another phone to test out and perhaps let
me use for a while. I am one day into my
five day grace period of being overdrawn by a figure less than a dollar. One dollar deposit is all I need. The pay phone had a dial tone yesterday so I
didn’t use any money. The numbers beeped
normally but then I got a message from the operator “error 56” or
something. Then Lishia needed someone to
install her Modemn from Time-Warner. But
once in her room- - the first time she was on the phone and Silva was watching
television. I remarked that this screen
made people look fat. It was kind of a
mini big screen. Then I got a call back
from Judy. My phone will make and
receive calls. You just can’t hear the
conversation during the call. Judy said
the phone people would be out after two thirty, and that proved correct. They wanted sixty dollars for every fifteen
minutes of work INSIDE the building, and naturally I balked at that. Nobody would let me use their phone. Nobody would let me try my phone on their
land line to confirm it worked. In fact
sometimes people with a real problem around here can run into an amazingly
apathetic reception. I did get off a
letter to Judy last night- - but I don’t think she was at home because I got no
response- - even though I wanted around maybe twenty minutes for one.
Right now Thom Hartman
is coming in during a commercial break.
The jobs bill the Republicans blocked contained certain rights
provisions like “You are free to discuss your salaries among your fellow work
mates”. There is no reason in God’s
green earth why anybody would be opposed to this unless it were an entrenched
fact there was institutional gender bias in people’s wages and salaries. Stephanie is coming in- - but now it stopped
again. I have no subsequent confirmation
about Randy Rhodes’ leaving radio after over twenty years. I have not had confirmation on that from any
other source. Augustine said he’d be by
with a new phone so I don’t have to use the pay phone to call Terry- but
Augustine didn’t even show up at all today.
Yesterday morning I
woke at 4:05 and was restless and went out and smoked my final cigarette of the
pack. Therefore I had to borrow a
cigarette from Richard when I went out after six. I went to the store for a dollar coffee there
along with Steve. I drank the cup in my
room and smoked the first cigarette of the new pack and then went down. We had Raison Bran for breakfast and also a
fried egg and toast and butter and jelly.
For lunch we had tomato soup with kind of a Picante sauce taste to it,
and a cheeseburger and French fries, and a banana for desert. I already told you how Ricardo let me field
the call from Judy in the med room with Lisha outside, and also I was away from
the vacuum cleaner noise. That guy on
KEIB is named Buck Sexton, but for a long time I thought it was “Butt”
Sexton. But he screwed up in saying that
the whole green movement was inspired by the communist party. He said Earth Day came out because it was
Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. Sean Hannity
was going on and on about eminent domain and some of the numerous apparent abuses
by the government. He claims the
government will just take your little hideaway cabin or house if “They want
your place because they have re-zoned this area for more wilderness when there
is nothing but wilderness all around you anyhow. And invariably the beauro of land management
comes after the most minor violators with long guns and heavy weaponry. But for all the hysterics of the right over
this Bundy fellow I have not heard one person yet even try to say there is any
justification for his extreme position. Now there is a new tape where Cliven Bundy went on a racist rant about how the Negroes would be happier back in the old days raising turnups and picking cotton instead of standing on a cold hard sidewalk outside their "government house" where the kids have nothing to do except they abort their babies. This guy says to bring your guns and make sure it's in working order.
Yesterday it was linen
changing time for our side of the hall, and the male housekeeper was pretty
quick about it. He just inverted the
blanket and the bedspread, and that was pretty easy to remedy. In the soap opera Daniel apparently made it
through his drug hearing with his employment intact starting “tomorrow’ and he
can do surgery after thirty days. So
it’s kind of a victory of sorts provided there are no other incidents. Kate and Elvis are getting into it. I am wondering whether Elvis is accusing Kate
is trying to sabotage his relation with Sammy by delivering those photos of
Elvis and Abigail. E J is furious at
Stephano over this for sure. Sean
Hannity in the post two o clock hour had Rich Perry and it seems that this
whole “Texas miracle” thing dates back to 2004 job statistics- - and ‘The first
figure used to be forty percent of all jobs created, but now it had sunk to
thirty percent of all jobs created”.
Perrh though talked about this “Miracle” manifesting itself as early as
2004. So what I’d like to see are the
job numbers for the state of Texas in the past two years- - like from mid 2012
to present. Because Sean keeps saying
there are salaries in the oil business “Starting at $75,000 per year”. You know- if these right wingers are lying –
they’ll be accountable for it on Judgment Day.
This morning I got up
at a quarter to five and showered and I successfully had Bill Press on, as I
stated. We had oatmeal for breakfast,
followed by an extra blueberry muffin from
Laurie, the new lady, and also Delores came through with more
coffee. I also got seconds on coffee
from Delores yesterday, but this morning’s cup was far more needful, because I
needed something to lift me out of my blue funk. I have had the regular TV on since before
breakfast.
Tuesday evening – April
22nd I did five two-D renditions of Sketch drawings, and two of them
were from the same “Skyscrapers” file- - done from the side, and also the top,
with that wood base transparency from Word.
If “Creation” were a structure that was actually physically built- -
whoever designed and engineered it would be considered creative geniouses. This night it was NCIS and NCIS LA. Glen came in as I was sorting my laundry and
expressed curiousity of where my CARS shirt was. I made sure I had it. It took me a while but I finally located that
white T shirt - - buried in the covers.
I went out and Glen and I talked together at length. Then I came back in and made out a fresh list
for the laundry for Denise to pick up in the night. The basket was returned after breakfast but I
did not actually put the clothes away until Augustine was through, which was
after dinner. Last night for dinner we
had ham, with lots of pineapple pieces on my slice. We also had yams, and cauliflour and - -
banana cake in a bowl for desert, and from across the room Glen and I thought
it was an extra fancy serving of ice cream.
It was a departure from the ordinary, though. It’s
now after nine and I never turned off the sound- - which means that we have not
had the internet in the past hour or so, which is not good.
Several days ago this
fifteen year old African teenager with “problems at home” jumped the fence of
an airport and boarded- - climbed up in the wheel well of the aircraft which
subsequently took off and flew nonstop from San Jose to Honolulu. It was a five hour ride at sub zero
temperatures at 38,000 feet where there is very little oxygen, and somehow the
kid survived. He climbed down out of the
wheel well an hour after landing and is receiving medical attention. Experts in the know claim he went into some
medical state of hibernation, and thus was able to survive- - beating the odds
for such a trek. He had hoped to see his
grandparents in Solomalia. His Dad
talked to the news media yesterday a little- - and he’s a taxi driver.
Somebody by the phone
by the west door slid a piece of paper with a phone number to Federico who
dialed it and he took the call on the lobby phone. I kind of glanced Federico’s way and then put
in my fifty cents- - after noting all of the numbers you could dial for “Free
Calls” such as prayer-lines and free credit and financial help. Terry’s voice came in loud and clear and I
told him I needed to go to the bank as soon as possible and he said ‘I’ll be
right there”. I was looking for him in
that humungus Tahoe thing and he came in the smaller tan car. Terry added his name to the growing list of
people who say I should ditch A T & T so the bill won’t break me every
month. Strangely, I found another fifty
cents in my pocket, so I was able to pay Terry Hill for the trip after
all. I thought one of the quarters
looked strange and told Roxanne it had a strange sheen to it, and I let her
see. Terry said “Whenever you make a
major financial decision – don’t do it alone because people like us (on (SSI)
need the help of our family members at times like this, and he had me write a
bold face ink note. I went into Chase
bank BP branch, and got a really nice and cooporative teller who made out the
deposit slip for me and understood the tight financial straits I was in
then. I now have fourteen cents to my
name but I’m out of the red. Terry said
that he doesn’t own his house but only rents.
He said “I’ve thought about doing that - - (getting a housemate renter)
but I’ll have to consult with my family first.
Terry got through this whole trip without one reference to any of his
pet “far out” topics. I returned -
- and Judy was on the office line and I
talked to her. She got my two E mails
last night. We had a talk and I think we
mutually resolved issues for each other.
I’ll have to try my phone on Marsha’s land line. I saw Augustine around, but he didn’t speak
to me or talk about getting me a phone.
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