Daily Archives: August 10, 2016
Shoney’s and Showers . . .
First up, for those of you with Yahoo email addresses, change your password.
A hacker recently put what he claims are 200 million Yahoo email usernames, hashed passwords, and birth dates on sale on the Dark Net, asking about $1,800 for the entire data dump.
Even if it’s not true, it never hurts to change your password. Here’s more about it.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/yahoo-email-data-breach-dump/
I spent the morning working on website stuff, while Jan read her Kindles. Yes, Kindles. She had 3 – a Fire, a PaperWhite, and a second PaperWhite, which is mine. She trades between them, with one or two of them charging while she’s reading the other one.
I don’t use my PaperWhite any more, doing all my Kindling on my Galaxy Tab 4.
A little later, Helen, my cousin Wes’ wife came by to say Hi and catch us up on all the family news. Between her kids, Stahlie, Darby, Luke, and Harlan, she’s got a lot to keep up with.
About 5pm Jan and I went next door to check in with my Aunt Jan and Uncle Ed whose home is right behind the RV park. And although they may not realize it, Jan and Ed have a lot to do with Jan and I being together.
In June of 1967 I left Athens and drove down to Florida to bum around for the summer. I ended up in Sanford, FL where my Uncle Ed had a veterinary practice. I stayed with them for a few days while I looked around for something to do.
Checking out the Florida Today paper, I saw an want ad for someone to do the shows and to take care of the animals at the Marine Life area of Florida Wonderland, an amusement park in Titusville, FL.
Yes, that’s me with hair.
A couple of days later, on July 5th, I started working there, and that afternoon I met Jan who was working as Saloon Girl in Miss Kitty’s Pleasure Palace, the western town’s soft drink saloon.
It took me a while to get her to go out with me. She said later she thought I was a just stuck-up college kid with a red sports car.
And this coming September we will have been married 49 years.
Leaving Ed and Jan’s, my Jan and I heading out for dinner. Jan had seen an ad for Hot Fudge Cake, and I wanted a big juicy hamburger. And we were able to get both at the local Shoney’s.
Although they weren’t really busy it took almost 30 minutes to get our food. But it was hot and delicious anyway.
Jan got a Mushroom-Cheddar Burger while I went with Double-Decker Burger.
Really, really good, hot and juicy, just like I wanted.
For dessert, Jan got her Hot Fudge Cake,
while I got the Hot Apple Crisp.
Well worth the wait.
Wrapping up, tomorrow night is the big night for the yearly Perseid Meteor Shower. And it’s supposed to be a doozy.
Where you would typically see 80 to 100 showers per hour, tomorrow night should be 160 to 200 per hour.
The Persids are actually remnants from the comet Swift-Tuttle that orbits the Sun every 133 years. As it rounds the Sun, it is constantly shedding small particles in its wake. And once a year the Earth sweeps through that trail giving us a spectacular show in the sky.
Hopefully our skies will be clear enough here to give us a chance to see the show.
Check it out where you are.
Thought for the Day:
You may have seen the story online about the service monkey getting loose on a Frontier airliner.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/airport-official-says-monkey-flight-was-certified-service-animal
But if you think that’s weird, how about a service turkey?
Well, I guess it’s better than ‘Snakes On A Plane”, anyway.
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