Monthly Archives: March 2020
OK, Who Smuggled The Snake In?
Or I guess it could be a water moccasin. But it would be a long swim.
And just where is St. Patrick when they need him?
I mean, they gave him a whole day, and a parade and everything.
Ireland records first-ever venomous snakebite
Who’s the patron saint of snake-charmers?
When I did a dump on Thursday I noticed a pinhole leak in my sewer hose, so after checking WalMart’s prices, I reordered the same one I bought from Amazon 5 years ago.
I’ve never had one last for 5 years before so I thought I’d go this route again. Of course some of them died from an errant Weed Eater, so nothing’s sure.
R.I.P. DirecTV?
It seems that the word of the street is that AT&T, who now owns DirecTV, is thinking seriously about shutting it down. In fact, according to this USA Today article, they are no longer marketing the service except in “more rural or less dense suburban areas.”
The problem is that DirecTV is bleeding subscribers, down from 20 million in 2015, to 16 million now, all the result of ‘cord cutting’, I.e. everyone getting their TV via streaming on the Internet rather than cable or satellite.
Supposedly one of the remedies of this is for DirecTV and Dish to merge into one larger unit. Not that Dish is in any better shape than DirecTV. About half the size of DTV, Dish is hemorrhaging viewers at just about the same rate.
To me this possible merger of two ‘failing’ companies reminds of the merger of Sears and Kmart. Merging two almost-out-of-business companies just gave them one larger almost-out-of-business company. Probably the same here.
We’ve been DirecTV subscribers since 1998, ten years since we started RV’ing, and while the park Wi-Fi here is fast enough to stream even without our satellite dish, it will be a lot more ‘iffy’ when we travel. Either way I would hate to see DirecTV go away.
Wrapping up, Miss Karma and I will be on our own most of next week. Brandi and Lowell are picking up Jan tomorrow so she can Landon/dog/cat sit during Landon’s Spring Break next week. Then I’ll go up and get her Thursday afternoon.
But at least we’ll have lunch at King Food before they go.
One Last thing.
Don’t forget to Spring Forward tonight.
Thought For The Day:
One problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Do Only Old People Buy Sausage?
I’m sure you’ve all heard the Jimmy Dean Sausage commercials recently on TV using his voice. So my question is, does anybody but people our age know who Jimmy Dean is?
Though he sold the company to Sara Lee in 1984 for $80 million and didn’t die until 2010, he was essentially fired from his spokesman job in 2002.
Why? They told him he was too old! But now he’s back from the grave.
So it’s been at least 18 years since anyone has heard his voice, and now they’ve brought him back (or his voice, anyway), and they’re advertising to who?
Who under the age of 30 even knows who he is?
Our long-time friend and fellow RV’er, Debi Hurlburt, of Debi and Ed Hurlburt fame, has long had a Facebook area called Debi’s RV Kitchen. But now she’s venturing into the video field. And here’s her first video.
Dirty Rice – Cooking in the RV
Looks like our upcoming storage shed project will be a true do-it-yourself project. Turns out Home Depot, where we’re going to get the shed, doesn’t offer any assembly assistance, and it looks like using one of the online services like TAKL would cost me about twice what the $269 shed is going to cost me.
And that’s just for one guy helping me, not me getting watch two guys doing it all. So it’s just going to be me, with Jan helping out as needed.
We do want to get it all done without too much delay, so I’m going to take off work on a Friday and a Monday so we’ll have Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, if necessary.
Apparently you’re the most at risk for the Corona Virus if you’re male, elderly, and have an underlying heart or lung condition. So on the blog I was reading, someone asked, “How old is ‘elderly’”?
I posted, “I’ve always thought of ‘elderly’ as anyone older than me”.
I mean, it makes sense, right?
At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Thought For The Day:
It’s hard to stop a man when he knows he’s right and he keeps on coming.
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