Monthly Archives: March 2021
Will They Stay, Or Will They Go?
Well, yesterday I posted that the $1400 Stimulus money was going out this weekend, and apparently it was, because several of our readers found them direct deposited in their bank accounts this morning. So check you bank account if the previous checks were direct deposited.
But for some reason, Jan and my check always comes by mail, even though our SS Checks are direct deposited.
And it seems that the IRS’s Get My Payment, where you can track your checks progress, is down until Monday.
So Now We Wait. But I still would have rather had the $41,000.
After going back and forth about their trip, Brandi, et. al., finally decided to drive to Colorado since their flight for early this morning had been cancelled due to the heavy snowstorm in the Denver area.
So they headed out about 11 this morning and seem to be making really good time. But this means I won’t get my Jan back until Saturday, rather than Thursday.
BUMMER!
I did get some good news on the AC front this afternoon. I stood on a plastic stool in rubber-soled shoes, and using an insulated pair of needle-nosed pliers, I touched the bare, burnt-off wire to the other side of the compressor relay, and lo and behold, the AC started right up.
So lucky me, the problem is with the $70 control box and not the $700 AC unit. So I’ve got another one on the way from eBay.
Luckily the weather is staying in the mid-70’s so we can do without for a week or so.
Denmark, Norway and Iceland Suspend AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Over Blood Clot Worries
and Bulgaria just did the same thing.
28-year-old physical therapist dies two days after taking COVID vaccine
In fact a lot of doctors have major concerns about the vaccines.
Serious safety concerns from experts include “allergic” and “potentially fatal reactions,” risks that these vaccines may cause infertility in women, result in an increased vulnerability to the virus, and present unacceptable dangers of long-term effects due to a lack of proper testing.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also drew up a document last fall listing the possible side-effects from experimental COVID-19 vaccines, including strokes, encephalitis, auto-immune disease, birth defects, Kawasaki disease, and death.
Current reports on the CDC’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)reporting system reveal that “between Dec. 14, 2020, and Feb. 26, a total of 25,212 total adverse events were reported to VAERS concerning CoVid vaccines, including 1,265 deaths and 4,424 serious injuries.”
Regular readers will probably remember me telling about how I almost died after getting a flu shot in the fall of 1965. And the doctor told me that another flu shot would very possibly kill me.
So I took him at his word and I’ve never had another flu shot. And I don’t plan on getting this one, either.
But there’s hope.
Thought For The Day:
The Check’s In The Mail . . .
Well, Day 1 without Jan, and the cat and I are still alive.
So far, so good, I guess.
But now it looks like Jan’s petting/house sitting may be extended a few days. Brandi got an email this afternoon saying that due the very heavy winter storm coming in, their flight to Denver tomorrow morning has been canceled. So now they’re thinking about driving which will add a couple of days to their trip.
Oh, well.
Tomorrow, first up on my chore list is to really get into my AC problem. I going to try and short around the control box to see if I can start the AC manually.
I still kind of confused why the AC just quit working, and then 3 or 4 days later, burns up the power wire feeding the compressor relay while I just looking at the control box after taking the cover off. I had not touched anything yet.
But there was a SnapCracklePop and then all the magic smoke came out
So we’ll see what happens tomorrow. I’ve already kind of halfway resigned myself to buying a new unit, but maybe I’ll luck out.
My babysitter Patsy has a new book out and Jan says it’s really good. I just haven’t had a chance to get to it yet.
It’s called The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop, and it’s a sequel to her Fried Green Tomatoes.
In case you haven’t figured it out, Patsy’s professional name is Fanny Flagg. But when I was growing up in Gulf Shores, AL, she was Patsy to me, because her real name is Patricia Neal, and yes, she was my babysitter.
Our parents were good friends, and Patsy, being about 4 years older than me, often got stuck watching me. Sorry, Patsy.
Jan says it’s a great book. Get it!
According the news, the first $1400 checks from the new CoVid bill should start bank accounts this weekend. Another story says that if you total up all six of the Covid ‘relief’ bills (only 3 of them gave us money) you could give every household in the U.S a check for $41,036.
Instead we get $1200, $600, and $1400. So who’s getting all the rest?
Another article that 90% of this last bill had nothing to do with CoVid ‘relief’.
Well, what’ya know.
Thought For The Day:
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” – P.J. O’Rourke
