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- August 28, 2020
- eCommerce quickly goes to Hell
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We try to do a little shopping and the entire concept has become an insufferable mess of incompetent shipping, search engines that miss the entire point, and little to no substantive follow up with our kindly support persons behind the scene.
Case in point, I ordered two tubes of an 8th generation Retinol gel product from Walgreens. After waiting patiently for the package I get an email stating it arrived at 10:30 in the morning and was sitting on my porch.
Went outside looked all over and LOW AND BEHOLD there was no package.
Called customer support. A timid young one of the female persuasion attempt to help me. She was unable to secure her "escalation" staff after a 10 minute wait. Then there's no definitive solution provided and here I am without the bucks and without the product.
The product arrived the next day in the mailbox.
Had there been no advisory saying it was "left on my porch" we would have have no issue and I would have never called anyone. As it stands I got dipped in a lot of hate and discontent which will preclude further orders.
Later I attempt to go shopping for a couple of garments and some collar stays. The google idiots can't even do a keyword search returning everything but items qualified by my attempt to use their feeble product. These leftist libtards need to return to the highly usable search engine they had prior to becoming this advert generated opinion steering activity they now push off as something of value.
I hate search engines. I hate social media. I hate the phoniness of it all. I hate stupid liberal millennial retards such as those these concerns employ because they can't provide intellect, integrity, politeness, nor even unbiased search results.
So while I was going to gear up my ecommerce slant and start purchasing more online ... I've decided to change my payment card account numbers and return to brick and mortar stores instead.
Of course I view this as merely the lesser of two evils. It's just less susceptible to the utter incompetence of the ecommerce experience given the stupidity which has become a substitute for quality employees anymore.
Boo.
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- August 27, 2020
- National Banana Lovers Day 2020
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I enjoy eating a banana fairly often. Mom likes them as long as they are totally blemish free. Let them develop a single sugar spot and BOOM she wants to be rid of them. I try to explain to her that those spots are a function of the ripening process ... however she remains unimpressed.
A few years back I read of a threat to the bananas we have become used to in the grocery stores. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved at all, only worsened:
A tragedy looms on the horizon. The Cavendish banana, a popular cultivar developed in 1965 and mainstay of retail markets being exported worldwide is deep in the process of complete ruination by a fungal disease known as "Tropical Race 4".
This disease process began in Malaysia in 1990 and has spread to Southeast Asia, Australia, and Africa.
It is decimating the Cavendish banana culture to nothingness and soon these fruit will be unavailable anywhere as the affectation has resisted all attempts at control.
Today is National Banana Lovers Day, observed in the US by those of us who enjoy eating these tropical delights. There is no telling how much longer they will be available for us and the portends are indeed quite bleak.
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- August 26, 2020
- Adventures in Safety Deposit Boxes
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Yesterday at 2 pm I closed my safety deposit box over at the bank on Sunset Boulevard at 12th Street.
We went over the contract, signed and initialed several spots and then entered the vault, opened the box, and retrieved the contents. I believe the somberness of the moment was lost on the kind lady helping me.
When I got home and went through the stuff it took me back to the sad state around the time of my stepfather's passing. Most of the stuff was his except for a few documents and other items.
I'm still teched with that melancholia thinking about how sad it was to acquire the items and how much I have missed my stepfather during the interim. Though similar changes as well as things maudlin are not really something I dwell on the facts remain that I feel that he, like my biological dad, departed too soon.
However, these are not my purview and I cannot question nor intervene in matters of The Almighty. So I packed the things away carefully in a mirrored box purchased for that purpose and set them on the night stand for another day.
Hopefully I still cultivate that ability to "change what I can, accept that which I can't, a be wise enough to know the difference".
Johnny Pruett ... you are gone these long years and I am still here.
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- August 25, 2020
- Good Riddance John McCain
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I never was a fan of John McCain. While many of my fellow political ideologues viewed him some commensurate patriot and war hero ...
John Sidney McCain III
August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018
I always found him lacking in both patriotism and heroism as a function of political monetization and the military industrial complex of which he was a member. That alone disqualifies him as a patriot.
John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and military officer, who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He was an active member of the deep state and shadow government and did everything he could to prevent the forward motion of the United States as a country.
He was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.
So stupidity lead to robbery and thus for 8 years we were subjected to the whims of a man who thought he was emperor of the United States simply because the Republican party chose the totally wrong opponent for his brigand first ladyboy possessing evil high yellow ass.
McCain was an Annapolis graduate which speaks volumes for the need to purge the Navy and he was a prisoner of war in View Nam.
I suppose this entitled him to meddle in the inner workings of the Republic at the behest of the cabal controlling the big oil cartel and military industrial complex at the expense and detriment of the tax payer.
He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 and died the following year. He was permitted to live to be 81 years old which is a travesty of justice.
His funeral was televised from the Washington National Cathedral after laying in state in United States Capitol rotunda. The former US Presidents Traitor George W Bush and Brigand Barack Obama eulogized this over bearing slug.
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- August 24, 2020
- Waffle Day 2020
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Waffles are a favorite food. I like them for any meal but ususally eat them in the evenings because I am too busy in the early am for preparation of breakfast.
I have a lovely waffle iron given to me by my mother and it took a few tries before I began to get product which actually looked like a 'real' waffle ...
My stuff was kind of misshapen and incomplete overall but once I got past the pitiful appearance I noticed a great tasting waffle slathered in butter and syrup !
Today is Waffle Day. This is a Scandinavian tradition because with the advent of the New World Order attempt by the traitor George HW Bush I don't do Belgian ANYTHING anymore.
Celebrated each March 25 it corresponds to the Feast of the Annunciation during which waffles are typically eaten. It is said that the Swedish shift from a religious celebration to that of Waffle Day is a matter of phonetics and meanings of words.
The celebration has spread to other countries with the persons of India serving Belgian waffles because they obviously want to be the untouchable slaves of Belgium in the New World Order.
I like waffles. I don't like Belgium, the traitor Bushes ... or really the Indian subcontinent with it's population of outsourced call centers, adobe and microsoft employees, and other individuals continually missing the point.
Happy Waffle Day to you and I hope your day is somewhat less politicized than mine.
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- August 23, 2020
- Happy Birthday Vickey 2020
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- August 22, 2020
- What a FOOL Jimmy Carter has become
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Jimmy Carter is a dottering old fool.
He had the audacity to say publicly that Joe Biden must be our next president.
This idiot ignores the monetization of public office, abuse of women, failed political agenda, and basic lack of character to promote this lame demented crook ass democrat as even a 'viable' candidate to the highest office in the land ... which he's NOT.
Someone should chain Mr Carter up in some root cellar and prevent him from making such a fool's fool of himself public and messy as he continually does anymore.
Perhaps he's not really in that tender pre-infarct state for which he seems to get credit despite his every attempt to advertise the fact that like Biden, he is not firing on all thrusters.
It is far better to remain silent and be thought a fool than it is to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Shut the hell up Jimmy Carter. Your insipid southerner inbrededness is showing. You're as stupid as the remainder of the democratic party.
Can't somebody in Georgia put their foot up his moron ass or something ?
Stupid cracker.
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- August 21, 2020
- Remembering Jackie DeShannon
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When I was a kid I enjoyed the music of Jackie DeShannon.
She was a part of that 'top 40' scene of which I once partook then turned from while on active duty in the Navy.
While much of my younger tastes dissipated like so much dewdrops in the morning sun, some lingered and she was one of those.
During that time she was rather like a muse singing that blonde soulful music like Dusty Springfield.
She attracted me with her sweet lyrical soft and melodious tones even on that inferior fidelity of the AM radio to which I listened for much of that era in my life.
She was born Sharon Lee Myers on August 21, 1941 and became an American singer and songwriter who was highly relevant in the musical charts from my childhood in the 1960s as both a chanteuse and composer.
Her popularity continued long afterwards and she was a female pioneer of the rock and roll era.
She has been employed in entertainment broadcasting since 2009 with a concern promoting The Beatles.
Her work has been covered by other performers, some of whom gained hits with their renditions.
I am always happy to stop and listen to her work even now in my twilight.
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- August 20, 2020
- World Mosquito Day 2020
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I have had episodes of mosquito attacks where the bites were unbearable and the insects were relentless.
I remember the local governments enacting fogging programs in the neighborhoods with trucks carrying high efficiency foggers that rode through the streets to the delight of me and the other urchins.
I really never gave the possibility of toxicity or consequences a single thought.
There were areas where the birds Purple Martins and various bats would fly though the air devouring these blood suckers with wild abandon and indeed, the problem grew less the older I became ...
Most likely due to that propensity I developed for being indoors writing code and pursuing a general couch potato lifestyle.
Throughout the years I learned of the various vectors that included the mosquito and read of disease processes and their intermediaries as a facet of my pursuit of all things medical.
Unfortunately, when I abandoned the pursuit of medical knowledge becoming more a student of various curiosa I stopped a lot of that technical reading which could have added to who I am presently.
Today we have another World Mosquito Day held under the auspices of The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
It is a yearly thing held each August 20 to commemorate one Sir Ronald Ross the British physician who discovered that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.
That vector has been known since 1897 and it was Sir Ronald Ross himself who suggested that the day become known as as World Mosquito Day.
The day has been observed and enjoyed participation since around the 1930s.
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- August 19, 2020
- National Aviation Day 2020
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I used to be purely a Navy man. Having been the son of a Master Chief and served myself it was a natural connection that I made over time until ...
I met Johnny H Pruett, who became my step father upon his marriage to my mother. They had a wonderful life together up until his passing and from that time I have felt an affinity for the Air Force, which was that service he entered having attained the rank of Master Sergeant.
So I became a child of two services because they were important to both father figures in my life. Their extreme concern for me became that impetus for becoming that military offspring I presently am. I was not always so military centric; but love changes all things.
Today we mark another National Aviation Day. This United States national observation celebrates the development of aviation.
Established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt by presidential proclamation designating the anniversary of Orville Wright's birthday to be National Aviation Day.
He was born in 1871 and was living at the issue of the proclamation.
All federal buildings and installations are directed to fly the US flag. Citizens are encouraged to observe the day with activities promoting interest in aviation.
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- August 18, 2020
- Virginia Dare
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When I was a kid attending the second grade at Aragona Elementary School in Virginia Beach, Virginia our teacher, Miss Key instructed us regarding Virginia Dare.
She was the first English child born in what was then the "New" World.
While her birthdate was recorded as August 18, 1587 in the Roanoke Colony which is now known as North Carolina — her date of death remains unknown to this day.
It is said that she and the other colonists at Roanoake Island disappeared while the her grandfather, John White, who was the governor of the colony returned to England for fresh supplies in 1587 only to return 3 years later and find all colonists gone.
Virginia Dare is a key figure in American mythology and that folklore associated with the early colonization of the United States and it means different things to various individuals.
She has been immortalized in books and other literature, songs, television programming and film. Her name is associated with various products for sale on the retail market as a gimmick.
She has also been the namesake of various places in North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.
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- August 17, 2020
- Dragon City is Closing
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Dragon City Chinese Restaurant at 2410 Augusta Rd in West Columbia is closing due to a lack of business.
Whereas they once did a booming lunch and early supper now with the advent of this coronavirus 'pandemic' the restrictions and the fear mongering by the idiot local, state, and federal governments dummies has killed the local area business by and large.
I for one use to frequent the place for a spot of early lunch or when the egg drop soup called to me in my home.
It's a sad thing for me that leaves me wondering if everyone has gone crazy in the presence of only one of many pandemics we've suffered over the years.
You cannot hide from life.
We have failed to get back to the business of living because of the cowardice and/or pervasive stupidity of those in charge.
This is what you get when you don't take care of business adequately.
We're not taking care of business and it's mostly due to the democrats and their desire to have everyone controlled and paid by them in conjunction with the libtard leftist offspring who grew up thinking the world owed them something.
Boo !
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- August 16, 2020
- National Airborne Day 2020
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One thing I have never pursued is jumping from an aircraft with a parchute.
The reasons for this include my inherent fear of heights (more so falling from them) and the tragedy I witnessed in Lugoff, South Carolina in the early 1970s where a parachute failed to open and the young lady victim bounced 12 feet into the air.
Today is National Airborne Day.
It is an official observance declared by Congress in the United States honoring our airborne units of the Armed Forces.
It was created in 2002 by then President George W Bush.
Airborne operations such as military parachuting and gliding perform necessary capabilities such as the insertion of personnel and/or supplies as the means of delivering personnel, equipment, or supplies.
Airborne forces typically lack supplies for prolonged combat and therefore are the lead in to larger force influx in armed conflicts.
It is said that "vertical envelopment" can plae large scale forces which appear from nowhere in the middle of actions behind enemy lines.
Like all branches of the military the Airborne troops deserve our gratitude and admiration for engaging the enemy on the battlefield by dropping from the air.
It's truly an effective force their efforts exert upon our enemies in defense of the Republic.
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- August 15, 2020
- John Cameron Swayze on the televisions of my childhood
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When I was a kid there was a personality named John Cameron Swayze all over my early childhood television experience.
He was a news commentator and appeared on the various game shows of the time both predating me and well into my adulthood.
He would do commercial spots hawking various products such as the Timex watch which has indelibly became engrained in my memory due to the pervasive airing of these adverts and the popularity of that particular product.
Product spokesmanship was likely his main claim to fame overall.
Newsreel voiceovers and other technology which predate those modern mass communication efforts were a hallmark by which he became known.
Ironically, he became supplanted by Chet Huntley and David Brinkly in their nightly news program — which was merely a sign of the times.
He did various cameo appearances as an actor in the cinematic entertainment endeavors of that era.
He passed in Sarasota, Florida, on August 15, 1995 at the ripe old age of 89 and was survived by his widow, children, grandchildren, and great granchildren.
There are those who have led significantly less purposeful and satisfying existences upon the earth.
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