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Our temperatures are still going crazy:  Next Wednesday it'll be 56°, then a couple days later it's supposed to get down to single digits again.  In times like these, I've often heard people say, "No wonder everybody is getting sick!"

For myself, I do get more aches and pains with weather changes.  But as for contacting colds and flu, I find nothing about the weather affecting my health.  You can catch a virus in any kind of weather, and the virus will make you sick.  When I was walking three miles every day years back, I never let the cold stop me:  I wore insulated Carhartt coveralls and stocking caps and walked in zero weather, unless there was a high wind.  That wind chill can freeze a person!

I had the strangest thing happen to my MacBook the other day:  There was an update ready to install, so of course I allowed it.  When it was finally done, all the saved passwords on Google Chrome had disappeared.  Thankfully, they were all still in place on Safari.  I like Safari, but for some reason there are some vital websites that it refuses to take me to.  So I usually use Chrome.  Anyway, I got through the crisis, and I'm done complaining.

Oh, here's a wonderful thing I discovered yesterday.  If you have a library card, there's a streaming app called Kanopy.  It's free with your library card, and there are thousands of movies and shows there... no commercials!  Cliff and I saw they had the movie "All of Me", so we watched it even though we'd seen in before.  There are independent movies and French movies, languages of all kinds.  We watched one this morning that was in set in Iceland, and we had to read captions to know what they were saying.  

That's it for today.  Have a great weekend.  I intend to.

I'm still among the living!

I'm right here at home and haven't caught Covid yet, but January and February have typically been times when it's hard for me to find anything I want to blog about.  When that happens, and days go by between entries, I force myself to say something, even if it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.  There was a time when I fed the birds in winter and blogged about that, but these days I've lost my concern for the birds.  We watch some television, but there's very little worth talking about there, although I will recommend that you watch "Call the Midwife" and the new version of "All Creatures Great and Small".  I donate five bucks a month to PBS so I can live-stream all their programs.  It's the cheapest streaming app I know of, and worth all the other apps combined.  I don't get Netflix any more because there are usually only one or to shows I like.  I do have Amazon Video, but that and PBS are enough for me.  Cliff doesn't care for streaming and wants to watch without commercials, so we have Directv for $100 a month.  It gripes me to pay so much with inflation what it is, but Cliff worked hard and steadily until he retired, and I'm not going to take his television watching away from him.  

Oh yeah, how about my Chiefs?  I love this short video so much, I've watched it several times.  I can relate to this guy's excitement, because Cliff and I were acting about the same way. 

The Chiefs are a bright spot on winter days.  It's getting so I watch most of the games now, even when the Chiefs aren't in the game.  Cliff told me the other night, "I sure am glad you started watching football with me."

I have a haircut coming up this afternoon, so I'll pick up what few groceries we need afterward.  I'm thinking I'll get that turkey I bought before Christmas out of the freezer and roast it next week.  I have so many casseroles that require cooked chicken, and turkey works great for those.  Not to mention turkey salad sandwiches and turkey pot pie.  I'll just freeze the leftovers in two-cup portions and be ready for all those great meals.

It's only 53 days till spring!  

It's Red Friday!

We've both doing a lot of winter reading.  Cliff always has a book to read on the iPad when he's riding the recumbent bike, but in winter he reads at other times too.  He loves non-fiction books, especially biographies about various wars, generals, and presidents.  Lately he's been reading books by Bill O'Reilly.  There are sixteen of his books in our library, and I'm sure Cliff has read most of them:  I know this because I have to help him find his next book every time.  I don't like O'Reilly, but decided I should what I thought of his books.  As my first one of his books, I chose "Killing Patton".  It's very interesting reading, and I will be reading some of his others later on.  I'll just forget who the author is and enjoy my reading!  As soon as I finish it, I have "The Lincoln Highway" waiting to be read.

It's red Friday, and I'm showing off the official Chiefs shirt my oldest grandson gave me.

I saw the following on a local town's Facebook page.  A lady asked a simple question.  Notice the comments in red... some people came with their own agenda, but nobody paid them much attention.  Smart folks!  Problem avoided.  One woman did correct the false info about masks, but other than that, the trouble-makers may as well have stayed out of it.

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Looking for n95 masks? Need my kids back in school. Locations?

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• What ages are your kids? N95 don’t fit kids and for them to be effective they have to be fitted for them.

  

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  •  this right here, I was going to say this and also after 10 minutes the effectiveness goes down and continues to do so as time elapses. Saturation of germs builds up inside a mask, especially N95’s

    

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    •  the efficiency does not go down in minutes. Only loses its efficiency if it gets wet. Still passed a fit test on the 5th use of an n95. So that’s roughly 40 hours of wear time and it still passed with flying colors!

      

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    •  not what OSHA testing says, you most definitely can’t wear the same une for days at the very least. So a kid in school constantly touching the mask…here entere in a whole slew of extra variables bringing in a greater amount of germs concentrated into a mask on face….

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• Scott 

  

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• Why wear a mask?
• You can get some off Amazon.

  

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  •  I found them.

    

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• Bonita Winingham

  Costco online, Amazon, check Menards, Lowes, and Home Depot. Walmart might have them too.

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• Renee Pippin

  Obv.it doesn't matter about the mask...they are still shutting schools down

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• Josh Andrews

   mask won't bring the sick teacher's and bus drivers back any sooner.

  

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• Connie Harris

  minit marts have them

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