Apparently it is in the details
Here at the assisted living facility where I reside (although after the way the last two days have gone, I'm wondering if my car might be better, even without cable TV and internet access), we have that community television I've mentioned before. Now that new resident who was having issues with the others over the television isn't happy with the current policy/procedure.
The current situation is that residents may sign up for one hour per day. They may sign up the day before. His problems at the moment are that he believes some people are signing up for their friends, so as to dominate the primetime hours; and that there should be a hard and fast rule about what time the day before you can begin signing up.
Frankly I'm tired of the whole mess, but I seem to be the only person here who can communicate with this person. He calls the other residents who sit in the TV room "cretins", the staff who won't do things the way he wants "incompetent" and he's busy trying to control the lives of the other residents he interacts with. I had a "no-bullshit" conversation with him today about how he needs to change his interactions with others and we will see what happened.
* * *
I'm very frustrated with what happened last night but I need to turn my anger inward. I'm the idiot who didn't just say "no" when asked if I would stay. I'm the idiot who inserted myself into the situation rather than just sitting quietly by and reading.
I was told once by a very wise person that the "I should have" isn't useful or productive. So I'll just say that I did not make the best choice in the situation and I will strive to make better choices when faced with that kind of thing in the future. I can partially excuse myself because I was tired from having already overdone by working four straight days. I just cannot do that anymore.
Now I'm on the horns of a real dilemma. I really, really want to go play trivia with my friends tonight and yet I know doing so is dangerous and a bad idea. I'm physically exhausted. The fact I cancelled my plans to go to the movies today should be an indicator of just how pooped I feel.
So I'm going to be smart. I'm going to stay home and rest. I'm going to see movies tomorrow and Sunday and pretty much rest the remainder of the weekend. Next week I have a normal schedule and it should be better.
* * *
I'm not going to talk about the budget/debt ceiling impasse today. I have something else on my mind. Why is it that it is okay for the President to unilaterally delay the employer mandate? Obamacare is the law. We should not be defunding it. We also shouldn't be delaying it. If Congress had to pass the legislation before the President could sign it and it become law, how is it that he can just postpone implementation? The law is the law.
Where in the Constitution does the Executive Branch get to delay the start date of a law passed by the Legislative Branch that the President could have vetoed if he or she didn't want it to start? It doesn't.
Now I do not agree with the position of the so-called "Suicide Caucus" that the individual mandate should be delayed. But I can see how one could offer a valid argument that it should be, given this inconsistency. Why is it good to give employers more time when it isn't good to give people more time as individuals?
It strikes me as being the equivalent of having a car that needs four new tires, but because of a squabble over what kind of tires to buy between the car's owners, they buy only two new ones and plan to delay buying the other two until they can study the available brands more closely. In other words, it makes no sense.
* * *
Random Ponderings on Friday:
Anyone want to wager how long Air Canada's Manager of Corporate Communications, Peter Fitzpatrick continues in that position? He wrote an email to the company's PR firm about how to handle questions from a reporter about a dog that the airline had lost. He wrote this: "I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the U.S. media spends its time." I'd say two weeks.
Why is it some big companies don't pay attention to the complaints people write about them on social media? I see some amazing things on Yelp and the like and many business owners just don't care about their negative reviews.
While I'm on the subject, some of the stuff on Yelp involving typos is pretty funny. Like this excerpt from a review of the Hooters in Santa Monica: "I've visited this place twice during hickey season because of their free wing promo when A. Ducks score 5 goals." Hickey season at Hooters? Now that would draw big.
Read a poll of the top baseball movies of all-time. "The Natural" was rated #1, ahead of "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham" and I'm wondering if people agree with that assessment or not?
Scholars and theologians of the faith of Judaism often make reference to the writings of Maimonides to support their interpretations of the Torah and Talmud. I wonder if they know that when it comes to the issue of a "get" (a document a husband must give to his wife to divorce her), Maimonides wrote that the husband who refuses to give a get should be whipped until he gives one, or dies, whichever comes first?
What kind of moron TV weatherman reaches down to the floor while on-air, and eats whatever he picks up without knowing what it is? The kind who discovers he just ate cat vomit.
Maybe the members of Congress who are fans of the TV reality show "Deadliest Catch" will put an end to the shutdown once they learn the crab boats they love to watch won't be going out thanks to the shutdown.
Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs I'm wondering if the Ohio man who just lost his attempt to have the court declare him no longer dead would laugh at the irony? He disappeared in 1986 and was declared legally dead in 1994. Ohio law says that after three years, someone declared dead remains that way in the eyes of the law. Perhaps that law needs to be changed?
I know Paris Hilton is blonde, and not the brightest of the Hiltons, but she ought to know that she has or hasn't hung up the phone after an interview. Shouldn't she? Listen to her interview for yourself. http://www.g105.com/pages/showgram.html
* * *
This Date In History (October 11):
1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1142 – A peace treaty between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1984 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
Famous Folk Born On October 11th:
George Williams (founder of the YMCA in England)
Henry J. Heinz
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fred Trump
Jerome Robbins
Jean Vander Pyl (the voice of Wilma Flintstone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqPka4pvrMc)
Daryl Hall
Mark Goodman (the VJ)
David Morse
Norm Nixon
Joan Cusack
Luke Perry
Rikishi
Artie Lange
Ty Murray
Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden
Emily Deschanel
Michelle Trachtenberg
No movie quotes, IMDB isn't coming up when I try to go there.
The current situation is that residents may sign up for one hour per day. They may sign up the day before. His problems at the moment are that he believes some people are signing up for their friends, so as to dominate the primetime hours; and that there should be a hard and fast rule about what time the day before you can begin signing up.
Frankly I'm tired of the whole mess, but I seem to be the only person here who can communicate with this person. He calls the other residents who sit in the TV room "cretins", the staff who won't do things the way he wants "incompetent" and he's busy trying to control the lives of the other residents he interacts with. I had a "no-bullshit" conversation with him today about how he needs to change his interactions with others and we will see what happened.
* * *
I'm very frustrated with what happened last night but I need to turn my anger inward. I'm the idiot who didn't just say "no" when asked if I would stay. I'm the idiot who inserted myself into the situation rather than just sitting quietly by and reading.
I was told once by a very wise person that the "I should have" isn't useful or productive. So I'll just say that I did not make the best choice in the situation and I will strive to make better choices when faced with that kind of thing in the future. I can partially excuse myself because I was tired from having already overdone by working four straight days. I just cannot do that anymore.
Now I'm on the horns of a real dilemma. I really, really want to go play trivia with my friends tonight and yet I know doing so is dangerous and a bad idea. I'm physically exhausted. The fact I cancelled my plans to go to the movies today should be an indicator of just how pooped I feel.
So I'm going to be smart. I'm going to stay home and rest. I'm going to see movies tomorrow and Sunday and pretty much rest the remainder of the weekend. Next week I have a normal schedule and it should be better.
* * *
I'm not going to talk about the budget/debt ceiling impasse today. I have something else on my mind. Why is it that it is okay for the President to unilaterally delay the employer mandate? Obamacare is the law. We should not be defunding it. We also shouldn't be delaying it. If Congress had to pass the legislation before the President could sign it and it become law, how is it that he can just postpone implementation? The law is the law.
Where in the Constitution does the Executive Branch get to delay the start date of a law passed by the Legislative Branch that the President could have vetoed if he or she didn't want it to start? It doesn't.
Now I do not agree with the position of the so-called "Suicide Caucus" that the individual mandate should be delayed. But I can see how one could offer a valid argument that it should be, given this inconsistency. Why is it good to give employers more time when it isn't good to give people more time as individuals?
It strikes me as being the equivalent of having a car that needs four new tires, but because of a squabble over what kind of tires to buy between the car's owners, they buy only two new ones and plan to delay buying the other two until they can study the available brands more closely. In other words, it makes no sense.
* * *
Random Ponderings on Friday:
Anyone want to wager how long Air Canada's Manager of Corporate Communications, Peter Fitzpatrick continues in that position? He wrote an email to the company's PR firm about how to handle questions from a reporter about a dog that the airline had lost. He wrote this: "I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the U.S. media spends its time." I'd say two weeks.
Why is it some big companies don't pay attention to the complaints people write about them on social media? I see some amazing things on Yelp and the like and many business owners just don't care about their negative reviews.
While I'm on the subject, some of the stuff on Yelp involving typos is pretty funny. Like this excerpt from a review of the Hooters in Santa Monica: "I've visited this place twice during hickey season because of their free wing promo when A. Ducks score 5 goals." Hickey season at Hooters? Now that would draw big.
Read a poll of the top baseball movies of all-time. "The Natural" was rated #1, ahead of "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham" and I'm wondering if people agree with that assessment or not?
Scholars and theologians of the faith of Judaism often make reference to the writings of Maimonides to support their interpretations of the Torah and Talmud. I wonder if they know that when it comes to the issue of a "get" (a document a husband must give to his wife to divorce her), Maimonides wrote that the husband who refuses to give a get should be whipped until he gives one, or dies, whichever comes first?
What kind of moron TV weatherman reaches down to the floor while on-air, and eats whatever he picks up without knowing what it is? The kind who discovers he just ate cat vomit.
Maybe the members of Congress who are fans of the TV reality show "Deadliest Catch" will put an end to the shutdown once they learn the crab boats they love to watch won't be going out thanks to the shutdown.
Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs I'm wondering if the Ohio man who just lost his attempt to have the court declare him no longer dead would laugh at the irony? He disappeared in 1986 and was declared legally dead in 1994. Ohio law says that after three years, someone declared dead remains that way in the eyes of the law. Perhaps that law needs to be changed?
I know Paris Hilton is blonde, and not the brightest of the Hiltons, but she ought to know that she has or hasn't hung up the phone after an interview. Shouldn't she? Listen to her interview for yourself. http://www.g105.com/pages/showgram.html
* * *
This Date In History (October 11):
1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1142 – A peace treaty between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1984 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
Famous Folk Born On October 11th:
George Williams (founder of the YMCA in England)
Henry J. Heinz
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fred Trump
Jerome Robbins
Jean Vander Pyl (the voice of Wilma Flintstone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqPka4pvrMc)
Daryl Hall
Mark Goodman (the VJ)
David Morse
Norm Nixon
Joan Cusack
Luke Perry
Rikishi
Artie Lange
Ty Murray
Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden
Emily Deschanel
Michelle Trachtenberg
No movie quotes, IMDB isn't coming up when I try to go there.
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