How Dare You!

 The "You" in this case being "I"  

I must admit that I do use a wall calendar, retro as that may be, to write in my appointments or other significant doings. This year, it was the complimentary offering by the Hoosic Valley Volunteer  Fire Co. that I hung on my refrigerator, and charted in all my life happenings. That is, up until I wanted to add a future appointment, and found that the last month of the calendar was  October 2023. So I related this disappointment, somewhere, on some site. 

    You would think I had impugned the integrity of  firefighters in total, according to one response. He stressed how many years of his life he had dedicated, volunteered, to his work as a member of the Fire Company, explaining that the calendar ended in October because that is Fire Prevention Week. 

   Well, that is an important point to make, but it really makes no sense, does it. If the purpose of the calendar is to provide publicity for the Fire Company, and thereby elicit donations, it would be beneficial for the people who have the calendar to display  and  use it year-round, as a constant reminder of their valuable work. 

 I will not use this iteration of a calendar. I will use a calendar that has 12 month pages, from January to January. Whoever came up with the October Ending should reconsider, and add 2 more months. Why the heck not...

One Never Knows

 Once in a while, when memory calls, I try to locate people from the past. I see nothing new about Gus or his long-missing daughter Amanda. I knew his younger sister, Barbara Fredette, died several years ago. We used to see her and husband Werner and their 3 kids at camp in Cossayuna.  Werner had died and the 2 boys later  in life had health problems, but evidently still survive. The oldest child, Kim, was a year or so older than M. so they enjoyed each other's company. Kim was pretty, smart and became a Registered Nurse. She had 3 daughters, all lovely and accomplished, as I recall from past viewings.  She remarried and moved to Florida several years ago. Today I find that in January , she suffered a massive heart attack while hiking, followed by a stroke, and was near death. According to subsequent post, she recovered and is back hiking. No updates lately...

Spectrum Specter

 After a week or so of problematic television viewing, with blackouts, interruptions and countless rebooting, I finally called Spectrum. They (Albert) checked, and said there were no outages in the area. He rebooted from their end at least twice, and concluded the cable box needed replacing. The service call was set for Wednesday July 5. Tonight I received an email from Spectrum an ALERT,  advising that  "Service has been restored in your area." and I can cancel the appt. if I want to. Oh what to do, what to do. I mean if you can't rely on Spectrum, who can you trust?