September Song

" I suppose I should collect my books and go on back to school," but there's no longer any school to go to.......

Jerry and The Pope

Do I understand this correctly:   The Pope is against providing aid to  the persecuted Syrians, while  Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer were  arrested under the Duty to Rescue law, for failure to help the fat guy being carjacked at gunpoint, and are still doing time as far as we know.

Lost in Translation

Time Warner Cable ad says I "can stream live video without buffering,"  and I don't even know what that means.

Tech Support Redux

   Another call today from same outfit as yesterday.  Sounded like the same guy, but today his name was Jim, not John.  He would not stop talking, intent on having me turn on my computer.  This time I told him not to call again.  Tomorrow he'll probably be Joe.  I don't quite get the angle, but figure it can't be good.
    I googled the above, and found the description almost word for word.  Most likely based in Nigeria, they attempt to try to sell you some product to protect you from infecting viruses.  They like to prey on the elderly.  The bastards.

Scram, you scammer.

    Today I was on the computer when the phone rang.  The caller said he was from Windows Technical Department, and this was a check-up call.  He asked me to turn on my computer so he could do the checking for me, the customer.  I said no thanks, and hung up.  He called back, still wanting me to turn on my computer. I asked him his name and he said John, and he "likened to give proper knowledge." I told him I was sorry but I could not trust any incoming calls, and asked  for the  telephone number of his company so I could contact them. He supplied me with a number, but still wanted me to turn on my computer.  (He did not know it was already on.)  I hung up again.  Later I tried the number he gave me and the message said it was "a canceled number."  Big, bad John.

Tremor

    I was standing near the doorway, looking at one of the exhibits in the Veterans Building.  Suddenly I felt the floor shake, and I immediately thought earthquake.  I looked down and the old wooden floor was moving, which  served to confirm my thought, until I turned around and saw a woman had entered the building.  She must have weighed close to 500 pounds, judging her size against another person I've known, and for each step she took the wooden floorboards creaked and settled.  She was a young woman and moving with apparent relative ease, but I expect that may not always be an option for her, or for that matter, for the many others of a similar weight who were at the fair.  A grossly obese person used to be a rarity, often the subject of stares, but unfortunately (maybe fortunately for them), this is no longer the case.  The only reason I noticed this woman was that I thought she was an earthquake happening. 

Dog -gone Almost

   The agility course was set up  for the 4-H dog show,  and dogs and  kids  were ready.   A beagle showed early promise but would not  participate in some of the obstacles his handler chose, and so didn't accumulate as many points as he could have.  A little pomeranian was willing but its small size limited what it could do, too small to see the light at the end of the tunnel and too light to move the teeter board. I had already predicted victory would go to the only border collie in the competition, but he apparently was new to the obstacles and lost his focus.  A very pretty boxer took the apparent lead, performing very well at whichever obstacle he was faced with.  I thought he would win until the next dog, a golden retriever, entered the course.  At first she was goofy and distracted but settled down and ran through the remaining obstacles at record-breaking speed, and then decided on her own to repeat some of them, which accumulated extra points. 
      I wanted to see whether the boxer or the golden was the winner, but I had to leave after the next entrant.  The handler of the tiny black poodle took the leash off her dog, as most handlers did.  The dog, probably weighing only about 3 lbs., was doing fairly well for her size, and running the course very quickly when while running at a high rate of speed ran right  underneath the sparse railing at the end of the barn out into the roadway just as a tram was passing by.  Everyone was aghast, the young girl running from the building calling her dog, one man flagging down the driver and several other people looking underneath to see if the dog was there.  Of course the show stopped while the search was underway.  I think the dog, traveling at its top speed, might have run right beneath the moving vehicle, but I couldn't wait to see.  As I was leaving, probably 5 or 6 minutes later, a group of people entered the building in hot pursuit of the poodle, still clocking about 20 mph on its tiny little legs.  I don't know which animal won the obstacle course; I suppose  they resumed the competition, but I didn't stay.