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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Falling asleep is rarely the problem. It’s the waking up after too few hours. Some nights it’s as few as three or four. I’d prefer not resorting to medications, seeing how I’m on half a dozen prescription drugs already. I’ve cut way back on caffeine (it’s now decaf coffee only after 10...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don’t know your age, but many reliable sources have it that among the more common complaints of the no longer young is a difficulty in getting a good night’s sleep. I awaken after six hours, max, most nights. Too often it’s more like five hours. Sometimes I can drift off again, but certainly...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Younger people probably wouldn’t understand the expression “he got his richard in a wringer.” That’s mostly because they’re unfamiliar, most of them, with wringers. And it might not occur to them to abbreviate “richard.”
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s a great recording. One measure of any popular entertainment’s influence is how it wears over time. Half a century will work for me.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Wringer washers were still a fairly common sight in my early years, but even then (and I’m older than you) they were commonly regarded as old-fashioned. FWIW, a friend who is just terrible with money (worse than me, even) came into a once-in-a-lifetime windfall, a matter of pure luck, with...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ... your mother, of all people, makes a point of telling you about what great times can be had at your local senior center. Yes, she had us young. Quite.
  8. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Does letting my dogs lick my fingers count as hand washing?
  9. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^ I’m suspecting that this episode will give a big boost to online grocery ordering and delivery (and curbside pickup), as is now offered by every major supermarket chain I’m familiar with.
  10. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I wouldn’t be shocked to learn the number is substantially higher than that. I certainly hope that’s not the case, of course. So much at this point is pure speculation. It’s to the credit of the people most qualified to offer an opinion that they are careful not to state more than can be known...
  11. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    And now a friend reports that she was treated to an online ad pushing elderberry as a treatment. I’d call it neverlivetobeelderberry. As I’ve already said, few things outrage me quite like quacks and snake-oil peddlers.
  13. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I hesitate to offer what would only be an ill-informed perspective, because about the last thing we need is misleading speculations ... But ... I had been thinking that there just has to be a whole lot more people infected than the confirmed cases to date, seeing how so few have been tested...
  14. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^ Thanks. And it’s another reminder of how lucky I was to dodge Hep C. For a time it seemed that half the people I knew had it. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but it was still a whole lotta people.)
  15. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    But wear your seatbelt anyway, eh? A little less than 1 percent of us overall croak every year. The percentage progressively rises within the older age groups, of course. A friend, a contemporary of mine, said she expects to take up skydiving and risky sex and other potentially deadly...
  16. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    And? I stand by it. As I said, diminished share values are among the least of the threats posed by this virus. Of course I hope the more dire scenarios never come to pass. I’m among those whose age and co-morbidities leave me likelier to succumb, should the bug find me. Whatever economic...
  17. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    That’s all true enough, as far as I know. My point wasn’t that the not-rich aren’t subject to the effects of market fluctuations (doo-doo does roll downhill, after all), but that the wide disparities in stock ownership is a reflection of the wider economy, and that shareholders taking a loss...
  19. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Any thoughts as to how much bleach to use in, say, a gallon of water? So long ago that the details are fuzzy at best I had reason to know how many capfuls of bleach to put in the disinfectant sink behind the bar. It was one of three such basins — a wash basin, a disinfectant basin, and a rinse...
  20. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    That’s a more expansive definition than I’ve ever been familiar with. I had thought until now that an antibiotic killed microorganisms, and that viruses aren’t organisms, micro or otherwise. But, if anything that destroys bacteria and viruses fits the description, well, I’ll chalk it up to...
  21. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    If honest effort was all it took, farm workers would drive to the fields in Ferraris. And no, we don’t all have an equal shot at material success. We don’t all get our chance in the pool. And there’s no such thing as a person who got there on his own.
  22. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    It does seem the likelier hazard, especially for the younger among us. Again, for them the bug might be no more than a minor discomfort. But for the less hale and hearty to whom they transmit it?
  23. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Hourly workers who can’t afford to lose a few days’ pay (I’ve been there myself) or to cover the cost of a visit to the doctor because they lack health insurance (ditto) when they’re feeling a bit under the weather will go to work and pass along whatever bug is ailing them. Such a worker might...

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