10 March 2025
Ugh! Still feeling the after effects of the dryer vent fiasco and adding to that with daylight savings time effects. Before I retired, it took me a very long time to get used to the time change. Since I retired, I adapt a little better but I still have trouble adjusting. There are so many pros and cons for sticking with one or the other time. The change one way or the other would affect both health and economics of the country. My personal opinion is to go back to standard time throughout the U.S.
Today was lunch with Joel, Keith, Greg and Michael at Rosies. It’s always good to see Greg and Michael (I see Joel and Keith more regularly). Greg taught business and economics on my campus and he retired close to the time I did. He and Michael are great conversationlists and Greg and Keith have a lot in common with a dual Canadian/American citizenship. There were two orders of the famous BLT at Rosies, and I sent a photo to Wade to make him jealous.
Really folks, this is the best BLT on the planet. I think they had to kill three hogs to get the amount of bacon they go through in a single day. Pair that with sweet potato fries and you have two meals.
They have a special sauce that sets it off and you can have an avocado slice with it if you like. This is a handful to eat and almost everyone takes half home for later.
Michael is an artist and Greg, in addition to being a retired business/economics professor is a professional photographer. Both are very well traveled and that’s another thing they have in common with Keith who used to be a travel agent. Now we are all retired old men always willing to get together to catch up with each other over some good food.
We managed to miss the rain at lunch at Rosies. It is quite windy today with gusts up to 31 mph but Rosies natural vegetation provided a wind break.
There have been reports of tornados in Central Florida and we are predicted rain from 4-6 pm today in South Florida. If you think I concentrate too much on weather, just realize I’ve been through 4 hurricanes in Florida, two while at sea on the CGC Reliance, out of Corpus Christi, Texas, and numerous tornados in Mississippi. As a kid, there were many times Archie and I huddled in a basement with our parents until the danger passed. Let’s just say I have a strong appreciation for how dangerous Mother Nature can be.
One year, I was a counselor at Scout Camp Kickapoo near Clinton, Mississippi. I was teaching a Nature merit badge and was under a dinning tarp. Along came what I much later understood to be a microburst of wind which pretty much flattened all the tents in the area. It was a massive downdraft of air. It was gone as quickly as it arrived. I spent the rest of the period having the scouts in my class setting up all the tents in the Scoutcraft area that had been flattened. Fortunately, no one in the camp was injured.
Tomorrow I need to grocery shop and pick up prescriptions at two different locations. At this rate, I won’t be too long getting to the $2000 deductible that went into effect this year.
Stay tuned!