Big rainstorm in L.A. last night and it's not over yet. It's been so dry here for so long, it's welcome but does it have to be so noisy?
Looks though like we'll have perfect parade weather on January 1. Now, if we only had a parade to go with it…
I have given up trying to guess what Trump is going to do next and I've given up reading the guesses of others. They can estimate the man's motives and the way he reacts when someone or something gets in the way of them…but not what he's actually going to do about the matters at hand and when.
In the same manner, I've decided to ignore anyone who isn't my personal physician when they guesstimate when a COVID vaccination will be available to folks like me, which one we'll get and any timetable about how quickly things will start returning to normal. Hell, I'm not even sure what "normal" is going to mean in a post-pandemic world.
And I really don't understand the people who when they tick off a list of negatives from the coronavirus — a list which includes people dying or being deathly ill, massive loss of employment, savings being wiped out, kids' educations being harmed and businesses closing — throw in as if it's as bad as any of them, "not being able to go eat in a restaurant."
In the twenty years I've been doing this blog, I have occasionally mentioned that my P.C. was having problems, as it is now. Invariably, I get one or more e-mails from someone who says, in essence, "Serves you right for not buying a MAC." And they go on and on about how the MAC is the most perfect invention in the history of mankind — far surpassing fire, the wheel and the Instant Pot™ — and that the P.C. is a piece of excrement that never works, is only purchased by idiots and should be outlawed.
"Throw it in the trash, buy a MAC and enter the enlightened era," someone wrote to me this time. Online sources tell me that MACs account for about 10% of all computer usage in this country, give or take 2%. I think if they were all some make them out to be, it would be a wee bit higher. Personal Computers are somewhere between 77% and 87.8%
To the MAC worshippers who wrote: Maybe you're right that your system is better…though among my friends, I hear as much cursing of Apple computers as I do of systems that operate on Microsoft Windows. But the point is I'm 68 years old, I've been using a P.C. for decades, I've invested in buying and learning P.C. software, I've become accustomed to programs that have no Apple alternative, etc. You might as well be trying to sell Hormel Bacon to an aged Orthodox Jew.
Speaking of which, I need to go make myself some breakfast. Bye for now.