Haven't had one of these for a while. (For those of you who don't get the soup can bit: It's a pointless tradition I decided to start. Whenever my life seems too busy to post a lot on this blog, I put up a graphic of a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. It's my way of saying there may not be a lot of posting here for a day or two. I do not remember why I selected a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup to denote this and do not assume that I actually had a reason. But there it is.)
Before I go about my day, a few floating thoughts…
Well, Hillary looks to have a lock on it but I can't help but think that with all the mulch they're going to fling at her between now and Election Day, there won't be a moment or two when a Trump victory feels possible enough to unnerve a lot of us. I also think I'm on the verge of having to use my Lost Friend graphic at least one more time.
This week, I tried watching a few episodes of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah out of the two dozen or so that have accumulated on my TiVo. I saw a few clever bits, almost all of which involved correspondent Jordan Klepper, who — perhaps not coincidentally — was the lone holdover I saw from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Overall, the show was not bad and if the Stewart version had never existed — if they'd gone straight from Craig Kilborn to Trevor — I'm sure I'd think it was a good program. But it just doesn't command my attention the way it once did. It's more a matter of goofing on things in the news rather than using the format to make a strong but hilarious point about something going on in our country. That's why so many episodes have piled up on my TiVo.
In the past, I have told you of my troubles with contractors who phone me up and try to sell me their services. I'm still getting a lot of those calls, including the kind where the caller pretends we spoke last year and I was so nice and begged them to call back around now because I'd certainly be ready to hire them to do all sorts of things to my home. Alas, I'm also getting a lot from people who want to install solar panels on said home and are trying to sound like some official government agency that's going to do all this for free or almost free. (As I've learned in many ways about many business dealings, "almost free" always runs into a lot of money.)
And now I have a new flavor of unwanted phone solicitors. Next year, I turn 65 so I have all sorts of insurance agencies and others who seek to "help" me with my important Medicare decisions. I think some of these are the same folks who want to put in solar panels and then paint my house.
Excuse me. The phone's ringing and I think it may be one of those very people. Back later…or tomorrow…or sometime…