Didn’t Plan to Write
Anything of Value
We just returned from
the US National Table tennis Tournament in Las Vegas, and the highlight of the
four-day stay, was standing among other like-minded individuals while the next
president of the United States, roused his audience. More about the Trump rally
later.
This leads me to the
conclusions that I don’t think that I will write anything truly creative and
world shattering, there’s too much of that in the daily news.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Learned in the
December 6th newspaper, that the local Grey Bears senior group will be
holding its special after-hours Holiday Thrift Store Sale. There will be refreshments, music and
everything is half off, but only on
Thursday, December 3 from 4pm to 7pm.
PLAN AHEAD WITH LOVE
An advertisement
appeared in the same newspaper with the engrossing headline,
“Holidays Are About Family.” To show this to be so, there’s a
lovely photograph of five, smiling family
members ranging in
age from a toddler to two elderly people.
The body copy reads,
“Learn how you can give them an unexpected and
meaningful gift. Attend our free lunch and learn.”
The free lunch and
advice comes from two Bay Area funeral homes.
I find it interesting
that the first three letters in the word “funeral” spell “fun.” I first noticed
that fifty years ago when I was driving around the city of
Detroit one night. Because some light bulbs weren’t working, the sign in
front of a funeral home read, “BRADY’S FUN HOME."
ZIPPITY DOO DOUGH
If you wanted to
become really wealthy, you should have moved to ZIP code 94027 years
ago. That Atherton, California ZIP has had the most expensive homes for
the past three years, and the median price was $10.6 million last
summer.
Not to be outdone by
too much, a friend put her home on the market a year ago in ZIP
94028, and the winning bid was $500,000 more than the listed price, and
offered by several bidders.
THE US POSTAL SERVICE
WILL NOT SURVIVE
When we went away to
Las Vegas, we neatly filled out an “Authorization to Hold Mail” card, and
checked off Box B which reads “I will pick up all accumulated mail when I
return.” That sounds easy enough, and when we returned on December 19th found for pieces of mail in our box, mail that was supposed to be held. We then drove to our nearby Post Office,
just five minutes from our home. We were at the end of a long line, as dozens of others were waiting, not to pick up their mail, but to send holiday gift
packages out.
We patiently waited
and when we got to the counter, we were given a phone number on a piece of
paper and told to call the Scotts Valley Post Office for our mail. It seems
that in their infinite wisdom, the USPS decided that it was easier for them to
hold all mail in the county at one location. That location is ten miles away
from our home, down a congested highway, even more so during the holidays.
We did call Scotts
Valley, and they promised to deliver the accumulated mail on Monday. When we turned in the hold card, it would have been nice to learn of their new, convoluted non-delivery
plans.
The USPS had a net
loss of $5.1 billion for the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2015.
WHAT WAS JUST SAID IS
SAD
After a closer look
at what words have filled this post, I believe that I have followed my intuitive,
initial writing projection that was defined in the second paragraph, almost to
perfection.
