Incidentally, thise is the first time I've ever heard the word "froop" and none of the three meanings on the Wikipedia disambiguation page seem to apply. (A brand of yoghurt, a type of hard candy, and a diuretic.)
Nah, the vision of having to look at *both* the self-satisfied frat boy, and his Mini-me for three months. . . .
FROOP -- A word I learned when my first chile was four. At one in the morning, he pulls on your blanket, and sez: Mommy, I'm gonna froop. And does. The raspberry koolaid stain never can be removed from the new white carpet.
I don't think Ryan will go over too well. As of 2011 there were 77 million Baby Boomers heading toward Senior status. Older people are the fastest growing demographic in the USA. Most of us were not Trust Fund Babies, a large percentage of us are on one fixed income. Not gonna take too kindly to being told we don't get Medicare.
Have to say I love Romney's marksmanship though. Every time he fires he hits his foot. Introduced Ryan as "the next President of the United States".
Of course *something* has to be done to shore up Medicare. But I agree that Ryan's plan isn't likely to go over well with seniors. We have spent more than half a century assuming the governmnet will cover most of our medical bills and don't want to be told our children will have to make do with a half-vast substitute.
Susan: Actually, no. For two reasons. First, Medicare and Social Security are totally seperate programs. Second, the government is in fact obligated to redeem the securities in which Social Security has invested, just as it is every other security it has ever issued. The notion that this is somehow different is a figment of stupid government accounting rules that have no connection to reality.
The township decided to celebrate my birthday by holding an open house for its new senior services center, so I went over there. A really beautiful rehabbed vintage building. I was particularly impressed with the meeting/communal dining room, with windows covering two of the four sides. Passed up the cake they were offering in favor of fruit salad -- quite good.
It appears that *this* copy of AVG can keep downloading, even after its interrupted, rather than starting all over. The first virus definition is HUGE (almost as big as the whole program). But it IS cumulative, so only a few hours left, and from then on, only needs to grab that day's new definitions. Still hoping/praying it takes, because otherwise, I like the interface and trust its ratings.
I attended the training for the new "First Year Experience" class. It's sort of similar to the class I taught last fall--the Freshman Seminar--except that was a two hour class and this is a one hour class. So, to make as much money as I was making teaching three sections last year, I would have to teach 6 sections.
Yes, they are only one hour each, but that's still a lot of students. Supposed to hear this week. Wish I would hear about psych classes at the alternative medicine school.
So a couple of other sort of celebratory things today. Marcus made a nice homade pizza. Mushroom and home-grown tomatoe slices as topping. Hard a nice Hofbrau bock with it, then a blueberry loaf cake Marcus had made for dessert.
And I made the train and hotel reservations for my trip to Philadelphia at the end of November. This will be a convention for people who help run science fiction conventions. I'll stop to visit a friend in Pennsylvania (Lancaster) on the way.
Not exactly in the same category, but I also created a table of all the scooter reservations we have for Chicon. Needed to be done by the end of next week, and nice to know that now only the new reservations that come in need to be added.
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Howard Dean is First!
ReplyDeleteBrother-in-law Larry is first, too, because:
LARRY IS HOME!!! :-D
New PICC line is in, fever is down, and the infection has cleared! =Whew!=
It took them 3 hours to make the 1 hour drive home, though, due to Friday evening traffic out of Boston and storms.
I bet they'll be glad to sleep in their own bed again!
I'm sure they will.
Delete= Hoping all is well, Alan! =
ReplyDeleteRomney/Ryan? My God, I think I'm gonna froop!
ReplyDeleteYou mean because both names begin with R?
DeleteIncidentally, thise is the first time I've ever heard the word "froop" and none of the three meanings on the Wikipedia disambiguation page seem to apply. (A brand of yoghurt, a type of hard candy, and a diuretic.)
DeleteNah, the vision of having to look at *both* the self-satisfied frat boy, and his Mini-me for three months. . . .
DeleteFROOP -- A word I learned when my first chile was four. At one in the morning, he pulls on your blanket, and sez: Mommy, I'm gonna froop. And does. The raspberry koolaid stain never can be removed from the new white carpet.
Maybe need to add a new item on Wikipedia? [grin]
DeleteI don't think Ryan will go over too well. As of 2011 there were 77 million Baby Boomers heading toward Senior status. Older people are the fastest growing demographic in the USA. Most of us were not Trust Fund Babies, a large percentage of us are on one fixed income. Not gonna take too kindly to being told we don't get Medicare.
ReplyDeleteHave to say I love Romney's marksmanship though. Every time he fires he hits his foot. Introduced Ryan as "the next President of the United States".
Of course *something* has to be done to shore up Medicare. But I agree that Ryan's plan isn't likely to go over well with seniors. We have spent more than half a century assuming the governmnet will cover most of our medical bills and don't want to be told our children will have to make do with a half-vast substitute.
DeleteBill, I suspect the main *something* to shore up Medicare would be the US government *paying back* the money they've "borrowed" from Social Security.
DeleteSusan: Actually, no. For two reasons. First, Medicare and Social Security are totally seperate programs. Second, the government is in fact obligated to redeem the securities in which Social Security has invested, just as it is every other security it has ever issued. The notion that this is somehow different is a figment of stupid government accounting rules that have no connection to reality.
DeleteThe township decided to celebrate my birthday by holding an open house for its new senior services center, so I went over there. A really beautiful rehabbed vintage building. I was particularly impressed with the meeting/communal dining room, with windows covering two of the four sides. Passed up the cake they were offering in favor of fruit salad -- quite good.
ReplyDeleteHave a Happy HAPPY, Bill. Nice of the township to do you up brown, lol!
ReplyDeleteKrugman's on a roll:
GALT/GEKKO 2012
It appears that *this* copy of AVG can keep downloading, even after its interrupted, rather than starting all over. The first virus definition is HUGE (almost as big as the whole program). But it IS cumulative, so only a few hours left, and from then on, only needs to grab that day's new definitions. Still hoping/praying it takes, because otherwise, I like the interface and trust its ratings.
ReplyDeleteEldest tested for his 5th degree black belt in TaeKwonDo today, and we were there! So proud!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe day he tested for 4th degree was his wife's due date! VT*Grand turns 5 next month!
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ReplyDeleteI attended the training for the new "First Year Experience" class. It's sort of similar to the class I taught last fall--the Freshman Seminar--except that was a two hour class and this is a one hour class. So, to make as much money as I was making teaching three sections last year, I would have to teach 6 sections.
Yes, they are only one hour each, but that's still a lot of students. Supposed to hear this week. Wish I would hear about psych classes at the alternative medicine school.
Best of luck with getting the classes you want.
DeleteSo a couple of other sort of celebratory things today. Marcus made a nice homade pizza. Mushroom and home-grown tomatoe slices as topping. Hard a nice Hofbrau bock with it, then a blueberry loaf cake Marcus had made for dessert.
ReplyDeleteAnd I made the train and hotel reservations for my trip to Philadelphia at the end of November. This will be a convention for people who help run science fiction conventions. I'll stop to visit a friend in Pennsylvania (Lancaster) on the way.
Not exactly in the same category, but I also created a table of all the scooter reservations we have for Chicon. Needed to be done by the end of next week, and nice to know that now only the new reservations that come in need to be added.
A pretty satisfactory birthday, I'd say.
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Sorry my Birthday greeting arrived a tad late, Bill!
ReplyDeleteSo happy to hear it was such a nice one for you! :-)
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