With Mom in the rest home I've had a lot to do. My two brothers share power-of-attorney but both live out of state. One is busy building a house and the other just had surgery so it's hard for them to find the time to get the information I need to get Medicaid for Mom. Finally got all the stuff together today.
Had her new alarm system installed. It is a wireless system.
I could tell someone has been in the house. I don't know if its someone with a key or someone who uses the lock box to get the emergency key but they will have a big surprise next time they try to get in. The combo to the lock box has been changed so they can't get the emergency key. If they have a regular key they will be surprised when they try to key in the alarm code and discover it has been changed. No one has any need to enter Mom's home since she isn't there now. She may return one day but not for awhile.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
CPI Security: a rant
A few months ago my Mom, 90 years old and blind and deaf had her home broken into so it is important that she have the protection of a working security system. In October Mom got sick and had to be hospitalized so the person that was paying for her cable and phone discontinued the services. I cannot blame them . The solution should have been simple enough: just have her system converted over to a wireless system so it would need neither cable nor a phone. After a month of effort nothing has been accomplished except overpaying CPI.
The semi-annual payment was due which my older brother had sent in the payment for but only my younger brother can authorized the new installation so he also sent in a payment along with the authorization to change the system. Funny but they received the money but not the authorization. He resent the authorization again but they can't find that either. They didn't return his phone calls and only one of mine. Things shouldn't be this complicated so I wrote to the President of CPI about the problem. I have no qualms about cancelling CPI and having a different system installed but I shouldn't have to pay extra to do so and neither should Mom.
The semi-annual payment was due which my older brother had sent in the payment for but only my younger brother can authorized the new installation so he also sent in a payment along with the authorization to change the system. Funny but they received the money but not the authorization. He resent the authorization again but they can't find that either. They didn't return his phone calls and only one of mine. Things shouldn't be this complicated so I wrote to the President of CPI about the problem. I have no qualms about cancelling CPI and having a different system installed but I shouldn't have to pay extra to do so and neither should Mom.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Battle of the ex's
No, not that kind of battle. While a sophomore in college my brother married a high school girl and she was just about the prettiest girl in town. The only turn-off was she had a deep voice but she was pretty, slim, and had a very nice figure. I haven't seen her in 40 years but I figured she must be a little heavier than she was then (aren't we all) and a little grayer but I wasn't prepared for what I saw.
She is probably in her mid sixties but honestly she looks older than my ninety-year-old mother. What a shocker.
Seeing her gave me an idea so I checked a face book of one of my ex's children and going back 5 years I finally found a picture or two of my ex. She was never a beauty queen by she wasn't unpleasant to look out. She was tall and slim (weighed only 120 pounds) with long sexy legs. She looked really good in those tight fitting jeans. She and my brother's first wife are the same age, a few years younger than me and I do admit she looks about right for her age. She still had flaming red hair without a hint of gray (but this is a five year old picture) but she had arms as big as my thighs and was so fat she would make a pig jealous.
I don't know which would be more embarrassing: to be seen dating ones mother or Petula Pig.
She is probably in her mid sixties but honestly she looks older than my ninety-year-old mother. What a shocker.
Seeing her gave me an idea so I checked a face book of one of my ex's children and going back 5 years I finally found a picture or two of my ex. She was never a beauty queen by she wasn't unpleasant to look out. She was tall and slim (weighed only 120 pounds) with long sexy legs. She looked really good in those tight fitting jeans. She and my brother's first wife are the same age, a few years younger than me and I do admit she looks about right for her age. She still had flaming red hair without a hint of gray (but this is a five year old picture) but she had arms as big as my thighs and was so fat she would make a pig jealous.
I don't know which would be more embarrassing: to be seen dating ones mother or Petula Pig.
Monday, November 09, 2015
tatoos
What is with the recent fad of writing all over ones body is permanent ink? Some of it pretty and some of it is actually sexy but most of it is just juvenile and tacky.
Muslims buy motel
There is a motel in Asheboro, NC that is no longer in business. It was probably a nice place to stay at one time but one doesn't know it's there is on US 64 and there just doesn't seem to be a way to get to it off the old new 220 by-pass or what is now know as I 73-74. The final selling price is far below what the appraised value of the property but people opposed to the sell were unable or unwilling to come up with a counter-offer. People's objections to the sale based on emotional or religious reasons just can't prevail in today's money and political climate.
Even though the Islamist in Asheboro purchased the property with the intention of making it into a Mosque and considering 9-11 and what is going on in the middle East and the potential threat to the local community by having a potentially hostile group in the mist of the city of Asheboro, denying the Muslims the right to purchase the property because of who they are is a bigger threat to our freedoms than the group would be even if they were known to have strong Anti-American feelings. After all wasn't the 'New World" occupied and established because of persecution based on religious beliefs?
I know it's not quite that simple. I think monetary reasons far outweighed religious freedom in motivating people to settle in this part of the world but religious freedom played a great part in the forming of this nation and the framing of our governing documents. Many people claim to oppose Islam based on a religious belief that they do not themselves practice. They have turned into people with the same mindset as the people whom the settlers of this country opposed and cited as a reason to rebel.
Kind of sad, really.
Even though the Islamist in Asheboro purchased the property with the intention of making it into a Mosque and considering 9-11 and what is going on in the middle East and the potential threat to the local community by having a potentially hostile group in the mist of the city of Asheboro, denying the Muslims the right to purchase the property because of who they are is a bigger threat to our freedoms than the group would be even if they were known to have strong Anti-American feelings. After all wasn't the 'New World" occupied and established because of persecution based on religious beliefs?
I know it's not quite that simple. I think monetary reasons far outweighed religious freedom in motivating people to settle in this part of the world but religious freedom played a great part in the forming of this nation and the framing of our governing documents. Many people claim to oppose Islam based on a religious belief that they do not themselves practice. They have turned into people with the same mindset as the people whom the settlers of this country opposed and cited as a reason to rebel.
Kind of sad, really.
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Example of Bad News stories
Buttered toast. Really?
An article on Yahoo proclaims to teach us how to butter toast as if that was a skill that will be life changing. Really. Do some of us need help buttering our toast. Yea, I know there are those with learning disabilities, and some have aged out of being able to help themselves and then there are those that are to young to make toast and I am sure that there are many who have physical disabilities but honestly those aren't the people the article is written for. After all if one can't butter toast then I doubt if they can operate a computer, click on and understand the article.
Maybe if one wants to get technical I suppose there are people who can do that but still can't butter toast but if we are honest, we will have to admit the article was written for normal (relatively speaking) everyday people like you and I who fixes ourselves and maybe others toast with butter now and then. I didn't actually read the article so I don't know if it was recommended that one use margarine instead of real butter and whether the toast was light, medium, or dark, but to tell the truth it really doesn't matter because putting butter on toast isn't like rocket science and doesn't require a technical article to accomplish.
I would rank the usefulness of this article right there with "the best way to tie one's shoes".
Maybe if one wants to get technical I suppose there are people who can do that but still can't butter toast but if we are honest, we will have to admit the article was written for normal (relatively speaking) everyday people like you and I who fixes ourselves and maybe others toast with butter now and then. I didn't actually read the article so I don't know if it was recommended that one use margarine instead of real butter and whether the toast was light, medium, or dark, but to tell the truth it really doesn't matter because putting butter on toast isn't like rocket science and doesn't require a technical article to accomplish.
I would rank the usefulness of this article right there with "the best way to tie one's shoes".
Thursday, November 05, 2015
Bad News Stories
It's not BAD news but bad stories about the news. Sometimes in writing it is impossible to place the emphasis where it should be so that is why I want to make it clear that I'm writing about bad stories as in poorly written or presented rather than stories that are about news that is bad.
Exactly what I'm talking about is stories that are headlined like this " Twin sisters are found at the bottom of a well". Your curiosity is peaked and you wonder how they got in the well, how old they were, and most of all, you wonder if they are okay, injured or deceased. You click on the headline to read the story and there, in all it's glory is the entire story: Twin sister are found at the bottom of a well.
Right above this story is a video and if you click to play this video you have to sit through a commercial and then some news reporter's talking head appears and in the background you see an out of focus video (ain't it fun watching a video of a video?) of an ambulance crew and police standing around and a woman crying on the shoulders of another woman and then the talking head says "Rescue workers at the scene where twin girls have fallen into a well. There are no details about the welfare of the girls."
Wow.
Exactly what I'm talking about is stories that are headlined like this " Twin sisters are found at the bottom of a well". Your curiosity is peaked and you wonder how they got in the well, how old they were, and most of all, you wonder if they are okay, injured or deceased. You click on the headline to read the story and there, in all it's glory is the entire story: Twin sister are found at the bottom of a well.
Right above this story is a video and if you click to play this video you have to sit through a commercial and then some news reporter's talking head appears and in the background you see an out of focus video (ain't it fun watching a video of a video?) of an ambulance crew and police standing around and a woman crying on the shoulders of another woman and then the talking head says "Rescue workers at the scene where twin girls have fallen into a well. There are no details about the welfare of the girls."
Wow.
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
I Voted
Yea, I voted in the Randleman election today. Turnout was light and only three races were on the ballot. One of the candidates is a fiery red head and has a temper to match and her agenda seems rather personal rather than for the good of the city. A few years ago a tree from her yard fell into the church yard so I got there early and began trimming the tree. Some other men showed up along with the pastor. This lady showed up in her housecoat and started yelling at us for cutting her tree and then accused us of lying to her about cutting down some other trees on our property.
She said a non-existent person had told her we wouldn't cut the trees down. She said we were destroying life. But she never apologized for her actions until she saw me at NASCAR days and then only because she was running for alderwoman. (The title is actually alderman so draw your own conclusions).
If she was truly repentant she could have walked from her yard into ours and apologized anytime in the past two years but then she wasn't running for office. She claims our beliefs are so different she could never attend our church but I just wonder how she knows.
Anyway unless people know her I'm afraid they will vote for her as it seems she has gone all out to win this election. I do have to give her an "A" for effort. Maybe her opponent is over confident, broke, or not so smart but he didn't put half
She said a non-existent person had told her we wouldn't cut the trees down. She said we were destroying life. But she never apologized for her actions until she saw me at NASCAR days and then only because she was running for alderwoman. (The title is actually alderman so draw your own conclusions).
If she was truly repentant she could have walked from her yard into ours and apologized anytime in the past two years but then she wasn't running for office. She claims our beliefs are so different she could never attend our church but I just wonder how she knows.
Anyway unless people know her I'm afraid they will vote for her as it seems she has gone all out to win this election. I do have to give her an "A" for effort. Maybe her opponent is over confident, broke, or not so smart but he didn't put half
Monday, November 02, 2015
Family Crisis
A few weeks back I took a call informing me Mom was sick and needed someone to stay with her so I packed an overnight bag and headed to Hickory. I spent that night but couldn't spend the weekend so I arranged for friends to stop by and check on her. I drove to Hickory on Monday but she had not shown any improvement. I went again on Tuesday but I left a couple of hours sooner than I normally would which turned out to be a good thing as I found Mom in the floor.
I called 9-1-1 and she was admitted into the hospital in critical condition. After spending a week and 2 days there she was sent to a convalescent home. Chances are high she will never go back home.
I called 9-1-1 and she was admitted into the hospital in critical condition. After spending a week and 2 days there she was sent to a convalescent home. Chances are high she will never go back home.
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