MORE THOUGHTS FROM THE RECLINER

CONGRATS to JET BLUE airlines on their new policy. EVERY PERSON on board must wear a face mask.

I’m amazed that food stores like Jewel and Aldi’s and Costco don’t require face masks to all shoppers. 

AS A MATTER OF FACT…….LET’S JUST REQUIRE EVERYONE TO WEAR A MASK WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR HOUSE. Simple solution.

Did you see VP MIKE PENCE visiting patients as the only guy NOT wearing a mask at the MAYO CLINIC, where masks are mandatory? What the hell was he thinking? And why didn’t someone hand him a mask?  DUH.

Despite their poor drafting position, I think the Bears did ok with the first two selections. The jury is out on the other 4 or 5.

I know that Trump supporters get mad at me because they think I pick on him but the guy holding the sign that said “FAKE CRISIS” and wearing a red trump hat says it all. How fake are 57,000 dead people? What an idiot.

The BASEBALL HALL OF FAME was scheduled to induct HAWK HARRELSON, DEREK JETER and three other luminaries of the game on July 26^th but it was postponed until the summer of 2021.

What do you open on a limited basis? IMO, restaurants, bars, night clubs, bowling alleys and places which draw large crowds are places that should stay shut but what about fishing? hunting? golf courses?

I don’t do any of the first two and hardly the third but two to a boat works for me and you certainly don’t hunt shoulder to shoulder but golf presents another problem with carts unless everyone wants to pay extra for their own cart or god forbid, walk the golf course.

Have you watched any of those virtual concerts given by musical stars? I watched one recently off my DVR (where I record everything known to man to avoid boredom) and a group of  country stars performed from their homes. One thing I noticed: talent is talent, whether they’re playing in front of 20,000 people or performing in their basements. It was very enjoyable.

Happy Birthday to JERRY SEINFELD, 66, one of my favorites.

In April, 2009, we had our first death from swine flu.

In 1992 this week, L.A. broke out in riots following the acquittal of four police officers in the RODNEY KING beating. Two of those four officers were later found guilty in federal court and served prison time..

And finally, one of my favorite gangsters of all time….. in April of 1932, AL CAPONE was sent to Atlanta federal penitentiary to serve an 11 year term for tax evasion. His entry medical exam revealed gonorrhea, syphilis and cocaine addiction but at the time, there was no cure as the use of penicillin didn’t start until 1942. Capone was transferred to Alcatraz in 1934 and worked in the shoe repair shop until his release in 1939.

Capone lived out his days at his estate in Palm Island, Florida, and the disease addled his brain to where he had the mental capacity of a 12 year old. Capone died in early 1947 and his estate was valued at ……...........ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, which in today’s dollars is about 1.47 BILLION.

Who said crime doesn’t pay?

Back to the recliner and the tv and 
all the news shows and my beloved VCR.  STAY SAFE!

THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS WHILE STUCK AT HOME

THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS WHILE STUCK AT HOME

as these thoughts hit me, i just jotted them done so there in no specific order.  enjoy.

The bad guy is NEVER home when the police kick in the door with a search warrant.

The last commercial during ABC world news at 5:30 is a full five minutes long. You watch it because “someone you should know” is the last segment on the show.

BIG BANG THEORY is/was a pretty good show.

DONNA THE BARTENDER is all done with her cancer treatments and good for her!

Other than watching the alligator show, I  never watch reality tv but………..

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND is a big scam. The guys have dug up half of the island over a five year period and found two dimes and a hammer. I would love to see their profit/loss statement.

And I think the same applies to “the lost gold of WW II” but they get the benefit of the doubt after just one year. At least they found a tunnel on the last show of the season.

My buddy BOB is a pretty good friend.

ASPCA has the world’s longest commercials. One undernourished, dirty dog after another and only 19 cents a day to join.

The sloth playing Pictionary is a funny commercial.

All Republicans have to put their hands over their faces any time donald trump attempts to converse with educated people on the daily corona briefing. And they slump deeper into their chairs and couches when he tries to debate DR. FAUCI and the other medical experts.

SCIENCE, MEDICINE & COMMON SENSE are what we need to fight the virus, not some uneducated egomaniac telling people to swallow or inject household products.

FYI—following trump’s suggestion, five cases of emergency room activity, including one guy who rinsed his sinus cavities with warm water and bleach. for real.

I love it when ESPN runs all of MUHAMMAD ALI'S fights for 24 hours. A true test of my DVR capacities.

NEPHEW FRANK retires next month. good for him!

Why is it when we get a warm spring day, the wind blows 40 mph?

Tulips are cool but not when they're covered by snow.

Watching baseball playoff games from ten years ago does nothing for me. Watching HIGHLIGHTS is a totally different story.

U TUBE can be amusing but there are a lot of weird people in this world….as if I didn’t know that already.

EXACTLY how much better can their frying pan be than mine? My eggs flip just fine and nothing sticks.

I don't think they will play baseball until July. or maybe not at all.

END OF AN ERA.....I just gave up my season tickets for the CHICAGO BEARS. just thinking about the world's health problems and then sitting with 60,000 unknowns with them coughing and and sneezing.........after 33 years, it was the perfect time to say good-bye and reserve a spot on my couch.

And I REALLY LIKE the guy with the spray can of miracle adhesive who makes a boat with the spray and then runs the commercial from the boat on the water. no leaks!

for real, I’m going to miss CRIMINAL MINDS & HAWAII FIVE-0.

I have no idea why I keep paying for the daily newspaper. It has about 4 pages of news and the rest about the virus and I get that information on tv.

I still flip back & forth between CNN, FOX and CNBC which is why I’m so confused but i really like CHRIS CUOMO & CHRIS WALLACE.

 Saw a ½ hour infomercial last night on the ‘world’s greatest knife’. HAH! My niece gave me a Ginsu knife and IT is the world’s greatest knife.

If you didn’t see ANDERSON COOPER’S interview with LAS VEGAS MAYOR CAROLYN GOODMAN on CNN, hunt it down but be prepared to hold your jaw so it doesn’t slam onto the floor below. Her ideas of opening the town back up with no checks and balances was stunning and cooper’s reaction will go down in television history. Find it somewhere and listen to the entire interview. I just read it’s available for viewing on CNN.COM

We're just about done.......Stay safe and following all of the safety protocols and COVER YOUR FACE AND NOSE when you leave the house.  It doesn't have to be a medical mask but covering your mouth and nose protects others.

 P.S. if you google it, you can find non-medical masks for all of your favorite college and sports teams. they sell for about fifteen bucks and you might as well have some fun with all this.

cute, right?

adios for now.

a bunch of different thoughts

Hello from deep in the bunker at breezy acres where all is well and the supplies are holding out and i hope you are also doing well. Thought i'd share some random thoughts with you.

I had to pick up an allergy prescription the other day and when i left the pharmacy, i cruised thru the two strip malls just to the east to see what was happening. closed, closed, closed.......i had resigned myself that nothing was shaking (couldn't believe that tanning beds were ruled non-essential) when i saw an "open" sign at the Subway store and i couldn't resist. i pulled into a parking spot (plenty available) and entered. 

ONE woman was running the store and she explained she was a part time employee but was working full time hours since the lock down because her husband was unemployed. i ordered a sandwich and when i was paying, she reminded me that i had to leave immediately because the dining room was closed. i wished her good health and i walked out and looked around. nobody. no cars in the lot besides mine. no people. spooky.

Congratulations to all the upcoming graduates at every level and yes, it sucks that you can't have the ceremony or a big party but be proud of the work you produced to get to this point.

My friends in Mexico are suffering the trickle down effect from the virus. The hotels and beaches and restaurants are closed so there's no work for anyone.......and they don't have a single recorded case of the virus.

funny story. When you get the sunday edition of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, you can normally spend a few hours even after chucking a few sections into the bird cage, like the car section, the funnies and the want ads. the birds love those sections and go thru them page by page but not me.

HOWEVER, today's trib had no sales flyers (my mom called them the 'shinys'), no parade magazine and the sports section was like 6 pages when normally thirty, so i decided to read everything to kill some time and i did exactly that.  fine dining, business, real estate, neighborhoods....everything. i got up to bring the birds their increased bounty when i noticed the comics, which i hadn't read since high school.

 shock to my system! baby blues, pickles, zits (?) wumo and frazz were the front page comic strips.  WHO? I continues with brewster rockit, half full, the tinkersons, dogs of c kennel and fox trot. ????????????? WTF is going on? my heart finally slowed when i got to the last page and found doonesbury, dick tracy and hagar the horrible. then i went back to bed.

Remember this famous line? "Houston, we have a problem." APOLLO 13 happened 50 years ago this week.

59 years ago, YURI GAGARIN became the first man in space.

also happening in this week was the start of the CIVIL WAR and oddly enough, it's also the same week that ABRAHAM LINCOLN was assassinated after ending that war. 

finally, stay safe by staying inside. i know you're going crazy and so am i but we just have to wait it out. and remember all of this come November.  adios

Cleaning out the closets...........

Just got back from Mexico and i'm being a good boy with my two week quarantine and other than two previously scheduled doctor visits on my first day back, i've been at home and like most of you, bored to death but i thought i would share my home adventure with you.

Cleaning out the kitchen cabinets seemed like a good idea and when i found a forgotten can of peaches based in a very sweet syrup, i was convinced that more treasures lay in the dark recesses.  wrong. very, very wrong. 

Two cans of sardines?????? i hate sardines. where did they come from? it was then time to start a bag for food pantry donations and weigh the bag down with the two tins of dead fish. throw in a box of brownie mix (i don't bake) and a couple cans of spam. SPAM. the only person i ever saw eat that was my step-dad, who went to the big roundup in the sky over 40 years ago.

Four various sized bottles of cooking oil are discovered and three go into the bag. oops, time to switch to a box to handle everything. then reaching elbow deep to the back wall, i come out with one red light bulb. now i could understand a white or yellow bulb but red? i'm sure there's a joke here about the sex industry but i have more exploring to do.

GOOD STUFF wayyyyyy in the back!!! a large can of pork and beans, which goes great with chopped up hot dogs. the perfect cowboy food for watching monday night football. someday. 

then four boxes of butterscotch pudding were found and made it's way back to it's rightful place in the front of the cabinet. my smile grew bigger when my hands found a large box of KETTLE CORN, which i had purchased at xmas 2018 to help the girl scouts or little league or someone else with a pricey con who set up a table outside the local jewel food store. i'm surprised i don't remember the sellers because i just paid off the bank loan i took out to pay for the 18-pack of popcorn. But that was it for buried treasure.

Other discoveries included: two large cloves of garlic, a small travel pack of kleenex, a large pack of tortillas....the kind that crumble when you squeeze the package.............red beans, green chiles, a single cashew (not a can but a single nut), five q-tips, a half price coupon for the local pizza joint (expired 2015), a broken in half pencil and my favorite coming out of the food cabinet..........one small jar of red touch-up paint for my dodge daytona, which i sold in 2004, and haven't owned a red car since then. 

As most of you know, i don't bend very well so the contents of the bottom cabinets will remain a mystery but i am thinking very hard about the three closets.............maybe a later column.

Hope you smiled at least once. Have a great day and remember all of this come November.   adios