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- Paul’s Law
You can’t fall off the floor.
Unless you have had too much to drink.
- Time Changes
This morning, i went throughout our house trying to remember which time pieces changed to daylight savings time electronically (on their own?) and which ones i had to change to comply with something i detest.
After about a half hour of such drudgery, i tried to bring my Sunday morning into our routine. It is now after 10 a.m. (DST, of course), and i am out of whack. Nothing, except breakfast and changing clock times, seems to have gotten done. And Maureen is calculating when we should feed the cat. Poor Bruce Willis, our cat, will not be able figure this one out.
i don’t like government officials telling me what to do when i’m not trying to hurt anyone physically, financially, or mentally.
i don’t understand why we have to attempt to change time rather than just doing everything an hour earlier. Ah, some brilliant bureaucrat, a.k.a. politician, wanted to make a name for him/her self and came up with this brilliant (not) idea.
So around 9:45, or was it 10: 45, or 8:45, i decided i would create my own time zone. i am now living in JJT, That’s “Jim Jewell Time.”
i’m going to record anything i wish to watch on the telly, and watch it when i want to watch it. i am going to bed and getting up when i want to regardless of what “time” it is. i’m going to eat when i’m hungry. i’m going to work when i desire. i’m going to read and listen to music when i feel like it.
i’m going to recite that old tribal chief about the U.S. government and a blanket several times a day.
And i’m going to feel sorry for all of the folks (including school children) who have to figure out why what just happened is erroneously called a “time change.” After all, i’m retired and can do what i want.
“Time is on my side.” i think Mick Jagger sang that.
- The Grand Whiner Whines
After our close friend, Marty Linville, crossed over that bridge, July 5, 2024, the remainder of the Order of Curmudgeons, Rod Stark, Peter Toennies, Jim Hileman, and i, met in Coronado.
The grand old group of golfers have been playing golf separately or with some of the others for a long time. In May 1991, Marty and i began playing on Fridays, mostly at the Sea ‘n Air golf course on the Naval Air Station, Coronado. The others in the group began to play with us, and we added and subtracted members. Currently, we have a dozen golfers. We reserve two tee times each week, now on Thursdays, and usually fill with eight golfers. Rod is the driver for the tee times and counting heads.
Of the orginal corp group that were labeled curmudgeons by the Sea ‘n Air staff, it’s the five of us. At that meeting two years ago, we voted who would take Marty’s place as the Grand Whiner of the Order of Curmudgeons. i was surprised the other four voted for me.
i take this job seriously.
For several years now, i have been known by folks that read my posts, here and on Facebook, for riding sport casters hard. They deserve it. Several things have occurred over the past several months that made me decide to expand my curmudgeon comments.
i began a post about some irritations when i realized it would be a never-ending post. So i decided i would only whine about one or two in a series using the title above. The first of the series is below:
Lately, have you attempted to call a business or a service? i have. It is a most infuriating experience.
A recorded voice (or perhaps an Artificial Intelligence generated voice) takes through an almost infinite number of steps to not reach what i sought: a real, live, human being. While doing so, this supposedly soothing voice that drives me insane, tells me many things i already know and takes his or her sweet time doing it before moving on to the next step. Often, i end up listening to a horrible quality tape of recorded music frequently interrupted with that voice telling me they value me as a client or customer before finally either disconnecting me or i choose to disconnect because i became tired of being on hold for half the morning.
Are these organizations really making more money by firing all of their basic staff? Has it ever occurred to them they might get more business, certainly mine, if they hired one person to answer the phone and direct the caller to the right person?
And why would i want to complete a survey after the call, a survey that doesn’t allow me to comment about how crappy my experience has been, including the survey?
It seems commercial America has decided customer service isn’t worth the time or cost. It seems they are focused on making me miserable.
- Schopenhauer’s Law of Entropy
If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage; if you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.
One of my favorites and so applicable to so many things.
- Goethe’s Observation
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.