Flu Season

Every day I hear about more cases of the flu. People that have been vaccinated are even coming down with it. I feel like we are all a walking time bomb until end April. We have to use the rules of common sense. If you feel sick, stay home. Wash your hands. Sneeze into a tissue or your elbow. As weird as it looks, it does prevent germs spreading. If you have a school child, remove their clothes as soon as they enter the house. Clothes do carry germs. Try not to be in public places if not necessary. If you have a newborn, do not take them out until end April, except for doctor visits. This seems a bit like paranoia, but it is what the CDC is recommending so it must be valid.

Lazy Day

I wish I was Shelby. This morning he is a lazy dog. He did not want to get out of bed and start his day. I literally had to shake him to wake him up. When I walked him, he decided to stroll around the yard, backtracking about five times to see every inch of the backyard. I put out his breakfast and he decided to go lay on the couch and "chill". Once I leave for work, I know he will take a nap. Is he a dog or is he a college student?

Sportsmanship

Last night the New England Patriots lost the Super Bowl. I felt bad. I know nothing about the team and none of the player's names. It is "my team" because my granddaughters wear their jerseys to watch the games. How could I not align myself with a team that two little girls root for? Just seeing them wearing the team logo makes me smile.

Random Person

Sometimes you meet a random person and then see them again very soon after. Last night I went to the 7-11 to pick up a rental cd. As I was getting back into my car, the woman in the car next to me started to talk to me. She asked what that red box was and I explained that it had movies in it. She said she was from upstate NY and never saw anything like that. I told her how it worked and we parted ways with her wishing me a wonderful weekend. She was an older lady wearing a black hat with sequins on it. I continued on to a local Japanese restaurant. Midway through the meal,  a woman came in to pick up her take out order. It was the same woman. How random.

Searching The Web

If you can't find it on the web, you do not need it. Anything you want is there if you search long enough. It may be 5,000 miles away but it does exist. If you can think it, they make it. What did we do years ago when we were limited to our own neighborhoods? I guess we had to make do or forget about our ideas.

The Story Of An Hour

My sister told me about a short story that she read years ago. It is titled "The Story Of An Hour". It is about a woman that is told that her husband has died in a train wreck. Everyone is afraid of what her reaction will be and hover around her. She retreats to her room, as the others wait downstairs for her, worrying that she will fall apart. While she is in her room, she looks out of her window and sees trees and birds and flowers and sunshine. She gets a wonderful feeling in her heart and realizes that she is finally free. No one to oppress her. She dances around the room pondering all of the wonderful things she can now do, without anyone holding her down. Her family comes up to check on her but she sends them away. She is not done dreaming of her bright future. After an hour, they beg her to come down. She leaves her room and sees that her husband is standing there. He had not been killed in the train wreck. He missed the usual train home. He was alive. She has a heart attack and falls to the floor. She has died of a broken heart.

Copier

Last night one of the interns from my office called me. She wanted to know where a certain insurance policy was kept. This is the third time this month that my boss has had the office call me for this information. It would be easier if my boss just knew where her things were kept, but that is another story. I told the intern that the papers were in the drawer under the Xerox machine in a folder labeled "Insurance". She did not respond, so again I repeated that the papers were in a drawer under the Xerox machine. After a moment she asked, "What is a Xerox machine?". I thought she was joking. I said, "The Xerox machine by the window". Again, silence. Then I acted like a grandma and used an alternative word so a child could understand. I said "the copy machine". She then understood what I was talking about. How could a student with her Master's Degree, not know the word Xerox?