HEROS ALL - - GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING

Another family hand-me-down.

"YOU DO NOTHING TO BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE; BUT YOU CAN DO MUCH TO SAVE THE LIVING"

"LIBRARY OF HEALTH"
Complete Guide to Prevention and Cure of Disease. 1923 Edition
Historical Publishing Co. Philadelphia, PA
1774 pages

The book is in fairly good shape. Some apparent water damage causing the first few pages to still stick together at the bottom. But book is still readable.

My guess is this book started life with my grandparents and has been in the family since early on. My wife noted that the printing of the entire book was all set by hand for a printing press. Those were the days of attention to detail. 

Thumbing through many a malady, an underlying theme on any disease appears as  "avoid getting it" advice at the onset of the explanation of and possible cure(s) for. 

Back during the days where much of health care from A to Z,was home-based.

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For well over a month now, my wife stands at the ready when I sit down for breakfast. 

Space age tool in hand, I am trained to take off my glasses and brace for contact. She pushes the on bottom, says to wait for a second and then holds the tool against my left temple. "Beep" goes the tool and a 97.7 degrees reads out. 

Blood oxygen levels are fine, too. But I'll be damned if I am going to weigh myself daily. 

Concord Hospital put on a parade this past week, Nashua and Manchester too. (Seems all of the major cities, as of publishing time, are in parade mode)

Yep, a parade for all of the heroes. Flashing lights, folkdancing, elbow to elbow clapping, whooping and hollering on the sidewalks as the police, ambulances and fire trucks drive by the hospital entrance. Happy signs waving out the windows. 

The optics of all of this and the self-bathing in self-hero worship and greatness of the few doing their job is painful to watch. The organizers of this public orgasm are indeed the elite of the elite and need their daily stroking."We are with you" signs works wonders on the warm and fuzzy, huh?

Catholic Medical Center celebration of heroes took the cake though, at the end of this past week. Touching, hugging and grouping like in the days of old. Again, the optics of all of this is laughable. This is how the heroes of today act and display. But but but 6' self-distancing and the governor shutting down the state of NH for reasons that change daily. 

The wearing of masks and self-distancing did not apply/do not apply. And, of course, there was a speech. Must explain to the quarantined. 

Someone needs to do some "'splaining" to all the good folk out of work.

And, of course, the Governor carrying a box of PPEs for first responders was staged to perfection. No quarantine distancing for him used, nor his support staff, nor the others he interacts with on media news. Business as usual. 

God forbid the governor could trust the peeps of NH to start to re-open with a few simple guidelines minimizing the spreading of C19. God forbid that the governor could be on the front lines of getting folks back to work. Many will be dropping dead financially over the next two months of shutdowns. God forbid that the people of NH were first on all of the governor's lists.

Want to know what the governor of NH is going to do next. Watch what the bedside states are doing and expect him to copy.  

They are all here for us.

FYI - - That was ranting and I feel better.

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FIRE

WINTER'S FINAL PUSH MIDDLE NEW HAMPSHIRE

PULLING THE PLUGS ON OLD FRIENDS.

Three old old computers. What to do with them?

All served her and me well over the years. One was the computer I used at school teaching. (If we wanted our own computer in the classroom, we had to buy it). The other two served as home computers. All dependable and taking care of business, photography, music and the net. 

It pained me to pull the screws, pull the two electrical plugs on each hard drive and look at the remains of their exposed shells. 

Today, they go in the dumpster, their hard drives photos, music and some documents will be saved on one single hard drive and that one will be installed on our home computer. Much of the old memories still intact and available at the new push of a button.

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 A TASTE OF SOCIALISM

": any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods."

Look around and feel the change. Political leaders around the states now pushing the absolution of their powers to shut down, control, prescribe, mandate, fine, negate the Bill of Rights, turn neighbor against neighbor and direct huge amounts of free money as their agenda sees fit. 

So how does it feel?

BAD LANGUAGE AND IN YOUR FACE. SO BE WARNED. 
                                    BAD LANGUAGE AND IN YOUR FACE. SO BE WARNED.
                  BAD LANGUAGE AND IN YOUR FACE. SO BE WARNED.

HERE IS ONE FELLOWS OPINION. 

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Another week gone by.

I appreciate the visit as always. Stay sane and safe. 

"Get busy living or get busy dying......"