I can put up with differing points of view, but be prepared to defend your premise; don't just throw something out there without supporting evidence. And don't bother even starting a conversation if you doubt science, believe in flat earth, doubt the moon landing, are opposed to vaccines, or just generally believe in fairytales. Keep an open mind and maybe get off the internet once in a while....
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021
A whole new (cr)Apple experience!
But there was a minor issue that my phone needed an iOS update, and when I tried to do that during the setup, it hung for an hour.
I had to start over and set it up as a "new phone" and do the update first. Then start over again and do the transfer.
But then it came time for purchasing apple care...that was just stupid.
We had some money on apple gift cards, so we put it on the "apple account" and then set out to sign up for apple care.
Sorry. You can not purchase it online using your apple account.
You can, however, go into an apple store and use gift cards there.
Which meant that we had to make a call to refund the money from the account to the gift card, and make a trip to an apple store to simply buy apple care.
So much for "for everything apple"
** with some exclusions, which you won't know until you can't do something.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Funny how this all works (campaign fundraising edition)
John Weaver, the chief political strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, stressed that the Republican Party cannot afford to lose more members than it already has under Trump, especially given the changing demographics in the U.S. with a shrinking white majority and changes in voting patterns among those with a college degree.In the big picture, according to Weaver, any short-term gains for Trump are far outweighed by the long-term implications for the party's standing.
"We're in a demographic death spiral, and math isn't spinnable," Weaver said. "... There's a (party) re-alignment taking place right in front of us."
And yet he represents them, anyway!
There was some chattering that "obviously" trump hated Maduro and he'd be likely to grant visas for people who were here, fleeing the regime.
Never mind that he never actually said anything about it. It just had to be true!
And Biden, well, he was a socialist, so therefore he was just like Maduro and won't help them.
Flash forward to this morning. Oh look, Biden doesn't like Maduro either. Shocking, I know. And he's not much like him, either, it turns out.
Oh, and he represented the interests of people who didn't vote for him, people who openly opposed and mocked him during the election. And without even telling them they had to apologize first.
Saturday, March 6, 2021
The conclusion to one part of my genealogy research
I felt determined to figure out what happened. So I dove right in. Once in a while you get lucky, and hit on a thing or two and can get rolling.
At first I struggled with her name. She used several variations of her name almost like stage names. She also did a lot of misdirection. So it was slow going for a while.
But then I found her divorce record which included her legal name. I went to the dade county court site. Nothing. Then I visited the Miami herald archives.
And bonanza. There were articles and it was easy enough to follow the story.
She held a lease on a 4 unit building (I'm not clear whether her stake was just one unit or the whole thing) and it was insured for $14,000 (it appears to have been on the contents, what's up with that)...
She found a 16 year old "troublemaker" and offered him $500 to burn the place down. Its a little sordid, because she found him via my dad, and met him on a park bench to work out the details of the fire.
She left gasoline and other combustibles in one unit, and gave him a key and $100. She offered $400 more when she got paid from the insurance. She also said she'd get two of the tenants out of the building - but not a third, elderly man.
The boy took the money, and then had second thoughts. He told his parents, and they went to the police. The police investigated and found the gasoline and arrested my grandmother, at a store she owned (I don't know where in the world she got the money for the store or this apartment; this wasn't where she lived - she resided on Miami Beach).
The trial was fairly short, and she was convicted, and got 3 years, but had the sentence reduced for good behavior.
My mom told me that jogged her memory, and my grandmother wound up paying off the attorney's fees by going to work for him as a receptionist for a few years.
That settles that piece of it, but of course raises more questions.
Now I can sleep at night. Ha.
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