A Little This and That

They are talking how John Lewis said that Trump was an illigitamate president because he got help from Russia to win the election.  He’s joining a list of people who are boycotting Trump’s inauguration.  Trump tweeted back that Blacks are seething in the crime ridden ghetto and Lewis should spend more time in his own district.  That’s a really silly remark.  There are a lot of scheduled protests over the next week or so and I hope the democrats will make them count.  I still maintain that the commercial media will bend over backwards to suppress any coverage of them.  Now in late breaking news we have the current CIA director blasting Donald Trump as it pertains to Russia.  "I don't think Trump has a grasp of the issues", he says.  Also the Wringling Brothers Circus is leaving town for the last time.  Meanwhile Glenda said she had coffee for me and I saw her just now and then met her passing in the hall and went in her room and got some.  I had just been debating whether to either go to the bakery for a cup or else use the debit card on coffee.   But if I don’t have to spend money I won’t. 

The Green Bay Packers just beat the Dallas Cowboys.  The score was 21 to 3 Green Bay early in the game and the Cowboys have never had an eighteen point deficit this season.  This was the eighth playoff meeting between Green Bay and Dallas.  Generally Green Bay kept comfortably ahead during the game.  When I came back from dinner the score was now tied at 28 apiece, which surprised me.  Each team scored a field goal making it 31 to 31.  Then Green Bay got lucky on a 36 yard catch at the out of bounds line.  One lineman overruled another one and it was a catch.  So there was a fifty yard field goal to kick and Dallas tried to ice GB with a last second time out where the thing had already been kicked, and they had to do it over.  Now Atlanta will get to play the Conference Final in their home stadium.  

Four years ago things weren't as bad as now.  Just think about it.  All of us were four years younger and more vibrant.  My Mother still lived at the Regency before her "downgrade" of two years ago due to failing health.  I still had a coffee maker and we got to smoke on the second story patio, where you have the jacaranda tree and get to watch the traffic.  KTLK was still on the air as a progressive over the air station.  You had people like Ed Schultz and Randy Rhodes on, both of which have bitten the dust.  Nationally the Democrats controlled both the White House and the US Senate.  There was talk of immigration reform being passed.  President Obama had high hopes of gun control legislation after the Newtown school masacre.  There was kind of a thought that "the Republicans have learned their lesson now".   The line-up for "Days of our Lives" was very different in those days.  There is one paragraph written in January of 2013 and about half the people referenced in that paragraph are either dead or no longer on the show.   Our version of the "White" album appears in "The Soap Opera of Life" in January of 2013.  I was going to paste it over but if you're curious you can look it up yourself.  

The New England Patriots beat the Houston Texans 34 to 16.   The Atlanta Falcons beat the Seattle Sea Hawks 46 to 20 in the early game.  The game was held in the evening in Foxborough and broadcast on CBS.  Unfortunately when I went to turn the channel to the game a little after six channel two would not come in.  This is the first time in the six and a half years of this TV that one TV station was completely blocked.  All of the other stations came in.  I finally got the thing working around seven and managed to watch the rest of the game.  However on Sunday I moved the antenna out of position and noticed that the tolerance for this position was very narrow and one little hint of a variance will blow it.  So I managed to find the exact position the antenna was in.  I watched the thing with this White House photographer taking two thousand photographs a day he claims.  That would be well in excess of four million photographs in his carrier.  How could any human being keep track of so many or give each photo any more than the vaguest glance?  I don’t remember what I watched later in the evening.  I woke up in an anxious state.  Last night I got medication from Federico and got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a second night in a row.  That’s a good thing.  In the morning I got medication from Ida.  I kept the antenna adjusted so that channel two would come in.  There was no football game in the morning because of that ice storm in Kansas City.  I went to the store as she was just opening up at ten after seven and the coffee was already made.  I exchanged one small bowl of sugar frosted flakes for a slightly larger small bowl of it.  I had one cup of black coffee and got a refill with cream and sugar in it from Rene.  We had our scrambled eggs and toast, butter and jelly.  We also had hashed browns, but they don’t make them very well around here.  I toggled between “Face the Nation” but mostly I had on “This Week”.   George Stephanopolis was pretty hard in the people he interviewed.  That’s a good thing.  I still had a few cigarettes.  I listened to “Breakfast with the Beatles”.  It was uneventful except it did have the live concert version of “Beware of Darkness” and George introduced the entire Bangle Desh concert line-up.  Now they say “Give Me Some Truth” actually dates back to 1968.  We said that several years ago when others were saying the song dated back to 1969.   After lunch it was Americana with American cover versions done by the Beatles- - mostly. 

Scott Wilkinson gave his report of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  I guess that thing is really huge in terms of floor area.  I wonder if you didn’t know if you could tell the difference between this year’s show and one from say 2013?  I had forgotten they had a lot of floor real estate devoted to cars.   Somebody mentioned inkless printing paper where the laser beam just burns letters into the paper itself and you never need ink.  The problem with that is that it would seem you’d need some really specialized paper in order to get the desired amount of detail and contrast.  Last year they gave up on Plasma TV.  They still do have LCD.  But I guess mostly it’s LED or OLED or now QLED or something.  Now they have a system where you have a blue LED and then the red and green absorb blue light and change it to red or green, and this is supposed to give greater color depth.  Johnny Jett was on.  I remember hearing the remark before that you should mix live video in with your slide presentation to make it more relevant.

Rhapsody in Black had January of 1955, a year I’ve been waiting a long time to hear from.  They played a non standard version of “Let Me Go, Lover” and a Hank Ballard song called “Why Are You So Stingy” or something.  They played “Ling Ting Tong”, which is by the Five Keys.  An old KRTH classic.  They must have raided China Town for all of those instruments.  They also played the original version of “Rock with me, Henry”.  They also played a version of “Blue Velvet”.  They played “Sincerely” by the Moonglows.  They played “That’s why I have to hit up upside the head” by some woman and “My Baby Likes to Mambo” by the Robins.  They played the original version of “All Night Long”.  They played quite a number of blues numbers.  They played a number of Elvis selections including “I Got a Woman” by Ray Charles, and the original of “Baby, Let’s Play House” and “Reconsider Baby”.  They also played both “Tomorrow Night” and “Tweetly Tweet” by LaVerne Baker.  They played “Earth Angel” and “Pledging My Love” by Johnny Ace and at that I figured I had about heard all the songs I expected to except for the song I was anticipating hearing most, that I didn’t hear.  (That’s today’s psychic question of the week)  I went out and hung out and smoked.