DIRTYBENNY WRITES

 

 A nightly ritual when I was growing up was watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson each night.  One of my favorite guests was Rich Little.  In all of my years of collecting autographs, Rich Little eluded me. I have recently been rewatching some of the old Tonight Shows.  What are the odds that I am at the flea market this am and find an old Rich Little program autographed for five dollars?  Beyond chance.  In the next aisle over, I found a Linda Ronstadt scrapbook from the late 1970's for four dollars.  She was a major league crush of mine as a sixteen year old.  Beyond chance. Blue Bayou written by the legend Roy Orbison

Now that the temperatures have dropped into the low to mid 80's , the realm is livable once again.  After I got back from the flea market, I made myself a cappucino and sat on my swing.  The hummingbird wars were in full swing. There were at least 3-4 different ones fending off their territory.  Divebombing one after another. I populate my back deck with 10-12 firecracker plants which are like crack to hummingbirds. It is amazing how aggressive and territorial these small creatures are.

 Does this look like someone FAINTING?  I don't think so.

 

"YOU CAN'T FIX THIS PLACE." "LEARN WHERE YOU ARE." I am in agreement with Stephen on the premise that there are different entities here.  We are not all the same.  And for anyone who thinks that there is legitimacy to this place, I cannot help you. 

 

One of the scariest places I ever visited was New Orleans.  My girlfriend at the time booked our stay at an old traditional second floor house in the French Quarter.  The first night, I kept hearing ominous noises....someone coming up the steps, voices.  I demanded that we leave the next am and we moved to a  Hilton.  Something is very creepy about that place.  It does not surprise me that AI would be rolled out there to a greater degree.  New Orleans is testing just how much Americans are willing to trust artificial intelligence when the stakes are considerably higher than writing an email or ordering dinner,   according to the New York Post . The city has begun allowing an AI system to field certain 911 calls, apparently making it the first major U.S. municipality to put a bot directly between emergency callers and human operators. The idea is largely about volume. New Orleans' emergency communications center receives more than 1,000 calls on a ...

Today was one of the few days of the week that I venture off the compound...today, by necessity.  I was trying to make an online purchase with my debit card.  I called the customer service line and they told me that my card was deactivated.  No notice, no reason, just deactivated. I went to the local branch and all of the ladies were sympathetic to my plight and helped me out.  It is a Portugese community and they have empathy for the elderly.  One of the girls remarked about the troubles with 2 point verification for somebody who doesn't have a cellphone such as myself.  There was the flicker of humanity in these ladies, drowning in the technologic marass.  I then went to the local Polish deli.  It is truly a throwback to the past.  The owner is behind the deli cases, slicing up ham and cheeses for the customers in the long line.  Despite the delay, there is incredibly good cheer.  The lady in front of me speaking fluent Polish, sm...