Extreme Weather

The South has snow, we’ve got wind.

The wind made the out of the area drive this morning, to get a smog check, difficult and, when I returned, the street lights in the area were out and all the power in my unit was off, as the power company had declared a Public Safety Power Shutoff — purported to last off/on through Thursday.

I’ll still take the wind over a blizzard.

With only a little over 20,000 miles of driving, since purchasing in 2019, the jeep easily passed inspection. However, I’m sus because the guy at the test station took my key, said the test would take 30 minutes, I sat down, opened a book, and ten minutes later saw the jeep being returned. Test over.

I’m not mad at it — it was too cold and windy to be out for long. I’m just sus that they even actually put the jeep on the machine, just gave me a pass because a test didn’t seem necessary.

The Baker got her hands on this month’s Calendar, texted me a copy and I saw Activity Director was hosting Vision Boards at 11:00.

It was 11:15 when I returned to no lights, no TV, no internet, and my unit was freezing cold. So knowing the office had an auxiliary source of power, would have lights and heat, I went down to the Community Room to check out the vision boards.

Seeing only two residents in the room (Hell on Wheels and that mean Little Linda), I asked Activity Director about the vision boards.

"There’s no one here" said she.

I guess she was waiting for residents to show up.

I told her the residents probably don’t know she’s here today, because we’re no longer being given the calendar showing events. Whereupon she said the Baker had called her, asked if she was coming, informed her of no calendar, so she texted one to the Baker.

So, that’s how the Baker got her hands on one.

Manager better not find out. She’ll pitch a fit, yell at Activity Director, maybe even try to get her fired if she finds out Activity Director is giving us access to Calendars, because she (Manager) wants us to have to sign up for Rent Café to get one.

We are not going to open up our accounts to a third-party, and an additional fee, so she’d just better get over it.

Even Activity Director didn’t see the logic of what Manager is doing. Saying, that she doubted many of the seniors have access to the technology necessary or were afraid of the technology and that might be a good thing because scammers are so clever now, the technology might open the seniors up for being scammed.

She’d better not let Manager hear her expressing that kind of logic. Manager wouldn’t like her not agreeing with her tactics.

So, anyway, Activity Director asked if I wanted to do a vision board.

"No. I just came down to see what others are doing. At my age, my only vision is death", said I.

She then turned to Hell on Wheels, Little Linda and Dream Lover, who had just walked in, asked "Do you want to do a vision board".

I kid you not, one and all asked, "What’s a vision board".

These seniors never fail to show me how small their worlds are, how out of touch, how little they seem to have experienced in life.