Miss me?

Saturday, 8:51 am

By Cyn

May

08

2010

Never mind, do not answer that.......I know no one does! LOL

This is quick, just so you know I am still alive and well.  Well being a relative term; physically yes, mentally, well there are plenty who have their doubts!!  As for me though, I am simply a legend in my own mind!!

News is so sucky lately I do not even feel like posting about it.  Massive oil spill that might have been avoided but for a simple (well probably not REALLY simple) gadget costing around $500,000 which is, no pun intended, merely a drop in the bucket of BP’s profits; stock market crashing - although last night there were theories about it being a typo?  Hello???  A typo. Oh right, some guy,they speculate--(I prefer to think guy not gal) meant to type MILLIONS and added too many zero’s and it came out BILLIONS.  ya think?  Conspiracy theory??  Bring us to our knees again?  I mean really........... 

And then, of course, for those of us who live in New England, our brief reign of euphoria came to a crashing halt last night.  Bruins lost--had they won, they would have been in the finals for the first time in 18 years--they have another chance on Monday night; Celtics apparently were playing at the Garden, but I guess did not bother to show up--lost by something like 38 points in their playoff game.  Celtics, down by 38 points??  Heresy.............  and then we had what is usually fun, the Red Sox vs the Yankees at Fenway...they have been playing much better of late, but last night, they lost miserably again.  Not a good night in B-town.  I realize in the scheme of things and there are many more important things going on in the world, these were merely minor blips--but c’mon, we needed something good to brighten the dreariness of the news.  Oh well.

And today it is raining; it is Saturday so of course it is miserable weather.  I am volunteering (my usual twice a month Saturday gig) at a local thrift shop - I am going to do a Facebook Fan Page for them, so when I do, please come visit it--I guess I have to get permission first though and some of the people on the board are, well, let’s just say not particularly in the here and now.  So wish me luck.  Today is also Andover’s annual Crafts in the Park day, which I would guess will be canceled or postponed or something.  That is too bad cause it is an awesome event and would, of course, have brought more business into the shop. 

What else?  Oh, I know, I just read that

Stephen Hawking, the famous British theoretical physicist
and paralytic, recently made headlines by coming out of the
scientific closet.

Hawking has already warned that we should be very wary about
making contact with extraterrestrial beings. “If aliens ever
visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher
Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very
well for the Native Americans,” he said.

But, as he presented his latest ideas about what travel in
the future might resemble, he reportedly admitted that he
had kept quiet on the subject for fear of being labeled a
heretic by the scientific community.

In a much more recent documentary he suggested that spaceships
will one day be so fast that we won’t know whether we’ve come
or gone. Hawking suggests that Einstein’s theories of relativity
will become obsolete. He posits that, at some point when we’re
all long gone, a day on a spaceship traveling at 650 million
miles per hour would be akin to one year on Earth. In other
words, a passenger on such a trip would be able to time travel
forward one year in only a day.

Hmmm, one phrase above really hit home...."we won’t know whether we’ve come or gone.” HELLO?  I do not know if I am coming or going EVERY day, so what’s the big deal with that?? 

And on that note, I really have to tear myself away, hair to dry, makeup to apply, quarters to find for the parking meters downtown and off to work I go!! 

Ciao’

Can we talk..........again?

Monday, 2:22 pm

By Cyn

May

03

2010

SO, my home (where I grew up) in the Berkshires is for sale, it is vacant (of people, nothing else) and for sale - anyone interested, let me know, we’ll really talk!  Anyway, I may have mentioned this before but on the strong advice of my accountant and attorney, I went through the proper channels to change the insurance from regular house insurance to vacant home insurance.....or so I think--more on that later.

The local insurance agency my mom always dealt with said yes, you must change it and just because it is you--hahaha--the cost is about $6500.00 a year.  Now my mom was under-insured, she knew it, we knew it, but it was not my decision to make, but to jump from $500 a year to over $6000 seemed a little ludicrous to me.  So I checked with my agent here, he said TAKE THE DEAL, I said what deal, he said best I can do for you is between 7-9,000.  Holy S***!  So I took ‘the deal’ kicking and screaming all the way.  I still don’t get it, but.

So today the policy finally arrives--all 100 pages or so it seems.  Can I read it?  Not really--nor quite frankly, do I want to.  But I flipped through it, the name of the street/road my mom lived on is wrong in every instance.  One place they are calling it EQUIPMENT Street?  Hello???  Egremont sounds like equipment??  Throughout this policy it refers to commercial property which it is not.  Or to the best of my knowledge, a residence is not commercial or at least not in this case.

But the best part is this and I am quoting directly from the policy:Absolute War or Terrorism Exclusion - The following supersedes the terms and conditions of this policy.  If the policy to which this endorsement is attached contains an exclusion for War, that exclusion is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following.  If the policy to which this endorsement is attached does not contain an exclusion for War, the exclusion below applies:  This insurance does not apply to...and company will not defend or pay loss for any claim arising out of...1.  War; 2. Warlike action by a military force, including action in hindering or defending other authority using military personnel or other agents; 3. Insurrection, rebellion, revolution, usurped power or action taken by governmental authority in hindering or defending against any of these; or 4. Terrorism, including any action taken in hindering or defending against an actual or expected incident of terrorism. It goes on from there, but you get the picture..........

OK, now some of you might know where this house is--if not, let’s just say it is in a tiny little town tucked away in the Berkshires, about 7 minutes from the NY state line, 20 minutes from the Connecticut state line and perhaps 45 minutes or so from the Vermont state line.  If war hits there or there is a terrorism attack, then (and excuse my language) we all had best kiss our asses goodbye cause we will have NO chances to survive!!    I mean really!!  That is insane.  And before you ask, I did opt out of that coverage, it probably would have cost another $2,000.

Have a lovely day...........

Ciao’

IMHO

Sunday, 9:27 am

By Cyn

May

02

2010

I had no intentions of posting anything today, it is supposed to be a lovely 80 degree day and if you know anything at all about Massachusetts weather, you know that days like this can be fleeting and then we drop back to 40!

But this is too good (and I use the term good loosely) to not post.....

Yesterday I was volunteering at a local thrift shop in my town, something I do on Saturdays, 2-3 times a month.  The group of women I usually work with are often of the same political persuasion as me and we have some really great discussions during slow periods.  While talking about the candidate I am working for Debra Silberstein for the State Senate to serve the 2nd Essex/Middlesex District, someone suggested I should check out the website of the independent candidate for this seat.

I do not want to mention the candidate’s name - based on her weak website, I doubt she or her people are savvy enough to know how to search the web looking for any and all mentions of her name, but don’t want to open up a can of worms.  If you want to look at her webpage, I have given you enough clues to find it.  There are more than a few things about it I find distasteful but the reason my friend was sending me to look at it was her first sentence at the top of the page--it states that she is a 12th generation American mom (???) followed by I believe in:

1. The Constitution of the United States
2. The Bill of Rights
3. State’s Rights
4. LESS Government control
5. America and her people
6. Our voices being heard
7. The wisdom of our Founding Fathers

Thinking what I am thinking???  If you do a websearch of this person’s name, the first thing that comes up is a page to donate to the tea party, presumably in her name...I got out of there fast cause I figure just being there probably means I will be inundated with email from them.

So, everyone yesterday thinks (1) I need to post something on her page to the effect of “is that all you got” referring to the 12th generation........after all, I can trace my ancestry back to (on my maternal grandmother’s side) to someone who came here on the Mayflower; on my paternal grandmother’s side, to the American Revolution (and yes she was DAR, I was CAR and supposed to be DAR, but it was not my cup of tea--no pun intended); and on my paternal grandfather’s side, to an American Indian-- and (2) SO, based on that I should run for office, no??  I mean really, how ridiculous can you get.  OH, and the best part--she is running because she met Scott Brown in January and was inspired to do so.  WOW, are you impressed yet??

And that is all my scintillating chat for today, enjoy this weather!!

Ciao’