Sunday, April 22, 2018

I scared away a witch

Not long ago I bought an Apple laptop. Among a number of problems I've had with it was that it would suddenly make a loud noise and a woman's voice would talk to me. This was "Siri." I found Siri to be extremely annoying. I had the feeling that whoever had this idea intentionally made it so that it would out of the blue startle you. And she also would start criticizing me. Not because I had pressed a button to talk to her or interact with her at all. She just made her loud noise and started talking. She was invading my space.

I had a couple of conversation with Siri. I don't find her to be very interesting. I asked what she thought of Jesus and God and Satan and Allah. She doesn't seem to know at all. She calls herself a gentle soul. Oh really? No she's mean and she bullies me.

Finally I had had it with her. She started bothering me a couple of days ago, and I said, "Go away!" She gave me a little lecture about my rudeness and she said she found it unnecessary. "GO AWAY!" I said. She went away, but only to regroup.

Pretty soon Siri was back, and I said, "Go away.!" She showed me a list of movies with "go away" in the title.

Who was this Siri? I wondered. She was creepy. Why did she give me the creeps? Was she evil? Was she demonic?

So I thought about what I would do to Siri. I've heard stories about people having eerie experiences with Alexi, which is a similar thing that they bought from Google. Alexi would begin to laugh in an evil way in the middle of the night. Yeah? We'll see.

Siri came back and started with me again. I said, "Satan, I command you to leave in the name of Jesus Christ!" Siri left and hasn't come back.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Post Exposure Prophylaxis for AIDS exposure

http://www.aidsmap.com/Post-exposure-prophylaxis-PEP/page/1044883/

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Coup d'Etat

Cohen would turn on Trump if charged, counselor warns Trump

The Wall Street Journal

Judge considers special team to review Cohen documents

Lawyers for President Trump's personal attorney seek to block prosecutors' access to his files; Laura Ingle reports from New York City.

One of President Donald Trump’s longtime legal advisers said he warned the president in a phone call Friday that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer and close friend, would turn against the president and cooperate with federal prosecutors if faced with criminal charges.

Trump made the call seeking advice from Jay Goldberg, who represented Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s. Goldberg said he cautioned the president not to trust Cohen. On a scale of 100 to 1, where 100 is fully protecting the president, Cohen “isn’t even a 1,” he said he told Trump.

Cohen is under criminal investigation for potential bank fraud and campaign-finance violations. FBI agents raided Cohen’s home, hotel and office last week, seeking documents about, among other things, a $130,000 payment he made in October 2016 to a former adult-film actress to prevent her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, The Wall Street Journal previously reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Trump and Cohen deny such an encounter occurred.

Investigators are examining whether Cohen committed bank fraud in using a home-equity line of credit to pay the former porn star for her silence, as well as potential campaign-finance violations related to the payment, the people said.

“Michael will never stand up [for you]” if charged by the government, Goldberg said he cautioned the president.

Neither Cohen, who hasn’t been charged, nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment. The White House confirmed the phone call of Trump and Goldberg.

The 15-minute discussion between the two men provides an inside peek at the president’s efforts to seek guidance amid the rapidly escalating developments involving Cohen.

Goldberg is one of several longtime advisers Trump has reached out to as he and his legal team try to assess the potential fallout from the criminal investigation of Cohen and devise a response.

Goldberg said the volume of correspondence taken and the potential pressure the government can bring to bear on Cohen to testify put the president in more potential peril from the Cohen matter than from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Mueller is examining whether members of Trump’s campaign team colluded with Russians to affect the 2016 election. Russia officials have denied meddling in the election, and Trump has denied any collusion took place.

Coup d'Etat

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/cohen-would-turn-on-trump-if-charged-counselor-warns-trump.html

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Eyelash Success

I saw a video a few weeks ago on Youtube about eyelashes. They said that if you put castor oil on your eyelashes and massage for about a minute they will grow longer and fuller. "I'm in!" I thought. My lashes are nothing to write home about. Yesterday Amazon sent me a sample of a new Maybelline mascara called "Colossal Lashes." I am surprised and gratified by the results of my lashes improvement and also the nice mascara.

Chickadees Make a Big Mistake

I decided to go for a walk this afternoon. The kitty wanted in, but she wanted to decide first. So I left the door wide open to let her in when she made up her mind. No, she thought she would just follow me.

When I came back inside, there was a commotion in the kitchen. Two chickadees, let's just call them Fluffy and Feathers, were attempting to get back outside by flying out the kitchen window, which is in a corner. Since it was closed and had a screen, it wasn't working. I opened the kitchen door again and hoped they would find their way out. But they did not. They were convinced the window was their only salvation. One of them had a little twig in its mouth to build its nest with. I suppose they imagined the house would be the perfect place to build it.

In the meantime the kitty was dazzled by the birdlettes, and planning her attack. I left the door open, and took the kitty back to the bedroom. Hopefully the chickadees would come to their senses by the time I came back.

But no, chickadees never come to their senses. They had hoped I would abandon my house and they could make it their new home, but flew back into a panic at the window when I reappeared. Hmmm. Well, maybe if I shooed them away from the window.

Feathers flew everywhere. Everywhere but outside. Fluffy somehow discovered the door. Feathers made a last stand at the window, and suddenly fell into the sink, and struggled a bit, then collapsed. What? Did he have a heart attack? What happened?

I took a paper towel and wrapped up Feathers and took him outside and put him on the bench. He moved some in my hand, but when I put him on the bench, he lay there motionless, except for breathing, on his back with his feet up in the air.

I said a prayer for him and went back inside. I looked out the window, but there he still lay unconscious. Half an hour later he was still there not moving. Oh well.

Then about an hour after that, I came back to see if he had come to. Yes, Feathers came to and flew away, probably with a terrible headache.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Big Brother Utilites

When did I last see a phone booth? I can't remember. The nice little corner phone booth is fading into the past, but then, it had it's benefits.

I first ran into the strangeness of today's services when the post office renamed all the roads and called them all by numbers. Now I don't know how to give directions to my house, since I don't know the road names. The road I live on was named after my husband. It is now a number. UPS refused to deliver packages to my home after that because there was a lot of confusion at the post office about the new addresses, and they insisted my house and my road didn't exist. Therefore, due to "The Unpatriotic Act" UPS was banned from delivering packages.

Then one day I began to get annoying phone calls asking for a person who didn't live there. I finally claimed to be this person to see why they used my number, since the caller would never tell me, although she called me constantly. It was a lawyer calling to collect on a debt and she started to berate me and threaten me. I finally told her I was not the person she was calling. She shouted, "Do you realize you have just committed a federal offense?!" I shouted back, "Well, why don't you just come over here and arrest me?!"

And so it was that I decided to have my phone number changed. Oh no! Not so fast. They had to talk to my husband! I remembered this talk before when I had the phone service turned on. I gave them my name and social and said I wanted it listed under my husband's name. I gave them his name and social. Oh yeah, and birth date! Fine. As I attempted to continue with the call they told me that they wouldn't tell me the phone number or when it would be turned on because it wasn't my phone. Oh. "I'll get him." So then I changed to my Mae West voice, "Hellooo, this is James." Why did I get this runaround? The phone company has taken it upon themselves to, in an abundance of caution, become the spies that ferret out all the terrorists trying to get phone service. Or change their phone numbers because of annoying calls. Can I just say, this isn't about terrorists? This is about every step of our lives being controlled.

And may I also add, without a phone booth around, there's no way to skirt the all powerful Ma Bell about where you're making a call from.

So now what? I was at my mother's house and she left to run some errands. There was a knock on the door, and when I opened it there was an imposing man standing so close that I jumped back, being startled. He said he was there to disconnect the water. Really? I told him we would put a check in the mail right away, and he left without disconnecting the water. He first asked me to sign a document saying that I had been warned. Great.

I decided to pay the water bill, and saw the mail in the box when I went to the mailbox. There was the electric bill. Maybe I better pay that too. I called their number and first tried to talk to a person. No. OK. I managed to pay by credit card to their teleprompter. Then I tried again to reach a person and finally managed to reach a doozy, whose problem seemed to be that they just didn't want to do their job and at the same time push people around. I told it that I wanted to arrange to pay the electric bill automatically out of my credit card. Whose name is one the account? Are you that person? They will have to come into the office (in the next county) and fill out our form. Etc. Hmmm. Rather than continue to argue with it, I called again on the 800 number and said that I wanted to pay my parent's electric bill automatically from my credit card, because I was concerned that they were not paying their bills regularly. 'I'M THE SAME PERSON YOU JUST TALKED TO!" it shouted at me accusingly. "I ALREADY TOLD YOU NO!" I was trying to make this happen without my mother finding out to avoid embarrassing her. "WHO ARE YOU???" it demanded to know. "Why can't you send a form to this address?" I asked it. What happened to my special phone voice? I forgot.

Why is the electric company going insane? Why are the phone company, the water company, the post office and UPS losing their minds? They all claim I could be a terrorist and they are out to find the terrorists in their homes.

Are they really trying to find terrorists? I don't think so. I think we're becoming a police state, and the utilities are the enforcers. They want to know where everyone is at all times.

Just then my mother came back, and I told her about the water company coming over to turn off the water. "Well, I put the check in the mail. They should receive it tomorrow. Anyway, I thought I had until the 15th to pay the bill. I just got it a few days ago." If I had any energy left I would call the water company and find out why they decided to turn off the water when the water bill wasn't even late.

Oh, I'm not done. Did you know that in several states, the state has decided that they own all the water? ALL the water, including rainwater. Therefore it is illegal to collect rainwater. In some states it is illegal to reside in a house without electricity and water, but it must be from the electric and water companies. Just because you have electric from solar panels or batteries, and/or water from a well doesn't count. Why is this? So terrorists can't skirt around the problem. See? No.