The shows are streaming on Peacock and last night we watched another hour of the big anniversary show. We can go on Peacock and watch any portion of both shows any time we want. There are just a few moments here and there that we haven't seen yet but we will at some point.
So we decided to stay home. We still have two more concerts scheduled in March and April.
Listen Here - Funky Jams FV
First I went down to the basement to check the circuit breakers and saw that one of them was in the off position but when I flipped it back to on it just reverted back to off. I tried this several times with no success of getting the power on for that breaker. There were notes on the breakers and I checked out the ones that said 3rd floor and they also noted that they were in the bedrooms on the 2nd floor. One for each.
I went back upstairs to see where the power was out. The three outlets on the left side of the room were out. Also the overhead light in the closet. I went into the other room and discovered the outlets where the stereo was plugged into were out. Also the overhead light in the closet in that room too plus the main overhead light. The other outlets across the room were OK. I went down to check the power in the 2nd floor bedrooms. The overhead light in Kate's room was out. That was all. Everything was fine in Sean's room. So it turned out that the breaker in the off position controlled the outlets and lights on the one side of the house and the other side was fine.
I contacted our electrical service MJM Electric and they said they could be over the next day to check out the problem that I had explained in an email and then phone call.
Today Joe from MJM Electric came by and the first thing I did was take him down to the breakers in the basement. Then he flipped the breaker from the Off position to On and it worked this time. It held and did not flip back like it did with me several times before. He flipped it back off and then we went upstairs while I explained the problem on the 3rd floor. He took apart the outlet that had caused the problem and replaced the wiring. He went down and flipped the breaker again. We had power in all of the outlets and overhead lights again.
Joe then explained how our electric circuits were set up on the third floor which had been renovated in the 80's after the fire in the house. The problem with the circuit breaker shutting off was because Becky had plugged in the second heater on the same circuit which overloaded it. Previously they were on different sides of the room and on different circuits. So now we now how things are setup there and there will be no more problems as long as the heaters are on different circuits. We also talked about those portable air conditioners and he said that would not be a problem on our circuits.
Now everything is working and Becky is up there working too.
The other night after dinner we decided to have some of the Terry's chocolate from a box in the cabinet. When Becky pulled it out we saw that a mouse had ate through the foil wrapper and chewed up some of it. You could see the tooth marks on the chocolate. We were shocked and amused too. The mouse ate our chocolate.
We threw it out and went back to making sure there everything was cleaned up and there was no more mouse droppings. The next morning we found a few droppings but not food was available for the mice. Today there was no sign of a visiting mouse. We'll see how it goes.
It was a Ridley Scot movie like the first one and was set about 20 years later than the other. There were even some of the same actors in both films. The first movie was released in 2000 and the new one came out in November 2024. I watched it on Paramount +.
The special effects were a little over the top at times but the acting was all very good. The story held my attention throughout the film although there were plenty of good places to stop and take a break. It's nice to have streaming movies.
I've been using a lot of salt and went through our usual container very fast. The other day I went out to get some more salt. I was surprised to find that the Value Home store I usually go to was closed, shut down. So I continued up Elmwood to the Home Depot which had a lot of bags of salt but they were the rock salt in 50 lb bags. People were buying up the salt like crazy. I ended up getting two bags of the cheaper rock salt because I knew I would be using a lot of it.
It really has made a difference and I know I'm going to be using a lot of this the rest of the winter as they keep calling for more wintry mix snow storms which means more ice.
Kickin' Back - Funky Jams FV
The next day my right hand was still sore and I saw that there was some actual bruising just below my knuckles. Never had that happen before. So why were the jars so hard to open. There have been times when they have been hard to open but there was never a time when I couldn't get one opened. Must be getting old. Or maybe it was because it was cold down in the basement and the jars were cold. Maybe we probably don't usually have tacos in the winter.
I took one of the unopened jars of salsa and put it in the upstairs cabinet. So next time we need a jar of salsa there will be one upstairs in the nice warm kitchen cabinet. Then when that one is used up I'll go down and get another one from the basement and put it in the nice warm kitchen cabinet. Or we can find a young person with strong hands to open our jar of salsa. Or maybe we should find some device for old people to open hard to open jars.
As of today I've posted 18 books in my MAGA Dystopia series. One a day since the orange turd took office again. I was asked recently if I've only read books about Trump and politics over the past few years. Well, I have read a lot of what I was calling since 2016 the Trump Dystopia books but now I refer to them as the MAGA Dystopia books since the MAGAts voted him in again.
They thought I was obsessed with Trump and politics which has been reflected by my recent FB posts. As another friend put it we are in a nightmare. So I decided to mix it up a little bit and post some of the other books I've been reading during the same time period of the MAGA Dystopia. I read lots of biographies and memoirs, histories, crime mystery novels, science fiction, books about music, classic novels, etc., etc. I'll post some of them too.
Since I retired I've been exploring my extensive music collection so I'll get back to posting about that too and include some mixes.
But I've read lots of other books too. In 2024 according to my GoodReads app I read 55 books. Then 50 in 2023, 46 in 2022, 53 in 21, 71 in 20, 84 in 19, 86 in 18, 66 in 17. I had retired in the Fall of 2016. During the prior 20 years I usually read 25 to 40 books a year and before that it was about 15 to 20 books a year except for my Navy years when I was reading 30 to 35 books a year. Since 1970 I kept a notebook of every book I read and the month I read it. Then sometime in the 80's I the list in a Word document. Eventually I uploaded the entire file to GoodReads.
Spanish Key - Funky Jams FV
Put The Funk Back In - Funky Jams FV
