DEBRA AND THE OLD FAT MAN

 

The link below shows the blog as I see it with the Google sign-in. 

Any ideas?

THE OLD FAT MAN 

the Ol'Buzzard

THE OLD FAT MAN ABOUT SIGN IN

 

I am able to comment on every other blog I am signed into except yours.

this is at the bottom of your blog , 

To leave a comment, click the button below to sign in with Google.

and a blue box that says SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE

I am continuing to read your blog but won't be able to comment until I figure this out.

the Ol'Buzzard

THE OLD FAT MAN ADDVENTURES - UNABLE TO COMMENT?

 

One of the blogs I follow is Old Fat Man Adventures.   Lately, I am unable to leave a comment. 

At the bottom of his blog, there is a blue box that says: Sign In With Google.    I click the box and it reloads the post, but the blue box is still there -  it is a loop –  I repeat the process again and the blue box is still there. 

Any Idea’s

the Ol’Buzzard

SOCIAL SECURITY FAIRNESS ACT

 

 

The Social Security Fairness Act just signed by President Biden reverses a law passed in 1983 during the Republican Regan Presidency that reduced Social Security benefits for anyone receiving a state pension.

 

I paid into social security for 25 years, then went to work for the State of Alaska teaching school in the remote Native villages.

  

When I applied for my Social Security pension twenty-five years ago, that pension was reduced by 50% because I was receiving a retirement from the State of Alaska.

 

The Republicans have always been against Social Security and any other federal program they consider discretionary spending (Medicare, Medicaid, public school funding, lunch programs…)

 

Their objection to the new bill is that it will deplete the Social Security fund causing it to run out of money by 2035.

 

  It is all a matter of priority spending as Trump’s three-trillion-dollar tax cut for the mega-wealthy would fund Social Security into the next century.

 

Future Social Security recipients had better hope Democrats are in power in 2035 or Social Security may be a thing of the past. 

 

Trump’s MAGA base doesn’t understand that working people voting for a Republican is like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

 

Now with the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, I will receive my full Social Security Pension – of course, twenty-five years too late.

 

the Ol’Buzzard

AN OLD MAN IN A TECHNO WORLD

 

The few people who read my blog are probably tired of me constantly bringing up my age.  But this is the world I live in. 

 

My doctors want to text me but it doesn’t work on a landline.   I have a cell phone but I don’t turn it on unless I am away from home.

Besides, I am unsure how to use all the apps or why I really need them. 

Every day my wife and I do the Boston Crossword Puzzle together and often the clues are in text speak, like LOL.  The acronyms don’t even resemble the word or phrase they are replacing.  For someone who still writes in cursive, I feel it is obscene and an affront to language. 

Last year I received an Apple iPad.  Here I am trying to figure out how to use the photo app to take a picture of myself taking a picture of myself in my bathroom mirror.   

 

Thank god for YouTube.   (If you still need to worship a God, then Google AI is probably as salient a choice as any - and according to George Carlin you can always pray to Joe Pesci for divine guidance)

Almost everything I have learned in life I learned from reading manuals. I love manuals where I can underline important instructions and make margin notes.   But things don’t come with manuals any longer.  So, YouTube is my Bible. 

I tolerate new things.   I like old things.  My favorite sweater is a hand-spun wool hand-knitted sweater that is forty-six years old.  My favorite hat is twenty-four years old.   Most of the shirts in my closet are twenty years old, and my boots are twenty-five years old, though the rubber bottoms have been replaced by L.L. Beans once.

But I have to admit not all young things are bad 

I do have a new Carhart winter coat that I like very much.

And I am madly in love with my young wife, who is the sexiest woman I have ever known. 

While teaching in Alaska the school aide always called her Blue Berry Eyes.

On the tundra with a kindergarten class picking berries

An older picture, but she never changes

I have no complaints about my age.  This is the best time of my life – I am just out of step with the rest of the world, which suits me fine.

And aging is definitely better than the alternative.

the Ol’Buzzard 

 

Now maybe he can quit posting about his age

GROWING OLD AIN'T FOR SISSIES

 

When I was in the military it was all about the band of brothers.

Now this is my band of brothers.

the Ol'Buzzard

REMINISCING

 

 

SEEMS I REMEMBER THE PAST BETTER THAN YESTERDAY

 

I remember

Winding my wristwatch in the morning and winding my alarm clock at night.

 

Telephones with an operator and pay phones.

 

Muscle cars, but they were hard to start on cold mornings.

1964 Pontiac 409
409 cubic inch engine
And then there was the Oldsmobile 442
and that is cubic inches

 

Black and white movies: a dime to get in, a dime for popcorn, and a nickel coke.

The birth of Rock and Roll music.

 

Radios with vacuum tubes.

 

Household fans.

 

Water-coolers for cars before air conditioning.

 

Bopping at the high school hop

 

Ice boxes and ice delivery – a penny a pound, and ice picks to chip the ice

 

Nickle soft drinks in cold water boxes

 

Black and white TV with rabbit ears

The Steve Allen Show and The Killer

Changing tires: a necessary skill

Flat tires were a normal occurance.

 

10c comic books.

 

Soda fountains.

Writing in cursive

 

Straight Arrow, was my favorite radio show.

And the list could easily go on…

 

KANEEWAH FURY

the Ol’Buzzard