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The rest of yesterday's tale (a black woman electrician etc)

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The keyboard on my computer went a bit wonky yesterday, so I was unable to tell the whole tale. Here it is FIRST  re  the image of a black woman as an electrician. I did a Google Images search for "Electrician", and every darn picture was of a male. So I had to do a second search for "Woman Electrician" and that's where the image popped up. Isn't it true that when we think of "Electrician"  we inevitable "see" the image of a white male in blue jeans? The image I posted was intended to make us reflect on our (unconscious) prejudices. SECOND The Master Electrician and his apprentice refused to go home at my suggestion, when, at 7:30 ish the light was poor and the weather was atrocious.   The Electrician (Jacob) said  "I never go home until the customer's power is restored."  I sloughed off to bed and began to sleep.   I was awakened by a tap on my bedroom door.  Jacob said  "you have full power, and we

Hot and a bit bothered

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I noticed yesterday that my shower water ..was tepid, even though I had turned on the water heater. I turned it on again today, but still could not draw warm or hot water Of course the breaker had flipped, but I could not reset it.   A call to a local business "Mr Sparky" led to a staff member being in my home within the hour. The truth is that the entire breaker box is "shot" -  indeed some of the plastic components showed signs of melting.  Could have led to a fire eh?  It's a vintage box So the entire box is being replaced, together with an outside box/   While they are at it the electricians are also installing three "wired"  smoke detectors  (about time you might say). It's been a bit steamy in my home.  The work is being impeded by a huge thunderstorm, so there is now natural light  (one of them is wearing my "headlight" which I had bought for power off emergencies). Just yesterday I had opened and tested my "emerge

Nursing homes, Rehabilitation centres, and "Upscale" retirement "communities".

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"Gates of Heaven Nursing Home" Not really. "Gates of Heaven"   This is "Oaken Holt" a mansion in Farmoor, Oxfordshiire, UK.  I worked there when it was a training centre for the old U,K. "Westminster Bank" In my retirement ministry I spend a fair bit of time in Nursing Homes, Rehabilitation Centres, and "upscale" Retirement Communities.  Retirement Communities The greater Sarasota area has more than a handful of these.  They are elegant, exquisite and very expensive. They cater to our very wealthy retirees  - at a high price.  They are extremely well staffed.  As befits their "station in life", the staff members from the lowliest dish-washers to the highest administrators are  (as T.S.Elliot wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" . Deferential, glad to be of use,         \ Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; --------------------

Lunch today ( a plate of healthy foods)

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Vegetables :  Kimchi AND Sauerkraut. Meat:   Nitrite and Nitrate free Chicken Hot Dogs, Oh what a good boy am I! Ooops, I forgot my side dish!  Not so healthy after all. Not to worry.  I have learned to type, even as my tongue is in my cheek.  Tee hee!  Silly me.

Watch cat

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Adelaide keeps watch over an upside down Palmetto Bug which sneaked into our home.