Google should be ashamed.
Big time.
5th generation Californian blows off steam and comments on the last 50 year decline in quality of life, etc. in home state of California. Some good news hopefully.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Most people's Big Blind Faith in Tech is a Mistake.
Look at all the new but recalled, from Tanaka air bags exploding schrapnel to new but defective and closed Nuclear Plants worldwide.
My friend has a Honda minivan several years old, but without a transmission oil cooler! and the oil filter was misdesigned inside the trany, not outside. He has replaced the trany twice under warranty !!
New "smartphones" and new laptops are attacked successfully ,,, all the time.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Women most often choose the Wrong too long knife !! Why use a 12" carving knife on a pint of Cherry Garcia ??
And risk cutting your fingers hand and arm off ?!
Even with the improvements of Obama Care, Guess who is the Primary owner of your personal medical records? Hint: it isn't the Patient.
As a result of this profit before care USA medical model, my medical records are scattered all over Ca., taking up file space in x-doc's and x-hospital offices and basements, doing me No Good.
We need to change this.
Simply: Why you should Not buy Kaiser health/medical insurance. Your Kaiser doc may not care enough for you to get the Vaccine and Not Suffer for weeks with Shingles.
My older Sister, a richly pensioned retired public school 2nd grade teacher.
(She lost $10k s by believing "insurance sharks" of hi commish=low quality 403b products vs low commish=high quality 403b products.)
It was the adults that were so Hard, a Principal who ordered her to be a Mover every year and move Everything, all the school district PROPERTY teaching material from one class room to another for no good reason, just power-tripping college educated women to really break their backs in spite of the weak Teachers Union(Do teachers in CA. start salaries at over $40k, for a charter bus driver with no college? No. Does the Teachers Union make these Principals hire Movers instead of abusing skilled professional valuable public school teachers? No.
Does the Teachers Union teach teachers how to read their huge 403b pension pre-tax savings Quarterly Statement, so at the very least they know a (-) is Not a "credit" but a mutual fund LOSING principle investment and dividends !? No. Does the Teachers Union protect teachers from being ordered by Principals and Deans to help Administer by being put, against their will, on various School Committees, that are Not teachers primary job? No.)
The kids were easy and fun in very poor Huntington Park, mostly Mex kids constantly leaving an ok school to live on the South side of the border and working on the North side of the border, totally disrespecting that it was and is the USA's National border. Political cheap labor pool.
She had a quality medical plan like Pacific Care or better when we were both working in the 1980s; But now she's retired and retired teachers are like retired soldiers, veterans that don't deserve much.
So she bought Kaiser, knowing it wasn't as good as what she had when she was WORKING, making over $80k after over 30yrs with Terrible LAUSD adults and pre-tax 403b teacher saving $12k plus every year, thus making IRAs and 401k look like something for foolish teenagers, not serious saving adults.
As a school bus driver, UPS before-computers driver, Frisco beer truck-loved driver, limo and or charter bus,tourist season driver, all my benefits have been taken away by super greedy bosses, even Kaiser medical insurance.
So my boss paid very high monthly Kaiser premiums and I too co-paid Kaiser high monthly premiums. Now I just have the shameful, intern testing ground zero of the V.A., from being drafted in college by Nixon for foolish Vietnam wasting war.
Older Sister got Shingles first.
No amount of money, salary or savings is going to make Shingles less painful or go away.
Other than injecting heroin.(joke)
Yes, it is that painful.
Her Kaiser doc did Not give her the usual reliable vaccine.
So she was paying Kaiser huge Individual premiums, And suffering a very easy to prevent disease !!
My Kaiser doc also didn't care that I had kid's chicken pox and was over 50 and had not been vaccinated against Smallpox.
So I called asap and asked, "Can I buy a Shingles vaccine shot?" Sure, come on over.
And that is why I say Kaiser is piss poor medical/health insurance, and Very Expensive.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
DEPENDS DIAPERS: Too hot and sweaty,even on a cold day ! NOT RECOMMENDED !!
Fit is funky too.
RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE.
There has got to be a Brand better than this !!
Recommend wearing old underwear next to your skin.
Either toss/wash.
Much more comfortable.
Costco item # 1103619, "Harry's Beef Stroganoff with Noodles" is Not Recommended.
Not nearly enough noodles; Buy more wide egg noodles or ribbed rigatoni or bowties.
Needs lots of salt and pepper seasoning.
And I got the runs!
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
PBS and CHARLIE ROSE tv show: Please put guest's name on tv guide and on bottom of tv screen.
Not all of us are "know-it-alls" !!
Friday, March 17, 2017
"Everquote" is un-satisfactory,,, Don't waste your time.
Tried it.
Not competitive to low insurance prices at CSAA and Nationwide Mutual, a non-profit.
Forget all the hype.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
BEWARE!! Starting today, sfpd is CITATION-giving to EVERY CAR ON THE 600 BLOCK of MARKET STREET !!
Hear MISSION Street is next.
BEWARE !!
MOVING VIOLATION=VERY EXPENSIVE !!
Monday, March 13, 2017
Dr.Martens, hides "SHOE CARE" products option, behind "MENS" and "CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES". Why?
Also wish they made a WIDE size. Or 2.
Why not??
And it really rained on the West Coast this, 2016-2017, Winter !!
Not one of TV new wx folk are telling inches,,,or feet!,,, of usual "Annual Rain Fall" out here.
I got lucky; Was passing time waiting for co-worker, so strolled Ross. Under stocked,,,
Found "size 12" shelf,,,
And there were these black waterproof men's dress shoes with really tacky leather and that special non-slip map sole!
Under $40 !??!
Tried them on, no Width size, so silly "all people get one Width" sizing !!
(I use to sell hand made Italian boots for 2 years, Pivetta's, some of the very best, like the super famous, more Famous than Dr.Martens, the Muir Trails. MANY WIDTHS and very affordable in the 1970s ;)
So bought them.
Will wear a thin sock. Or two.
Will treat inside leather with usual LEXOL, Big brown liter jug that I usually buy at OSH.
GREAT stuff, all leather conditioner, and Cheap-AFFORDABLE !!
As I read a "pricey" and "sponge takes up too much room in container", hate deceptive packaging!, and "sponge doesn't last very long".
Using LEXOL today,once a year, on my leather collar Levi denim jacket I have had for decades.
And my Dad's hand-me-down brown leather jacket.
I so regret not buying that great black leather long,butt covered jacket... in that famous sf store..
Oh well.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Early this week, it SNOWED in Saratoga!! So COLD this Winter and so WET none of the tv wx folk will give Annual&Rain Year Totals for SF and SJ and Sac.
Is there a news blackout going on about West Coast weather??
Friday, March 10, 2017
Time to Junk BART and Aim much higher in Design.
Cleaner problems, again!
Mgmt wants all new tracks and all new cars.
And ticket increase.
All I want is this crappy ,worse than mediocre system scraped.
Have a Design Contest.
Start over
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The TSA is failing, as high as 95% of the time, to keep guns and knives off commercial airplanes.
It is this a huge waste of time and tax dollars.
What are we going to do instead!?
And when!?
California must make full amends for the National Disgrace of forced unauthorized Sterilization, like N. Carolina. It is heinous that some churches still misinterpret the Bible and promote,still in 2017, the secret sterilization of individuals by MDs in licensed hospitals because you are found to have engaged in premarital sex and one abortion. Shame on these churches and Governor Jerry Brown, recently busted by the media for dirty oil industry deals.
Same goes for blacklisting in California; Yes, in 2010's it still happens and individuals are kept from working for more than a year in certain industries, like the Movies in the McCarthy years and Tourism now, because you might have taken your employer to the State Labor Commissioner for stolen wages. And legally won.
It, both, have happened to me in the SF Bay Area. Recently.
Does this not charge all good churches and all good people to do right in California?
I challenge all good churches and all good people to stop and confess permanently the horrible social injustices nowadays of secret doctor and hospital Sterilization and industry wide Blacklisting in California.
And gag order secret Court "Settlements"; We the Public must be informed of every injustice and widespread law breaking like common wage theft currently in California.
This is shameful ,a cover-up to protect rich companies, and little or no justice in forced "settlements".
Monday, March 06, 2017
Why do so many young attractive U.-educated high salary WOMEN SNEAK OUT OF THEIR LOVER'S BED IN THE MORNING???
But ,,, why?
Why can't most American women talk about this, not just to their girlfriends and shrink, but to their partner-lover-'only one' ??
It is a terrible tragedy. And so very common.
So many 'romances' and 'affairs' and 'true loves' blighted by so many smart ,good family, intelligent, high salary Women.
Most Men don't do this, and i certainly don't like it!
And , yes, i have complained and verbalized to no avail. Why ?
i would prefer to be kissed , or at the very least told 'good morning', if that is not too much to ask of the person that you have chosen to live your life with over your parents and family, for now and maybe forever.
Is it Women's 'alone time'?
Shower alone, dress alone, eat alone,,,
Do most Women have a load of doubt, never shared?
Do they really know what love is, since we don't see our parents do it usually, just 'in the movies'??
Maybe Women , most, are just not sociable or sexual in the morning.
Or even romantic in the morning.
Women are such a silent mystery !!
Or do they all just wait until it is ,,, over, and too late,,,?
Such is true tragedy.
Sunday, March 05, 2017
Why do most of SF tourist expect so little, unlike most french , from mostly SUBSTANDARD SF REDTAURANTS !?
Was talking with a Corp traveler.
Food average standard is Much higher in NYC than SF, but neither of us want to live there again.
And the general food standard is Much higher still in Paris, if you can stand the selfishness phonies and mercenary unfriendliness !!
Why?
Sunday 5march2017, and hail Twice this morning on the SF Peninsula ,San Mateo County !!
That is how COLD this Winter has been in the SFBayArea !!
Virgin Limo: Don't apply to work there !!
Virgin?
Why not?
Drivers don't get tipped; So unnatural !!
Most Charter bus companies in SF area ask for an included Gratuity, that limo and bus companies regularly steal , in their hands, versus driver's.
ALWAYS TIP waiters and charter bus drivers DIRECTLY please !!
Driver are told to "fuel on your time not Virgin Limo company time."
Drivers in nice suits, clean white shirts and ties, and dress shoes are told in SSF,Ca. to "wash that Ford towncar on your own time" regularly.
There was no typical Mex. nightly wash crew, as at most limo, tour or charter bus companies.
Virgin Limo drivers near SFO are told to "standby in the (dumpy) drivers room,,, on your own time."
Why would so many already Rich people cheat working poor limo and charter drivers out of their common and customary tips !?
Why would any good driver continue to work for such a company !?
Why would any customer hire such an ODDBALL underpaid limo company !?!?
Crrrrazy!
Why isn't there a SKIER'S TRAIN from Sacramento to Donner Pass And Truckee!? Highway 80 has been closed FOR DAYS this winter. Snow clearing has not always been Expertly done, with cars being damaged and even ground up !
We ,dependent on clean profitable tourism , need the California Coast passenger trains back, the luxury Daylight and the deluxe nightly Lark of the 1960s with first class dining cars and sleeper cars and wonderful all-black Porter's.
AMTRAK stinks!! ,on rented bumpy freight tracks !! Way too many deceptive "bus connections"!!
An expensive fast train in the Super polluted by pesticides and untested unhealthy chemicals San Joaquin Valley of boring crop scenery is A TOTAL WASTE OF TAX DOLLARS !!
We need a TV documentary to get people out of cars and Back on passenger only modern rails, without all the Big 4 fraud and Fed. tax dollar and land giveaway !!
Asked KQED,Ch9 Newsroom to be the one tv news service in the SFBayArea to tell us, finally, what the ANNUAL RAINFALL TOTALS ARE, daily like all stations did before the 4 year Droight; KQED is still not telling us!! News local Blackout like 1976's famous "Summer of Love"!!
KQED donors must be so Proud.
So Proud.
The TV station they give $1000s and $Ms to is witholding VALUABLE INFORMATION. Again.
They could have been giving to clean up their front yards, the Bay.
Why hide these facts/data?
Why not show us the true SNOW PACK at Soda Springs-Donner Pass, like they commonly use to??
Why all this obfuscation about 12:1 ratio, deceptive and less important to skiers SNOW FALL vs practical SNOW PACK ??
All the TV wx folk said we would have 'la nina' severe flooding the previous 2 years; But that did not happen. They were All wrong!!
This has been the Coldest and Wettest Winter in decades, but no one in tv Media will tell us the on-the-ground true stats.
So who is behind this "Don't Tell Annual Rainfall totals or 1 Oct. Rain Year totals??
Obama?
Tainted Governor Jerry Brown?
President 'humpty' Trump?
Bankers?
The U.N.??
Who?
And... Why?
Friday, March 03, 2017
SF is now "the most Expensive City IN THE WORLD to live in. That means, "Tipping for Good Service at restaurants, limos and charter/tour buses IS NOT OPTIONAL !!
I have driven a charter bus for 5 years in SF for $20/hr with NO RAISE IN 5 YEARS, while the owner got $65M cash to sell the company.
My rent is Skyrocketing, now at $2050 for a 1900-built 4 story, old 1 bedroom apt with inadequate wiring, can't run toaster and microwave in the tiny kitchen.
Please respect Commercial, class B, drivers as it is very hard to get that license with air brakes and with pax endorsement.
The rich and successful, we need you to "Do Your Part" and help this 805,000 small community of SF, please !!
Chase Bank in California PUBLICLY OFFERED $300 to switch your Savings and Checking Accounts to them. But only paid "$200" !! How do these banks get away with such flagrant robbery!?
Bank of the West even had the bill counting machine unplugged and in a back storeroom!
They seemed to care more for local business accounts than my $75,000 in savings, so I moved.
The cutie officer then said "I will pay you $300 to come back."
The catch, had to ungrade to paid accounts!!
Boo, BotW !!
Boo, Chase!!
Thursday, March 02, 2017
Why do good family, smart, beautiful, U. educated, high income Hot young lawyer women just want to have a nightly swim at AquaticPark and night or three intimacies/week, but don't want to talk, or share their feelings hopes plans dreams , past wispering "i love you" !?
I only make about $40k, so I didn't think she would want to marry me.
I was never invited to her work, a very powerful law firm and very high floor office in downtown SF.
I never met any of her friends or family, and on her side , she never talked about work, friends, or family.
I blab and disclose my whole life!
Sing along with the radio horribly to my loves. And try to tell them how Wonderful they are and how lucky I am !!
Maybe I was her first. A lesbian?
And she just didn't know how she felt or how to save an "I love you" relationship. I did feel significant to her. Unlike the rebound woman or the unfeeling, limp attractive woman. Or the artist who bedded me just to put me down loudly afterwards with her girlfriends.
I never cheated on her or even thought about it.
If she had asked me to move in or talked about having kids or meeting her friends or meeting her parents, I might not have gone to Western Europe for 3 months.
She didn't call or write me,,, so, Big Sigh, I thought we were over. I didn't want our love affair to end.
It was very hard to write that "fair well" letter; And she did not reply.
I loved her as best I could.
If I had asked, "Will you marry me?", I fear she would have said no, because of my low pay that made my boss a multimillionaire.
I met a young attractive French woman who said I was her "movie star look-alike husband to be" and I should meet her parents, visit her again next year, after she visited me!
Talk about motivated!
Well, it was all an elaborate 3yr con-job to get a U.S. passport and 18 years alimony and child support !!
She borrowed a handsome man to be her "father" and borrowed a very nice small modern house to be her "family home". All lies.
What a gullible fool I was!!
I caught her lying about "wearing our diaphragm", but she was "already pregnant", she then told me.
So beware of women that are too interested, also!!
I do apologize to just all these Wonderful women for my bad choices, but approaching 30 I was worried if I would never have children.
So painful to be "in love" yet still be near total strangers, usually her to me as I am very open and honest and 99% faithful. For instance:
I dated ,just once, 3 gorgeous women at once and told all 3; Of course, that ended all 3 affairs, and one was a famous butt model !!
Silly me.
I just looked at bare big breasts in a checkout grocery line and she cried!
More often than I wished, this would happen.
A single mom with 2 kids she could barely support. Twice it happened;we were very much in love and lust for years. One married a Navy captain. The other, purely for finances, married quickly a physicist and move to Texas.
The last daughter of 12 , a traveling nurse, from a super-rich D.C. family; The father told me " you are Not marrying my daughter." And I had paid to fly from sf to there. She cried in my arms for hours. In just 3 months she was married to a young successful lawyer , with a huge 2 story house, 4 girls, and after 20 hard years, a quick divorce.
One rebounded back to a lived with but rejected Wyoming trucker who owned his own brick house, who was so jealous of her smarts, poise, confidence, humor and beauty, he became very jealous and very abusive; after 2 good kids and 20years, another very painful divorce.
Three women came right out and told me, after a Wonderful year or two, get this!, "I love you, I want to marry you, but if you don't double your salary to $80k by next week, we are done!!"
So one married a guy who died of cancer in one year. Another married an old "trusted but boring" she told me boyfriend and moved from the luxury,2 story, hot tub condo. 2 car big garage for our Miata and MR2.
Guess I won't Rob banks for any of these women.
What a sadness.
Costco item #45694, the "Kirkland Signature Baguette 2 PACK" is NOT RECOMMENDED, as has little or no taste. $4.99.
And while we are burning Costco Bakery, the croissants are TOO TOUGH.
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Trump promised to take care of all of us, especially the working poor.
We just need to hold him to his word.
Yep, it's that Simple.
What is it!!,with young attractive women not liking a large 20' x 20' bedroom !??
Still hiding in small spaces,,,?
Ford bought Chariot months ago, but has still not taken over Operational Control. No one seems to know "When!?"
Especially the Chariot employees.
Typical American disgusting Capitalism and all its Bad Manners !!
SUNBEAM ELECTRIC BLANKETS:. not recomnended !! Lousy QC !!
Bought 4, all defective.
Shipped back to Deep South.
Bought 4 more, but dark blue pile.
All defective, only either too hot or off.
And always slipping off the bed !!
Grrrrr.