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A bit longer than a quicky, but it's a goody.

Should I Really Join Facebook? (Priceless)

Read it all the way through! It's a good laugh! AND really quite true!!

When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, my 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship...

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions, checking bathrooms, and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart a lot."

P.S. I know some of you are not over 70. I sent it to you to allow you to forward it to those who are....... I figured your sense of humour could handle it...If not... find a sense of humour.... We all need to have one of these !!!.

We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle. EH!

I see where Donald tweeted that Rex Tillerson was "as dumb as a rock" and didn't do as he was told. Different to his earlier tweet in which he said he was terrific and a good person to work with. Tillerson replied that Donald doesn't read reports and briefings, ignores his advisers and acts on what he believes is the thing to do. A real loose cannon. Another senior White House official is about to quit, too. Don't remember who.

REDElectric cable, for / instead of a TOWROPE.

 

Not in NSW, it's illegal.

 

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Not as a tow rope, like a jumper lead if you have a flat battery.

This article may explain it.

Apparently the early roadster model Tesla had V2G. Elon Musk was asked if it was possible, and replied that they might revisit it. The idea of V2V technology may also be examined, so if someone runs out of charge away from a charging station, they could "borrow" enough power from another car to get to a charging station.

A new toy has hit the shelves - a talking female Muslem doll. No-one knows what she says - they're not game to pull the string.

A bit of abstract thinking. It's OK to put solar panels on your roof, and install a battery, from which you can recharge your electric car, but how do people who live in multi storey apartments get on? Not .much roof per apartment. Who has rights to the battery?

So sorry to hear that Ian. I know how it feels. We were robbed, over 50 years ago. I was not long out of high school. Dad and I were living in a company house next to the factory where he was a delivery driver. The family lived in the country, and we went home at weekends. One day, about this time of year, a young guy broke into the house and stole all the Christmas presents we had accumulated. Made a pretty grim Christmas.

On the news this evening they reported on a new app for your smartphone which allows you to monitor your home and control electrical appliances from anywhere in the world. Cameras, motion detectors, even control your robot vacuum cleaner. I know your alarms were turned off for renovations, but something like this would have been handy.

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Looks like I'm going to have to find you some new material, Phil.

Carpets? I've heard they rip up floorboards for firewood.Maybe that is racist.

Britain's answer to Donald Trunp, Boris Johnson has been making a fool of himself again.

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Like Donald said, rake the leaves.

LNP don't have a monopoly on scare tactics.

That's modern life Jerry. Either someone making a buck out of it, or it's not permitted. Many sports etc. now ban photos, let alone videos. No creating memories for them to show their own kids in the future. You might be a pedophile, or other parents don't want their kids photographed, because so many of these photos end up on social media.

I see Dick Smith is considering standing as an independent candidate for the safe Liberal seat of MacKellar promising to tell people the truth about renewables and coal. He says he is not a global warming denier, and believes that we are affecting the world climate. He also says we should be leading the world in pilot training but will most likely be recuiting overseas pilots the way things are currently being run.

See his Sunrise interview here.

Movement of goods from factory or port to warehouse to store relies on trucks. Haven't seen too many pallets or shipping containers on the trams lately. Freight trains don't run in the metropolitan area, not even parcel vans any more. Trucks need roads, but not through narrow residential streets past schools, etc. or through the CBD.

Jerry, as you are possibly aware, many Aussies commute further to work each day than many English travel on their annual vacation. Melbourne's metropolitan area now stretches from Pakenham almost to Melton. Sydney is no better, but we are talking about Victoria.

The "Matthew Guy is the Liberals 'cuts' guy" ad campaign by Labor obviously had an impact, as did the disarray in the federal Liberal party. Andrews only conceded very late in the campaign that he is going to borrow big to pay for all his promises, to be paid by our grandchildren and their grandchildren. The budget is in surplus may have been technically correct, but hang on to your hats.

A Doveton milk bar worker was hit over the head with a metal pole by two masked men who then stole cigarettes and a cash register. Not to worry. Only another statistic.