Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 11:33am
So how 'bout this weather, huh?
So this week, not just Nebraska but much of the U.S. entered a serious deep freeze. And the thing about cars is that most of them don't particularly like the cold. When the temp dips below zero, both you and your car have a hard time getting out of bed. You'd rather just roll over, pull the covers over your head and go back to sleep. Why should your car be any different?
Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 1:23pm
Once again the Super Bowl has come and gone and, as usual, more people are talking about the commercials more than the game itself. It is a bizarre phenomenon. Ads are supposed to pay for the game, yet have somehow become more entertaining than the game. If someone could figure out a way to bet on commercials instead of the game, more money would be won and lost on Budweiser and Doritos than whoever scored that last winning touchdown.
Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 02/05/2021 - 1:02pm
There are certain things that we anticipate with great...uh, anticipation. Yet, somehow, there are never as good as we imagined them to be. The mind's eye is a great liar.
Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 01/29/2021 - 9:12am
My cats are indoor cats. My cats would like to disagree but, as I am the one with the opposable thumbs and, therefore, the only one qualified to work doorknobs, I get to decide who stays and who goes.
Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 2:28pm
In the insurance biz, it is called the death spiral. That is when health care costs of an aging individual increase exponentially as said patient's health deteriorates. It is not at all unusual for the last six month's of a person's life to cost substantially more in health care expenses than the previous ten years.
If you Google “death spiral,” you will come up with a different definition, having to do with premiums and the marketplace, but when two insurance professionals are talking about a death spiral, they are usually talking about a dying insured.
Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 11:29am
After a couple of years or so living in Las Vegas, my sister decided to move back to Nebraska. There is no shame in that. A lot of us Cornhuskers can't make it on the outside, try as we might, and return to the comfort and familiarity of the prairie.
Vegas is a tough place for anyone these days. Economies based on tourism have been demolished by the pandemic. My sis went from working 70 plus hours a week (at pretty dang good pay) to one day a week if she was lucky.
Published by gordonhopkins on Thu, 12/31/2020 - 12:57pm
In science fictions movies or TV shows, it would be called a temporal anomaly or something like that. I am contacting you from the past. As I write these words, it is 2020, but when you read them, it is most likely 2021. Okay, maybe it's not as impressive as contacting you from the future but, still, if you really think about it, it's kind of weird.
Published by gordonhopkins on Thu, 12/24/2020 - 11:42am
I had to explain to my boss why I was late for work, that I had taken a stray cat to the vet. He said to me, “So, I guess you're a three-cat household now.”
“Absolutely not.” I responded. My plan was to get the poor guy fixed up, then either find his owner or find him a new home. I had two cats and they were enough of a handful for me. I didn't need a third one thrown into the mix, especially a cat who clearly hated me.