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Attention All Bocce . . .
. . .aficionados ! ! !
It’s Friday again
so dive into your playing gear
and climb aboard the team bus
at the Verena front door at 11 a.m.
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Mental Exercise Sharpens Seniors’ Mind
A few mental push-ups here and there can help keep an older adult’s mind just about as sharp as ever — much the same way physical exercise can help maintain physical fitness, according to the Pennsylvania State University’s Gerontology Center. Researchers worked with 5,000 men and women for more than three decades and found less than half showed a decline in mental ability, even those aged 74 to 81.
Does mental ability start to decline in middle age? Ridiculous, not even at age 60, they report. Just as you can maintain physical well-being as you age by exercising and eating properly, you can maintain mental well-being by engaging in stimulating activities, continuing to make decisions and leading an active life.
Mind-sharpening exercises include watching television informational programs rather than soap operas, playing bridge instead of bingo, playing blackjack instead of slot machines, and taking up word games like Scrabble or anagrams. They even recommend square-dancing because not only is it good for you physically, it’s also mentally challenging because you have to follow intricate patterns chanted by the caller.
NO BOCCE today . . .
. . . bus (and driver) has to traipse to
Goldfield Ghost Town.
Bocce ball. . .
. . .again Friday.
Be on the team bus at 11 a.m.
That’s all for today.
Bocce . . .
. . . isn’t just a man’s game.
Women play it very well, too.
So sign up for Friday’s session.
The bus leaves at 11 a.m.
for the nearby courts.
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Never Go to The Grocery Store Hungry
Friends and family have plenty of advice on how to save money shopping for groceries: get less of the fatty types of meat, buy larger packages of breakfast cereal, purchase bigger eggs and get your vegetables at the farmer’s market.
A simple tip I learned all by myself years ago is to never go to the grocery store hungry. You wind up making too many impulse buys. Make a list of what you need and stick to it.
Buy only groceries at a grocery store. Most non-food items are more expensive than elsewhere.
Check the weight of prepackaged products, such as potatoes. What’s labeled a “10-pound bag” can vary a lot in actual weight. Keep in mind that while the price of your favorite snack may not have gone up, its weight has gone down. Always check the unit price, and the sizes. Just because two containers are the same size doesn’t mean they have the same amount of goods inside.
Don’t buy the larger cuts of meat just because they’re marked on special. Check the per-pound price. You don’t have to pick up three pre-packaged pork chops if there are just two of you at home. Ask the butcher for two chops. You might get better meat buys at a local meat market. The service probably will be better since the butcher will grind up a pound and a half of lean round steak for you, or cut it into strips for a stir fry.
Check the supermarket products on sale. When items you normally eat are offered at clearance prices, stock up by putting them in your freezer. Check the deli for sales items.
If you’re buying sugar for any reason — baking, for example — don’t buy anything pre-sweetened because the price for these products is much higher than the sugar.
And check the prices rung up by the cashier on the way out to make sure they’re correct.
Bocce Ball Fans . . .
. . . who wish to revive their skills
should grab a jacket and meet at Verena’s front door
at 11 a.m. Friday
to leave for the courts at Chandler’s Tumbleweed Park.
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Have You Ever Noticed
that the reward
for a job well done
is more work?
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What’s In Any Name?
In an earlier post, I discussed several versions people have of offered of my name over the years. During all that time, I’ve saved clips of names that must have given their owners interesting moments during their lifetime.
The Troy (NY) Record is the source of this submission — the Rev. William Knight Gown. It also provided the name of Elizabeth Streetman Oberhellman Hickenlooper Duttonholter.
In Nevada, a Pansy Spicer married a chap whose last name was Garden. In Chicago, Liberty Banister reportedly married Charity Stairs.
Rachel Harr wed Daniel Hardy in Maryland for a Hardy-Harr ceremony and celebration that sounded like a lot of fun. A Denver dude named General Pancake exchanged marriage vows with a gal named Farina.
A Florida bank whose president was Jerry Banks had a cashier named Golda Counts. Employed in a downtown San Diego bank at one time was a staffer listed as A. Dollar.
The following were collected by a professor at Yale: Shady Banks, Crystal Chanda Lear, Will B. Muchmore, Quigg Newton, Purdie Good and Dr. I. M. Sick.
Long-time-ago Texas Gov. Big Jim Hogg had a daughter named Ima Hogg. I unearthed a Jack Daniels in Chile and a Christian Guy in Britain.
And Dr. Whet Fartz attended to patients in Pittsburgh while Ben Dover sold real estate in Butts County, GA.
Get Your Arms In Shape . . .
. . . for Bocce ball
Friday 11 a.m. poolside.
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What . . .
. . .do vegetarians count
to go to sleep?
Heads of lettuce?
Cucumbers?
Pumpkins?
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Only Your Computer Knows Virtual Money
It’s a tenet of investing: if you don’t understand the company or product and what it does, drop it and move on to something else. Which makes the Bitcoin story bizarre. Not only is it understood by a select group of financial high flyers, no one is really sure who started it.
Since the Bitcoin’s birth a dozen years ago, it’s travelled a bumpy road the stretches from a price of $400 five years ago to more than $60,000 about a year ago. Along the way it dropped to $4,000 in 2019 from $19,000 two years earlier.
The value of Bitcoin rises only if there’s a demand for it. If no one wants it, the value drops dramatically.
If Bitcoin sounds a bit scary, there are more than 6,500 other cryptocurrencies on the market.
If Bitcoin doesn’t catch our fancy, you can purchase Ethereum, Litecoin, Stellar, Polkadot or Cardano among the thousands of other options.
None of these currencies involve printing presses. They exist only in computers – cyberspace.
There is a growing industry servicing the spending of Bitcoins after you buy them. They’re readily available at thousands of automated teller machines around the country.
And there’s a whole new language involved.
For example, Ethereum claims to be “a decentralized software platform that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications (dapps) to be built and run without any downtime, fraud, control, or interference from a third party.
“The goal behind Ethereum is to create a decentralized suite of financial products that anyone in the world can freely access, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or faith.”
Did you get all that?
Transactions are conducted through a digital ledger called a blockchain. This involves a worldwide computer network that stores the virtual money in a digital wallet.
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Taxing Time
Bocce aficionados meet at 11 a.m. poolside
Talk At Our Table . . .
. . . was interrupted
when the notorious gossip nearby
increased their decibel level to proclaim,
“I don’t want to say anything bad about (deleted)
but boy is this good.”
Get Doctor’s Opinion on Medical Fees
Whether or not you have health insurance, always ask your doctor if there is a fee involved when discussing any appointment, surgery, test, procedure, or any other arrangement being made to continue your treatment.
Follow-up appointments for such purposes as checking on proper healing of minor surgery or monitoring blood pressure can be chargeable but any fee might be avoided if the patient asks the doctor about any charge when the follow-up is discussed.
For example, follow-up visits after surgery normally is included in the surgeon’s original fee. But not all, so ask to avoid surprises.
The process has been complicated by the recent rise in telemedicine: internet contact with doctors by telephone and computer. In some cases, they’re covered by Medicare, Medicaid or supplemental insurance. In some cases, they are not, so you have to check with the doctor.
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