Internet, my savior
Bensblurb # 589 1/28/11
Internet, my savior
So I strolled haltingly down the stairs to where my PC sat waiting. Haltingly, for two reasons: As I reported here earlier in the fall when I fell down, missing the last step in the foyer, it did hurt and now my back is still giving me fits.
The second reason was that I had no earthly idea of what to write about in this column, which was due shortly.
Then, Shazzam! Ideas, via my email inbox containing over 20 fresh messages, started sprouting like weeds. Some were nothing more than weeds, to be sure. But enough of them got my juices to flowing that I just had to stop...and to again thank heavens, in behalf of all senior Americans who like to write and correspond but don‘t do much else, for the Internet and my loyal correspondents.
From corny to consequential, here’s a sampling from the morning’s supply of mail in my inbox:
# --Politician Newt Gingrich weighs in on a goofy new proposal he claims is “setting the stage for bankruptcy and a future bailout of the Post Office with taxpayer money.” All future stamps are to be the so-called forever stamps which may still be used even if postage rates rise.Gingrich then quotes Peter Schiff on the subject;“The Post Office will try to use any short-term increase in sales from these forever stamps to solve their immediate fiscal problems...[I]magine how difficult it will be...after inflation has pushed their costs up AND they are selling even fewer stamps because so many people already purchased them in the past.”
I’d say it’s just as likely the forever stamps might still be around after the PO itself expires.
#-- Friend Bob Harmon from out in Lake Arrrowhead forwards a note he received concerning winter’s blizzards: “Just got off the phone with a friend in Montana.He said that early this morning the snow is waist deep and still falling.The temperature has dropped below zero and the north wind is increasing. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window all day long. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.”#-- School buddy Jim Garner in Texas forwards a refreshing piece--although it’s been circulating on the Internet for a few years, about a school lesson. A mini-sermon we should all embrace. I’ll be happy to email The Mayonnaise Jar to you, on request to Benblanken@aol.com. Or simply Google it yourself.
#--I rechecked another email that arrived from Harmon a few days ago. It begins, “SO, do you still think that ‘we’ are all that important and REALLY influence the universe as we NOW know it? Sorta humbles one, hey?”
He was extolling the attachment, a full-color depiction of the earth’s relative size to the other planets and the sun itself. It shows that our hallowed ground is a grain of salt compared with the sun’s. Again, I can forward this awesome piece. Shoot me an email. Be assured: Your name won’t be added to any promotional list but will be deleted upon response. You’re welcome.
Ben Blankenship is a career journalist and a resident of Aquia Harbour. Reach him at Benblanken@aol.com
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Internet, my savior
So I strolled haltingly down the stairs to where my PC sat waiting. Haltingly, for two reasons: As I reported here earlier in the fall when I fell down, missing the last step in the foyer, it did hurt and now my back is still giving me fits.
The second reason was that I had no earthly idea of what to write about in this column, which was due shortly.
Then, Shazzam! Ideas, via my email inbox containing over 20 fresh messages, started sprouting like weeds. Some were nothing more than weeds, to be sure. But enough of them got my juices to flowing that I just had to stop...and to again thank heavens, in behalf of all senior Americans who like to write and correspond but don‘t do much else, for the Internet and my loyal correspondents.
From corny to consequential, here’s a sampling from the morning’s supply of mail in my inbox:
# --Politician Newt Gingrich weighs in on a goofy new proposal he claims is “setting the stage for bankruptcy and a future bailout of the Post Office with taxpayer money.” All future stamps are to be the so-called forever stamps which may still be used even if postage rates rise.Gingrich then quotes Peter Schiff on the subject;“The Post Office will try to use any short-term increase in sales from these forever stamps to solve their immediate fiscal problems...[I]magine how difficult it will be...after inflation has pushed their costs up AND they are selling even fewer stamps because so many people already purchased them in the past.”
I’d say it’s just as likely the forever stamps might still be around after the PO itself expires.
#-- Friend Bob Harmon from out in Lake Arrrowhead forwards a note he received concerning winter’s blizzards: “Just got off the phone with a friend in Montana.He said that early this morning the snow is waist deep and still falling.The temperature has dropped below zero and the north wind is increasing. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window all day long. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in.”#-- School buddy Jim Garner in Texas forwards a refreshing piece--although it’s been circulating on the Internet for a few years, about a school lesson. A mini-sermon we should all embrace. I’ll be happy to email The Mayonnaise Jar to you, on request to Benblanken@aol.com. Or simply Google it yourself.
#--I rechecked another email that arrived from Harmon a few days ago. It begins, “SO, do you still think that ‘we’ are all that important and REALLY influence the universe as we NOW know it? Sorta humbles one, hey?”
He was extolling the attachment, a full-color depiction of the earth’s relative size to the other planets and the sun itself. It shows that our hallowed ground is a grain of salt compared with the sun’s. Again, I can forward this awesome piece. Shoot me an email. Be assured: Your name won’t be added to any promotional list but will be deleted upon response. You’re welcome.
Ben Blankenship is a career journalist and a resident of Aquia Harbour. Reach him at Benblanken@aol.com
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5:14 PM
