Gotta love this man lamp!
Probably great for your man cave.
It stands on 2 legs.
Its spine is the electrical cord running down the middle.
And the lamp shade is the hat.
Sort of design ingenious.
And during Coronavirus quarantine, it makes you feel perhaps like you have a little extra companionship.
Even if it's just a lamp! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Facebook)
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August 20, 2020
Man Lamp
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July 16, 2020
Missing Florida Vacations
So many months into Covid now, and probably so many more to go unfortunately.
Just missing getting out and down to Florida for a little vacation.
The palm trees. The sun. The beach. A little fun.
This isn't forever, right?
Hopefully, let's pray, Covid will be over and we can live again in freedom and without fear of contagion every moment of every day, day, day. ;-)
(Credit Photo of artwork: Andy Blumenthal)
Just missing getting out and down to Florida for a little vacation.
The palm trees. The sun. The beach. A little fun.
This isn't forever, right?
Hopefully, let's pray, Covid will be over and we can live again in freedom and without fear of contagion every moment of every day, day, day. ;-)
(Credit Photo of artwork: Andy Blumenthal)
Missing Florida Vacations
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May 6, 2020
Lockdown In Coronavirus
This photo is sort of what it feels like to be in lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic.
You're stuck inside, but still have to keep everything moving anyway!
As we enter the next phase with people itching to go back out and "restart" life and the economy and the second wave where more people unfortunately get sick, we are really as they say:
And that's where bad things can happen (G-d forbid) and it's never a good place to be. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
You're stuck inside, but still have to keep everything moving anyway!
As we enter the next phase with people itching to go back out and "restart" life and the economy and the second wave where more people unfortunately get sick, we are really as they say:
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And that's where bad things can happen (G-d forbid) and it's never a good place to be. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Lockdown In Coronavirus
April 28, 2020
Reach Out And Grab Ya
This is a candleholder.
But in a bizarre way it looks almost like a toilet.
The place for the candle is the toilet!
Sort of would make a pretty scary toilet in real life if the back of it (ie. tank) has a body with arms that looks like it is reaching out to grab you as you take your royal seat.
Ok, I have definitely been shut in too many days due to this Coronavirus thing.
I am imagining the world's scariest toilets. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
But in a bizarre way it looks almost like a toilet.
The place for the candle is the toilet!
Sort of would make a pretty scary toilet in real life if the back of it (ie. tank) has a body with arms that looks like it is reaching out to grab you as you take your royal seat.
Hey, someone let me out of here!
Ok, I have definitely been shut in too many days due to this Coronavirus thing.
I am imagining the world's scariest toilets. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Reach Out And Grab Ya
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April 22, 2020
Free COVID-19 Cure
Advertisement with the little slips at the bottom to tear off.
Free Cure for COVID-19.
Please take an information strip below
And what do the strips say:
Stay the F**K at home
I wonder why no one took any of the strips? LOL
Like every meaningful issue, we have people on both sides of the aisle fighting it out what is the right thing to do.
And when it comes to life and liberty, passions certainly run high. ;-)
(Credit Photo to my son-in-law Itzchak for sharing this with me from his friend in California)
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April 19, 2020
Coronavirus: A Modern Leprosy
What an interesting time this week during the coronavirus for my bar-mitzvah parshas of Tazria and Metzora, where we learn about how to handle someone with the plague of leprosy...What’s fascinating though for our times is that right here in the Torah, long before medical science understood germs, washing of hands, and disinfectants, we have the first instruction on quarantining someone who is sick. The person with leprosy is deemed impure and is put outside the camp in quarantine, repeatedly checked (e.g. tested) by the Kohen, until they are healed, at which time they are purified before being allowed back in. What we don’t see with leprosy is that the whole community is put in a state of quasi quarantine as we are doing now globally with the coronavirus.
In the end, I see this coronavirus blowing up with some people forever anxious and germophobic and others becoming complacent and careless about the whole thing. Either way there will be more sick and dying people, as well as anger at the system that over time repeatedly failed us. This week’s parsha is a good reminder to go back to the ultimate wisdom of the Torah and read again how we handle the leper and manage with a thoughtful risk-based management approach and an eye on the ultimate purity—physically and spiritually—of the individual and the community.
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Coronavirus: A Modern Leprosy
April 7, 2020
The Grass Still Needs To Be Mowed
Even with Coronavirus and the associated lockdowns and social distancing, the grass still needs to be mowed.
These two are doing the work but also look like they could be playing some bumper cars too!
So it is: Life goes on; the world is not (yet) ending.
Unfortunately, there are people suffering and dying.
And we need to help them and try and save their lives.
Also, not forget their families and those out of work.
But as far as the world is concerned, the grass still keeps growing.
The living will go on living as best they can. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
These two are doing the work but also look like they could be playing some bumper cars too!
So it is: Life goes on; the world is not (yet) ending.
Unfortunately, there are people suffering and dying.
And we need to help them and try and save their lives.
Also, not forget their families and those out of work.
But as far as the world is concerned, the grass still keeps growing.
The living will go on living as best they can. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The Grass Still Needs To Be Mowed
April 1, 2020
Pathogen Deaths - Worst Is Yet To Come
So maybe I am the only one who doesn't see how things are adding up.
But in the U.S. we have 4,000 dead from Coronavirus and 3/4 of the country (all the major population centers) are on lockdown.
Yet, the projections are still for deaths in the U.S. to pile up between 100,000 to 240,000.
How do you get from 4,000 to 240,000 with most people under lockdown?
The numbers of projected deaths were in the millions before the lockdown and social distancing, so yes the numbers are lower and better now.
Still the escalating death toll is frightening in its magnitude of what is yet to come DESPITE the lockdown.
Moreover, the estimated death in the U.S. from the Flu was only 34,000 (2018-2019) and that's with everybody round and about doing their business.
My question is what happens after the (first) peak when they send people back to work and school?
There are still going to be people sick and contagious out there and the whole cycle STARTS AGAIN until we get the vaccine.
And even after the vaccine, it may become seasonal like the flu or mutate and become even more virulent.
It seems like there is plenty of reason to be cautious and concerned about what is yet to happen from here.
Then again we may be considered fortunate this time and actually beat this Coronavirus, but then again what happens when the NEXT really bad natural or man-made pathogen gets out? ;-)
Note: There are approximately 16 countries with deadly biological weapons programs.
(Credit Photo: My wonderful so-in-law, Itzchak)
But in the U.S. we have 4,000 dead from Coronavirus and 3/4 of the country (all the major population centers) are on lockdown.
Yet, the projections are still for deaths in the U.S. to pile up between 100,000 to 240,000.
How do you get from 4,000 to 240,000 with most people under lockdown?
The numbers of projected deaths were in the millions before the lockdown and social distancing, so yes the numbers are lower and better now.
Still the escalating death toll is frightening in its magnitude of what is yet to come DESPITE the lockdown.
Moreover, the estimated death in the U.S. from the Flu was only 34,000 (2018-2019) and that's with everybody round and about doing their business.
My question is what happens after the (first) peak when they send people back to work and school?
There are still going to be people sick and contagious out there and the whole cycle STARTS AGAIN until we get the vaccine.
And even after the vaccine, it may become seasonal like the flu or mutate and become even more virulent.
It seems like there is plenty of reason to be cautious and concerned about what is yet to happen from here.
Then again we may be considered fortunate this time and actually beat this Coronavirus, but then again what happens when the NEXT really bad natural or man-made pathogen gets out? ;-)
Note: There are approximately 16 countries with deadly biological weapons programs.
(Credit Photo: My wonderful so-in-law, Itzchak)
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March 31, 2020
Children Are Our Future
There are already 32 states under lockdown orders and more surely to come.
It is good to see the children playing outside (even in smallish groups).
It's trying times with schools closed, many parents trying to telework, and the need to take care of the children (especially the younger ones) at the same time.
We can't lose sight that the children are our future.
They are everything in this world.
Even with the Coronavirus pounding away at our older and more vulnerable populations, we can still thank G-d that not many children have been infected.
Even in challenging times, G-d shows His mercy to us. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
It is good to see the children playing outside (even in smallish groups).
It's trying times with schools closed, many parents trying to telework, and the need to take care of the children (especially the younger ones) at the same time.
We can't lose sight that the children are our future.
They are everything in this world.
Even with the Coronavirus pounding away at our older and more vulnerable populations, we can still thank G-d that not many children have been infected.
Even in challenging times, G-d shows His mercy to us. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Children Are Our Future
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March 24, 2020
Enough! Coronavirus Already
Day G-d's knows what of being locked down for this global Coronavirus outbreak.
I am soooo SICK of Coronavirus!
It's time to slay this Covid-19 and get this world back to normal.
Sure, I am extremely grateful for every day of health and certainly not to be in the lousy hospital.
But life has got to be about more than Coronavirus.
It's not Armageddon, but slow water torture or death by a thousand cuts.
The repetitiveness is mind-numbing, repulsive already.
The news is boring, snoring everyone to tears.
The fear is morphing into unintended complacency.
The "rescue plan" everyone knows is more pork barrel politics.
The wild gyrations of the stock market is nonstop ticker tape Vegas style.
Even the grocery and toilet paper hoarding has got to have an end in sight.
It's not that Coronavirus isn't serious and important, but what about everything else in the world.
Can we start to give some attention to life again? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
I am soooo SICK of Coronavirus!
It's time to slay this Covid-19 and get this world back to normal.
Sure, I am extremely grateful for every day of health and certainly not to be in the lousy hospital.
But life has got to be about more than Coronavirus.
It's not Armageddon, but slow water torture or death by a thousand cuts.
The repetitiveness is mind-numbing, repulsive already.
The news is boring, snoring everyone to tears.
The fear is morphing into unintended complacency.
The "rescue plan" everyone knows is more pork barrel politics.
The wild gyrations of the stock market is nonstop ticker tape Vegas style.
Even the grocery and toilet paper hoarding has got to have an end in sight.
It's not that Coronavirus isn't serious and important, but what about everything else in the world.
Can we start to give some attention to life again? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Enough! Coronavirus Already
March 22, 2020
Life In The Times of Coronavirus
A real hearty bellyaching laugh.
Then she came in and shared a WhatsApp post from one of her friends which said:
I ate 11 times and took 5 naps and I woke up and it's still today!
Then I couldn't stop laughing. ;-)
(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
Life In The Times of Coronavirus
March 21, 2020
Trying To Maintain Normality
People are trying to get out of the house for just a little bit each day amidst the mandated social distancing.
Especially difficult is to try to get some exercise with all the fitness centers, gyms, and pools closed down.
Some people are just choosing to go for a walk around the track or get in a quick workout with a few friends or family members.
Can we be normal when everything is abnormal? ;-)
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
Trying To Maintain Normality
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