Bfth's Boring Blog

Earlier this month my son got an email. It was kind of weird. It was a kind of thing that you might think was spam. This is part of what it said:   "You are invited to attend the Undergraduate Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 23rd at 3:00pm in the  XXX Library.    "You are welcome to bring one guest with you to the ceremony. Business casual is encouraged.   "If you are receiving this email, you will be presented with an award at the ceremony. Please update your slide here by XXX to help our preparation for the ceremony. Please find the slide with your name, upload your photo and respond to the question! "   He had no idea what this was all about. He has not a senior so it seemed kind of weird. But it was legitimate!   Now since this was on a weekday in the middle of the day, neither I or my husband would be able to go. I felt bad not being able celebrate with him. On the other hand my son felt it was weird that he had no idea what he had do...

 ...or for those of you NOT in NJ, DMV. Yes, it's that DREADED time.  The time when I have to go get my license renewed.  This CAN be done through the mail  (it's almost like they DON'T want you to come in), but I'm thinking that with the current climate it's a good time to get a Real ID and this fills me with horror.  (Can you blame me?) First off, my current license has a really good photo of me.  Or at least I think so.  I wish it would never change.  I wish I didn’t change. (Younger, thinner and blonder wins every time!)  But there you go. Second you need a TON of paperwork in order to get a Real ID.  I SHOULD have everything I need to prove that I am ME and that I still do reside in NJ (even though I also live in PA).  I have my expiring license.  I have my passport (which I have yet to use and is still good for another 4 years...I still have to wonder if getting the whole family passports back in January of 2020 had somet...

  It's Earth Day.  What have you done for our planet? Now in its 56th year, what are we doing to promote conservation, and encourage action against pollution, deforestation, and climate change? While we've made several strides forward since its inception in 1970, it seems, at least to me, that in recent years, we've been going backwards.  There is too much focus on the now and not on the future.   Why should we care?  Why should I care?  After all I'm reaching old age and who cares what happens after I am gone. Well, I care.  I care about the consequences that my actions (and the actions of others) will have on the planet that my son and his friends will live on long after I am going.  I care about their children and their children's child....And yes, I'm being a sap here. As (supposed) intelligent human beings, we don't seem to take the care of earth very seriously.  Or at least some do not as we drill and fight for more oil. ...

 Spending time in the Poconos and NJ means that we watch local news in both places.  Thanks to technology (and my husband), we can watch the local NY/NJ newscasts, but we also watch local PA news.   Saturday morning, I had WNEP (for Northeast PA) on as I wanted to catch the local weather. We regularly watch this station on the app on our TV.   Local PA news is SO different than the tristate area.  I like to watch both because why not? The newscast wrapped up around 8:00. The anchor said that  Good Morning America  would follow. However, my husband said that since we were watching on the app that probably wouldn't happen. He said most likely what would happen is that the news would cycle back to when it started broadcasting that morning. So, I was guessing we'd either start at 5:00, 6:00, or 7:00 a.m. . . . We decided to keep the TV on to see what would happen.  Imagine our surprise when after the break the local news did return, however ...

It's Monday, April 20th.   I woke up to temperatures in the upper 20s!   I also woke up feeling rotten.   I'm cold and I have a cold!   Ugh.   None of this makes sense.   (Does it ever?)   Where did I pick up this darned cold?   (And it's just a cold...not awful, but not great.)   Incubation for the common cold is 1-3 days.   I started to feel crappy when I woke up on Sunday...which also happens to be the day when the temperature started to plummet.   I was fine Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I was in the office and on public transportation) on Tuesday and Wednesday, where I didn't always wear my mask because there weren't that many people.   (Wear the GD mask Bfth!)   I was also in ShopRite on Wednesday night.   Thursday and Friday I didn't really leave the house. Saturday...   Well Saturday was a beautiful day.   I (we) had to drive down to the clock repair shop (https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/...

 Okay, there's no real secret, (Or maybe there is.) I just wanted to use the title of one of my favorite Nancy Drew stories in my blog post.  (It's the first in the series...and definitely one of the best, especially if you are reading the original text which was 25 chapters versus the revised "updated" text that was only 20 chapters.) When we bought the Poconos house, I brought with us the mantel clock from our house.  It was originally from my parent's house next door.  (Although there was another one there before it and now I'm obsessing over what happened to it.)  I can't remember if it followed them to the shore or not.  I'm thinking it did not, as a photo that I found shows it on my mantle in 2019, which was the year they permanently moved to the shore and in years before there was nothing there.  (My God I am getting old if I can't remember and am obsessing about a clock).  If I recall correctly, they purchased it in Bermuda (they used to...