A new attachment for my old Canon electric typewriter arrived today. I am estatic--I can do some much with this machine. I need to print on card stock and my printer won't accept it. I don't want to purchase a new one just yet so I started looking for old machines around the house. I can't believe that I found three and a sewing machine from Gimbles :-( My face is red. I really do have to stop saving stuff and things--I will after this. On the up side, happy I found my old Canon. When I opened package, I realized that I do have the part somewhere here in my box of cords, wires, attachments and who know what else. Oh well. I will do some typing and testing later this evening.
Something amusing. While typing I was listening to Judge Alex today, don't know time or channel, it never matters. A couple was suing another couple over bad rooms at a vacation spot. The plaintiff's said and brought proof by way of photo's, that the place was moldly, not clean, yada, yada. The other couple said that it was not true that their place, while not a 5 star place, was a good place to stay. The man and the wife said if the room was dirty it was because they did not clean it while there. Also, that Puerto Rican's were known not to care about cleanliness or something like that. The woman she knew for a fact if there was a choice between going to the beach and cleaning the room the PR would go to the beach. Other couple (white male, PR woman) were offended and the woman spoke up and out. The judge to the couple who owned that property that what they were saying was extremely racist. The woman tried to back down and explain "what I really meant was. . .". Unfortunately, her husband wasn't have any back-down problems--he kept right on talking. The Judge said that it seemed that the woman was trying to clean up what she said, but the husband just kept stepping up to the plate. I think the wife remembered the Judge's last name is Ferrer (like Jose Ferrer) or that she remember his bio; the husband never got it. And he or she explained that there was mold all around the tub because they were in the tropics.
I know Judges are supposed to be impartial, but they are human. When you disrespect certain ethinic groups you are disrespecting their [ethnic] mothers. (Judge Alex was born in Havana, Cuba, he and his family escaped from Fidel Castro’s Communist regime to America when he was a year old.) The Judge explained that he lived in Florida and nothing was more tropical than Florida, also that there was no mold on his bath tub. Puerto Rican, Cuban, et al.--he knew the deal. Needless to say, they lost the case. The big mouth guy will be in trouble on the way home.
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