People I would like to meet, or, Why I no longer like 60 minutes.

In a class, we were supposed to think of someone we admire or would like to meet and picture them coming over to our house. I couldn't think of anyone, so I stole Johnny Depp from another student. Now that I am pondering this issue, here are a few people that fit the bill:

- Michelle Obama
- Queen Latifah
- Terry Gross
- Serena Williams
- Johnny Depp
- Meryl Streep
- Judi Dench
- Anderson Cooper

I used to love 60 minutes. Then I got a bit tired of all the repeats during the summer. So, I tuned in last week and saw that it was pesky football season and that the show was delayed. It seemed annoyingly repetitious and showed two segments of people I really never want to meet....NFL super agent Drew Rosenhaus and The Spymaster, Meir Dagan. It also seemed suspiciously repetitious...maybe due to football season? (I am still going on the OLD TV schedule where Summer was for repeats and Fall was for new shows. I think the schedule is different now).

Yesterday I went for a walk to the local library SO I COULD SHARPEN MY PENCIL. I am on vacation and doing my Sudoku and my crossword puzzles. Saw a about 20 people bicycling and perhaps 3 walking. I stopped and asked this bus driver if she could give me a ride back home. There I was, needing a ride. There she was, with an empty bus. But, NO, she said, "You have to have an appointment". I know it is the same in my town, but think about it.

You have to strike while the iron is hot! In other words, write your blog when your mind is racing, not when it is blank. Watching/listening to music videos on the TV as I write this. I think the songs are edited but they left in the phrase "douche bag". Can you imagine someone putting that in a song?!

Waiting for the sun to come out. I am down in Ocean City (New Jersey) and woke up to COLD weather and cloudy. I never want to admit that I am cold. I am the one who made it through all of last winter without ever wearing a coat.

Changed the look of this blog. No, it wasn't a lot of work. I just pressed a button, and I don't know which one.

Just came back to my little cottage from another dismal breakfast experience. Maybe I can't really leave home? Always with the expectations and then the disappointments. Yesterday did find ONE place I liked, though. Jon and Patty's on Asbury Avenue. I liked everything about it, the paint on the walls, the paintings, the friendly servers, the vegetable-friendly menu, the free copies of The press, the other customers. It might be back to McDonald's for me tomorrow. At least I know what I am getting. It is enough to make a person learn to cook!

Don't know how I feel about Ocean City. I guess ANY place loses it's allure in the bad weather (for me, that is). Feel like I am constantly driving up and down looking for things. Some businesses are closed, and I am never sure if it is for the whole season. You can't go out to eat and spend less than ten dollars (even breakfast). The closer to the beach you go, the stingier they are with the parking minutes and this policy of QUARTERS ONLY is really aggravating. Other places in town you can use nickles and dimes and you get more time. Oh, it is just SO much easier to just stay home.

Don't abandon your baby! - Do we really need an advertisement for this? It went by on the side of a bus.

Things I love:
- Spring
- Fall
- Listening to MY music

Things I hate:
- People who go out of business and leave a sign up saying - SALE! - STOP IN!
- Summer
- Winter
- Change

I used to fall in love about once every ten years. I think I am WAY overdue, by about 12 years!

Next week, I am renting a place at the beach. It has been on my list of things to do for about 40 years. So many places....so little time! I always think: "But I could just DRIVE down here. It is only an hour away." With the current price of gas, it might cost as much to DRIVE down every day as it does to RENT a place. And I am ONE hour from SO MANY interesting shore towns. I plan to think about my HISTORY in Ocean City. I had a very interesting life here about almost 40 years ago. Just toured a house rented by a friend of mine. He has a history here going back almost 80 years ago. And he even brought a picture of himself and his parents and his dog in Ocean City when he was five years old. Boy, does he have ME beat! I will have to keep an eye out as I keep hearing about more and more people who have connections to this town.

"Your bike has fallen over and your eggs are all over the ground." - announcement that just came over the loud speaker at the Ocean City Public Library. In general, I am AGAINST loud speakers in libraries. For example, it is very annoying when you are in the middle of yoga class and an announcement is made for some employee to come to the front deak. Today's announcement made me smile, but really, does it matter how soon you deal with your eggs being all over the ground?

Strange but true:
- The Fringe festival has a fringe

Don't like this "voter ID law". Yes, it is a REAL PAIN for some people to get a photo ID. That is why I never applied for a handicapped parking sticker to drive my mom around in Pennsylvania. I needed a photo ID for HER. I also remember four years ago when we made sure we took her to vote for Obama. We wouldn't have been able to do that if the photo ID was required. The crazy thing about it all is that NO ONE IN AMERICA CARES about voting! What do we get, about 10% of the people to come out? And now we are making it more difficult?!?! I was brought up to vote, so I do it, but it is very lonely out there.

Worrisome anti-American craziness abroad. Yes, many Americans DO make some despicable films. But, get over it already. I'm sure someone must have made something really insulting to QUAKERS, or LIBRARIANS, but you don't see me out there rioting. Boy, those people have no sense of humor. Could this be the start of the end of the world? Maybe....

Guess I should get off of Playlist. I really am not much of a multitasker. It is hard to concentrate on writing when the music in your earphones is chanting, "Niggas they want war, but they ain't got money...". I do enjoy songs such as "I'm so paid" by Akon. I also have a thing for L'il Wayne. Yeah, it's embarrasing, but there you have it. In fact, I am SO into MY music that I am thinking about getting Sirius XM in the car again. I got a year's free trial when I bought my FIRST American car (a Chevy Malibu) and I LOVED it. But I cancelled it due to frugality reasons.

Things I love about Sirius XM:

- Decades channels
- Springsteen channel
- left wing channel
- audiobook channel
- comedy channels
- Broadway channel
- with the press of a button you can find out the name of the song and the name of the singer

"No one's had a female, sniper, serial killer..." - overheard in Greek restaurant. A customer was telling his friend about the book series he is writing when he isn't selling veterinarian supplies. I guess we all have a secret life.

I had a coworker with a secret life. On the surface she is a serene, stand-offish, long haired beauty with a great figure, living in a small town. Secretly, she writes historical, fantastical bodice-rippers, and has several pen names, blogs, genres and series in the works. What a very busy little creature she is. She dresses up in wild outfits and goes to odd conventions. I think she should be the SUBJECT of a novel, not the AUTHOR of the novel.

Today I got an urge to visit the Olympia, a restaurant I used to visit on a weekly basis. The same odd guy was sitting there along, reading a dog-eared paperback copy of an old science fiction book. I wonder what HE was thinking about ME?!?!?

I am taking an organizing class. The instructor was helping someone get organized who is a scrapbooker. "I can't believe there is a stamp made just so you can make a period!" she told us.

Things I love:
- cold coffee
- warm Diet Coke
- being in my own little world
- a beautiful day

Things I hate:
- people who cough and hack out in public
- Running out of time on the computer
- when it is a beautiful day and I forgot to bring my bathing suit
- shopping

I would like to be invisible. That is why I have a secret blog. I guess I don't really GET this blogging thing. I suppose the whole purpose to to get FAMOUS or to SELL something.

I was going to make a book display once in the library made up of books which started out as blogs. However, they don't really have any good subject headings for that. That is an example of a book display which requires A LOT OF WORK.

I think I died and went to heaven. Stopped into NEW shop downtown. (We only get a new shop about once every five years). It is called Little Mama's cafe and is at the same location where I have previously experienced an art gallery, an ice cream store and a restaurant (God, I'm old!) The address is 20 W. Commerce St. and the official opening celebration is this afternoon at 2 PM.

Pros:
- Free wireless access
- coffee
- sweets
- adorable friendly local family wait staff
- it's not McDonald's
- Morning show playing on TV at a reasonable level
- Cool plastic see thru bag for your cupcake take out
- Jamaican me crazy coffee (they actually tell you what kind they have today)
- re-opening of a business which has been shuttered for several years

Cons:
- table wobbly
- prices a bit high for every day
- TV COULD be a con if they insist on playing FOX news or some other disgusting channel
- No plug in view for my laptop

I set out with a half a day of errands on my list and I only got two blocks from home before I had to settle down with the laptop. Did I mention how nice it is to be retired?

Enjoying Chasing life, by Sanjay Gupta. Somewhere I acquired this audiobook which is not even from the library. It got a bit SMUSHED but works fine. It is a struggle to pay attention as the facts are rushing by, fast and furious. Things like, one in 10 people AGE 65 exhibit signs of Alzheimers. Copper is bad for you (I didn't even know copper was in foods). Studies have been done on the MEMORY of FRUIT FLIES! (How do they interview them?)

Finally got on the wireless here. It is different wherever you go. I was the FIRTS ONE to try it. Reminds me of my recent working days when patrons would come in with their laptops and my eyes would just glaze over and I would think, "You're on your own...I don't know NUTTIN' about wireless!"

If I hang out here long enough, it will be time for my mid-morning snack. Now, which cupcake should I have, French toast delight, Cinnamon delight or Stawberry supreme?
Speaking of strawberries, they have a PINK TV and a sign that says, Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude.