tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41461402024-03-18T23:21:31.931-04:00Bill's StuffSeemingly impervious to the uptake of knowledge -- Henry Rollins.Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.comBlogger8554125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-15252622966469952212019-06-08T16:13:00.000-04:002019-06-08T16:13:00.733-04:00GoodbyeThis is Bill's daughter posting on his behalf.
Unfortunately this will be the last post on this blog, my father passed away on June 6th 2019. He passed away peacefully in his sleep. You can read his obituary here.
Thank you for all of the joy that you have brought to my dad with your comments.Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-56015522879483789172019-05-11T00:46:00.000-04:002019-05-11T00:46:09.652-04:00The futureyI am informed that 50 percent of people with my medical comdition live two years.Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-23036539434113456942019-03-18T18:26:00.001-04:002019-03-18T18:26:41.720-04:00SickThe American Medical System needs serious work. Gee what an original thought. But as a reluctant consumer during the last two months, much on my mind. And its not nearly over. My friends in Fance are aghast. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-71607499527933576982019-01-22T18:13:00.005-05:002019-01-22T18:14:29.188-05:00VideoTo me, this is a captivating video. I could watch it for hours.
https://vimeo.com/127256409Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-33581249457327485172019-01-20T21:01:00.002-05:002019-01-20T21:14:23.981-05:00JanuaryThis has been a rocky month. Not nearly as bad as that being suffered by the thousands of federal workers put aside without pay, or worse. But bad enough.
For the last three weeks, easily, I've had a hacking cough that sounds like I'm a two-pack-a-day smoker. It is slowly getting better, but glacially slowly. Roughly, say, at the speed that a new thought penetrates Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-86110014764545846212019-01-06T19:14:00.001-05:002019-01-06T19:19:30.357-05:00The ReturnToday, the French kid, who was here for only two weeks this time, returned to France. We discovered two things:
First, she's really in love with the local guy that she met last year. Like, really.
Second, that the local guy's mother is telling him slow down, take your time, think about the logistics, think about where you see this relatiionship in two years.I like this Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-50792322665602367772019-01-02T18:16:00.003-05:002019-01-02T18:20:38.649-05:00French peopleYou can support someone emotionally as much as you want, encourage them to change, nod and smile when they say yes, you're right, I need to hear this, I need to do this, I need to change.But when they don't act on it.... there is a point where compassion runs thin.
And when a different person asks you not to let her protective mother know that the guy she's seeing is more than a friend, itCerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-54058026415463138642018-11-09T15:06:00.001-05:002018-11-09T15:06:57.836-05:00StressOkay, I'm feeling stressed.
My friend who is defending her doctoral thesis in Paris today said that she should know by 5PM or so, Paris time, if she was awarded her doctorate. 5PM is 1700 hours. 1700 in France is 1100 here, or 11AM. Its now 3 PM. Not a word. If she didn't get it, she'll be devastated.
Trump is destroying the ideals of my country, and normal people are Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-19561617546103875382018-11-07T15:25:00.002-05:002018-11-07T15:26:13.269-05:00My Oh MyComments Only Women Really Understand
I see Comments Only Guys Really Understand all the time and I think Man, most of these are stupid. But THESE, I think make perfect sense.
Even the one about Lucifer's Waterfall.
Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-16362421123640686072018-10-31T18:21:00.000-04:002018-10-31T18:21:23.057-04:00FrenchI am sure that the French periodically get together and scramble the meanings of their words, just to confuse me.
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Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-77557562199542188022018-10-28T18:18:00.000-04:002018-10-28T18:18:01.210-04:00Artificial Intelligence... Among Other ThingsWhy is it that I regard sex toys for women as perfectly normal, but this as creepy? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Maybe the sex-toys-for-women industry has a better PR function? Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-63377587394194769062018-10-25T19:42:00.002-04:002018-10-25T19:42:50.881-04:00ScaryWhen your wife goes to the local doc to investigate a random recurring pain.... and they recommend a quick mammogram.... and you do searches on LEFT BREAST RANDOM PAIN and find all that it could be - including but not limited to cancer -- that's scary.
Finding out that the mammogram and ultrasound showed nothing abnormal was a relief. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-44230745458329318692018-10-22T20:27:00.002-04:002018-10-22T20:27:46.078-04:00ReadingI don't read the range of things that I used to read, and, thanks to the internet, my willingness to read at more than paragraph length on a specific subject is diminished, too.
Just now, I was at a local library, where I read an issue of The Atlantic that contained two articles that interested me -- one about Newt Gingrich and his effect on slash-and-burn politics, and one about theCerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-66315709901290162492018-10-05T17:05:00.001-04:002018-10-05T17:05:02.805-04:00PoliticsThe great thing about being a conservative politician is that you don't have to care about people. As long as you keep your Papa Dog head of party happy, that's all you need. Because liberals suck at firing up people, and conservatives are great at appealing to their base instincts..
Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-82704047064258670312018-10-04T21:08:00.002-04:002018-10-04T21:08:30.021-04:00Israel ConnectIn about two weeks, I start weekly sessions with two Israeli kids, and their teacher, to help them practice speaking English. Should be fun. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-64735996168582824542018-09-04T19:09:00.000-04:002018-09-04T19:09:03.874-04:00If Only.....Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-66742662922432748732018-08-24T18:04:00.003-04:002018-08-24T18:06:26.823-04:00ChokepointWhen I bought my smartphone, I switched to TMobile because they offered phones with a chip that could be swapped, which was something I needed in order to be able to connect the phone to a SIM that was owned by a French network. (Trivia: apparently Orange is the big player there; the other networks, such as Lebara, buy space from them. Guess what happens when Orange itself gets tight on Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-35238303678127501092018-08-22T11:46:00.003-04:002018-08-22T11:46:51.597-04:00WeaseliciousRepublican Mitch McConnell says there is no need for legislation to protect Robert Mueller because 'there is no sign that Trump plans to fire him'. And, one presumes, if he does move to fire him, McConnell will say Well, shucks, too late, we can't do anything now.
And a California Republican apparently wanted to buy clothes for a vacation, but his wife said No, we don't have the money for Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-64621749107360364052018-08-19T22:03:00.001-04:002018-08-19T22:03:22.697-04:00EatingI totally do not get why people like food that looks like this. I get that they do, but even just the thought of biting into something like this makes me nauseous. Now a decent burger - that's a different story.
Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-39601001564604001642018-08-18T01:24:00.001-04:002018-08-18T01:24:10.838-04:00A Different Take On The Need For Affordable Health CareHmmm......
Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-169401383231927972018-07-31T10:01:00.000-04:002018-07-31T10:28:47.095-04:00French thoughtsWe got back from France (and Italy) just over a week ago. In the process, we evaded the brutal heat that is hitting parts of Europe now, we met three conversation partners whom I had never met in person before (one of whom gave me two massive books about Italian cooking and about the history of her seaside ville, and another of whom gave me a delightful commemorative T shirt for the French Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-27031615368024071682018-06-30T23:01:00.001-04:002018-06-30T23:01:54.066-04:00ThinkingI am startled and amazed when I realize how utterly vicious my thoughts become when I think about the current hard-core conservative environment. Utterly vicious.
And perhaps the scariest part is that I'm not sure that I want to change, because I don't see any benefit in doing so. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-72825479937561324732018-06-15T10:48:00.002-04:002018-06-15T10:48:52.164-04:00Air Who?I like the image of flying on Air France. Its classy, at least in my mind. What ISN'T is the fascination that AF staff has with going on strike, every summer. We're going to France this summer, and yes, the tickets over and back are on AF. But this will be the last time, I think. Enough is enough. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-49778748930887476192018-06-10T07:38:00.002-04:002018-06-10T07:38:23.960-04:00TodayToday's the day that our French exchange student goes home. We're sad. Not devastated, but - sad. Wishing that things were different.Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146140.post-40154436032493394052018-06-08T20:32:00.001-04:002018-06-08T20:32:17.179-04:00The ReturnThis week, my American daughter returns to her new home in Virginia, and my French daughter returns to her home in France.
Meanwhile, my wife will be on a trip with her mother and sister, leaving me and the cat.
Going to be lonely around here. Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.com2