Orchids to …
• Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Katherine Brucken, and Caroline Brucken for the treats, from Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center.
• Pastor Rebecca Milne for the weekly updates and prayers.
• Peggy and Tommy Humes for their hard work to thoroughly clean the church for our return when this is over.
• Indiana’s Gov. Eric Holcomb and state Health Commissioner Kris Box for a fact-filled, professional news briefing without self-serving statements and personal attacks on reporters.
• Gov. Eric Holcomb for his well-organized daily news briefings, showing leadership, respect and resolve, unlike the federal briefings which are confusing and disheartening.
• the two young ladies in the car that paid for my chicken sandwiches.
• Amy at the St. Francis doctor’s office, thanks for paying for my supper the other night at Arby’s, from Paula.
• our U.S. representative who is very involved in the district who helped me with my small business loan application and questions.
• the family in the gray van for our treats at the Dairy Queen Saturday.
Onions to …
• the two local businesses that need to bring our supply chain back to America, stop buying real estate and start preparing for the next pandemic.
• parents in the subdivision who think it is safe for young children to ride their small bikes, trikes, and battery-power toy cars in the middle of the street when drivers often race through the neighborhood at more than 40 mph.
• not having a daily ticker tape count of the 67,000 people who died from a drug overdose last year or a count of cancer patients or those who have died from traffic accidents or the flu.
• incompetent individuals who believe they have the right to tell everyone else how to do their job.
• those who don’t realize hydroxychloroquine may be wishful thinking.
• those who don’t realize if there’s “light at the end of the tunnel” it might be an oncoming train.
• the federal elected official who chooses COVID-19 prediction models based on outcomes he wants (early peak), rather than prediction models that may be more accurate.
• those who don’t realize if you don’t have good data and assumptions for your mathematical prediction models, it’s simply garbage in, garbage out.
• people not thinking of the details of handing a gloved cashier cash is more sanitary than poking buttons on a credit card machine.
• people so eager to accept the actions of the governor when the actions border on imprisonment and slavery.
• people who failed history class that can’t remember 675,000 Americans died during the Spanish Flu and the economy never shut down.
• families in the rural neighborhood allowing kids to play together all day long — do you not understand social distancing?
• people who can’t comprehend if you take away food sources, that’s inhumane.
• people who demand one size fits all solutions who don’t realize not everyone has the ability to order online or use something other than cash.
• all those continuing to lambast our federal elected officials, if you have nothing good to say, then say nothing at all.
• the employee who can’t figure out that the workers are there to work, not talk like she does.
• the federal elected official for rejecting our system of government by not allowing his press secretary to brief the media.
• some of the rude public out in shopping stores making rude comments and laughing at those wearing masks following the health department directions.
• the lady in the post office with the virus exposing postal workers and all the patrons.
• the federal elected official who spent his entire press conference telling lies and yelling at reporters who ask legitimate questions to which the American people need answers.
• men who take the newspaper into the bathroom as germs follow.
Happy Birthday to …
• Patrick Fischer, from your family and co-workers.
• Jack Piercefield, from Ellen, David, Aeriel, Aaron, and Caleb.
• Tyler & Elleann Snyder, from Tina & Sheena.
• my favorite twin sister Kathy King, from your brother Jim.
• Daniel Wisler, love your family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
