In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes Both these things have been on my mind lately. I have been trying to decide if I should find a place to rent that is twice the size but half the expensive of my RetCom for months now. It just bothers my blue-collar soul to spend so much of the money I worked so hard … Continue reading Nothing Is Certain Except…
When my wife died eighteen months ago, I moved from a 2400 SF century old farmhouse and a 1500 SF barn, into an 850 SF apartment here in my RetCom (retirement community). That was quite a shock for me, but since I now had no one to fall back on, it made the most sense, and it still does. But, what I miss the most … Continue reading I Love Puttering…
I have often proclaimed that I am a writer, but why do I write? I think all writers often ask this question many times over the years. I like to remind myself of the reasons regularly. This is one of those times. I believe the primary reason I write, at least publicly, is to help people who may read my words, understand that they are … Continue reading Don’t Judge
All my life I have been stuck between two worlds. As a youth, I didn’t fit in with the in-crowd, but I didn’t fit in with the out-crowd either When I went deaf, I distinctly chose not to be part of the Deaf Culture, but instead, be a deaf man in the hearing world. When I started earning a sizable income from my career, I … Continue reading “American Aristocracy” Vs “Adversity Builds Character”
I have finally realized that I have been chasing rainbows all my life. I was always looking down the road when I could have an exciting adventure of one sort or another. I did actually manage to make some of those dreams come true, but they were never as satisfying as I had hoped. I seem to always been disappointed at some level or another. … Continue reading Chasing Rainbows
Oxymoron is a strange word. I really don’t know how it is pronounced, since I didn’t learn it until after I was deaf. I have been collecting some of these type things, and thought I would put them together here as some brain teasers. Just thought you might need something to think about 🙃 Continue reading Oxymorons And Other Such Things To Think About
The expected life span of men born in the U.S. is 76.4 years I knew this day would come, or at least I hoped it would. I am now 76.4 years old, so at least I have lived at as long as expected. I kinda look at it now as I am living on borrowed time and should make the most of each day as … Continue reading Living On Borrowed Time…
This post is primarily meant for all you neurotypicals out there. Most of us Aspies don’t have much of a problem with focus. In fact, we have it in spades, and simply can’t understand why you struggle with keeping focused. I recently read an article in the New York Times (click here if you want to see it) on how to maintain focus in your … Continue reading How To Increase Focus and Productivity
I grew up in the 1950s and 60s. Therefore, I have a different view of the world than Millennials & Gen Z. So, I am going to give you an old geezer’s view of these younger generations. That is what this post is about. First, let me tell you a little about us Boomers who started in the 1940s We lived through the idea that … Continue reading A Boomer View Of Millennials & Gen Zs
This is a short post about my wandering mind. I kinda think I frequently get distracted because whatever I am doing is just not challenging enough for my brain. In other words, it is boring. My brain would rather be thinking about something else, almost anything else. So, it wanders into other thoughts. But, I believe that is an asset rather than a liability. Whatever … Continue reading Why We Get Distracted…
I need a break from the world today, so it’s time to put out a post about my past and current TV viewing habits, and give you an extensive list of what I now watch. For the current generations, the Internet and particularly social media is the proclaimed to be a vast wasteland that has mesmerized young people. When they are home, they are glued … Continue reading The Vast Wasteland… Past & Present Versions
I can’t even imagine why, but yesterday early morning I woke up with Willie Nelson’s song “Of All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” stuck in my thoughts. I would wake up a dozen times between 3am and 7am and the song was still there. But I had managed to change the words to show my love for my wife of 35 years. I worked on … Continue reading Yvonne’s Song
All my life, I have always been envious of people who could take up a brush or pencil and create things from their minds. I tried that some in my youth, but never really got to a level that didn’t embarrass me. I tried it recently with the same result. Drawing and painting is just something that isn’t in my talent base. But, that got … Continue reading I’m An Artist, I Paint With Words
I am getting to the point on RJsCorner that I post about anything I want to. Today I feel like talking about money and it’s effects on life. What better place to learn about that than quotes from those wiser than us? Let’s start off with a well-known poet who live lived alone in a shack at Walden Pond for two years. One of the … Continue reading All About Money… From Those Wiser than Us
I know polling has taken a hit lately because of all the antagonizers in the politics have learned to game it to arouse the base. But, I kinda think the ones I see in my weekly magazine entitled The Week are interesting and worthy of posts once in a while. If nothing else, they make me think about how fractured we are. The next step … Continue reading How About Those Polls
Looking back on my life, I can’t believe all the things I took naively for granted. I used to think that the foundation of the U.S. was our constitution. It spelled out what was important to us, but the problem with that is that too many of us think that, like the Bible, it should be set in concrete and never changed. Of course, I … Continue reading I Can’t Believe How Wise I Am…Now
Part of my 2023 project is to shrink my world, or at least shrink the degree of my awareness of it. One of my Aspie traits is that I am addicted to my routines. Much of my life is simply ruled by them. I get up in the morning and after the usual bathroom stuff, I head for my computer to browse the daily news. … Continue reading My World Is Shrinking… Thank Heavens
I just finished watching a streaming episode of Mad About You, when Yoko Ono asked Paul to film the wind. Paul was stumped. How do you film the wind when it is invisible? He basically never figured it out. But, I could think about several different possibilities. So, why not write a post about the wind and how important it is in the development of … Continue reading About The Wind…
Steve Jobs was one of the founders of Apple Inc. He died at a relatively early age of 56 due to pancreatic cancer in 2011. Steve was certainly one of the pioneers of 21st century technology. I love the quote from him that people don’t know what they want until you give it to them. I have been intimately enmeshed in Apple products from the … Continue reading Steve Jobs – Your Time Is Limited…
I see where the leadership of Iran, in response to all the protests by the young people, have announced they are abolishing the “Morality Police”. Those are the forces who roam the streets looking to punish those who are not living up to the Islamic rules, particularly the dress laws. I’m not sure which of the dress codes that Iran enforces, but I’m certain that … Continue reading Mandated Morality & Insurrections
2022 was a very challenging year for me, even in my RetCom (retirement community). I tried many ways to live with so many others who were suddenly around me. I had some disappointing failures, but also a few successes. As a result, I have high expectations for this new year. 2023 will be about building on those few successes and not letting DQ take hold … Continue reading About 2023 & Getting Out Of The DQ Mode
I spent the first day of this new year trying to figure out how I will live in the next 364 days. I also spent New Year’s Eve looking at what I accomplished in 2022. Before I go any further, I must admit that the whole decade before 2022, I was mostly in the caregiver hermit mode. My wife’s health continued to decline year after … Continue reading Looking Back So I Can Look Forward
Let’s start off this new year at RJsCorner by looking at our view of the future. Sadly, there are those who seem to be frightened by almost everything these days. I kinda think that mentality make up a big majority of the MAGA folks. Everything is changing so fast as to make their heads spin. The only way they can see to relieve that overwhelming … Continue reading How Do You See The Future?
Since this is the last post of 2022, it’s time for me to look back on this year that is soon to end. I couldn’t find an image that had a giant “Past” circle and a much smaller future one, so I settled for this one. I have been in my RetCom (retirement community) for going on to two calendar years now! Time flies, especially … Continue reading Looking Back
As last year, I spent Christmas day this year by myself in my RetCom (retirement community) apartment. It was a peaceful time. Being that a week later, it would be another new year, I contemplated what I would like to see this coming year look like. I am a planner to my soul, but for this day I was in the dream mode rather than … Continue reading How I Spent My Christmas Day
I don’t understand this, but if you take a person with an IQ of 100 and put him in a crowd, his IQ almost immediately drops to 80. That certainly is the case for the MAGA crowd/mob, isn’t it? Those folks just can’t afford that much drop. I guess you could say the same thing about sporting events, especially in Europe. I don’t know how … Continue reading There Ain’t Nothin That Lowers The IQ Of A Man More Than Puttin Him In A Crowd
Remember Jesus’ intention in coming to earth was not to get praise, but to teach us how to live our lives and love each other. Merry Christmas From RJsCorner Continue reading In Celebration of Jesus’ Birth
Something I pride myself in is being a disruptor. The status quo bores me! Usually, in today’s world, by the time something becomes the status quo it is no longer relevant and is in serious need of change. An important part of life is to realize that change is constant. There’s nothing you can do to prevent that. Sure, you can stick your head in … Continue reading I Am A Disruptor, But…
Let’s do a techie post today about email scams. I, personally, use Apple Mail as my email app, and it does a pretty good job of putting junk mail into a separate basket. But, sometimes a few get through. Here is one way to find out if an email is legit. As you see in the example above, ERC Gov Refund Instruction is supposedly where … Continue reading Email Scams … I Wish They Had
What a very noble idea from John Pavolvitz (click to see more from him). It sounds kind of Native-American to me, but I don’t think he intended it to be. He is what I would look like on steroids, He is constantly questioning why the church is on a tragic path of destruction. I see from the latest statistics that U.S. Christians will soon be … Continue reading The Perfect Holiday Message
I came across a post I put out a little over five years ago that deserves another go around. I think it will help some of my newer readers understand why I post the way I do, and it helped me to remember where my roots are. I have kinda drifted away from that recently. Just click on the icon below to go there. Continue reading It’s Just Who I Am
I am a retired IT (information technology) guy, so I can tell you that the primary reason that Amazon has been able to gobble up market share in every field it enters is because of its phenomenal computer infrastructure/database. I was one of those fortunate enough to have bought some shares of the company more ten years ago. I wish I had bought more. 🥴. … Continue reading Amazon Works Because…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I’m A Liberal I’ll let you in on another secret. The definition of a liberal is: Someone who can’t be happy until everyone is happy Another way of saying that is that I am a lifelong guy for the underdog and I simply gush empathy in almost everything I do. I can’t help it, it … Continue reading About The “L” Word
For this coming new year I will be opening up a new blogsite centered around seniors telling stories of their lives. If you are interested in contributing, leave a comment here or contact me at RJsCorner@icloud.com This new blog will be entitled 1001 Words – Stories About Life From Storytellers Over 70. As the name implies, it will be stories about our lives and will … Continue reading Calling All Storytellers & Wannabe Storytellers
I love this quote 😎. I am a techie and a senior citizen, so I just can’t understand why so many in my RetCom are so averse to technology? But, then again, one of the RetComs I visited this summer had 75% of the residents choosing to receive their daily information via smartphone, tablet, or computer. I think it comes down to just convincing seniors … Continue reading Senior Citizens & Technology
I just passed my 76th year on this earth and my age is showing more and more as each day passes. I know my cognition is becoming more difficult for me. Where I used to write a post here on RJsCorner in10-15 minutes it now sometimes takes an hour. I am physically stumbling more now. I have to accept it that these types of things … Continue reading I Worry About Old Men Being In Charge
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