{"id":53307,"date":"2021-01-21T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=53307"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:32:45","slug":"what-a-magnificent-day-with-many-magnificent-moments-now-time-to-enjoy-and-relax-and-let-joe-and-his-talented-bunch-work-their-tushies-off-i-do-like-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=53307","title":{"rendered":"What a magnificent day. With many magnificent moments. Now, time to enjoy and relax and let Joe and his talented bunch work their tushies off.  I do like Amazon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Could we ask for a better day yesterday? A new, sane president. An uplifting all-day ceremony &#8212; ended with magnificent fireworks &#8212; and a stockmarket boom that couldn&#8217;t be beat. My best day ever!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are calls that it&#8217;s coming to an end. One idiotic newsletter headlined this morning &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s Time To Go To Cash For The Next 7 Years.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I bet they wrote that headline every day in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lots of what we own are being upgraded &#8212; like Amazon. It&#8217;s hard to pick new ones as favorites stream in and out of fashion &#8212; from one day to the next, from one moment to the next. Wow. Look at our Netflix stay quiet, then explode. Probably because Susan and I have been watching The Queen&#8217;s Gambit, Chris Rock, etc. Thank you Reed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For now I&#8217;ll enjoy a return to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I watched the entire Inauguration. I cried as Lady Gaga sang and Biden spoke. But what got me going most was a 22-year old poet Amanda Gorman reading her poem &#8220;<em>The Hill We Climb<\/em>.&#8221; Here she is. This woman has serious talent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jp9pyMqnBzk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meantime, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga) sang the National Anthem, clutching a gold microphone. Hear her here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HezPdHTwdGA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>More advice (!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ No more tax advice. It&#8217;s too complex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ You look lousy in Zoom if you have gray hair and wear glasses &#8212; like me. I&#8217;m experimenting with cameras and lighting. I still look lousy, despite keeping Logitech in business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Keep moving. Stop eating. Last night I agonized and agonized. Do I go to a larger waist size on my jeans? Fortunately Lands End had a sale on plus-size jeans. (35 waist.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ You&#8217;ll eventually get the vaccine if you keep trying the various web sites. I suspect supply is going to loosen up in coming weeks. Meantime stay safe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Watch CNBC\u00a0 on your laptop. They have one big plus &#8212; they shut off the irritating commercials for diseases you don&#8217;t have &#8212; yet. Keep watching live cable. You never know what you can develop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cnbc-commercial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Serious chasms still exist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday a rabid Trump supporter friend sent me two photos along with the comment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Laughable! Do his supporters not care? Embarrassing for the US. Trump had more at Andrews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Trump-Inauguration-800x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Trump-Inauguration.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Trump-Inauguration-768x349.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is President Biden&#8217;s inauguration yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Biden-Inauguration-800x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Biden-Inauguration.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Biden-Inauguration-768x331.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Covid made a difference. But, who, God forbid, lets the facts interfere with a good story?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In case you&#8217;re wondering what comes next (?)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This came in late last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Trump-for-Governor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">God forbid, again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow. &#8211; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we ask for a better day yesterday? A new, sane president. An uplifting all-day ceremony &#8212; ended with magnificent fireworks &#8212; and a stockmarket boom that couldn&#8217;t be beat. My best day ever! 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