{"id":55759,"date":"2021-09-21T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=55759"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:28:40","slug":"why-im-so-happy-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=55759","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m so happy this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s Tuesday morning: I&#8217;m stting\u00a0 in a CVS waiting Medicare&#8217;s computer to come back up so I can get my\u00a0 booster shot of Moderna. This gives boredom a whole new meaning. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Miracle. Medicare came back. I got my shot. I&#8217;m sitting here for the required ten minutes. I&#8217;m uploading this blog using the Personal Hotspot on my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday was awful. It bounced in the afternoon. And should bounce today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ixic-today.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>+ <\/strong>The Great News is that Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5-11. The companies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click.nl.npr.org\/?qs=cf93f3ad1eed5ed433689837e018037e03afc8c00c8cc0ffc333c359c93581ffa61326960703512d363197e7c9e0353a6a6fd1039e13a173\" data-linkto=\"https:\/\/\">j<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ust released trial results showing the shots are safe<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for children and establish a strong antibody response against the virus. Moderna is right behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Play this and get over how awful yesterday was:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8221;m not trying to time this &#8212; by selling or buying stocks. I&#8217;m not that good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sitting through this makes the most sense &#8212; for me and for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The economy is good. The stock market will all come back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Mask of the year. I love stupid innovation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-55759-1\" width=\"690\" height=\"378\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Masking-For-The-Office.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Masking-For-The-Office.mp4\">https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Masking-For-The-Office.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The saga of my Miele dishwashers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We ordered two last March to replace the two ageing ones we now have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re now told maybe February next year. Maybe. 12 months wait on dishwasher!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meantime, YouTube to the rescue. Oodles of video on how fix Mieles. I follow the bouncing ball. Behold, my 15-year old Mieles appear to be working. One had a piece of glass blocking its innards. The other, excessive gunk. Today I order replacement parts. The videos showed where I could find the part number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ll get another 15-year life out of these suckers. Screw Miele.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>This is my tree today<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tree-red-3-800x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tree-red-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tree-red-3-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s the &#8220;fruit.&#8221; Pretty? Can I eat it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tree-Red2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8221;ll re-send this blog later today with jokes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But for now, I wanted to let everyone know I have my Moderna booster shot, I played tennis morning, the sky is bright blue, it&#8217;s in the mid-sixties&#8230; The family is in great shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I couldn&#8217;t\u00a0 be happier. I hope you, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8212; Harry Newton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday morning: I&#8217;m stting\u00a0 in a CVS waiting Medicare&#8217;s computer to come back up so I can get my\u00a0 booster shot of Moderna. This gives boredom a whole new meaning. &#8230; Miracle. Medicare came back. I got my shot. I&#8217;m sitting here for the required ten minutes. I&#8217;m uploading this blog using the Personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55759"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55777,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions\/55777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}