June 6th
Here’s an excerpt from what President Trump said at yesterday’s D-Day commemoration: “… You are among the very greatest Americans who will ever live. You are the pride of our nation. You are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
And here are a couple of participants of that historic day. Brooklyn’s Joseph DiTonno, now 94, served as a Navy cook. As bullets continued to whiz and shells pounded the beach, DiTonno scampered back onto the ship, cooked lunch for his crew, then darted back onto the beach. “Guys gotta eat!” he explained with a laugh. (From the NY Post) Here he is:
British vet Tom Rice, 97, celebrated by doing what he did during Operation Overlord, parachuting into what was enemy territory:
From the large annals of government disgrace, here’s the latest entry, as reported in an article in today’s NY Post: The NY state Medicaid program paid for the erectile dysfunction drugs of 47 convicted sex offenders. Can’t make this stuff up.
I almost always leave my PC in sleep mode when I’m not using it. For years it went into a deep slowdown about ten minutes into my first session of the day. It lasted about 20 maddening minutes. Leaving the machine on first thing in the morning didn’t help, as it took it upon itself to go back to sleep. It finally occurred to me to leave the itunes feed playing faintly in the background — duh! I go on my morning walk, then read the paper, and in that time the computer stays on and passes the slow down period. Maybe the miscreants who invaded it when I downloaded Microsoft Word a few years ago have figured out my new strategy. Yesterday I received a message from Microsoft Security Essentials, from which I ceased to import security updates long ago, as I almost long for my ten-year-old laptop to go kaput and no longer worry about viruses. The message was: “Your PC isn’t being monitored because the App’s service stopped. You should restart it now.” The scan template beckoned to be activated. I wondered if it was an inducement, a trap from the hostile force. I chose not to address the issue. So far things are status quo. Whatever will be will be.
My thanks to the young man who, when I asked what he liked to read, said Jason Bourne type stuff. I suggested Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver, a James Bond novel, and he jumped at it. Thanks also to Wolf, who bought three books in Russian, one a Nora Roberts translation; and to the woman who selected Heartwood by Belva Plain; and to Barry, retired professor of Criminology, who chose Short lives: Portraits in Creativity and Self-destruction by Katinka Matson, which is right up his alley. He has written Heroin and Music in New York City and Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City.
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