Biscuit is shaved, and signing up for medicare on the phone.

Its interesting that your title of the daily blog post is so important as to how many hits you will get in a day....  My post from yesterday about the fellow that passed away on the night before all the riders would arrive in his town is kind of interesting, if you believe in fate and that kind of stuff..

But I remember not knowing what to put on it as a title....  Man dies before Riders arrive!  Corny and too newspaper like...   A friend passes in the night...., Several felt tears....  I just didn't know what to say, so I must have forgotten to put anything on it...

Link here, and here for Romeo Rider Forum posts..

So I only had 38 hits on the post all day long...  I went back to the Romeo forum (above) and found myself in a couple of the pictures in Mel's driveway, and that even teared me up....  And I hardly knew him..   So titles on these posts are important, if you want to get any hits at all....

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Loyce called over to Biscuit's old groomer's place in Missouri this morning, and Caroline wasn't busy today at all....   " Ya want to bring her right now?"  Biscuit didn't know what hit her....  A big car ride, Yea!!

Uh, that didn't work out quite like she was planning, but she was shaggy after 8 or more weeks since before we went to Arizona......  She was done by late in the afternoon and Loyce went after her...

Tonight she has been just killed!!  Laying around on the floor over in the corner and not even interested in an animal cracker from the cookie jar...

She thinks it is my fault that she had to go there and get all her hair cut off....  Are you really going to take my picture??  Just leave me alone......!

As for me, I spent a long time on the phone with the AARP health care folks, phone enrolling for coverage and the part D prescription coverage...  They have to read all of the possibilities to you and have you state that you understand them....

The application for the part D part is recorded to a digital audio file and saved because folks must call later and  claim that they didn't know it worked that way......   Uh, is this your voice?  Did you say you understood?

For those that did read yesterday, I finally found the Lumix camera, in the camera bag.  It's not supposed to be in there!!   That's for the big DSLR......  A senior moment......?

Well who knows, but after examining it, I see that even more of the display is now gone....   I can't even see the menu items or select anything other than the default.....  Mailing it off somewhere to get fixed is $110 plus the $20 shipping both ways, that's $150 for 2 year old technology...  What to do?

I tried to find the part and experiment but there is discrepancy as to which display it takes, and even that would be taking a big chance that I could get the camera apart and put back together....

So I got to looking and the zs20 came out this January.... Mine was a zs7...  The 20 part was for 20x optical zoom, and the old one is 12x.  I looked briefly at the new mirrorless interchangable lens models, but they were twice the price..  And bigger too...

I use this camera as a small point and shoot where I am riding the Scooter and stuff...  If I need a good (big) camera I'll get out the Nikon...  I broke down and ordered the zs20...  Didn't tell Loyce because she was gone at the time...  If she reads this blog, I'll be in trouble....  But hey, I didn't order another watch anyway....

And speaking of watches, I spent an hour working on one of the watches that I pulled the tiniest little pin out of accidentally.....  And promptly lost it in the carpet of the motorhome...  It took a couple of weeks to call and order the little tube and nail set, I think they called it.  Its under the diver's flip lock safety clasp..

We are still looking for my watch tweezers, so I had to put it in with needle nosed pliers and hold it while nailing it...  I'm not a watch technician and my technique is poor, which makes my language un printable.......  But eventually, the new pieces are in and I have worn it all day without it returning to the broken state....

Now, I need to title this post to see if I can attract a few hits!  Let's see, Naked doggy comes home!!!  That might be a bit over the top.....

Retired Rod