I think (hope) the politics are shifting in regards to support of Israel. It’s getting more damaging for Biden to support them than not.
Parma Calcio 1913 are in very good form. They should see promotion to Serie A. It will be nice to see them back in the top flight. Parma were bankrupt in 2015 and dropped to Serie D, after 3 straight promotions they were back in Serie A in 2018, relegated again on 20/21.
If and when Trump loses the election, all of these GOP stalwarts on his bandwagon will be left hanging.
A little ole place where we can get together
Apple Music still isn’t smart enough tough to put Jackson Browne’s “Load Out” and “Stay” together. If I’m playing a playlist I need to manually put them together or my day is totally screwed up.
My wife is very frugal. Midwest sensibilities and all. Her iPad mini (version 2). Finally became unusable. Can’t update IOS, therefore many apps won’t update. Due to cost of mini, she got a 10” iPad 9. She’s always had a mini. She’s loving the 10”. Using it for all kinds of things. Great to see
I’m a union member for the first time in my long Hospitality career. I find that the communications that we get from the union has an undercurrent of the company as an adversary. Interesting
I tried watching the show “Bear”. A lot of people rave about it. I’ve worked in restaurants 40+ years. Front of the house and kitchen. Small places (including my own cafe) and large resort hotels. To me, the show is cute, but not very real. Contrived drama.
I’ve always love this quote and and repeated it hundreds of times in my management career.
“You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.” — Jan Carlzon
There’s a new mini subdivision (48 homes) going in next door. We’re the community on the left. It’s about half built out. These are $million homes and are right on top of each other, no yard. They are paying for proximity to the ocean. Not “on the water”, just close.
My wife and I both had the day off, so we took a drive up to the north part of the island. We live in Kailua Kona & went to Hawi. Stopped at Hapuna Beach, Westin Hapuna where I used manage, then to Hawi town came back on the Mauka (upper) road through the pastures to take in the views. Fun day
Lots of tech layoffs. I’ve been in Food and Beverage for most of my adult life (45+ years). For the foreseeable future people need to eat. I’ve never been laid off (fired yes, laid off never), always had a job.
Not making $millions, but always had a job.
Kona gets a lot of snow birds each winter. There are hundreds of condos with part-time owners. The vast majority are older (70+) & white with many Canadians. During this time of year the demographic skews much older, so us in our early 60s are older, but not old.
Reading a lot more. Subscribed to “The Point” and “County Highway” and the book my Daughter gave me for Christmas.
One of favorite places to go was the Kona Brew Pub. We would often got on Fridays for a porterhouse dip sandwich and grilled chicken nachos. That was until they overhauled the menu and took both things off. It’s more effort, now we make epic nachos and grilled rib eye sandwiches are home. Their loss