My son bought an EV but he is not happy with it. It is going to take a while until he can get a home charging device installed at his house so he has to take it to a charging station and sit there all the time it takes to charge.

Then when we got to the discharge port it would be my turn to stay on board to supervise the discharging. So, I got my time off on Kharg Island and had to stay onboard working in Japan, Rotterdam, etc. Real bummer.

People used to sit outdoors on the large wooden boat deck and greet people passing by. Now many newer ships no longer have a wooden boat deck and the people sit around the far upper pool decks and with the kiddies or go on the large water tubes etc. Young children have to speak louder to be heard so the times of having a quiet evening meal are sometime interrupter by loud, "MOMMY, MOMMY..." voices. Still, for the most part, we enjoy ourselves. The world is just changing and we go along with it.

My wife and I are on a two week cruise on the Star of the Seas the largest cruise ship afloat. Having a quiet and pleasant voyage.

Here in Florida it is summer weather all year long. No longer thinking that at the end off summer TV it is time to end going to the beach, having outdoor barbecues and breaking out sweaters and heavy coats. My shorts and T-shirts are fine all year long as is going to the pool or beach.

Because of front access door trouble the newspaper delivery man left my newspaper by the building front door. There was only one other newspaper there. It is hard to believe that for a 90 unit building, only two people get the paper newspaper.

It is hard to believe that people born after 2000 AD are in their 20s, finished with school and college and don't remember the "good old days" of computers.

In the 1942 novels all red blooded men joined the armed forces to fight. The main character in a novel would have time to solve the crime stating that he was to report for active duty in a few days or weeks. The male detectives in 1942 movies would often say the same thing. I know from the TV series that the character Perry Mason served in the navy during WWII. I wonder how, or if, that was treated in the 1940s Perry Mason novels.

In one 1942 novel the detective was stationed in San Diego waiting to be shipped out, He would send instructions to his female partner telling her what to do to solved the local crime. That worked out okay.

By 1943 and later, it seemed that not so much emphasis was put on the men in novels to join up.

When I got my driver's license back in the late 1950s, if you used a car that had an automatic transmission there would be a restriction on your driver's license limiting you to use with auto transmission vehicles. Now almost all cars have auto transmissions. Back then, most people would stop at a traffic light and have one foot on the clutch pedal and one over the accelerator, nothing on the brake pedal unless on a hill. The brake lights would not be on. Now all brake lights are on at all the cars stopped at a traffic light. I sometimes shift into "N" or "Park" and take my foot off the brake pedal at a traffic light. I wonder if the person behind my it thinking, "Say, that guys brake lights aren't working."

Living in southern Florida, even in winter, the temperature seldom drops into the 60s. I like that, no need for winter coats or galoshes.

One time I saw two men on the golf course. A man in long pants was giving instructions to a man in shorts. Obviously the man in long pants was the club pro. His feeling would be, "I am a professional golfer; I wear long pants".

"How is my little bundle of sunshine?" I ask.
"Shut up", she explains.

Happy first day of spring, everyone.

I wonder how Diane is making out.

I wonder how the tourists are making out in Miami, 35 miles south of me.

I have been doing a bit of reading up on Greenland, its capitol of Nuuk and some of its past history. It looks like an interesting place to visit for a short time.