USPS Delays?

The Hill has a weepy tale of a Texas man not getting his medicine because of 

In an interview ... said he hoped to receive his medication Monday and noted that he had never experienced an inability to receive the drugs from the post office if he was in possession of a tracking number. "There have been a few times in which it’s taken a week, week and a half, two weeks, but this is the first time I actually ran out and checking with the post office didn't do much good, even though I had a tracking number on it,” ... Because of the delays, ...he has gone without the medicine for a week and has had to rely on over-the-counter solutions from local drugstores. The Postal Service blamed delays on the coronavirus pandemic as well as years-old financial problems in a lengthy statement obtained by the news station.

Well here in New Jersey you can track your package. It gets to the Post Office, it is Out for Delivery, then back to the PO and you must retrieve it.  This is not a virus problem, it is not an equipment problem, it is a problem of management and human gross negligence. The Carriers REFUSE to deliver. The last mile is the weakest link. I suspect the Hill tale above was configured to tell a tale they wanted to tell. In reality, truth be told, you have a grossly incompetent Government organization playing with people's lives to get a few more dollars. 

Now that we can track things, through Amazon, USPS etc we can see what is really happening. Namely we have people who get paid by the taxpayers and refuse to do their job.

Think Medicare for All!

16 Hours with Microsoft: The Belly of the Inferno

It started a day ago. I got the notice that my two machines were ready for upgrading W10. So stop all you are doing and start the process. My main machine takes about six hours. From the moment you say begin to the moment when you smile and have is working again, you sit and watch, like paint drying, hoping the morons at Microsoft have not released another one of their previous terrors which took over several of my machines a few releases back.

Then I had the bright idea. I would buy an update to Visio on an old machine. It is my machine I use when going to New Hampshire. It worked fine but the Visio which I use a lot was circa 2007 and ran like a dog. So began my journey into Hell, Microsoft Hell. After three hours I had managed to pay the exorbitant amount and it was loaded. Then I noted that in the process of loading it removed all my Office programs, Word, Excel etc. Gone! Lost! Destroyed. Now what.

Bright idea number one was to load an old version of Office from an XP. Bad idea. It was free but a mess. Oh well, back to Microsoft and download Office 2019. Not that 365 thing which costs a fortune. Pay another fee and try this down load about six times until it works. Total time, seven hours! I may be getting out of the Inferno, I prayed, I prayed a lot, you see when dealing with Microsoft prayer is your only outlet, only God can get it to work.

Finally after a cumulative of 16 hours in Hell I can return to my desk and get some work done. 

You see, the characters at Microsoft in my opinion and in my experience are near to the devil incarnate. Nothing is simple and directions are written in some extraterrestrial syntax. 

 Oh yes, the motto on the Microsoft web site should follow Dante, "Abandon all hope ye who enter".

This is written on Google. Let's hope they never hire a Microsoft character. Oh and yes, I hear the Microsoft characters want to tell us how to take care of ourselves. I would be very wary, or start praying a lot!

NJ 2020 08 17

 Not much new, very low death count still almost half LTC

FED Balance Sheet

 It is worth examining the FED BS to see the explosion of debt.

NJ 2020 08 16

 Not much new

NJ 2020 08 15

 Halfway through August and frankly concerns about increased incidence. Saw large groups in Lake Hapatcong and can be certain there will be further upticks.

First county and town. Town is exploding and seems politicos are out to lunch. Not a surprise. We have had large groups and gatherings. Two weeks ago St Elizabeth's graduation and resulting parties guaranteed a mini pandemic.

You can see this with the town. We are back to early May! Is anyone watching?

The chart below shows the growth for some key towns Florham Parke is exploding!

State just bumble along

County overall is not bad but the vacations and crowds will result in explosion.

Frankly deaths are not bad. I guess they got most of the LTC.