Royal Funeral

 Aloma and I, along with several billion people, watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.  We were amazed at the hundreds of thousands of people on the streets to see her casket moving by.  It was a beautiful event and orchestrated to perfection.  And we loved the tradition.  And we loved watching it together.

Obviously, Queen Elizabeth was loved and respected all over the world.

We enjoyed seeing the royal family, especially the children.  Aloma has always enjoyed following the Queen and the royal family.

Now, to be honest, I have trouble with people acquiring an important position by their birth.  I’ve always believed that all people should be given an opportunity for any position and should work to reach it.

I also commented to Aloma that there was an issue with inclusion.  Most people at the funeral and burial were old, white men, like myself.  There were few minorities present.

When I continued my remarks during the funeral, Aloma finally said, “BE QUIET.”

Seasoned Man

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Smart Doorbell

 Aloma mentioned several times that she would like to have a doorbell that worked with her phone to show who was at the door.  I was never too interested because we can just look when the doorbell rings and see who is there.  She mentioned it again the day before her birthday.  I went online and ordered a Blink doorbell from Amazon that was delivered overnight.  I gave it to her on the morning of her birthday.  She was surprised and very happy,

It turned out to be fairly easy to install.  We had fun ringing the doorbell and seeing ourselves on the phone.  It also detects motion so every time we went out or in the front door, we had a ten-second video clip.  We got tired of that, so we disabled the motion detector.  I still have to set it up with Alexa so that we can ask who is there when we don’t have a phone nearby.

Leading up to her birthday, we had lunch and dinner out several times and Jennifer took us to brunch at a fancy restaurant.  Aloma said it was one of her best birthdays ever.

That makes me happy.

Seasoned Man

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