I’m bored like so many Americans that are shut in during this virus lockdown. So I entertain myself playing on the computer, listening to a radio scanner, and anything else that might distract me. Of course, it doesn’t help that I have the attention span of a gnat these days.

The scanner is dutifully moving through frequencies, occasionally stopping on an active one. This provides a bit of background noise/entertainment. Dollar General down the road, has employees that chatter on about mundane things, sometimes getting downright silly as adults. Then we have the daycare, located about 3 miles (4.83 km) down the highway. Frightening at times, to listen to those charged with taking care of toddlers and up, being as silly and immature as a junior high student. Flirting and joking as they make sure the kids get in the proper vehicles at the end of the day. Of course right now, due to the virus, they are not open. That might be a good thing.

“Hey, this thing-a-ma-bob”

However, we do have a large power plant about 4 miles (6.44 km) to the west of us. We were told at one point years ago, that if it exploded it would be equivalent to a small tactical nuclear device. This morning, while listening to the scanner, I hear one employee call another on the radio and inquire, “Hey, this thing-a-ma-bob you wanted me to check on down here, is showing in the red, and has a buzzer going off.”

Now, I can’t be sure, but it doesn’t sound like really skilled labor operating something that might be capable of mimicking a small tactical nuclear device, if it malfunctions. Anyway, is a thing-a-ma-bob possibly something I should be concerned about? Especially if it’s in the red and beeping?

I have just made it to Friday

It makes me wish I had a radio and shout back, “Hello, I am feeling sick, my right ear makes a sound when I hiccup, like a bumper on the old pin-ball machines. I have just made it to Friday, so please don’t blow me all to hell first thing this morning.

How is your Friday? Stay safe my friends.