Day: August 27, 2025

Old Man Fun – Part Trois!

After a few weeks of no Phone scammer calls, got a new one today from, you guessed it, a spoofed / unassigned DID number – this time in Georgia. So pick up call, put on speaker and blow quasi-duck call noise maker whose origin was previously described! Some poor boiler room soul answers and they get another blast! Then they hang up! Mission accomplished! Soon as this snuggle bunny / neighbors dog is off a trial diet, she’s getting serious goodies from Moi! Maybe even, another stuffed LampChop toy!

The Upside of Long Experience aka “Old Guy”

In my older apartment complex, it’s usually quiet except for the hellishly loud backpack leaf blowers of the weekly landscape crew and currently,the woeful wailing’s of a dog left alone in the apartment behind me. I have exhausted my frustration for the poor dog in e-Mails to the apartment complex management. It is neither life threatening or physically harmful – just aggravating. I would be willing to dog sit. But that’s not what this is about.

I thought about all the modern stuff I got rid of or never had: Social Media ( Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X, AI anything), Streaming anything, Apple anything, Amazon anything, Cable anything and Fast Food. Reading the news, I have NO idea why the Cracker Barrel logo matters at all! Was in one once, decades ago – meh.

Point is, all the noise is just that – meaningless noise, as in “It ain’t about nuthin” (a favorite, ungrammatical double negative and borderline malapropism).

My “TBR” (To Be Read”) stack of books is always handy and I’ve plenty of music CDS. WCPE FM is always entertaining and restorative. Legitimate, curated news is available by digital subscription with no ads.

So except for weekly leaf blowers and the occasional mournful dog, I’m noise free!