Good Morning to You

from the s GWN and Scarberia
For 2015 , the greater Toronto region had more traffic deaths than guns. And in Dec , poor light etc , it seemed an epidemic. Several cases involved cars jumping curbs to get at pedestrians or standees.

Too fast 
 too distracted 
and way too automatic as in ' trance like ' behaviour behind the wheel. 
Basic physics says , fast moving things need time to stop and distance. The heavier the object , usually the longer the time to stop.
Hey !!! Why don't they teach that in schools
Probably do but until your Audi or whatever is careening down the road as you try to brake
Well , academic  , huh ?

Weather : We are about normal for JA 2 and that means cold
Gray and gloomy
Roads got icy last night

I got lucky at cards. Down close to $60 and then in the hole for another 3 or 4 dollars on a hand - I won the biggest pot of the night 
maybe 80 dollars. Then won for another 15 minutes. I finished the night w/ a profit of $ 50.

On the baby laptop. the e machine is signalling ' plugged in and not charging. ' And the meter is at 98 % and stays there even when the baby LT is in use.
On line advice , check the cord - plugged in and w/out breaks ( dunno , feels OK )
I ran a systems check ( hey , see how I throw words and phrases around like that ! ). The power configuration report said a lot of things and whoosh ! ( right over my head )
However , I could understand the part that says ' battery capacity 88640 and last charge 88640 '
I take that to mean the battery may be alright but somewhere along the line the computer isn't reading the signals correctly ( notice how the phrasing gets less fancy as I stumble along ).

And , the i Phone ran down to zero charge during the night.
Easy solution. Clear all ' apps ' from the screen background. Turns out , I had 7 functions running in the background ( who knew )
Things such as maps , Facebook , email etc were all up and running during the night. 
B/c , he says w/ chagrin , ' you left the bloody router on all night feeding a signal to the cell phone  ( DUMMY ! )

Live and learn and learn and .................learn

The American middle class is a sliver of the pie. This from the TorStar by the numbers. The middle class is not the majority any more. Certainly ,under 50 % of the population by most definitions
of MC.