All the World

a stage ?          There is an act going on in the Middle East. In truth, Middle East should be renamed, Bomb-ania or Retaliation - ia

Here we duck and weave for CV 19. Mostly, in Canada, there is improvement.More vax and vaxxing. The U.S. and U. K. are opening up and their numbers for CV 19 dwarfed us. These countries were bigger in all aspects, cases, deaths and vax.

There needs to a reckoning when modern states w/ seemingly top notch health care lead the world in disease cases.

But wait ! India is catching up and it may change the way we see epidemiology.

We are in the warm going warmer phase and relatively dry to boot.

Our stair lift was doing its ' halting ascent ' act - again for the third time. The lift would stop every foot or so. Previous service calls concentrated on the batteries and their replacement.   This time round < a paid service call > got us a rigorous look see and cleaning of electrical elements. As well, the tech left us w/ regular maintenance tips.
Alas, we are not sure that these tips would have been any help previously. The tips involve wiping down the electrical contacts < dust and oil build up >  b/c the first incidents happened in under a year from install.
We shall see said the Zen Master

And bingeing continues. ' Elementary ' is in season 3. Jigsaw puzzle is at the juncture where I need to change the settings to ' harder '. For now, I'm doing the 35 pc image in 4 minutes per image. To be fair, this time range just about covers my attention span.
In other binges, ' Word Wow ' has me at level 180. Best tho', I haven't paid for ' bombs ' or get out of jail passes < the bomb destroys letters  that block your movement down the letter scramble >.