Facebook posts…2021

Are you on Facebook? I wasn’t for the longest time. Why? I was already spending way to much time on my computer. I didn’t need FB. Then about three years ago for some reason I joined. I love it for what it is. What is it?

You surely remember the TV show, Seinfeld. It was #1 for years. They always said the show was all about “nothing”. For me Facebook is sort of all about nothing. Folks, we all need some nothingness in our lives. It keeps us sane.

I have also enjoyed using Facebook’s Messenger program. Messenger is sort of like texting but you can communicate with your friends all over the world. No charge. I can also use Messenger to phone people all over the world. Yesterday, I talked with a good friend from Bosnia for 45 minutes. The call quality was excellent. Again, no charge.

Some folks apparently think that FB is akin to the anti-christ. I never want to share my political views with you or pretty much anyone. Why? I’ve learned that no one is really interested in MY political views. They just want to tell me THEIR political views. No thank you.

I can tell you this. I have never ever read an ad on Facebook. I have never ever read any political theories. Ever. Some of my 2,500 Facebook friends fashion themselves at the next Rush Limbaugh or Bill Maher. As soon as I recognize that I try never to read one of their posts about politics again.

I absolutely hate it that so many things have been politicized. I don’t do politics. If I want to see a movie I go see it regardless of the political views of the actors. If I want to eat a chicken sandwich I go eat a chicken sandwich regardless of the political views associated with the eatery. If I want to buy an electric car or put solar panels on my roof I will do it. I be damned with all of the conspiracy theories that are associated with just about everything.

Facebook is a great place to simply share “nothing”. Most people liked Seinfeld. That show was all about nothing. Now you can see the kinds of nothingness I have shared on Facebook just in the last six weeks. After looking back on my posts I’ve happy I have time to do nothing in retirement.

Randy’s recent Facebook posts.

Sometimes really good stuff happens to me. Last night I had just returned from one of my racing trips. I was making the one-mile walk back to my airport parking garage. I stopped along the way to eat at Subway. My server was telling me how much a case of potato chips had gone up since she started there 30 years ago. I told her she only looked like she was 28 now! When she heard that her eyes sparkled, then glistened and she thanked me for the compliment. People like getting compliments. I’m sure she will think about what I said for the rest of the day. What did I get out of the compliment? I got the joy of seeing how happy what I had said made this lady feel.

As I continued my walk a young woman stopped, lowered her car window, and asked if I could give her directions to her hotel. I did. I felt good. Then a couple about my age were walking toward the terminals and asked if I could tell them how to get to where they were going. I did. I felt good.

Then…and I am not making up a single world of this message…I found a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk. There was no one around. I bent over and picked it up and put the money in my pocket. I don’t need twenty dollars. I especially don’t need that $20 bill. I’ll give it to someone I meet somewhere along the line this week who I think deserves those twenty dollars. When I do I’ll tell you how that went down. It was a good walk!

This is a follow-up to my message about finding a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk at the airport. I wanted to give that twenty to someone who looked like they needed it. I wanted it to go to a person who was doing something good and wasn’t looking for a reward of any kind. This morning I found that person.

I was at the beach doing one of my five-mile power walks. More than four miles into the walk I needed to pee. I needed to pee badly. There are a couple of restrooms at the beach along the trail. I headed to one on a “just in time” basis. Wouldn’t you know it? The men’s restroom was closed for cleaning! Just as I walked up, I saw an older Hispanic man sweeping the sand off the restroom floor. I looked at his sign that said things were closed. I looked at the man and he thrust his palms in the air as if to say “sorry, I’m in the middle of this”. Then he gave the situation some more thought and allowed me to come in and do my business.

This was the guy! He looked like he might need some help. He was doing a good job and wasn’t looking for anything from me. When I finished, I asked him if he spoke English? He held two fingers about an inch apart and said, “a little”. I told him I had something for him and didn’t want anything in return. I handed him the folded up twenty-dollar bill. At first, he refused. I tried to tell him I was only the middleman in this transaction. I was just passing along my temporary good fortune to him. He smiled and said, “thank you”. He’ll have a story to tell his family at dinner tonight…and I will too.

Was I supposed to bring my own chicken? Speaking of the bumble bee brand a bumble bee stung me yesterday and it still hurts quite a bit today.

If you fly very much why wouldn’t you get TSA pre check? I very rarely wait 6 minutes.

Tesla sends over the air updates, very similar to how your computer or cell phone gets an update. This gives owners the latest and greatest. My car is in the garage right now getting an update. With these updates it will never get old!

When people go to the airport do they instantly lose 30 IQ points? Get in your lane and walk. Do not stop in your lane. Do not make a phone call or text while in your lane. Keep moving. Think of it as a same thing as driving on the freeway. Geez.

There is nothing like going to the top of the mountain and wading through the snow to cut down your favorite Christmas tree. No snow? No problem? They have Christmas trees at Lowe’s. We bought the one on the left and drug it through the parking lot until we could hoist it into the back of my Tesla.

Tesla’s market cap (stock price times number of shatters) exceeded one TRILLION dollars yesterday. As you can see from the WSJ that’s more than the next NINE largest worldwide auto makers combined!

I eat breakfast in my office every morning that I am home… and I’ve been retired for nearly 20 years. I’ve got a great little breakfast maker! You can’t buy these in Costco.

Gotta be vaccinated to see UCLA play in the Rose Bowl today!

Lunch! What would Carol do with her time if she didn’t feed me breakfast, lunch and dinner? I’m lucky I don’t weigh 300 pounds… yet.

Want to meet new people? They’ve got a lot of them at the Newark airport.

We don’t have signs like this in California… just saying.

Is cold Indian food as good as cold pizza?

Ever wondered why Tesla does it this way?

Some things I can’t explain.

Some very cool cars at the Mecum auto auction in Chattanooga, Tennessee yesterday.

My new iPhone lock screen wallpaper.

Celebrating our son JJ‘s birthday last night at Nick’s in Manhattan Beach. It’s pretty fancy and the food is fantastic. Fun time with Carol, Dustin and J.J.

Anybody looking for a backyard like this? It comes with an ocean view. I see it everyday when I power walk at the beach.

It’s good to be back home in California!

The Ronald Reagan National Airport has my most favorite airport interior of all.

It’s taco Tuesday in San Clemente. The mango margaritas are flowing.

My iPhone 13 Pro is on the way. I’m not really sure I could live a normal life with only an iPhone 12.

Dinner, Peruvian food, and UCLA football at the Rose Bowl tonight.

That’s Lake Huron in the background. Trackchasing for the weekend up in Ontario, Canada. Been trackchasing in 27 states and now one Canadian province in 2021.

A place for everything and everything in its place. This is a demolition derby car.

What’s up with this? A large Diet Coke at Wendy’s is $2.99. A large Diet Coke, which I actually think is better at McDonald’s is just a dollar. Come on. I’m a youngish senior living on a fixed income.

Did anybody else notice that the price of lithium ion batteries, the batteries used to power electric cars, have been plummeting in price over the past couple of decades?

Sometimes life is just to doggone good! I went into a Love’s Truck Stop and, for the first time in my life, saw a three-pack t-shirt hanger!! What will they think of next? The shirts came in three colors, black, blue and gray…my favorite colors. The price was only $19.99 U.S. for the three shirts. What a steal. Then I saw the “sale” sign. The price was reduced to just $9.99. What planet was I on? Wow! Gee Whiz. Then when I went to check out the price had changed. My receipt said, $5.00. Some days are just like that. I love these high-quality shirts and each for just a $1.67 each. What a day!

Do you think I could train Carol to become a trucker? She loves Love’s truckstops!

Driving home from Vegas. This wasn’t part of the original plan…but it became part of the final plan.

Queen of the demolition derby? After this weekend’s Canadian trip Carol says she likes demo derby better than figure 8. There’s a difference but then you already knew that.

Trying to get home from Canada… We ended up in Vegas. Go figure!

We crossed back into the United States last night at about midnight using the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. We were the only car coming into the United States since Canadians cannot drive into the US at this point. The US border patrol agent told us it’s been like this for 20 months and sometimes he sits there for hours without a single car coming through.

What could possibly go wrong? Yes, as the sign says, the woods were loaded with bears. I would send Carol ahead alone to check things out. We are hiking all over Canada this weekend.

Never miss a chance to get poutine in Canada. McDonald’s serves up some decent poutine. No poutine snobs please.

Just a couple of newlyweds hanging out at Niagara Falls.

I have screened every one of my Facebook friends for superior intelligence. Most passed the test. Do NOT go to a ticket booth to buy your tickets. Make a sign. Do it the right way. Remember, this is what people with superior intelligence do and you’re one of those folks.