PonkaBlog

Category: Hints

Total 63 Posts

Surgery On Demand

After my heart attack in 2021, I was told that I should start paying attention to my blood pressure.  Up until that point, my blood pressure had always been fine.  But I decided to take their advice and invest in a BP monitor. What nobody told me was that blood

Continue Reading

May the Best Man Win

Now that Women’s History Month is behind us, it’s time for me to say something.  I would have said something sooner, but I didn’t want to distract us from celebrating women’s history.  But now that the month is over, and we’re back to ignoring the accomplishments of women like we

Continue Reading

About a Boy

After our son was born just over 31 years ago, we began passing milestone after milestone.  For example, one milestone was when he first realized it was himself in the mirror, another was when he became smarter than a cat and then when he became smarter than a dog. After

Continue Reading

Common Scents

A few years ago, my neighbor invited me to go fishing with him and his buddies just off the coast of Southern California.  I’m not really a fisherman but didn’t have anything to do that day so I went along for the ride.  I’m usually OK on boats.  But, as

Continue Reading

How to Prevent Voter Fraud

I’ve been thinking about our election process for a good long time.  I started writing my blog a few months before the 2020 elections.  I initially started posting on Facebook, but once they started filtering my posts, I decided it was time to get off Facebook and on to a

Continue Reading

The Reckoning

It’s happening again.  For weeks we’ve all been experiencing the seemingly never-ending lead up to the mid-term elections.  If you’re like me, you’ve long passed the point where you’re tired of being force-fed political ads filled with lies about one thing or another.  Candidates from every side promise countless things

Continue Reading

Doritos v. COVID

Just about every year, I get summoned for jury duty.  The way they do it here is they make you report to the “Hall of Justice” along with the other Super Friends…OK, I made up the part about the Super Friends.  But it really is called the “Hall of Justice”.

Continue Reading

A Matter of Perspective

I saw a meme the other day.  It’s supposed to be a poke at Baby Boomers because some of us happen to be against having to pay for someone else’s student loans.  What it really is, is an example of manipulation of the data to evoke an emotional response by

Continue Reading

The Customer is Always Frustrated

When was the last time you had a pleasant experience with any company’s customer service department?  If you’re like me, it’s been years.  In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had to contact customer support for anything and had an experience that was even slightly better than craptacular.

Continue Reading