from husband Bill, Oct. 9, 2026
Happy Birthday to John Lennon (October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980)
from husband Bill, Oct. 9, 2026
Friday, October 9, 2026
Today Is ...
from husband Bill, Oct. 9, 2026
I do particularly like moldy, stinky cheeses.
from husband Bill, Oct. 9, 2026
I am 100-percent pro-life, so I was extremely happy when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Thank you President Donald J. Trump and the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn it.
from husband Bill, Oct. 9, 2026
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Today Is ...
From husband Bill, Oct. 8, 2026
As a young kid in the 1960s into the 1970s, I loved eating Fluffernutter sandwiches. I haven't eaten one in probably decades.
From husband Bill, Oct. 8, 2026
I do enjoy eating pierogis.
From husband Bill, Oct. 8, 2026
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my friends and I played regular tag, but we also played two other types of tag. Freeze tag required us to stay motionless (freeze) when we were tagged until someone else tagged us again to unfreeze us. TV tag required us to say the name of a TV sitcom to be unfrozen after being tagged.
These days, schools don't allow tag to be played on playgrounds because of some politically correct nonsense.
From husband Bill, Oct. 8, 2026
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Yankees Lose (Golf Clubs)
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Rays 4, Yankees 3 Final (golf clubs)
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Rays vs. Yankees
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
... watching the Tampa Bay Rays vs. the New York Yankees (on TV). ... Go Yanks !!!
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
LED
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Today (October 7, 2026) is National LED Light Day, so this is my excuse for sharing with you a magazine article I wrote about ... LED lighting.
From February 2016 to February 2017, I was the Associate Editor for "Shop!," an international nonprofit association that represents manufacturers of components for retail store displays, including mannequins, display cabinets, signage, lighting, shelving, flooring, architecture, etc. I worked at the office in Hollywood, Florida. The main office is in Chicago. (I had to leave this job for medical reasons.)
My duties consisted of editing, reporting, writing, photography, and photo editing for the association's two magazines, which alternated every month: "Retail Environments" and "Shop! Insider." I also edited and wrote for our news website, as well as edited statistical reports, white papers, and directories.
I conducted all of the interviews for my LED article (and took many photos, three of which were used) during our three-day annual trade show in Las Vegas in March 2016, where more than 750 companies from around the world exhibited their products on 715,000 square feet of a convention center.
I scanned and uploaded onto a blog website my LED article, along with the three other articles I wrote during my tenure there, for the purpose of potential future job hunting. Click/Tap on this link, then on the headline of the second article (LED), and then on each page to see larger versions. If you wish, you can do the same for my three other articles.
https://williamsantoswritingsamples.blogspot.com/?m=1
This link will take you to scans of my two-page LED article, plus the contents page and the cover of the magazine issue in which my LED article appears (photo below).
On this business trip, I was also able to spend a little heartfelt time one evening with my childhood best friend Bryan who lives in Vegas.
Shop! resulted from the merging of two international nonprofit associations: A.R.E. (Association for Retail Environments) and POPAI (Point Of Purchase Advertising International).
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Birthday: Georg Danzer
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite Austrian singers/guitarists/songwriters: Georg Danzer (October 7, 1946 - June 21, 2007). Here is a link to a live performance of (probably) my favorite song by him. Note: Ulli Bäer, one of my favorite guitarists, is shown in the photo below.
I have two of Danzer's solo (greatest hits) CDs, plus four of his Austria3 CDs that he recorded with fellow Austrian pop singers Rainhard Fendrich (my favorite all-time pop singer/guitarist/songwriter; he's from Austria) and Wolfgang Ambros (another of my favorite Austrian singers/guitarists/songwriters). I have many Ambros CDs, and I have forty-nine (49) Fendrich CDs. I have DVDs of Fendrich, Ambros, and Austria3.
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Today Is ...
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Yes, I do like chocolate-covered pretzels.
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
"I sell propane and propane accessories." - Hank Hill
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
National Inner Beauty Day serves to raise awareness and mobilize support for the victims and survivors of human trafficking. Worldwide, more women than men are human/sex traffickers, meaning more women than men are the actual perpetrators/criminals, not the victims.
From husband Bill, Oct. 7, 2026
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2nd Spinal Surgery
From husband Bill, Oct. 6, 2026
Today (October 6, 2026) is the third anniversary of my second spinal surgery of 2023.
PHOTO: my 34-centimeters-long (13.3858-inches-long) incision, photo taken on October 16, 2023 ... To see the photo below (if blurred by Facebook), just click/tap on "Learn more," then on "See photo," and you will be able to see it.
My first spinal surgery on September 2, 2023, was to remove an abscess in one of my spinal disks along with the removal of some spinal bone due to an infection.
My second spinal surgery on October 6, 2023, took six hours to complete (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and involved the placement of titanium rods affixed to my spine by my surgeon due to a bone infection in three sections of my spine. My surgeon told me that I needed emergency surgery because my spine was "collapsing" due to the infection. My incision was then closed by my plastic surgeon. So, I have had plastic surgery, just not where you would initially think.
To this day, my thighs are still numb, but not as numb as they were. My back still sometimes hurts.
Between March 2022 and May 2026, I endured nine surgeries: 1 open-heart (quadruple bypass), 2 chest (sternal screws loose, infection, opened, then closed a week later), 2 spine, 1 right ankle, 1 both legs (artery bypass, right to left), 1 left foot (2nd and 3rd toes amputated), and 1 left leg. ... So, I can now say that once, I had a screw loose.
From husband Bill, Oct. 6, 2026
Today Is ...
From husband Bill, Oct. 6, 2026
My favorite pasta is bucatini. (I am half Italian, all on Mom's side of my family.)
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, my paternal grandmother (Swiss-Austrian) made cooked elbow macaroni mixed with breadcrumbs that were fried in melted butter. We called it "Noodles & Crumbs."
From husband Bill, Oct. 6, 2026
I have never tasted orange wine.
From husband Bill, Oct. 6, 2026
Monday, October 5, 2026
Yanks Lose Again
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
Yankees 2, Rays 5 Final
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
Yanks vs. Rays: Game 2
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
... watching the New York Yankees vs. the Tampa Bay Rays (on TV). ... Go Yanks !!!
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
Today Is ...
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
I have eaten Apple Betty before, and I liked it.
From husband Bill, Oct. 5, 2026
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