Saturday 9: Working for a Living by Huey and the News.

 

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it HERE

1) Huey begins the song by telling us some workdays feel like they will never end. How was last week for you? Did it drag or did it fly by?  Pretty much, it flew.. I'm glad it's over.  I did get my new specs though.  Yay!  But they are tinted yellow, so they are going back.  Boo!

2) He sings that his car payment is due. Think about your personal finances. Do you pay most of your bills manually or do you more often take advantage of automated bill pay?  We do a few that way.

3) Huey Lewis achieved a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT. Did you take SATs and/or ACTs? Were your results anything to brag about? (If they were, go ahead and let us know!)  

Ok, you get the whole story.  

Well, back in the day, they were called, "The College Boards" which eventually came to be called the Psat. I scored very high.  

Back in those days, at my school, scoring high in that meant next to nothing.  Scholarships were given out like perks for influential parents, and may still be.  A lot of politics and such.  I won't whine again about it, but I will just say that it's still not what you know, it's WHO you know.   Y'know? 

📞☎️  Affirmative action tried to fix that. 

4) In his role as District Attorney for Essex County, MA, Huey's grandfather Hugh Cregg prosecuted high-profile murder cases. Do you enjoy watching or reading courtroom dramas?  I do.  In fact I'm reading one right now.  The Girls are Gone by Allison Man and Michael Brodcorb. 

5) Huey no longer performs because he has an inner-ear disorder that prevents him from holding a vocal pitch. Of your five senses -- hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste -- which is the strongest?  

I can no longer tell.  They are all sort of on the ropes. My hearing used to be the strongest, and next my sense of smell.  Smell is basically nil now since the last Pratt Fall in the kitchen during the pandemic.  

6) He is a fan of fly fishing. Did you do any fishing this summer? I haven't fished for ages.  But, I used to love to go surf fishing.  Those days are long past.  

Since this Monday is Labor Day, the holiday established to celebrate the American worker … 

7) Approx. 10% of Americans are self employed. Have you ever been your own boss?  

Yes.  I used to make ceramics and jewelry to sell at shows.  It was a lot of fun and I still miss it and the people in the Ceramics club and the Guilds.

First Firing with underglazes

8) According to Monster.com, 50% of workers have left a job to get away from a boss. Are you one of the 50%? I am.

9) Farmers feel the impact of extreme weather events. Have you ever had a job that required you to be outdoors most of the time? 

No. Except that on mother's farm, we all helped as much as we could.  Well, except for the old man... he was off somewhere a lot of the time.  We planted, picked and weeded along with mother,  and I helped her to preserve the harvests, canning tomatoes and sauce, and make jams and jelly.  We also looked after the livestock that consisted of a couple of rooster, a lot of hens, and ducks, and pigeons.  My parents had pigeons that they ate the babies of.. Squab.  

I had Tumblers, and Peace Doves, and NO BODY ate my Doves or Pigeons.  Nobody but the darn Raccoons. 

Readers, Please go HERE  to see the linkie for the whole Saturday 9 Crew.