Ch-ch-ch-ch-charging (Back-in to get a boost)
Ch-ch-charging, need to be on that super source
Ch-ch-ch-ch-charging (I know I might be a bit off course)
Ch-ch-charging, to be charging near an Apple Store
It takes time to charge me
But I can charge fine
Spunk Art
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind…” — Five Man Electrical Band
I had to drive into town today to go to the Apple Store to get my iPhone checked out. It’s been eight months or longer since I’ve needed to go to the Apple Store. The Face ID on my iPhone is not working most of the time now. After lots of diagnostics, it turns out the Face ID camera is on the fritz. I dropped the phone a few times in the three years I’ve had it. That probably contributed to the demise of the Face ID camera.
Whenever I go into town, I get culture shock. Most of the streets around the shopping centers in Uptown are torn up and blocked off, so traffic was snarled. Most of the parking lots were filled up, and people were waiting for spaces to open up. I always park in the far lot where few people park because most people are either in a hurry or too lazy to walk a few hundred yards. I pulled into the lot and discovered that the places I usually park are now taken up by Tesla superchargers.
Off Center & Not Even 
A time of our times alright, Tim🥺
And only time will Tesla’!
😂 🤗 Yep❣️
Times definitely are a changin’… and I’m glad I’m not the only one who get culture shock these days whenever I go into town. My favorite place for coffee is gone… the building and all signs of it. It kinda shook me up 😂
No coffee shop is a pity and a surprise. The city always tears up streets during the holidays, often during the Balloon Fiesta when there are an extra million people in town. So annoying. Thanks, Randall.
The rate of change was creeping up there but seems to have gone up considerably since the pandemic. I remember that “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign” song. It’s been a long, time since I have heard it or thought about it. Local radio played it a lot way, way back when.
Spunk is an artistic little soul 🙂
I remember the song well!
It’s a good one. Both songs are good. Do you remember Changes by David Bowie?
I don’t remember David Bowie’s song by that name. The “Changes” I remember is the one by by Phil Ochs
David Bowie’s Changes is the opposite: https://youtu.be/JIAUS-KlOyU?si=vkEnKmCaBlP86ZGC
A very different song, indeed. He was a good performer.
I absolutely remember David Bowie’s “Changes”! It got a lot of airplay.
I think that was a one hit wonder. I can’t think of anything else that band did. Thanks, Lavinia.
to add to the insult, only Tesla cars can use their chargers.
True. They are installing e-chargers in another strip of parking spaces in the same lot. Thanks, couriers.
Epic post Timothy and I feel your pain. Despite being attached to Dundee in ever way, we’ve just about been cut off by road works. You never saw a shambles like it. Folks couldn’t find a simple thing like a bus stop. Buses are having to drive half way to Carnoustie in order to get to Dundee. Dundee is in the opposite direction.
The roadwork engineers, if you can call them that, seem to take pride in making our lives miserable. Your sitiuation sounds much worse. Thanks, Shey.
It has been 8 weeks of sheer hell for anyone trying to find their way in and out of the Ferry. At the same time there’s been road works elsewhere here that have entirely disrupted the area, commuting services especially. You wonder if they’d half a brain to pass around between them.
My Mr went away went away on a bus one day and after an hour getting nowhere had to come back. Another time he got on the wrong bus in the town and ended up somewhere else all together.
I hate it when that happens.
He said even the bus drivers had had enough and no wonder.
I can imagine.
You just wonder where they get the wassocks who run these shows???
Now that sounds just like me!
Honest Inchy, no-one here has ever seen anything like it. All the local FB pages have been inundated with drivers unable to get out of the palce and wondering if someone could help them.
What a pickle!
Can the United Nations help them? Hehe!
Poor state of affairs. ♥
Lol, to say the least…..
Hahaha! ♥
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Thank you very much Timothy for your thought-provoking post:)
You are welcome, Martina.
I pray that my camera on my iPhone doesn’t break lol I don’t even know where the closest Apple store is!
They put charging stations in our town last year. I find it funny how electric cars are in North country where it freezes. Hybrids I hope.
My other two cameras work fine. The Face ID camera is a separate camera only used for face ID. As long as you have a passcode on your iPhone you are good if your FID camera failed to work. Thanks, Becky.
Change is happening so rapidly with great swaths of trees being bulldozed for housing developments and strip malls, it’s hard to remember what the landscape used to look like. Sigh . . .
People fleeing the high-tax, nanny states to ruin your state. We have have the same thing out here. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim. (I’ll withhold a nasty remark about our neighbors to the south.)
I wonder what it is about neighbors to the south?
Still holding my tongue. My state’s neighbors to the north want nothing to do with us!
Electric cars are booming in Quebec and the number of stations are multiplying big time. We also have to fight for parking spaces because of the Bixi bicycle stations. The mayor of Montreal must have gone to Sweden or any country that favour bicycles because now there are reserved lanes EVERYwhere – and get this, the first thing to be cleared of snow is the damn bike lanes – pedestrians, to hell with you, walk on the icy sidewalk.
Sorry… I totally digressed from your post with it’s lovely images. Eight years with the same phone is pretty darn good nowadays.
Excellent rant. How many bicyclists crowd your bike lanes? Cities in countries like Sweden and the Netherlands are compact and more accommodating to bike traffic. I have only had the phone for 3 years. It’s a 13, and the latest version is a 16. Thanks,Dale.
Thank you. There are quite a few. The car drivers are not impressed. Mind you, since they have created the lanes, most of the cyclists now pay attention to the traffic lights and stops so…
Gotcha. I’m of the Samsung family 😉
Surreal and not in a Spunk art way!
Thanks, Marina.
Sad sign o’ the times.
It is.
the world is changing , Tim: I may need to get a new car , one last one, but should it be gas or electrical? those charging stations are filling up spaces everywhere —
I don’t want an electric car. I already have too many devices I have to charge. Thanks, John.
I love the Charging parody, Tim, and I always loved Sings.
We are certainly in a time of change. I have to wonder if, years after this technology change has settled and become common place, will history remember how strongly it impacted the average working person. For years I’ve thought this compares with the transition from a horse & buggy level of tech to the automobile becoming common. Consider even the single aspect of jobs that related to the horses. I’ve never seen a history book that goes into that. Anyhow, have a great new week. Hugs.
The big impact on jobs was caused by electric lights. It disrupted both the whale oil and candle-making industries. I would venture to guess that buggy makers transitioned into car manufacturing fairly easily. Horses are still used on farms and ranches and in the cities by police forces, so the horse industry was not as disrupted.
People have been trying to make electric cars since the turn of the 20th century. Battery life was always the problem. Lithium solved the battery life problem, but at a huge cost to the environment where it’s mined. Thanks, Teaagan.
Lights were another big aspect, certainly. I only meant to illustrate the broad scope of what jobs were touched by mentioning the lessor detail of horses. Horsedrawn carriages weren’t needed, so farriers had less work. Inns no longer needed stable space, so the workers who tended the traveling horses weren’t needed. The people who built those stables had less work. Wheelwrights for the buggies had no more work. To me, the ripple effect is similar to the jobs that are going away now. Those labor jobs may have been absorbed into construction of roads and other things, but the point of ponderation is what, if anything, replaces the tasks that aren’t required now? That’s just my mind wandering through the dark forest of life without a flashlight. 🙂
You are right. Of course, we are seeing a huge upheaval in the job market. I don’t think the idea of trying to bring manufacturing back to the States will help much with jobs because it would be so automated. However, there is a real need for skilled workers, and they can do much better than most college grads given the cost of tuition and the debt people take on for degrees that are not very employable.
Time … bastard!
Maybe you can just park your car, and fake Plug it in?
I heard that Signs song a few days ago. Changes I heard yesterday. I’ve been doing house work to Youtube music.
Sewing – the oldies rock station, or CDs.
Thank goodness there’s art to get me through! Spunkie-van-Poogogh 💋!
We have lots of oldies stations here. Spunkie-van-Poogogh! Hahahaha! You are such a clever one. Thanks, Resa.
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And the sign said, “Cell Phone Repair. Come in, kneel down and pay” But when they passed around the bill at the end of it all I didn’t have a card to pay So I got me a keyboard and a mouse and I made up my own little text I said, “Thank you, Apple, for help’inin’ me. I’m fixed and doin’ fine and not signing on the pay line” Wooo!
The sign read “Ya gotta use the Authernticator app to join the Teams meet.” So I whipped out my phone, be the Authentcator app only wanted to give me spam. I messed around for 30 minutes trying to figure it out, I missed the meeting, ad that sucked, but so does Microsoft. Do even get me startedd on Office 365 subscriptions. Thanks, Brian.
Not good news about your iPhone … ! And losing your parking spot ..
That life with technology. Thanks, Julie.