GOTTA' LOVE IT!!

  If a person does not possess a sense of humor these days, well, he/she had better find blinders, limit  contact with the outside word - outside their apartment walls, that is, ands stick to old shows without new PC invasion, with sugary sentiment and always, a happy ending or one that reduced you to tears. Good for the soul.  

Seriously, without humor it is indeed most difficult to maneuver these days - and keep one's sanity pretty much intact. Mostly people have not been paying attention to our critical political crises in which otherwise heretofore normal (for the GOP) people have morphed, as a recommended article maintains, become victims of body snatching! It is both funny and sad, a brilliant use of words and language to delineate a most critical situation. Written by a still uninvaded conservative writer, Matt Lewis, in the Daily Beast, yesterday, entitled Trump's Invasion of the Body Snatchers Ate the Republican Party.

Find it. read it. Laugh. Cry. Moan. Scratch your head. Makes as much sense as all the other theories trying to explain what happened to the GOP.

And now....back to home, good old CVWPB - or maybe not so good old CVWPB. An owner since 1998, I have seen major downtrends within the Village. To be fair, it mirrors much of what is happening elsewhere, but this is home, not vacation pod, for many of us here - including me - and we need to do better. So sure, the past two and a half years have been not so good all over. We hoped 2021 would change the dial on the world's situation, but it did not for the most part. In fact, it deteriorated even more as people were isolated, and furthered that isolation by opting out of so much. Too much.

Before reading on please read the following disclaimer. Please do not lay this on Gerry. He is my husband, not my boss, as I am not his, (at least in this case). He has closely worked with many in UCO and disagrees with some of what I have written. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - me and me alone. And those who agree with what I have written.

In CV there already had been a trend, a downslide, of interest in UCO, basically the governing factor here in the Village. The President, David Israel, had clawed his way in to the position and maintained it through let's say, not such nice ways, insulting others, allegedly playing games with boards that suddenly, on Voting Day, came into existence, - and are we not seeing the impact on our Village what with the deterioration of those same associations with Brigadoon Boards. Additionally, he sicced the County on an entity outside the Village which had displeased him by allowing a poster hung on the fence (as do many organizations) for the opposing candidate, an act which entailed costly consequences for that entity without a great deal of funds to fall back upon. Nasty is as nasty was.

Gradually, the Village government became a tight sweaty group of the Elect, a la the Pigs of Animal Farm, whose hot little hands grabbed all, wanted all, and morphed themselves into members of almost every committee; hence, progress was stymied. Double voting, as Officers, on several Committees in one way or another, their bosom buddies appointed and opponents ousted or downright blackballed. Whatever worked.

Of course, people began to lose interest, frustrated by the tight stranglehold David et al had on UCO. Oh, there were and are some excellent people there who work hard for us, but what can  one say when most officers would respond to the request to report on the month's work they had presumably done, with a succinct statement: - "Nothing to report." What the hell were they doing month after month in UCO other than chowing down on snacks so kindly paid for by us. 

Credit given where credit due, they did show up for the most part during COVID, but what did they accomplish? Damned if I know. Or anyone knows. The Village deteriorated. Despite the ongoing efforts of Don Foster to take care of the Village for us. A building is going to be demolished - down to the ground. Other buildings have severe deterioration. Where was the UCO VP for that sector? Why do the VPs not make rounds, have set meetings with Association Boards? Why? Danged if I know. Too busy snacking probably. 

As for David Israel who suddenly recalls at election time that there are associations, there are Boards , there are Presidents of those Boards, of course kept to his usual state of sleepwalking and did not meet, did not supervise, did not do his diligent responsibilities. Hence the ever growing worsening situation we have with no one interested in running for office. Now UCO is driven to pleading for candidates. How embarrassing. How bad for the Village. My home. Your home.

We have subsidized WPRF to an obscene degree. Allegedly we have paid for cars for  Mark Levy while struggling to pay the transportation fees for our bus system. Does anyone know anything for sure re the Millennium or what has been happening the past twenty years, why we waited so long to begin negotiations - nope. All is a deep, dark secret, kept in the hot little hands of David et al. Remember the body snatcher article? Well.......

Again, seriously, very much so, any new administration will have its hands, its minds, its everything, full. As with Trump, the papers and records will reveal what has been going on or not, as the case may be. A most difficult task, to unravel, rewind on a proper spool and then create new viable, refreshing and possible ideas. Hard work indeed. Anyone out there want this - other than David or his chosen successor?               . I thought so. The newer residents do not even know there is a UCO or even where the Clubhouse is.

Volunteers? Draftees? Anyone? Body snatchers? Trumpods? Davidpods? Help!!!!