Month: December 2022

ALSO. I should begin by saying . . . I’ve been writing, or not writing, this blog post for, ugh, is it ten days? Ugh. Bad me. There’s definitely a certain amount of I’M WRITING A BLOG AGAIN? I WHAT?, involved, decorated with sparkly flashing neon by my total inability to manage my time, um, what is this meaningless phrase ‘to manage time’??,…

It occurs to me, rereading the end of the previous blog,** that:  WHERE THE JOLLY DOODAH DO THEY GET THEIR DEFINITION OF FORMAL WRITING? BECAUSE THE DOCUMENT IN QUESTION IS 1,000,000,000,000,000 WORDS LONG?  HOW STUPID IS THAT???? might be misinterpreted. It could mean that possessing, indeed being responsible for the creation of, a document 1,000,000,000,000,000 words long is stupid.  We won’t…

I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MICROSOFT. So. Hello. Returning at last to what is supposed to be the new blog. Perhaps slightly depending on how many more things go wrong.  [QUITE A FEW ACTUALLY. THIS POST SHOULD HAVE GONE UP THURSDAY OR FRIDAY LAST WEEK. DEPENDING ON HOW BAD MY BLOOD-PRESSURE HEADACHE GETS I MAY TELL YOU ABOUT IT…

I have now been without email for four days & I am not in a good mood.* & I hope that the company/corporation/gang of thieves/festering lumps of toxic detritus responsible are all frantically selling their vintage Jaguars at nadir-approaching prices on eBay to hire mobs of SAS-trained security forces to protect them from their customers’ & increasingly ex-customers’ wrath.**…

[NOTE THAT MY EMAIL HAS BEEN DOWN THE LAST 24 HOURS. I’m a TERRIBLE correspondent, that’s TERRIBLE, so lack of return-electron reply is not surprising but if you’ve tried to contact me & it’s bounced or behaved strangely, that’s why. & yes, Blogdad is going to move me away from these bozos as soon as system is, you know, movable. But, meanwhile,…

Part One: laundry That wet laundry sitting there has been waiting to be hung for three days.* Never mind, I am writing the blog. That load of laundry in the washing machine has been waiting for you to add soap & turn it on for three days.** Never mind, I’m writing the—WAIT A MINUTE. Adding soap & turning the machine on takes a minute.*** Deal…