The working day got off to a really good start* when I somehow managed not to notice that I hadn’t put the top on the blender properly before I hit autoclean. ARRRRGH. Well that’s one way to get the utility room back wall sluiced down. It’s probably not going to happen any other way. I do most…
Month: January 2023
Of keys & key safes
Glory hallefrellinglujah whatever gave me the insane idea that I could seamlessly* insert** writing a blog back into my life? Although if TECHNOLOGY would stop kicking me around like a an old damaged football*** I might be both more willing & more able to tiptoe across the Dead Marshes of the blogoscape†, averting my eyes from the spooky candles…
Bring back the IBM Selectric
It’s not the grey(ing) hair & the wrinkles that make me feel old. There’s an easy workaround to that: don’t look in the mirror. & as long as I continue to keep up, more or less, with my over-rocketlauncher-powered & overpowering dog* I figure I’m still functional.** Physically anyway. Mentally . . . It’s technology. It’s technology that…
Year Out, Year In
Happy Hanukkah, Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year, & any other random holidays people celebrate at this time & season, these just happen to be the ones that bump up against my life, &, speaking of random, there’s also an important clan* birthday in the middle of all the rest. One could get through a lot…