The iPhone had been out less than a year when this was drawn, and notebooks with wireless connectivity ruled the landscape. Obviously, portability comes with its own perils. At least I never leaned over and had a laptop fall out of my shirt pocket and break. This fate befell my cell phone not long ago. It didn’t help that I was leaning over, looking down a stairwell. And yes, I still have a desktop computer that I unplug when the lightning becomes too frisky. It has so many cables and wires, though, that I usually take my chances. And yes, I have a laptop, too. I’m covered!
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Debbe đ We should stick together. đ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar5GaTC440M
You should try to publish a cookbook for the church ladies recipes that seem to be primarily casseroles featuring butter, cream soup, pasta, sour cream, chicken or tuna, cheese, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper and bread crumbs.
Twenty versions of something very alike and they ALL want to be published because theirs is one ingredient different.
We were Episcopalians by the way.
GM Debbe
Just read that 4,153,237 people got married last year, not to cause any trouble, but shouldn’t that be an even number?
Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water.
Old Bear, maybe that guy who wanted to marry his computer succeeded and was the odd man in the stats?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/01/man_sues_yet_again_for_chance_to_marry_his_computer/
Morning:
For some, religion seems to be a politely observed fiction that is primarily a social activity.
Perhaps “where” and “when” are mutually inclusive, symbiotic synonyms that exist as separate constructs only within the human mind.
Can electricity be called the breath of life?
Morning, Rick.
Religion: social or political. In Nov., that made strange bedfellows.
And where, when, how fast, and in what direction all[?] become mutually exclusive at subatomic levels, per Heisenberg. Some thinkers derive free will from that. I prefer a transcendent source.
What are we doing up this early, anyway?
Peace,
Appropriate q. from today’s AWAD: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, poet, nov. (26 Apr 1826-1887). “Oh, the comfortâthe inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a personâhaving neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
We’d have been both saddened and surprised on this date in ’52 in Brewster, NY to know that I’d be alone today and with an inch of new snow outside. Still have more to be grateful for than most people.
Peace,
Heads up: https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/04/25/mothers-day-coupon-scam/22055259/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
I recently turned in my stupid phone for a (supposedly) smart one, and I really don’t feel that I upgraded. I still vastly prefer my laptop for information or even social media, as I can see so much more and do what it is that I want to do. Remember when we wanted all of our screens bigger and bigger?
Jackie, I remember one Sunday when our church*, for some reason, had a potluck lunch after the service. I swear to you, at least twenty versions of broccoli-cheese casserole. I was the odd one out because I brought blackeyed peas cooked with ham hock and corn muffins.
Old Bear, I seem to remember seeing as article about a man who wanted to marry himself because he could never love anyone else the way he loved himself. I don’t know if he’s the odd man in your news story, but he’s definitely odd.
*St David’s Episcopal church, btw.
Happy Birthday Nancy!!
Trapper I often seemed to be chairing ladies tennis league, ladies club, etc. Lunches, teas, things where we all made and brought dishes. I learned to try and coordinate with those attending and steer contributions.
My son in law won’t touch broccoli. He’d have eaten your bean pot!
My nightmare is a potluck where everyone brings fried liver smothered in beets.
Hi, Jean dear.
I once heard the theory that we love those who reinforce our feelings about ourselves. Not sure I subscribe to that, as I seem to have mostly found women who apparently thought more highly of me than I do myself.
One other electronic device I received as a gift from my better half in December 2013 I still have. My Kindle. It is the Kindle Fire HDX model which serves me as a tablet in a pinch. When we have been a long way from home and I can get WiFi I have used it to access information on line. Nothing like using your Kindle Fire to book a hotel room when you are off lost and gone in Wisconsin Dells. I also occasionally use it to play music for Sunday offertory. I never thought I would do more than read books on that little beast. Only a 71/4 inch screen, but it has done yeoman duty. Now if I could only get the Samsung tablet I bought from my son to be as useful.
Appropriate poem for a special day, + some birth- and tragic-days we didnât know about.
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170426/
Peace,
Ghost women may see the entire man whereas you see only a ghostly shadow.
Feeding the twins a grey sq., I think. Peace,
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Chance to see that this large nest is deeper than wide. Male house sparrow downstairs. Peace,
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Vote: Shall A&J move to the site near Gene’s place? I prefer not, but I suspect I’m in the minority.
Curmudgeonly ex-professor: In the real world, red flags would be flapping and snapping. But in the fictional place that is never named, where we get to see life as it could be, I like it. Resident artist and host may be looking for fresh air and new ideas. Or just a new sofa. Maybe put the TV on the right of the frame. Anything big or small is possible.
I agree, it opens up possibilities and plots and characters for Jimmy. Basically he is down to two characters and a cat right now. Not unlike Get Fuzzy but way, way better cartoonist and jokes.
Your points are well stated and likely correct.
My preferences lie in the various A/J interactions more than in intergenerational interactions. Would a move cut down significantly on J’s, er, “tanning time”? Pshaw!
c ex-p, I doubt it. But Janis will have to relearn locking the bathroom door for long soaks again.
By the way, that retro strip with the thunderstorm looks like last night’s weather here in Tulsa. Short sleeves yesterday, flannel shirt today. And Saturday is supposed to be about the same. Short workday tomorrow, 4 hours on, then off to the dentist to have extractions of both teeth and money.
I think Janis would like to see more of Gene. Perhaps they need to spend more time there than one week to check out the possibilities.