Say cheese.
2 Amazing.
3 Gathering grades frazzled me. When time came to edit this nonsense, fonts took on a mind of their own. They shrank to the size of wild rice.
4 I blamed Toshiba, which has become my whipping boy, but I'm pretty sure most everything about which I complain is user error.
5 INCLUDING the walls of the blog moving in on me with this post. <Twilight Zone music under> Narrator: <Madman. Peter Lorre voice> I just hit something and this thing started putting on the squeeze from the right size. That's happened to all of us at some time. The tables you create for a Power Point shrink with each hit of the keyboard. It was one of those deals. You've GOT to believe me!!! <Voice fades.>
6 Oh well.
7 User error. Must repeat mantra. User error.
8 Living proof that senilty doesn't descend gently.
9 Fortunately I turned senile somewhere around my junior year in high school, when I was just a little guy.
10 Meanwhile the right wall keeps moving in with each stroke of the keys. <Twilight Zone mannequin voices> Marcia...Marcia...Marcia...
12 Yeesh.
13 It just started Novembering and I'm quite ready for the loony bin.
14 Good thing I have my health.
15 Moving On, Part One: I don't remember if I wrote this or not, and frankly I'm too lazy to check, but Friday afternoon I scheduled a trip to my doctor.
16 I received an email earlier in the week that my leg had probably healed, and that I could cease all medication.
17 Good news, but I wanted to know how they knew that everything was fine.
18 I wanted to schedule an ultra-sound to be sure I had no blood clot or anything life-threatening.
19 Fortunately my daughter Caitlin was visiting from Sac, and she went with me.
20 The doctor assured us that things are back to normal. The talk was good, and we are in close communication.
21 As of Friday afternoon I have as clean a bill of health as one could have, with the exception of the school putting the squeeze on me and everyone who works there.
22 Not their fault. Common Core is this cloud that came out of the sky at some point and seems to be trying to chill and kill us.
23 It's actually a good thing, but like all good things, it winds up in the hands of the English Department. Our job is to teach the other departments how to correct bad writing.
24 We have been asked to step up and take everyone to school.
25 That's about as much as I care to say about the pressure, but it is definitely there. The point is I have just been told that I am in better health, and this specter appears. I'm in a video game. I swear to you.
26 Otherwise I am happy to report a very good report from my doc.
27 Helene and I celebrated last night with a long walk, almost an hour and a half through the Great Mall.
28 We began at Sports Authority, where I saw a couple of kayaks I wanted to buy instantly. They were orange and black. Made perfect sense.
29 Christmas is right around the corner, as Walgreens let us all know when they broke down the Halloween candy four days early and put up the Christmas decos.
30 The Great Mall already has a Santa area set up larger than the one in A Christmas Story. It's HUGE. The sleigh alone is as big as my entire living room.
31 That's no exaggeration hashtag ijustwantedeveryonetoknowthaticouldspellexaggerationcorrectlytwodaysrunning hashtag noonegivesdashit
32 Anybody lookin'?
33 I never use REAL hashtags on this nonsense. I did early on. I think I even started getting hashtag-frivolous during the summer.
34 I tried to spoof it, but I think that the computer took those things seriously, finding people conjoined for whatever cause it thought I got behind.
35 Modern times.
36 I sort of can't wait for the Santa sleigh to open up so that I could ask him for a new "s" key for the Toshiba.
37 This is the stuff that dreams are made of.
38 This is the stuff of which dreams are made.
39 How come the first one sounds more poetic to me?
40 Damned prepositions.
41 Is there a back door out of here?
42 There is?
43 Where's it at?
44 <groan>
45 Before I go to bed, can you all promise me one thing?
46 Can you spread the word that you are never supposed to end any sentence with the word at?
47 Except the sentence containing the request?
48 Aight then.
49 Our bizness here is completed.
50 Have a GREAT day.
51 Fly low.
52 See you again.
53 Peace.
~H~
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