The Once-in-a-While

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1  I did something WAY cool on Sunday night.

2  I don't particularly want to tell anyone exactly what I did that was so cool. I just enjoy talking in generalities, like whenever you do something cool, and it feels cool.

3  Does that make any sort of sense?

4  It was along the lines of raking a ton of leaves, or cleaning out a few fountains. 

5  Or causing a baby or two to break into pumpkin smiles.

6  Nothing beyond that. 

7  Nothing remotely braggable.

8  That's a made-up word,"braggable," by the way, and I didn't make it up. At least according to Grammarly I didn't. According to Grammarly, it isn't even a word. I don't think it's a word either. You can't find it in the Oxford English Dictionary nor the Cambridge Dictionary for that matter. Grammarly redlined me and called "braggable" an unknown word. 

9  Whenever it tries to correct me, Grammarly makes tons of errors. It pointed to "braggable" as an unknown word, and after I used it a few times, it offered what it thought was the word I was trying to say. It corrected it to "draggable," which makes no sense with its initial usage in item seven, the original intention of which was that I wasn't doing anything unusually remarkable. Just cool. Grammarly. It DOES catch a few namby-pamby things. 

10  It catches things like "hte" instead of "the," which I appreciate. But I've yet to find any reliable online editor unless it is a human editor. A human editor.

11  Still the best. Let me give an example: Grammarly put a comma after the word "editor" in item ten, but didn't mark "Still the best" as a fragment in item 11, the item you are reading right now. 

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13  So yeah.

14  Not what you would call an exact science.

15  Writing. I swear to you. 

16  I'd rather run around the forest in Lederhosen, free as the wind than pick up a pen and write stuff. 

The Lederhosen Mob.

17  Those fellas in the lederhosen look like some happy campers, don't they?

18   Anybody lookin'?

19  Safe to say, "Not usually." That's what makes this all so fun!

20  Viewers like you.

21  Moving On, Part One: I took a break from writing this nonsense early Sunday night and returned at 11:36 p.m. Nice coincidence. My street address in Millbrae back-in-the-day was 1136. So I like that. 

23  Coincidences.

24  Yeesh.

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26  The reason I turned my computer off Sunday night was that it took to excessive buffering. I decided to shut it down for a couple of hours. When I rebooted, it was 11:36 p.m. 

27 The room was dark so when it lit up, it lit up brightly. My eyes shot to the time, and I smiled. I love stuff like that. At exactly 11:36, it brightened and became a much better accomplice. I appreciated the 1136 coincidence. 

28  My Mom loved coincidences. I never really knew that about her until recently, although her interest in Dr. Wayne Dyer should have been a clue. Dyer was a best-selling author and philosopher, whose first book, Your Erroneous Zones became a literary phenomenon. He sold well over 35 million copies over the years. One of his key interests was in coincidences. 

29  So it is interesting that my Mom was inspired by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

30  My Mom also sketched, and she was a pretty good artist. She never had easels or anything like that. She just enjoyed sketching, usually women's faces and fashions, but once she could no longer walk, she began sketching the hummingbirds that would come visit her window. 

31  After Mom passed, my Dad enjoyed hummingbird feeders. They would often spin and throw rainbows into the family room at 1136 Helen Drive. 

God I miss these two!

31  After all of this was written, the horrid news crept into our house from Las Vegas. I watched the numbers go up, and saw that I could do little more than shake my head and pray. 

32  Suddenly family and friends became closer to me. The two people in the above picture taught me right. I kept having difficulty getting this particular DN written. 

33  I never stopped, despite Grammarly, or Oxford, or Cambridge, or Sir Snooty, or any of it. If it were a musical piece, it seemed to work in movements, if THAT makes any sense. Beatle Paul worded it so beautifully when he wrote in song, "The movement you need is on your shoulder." John Lennon loved that lyric. I do too.

34  I just got a kink in my shoulder.

35  Nothing a cigar and a missing tooth couldn't fix.

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37  <sigh>

38  It doesn't get any better than this.

39  I got the kink from leaning sideways on my elbow when I write things. 

40  What can I say?  I enjoy supineness.

41  Look it up. It's definitely a word. 

42  I'm headed for Mt. Shasta to visit with God. 

43  So, gottago.

44  You can't keep a guy like God waiting.

45  See you again.

46  Live life.

47  Love life.

48  Peace. 

~H~

fin.