Four points

1. Cartoons are less funny, often not funny at all.  Am I alone in finding comics in the paper unfunny?  I sit down in a good mood, not a sour or grumpy one but they just aren’t funny.

2. YOYO dinners - my wife has said “Yoyo dinner” more than once.   I looked up “YOYO dinner” and yes, it is widespread enough and accepted widely enough to already be explained on some pages.  “You are On Your Own” dinner means get something to eat, cook it if needed.  She won’t be home.

3. Finding she can cook - thinking about wifey’s cooking reminds me that I never once gave a thought to her ability to whip up meals.  So, I was delighted to find that she is a good cook.

4. Is that person still alive? - At younger ages, I rarely asked if a friend was still alive.  Sure, they are.  Why wouldn’t they be?  They might have moved.  But alive?

"Open and save the date"

I got that email entitled “Open and save the date”.  What if someone is getting married and is looking forward to me attending the wedding?  I tried to open and save the date.  While trying, the foul thing relayed the totally misleading message to addresses in my contacts.  It might be good at selecting people I haven’t heard from recently.  That happened on Tuesday, the 21st, and I am still not back to normal.  Closer but not back.

One feature that is still not working is placing the title of an email in bold until I open it.  I never liked that feature much but without it, I am much more likely to skip a message and not respond.

Later years

Important features of living while elderly relate to loss: loss of health, loss of friends.  I read the local obituaries daily to see if friends died.  Before death, physical and mental problems may darken life and spirit.  Mobility may shrink or disappear altogether.  Religious or meditative practices and exercise may help enormously.

Just point your crotch and jiggle

We saw a musical that had plenty of loud music and women dancers.  My wife is interested in dancing and was a good dancer. She was not impressed at the musical.  She said she could see how to dance for that show.  “Just point your crotch at the audience and jiggle”.  Her comment pretty well covers what I saw happening.

My other internet source

You may be familiar with my (mostly) daily blog, “Fear, Fun and Filoz”.  Today’s blog post is about my websites, Kirbyvariety and Kirbyvariety2. To me, blogs are like newspapers but websites are like file cabinets.  The websites are basically older information, more often used when I was teaching.   If you want to take a look, click this link:

https://sites.google.com/view/kirbyvariety1/welcome-to-my-home-page

Email misbehavior

I got an email from a friend I hadn’t heard from for years.  It was an e-card.  The title said to open and save the date.  I had trouble opening it and never found the date.  

Over the morning, I was contacted by others to ask if I had sent them an e-card.  I had not.  

If you got a card from “me”, I advise you to delete it unopened and forget it.

"Does this mean you will see me naked?"

We are reading “Does this mean you will see me naked?” by Robert Webster.  The sub-title is “Field Notes from a Funeral Director”.  Until this book, I had not heard of ‘death care’.  It is just a term used to mean a specialist who provides care of a body after death.  Webster makes clear that a dead body can fart, expend mucus from the mouth and nose and perform other maybe unexpected actions.  The author also makes clear that important aspects of death services involve emotionally upset marriage partners, children of the deceased - often adults themselves, and others.  The funeral director and staff members perform tasks and render services that may well be completely out of the world of most functioning adults. 

Too smoky

I posted that there would be a blog pause but there is too much smoke from US and Canadian forest fires.  We didn’t go.  The government air quality web site says even our Zip code right here has air quality now that is “very unhealthy”.  We are holding our breath until it clears up.

Blog pause again

Look for a post along about Wed., the 22nd.

A daytrip

Yesterday, we took a bus trip with 48 people, about 5 of them men.  It was a trip organized by UWSP Continuing Ed and featured our usual driver.  It was called “Wisconsin Cherry Pie Christmas” and it was around the vacation spots of Door County, a peninsula that sticks out into Lake Michigan from Green Bay.

One of several Door County shops and restaurants we visited was Tannenbaum Holiday Shop in Sister Bay.  It was the most minutely decorated store I have ever visited, in an attempt to show Christmas and Fourth of July decorations and paraphernalia.  Each member of the group was given a Christmas tree ornament of a slice of cherry pie, to hang on our tree in December.

It was in Tannenbaum shop that I saw my first upsidedown Christmas tree.  It was designed to be for the 4th of July celebrating the birth and history of the United States - many objects and ribbons - all red, white and blue.

Cherries are an important product in that area.