I'll last longer

When I said,”You know, your devices (connected tablets, smartphones, computers) will last longer if you only charge them 60-80% of their capacity”, she answered “I’ll last longer if I charge them without paying attention to 60 or 80 %.”

Try replacing "the" with "a"

I see titles that say “the truth about” this or that.  I think it would lead to better thinking if people tried replacing “the” with “a” truth. 

It is actually nearly impossible to tell or write “THE” truth about anything.  It might tip off a little wider thinking if we habitually said “A” truth.  There are many truths, more than we know or can hold in our minds. 

Janet Davis, photographer

Quite a few people complimented the photo of a hummingbird on a hot lips plant.  I want to say that I looked at something like 25 or 30 shots and the one I copied seemed the best.  Enough people seemed to think I took the picture that I wanted to give the Canadian photographer credit.  You may have noticed that she has a credit line in the picture.  You can look her up online.  The name “Janet Davis” is not that unusual so there may be several people with that name.  It seems she is also an author.

Hummingbird and hot lips plant

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.