I’ve been rushing to print and send out my Christmas cards and latest letters to overseas friends this past couple of weeks. Got all of the letters to UK/USA written, started printing, last two letters to go – and the printer stopped. Won’t repeat what I said! I called in the technician, who considered the …
Category: This occurred to me
Why do people keep telling me how convenient computers are?
I mean, in many ways they are, but they also seem to know more ways to drive you crazy than anything else. This afternoon I wanted to send an email to a friend. I hurled it into the aether, and it came back like a boomerang on speed. According to her ISP my ISP is …
TV ads
I was casually watching a fairly long ad while waiting for the real promgramme that I was taping and saw something that interested me, so I went back to check the ad later and realized what that was. In the before and after pictures, there looks to me to be no real difference at all …
Lilian Jackson Braun – Another author gone.
For years I’ve bought a book series, I read them first back in the 1960s, and still have an ex-library book of one of the earliest in the series from then. They were quirky, funny, witty, and had cats and mysteries, What more could you ask for? And for a number of years I also …
movie credits
I was watching a long, undoubtedly very expensive film last night and once it was finishing I watched the credits to see who a couple of the characters that I’d liked had been. The cast list was in such small lettering that I couldn’t read it, and I wondered what is it with movie companies? …
Abstract Art
I’m not sure if I’m a complete philistine or a bit too much of a realist. But when discussing abstract art recently I had to say that I had little or no appreciation for it. That black canvas with a small white triangle in the lower left corner, the work entitled Consideration of Infinity. And …
Polls Results
I quite enjoy reading polls on all sorts of subjects, but over the years something has dawned on me. I don’t know if it’s that those who answer polls officially are so different, or if I am. But time and time again I read the results of a poll and discover that the answers bear …
While reading the paper –
I saw that a recent discovery had been made, where some scientist discovered that there were strange emanations coming from a building in southern Sweden. The police arrived, charged in, and found that the occupant was merrily trying to split atoms in his kitchen – as a hobby, or so he informed them. He was …
The medical problem that wasn’t
In 1989 I lived in a small seaside community. I worked hard, and commuted long hours until I had an accident and couldn’t continue with outside employment. Shortly before I sold my home at the beach and moved to purchase a small farm in Hawkes Bay I noticed that I seemed to have a possible …